: THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. [May 21, — 
Satins in theatrical ex- 
ay Galium Aparine. Catch-weed.—A plant termed by 
the G gudavéporoy (Man-lover) ; its fruit are set with 
a species of hirsute bristles, tan ere t ing 
they come in contact with. It analogises negatively to a 
troublesome fellow ; but afrmatively, to an officious but 
true friend. It corresponds also stoned sare ret 
organ, ret RE in an ican e sphe 
23, Mitchella repens. Creeping Reicha. she plant 
which _— Pad termed social, from its growing together in 
large quan It analogises with a lover of society, and 
with that fear which has | led man to congregation, aha 
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94, Heliotropium europeum. European Heliotrope. 
—The name of this genus has its derivation from #Av0s, 
the sun, and tperw, I turn. It represents the faithful 
aed o the sun, and 
droop as if with sorrow at his Siena Among Bye 
25.—Campanula  Specul 
Sig gi th oa ec 
glass, and set nane in form with 9 the eee tet sign 
of Venus. It also corresponds with the woman vain of 
her pean Sm may pe ways be said to pis a looking- 
glass al 
26.. Campana iota Lily-leaved Bell-flower.— 
This plant analogises with the precocious child. Before 
- nd i 
hild 
after a Ne ears genera es its anomdlous “iis 
and beooenall a being of a usual enough kind. 
27. Scevola suaveolens. 9 scented emia ok 
= named _——— of Mutius Screvola, a hero ofancient 
ce, who burnt off his right hand in hin ‘tis 
to attest his | Coinee of endurance. It naalagiaes with left- 
people, as its flower seems to efective of on 
wel of its va The Latin Sczva is the word for the 
23.— Eleode ndrum Argan. Spiny Olive Wood.—This 
tree resembles the sage the “0 reel Lc and — 
fore analogises with a truce of war mparative pea 
29. Itea virginica. Virginian ie Mean This plant in its 
leaves and place of growth resembles the Willow-tree pi 
_ emblem of sorrow, an sak Gases ore analogises with false 
oe tl ome. cop Among the Amphibia, the crocodile, w ith 
il tears, corresponds with it.— Goodwyn Bar tetag 
pceniaesl Sars Ss ae aa 
AMATEUR’S GARDEN.—No. XXI. 
art of root pruning, about which 
perha oo far. It ma 
me to put the Awana on his { ipeiek Sent st the effect 
which will be produced in the earlier part a of the summer 
same reg 
as this is not often done, the small uantity of water oe 
only aro “i excite the a ae bein which, a 
as the w e e fro m their bali 
80 seated. ‘iim if t they h her never P heel wa baa t all. 
The a’ amateur, therefore, when he finds his trees or seiab 
from the continuance of dry went’ should soak 
It : be found an excellent plan to ar the ground over 
‘ as ro! a ves or dung, to 
agar they w 
eapolitan Vi 
be propagated for winter \ dowetag vie eng Lied 
upon this subject will be found in the back 
numbers of this and the former volume. Heartse: 
Pelargoniums, and almost all kinds of plants which strike 
from i may now be propagated by every one. 
Many strong-growing plants will be benefited by being e 
trees,” and which term 1 shall now alter. I still maintain 
this a be ‘‘ the true system,’’ and it will at no distant day 
be found so, when the present mania for agricultural pur- 
suits is a little abated; and I certainly think that this 
country will, ere long, have to deplore the neglect of not 
attending to the means of making every timber tree, even 
in hedge-rows, available for some useful purpose. te 
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tub and putting none in, will soon come to the bottom 
n ini 
it beh 
landed proprietors, to consider it well _ ore the ‘on day 
arrives, when gentlemen will have to regret what a serious 
loss they have sustained by not having pe this me- 
thod earlier. They will then say, “how valu ere bers timber 
on my estate would be, if this eyetem ha adopte 
when first pointed out! whereas, it is now ‘worth little 
in comparison.” To be convin — ly let him ser at 
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_ present state of the plantations, woods, an 
ow timber in general; but particularly the latter, which 
isi in a great measure omgt for any valuable purpose. 
Iam, however, ra ed to ‘* Quercus’’ for his further 
confirmation of what I bars ernnene aoe about the 
misconception of my osm tem by m ople who have 
| heard of it, as it gives Bere "ot altering the 
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term ‘* pruning forelt ies ity ” ne een long convinced 
it at many persons wrong, from their ono notions 
But as it is to super sade the necessity of muti- 
ti ab eines nagging, &c., I I shall corak it for the future 
the ‘* preventive system of pruning forest trees. Si ok wish I 
one. It seems soe that ‘* Quercus ’’ should condemn a a 
Mi r less, 
height or girth, accor wae o the i ecatny “ aachcs 
left or taken off. Still I cae help feeling a regret, 
periments and proo have give my y thos 
Ww read it, of the good effect of numerous 
ealthy branches and leaves on a tree in accelerating the 
increas e stems of timber trees, also of the contrary 
t is e ner 
practice, ae “ ss & vigor indifference shown 
o the subjec ested in it, viz. 
bove subject—‘‘ Truth is great, and will prevail.’’— 
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Diseas. Ash T: ees.—In the third a F 269, 
of the Gardeners Chronicle, is a p 
in Ash Trees.’’? I am encouraged hy on ar + the 
mye: to apply to you toe satisfaction upon the nature of 
a complaint, I should suppose somewhat similar to that 
which you allude to, prevailing amongst the Ash-trees in 
my A reagent sare a cr the decayed portion — 
escen fee 
or 
rue on detect 4 are me) %e e common eso in this 
neighbourhood wi ot - Be ige I spooks e the dis- 
ease to prevail m trikingly in young t of thirty 
years and scteerg ar to rn 2 occasionally under that 
; it does not seem to oye Oo such as ar 
frequently watered with dung r. is is 1 
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water. This i 
made, by putting a barrowful of rept - a cask, 
then pouring water over it. Stir ix it well, and ee 
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o ow it to sta — a little time baleen see used. Or, if 
wet, a cart- ey of dung may be laid in the 
, and a hole y the side of it, into which 
a will run, ay can be taken out and used 
Pip ae NN 
4 sw nity B CORRESPONDENCE. 
h their m 
principally, but not celsively, iby “abject of this dis- 
order. Any information that can be obtained regarding 
the treatment which may preserve pee — thus suffer- 
ing will be very acceptable to—Lancast is. [We trust 
ns +e be the attention of some ters nr foreating 
8 " Trees.—It is, T nee robable that 
eighbourhood ‘of il cag ndent are TT 
toagtas with his shrubs, m ore than their growing — 
Beech-trees. In our part of the country, we haye e 
‘system, hitherto termed, “ pruning forest | mous and luxuriant bushes s (some almost trees) of Box, 
and Laurel, and Holly, Song yh under a Beech-grove 
_— there are no others. . This on a limeston 3 
where we have not succeeded i in growing Rhododendrgag 
at all —Potentilla. 
Action of Wa asps on Ash Trees.—May no t the disease 
f th i 
shi de 
assiduity and as great an effect as any two-legged urchin, 
armed with a knife, could have evinced. They had ¢ Bi, 
pletely stripped branches as thick as my arm for the a & 
of a foot or eighteen inches in length, working nearly in 
rows like mowers, and carrying off” pieces of bark half as 
big as themselves, besides inflicting many injuries in 
other pies of e etree. Since that time 1 have never 
witnessed such an operation, but have often seen wasps 
ned t e 
the real noes but failed to os any extended injury 
the damaged bar 
below the aving observed the dead 
blotches in the bark of young Ash which had never firs 
pe knife, ad nee ee 4 
ects Injurious to Apples and Rose —There i isan- 
ee jailed peculiar to such districts, a gE of locust 
commonly ovies; they rise ou the ground 
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in flower is slg with them, and do not cease their 
havoc until t ave nearly co d everything they 
alight on; but fotenaiaty they do not exist lon hat 
state. I should like to know if there is any w 
their ravages, as ave sometimes tried of an t 
squirt them to the een. where they will lie powerless 
il th ey ris 
away in the same mane as it does ants ? co 
of ants which regularly used to visit a i fae (it was 
vinery till lately, so that scale was no inducem ent) 3 th 
perambulated the w : 
route. I had caught a good m a jar witha little - 
nee 1p in _ bottom, oA T suppose eve thought I had a 
wa . — to esc’ ¥ 
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hots so aes 
[hope they will aay me no fart 
ie is si probable that lime-water would drive them 
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"Net sas 4 Protect ion for F it.—I have frequently 
of nets being a protection a etme and mony 
ties, under the mtr atom that they rat cert for spider's 
webs. It is ve bable, as a are a ee —— mn 
ops them ; but I ¢a 
numer ed a 
in No. 19 of the e Chronicle, an on ertio ‘ rds : Be Ruricola, 
that a net spread over a w oa i canal the fruit from — 
the attacks of insects. J] n many trees on 
eit rina covered with nets, but never witnessed 
that eit her w sing 7 
asps were deterred from pas 
wong the tiesties fie devouring the fruit. The dev ed 
structive powers pests are too often felt, and any 
ethod by which they may be he mre aise fag 
| in his frnit would be of ve: at serv 
ener, 
