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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
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« concentrate system’’ the ‘‘ true one,” than I do at 
present. Nearly all persons who have written in co 
ation of Forest-tree pruning, with the ostensible view 
ting ei increase of timber, proceed’ 
P 
me isa a more abundant 
erga 
diminish the 
e 
balance of reciprocity on which T think, aad to ana- 
logy of nature, the true: sary TI = of increase depends. 
Mr. C.r rks also ‘ He will have branches of 
various lengths and sizes, ‘without | A eo reasons, 
is unnaturally capriciou I be say t he who 
will train all his trees into uniform cones, i va more 
so. It is true enough, ‘‘ Nature in the ol admits no 
such irregularity ;’’ neither d nor 
I ‘certainly think quite the 
ites to nee ee - Cree’s state- 
at t o rapid] the vicinity of Shae ‘i 
—a little ailasitiioe te ie ‘the vicin wicks of which, in 
my younger da: - gave propriety to the 
nd’s realm, where trees a are ns 
‘Nor. even shrubs abound ; 
‘ But where, however bleak the view, 
Some better things are ae &e. 
But gat Biggar could not form 
trees 
boast of many 
resting to the Hortizaltarios “A know, 
y useful production, the me- 
r. Cree to give t the Horti- 
Early Pasonk, which were highly 
ei hg cultivated, from Mai yur Pee to 
t in o regions.—Quercu 
vantage in overto opping i its papnet,__ 
a to. be 
it Da do no ames m, and 
ig reese the whole supply of food. 
no eh infer 
a 
therefore, be better for 
bottom 
ut off n 
muni 
4 ‘on that. topping has poset lect , there is 
3 Pine left bat. praning, i chess meddled with.] 
ummer Pruning.—Th sian es derived me — 
pea Mtg are great. I rah amongst other t ngs, 
; as enon: os the fruit is off. Cut 
jes at se and if not oa before, as much of 
be berries 
Rotating of C: 
many yews the following rotation gq ground, 
Which has been almost ert aon ohne aged 
Years, to the growth ries :—It was usual, 
“Fenewing the beds, to rs down 
d, and saeatig: on SS middle of the beds 
struck in the 
Tal shoo 
rops.—I1 have pursued with ‘escinse for 
had them n off close to the 
afterwards. trenched carefully, by breaking each spadeful 
: and picking. ery. root. t Id be 
then planted y; and every time the plants were 
Aes rast eg seeds 0 
moulded up, those roots which had escaped in the trench- 
ing were picked out. In the spring I again gave it a 
| shallow trenching, to aaa ne rate the dung in which the 
ery 
grew; and I al ards planted the ground with 
early spring-sown caliaies which we cut by the 
iddle of August. A oat of manure was then dug in, 
ingly the pre 
yoni egy laity fc ‘llow t the same rotation—except’that 
ave casion to trench the ground. Previously to 
making th Celery trenches, I have only to strike a spade 
nder hes, and re them with the few runne 
they have made attached ; a little hoeing being sometimes 
Eg | 
thered, I remove fro e patches all the runners 
they have made. It may be objected that ‘it is more pe 
cu rid ede 
3 but as I can get plenty of ‘short grass, “tt is is 
castiy adebinplishel Ta 
Cc do not 
plant the dsabibir hed My the follow wc J spring ; but I 
ruit that season.—J. Murdoch. 
Dis n Me im me aren y Mel 
were besoning to swell, sag brown Tiches ee to 
appear upper surface of the leaves, the under part 
of ae pos lo } soning pale and shelvettad. These increased 
in size until in two or three the whol 
of the pa ual scorched, and the fruit of course de- 
oyed. i we ptoms again to 
show themselves; small red s are appearing, and the 
edges of so e leay e drying and curling u z 
have occasionally watered — overhead, tho sp 
ingly, and e fu lps g m thrice, bu t this does not 
seem to pres vet the eae a 
the leave 
ev ery hour more o 
o be attacked, and the plants, 
days ago appeared in haga health, 
with a fine crop of fruit, are likely What 
occasions this, a what ought to ‘By pit in order to 
ve it?— ha We don’t know. ] 
Swainstone aia Strawberry.—As the time is at hand 
when jue — forcers will begin to think of preparing 
their “sere be for 8 comin 
mention th 
saw a few 
this kind in the forcing- 
SS dale, of Stansted, Essex; and 
nae ep assured me they would continue 
until November.—W. P. Ayres. 
Nitrate = aaa for Strawberries.—While on the iab-/ 
f Strawberri while to mention 
_ 
or 
cases, 
r the re without injarng ~ plants. 
igi Mr. Rivers a few pointed o 
bed of rather — puinte; half of whic :h sae been libe. 
rally dressed with nitrate, as a kill or cure rset te 
improve ur of the folia 
cided, erson might o an inch where ant t had 
been applied; so that there can be no doubt of its nutri- 
Ss. 
—In Nor 26, * Omikron”’ — as 
ects of Laburnum seeds on animals. 
observation of 30 — yabat in a 
a pla —. — of Laburnums, and 
open to ee. horses, and sheep, no burtfal soem were 
rod t the te) 
z 
q 
oad 
be, that x rte animals never ea or 
those trees, — flowered and hung down luxu- 
r ering shrubs and 
same time, I have lost, and should be glad to find for love 
or money.—R. B. 
f Nutt’s bee-boxes, i 
cf 
fo 
fro 
possible and take oan off. 
Wen mor 
as 
8; 
phen sad water over 
r “eK stock a? wish to 
strengthen. distribute mongst 
— sates for shen a ws ighting will follow i in all; 
is better in one alfadozen. In uniting 
coun put together aaa Sind of bees, of which there 
— —— this ; the total of one 
is the conseq man other. I epee a 
aout stock a few days ago, and gave each an empty hive ; 
doing well.— 
they are M.H.G.—The lady with the bees, 
must, in the hottest time of a fine day, shut up the com- 
unication between cen x a he side one 
annot return into that box 
15 minutes ape. ars, som on we) a quee er 
— the box to a dis e eibdltes: aren there 
ere only a + inoffensive “rones which were shaken out 
oe destroyed.— 
House se aie wd correspondent J. O. will 
place a few sauc ers, wi with treacle in the bottoms of them 
ps the thickness oi about roe an inch, he will soon catch 
every cricket his house. -It will be necessary to 
pick out the ieanest every suite or such as afterwards 
et into the n walk over those fast stuck in the 
e 
I was assured wed the anes — 
pri 
the proo, Mr. Mu iectgees 
‘that ns an experiment as this 
sachs: Chronic a Fuchsia alled F. rosea-alba, I be to 
say that it was ried by M nak ll, of Bracondale, near 
yandis a very distinct and beautiful variety.—. 
é. 
Habranthus oaniili. —You describe this as agreen- |’ 
ows years ago |, 
in front-of | it ne 
l received it — she es sevi 
planted it in the open 
mentee wall, where it nal lived baa sinee, 
fenes strongly. Ph ycella ignea, wi 
house plant. 
and 
_ copies having been near 
constantly 
their abode, that 
- fosiripet te woodcut in the | 
pega in East 
os and i is well _worthy of im imitation by those who pos- 
ou 
il. 
nas, apni omitted to state (what, perhaps, you may 
not be aw of) P. pying the front 
posting tie he Sea Buckthorn ( Hippophae 
rhatunoides), which not only protects the ti ind it, 
but is of great service in fixi sands on the 
D si ic 
grows wild on 
colnshire, and Yorkshire, it may be easily obtained. — 
M. D. P. 
sige ean OF SOCIETIES. 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF pap et 
June 22.— oi i = ae K.G., in 
His Gra 
His Grace the Duke — Bedford, A 5. Montgomery, Esa an and 
0. member Th Esq , re elected 73. gentlemen 
ers, 
