828 TH E 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
lieve, will to a 
great extent be superse by that extracted from 
the hitherto comparetively useless Horse Chestnut. 
THE MELLOCO. 
Ir was with considerable interest that I read the ae 
de Jon rks of Brussels, on t 
ee et 1 the 
reade was introduced i 
January by M. C. Ledos, of Lima, who sent some 
tubers to the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, 
by sir . w distributed to a few individuals, of 
ated almost 1 pe to their pier 
g to 2 * 
ee or fou in a dry 
are feet late pus ay 
gro not, how- 
shoots are remove e tubers po 
the 
ft in the sun for a few hours to dry.” 
The tubers receive 
planting, After 
le 
hou 
e best tubers for 
The flowers, which are 
igi from yg ‘eg 
expanded i 
The floral spikes 
alwa 
eenish, spring in 
The earliest flowe: 
ginving of Jons, but they did not set. 
Me 
ried to set the flowe ers 
b 
il earthed up. 
t begin to grow * the 
2 teak they were sti 
small when the frosts set * Some plan 
under sashes produced tu in April; but when 
planted out in May, althoug was taken not 
to disturb them, they did not continue to in in 
size ; they behaved like sets, shrin ng and sending out | 
shoots, ing the three summer months, 
e 
tion was decidedly checked ; this is ii reg i 
aioe, Gee want of moist fi 
rg 3 age. T Som 
sent aig with the Melloco were ai altered that i 
a 
The ——— — sent respecting the tubers was very | I ha 
dr 
be | an tumn, when 
| 
„plants which were at this time well watered, produ et 
plenty of 1 but no tub The return of a low 
temperat was remarkable, on the con * for 
the rapid development of adventios bud the 
tubers ect was, I much — 28 
FT naii on vaa plants 5 d from 
Grong sa than 
wa 
re a 8 5 the season, avd when 
os amp 
a 
n the external 
atmospher p, the prea presen nted another | plants were in summer not so stron 
father eas ae xtremities whic own, hen, on the first g and pora 
a few days before, had Ý very * 1 and leaves which w towards the end ot Oota 2 fm, 
in whorls » mice * le penen and becoming more | plants up, he covered his over with dry e a 
slender, were last * into thread, —— — tubers went growing eapitaly; 
bearing long "dare . nearly scale- shaped ral weighing from 50 to 60 mks 
leaves ; thes s, after running alopg the ground — this, the — did not not appear Na. 
r over the 3 branches, with a ifest pre- be likely to become of m alue in an my 
een ae * 1 entered th th, where their point of view, at least — ey but 1 1 
extr They are, pave keeping in our kitchen gardens, even ” — 
tubers, 
direct prolongation 8 of the stems, and not „80 far as I 
wld discover, axillary productions from ae ade at 
their e e This 333 of the stem into a 
thread appears to me to be connected with # ane ure and 
r place, in ape 3 which 
d put in a cold pit, in the spring; 
general it had er N me so e 
n 
spring plants, 35 To evelop 
entered the earth and fo rmed abes whilst nse inel 
peugat er light 
f stems s undergo ing ¢ 
iad thickenin ngs. This is 
contractions 
succes 
ktaialy very int esting, and 
well = serves the ation "of . for there 
is a great pan between the — produced by 
lowering the temperature and - a ied (in 3 
arts fue which sull 8 ir g — — colour) wit 
a ‘prefefen e for darkne e 
ach 
ited by the — 
eee of our own, 
able “to; judge of ithe enn qualities of the Melloco. 
The tubers that ¢ from Peru 
vo 
clearly a to come to any conelusion — such 
ma ples 
o the young tubers collected in aa the 5 
J e which 1 examined were too young to giv 
anything more than a very imperfect idea of "the value 
the plant i is likely to acquire as an article of food, Their 
was tol y (in 
on the more vigorous ones which had been | i 
t was | ing t 
roundish, very 
those of Oxalis ere 
M. Mas: anon 
Spinac 
taste. M. 
in cultivating the 
a tae ao 2 * 
4 
i 
11 
t leat o ni 
the tubers soon enough to enable 4 to attain 
siderable size, and to ripen 
frosts set rots 
wn observations, a short ac 
Lam inclined to thi 
temp 
atte 
to —— when the wonderful facil 
pl in question is propagate 
illustration of this I» 
th 
wo of ear 
mode = could be devised of sroltiplying this pla 
I have every reason to believe that the N 
ned in Dr Jarti ar 2 the 1 
names I have forgotten. Louis Vil morin, gfe 
— 
NOTES OF A TRAVELLER. Ne Ei 
Matra.—l observed : 
bush pro in W abundance 
the brea 
bloom a ae d tim 
terior or m 
zones, — 
is 
e circumference to the centre, 
retty nearly equal. grains of ar 
The ins starch 
not to raise the temperature of the medium in which 
— ny Pants wre, as I had intended re * 2 it will be seen in 
the 2 at this advice was u 
ure, for M. Jonghe's letter . Nore vember) =. he 1 
ander en ‘each stem, ent anar nec ts o the yah Se tubers. This | chey are eating 
sa mistake he tubers of uco a ared Sa 
bet figure, p. S (1847), is very correct, and gives a much exactly like — 4 — of sete and like them appeared exc — times b to argue them out of that 
2 * ist ct A OVE o figure in the “ Revue Horti- tively Frese the tower he stem. The figure aceompany- The fact of the Caper bush prore 
ee * 
bean. es eee tie tase ian . quence ofa 5 i be ee in cone: we walls here way . ri 
ssingault ting th tion given me by M. | tubers spring from the root; but that was certainly not the in the south of Eng . 
table lands of the Andee. He a [woe as tae tienes —.— artist's intent Seed — grr — rier i» ‘ea 
I attributed the of the — — See, l ata se tubers were hollow in the inside, but | would well repay any trouble . 
