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top of each and ah them in some Pee rich mould, placing te variety. P. M. sar ses much according to bag CORRESPON a gr 
them afterwards in a cold pit where they are tolerably e soil and season, being in we ars quite double and A nt.—My attention having been drawn to 
secure from fros nr ied wars e they can be kept dry during ms others semi-double, uh 3 € of the flowers even | a Leading Article in the Gardeners’ Chronicle of Saturday, 
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the winter. In the spring, place them where a little arti- | single, which accounts for the ‘different names applied to | Jan. 29th, toa J ora nication inserted in the same 
ficial heat is used ; they will then begin to grow and make | this and the following variety. The P. M. cérnea plena, me gsi om Mr. ffith,-on the subject of Assam Tea, I 
good plants fit for planting out in the au tom. Hort. Trans., is not > aap rae _ this variety. feel myself eee ‘pen in behalf of my sara Captain 
The second mode of increasing them the 8 layering, 4. P, .rése a plena, Hort. Tra vol. vi., p. 477.— — see) Fee issioner of Assam, to offer you 
which is performed in the following heel —Select, tn a isa beautiful variety, with sell-coloured flowers of a e following rem saa 
either in October or February, some of the bottom shoots deep te BP colour, but g paler as they get va and that oth 
which are of the preceding year’s 8 growth; tongue and | fully expanded. It is the fas of all the Moutan or | person entitled to the credi 
eg them down in the sigh pe i ative the layers about | Tree-Pzonies, o" one of the most showy when in good | the present manufacture of tea 
three inches with a mixture of light sandy peat, leaf-mould | health. The tea rdésea pon « and P. M. résea semi- | insert certain references to what you co 
and a little loam; they will then require no other care, | plena, den. 4 rans., vol. vi., p. 476-7, are 2% same the case, and thence draw a conclusion in favou 
sagid a little water in dry weather ; but they must remain wares the diflerencs’ hiaiets entirely caused by the and | Charlton’s claims ; one of the references in domo ti 
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ing early in spring some of the bottom branches or stems, | the Hort. Trans., but the error seems still to be retained tea,! officially expressed binseelf pony say, ars 4) i 
ringing them with a sharp knife, ‘inut one inch above and | in more recent publications. these words :—‘ A m interesting, 
below each bud upon the age ; B sagt bud will then oc- 5. P. M. lacera, Bot. Reg., July fee Ea hand- | has never been ricer to light in Indi 
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In ringing, remove in 7 the usual way a stall the Earl of Sandwich, near Shelincicse- “iffer from | Charlton.’ Ze sir, it happens that I am in possession of 
ring of the bark all round the stem. The branches so | the others in the bright rosy red of the petals, the inner- | a copy of the original _ nute alluded to, sent me by Dr. 
prepared are then laid in the same way as the preceding, | most of which are very much torn and curled; they are | Wallich himself, and attested by his signature ; “tt bears 
and the plants will be fit to separate in one year, but they | also distinctly bordered with a narrow edge of carmine, | date Dec. 1834, ‘and i is me by Dr. Wallich, as secre- 
will not be so strong as those raised in the preceding | which giv - the whole flower a peculiar rich and finished | tary of the Tea Committee, to vd Indian Government ; 
manner. The Chinese are said to practise budding the ek gre after acknowledging the receipt of reports from sae 
rarer ones on the more common kinds with great success, cee M. Annes — ona .» Vol. vi., p. 482.—This | Jenkins and Lieut. Charlton in the preceding mo of 
but = icgeret seems rather doubtful. dis laa variety has ra ll, single, rich pur plish- pink rt ny ith, ith, and 29th) and Nov. ( (15th), it paral 
mode of raising them is from seed ; but this act with the peal slightly jagged at the margins. It 
can eal - done to increase the single ones, as the semi- sed at Arley Hal we are enabled to announce to his Lords ship in 
double ones do not produce perfect seeds, or at least very The ere are esas other seedling varieties, such as P. M. Couns mre the Tea-shrub is beyond all doubt mess rH 
seldom. When perfect seeds are obtained, shortly after | punfcea, which is a handsome sort, differin ng from the pre- | in Upper Assar: ;’ and then ea ig the localities, it con- 
they are mad bas should be sown in pans filled with a | ceding in little except in being semi-double and in the | tinues— We have om hes in declaring this ‘dis. : 
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the seeds will begin to vegetate. If the seeds are not sown | the bas the | pie It is rather gabe in habit, and | matters connected with the agricultural or commercial re- 
until the spring, they seldom grow before the following evidently oa a slight —_— of a. outan suiiraleaes sources of this empire.’ This is evidently the minute to 
year, and frequently many of the seeds perish before | The also a Belgian variety with single flowers called | which you refer; but how comes it that my ngaerpe 
oo time arrives. The seedlings must be allowed to re- | P. M. Ries Gillica. name is altogether omitted in the extract given in the 
ain in the seed-pans the first season, and be trans- ——EEEEEEEEEE Gardeners’ Chronicle? 1 fear that you have sickior had . 
planted the following spring, either into the open border, or THE AMATEUR’S GARDEN.—No. X. access only to ao copies of official documents, or 
singly in pots ; —. the time oe che ey afterwards before they THOSE who are oe of har dy fruit-trees should now that interested parties have supplied you with garbled 
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The fourth mode of increasing them is from single | limited, and therefore it would be useless to attempt | to suspend their judgment o ike subject till further infor- 
e followi time | growin mor roved | mation and evidenc (which in the name of Major Jenkins 
when the plant is in a dormant state, cut off a branch of | kinds. Any old trees which produce fruit of a sr one I will venture to promise) shall be submitted to your 
the two or three-years old wood which has a quantity of | character should therefore be headed down, and the tctiailenetivn. In noticing the communication from Mr. 
uds upon it, and cut it into pieces of about twoinches in | kinds grafted upon them. The operation of Foe al ys Griffith, I must confess I cannot see, because a medal has 
length, leaving a single bud on each piece; then pot and | eas es performed, and must be familiar to almost every | been voted to Major Jenkins by so small a majority of 
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inches —_ in pots filled with g ood rich so il, and place | the ‘readers of this Paper. Perhaps the easiest way to | the work ofa party. Is it not possible, I would ask, that 
in a gentle moist heat. Plants raised in this way | learn to do it well is to see it done by a good gardener, | the cabal may be the other way? Nay, is not this as 
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fi ode of propagating them is aA ee. ota great measure upon snoring gavel stocks and fitting | Wallich, Mr. Spry, and others—the distinguished heads 
on the roete: of the herbaceous kinds; the stock and scion very nicely ; t the same time sur- | and ornaments of the Society—should use their wei ght and 
tain, and when it does eicvsed, the sata, ie ually rounding t he ee with ely, i atte the air from | activity to accomplish an unjustifiable purpose? Is it not 
short-lived, except when the grafted part is placed suffi- | drying the different par possible that the vote of the former medal to Captain 
ciently under the soil, in which case it frequently emits Amongst hardy fruits ther are several new kinds which | Charlton may have been carried by party intrigue, and that 
roots from the base of the graft, and becomes a healthy pie, a goat: in the most limited collection, and with | the Society, finding itself surprised, as)it were, into @ course 
plant supported by its own roots. The operation of peas the a aur ay D Dat beac acquainted. The following | of which it did not cel a ect! had rallied its 
grafting is performed in the following ways :—Select some the best e Dunmore—of which a | strength to make reparation to my brother’s services, and, 
good tubers of herbaceous Peeonies—the Chinese P. albi- sketch pee description has ee appeared at page 85—is | if I may add, to the daaneniniion of m8 former proceed- 
flora and its varieties are the best—any time’ early in nt early variety, ripening before the Marie | ing? You, say truly there has been much excitement in 
spring, before the plant co neces growing; then cut toe ag olk orn is another excellent fruit, | Calcutta on the subject ; but during the whole commoti 
off all portion of the crown, and slit the tuber from | which was raised from the Gansel’s Bergamot, and ripens | Major ae himself has remained perfectly passive and 
the top end downwards sufficiently deep to admit the scion | about the same time, but has the valuable property of | silent—reluctant, it ripe ms to —— —— 
of the Moutan Prony, which must be of the last season’s beating. apes dans asastandard. Knight’s Monarch - public in a meee of so much priv: ent, an 
wood, fitting the bark of both well together as in the ordi- | also a new Pear, little known, abet of excellent quality ; it | not unwilling, I infer, that | Captain Chasiton vaheuid “i 
nary way of grafting, and bind them tightly with strong | is fit for the table about January: a spurious poe nefit himself by making the nee of sone sing service he 
matting: then pot them singly in pots, deep en to | variety under thi i in many collections, but | has been t identific fA Tea; but since 
cover the graft about an inch with soil, and place them in | the true sort has fruited in the garden of the Horticultural | Captain Charlton, or ae friends in his ‘be ehalf, are now as- 
a cold pit or frame kept quite er = give them but | Society, and grafts of it have been distributed to the | serting that it was principally through Captain Chariton’s 
little water at ep t. They may also e grafted about | Fellows. Hacon’s Incomparable is another Pear of first- | exertions that the Tea ts brow ht to light, and its pre- 
the end of Ju Poise sor of “Angost, Tt the sem pee quality, ripening generally from Deane to Janu- | sent cultivation an acture established, I am per- 
wood of the current yea me way as the preced- and the Althorp Crassane, of which a good plate | suaded that Major cate it feel that these assertions 
ing ; but when they are genio stil potted; eee att be a published in the Horticult nar ‘Traeeetionie: is | are made at his expense, and at the expense of truth, and 
placed in a perth de moist — nd kept close with a bell- | another good sort, very hardy, and fit for use in Oc- | will come forward in self-vindication, in justice to the 
glass, as the wood, being rather soft, ire soon perish if | tober and November. Besid ese, there are some | Society, and in justice to his friends in India and at home, 
placed in a cold pit “- ran others which are better known, and which should be in | and show to the satisfaction of government and 
There ut one species of Moutan or Tree-Pwony | every collection, such as the Beurré Bosc, Winter Nelis, | public what are his claims to the award of this medal. I 
et ine but of this Satin ae the a varieties :— Glout Morceau, and Beurré Rance; the latter is by far would appeal, then, through you, for a short suspension of 
M. papaverdcea, ns., vol. vi.—This | the best late-keeping Pear which we at present possess. | Opinion 3 the question cannot now be allowed to rest 
derciesaae plant is, no doubt, oes wild form of the spe-| All these kinds succeed perfectly as standards~in the | where it is, and my own conviction is that the facts will 
cies. Ithas large single white flowers, beautifully marked cisnabe ot of London, and for the table are far preferable to | be found to be these :—That Captain Charlton having 
in the centre with rich purple, and forms a large bush. | those of the same kinds when grown —_ walls. In ad- — Sri A dienes ia. attempt perce to in 1831, had in 
It is the hardiest of all the Tree-Pzonies yet in cultiva- | dition to the new kinds mentioned above, there are two s part dropped al er exertion; that my 
tion. _ The P. M. Révwesii a Mr. Sabine (see Hort. Trans., others which by many are highly prized, namely, the Van brother fa pia at the close of sae yea r, 1831, to survey 
vol. vi. p. 479) does not differ from this plant, although | Mons’ Leon le Clere and Monsieur le Curé. ages ce of Assam, and engaged therein n in the years 
recorded in all catalogues and books on the subject. The new Plums most deserving of a place in a me 183 32-3, was finally appointed Commissioner there, and 
2 albida plena, Hort. Trans., vol. vi., p. 482; | collection are, the ee Hative, a fruit res mee ing having "Keath he Tea-plant, as others had done before him, 
r Doubie papaveracea.—This desirable variety was raised | Purple Gage, istinct from it, and whic ae growing naturally in various localities, resumed the dis- 
a Arley Hall, the seat of the — of Mountnorris, in | amongst the earliest : and the Ickworth caacleoarem which | c of that tant question in 1834; that it was 
Worcestershire, —_ seed of the preceding kind, and | ripens in October, and is one of the best at this late sea- | then resumed was wholly owing to his © 
— those of the P. M. Bankel, as stated by Mr. | son; it keeps a long time after being gathered, and if | res for — months the scie 
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in having double flowers and being much dwarfer in habit. | ard near London. ‘Cdladlons of Cherries rr be ore and "that enrodieht out the who. 
hh . e oksii, Hort. Prans., vol. yi. Sir Joseph | improved by. adding the “age ae wnton, and Knight's | Captain Charlton's servi 
anks’s Tree-Pony.—This variety bears the largest and | early and late black. With rd to Apples, I aon locally, if not official 
most double flowers of all, the flowers being eight or nine | none are better than og old bats which have been long ith 
hes across when fully expanded; the petals are of a pale | in catia on an well known. Where th overy, I 
our towards the extremity and inom at | amateur is making Fi at salar: of ex -trees, he | kins’ 's services will ulti 
~ n the blossoms are young, but becoming > en sg better be refer to the numerous lists given in | apprectt ha 
oe: white — fully i a they are also “ale the answers to Correspondents in the last volume, where the articles referred 
Sabin igeed ‘a t the edges. The P. M. ee of Mr..| he will. find kinds suited to almost every circumstance and | pointe 
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