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Pleat 
EELS ee eee 
oe pte tinh CHRONICLE. 
s of par- 
with the hee rf other shrubs w may be near; the 
d of ~~ werbaaan be it is better to ar- 
range the cnlbacs of the flowers bg ee ngs time, because 
if two yellows, for exam <i together, one of 
which is good vee the other he the sae of the for- 
mer a = a 
all ane that beds, or Perea of plants ab the 
ee kind, hae amuch finer effect than a mixtu 4 
single plants; an ee therefore, where room c e a“ 
this plan should be ado opted. This system, however, make 
well, even with keen crowing, thing, in ius ne pro- 
viding t the mass is not sow oa ular figu 
any plan caller ‘aisle sha hey ae first planted 
a sapeatt! if the weather is dry, a the operation 
ot being c ay penne li uld be done i 
the “a manner: If the nd = re or stiff, it 
must be w aad broken > e plants must 
urned carefully out of their pots and planted, without 
ing 
HOME reer tenersionypen NCE. 
se of Shrivel 
m aioe the diate, nor for 
‘s =a 3 One of them is large 
h, 
opin Sas out t 126 occupying thr a eye C gree 
Ww 
e, h 
ribute : 
a aeons y to i. ce- h 
t 
bout the size of small Pe “ee d 
eet of the berries ite “iets 2 ad 
near London going off in in the same way ; it 
fruit | ing still aig plan 
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301 
was, I believe, attributed | to mi mismanagement; but Ta 
unconscious of any neglect I ac 
it thus ‘es house has a south-e -easterly aspect, and is 
shaded b ome trees until eight or nine o’clock ; conse- 
quently the sun breaks upon it in full force before ‘the dew 
on the berries is evaporated 
M: 
[The disease here m ned by Mr. 
urdoch must not be confounded with snciebing. We 
mss’ admit what are called the foci of the glass to have 
an 
insects 
has it ever iene 
mistaken in my cbernation ; 
the npenbecibeteae of havi een, sohootall the 
treatm -JS.B [We know nothing of this prac- 
tice ; does any one among our correspondents 
The Service Tree.—I have seen in the echons ve ey 
a fruit like a large Service, but not tasting quite so 
more like a Medlar, and of a dark brown like tha t fruit. 
may 
e fruit certainly bore 
abov 
I saw the tree growing this ron the apes be- 
ween Sienna and Radicofani, The lea a good deal 
like the Mountain-ash, and ee “err vutkakans yellow, 
and light scarlet ; sind 3 ooks was made of wax, 
with a very sweet and Siietthet ent. The Italians call 
it Sorbo (service). Is it grown in —— The seeds 
like a broad apple-seed. I send a sketch of the leaf 
frome and soft when ripe. 
nothing byt the fruit. of the Service- 
is very 
and, judging trom specimens 
bt that it w ihe n becom 
months old, I predicted vent _ 
g on cross- breeding in “ Loudon’s Ga rdener’ 
zine’’ for June 1837, I mentioned this incidental oa 
the follo owing sia —‘‘] have obtained a 
B 
S 
ait = 
Ps 
must have 
b 
Be nd Park, 
ew Tr tolun Hain observed in one of the la 
We datars of t 1 i 
Tropzolum, attack is stated to hav 
Kelland, of Jersey, I be: 
ta so much injured in the 
quite unfit for exibition gre I pr 
pale 
Mr. Bridges in the la 
urnal of Botany.’’ ‘‘ Among the 
ple foun ne nottan of Co! will a 
Tropzolum with yellow flowers, which 
use the roots are 
roasted or boiled, in times of scarcity, by the 
poor natives of the Province of Colchagua, who call it 
s.’ I shall e wn — year, to ene 
bers *of ure 
he 
ofa e Quillota,’ 
nearly 4 000 feet above the eta of Soy ea; asi nowhere, 
n thi is mountain, did I see it; during my ram bles 
Tees seems to question the probability 
tens surviving in the opeu ground 
left a plant out last season by way of a _unpro- 
tected, aes. ws little fine sand put the 
Early in gan to shoot out, 9 it promise ner 
make the fine st set in fom stock this season. 
Beau 
Yellow. berried Ivy.—What is the yellow-berried Ivy 
which grows on some ruin at pamagy ? There is a proof 
tha t it was known to the Romans, for there is a mar 
——- hat different 
8 a mere vari 
nee 
Prun 
I 
have a plant growing eneeees ; to 
t from th Sek — Totty.— [It 
ety of the common ion found wild in Italy, 
very rare in English garden ‘ 
ning 
forest-tree prun 
of her work ;”’ their aim 
n former pages of your Paper. 
Myi impression is, that the principal feature in Mr. B.’s 
“ system” is termed foreshort 
deprive a tree of any material part 
edly have the effect o 
its increase of ste 
of extreme pruning, a 
ree Lae, that. dad general foreatpraning is is only a ques 
de : 
of degree. qu uite agree wit Billington that nitude 
vely ‘affect ell 
arch and Scotch Fir ; ; ms wil i ier frequ 
ries with one as well a as te; an 
ope 
and ‘ated are necessary in apt 
to thsir 7 ri oe es ; but 
su uccessful re res 
pr 
concear 
“4 
ee I still disapprove of every “s 
—Mr. or ogee 8 { have not seen. 
aie to forest or plantation 
ender Spree in some — 
ar tat need cA Tha now disc — Quercus. 
n Silver Firs.—Encl I. send a specimen 
of the ad ie which my Silver Firs have been mage 
The plague (for I can call it nothing e 
the botto m of the ‘top shoot and spreads rapidly seua: 
wards, i ‘sted iably killing the tree. I should feel extremely 
blige 
from top to bottom, 
fea’ ear, dead.—J. N. V., 
to is the Erioso 
uld be to wash the 
b ranches, as soon e- they are ihaned, with oil, or a mix- 
ture of pota ae d lime. 
The possibility of procuring fresh Potatoes, planted in 
the nen aes in “ag months of March and A pril—Hasieg 
or a lon 
oes, I three years or the first time thought of 
t in autumn or summer, in order le 
t fresh in spring. My first trials, however, proved 
uccessful ; but I last year repeated experimen 
two different spots—Oberliederbach and Harresh: 
In the former place I planted on Potatoes in marl, 
on the uly; in the latter on the Ist August, in 
sandy ground. In both the leaves appeared. 
soon above the ground; t 
Salvia patens.—Y our correspondent from Stockton-on- fresh Pot 
babi of the pS biel 
Anais 
