1842:] 
THE GARDENE RS’ CHRONICLE. 
35 
This day is published, price 6s. cloth 
HE HAND- -BOOK OF CHEMISTRY ; with a 
T complete Ind .H. CauNTER, Esq. 
don: W.S. Orr & Co.; and W. &R. “Chambers, Edinburgh. 
The Gardeners’ Chronicte. | 
SATURDAY, JAN. 15, 1842, 
MEETINGS IN THE ENSUING WEEK. 
Monday .-+ - + « Medico-Botanical- a 8 yu, 
Horticultural , 2 P.M. 
Tuesday + + + = » ewer cae gt * 2.7. FM 
Sage erate Si “% P. M. 
Wednesda Feoleg he ide Ob eb 84 P. M. 
Friday . cv wie Rotawical tees oe 8 P.M. 
Saturdays «+ + + « Pomel B Botanic . 4 PM 
Our remarks on Forrstine will be resumed next 
week, with some considerations upon the rate of 
growth of trees 
WuiretnHorn is by far the best plant for 
_. THe 
| fences, in land which it likes; but itdoes not always 
answer the expectation of its planters. 
It will grow 
Jand t at is not very 
poor or wet. It 
not di ] y, and it succeeds admi- 
nee in rich light soils; but in marshy situations, or 
ne sands and heathy land, it is not wort 
pi The ane of multiplying it is ey sowing the stones 
found in the haws, the preparation of which is the 
sidered. 'T he h 
- first subject to be con 1e haws may 
“fins 
, 
< 
! 
it is technically called. 
} which nis - well _managed, it 
"mer the 
pring rg tha . the ee zane 
Emonly practised in som 
_ gathered at any time after they are ripe. They should 
be beaten to pieces, and mixed with twice their quan- 
tity of sand; after which eve should be formed into 
acone, 3ft. or 4ft. cia d well covered over with 
_ thick layer of: soil ; ‘made in a dry place. 
In pies se iney be unpacked, — from the ori 
and so tin beds 4ft. , being co 
; oie an inc with light soil. * Parther care they re- 
quire n irs 
the 
aoe ‘the second, many the third, sands ome the 
th; so that the seeds need not be sown thin ; 
- for the successive pane as ‘the plants are eremoved, 
will form room for the new seedlings, or “ layer,” 
he layer d be used when two years old, at 
will be nine inches 
high. ull it ~ with the hands, 
to ‘pu 
| guarded oy sont leather Ewes and to shorten the 
: root up to the bunch of | yj 
roots by removing a 
ani Sponge from a crown. 
for p. 
sag 
In this state it 
‘ge operations 
wever, e ics wished 
_— 
beige on by doing so ; a fo lar 
ae latter is too expensive. If, 
every year, by fntotacing the spade on one side, 
until the plants are as large as.is required. They 
must be lift Se or they will form coarse roo 
t be guarded by hurdles), or upon the to of a 
er. The latter is a bad se a eo of 
bank becomes very dry, and the yoang wa 
or its 
stunted a 
on the top, and on no account at the — as is com- 
e of our coun 
The best way of plnaticg is to mE “ti the layer 12 
oot asunde 
h 
4 left at full le eng 
‘The second ee after planting one row should be 
cut down to within five 
we — that — rsons will prefer layer more 
years ol wef ie bt, se guna Teiciiver 
asipley 
hee ig aa 
un 
lity of such absurdities 
Ss W 
Ovr readers will have occasionally remarked in our 
soe" a . sor Whitethorn’ is ae allowed to become 
in the autumn 
e 
ing decreas Mr. Kipist on this occasion is gener ni 
ety. 
regretted by the friends of the Soc 
on is with ae that we announce the peng 
f Mr. Aylmer Bourke Lambert, of 
the Vice- Presidents of the Linnean Society, mio ‘ai 
t his residence at n Mon ast, at an 
A AVitiécAl age. if liberality of this gentleman in all 
that related to Botany, and the unreserved manner in 
which he placed his ae and herbariu athe latter 
at one time the richest in this country in Siberian and 
Sou th American cas the disposal of men 
science of all nations, would have identified his name 
vember 
“ The vellvie Rose, so rarely seen in England, is 
common bere (at Macerata), and, we find, is easily pro- 
panies, by grafting the red Rose on the common 
Broo 
We all know hes priree difficulty of romeving 
popular errors ; but ust confess we were not pre 
pared for such a satement as this in the year 1841. 
e Rose gra the Broom! We wonder the 
writer did not add that i in Sic ily t the Orange grows on 
the Thistle, and the Grape oe og roundsel. One would 
be just as possible i ti ot 
I law of nails that no plants will 
engraft on each other which do not belong to the same 
natural order ; and it not unfrequently occurs that, 
even in the same ap Mer species which are dis- 
tantly related cannot ited to each other. For 
on a Plum, or a Rose “ame a Whitethorn? For any 
ri aap — to be effect: tween different species, 
there must be a great cienilaniey i the organisation 
and saceetions of the species to be united. ‘That simi- 
- | Apple and the Plum, or nae Hove and the Whitethorn ; 
and consequently they cannot be made to take. 
then, sere is this Bel pat ie of uniting 
plants of the same natural order, the belonging 
which necessarily implies a great similarity of struc- 
— nd constitution, how can we conceive it 
ucture 
nor 
dogs with wild onl a and what is true of animals is 
quite as true of 
To be sure, we me told by sundry veracious ore 
that Roses become black by being grafted on a Black 
Currant bush, iad that the blood-red ey derive 
their colour from growing a Pom ates ; 
statements are of the sam 
Wz 
a class as 
‘the head of these remarks. How ye we stories may be | more of 
learning to tell; but ev: 
that. Virgil gossips ee Plum-trees 
we 
Plants ts Dy be ad M. Tho: 
A corrEsponpDeNT has sent us the following extract k 
from a ent of high reputation, published in No- | ¢ 
we think it isin plant 
‘the 
a very late period, 
as gg a etted in the Garden of ‘ 
self; indeed, in many cases an argument will be con- 
ducted better when the parties to it are unacquainted 
with each other. 
If, however, we had any Sa about the Propriety 
of the course we have taken, ould be removed by 
ae eek letter from our sxecllae surreapacidett, 
Stat nominis umbra. ou have not done i 
ll pow 
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| snd 
me 
strietly beebeeaet 
and we ma or ne of that discursive kind w ’ 
without departing entirely from the principal object 
ou 
or serve to 
men engaged in one oa af most intellectual of phy- 
sical pursuits, and div y to your agreeable miscel- 
lany. A little consideration will, | am sure, convince 
. 
S 
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4 
Sn, 
mistake, and of the better taste you sho the 
oliter course you take in not aviempting to disturb 
the privacy of your friends, so long as they avoid per- 
sonal appeals, or a line of ar, yore. in which — nal 
authority was et to give weight ir dis- 
cussions. ‘J. H. S.’ has doubles at himself 
sae means than the holy 
that your memory is to be 
habitats, and distinctions of all the ‘m 
who cro our weekly eT Ty 
* For myself, | am not too old or too cold not to 
rejoice in the little private gossips I have with you, or 
not to be rather proud of your recorded good opinion. 
ut I am too chary of your disposable leisure to think 
of encouraging you with a name w 
vey no sense of intellectual superiority, or 
artistical skill ; and so perfectly unknown to fame as 
t 
where, 
to find “ited 1 for the 
i uch | CON es pany. 
“If I were «Pp. P? to mean ‘ Peter 
Pratt,’ the father * ‘be sooty Lonicera,’ or to an- 
nounce myself as the lineal descendant of ‘P. P., 
Clerk of this Parish; it would add no weight of proof 
- ae seams that Ho lies are best sie when they 
sevith l as Sisjeabtis ; 6 that chakapeate wid 
not a professional atts ner—no more than it would 
give point to a dibble or an epigram.” : 
CACTAC EOUS PLANTS. 
rewncr 
‘1 
? | cultivation of most plants, but many Cacti are exception 
Céreus speciosissimus is a native of South 
i years, and is by some still, 
treated as a stove plant, grown in old lime, brick rubbish, 
and the poorest of | soil, and, of course, kept sopaany ex- 
cited with ; int aoe 
the treatment that their natural. localities 
desirable. p 
for instance, 
eat 
eredita 
on greenhous 
lants in is one-half peat, with « 
yellow loam, pigeons’ or sheep’s dung, and ri 
sand that has been at least Shyer twelve months to 
I never mix the soil ta 
young and unripe shoots I lay on a dry s 
house - a fortnight, s dry up the sap, ioe prevents 
roots much 
th 
the pots with roots, they are repotte 
termediate or Pelargonium house, where 
supply of water. 
y 
eading shoots ev ear whenever they are be- | columns lette ndents who urge the | very little water is given them, which is in as the 
strong, sad i — the mass oumpact authors 0 commnunieations to Sign them wit aed reason adv OF er thsening via an 
cket of entangled real ni ; y our own opinion | will have grown he size of blooming plants ; an 
ese are, in our opinion, the essential points to | upon this subject, iit we now repeat tha that i Sy any in the autumn they should ot et a in : _ , 
serve ; if we are wrotg;-we be glad of the | cases there is no kind of necessity for per gees or noping other Bg use pla 
corrections of our correspondents. In ee it should | If a man indeed has a fact to state, then i it é no ;doubt ~ Id be ied ~ put, as 
borne in mind that the Whitethorn of | desirable that he should be Coen: to us ; = it is not b I on the first for forcing in 
ay ahd @ that the better the soil <9 scence Hy oe requisite that. he should decl saaay. about Feb. 1, and continue a succession till 
will be The plants,.of course, should be kept greenhouse is se 
te clean by frequent hoeing and loosening’ the sur- ; paid 
and 
