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THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
[JAN, 8. 
become bark-boun a at rootless, so that they are blown 
over by the first s 
Roots, like fealty are formed in proportion to the 
uantity of athe 
tree W. 
to g fi 
to look now at Kensington 
ce to plantations not a hundre 
iles from Windsor. 
It may now be i unm that we should offer some 
directions as to the manner of thinning coum 
It not, phe ays pee us possible to give par- 
ticular rules for such an tion. Instead, nacre 
should be allow na 
but thet they should be piowes to remain as close 
it, provided they do not touch. 
be Ponda to adjust the Apoopee g 
in 
nual oval of s trees as ing 0 
spaces much larger than ate agg Hig gente accord- 
ing to this rule, will be formed. 17 however, a 
t advantage, because it to 
ts way freely g the trees, and will give 5 nel 
ficient r to s about. 
anfthect is connected with the eae 
ye pruning ~ a s, to which we shall advert on a 
aa 
We shall only add that the planter should be care- 
ful to mark during summer the trees that are to be re- 
moved in winter; because it is onl t season, 
when the trees are covered with leaves, that it is possi- 
ble to ascertain in what st deciduous trees really 
‘ith each other 
: 
a dd alg 
ontinued from page 3.) 
now a as about the ‘‘ Grand Cascade,” o 
which | che merits have been freely canvassed of late, by 
many perio: A the mysteries of th » wit 
Mr. Loudon at their head. cascade, as all the world 
knows, consists of an almost rece a By ight of senel 
from when 
teps, temple at t mmit, ence 
foaming torrents of water burst forth, and afi nasties im- 
petuously di irs. e eur of this vast 
flight of water-stairs is undeniable, but it has been objected 
that i rmination is meagre (the water escaping into 
underground peg i and its Pa oe vawkward. 
As the ‘ ion,’ the dissentients 
are right as to the fet but satislensty at fault as to the 
means of remedyin This, howev 
ve 
he 
at the back ne oe" water-temple rose a steep and lofty hill, 
on oa which leaped a quasi-natural 
a5 
ai 
i 
oO 
iarly sbrapt ana “oflensve 
to the critical eye." But how was the blem: 
died? A more di task 
might with i pertaer ee pati 
original intention. having apparent rte to cr 
h laps 
carried t be 
been 
pears 
| your Paper as 
tis red or white wheat, z snddeniy tran 
can wo a be more beautiful than its appearance as it 
ing like a silver aide 
pee sre ere of ithe woods by w surrounded. 
And here let me remark on the em ts —. selec- 
tion of ‘the site, ‘at such a distance from them sion asin no 
mat yet within 
five enpsaneral walk of : it. There never was, and there never 
will be 
tacked on to ape Spy to the bene 
e€ f both being de- 
is t 
a amet og I to return to the nm 
ns to the g 
od, an nd i is €: cava ‘ated toa considerable nee: mi beaks 
with huge padeants of rock. As you come ee ae sa- 
cred territory, a massive arch, of a peculiar oe mand e and 
which it would be vain 
rraces, 
te wt a Revel area, and from which the 
rises in all its majesty. The effect of the aeons is 
Dn 
to stan dinn ee 
descend to the “sumer at ‘the angles and centres. — Argus. 
(To be continued.) 
CULTURE OF rats IN THE WEST INDIES. 
ntcrest” the article on the cul- 
appea 
10th of July last, and 
he attempts which 
e this valuable ‘grain in ad tte 
ah 
ing it, or unacceptable to such of your readers as Freel Lae 
sirous of advan ncing the ‘Prosperit y of our West India n 
sore nies, I e columns 
es 
was so small, that 
pr ome m at present be Sbeite 
ow upwards of 347 years ew oo first attempt 
les by one of the 
about 10 leagues to the 
° 58’ N. near ment, the only record 
which I have b to procure is the apse isa con- 
able to 
tained in the see extract from Washing 
Lif fe 0 of Columbus be ch. x “he 129. 
everything in the vicinity of the 
hoder was rcalulated to increase bis s anticipations of fu- 
} and fruits of the O} 
Pp 
exceedingly in the soil vine, 
trimmed with Gaba had yielded grapes of tolerable etour! 
and cuttings from E 
2: 
Apa ate and prodigality of ve vege 
Her fish an striking ins 
ture rd wh 
mediate sstlte 
to be 
ger the successful cul- 
at once, nett without any inter- 
oatinacion ss — fact which ns 
somewhat “varia the opin 
te srobebte failure of Boe: 
erre thé soil 
S 
m the 
its obey eorhid This a fi most original om has 
y 
ij 
’ 6h he nge of 
° ntation., coc 
ust admit, been the subject of many unsuccessful 
ments, made at my requ 
ade with — oe 
ve OF- | j 
The 
sownin England, beehive its | 
—— sprig unaltered by the change of climate, ang 
suc the West Indies as well as that introduced 
directly yan: the region adjoining to La Victoria and San 
which has co ach thr 
n the su pagent hist story 
the valleys of Aragua and th 
Cuba, sufficiently prove that the augmentati 
not prejudicial to the harvest of wheat, unless it is = attoel a 
or moisture. is circum- 
o 
ct 
c 
“*to see to the east of the | 
the ocean; wh 
of the mountain 
height, the luxuriance 
does not form goes 
Struck with the facts furnished by this distinguished 
traveller, but teen mvinced by mips: adopted for 
their explanation, I resolved os apply m 
s et Mexico ‘al Xalapa, at 677 toises | 
of vegetation is such that wheat 
ele 
self t solu- 
tion of the problem, not by the delusive light "of theo 
but by the direct interrogation o Acco 
having throu kindness of Sir 
pre shapatpen to t r ays. n ano! 
in the =a Seintabitnd, eiued Charlottenberg, 
property 0 of the Hon. W. B. King, an assistant judge 
aan. at an altitude of abou t 4000 feet above the sea, 
“the seed,’’ as Dr. B 
2 
@ 
at 
o 
fied 
$e 
oe 
S 
g 
re.—W, 
(To be continued.) : 
ON THE CULTURE OF THE POLYANTHUS, 
of this new cultu Hamilton 
ulacee, and m 
nd derived from, rol Pra la vulgaris, 
common Prise though some Botanists rather suppose © 
to be t more immediate offspring of the Primula 
to bea hybrid between the Primrose and th 
purple wn, &c.; whil 
the Pelpanthas will often produce plants which 
4 consider the P. 
Pol 
se itself. Its el and var riegated col 
out 401 
as se eect of Pune in it ~— not more rem L 
than in the Pansy, 
- z 
There are, sa ts aps een favourites o 
the pe forme which te 80 itl ear and trouble a8 
eral misunderstood 
