THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
Ar 
1842.}° 368 
p) *HORTICULT cin sosenie ~ . . = “s ~ 7 es os LONDON. wae of the Almighty all wonderful? It is, however, | the subject drop, but, on the contrary, to keep it be- 
ae anand ae will take place on Saturday, the 11th | 20 More miraculous than the twisting up o the our readers at fitting periods, we now proceed to 
of June. Saljects for Exhibition must be ‘at this Office on Fri- of the Oat when it is dry, and its untwisting when | do what we ought to have doneat first, viz., to explain 
, the 10th of June, or a e Garden before half-past Eight i "7 i j mx 
on RN ee the day of Exhibition, ‘The Gates will’be | Wo!stened. It is, in fact, the samephenomenon. Has | the'true principles by which prunin forest-tree ees, 
| opened at One, P.M. ne ever see al Oat walking about on a | the so —_ they may which lead to it, 
© orice 5s. each; or sen bat non in in the afternoon, of the days of | hot, dry day of summer, tumbling od sia bss like a | ought a 
ee Paibitio at 10s. eac ut none e€ issued without an orde 
Me Boon a Fellow ofthe Bde iety.-2) Regent eieet. order | paralytic et dead tissue} Pru as at alt abe Id be the maxim pt fo- 
+... | contracts when a9 ma relaxes wh Gocieed 3 and Borba “Plant thickly, thin constantly, sto y> 
/ R. eee COTTAGER’S CALENDAR is | the successive “on of the one or the other produce | and leave the rest ‘to nature. But mafertunalels it 
reprinted in the form of asm oy wolanaey for general | its singular motions. This Animal Oat used to - | does not happen that he who plants well alwa ins 
h copy ; i ets re cs of all Book- wer, but is nowrarely | constantly ; it is still om is 
in Se etiaticn, price 3d. ea 
a3 ers. | 
Ge ntlem men n wishing to 
wie) ae AoE each ee 
Ze Srainienss CHronicie, 
x SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1842. 
MEETINGS IN THE —? wae. 
E 
Monday; «0; + « ntomological 8 yM. 
Horticultural . *- 8 pM. 
Tuesday « s eos a $} + Woe See 8 pM 
Floricu 7 P.M. 
Wednesday .. Medico: Botanical 8 PM. 
Saturday. scver ccs avis B3P. mM. 
prodigy,’ oe for sale from the East, and called 
the Eve 
“Tei ‘ef os sioniihing thing,” says — writer oe 
the handbill in question, “ that this Rose, after 
Backs, ill neverthe 
and closing, exhibiting. 
' table life for ma 
page a7 % 
_ one of i 
_ twelve months, and a relanes shrond has had one for 
' asmany years. A Hon n Catholic bishop in Ireland 
_has had one half a iy which retained unim- 
4 paired all the powers of. vegetable ete deer fsa in 
_ the form ofa very pretty star, and closing up again its 
_ numerous little fibres about an hour or ‘wo = vere 
. | that is a phenomenon, whic 
9 fern cult me as an annual flo 
se 
en—no » by > way, of the good taste of mo- 
dern owerguitiens 
ant | phys ysi ologists ae aware of similar cases in abund- 
; for what is the splitting of aetiaye 3 s, and their 
closing up nea "ee wet, but the same phenomenon 
reversed P instance, Boweran” which is most 
anslogons f to that of the nastatica is found in t 
scaly Clu 
par again softened $3 
water, the branches ‘spread, Ewell, and ow their 
at position € cases, action 
and expansion will take place over and bite “deat 
under fitting circumstances. 
f this were a vital action we aan not remark it, 
for who youchsafes to wonder at the opening of a 
Crocus in sunshine, and its closing in gloom ? and yet 
vi ions, . 
quite beyond man’s powers of te si en but i 
1s so common that we cannot see it. When, wore, 
dead matter stirs, people are amazed, and all sorts 
foolish tales are invented by the ignorant to impose | i 
upon those who are yet more ignorant, even although 
a esas of the cause may be of the most sim- 
ple kin 
Sart. bie 
general property. of egrishte matter to be 
efecto or as some sa ore judiciously, 
f 
a en out of the water. is high y | hygroscopical ; ; that is to he 5 it boiy power ab- 
. prized on account of the superstitions bulb vibe ret water readily w in contact with it. Were 
_ about it. On receiving a small number last year, it | it not for en 77 ha rh the oo of > = not 
 ¢reated no little degree of interest among Botanists | be maintai but t ter from the 
and persons interested in ed trade; and it has | earth, all ose aanicledd resthee = of one atid tubes, 
erto baffled all the ‘learned heads’ to account for | Which form the fabric of a plant, rapid 4 from_one 
retaining this mechanical power. It was icly another as fast as the ee receive it, 1 this y way 
iis nf i fluid is a gap oot rapidly apne inesssantly "froth end 
‘ a ete and to part of a hen a plant is 
"y thi is pr oe ae is aes <a in amount 
ing p its height, and 4 Pen aid of vital orces - but it is far from 
tage for m: im 
Europe sent forth ae Gibetinte ¢0 to the Holy Land, 
no sooner had the pilgrims discovered the wonderful 
plant wat Dey Hera reson de- 
0 be supernatur. hey said that si 
a ees it with these expiiitive powers wid a vie 
4 € conversion of infidels; and with this it 
Bcimer forth at Christmas-eve to salute the birth of 
our R edeemer, and i 
he Re- 
untina, because it used to be 
Was last ye 
like to learn what + eminent Botanical 
of thes comm mones 
ie a eae ~ ae 
nown to Botanists as 
; ace Anaysil eroebantigts or Rose Je Jeet of 
is not a Rose at all, nor t th 
nee i 
and, n and growing, lie 
the flowers and 
po- 
e same time the 
“vessels open, sad the pa fall out, han the 
i phenomena i in vegetation, hei 
hy lost when the we nt , as is wreren by the 
rinking — ae of timber, cordage, and canvas, 
and by a nd other circumstances. The Anas- 
taticn is line nnvthier instance of it. 
octeTy is in course of formation for the en- 
—_—-- of - culture of pan rgeuc§. the ob 
ect raise a fu un ich be distri- 
We recommend a ae subscription am among ama- 
the plan. If, as we rig aa is in 5 mes 
1 descri Le at the successful flowers are pub- 
lished by the Pe nium aia A ce 
know what to buy a what 
We may add, ~ a seen required of the sub- 
_ the stwih is, that the no- 
mination of the aitallged shall rest with the Exhibition 
Committee of a latter body. 
indicate the diver- 
sity of practice which finds Har in the eyes 
ose ve the man ent of woodland 
We have Decaniondly rat 
es ts upon this 
perty. 
our co 
ts & Suitable, they readily germinate, and esta- 
as themselves as ne w'plants. ¢ 
‘\ This is,no doubt, yery ¢ curious; but are not the | itis not 
he | at all. What 
thought of, and so a maxim, one o undest in 
the whole system of foresting, cannot be pbeieed 
Pruning ma 5 eremas be regarded as a ne 
evil, to which the wise must submit betaine of the ig- 
norant. 
Let us ey 2 why forest-trees should not be pruned 
s the oe of a wastes of trees ? 
To-obtai n for them e can. hat 
is it in tree: at biting ngs the mo hey? Their timber. 
Therefore, whatever increases the quantity of abe 
ina 
iven t g ney. 
ci an mony 
woody texture of a tree. The 
Sikely conte dole aie form itself ; 3 it ae 
independently of all other parts; it iso 
of a living’ system, formed by the action "of other or- 
Epis itis to a plant what flesh and bones are to an 
The bones and flesh of cattle are not increased 
net adtiep of themselves, but by means of food swal- 
lowed by t the mouth, and digested by the stomach.- To 
without digesting it is an entirely use- 
animal and ee king- 
Hs en organs of trees are their leaves; it 
hich fo rms the stomach of a plant; 
oliage w 
of ean, Ba: deprive : plan of its leaves is like depriv- 
an animal of its s aciation is the con- 
prin in ok at is indicated in anim 
leanness and debility ; in plants, by the loss of — 
re or timber. 
gare! has not a single stomach, as an animal 
covered with stomachs in the form of ave 
is ain t ne Fag ion bee place ; 
when Pe deweroction ot leaves is excessive, the dimi- 
nution be excessiv 0. We should a long 
time ha: sn a fish-pond with a tea-spoon; but in 
ime we should succeed; and the only effect of using 
apump for the purpose would be to accelerate the 
speote le 
w whatis pruning but the removal ofleaves? To 
nr “off a naked ch is to remové a 
; but it is to remove that part om which oe? 
. 
at onl have sprung had it ‘aii permitted to 
remain. We say again, t then » prune not at all—if you 
can Help it. 
It, however, will d that when plants are 
allowed to grow withou: Pima renee of any sort, even 
although they are batty and judiciously thinned, yet 
that in some y are unwilling to form gan pe 
In such cases artificial 
means must be employed to give some one branch a 
aes over the others ; but saben y be effected by stop- 
which is arth ing. ning 
J, effected with oy 3 we should not permit the use 
of an instrument stronger than the finger and thumb ; 
in any plantation, properly superint tended | the 
» whatever is required in stopping may be so 
effected. 
The eae yo of doing pKa igen stopping, 
runing badly will be 
best i ustrated by a few dia- - 
grams t 
the tree will be 
ewhat larger, mae in other respects much what it 
soi before, as is show 
