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THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
are well started, they must t be watered, not m8 a — 
jous oo: ago rvals 0 
hen the 
thin ‘out all those which are large 
as near one size 28 RENE a as ssl dis 
en they have flowered, I 
replaced with young 0 I have ri 
tiful hybrids, some bye Ae with 
lissonii, and others intermediat 
i m 
ee ayy! and bears large se 
purple ti ssimus 
to Sir E. greene Bart., Lower Chowe 
carlet Pssaracgy 3 
oh een, Goutne 
DIE “HOHE ‘BICHE, 
THE TALL OAK OF HARRESHAUSEN NEAR BABEN- 
HAUSEN, G. DUCHY OF HESSE DARMSTADT. 
HAnresaavsen is a small village of the Grand Duchy 
Darmstadt, about,25 Engl ar a te eo 
ausen. derable trac 
lies on the west side of oak tee — vad 
the 
orest 
markable 
till within oe last 20 aa encom 
Ses rc annexed. 
ds about a quarter of a mile from the vil- 
and aah one hundred yards in front of the wood. 
Cc 
ps oe at a considerable distance, and might be ta’ 
ce Fir until the upward tendency of its bedsolies 
The total height of this singular Oak is estimated . 
the people at 90 ilsision pou one third of which is 
CULTURE : OF WHEAT > IN THE WEST T INDIES. 
rom p. 20. 
e the Si =F the first attempt, with the e 
e to produce wheat in the Antilles, 
however, these t 
problem which I was ir lving, namel 
minimum of latitude and elevation at which this culture 
ried on tween the tropics 
ing from 60 to 70 nse 
1. 
orks 
Zt t 
gether in the beginning of pea and let it spring 
esh. 
Wit th regard to 
oe will bats apply to them when is ined against — 
as tho: 
Sir pices tl 
experiments were made, having been remored to th 
I availed myself of 
that opportunity to extend my experiments in that quarter, 
but could only succeed in partially overcoming the pr 
dices planters in Antigua and Dominica. In the 
fo causes connected probably with the nature 
the soil, the neglect of dressing, and the characte of the 
season, the results wer no means such as I could have 
wished, the grain being 1 and defective, and contain- 
ing an undue proportion of branand gluten. In Dominic 
e, 15 grains planted by 
oO 
ma t 104 days from t and 
Szoaded the weight of the parent weg in the proportion 
of 1 to 1.03, or 132 to 136. 
In St. Kitt's, thst grains of English white wheat 
which were — oe the late Mr. nla, at an eleva- 
oa of n the neighbourhood o f Brimstone- 
ill di 
clean , hare pe of perfect symmetry om sraightness 
The form of the head, the compactness 
poggl the ei ty oak dark a of the $ foliage, sentie 
ery 
un 
ople, who us 
ro ad nd stem, as a 
—against what hg fo e was unable to say 
tradition that when the country w was occupied 4 
ts in the Seven Years’ War, this tree was on 
t = pray cut wit for fire-wood, w 
is unfortunately not Bearer but w 
saved i 
1 
apn- 
¢ from ie 
eri foot. 
8 Oak is ocr propagate 7 grating the —— 
not beng sur gt} err of the same strict habit 
ever, hed oh same as the parent pee 
as seen are on rhe lawn at Wilhelmshohe, nae 
or pyramidalis.—S. 
90 Hessian feet total 
3 height. 
30 Hessian feet to the 
first branch. 
12 Hessian feet circum. “-"~~7 { iH 
han 
n the acceleration of the period of arriving at 
rit Y. 
bout the same time that these mn retin were pro- 
ceeding in the Leeward Islands, further trials were in 
progress in Jamaica, which ep a loiniione solution 
of ‘a problem w which had so long engaged my attention 
trated the pr: atie roi i 
he 
ly well in the arid Stak 
Hottie of Clarendon and 
wheat produced in Vere was planted,” as the 
sident acquaints usin his address, ‘‘ “ i Estate, 
bent a the 22d of bebe ; ors up on t 7th; the fir: = 
May (58th p it began 
posh on vo 6th of dune x th reg : Ce was cut on she 
20th (90th day), a 
or ae rain sept ‘made oi ce 
to en in. Th Sostion wn in 
Mount Moses plantation; it te planted in aren and 
eapedin J 
r une. 
‘*In St. Ann’s, Mr. King planted it on the 30th of 
oh on the 2d of April it was up, and co ined 
tc 1 Pay In pity’ — rey from the time of 
gan w head, and blossom and ; 
on the 30th of June (th 92d day eit “ed tain od 
ON Be 1 ean fot equal to 112 English inches, 
to defer the sgn to a little me rai = the season. 
proper 
obvious little pruning w 
danger of 
too ae will thereby be avoided.— 
of the footstalk, i 
an inch i sonata kness, and ye 
eye is in a shallow depression, quite open, the 
of the calyx closely reclining on the fruit. 
of the fruit is somew neven; the 
yellow, but gpa is pbs asure 
inous russet, 
posed in broad, Tongitudinal stripes. 
yellow, — melting oa eay? with a very a 
= ntel flavo Dece and January may be 
its season. Nothin — oe rpibeeaalé known of its 5 
ability to England. 
not the case, the result of shortening to within 2 “4 
will be the same as *‘ F, G. 
adopt would be, to ¢ 
the mode of pruning Plums, the same 
r fay 
ng tree 
shoots whic may thro 
t 
uired in w 
the trees be Sieh diseased fi from using the k 
ASE « 
vate, 0 what pyramidal, 
ably heaey extension of about half an inch - the in 
dition to which the foot: tstalk is’ i 
yellow 'sh green 
lirit cinnamon 
dots, some on @ 
Come: ish green 
gro 
full, a oe if not su 
Hetee the d fhe, i i rove tal 
een the dri ag : me rods —_ 
aioe, aD. oA eden: sufficient.” ° 
To be e continued.) 
ON THE ee OF Peter nae 
CORRESPONDENT, ‘“‘ F. G. Z.,’’ writes as follows :— 
Thave got a Magnum- enn nant We pu pro- 
Jecting a considerable distance from the stem, and nak 
~ t ~~ Can profitably shortened ? and 
if not, be close to the stem? In prunin 
ag eee mode should be pursued eep the shoots 
eke We suspect the cause of ‘ F.G.Z.’s”| NOTES UPON so ELAR- 
omy — - at me “rate is owing to the a0; thc oe Neylag v7 
ay. been pro at first, so wesditie 
: c : oe rer ay, td Layo prevent its being pendant | Shere ani nial oie ey we 
pedantic g es res . oots, either in the middle or — to gent the Toll ase nes eta th some 
upper pa fe the tree : It is, perhaps, too late e leadi lowing memoranda upon an pre 
now fo em 4 id ett, or to al at ae ane the hope that they wi! P) 
pry ; eet pure with advent ather, however may ing tr on tn a especially to who 
Se Ayer csi wherever sound, healthy Sek the © roll ai 
discov the base of the spur; but when fivour, "i po aan ae fhacfore | in doubt and difficulty a8 
