1842.4 
-THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
67 
on apart GARDEN CALENDAR, by 
oN, gardener tothe Duke of Devonshire, will appear 
on ete cam (Feb. 5). This Calendar will comprehend. full 
details relating to all t arden Operations which concern a 
cottager. It will be illustrated with woodcuts, and mgr be printed 
jn this cheap form, that every g if pleases, dis- 
ssa 58 pues among his cottage neighbours | ond dependa nts. 
The EXTRA of the regular 
News anente, or direct t from the office (3, Charles- street, Covent. 
nd 
Th 
quality has been ascertained by actual experience. 
To this vaonaen officer we are under great obli- 
gation for the opport unity of examining them ; and the 
result of that examination is given in the following 
ps which shows the annual rate of of 
mples of timber, given in tenths of an inch for the 
mea of comparison, together with their Feppective 
qualities, as ascertained in Her Majesty’s dockyards:— 
February endar, 
but will still go free by post, Pans mped, and may be Sriered partes dag ry 
of all Newsvendors, price 6d. each. Name or Locality. |puted in tenths Ascertained Quality. 
an in 
The Gardeners’ Chromicte, | Perec weunerows esa. re, very goo er Pane 
: > English 6.66 Set for Plank. 
Out of Ot Ship “ Gibraltar o 6.44 
- 4.61 very good. 
SATURDAY, JAN. 29, 1842. sardinian pala Mee 7: 
Setar 3.33 seatiber nit and light. 
MEETINGS IN = mec aitural ges Dantzic, ne class | 2.85 rolerable for apr 
Tuesday +... + eae Se ; 7 4 a Tuscan, Q. ischia 2.72 or Plank 
Ldnmpainsjes tile 4049 2 8 pom Istrian, ist class . . 2.57 jad. 
Wednesday . .... Gentonieal EE lt hF 8hP. Me olish . . . . . 2.50 ndifferent. 
Friday ©. £1. % Botamical . 0. 8 en 8 P.M, American Live Oak 2.39 yood. 
English, seasoned P 2.37 700d 
We resume the subject of the effect of rapid growth | American White Oak . 2.15 sad. 
on timber. eee, agit! oi Rts |B 
1 plants consist of one or other of two substances— cassian 79 idtiferent: 
the one cellular, the other fibro-vascular. “The former | Tesca™ - 33 
East , di ff t. 
is composed of little bladders, the latter of long tubes; aa n : Preps 
th are termed tissue by physiologists. The ce Canadia 7 ba ¥ 
mea . ' i 9 olerable. 
tissue, or substance, i is br ithe, has little force of adhe- Tuscan, Q. Farnia 76 ad. 
in various de: a 
_more oo oon strong _ the cellular ; its eae in 
a separate state, ma mpared ‘to that of hemp, 
flax, ss other aaie fibres, a are always com- 
s fibro-vascular substa 
rib insists of these two different tissues inter- 
mixed ; when it grows fast, it produces a large quan- 
tity of fibro-vascular tissue, and but little cellular ; 
when it grows slowly, it is more cellular than fibro- 
ascular ere is never any expansion of the fibr. 
vascular parts ; 
number of. ther 
wild and cultivated esculents 
principally depends upon. the greater anally of we 
ay, Sh cope f of the shy 
“eral the yw 
of ise any light n this 
4 Seer Id 1 to a a enclasion that 
q t ~ 
: Perior for all a lit _— — 
 ..Before 24 will beg the reader 
these remarks we oT ead 
- on another occasio 
3 e are not, oe er, disposed to imitate others in 
3 making these statem 
“to sub antic he <r oe wien eidenc 
Pate; 
fe t, cna sts what we re. is 
gard as Ae 
> at deat i hen grow 
aa slowest 
he highly interesting of - naval, mPa 
form, mal iy Se Wa Symonds, at 
various other specimens of Oak which we have else- 
where examined ;— 
‘ Annual rate of . 
Name or Locality. Growth, Com-| Asnnarent Quality. 
~ of an inch. 
Ruins of York Minster 7.78 Excellent, hard and 
eavy. 
Arundel 3.33 Best quality on the 
- D me of Norfolk’s 
Esta 
Penthyn, N.W., White Oak 2.50 ite 
0. = Oak . 2.35 Very good. 
wains ee 2.0 pep 
Northumberland : 1,81 
undel 1.4 
Yorkshire 1.43 Toler good. 
Wainscot 1.25 ei. i a several 
3 ns inclu- 
ding good: and bad. 
Moss Cake Aveshire 0.99 ht and b 
Wainse 0.80 Brittle and ef: 
| of sper quali of sruD-—the ei of which I 
have comm tu 
, 0 
so far as vegetable physiology: is is 
exists 
»0f -Oak-timber whose | 
0 find, upon looking to evidence of another 
kind, that. the following are the rates of growth of 
Want of space made us to break off for ‘ pre- 
sent... We shall next week proceed to comment upon 
this evidence. 
Mr. Wess Hatt, in a letter to the Editor of the 
Times, has fornsaly: ‘in the following yore repeat 
his statement respecting the produte 
land, allude 
Mr. Daniel’s 3 
nabled Whea 
poor soil four areas years on the same land, and 
cated alread o the 
ith agricultural affairs and high position in society 
place his evidence beyond the reach of doubt. 
=, 
Now that “4 Assam Tea trade promises to become 
of great commercial importance, a difficulty has been 
Fas in determin to whom is due the honour of 
ering the shrub in_the domin Nong 
Bast India Repent and in I men 
tempers seem t 
eir friends in England, we may be fo 
a to state our own view of the case, ae since 
we may be aig as impartial judges - see aloof 
from. the disputes that have taken in India. 
It may be assumed that all. the positive <. mertoo 
pia exists upon the subject is to be found in the Pro- 
ceedings of y of In 
the documentary ce 
which, i little wnt a, Ju m that 
evidence, no other Sn iione than 
that the real: inccivaiey ‘of the Tea-plant were Mr. . 
Bruce, aud his brother the late Major R. Bruce 
These gentlemen were among the earliest residents i in 
Assam, and are said to have obtained a canoe fi 
plants and ‘seeds 
re the Burmese ga 
é pci sensible observations anaes 
th eS 3 Oe 
+ | they seek to 
of it to. Dr. tirana with seed-vessels (called by. him 
sade’, and leaves, an a drawing of a seed-vessel, 
a copy of f which drawing ins been published. - Dr, 
Wallich did not, however, consider this information 
sufficient to 
Tea; and as he aaa 
itt seems to hav 
mah. 
It is not till October 1831 that Captain Charlton’s 
name. a ee with the parame» of Tea. 
At that time this e brought 
live plants to the Aa Heniaioaed Society of — 
and to have written with de in these e icit term 
in Assam. Some of the natives are in the habit of 
rinking an infusion of the dried leayes, but th 
not prepare them in any particular manner. Altho 
epare them 
the leaves are devoid of fragrance in their green state, 
they acquire oe ae and taste of Chi Tea, when 
dried.” A n November 1834, he sent leaves 
and ripe fruit, which Dr. Wallich then (Dec. 1834) 
officially informed the chairman of the ea Committee 
had removed his doubts about the Assam plan 
ages a the real Tea, adding, that “a more 
nter e valuable i; as never 
nte 
Brod i) a light int ndian agriculture than has th 
been statis ied beyond dispute by Lieut. Charlton.” 
Further than is it seems useless to trace the evidence, 
ssrs. Bruce ; that Mr. "David Scott 
sen = thoes leaves, seed-vessels, and a drawing of the 
latter, which, however, Dr. Wallich did not consider 
satisfactory ¢ evidence upon the point; that in 1827 
an sent live plants to cutta, still, 
| however, without producihg aaa Cup that cae at 
Te y, that in 1934, 
sent home evidence which Was reputiled fo for the first 
time as conclus 
To whom nti these ae cos should be 
igned the honour * having mates the import- 
ant fact of the Tea-tr 
ee growing wil ish 
tory, will naturally be disputed, We ania give it 
to Mr. Scott, who first furnished evidence of its ex 
istence, but was not fortunate enou 
das nee, Had his 
it is quite clear that no opportuni 
afforded Captain Charlton for again inquiring into the 
matter. But as Mr. Scott’s investigations produ 
no result, we think that a tain Charlton, whose 
at las conviction upon the 
of which he was unaware, had had no existence; and 
that, sac he is 
has been a 
Invall t sManomebadsenaee iv-well to bear in mind the 
in 
conti titled to gold medal which 
tnt 
telescope, eT 
Iti ‘is: too’ . the custom to 
and to require for 
aims | observation, he credit which only attaches to the man 
raise. upon tha’ omagigt _The first | person 
the n that. practice 
, and to give ita general Papptnetn, is in our 
minds the man tow nected 
If antiquity is to be to, it is absurd to 
talk val Hitt or sont fora little, consideration will 
w 
into use 
tunately no precise | evidence appears exist upon cps ee Fes a 
that = the inipae rmbt: bs ee assertion |... 900 ss 
of but it is r m-cantemneds by Dr. Wallich, | © 
pres aca 
