THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 





TDec. 



a dry bulb 

 s effects of 



radiation, which at that time acts the most powerfully) 

 has left the wet bulb stationary, and err 



:as appeared to rise : but. utter * «h™.t 



depressing immediately the 



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the sudden fall of temperature has ren- 

 dered the air moister, or it 



), I must observe that an i 

 21 months with Simmons' hygrometer has proved it to 



Home Correspondence. 



w more Words on the Crocus.— Your corre- 



" i treat them cavalierly, if I 



lotice of their remarks on my Crocus theory, 



i started, of which I was before 

 t urged by Mr. Babington respecting the depth at 

 res. The 



produce early flowers and fruit, sometimes. " Perhaps,' 

 iidly thinks possible, "D. may I 



is speaking of tb< tats."— D. 



tisfiedofitsbdnj 

 a fact that the bulbs of Crocuses do ftlwai 

 ground if left to themselves ; " and he I 

 which may, perhaps, be regarded as decisii 

 that they do not so rise. A little consider 

 seem to do aw- -■ probability ol 



the case under the influence <,i 



pensated by the surface eh 



- of a lateral for 

 mation of new bulbs. Whoever will examine a gardei 



attachment of the old dry skin, now removable. These 

 lines or rings appear to represent the nodes 

 of other plants ; and the examination of a series of the 

 be young shoots 

 may be seen issuing from any one of these rings. In the 

 centre of the upper part, however 

 shoots, and these the principal 



sionally they will have a lateral dir 

 the parent stock, some new corms i 





ing. The Crocuses of the Simplon had only just been 

 peeping above ground': so that the climate, no( 

 depth, had retarded their blooming. His wish 

 had dug, and my own regret at not having d. 

 savour of what the French call Vesprit it 

 staircase talent, when a man remembers as he is walk- 

 ing down stairs the many clever things he mig 

 would have said in the drawing-room. Of coui 



flowers underground, which I t 

 the case, the Crocus not being y< 

 Cryptogamous plants. If the i 

 Crocuses never seed in gardem 



deners, that they have done so little to advance either 

 the natural theology or the physiology of vegetation. 

 The leaders of the science, men of eminence whom it is 

 unnecessary to name, have had almost all the work to 



is equally app] .,. ;S# It is verv 



easv-tocontii; ;:?, by saying to 



to send, but so and so has started something that people 

 were not quite prepared for ; I'll write about that, to 

 the purpose or not, as may happen." But one fact is 



ilways be formed 



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to the soil or situation in which it is planted. I have 



and a light soil on a gravel. In the form< -v. 

 every year sank deeper, as well as most otfa 

 as to require replanting every year or two, and this n«t 

 from any alluvial deposit, it being at the top of the hill. 

 In the latter, they rise so near the surface as to be 

 drawn out by the rake, and for this reason are every 

 year taken up. I believe therefore that, in the one 

 case, the new corm is formed below, in the other, above 

 the old one. [No, no]. I am quite satisfh 

 bulbs are not the produce of the seeds, whicl 

 seldom produced, and when produced, are 

 about the time when the matured bulbs are taken up. 

 My experience is confirmed by that of another person 

 on a strong soil.— 

 Tomatoes.— Ib I 

 it ought to be ? 



1 lb. of Apples, 1 lb. of Raisins, 4 lbs. of sugar, with i 

 little seasoning, lemon and nutmeg, anc" ' " 

 all together for half an hour, and when 

 be tasted, they were pronounced first-rate 

 judges, even superior to our common i 



Clianthuspuniceus.— There is a Clianthus Ml 

 at Langford Lodge, in the county of Antral ffij? 

 attained a much* greater height ^ad \t ITS ^ 

 * " f *'~i wall against whE"v 

 air and has never be£ 

 IJtTnVuitf^* 

 laVeexpandedbeamS. 



have vegetated more readily formerkupon' thTnu^ 

 rous decaying Oaks, which would then have been found 



received the slightest protection ; it is n 

 with blossoms, many of which haveexpa 



supposed that the Druids may 

 Others ha^ 



great abundance ii 

 upon Oaks. But it should be ol 

 that Pliny speaks, of .three kinds of Mistletoe, nuSt 



"riMe he T ' T* 1 ^^ *** 

 count of the Druids' Mistletoe"^ 





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of a species of 



is in the pleasure ground of a lady in the 

 neighbourhood of Prescot, near Liverpool, and from its 

 " ir habit of growth called the Weeping Thorn, may 



men growing in Regent Murray's garden, Edinburgh, 

 and said to have been planted by the hands of the 

 unfortunate Mary Queen of Scots. This interesting 



- l * 12 feet 



i ef the natural loco- 



nself, or some one else 



than refraining from the 



ference forming a complete circular s 



ind, impervious to the sun's rays, or 

 asantly subdued light. The writer 

 other specimen existing on this side 

 .md having permission to distribute the 

 ties, among those of his friends 

 desirous of perpetuating this 

 ■ ion to the lawn or pleasure-ground, he 

 " pleasure in transmitting a sufficient 

 purpose to any one who may favour 

 address and an enclosed label.— 



ii perhaps unnecessary, that the 



Of plants will not 



nd year.— fV. W. t Post-Office, 



it it is not so. * I have had 6 



1 glasses when both Boil and 



discovery of truth ; 



re quite wet, and kept continually moist. 

 »us may lead j A paste made with 1 lb. of sulphur vivnm (?) and 

 witness the 3 lbs. of lime slacked with water, and well mixed, applied 



as not held in any estimation by the Druids, except 

 n it was found growing on their sacred tree the 

 , and he also distinctly says that such an event wu 



his facit, et tEeculi post tricesimum annum." This 

 not prove that it was ever sought after at any psr- 

 ar season of the year ; but that when it happened 

 e found, it was visited, on the next sixth day of the 

 moon, with pomp and sacrifice (white vestment, white 



most exquisite gift which God could confer upon the 

 :e. To this account he appends a sensible 

 comment, upon the strange degree of veneration which 

 some trivial circumstance will frequently excite in the 



cycle of 30 years, by which the Druids estimated time, 

 Since Druid altars, and Druid temples have been 



genious mistranslation of some antiquary may also 

 prove to be the only authority for the accounts we nave 

 received of some of the purposes to which the DruiOJ 

 applied the Mistletoe. Can any of your correspondents 

 enlighten usuponthesubjectl-J.^.^w^ow,//'^^"' 



Bee. 6. The principal, if not the only account of the 



annual gathering of the Oak- Mistletoe, is m ^vj 

 " Hist. Nat. L. 16. c. 95." They held sacred the tree 

 which produced it, mod5 sit robur, "provided it wasan 

 Oak." But it was exceedingly scarce, " rarum admoauui 

 inventu ; " therefore any common ^""^^S 

 viollte the 6 eonditionB 2 of the casl, instead of faf*"*"* 

 them. " Visci tria genera," he says, namely the WW 

 Ixia, or Viscum proper, the Hyphear, and t e _-« 

 Viscum, Mistletoe, was in such common use for maun, 

 Viscum, birdlime, that it ought not to have 

 subject of mistakes. The Hyphear is said to b 

 good for fatting cattle. Is any one of these it 

 Loranthus? And what are the three I ?» 



have bee* 



leCausr37lT""quoted in notes. I 

 ularly of the Galliarum admiratio, supe»» ■ 

 aulish provinces ; and says that in ""J^- 

 tongue the name of the plant meant cum u „ 

 u universal remedy. I believe the word olhac^ 

 ealing," is now confined to the herb All-heal, . 

 hich g name I suppose the Stachys P-****^ 

 ified. A description (if engravings cam* » 

 Lshed) of the thr<£ alleged species i of Viscum ^ ^ 

 iteresting. It strikes me that the (f»°™ Jff&m 

 irgil, on the gathering of the one golden branch ^ 



uUuT)^^ 



rtuit'ous supply of a thing rarum ^^"^fl*"**- 

 Polmaise applied to Heating Greenhouses ma ^ 

 -I have lived for many years in one of tn ^ 



;-r ; i-i : 



ieiDie to u«" b . of gueo 

 rly speaking, to keep the frost o „, 



• fflake , » /Thai **& 



