Tas CARD EH BAG! CHRONICLE. 
83 
1842.] 
Sa turday M ing. 
We find from the News Agents that so many rot our 
Subscribers have ordered Extra copies, that should they 
not receive them at the same time as their regular copy, 
=! will have the goodness to wait over Monday's post, 
more than probable that we shall not be able 
” capes a extra copies to the Agents too late an 
hour to a of their oe all posted to-night.. We have 
made sbeespehaal with the Printers to keep the Paper i in 
Friday morning ; this. wil 
obtain them. They c 
News Agents, or aoe from the office by forwarding money 
or a post-office 
The Gardener ’ Chronicle, 
1842, 
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 
ME oie aad IN THE ENSUING —— 
Monday Davetasheniont ° aM. 
Tuesday -.. + . + Zoological. . .« «'s « ad = 
w ednesday Bede Botanical ae ee 
Saturday .« + «+» po sdamh al Botan. » 4M 
We to-day redeem our 
readers with a ay ames of the garden-work 
which a cottager—that O say, a la 
can have occasion to Red ana in the rynead of the year, 
Being written by Mr. Paxton, w eat ex ~~ 
in all such matters is well known, cm a 
together with the excellent — - Cot 
ing published in the course of ear, a 
our country friends to give their oats neighbours that 
pee seful assistance which the most benevolent in- 
entions cannot 
an— 
P 
cteaiel where the sentty willbe 
ing to ae the small amount o 
for such a 
y 
apes amongst them, the rector taking no rent. 
Ve greatly w stem was adopted in 
books into hands ; a 
we coin is an from i 
“ Upon this subject 3 we recomm 
romise of presenting our | stance con 
ired | du 
end to thos 
terested in this subject—and what right-minded m 
is not !—the following letter from a labourer, the aa 
who are 
Many be Se people spatial books to be given 
pred of money, and undoubtedly this 
and ben evolent ; but I would beg these 
mething that will bring 
s which have 
nds of the unlearned, and would, I think, often lie un- 
opened on the shelf. If choice fruit-trees, choice roots, or 
first-rate seeds were given, I think they would be generally 
* ta oe the ni ould in time yield fruit, and en 
ttager to persevere in industry ; 
looking at a nes echly laden with fruit, he might point to 
it and regis o his children, ‘ Through industry I obtained 
that 
We. are unwilling to close these observations, which 
must be the last we - make upon the subject for 
some time = come, circum- 
WE trust the evidence now produced my 
the most sceptical person that fast-grown Onk is, bo 
in theory and in fact, greatly 1g to that de 
<a In the first of the tables we last wee 
tables was 
some of -~- ioe 2 Oak of bad quality was fast-grown, 
as the nch, Styrian, and Istrian; but this may 
to | ence; during that period I have 
whereas from that which grows slowly it is thin and 
he only inducement I have to fall in with Sir 
ant tate notions on the quality of timber is, 
the re pene se that the strength of work is the de- 
€ 
cay of 
my remarks, I beg to state that 
“ Before concludi: 
ations are the result of thirty years’ e - 
intended the 
bail 
The opinion ee Mr. Andrew Knight, the late Pre- 
sident of the orticultural Society, _ the same 
effect :—That pul an’s pve m by 
Lord rs ge Be gyri 67 which grow rom In poo 
eit tit : 
The heaviest and ‘ban Oaks 
trong, deep, red loames, map inc 
init: less durable. 
in diameter. A layer of wy. porous wood marks the 
commencement 0: [gna owt and when the 
growth i small, seer ——- . 
The ie wale oath us 
vigorous and « English © Sediseare whens 
= of the Oak imported from the North of Europe 
e ratio ee 
And finall oar een of Professor , 
Woolwich, quoted by y Me. acto all 
cede the same rye hem p In one in 
of Oak ware ; one fe 1) fro m a ia Agicarons 
tree, and the other ( ( No. 2) box +a pot “growing tree. 
“ The former Was grow informs me 
upon a very ne good soi wre; aa he mee 
about sixty years, and it contained from 38 to 4 
a of timber. The other 
_ oe SS Ser 5 
Professor Barlow gave the following as the result of 
his examination :— 
¢ two pieces were squared down each to two 
inches. They were broken on props 50 inches asun- 
ultimate 
every , either e clergyman or thelandlords, or | ter required for ee Me the timber, and that so der, heir specific gravity, ticity, and 
both. To none of ‘hese can the expense be a matter | species common in the South and East of Earopi, and iecapacallen atceuetn, valk 7 wysy se or 
mportance ; and it is certainly a great benefit to the aa engage Q. pubescens, the Downy Oak, are never Defected 
industrious labourer—much better than letting him | of value The specimen of wood marked 1-50th of Comparative 
ive rent-free. As of this nature is alread French, from nthe sadevenlas was very like that of the Spec. grav, its length Broken with _ strength, 
existence in other parts of the country, and was long wn ies. No. 1. 903 660 Ibs. 999 Ibs. 1561 
si “ Pease by byl John Sebright, one 4 the wisest Where so much ee opinion —o No. 2. 856 414 Ibs. 677 ibs 1058 
and most liber r great country gentlemen thought nf better to produce positive evidence ck ore about of medium 
s for sapoeg having aby btained, the sg o = But if we had looked to re ears 1, oes Fd wg for English Oak 
next question is, how to dispose of them. Many per- lished. eeslerios of incontestable value, we could : aan Now! te.very oo aa pa Sag eg ar 
sons prefer the Siitriinaion of books; and for their pi forward what ought to satisfy any rensoinati 1205. ae on Sreagihat of Timber wg 
convenience we have noted at the end of our Calendar | man; to say nothing of the declared uaa le gexeched of per- | « We tri your two pi two very choice 
a few of those which seem to us best adopted for the | sons of great authority, both as and specimens of English Oak shichhetdemiaeine 
urpose. But we do not ourselves consider books the | theory. in store, and the numbers were, se A ae ga 
t incentives to a poor man’s industry. Itisalways| If the reader will turn to a pusphiss hei \-soth Broken with Comp, str. 
to be remembered that he is poor, and that the most | the year 1829 by Mr. Withers, of Holt, is Nihal, a L5H “Sag 
useful assistance to be afforded him is what will increase | planter of great experience, he will fin a considerable 748 896 Ibs. mr eager 
his personal comforts. Books will not do that. The body y of evidence in support of the statement that fas 756 680 lbs. 
must be cared forin the first instance ; the improvement is the best. Pp was called a “These again, compared wi with your weakest piece, 
of the mind by education can only follow. Give a Fetter to Sir Henry Steuart, and was written for No, 1 is about the common ran of 
r comforts, let him know the advantagé of | p doing away with any impression which | English Oak.” 
them, and they will s y absolute wants. | might haye been made by that gentleman when h nother ent upon pe pak gave gee Ra 
Only make them necessary, and he will strive of him- | stated that slow-grown timber is the best. B e result. But it is needless to e the subject 
ith all his energy to . Sq emp of timber-merchants, and other Log fa- | further. We regard it as proved that the! fastest grown 
d brutality once removed, he who was formerly un- ar with the subject, Mr. Withers proved tha Oak is the best; an e rate of growth d 
conscious of th or indi t em, i erg reverse was the case. Mr. _ Ni of East pends partly upon soil, and partly upon sufficient thin- 
| back with shame and ‘dingast upon his early habits. | Grinstead, expresses himself th ng we are ed to add, that attentio 
_ Books will not effect this end—money, or money’s| “ Another very desirable quality ‘which nape is of the most essential consequence to the planter. 
worth, will ; for with what heart can a poor man sit | ing timber possesses is, that it is much s stronger and} We may also add, that all evidence show 
_ down to read—if he ean read—when cold and hun rt, | tougher than that which grows slow. ‘The one would | that what is true of the Oak is true of other trees, 
<a half-starved children, are around him? With ben. where the her would break. I am convinced a 
— heart could we read under such circumstances? | that ip built exclusively of A ge ing 2} ON RAISING CONIFEROUS PLANTS FROM 
Po say then to our noble and wealthy country friends, | an i for against a rock, would be in safety, wheh SEED 
peer yout ares co , who have the spirit and | one. exclusively built of slow-growi timber would | pu. Pine and Fir tribecan only be increased on a large 
Courage to strive against their lot, money, or m to pieces: the former, from strength and toughness | scale by seeds, which are produced in great 
Worth, as the reward of their industry and skill; give | of the wood, would yield and clear off; and the latter, | when the plants a certain age, and which are ge- 
them clothes od a = “if tools, household imple- from the shortness e grain e wood, and its | nerally ripe in the autumn, the cones taki 
ments, plants’ o , @ spade, a jacket, tea- ent tenderness, would break res corsage months before they come to maturity. 
things, an el Boy sai pi “of that sort will sti- | I contend, in contradiction to Sir Henry Steu be vada Be Py = —. 
-. te them more than all the books in the world, for en sieart of stich timber is very superior, that i it is con- | be septa wnng ery ot = 
nese. i easons—that the one is virtually erably heavier, and must consequently contain more = Mare a i eee 
| susmentation of the labourer’s wages, and helps him viltte and condition oo that which he recommends heresy aimee if they | 
lige re comforts and necessaries, without. which | to the public as the tiie easily 
he is but a bitter oh and that early understands}  “ Independent of the advantage which the ne éf some. kinda sen ae 
compre Use of the one, while it is doubtful if he will ness in growth gives to the quality of Oak timber, th t it would take -w 
orm ree the value of the other when he has.ob- | bark from the same ca wage possesses an equal if n t would open. 
oo er superiority ; as the very highest price is given | the centre,” 
tit not be inferred from this that we abject to | by the London tanners for bark from this county, } afterwards to drive a 
Puttin where the growth, as I hav micas Be menti is very at the 
macy fa the commence 
