Be 
is 
1842. ] THE 
GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
“85 
and instead of Benting the trees in Nami gem ycand soil, 
and placing the nure over the roots, as was my 
former practice, I gee uld now remove the soil “4 the 
depth of one fot or ee pr: to be eee with 
i 1 of the en old sta table 
woof t 
c 
vteaew ere then two row he prize trees in front, 
then a walk or a alley | erate: a yard mie an “| by e side of 
this arow of S n pea-sticks, so 
that my trees were “effectually sheltered thie the adver rse 
influence of strong winds e same time they 
were ped et? me to ‘the via this I consider a sak 
of s mportanc 
sais o apply wate only in spring, and liquid manure 
in summer, and this I should do again; but Isho uld now 
nure ie 
m the previous year’ 
The | branches I would erika nearly hori- 
tot! now allow the tr 
, an 
of elaborated sp ;_and the 
less be increa n propor ould al 
on the size of 1 a single fruit wena be the effects of ringing 
branch. I ink, to expect very mate 
fruit from trees after the seventh or eighth year. 
noticed lar trees which have be 
a. _hurserym a: as we 
h 
they grew the har der they seemed to pru 
when a tree was seven or 
arly the same thickne 
year, = pee ond a behest extension of roots and 
branches, it will be seen that under these circumstances 
it is impossible for the ives to ‘Sroduia fine large iret. 
John Townley 
THE DUNMORE PEAR. 
Tue following sketch of this excellent Pear, from 
fruit grown on a tsar will not be eee tee t 
those who have been ahs procure it from the ch 
racter given of it in ia ol, 702, 717, 816 (1841), as it 
will enable them to ascertain, whe en their trees fruit, 
whether they are correct. 
Ground Colour, 
Greenish-yellow 
Speckled with 
Smooth Brown 
Russet, 43 
“THE POTATO. 
One would as soon expect a man to doubt his eve 
iden aa as believe a Potato not to be a root 
- It-gro 
under ground ; everybody ha ed it a root from pd 
unknown, and in botanical book is to be foun 
How indeed! A friend of ours regards it as a serious 
reproach to Be iia ium of the presen day that they never 
will let alone the name of A ie » bu : are il dred 
turning a 2 est tablished no tape y-tu rvy. To bes 
it is very wrong to dou (‘the “jnfallibility of our forefathers, 
or to believe that the times hired have 
no hoe 
m we must place the Potato. 
A few weeks since, an acqua iismge brought us a Potato 
plant, sick as is represented below, which had thought 
proper to grow beneath an inverted 
rv 
r 
itself into a very perfect abortion, in which everything was 
present that a Potato should have, but nothing of due 
size and fair proportion. 
In fact, it had int a ini miniature Potato 
plant, such as would have grown irregularly under ground 
had it been surrounded by soil, but which, bide 
in the air only, ie meeting with no resistance, had gro 
with the same regularity as an ordinary plant above the 
ground. The set was shrivelled up, and fo a wrinkled 
knob, out of which grew many branches and eae 
Of the latter, some, thickening at the ts, beca 
small Piijations others, mas Be no & es of engthening 
swelled close to the par 
with tiny scales, the act isthie és sentes. iat “i 
plants seemed - first sight to have none, for the set had 
furnished ne - a ser pet grt a n 
looki 
ng cltatathi ve n, evident 
that little roots fice i in ‘really ju ast Tinian "g tiple on 
the su them, ras or in clusters. 
now t that 
fo 
under the influence of light and air. So that the 
botanists for are right.—Astor, 
HE rat a ieee VI. 
pends upon 
e pe object ts the proprie- 
rs have in view, that this can aay i done wel] by actual 
many persons are either making new gar 
already made; and for this at it a be 
convenient to divide them into asses : cs when ere 
ied; and rhaeondly, wis this 
i A have 
been i in the habit o of visiting garde he firs ip- 
tion, must have remarked that in some the taste displayed 
was of a higher order than in others. In r 
a kind of harmony prevails in all their parts: the dwelling- 
ers lawn, bo , walks, sh es, ar 
ith each other, thus forming a beautiful whole on 
which the eye rests with pleasure and sa tion; int 
canter a sort of jarring effect is produced, rendered more 
80 by the conviction that the desired end has not been ac- 
. het ficeresmenaraths hae eter on 
the whole. be very beautiful, al 
picturesque effect has been produced—indeed the latter 
can scarcely be expected in very small gardens—but where 
Pe prengemes ti the shrubs and tr 
Bi ‘ 
‘4 , 
mistaken for natural scen ery. 
m 
A few may be 
given of abad style, which will able 
‘Ea amateur to 
avoid them in laying out his garden. ur 
made to the side of straight walls or hed s, and vice 
versa, supposing t or hedge is seen from th alk, 
never look ell. Parallel walks are also objectionable,- 
particularly when both can easily be seen at same 
; and the effect produced is greater or less in 
a 
t nto numerous small 
regular figures, resembling hearts, tadpoles, and all sorts 
of tinge d forms, pretending to represent a 
style of gard 
hrubs 
mall gardens, or in front of the dw welling. 
house, are generally objectionable 
I will take another-o opport unity of adverting to what I 
e the beauties of this style of laying out 
small gardens; in the mean time the amateur ain | exa- 
i brought forward, which are not dif- 
ficult to find, and judge for himself. If the weather con- 
tinues open and e various pe oor sate for. 
merly secomasinar’ can now be done.—R. F 
HOME CORRESPONDENCE. 
The Treatment of Leonotis herent —H 
remit. grown urw 
of 120°, i s likely to hav 
ll have begun grow; they should 
then be shifted into a $ ores filled with any good 
soil, with plenty o nage, colestinly 
well Metre in umps, a equal p 
ec ubould a poet | in a light part of ‘the gréenh 
e they will get plen YS = air, and pose Bes mc pe save bt but 
little water for the first or t ree wi 
; ad ma 
es are not | 
shifted into the pots ihr are tsteinied to flower * 
4’s; about the middle of the month, when all danger 
from frost is over, plunge the pots up to the rim in a 
th border and p with water ; and 
once in eight or ten days give th liquid manure. 
ey will require to tying up and occasion- 
ally turning the pots ro the roots from run- 
ning into the border till a end of Se ber or begin- 
ning of October, when they sh be removed into the 
greenhouse, where they will flowe! ten 3 
after this they may be cut do 
six feet in height, and from 
eight ‘to ten in pao sibel clothed with foliage from 
bottom to top.—J. 
arte ie uernsey Beurré Pear (p.36).— T beg to cor- 
especting the origin of this fruit into which 
you you have pr probably been led ite imperfect information. 
rit of raising this very excellent variety from seed 
beluiige to the late berm 4 Mollet, Esq., of this island, 
a gentleman much attached to hortealara pursuits, who 
i ears ago. an one, and 
his Pears 
o of his eedling Apples sed one ae his Pears 
ieee long been sitdity gerierally cultiv 
where they are No sh Rigen wbile ‘this Pear, gh 3 
known to exist, has been t entirely neglected u 
the presen Sila ably 
were aware that it required a w 4 
tion. mens I sent at oe 
tree grafted o uince stock, and planted gaat os 
wall. Under these presetatrretoe it appears’ 
Hilary Hilery 0. “Carr, G 
