1842. ] 
THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
491 
: HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
; SMALL QUANTITY OF VALUABLE SEEDS 
A avin a been —_ ga, ome the Society from Guayaquil, 
e ready for distribution to such 
— qos for them ; and that ee will 
+4 e sent out in che onder in which the applications are made until 
the supply is exhausted. 
The Gardeners’ Chroniere. 
SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1842. 
MEETINGS IN THE ENSUING WEE is 
South London 
Berkshire Royal, ‘Cork, ua Giaersbey: 28, 
Tuesday «+... «+ + 
Country ee na 27, 
Wingham. 30, Wexford 
Tue pest StRAwBERRY yet known, is, beyond all 
comparison, att’s Pine; but so few persons can 
grow it, that it is scarcely to t with in cultiva- 
tion. Even Mr Myatt himself no longer succeeds 
ith it. What is . a ~ lar, those who do 
_ contrive to manage it, do so under opposite circum- 
stances. For cant ple the inte eaten Baron Fos- 
- ter found it thrive in very ol wdung, ineiiced 
with soil. In Mrs. Marryatt’s garden, t Wimble- 
don, re there is a profusion of it, it is planted 
where there i 
in pure Wimbledon loam ; and in the grounds o 
Shepherd, a market-gar 7 
of the fortunati nimidim, it b ple crops in a 
black boggy soil, the very reverse of the other two. 
It would seem, the at soil is not what this Pine 
is so solicitous for, and that something else is at th 
botto m V ot know whether 
0 
3 an ther: 
es, 
4 ways a heavy cr ands less 
_ time ea srétihle than others. All that is required is to 
earing so much longer than 
I suppose, owing to the runners strik- 
ing root at pepe times, some early, ube “late. 
ow is the time to make beds, and you can 
a y have not got any. 1 have placed abou 
_ pots gan my bed, some to try how they will foo 
_ and by way of experiment to plant some of them in 
_ beds with thei nae to see er they will 
end Myatt’s a 
its habit and flav 
o the 
where, ba but that it has in some 
bois we entertain no 
t ; in all probability it nibs originated between 
that variety and the old Pine, itself a most. valuable 
a vour to Keen’s see which 
s Daan - — 
; of 
communication upon the same subjec which will be 
found in another column.] Hi ct 
WE are perpet tually urged by our corresponden 
p to Ser pose? the system, : : 
4 = at high prices under the ce of bein 
bad seedlings as valuable new varieties. 
f ny wo 
Old 9 la = 
Bottl 
not too desc 
if 
y | nam 
now so prevalent, of selling old 
gs 
name 
under the eye of Larix Americana, Po opulus dila- 
ta as P. fastigi the old Menziesia cx- 
rulea under the rom titleof Phyllodoce taxifolia?” 
e put together all these s f com- 
plaint, siehctigh they refer to entirely different of- 
fence must distinguish the sell seeds of 
bad quality from that of old things under new names, 
both from the sale of one thing for moe wih and all 
th m vending — 
etended called seed- 
lings, which are either not mat iit? different from 
others previously raised, or aes to them. The 
nd subject we shall take 
are far from Vitae | to defend those who 
atach arbiter pares of pete ig a to their plants 
ou ing trou ertain whether 
se ones been clonal wablicbes. n the con- 
trary, we regard this practice, which is notorious 
among a small class of nurser — ase in this coun- 
try and on the Continent, as one there is no 
excuse; itis in every se “aie foe which the 
apology of ignorance, the only sd that aan athe, 
offered, is inadmissible; although we are ready 
concede tha é who shelter «lth ios site This 
plea are ignorant enough. For malpractices of this 
kind there wo re one is, to deal with 
4 uch people ; and the other is, not to aj their bills. 
would be difficult, we appreends: o find 
oe e a verdict in favo ig 
posed to giv lai 
claiming payment for a horse, peneided the defendant 
could ransiet — he, i in fact, , purchased only a donke 
It 
not app sae to ‘the particular cases specified by one on our 
correspondents. It is his tif norance—we beg par- 
don for ae expression, but we have no other at hand 
—and not the nurse ed hi 
03 ro 
iases of Bota 
oo, example, th 
Centaurea Cyanus, Cyanus arven- 
sis, aa rg tum Cyanus vilee | 
ris; and even the Hawthorn rejoiceth in Cra- 
a era alias Mespilus oxyacantha, a 
Crat nogyna, alias Mespilus apiifolia, a 
aun aie alae ans, alias Mespilus intermedia, adias 
eralegin factaintn: alias &c. &c.. Linneeus began this 
panies n by a extensive changes es in the names of 
s, and his successors. have amply re- 
able to Perens 
would be far bet 
Botany to te botanists, a to stick af the name bey | ees <9 
which a plant is most commonly know 
tanically UgHY o or wrong, Toe 
whe 
it has been sctualy | 
ribed in e book of authority 1 t 
name, 
w a 
"What mitht for is gal 
in their trade by abandoning the ald name ee Glycine 
sinensis, and paneer de in , Wistaria 
sinensis, and then, 
| shifting it to Wistari 
the plant is not a Glycine, as that eam eer limited 
by systematical botanists, pee it is sp it 
has been so described, that 
that it has only been ex xelud 
dern refinement, and 
el 
that en knows it 
Nurserymen are not <—T re 
preciat e thes soundness s of the views of bota- 
nists : they 
a name, he is justified in 
they have no means of judging 
uent 
St ied uration ely | 
considerati 
‘upon 
have abandoned. A ponelve 72 instance of 
the Berberis. 
a 
pappanitinn: 
would have been better +s have let it oes 
With regard to the offence pe a 
Serie pete for example, a Pevcie-trer for a Nect 
ine, ‘a Sweetwater Gr: for a 
th 
co an 
cannot occupy ¥ jaa with observations upon 
at ph of seeds of bad pa ality ; that is a mere shop- 
keeping, question, for which every one has his own 
medy. 
“Ta the matter of seedlings said to be novelties, and 
which turn out worthless, or not novel, we would 
taching any importance to a plant merely because it 
had been rai rom ; and we mentioned some 
of the instances in which the world had been foolish 
from old and well-known plants. 
legally, fraudulent to sella plant as a new variety 
rom seed, unless it is mee per different from 
all pea bone in existence ; ser pr Hie auc du- 
lent will no 
sale o 
wane have 
in the present stat 
» the ordinary meetings . the 
Hor cn al sor Agrieultural Societies, those of the 
hes tu ural Society, and, let us add, the pages of the 
ick al Il offerin means of ob- 
p thei 
if ‘they will not do this, they must be con- 
ented to be imposed upon 
CULTIVATION OF MYATT’S PINE STRAW- 
ERRY. 
ALWAYS ahd ny remark made upon 
me, Caen ri — the method 
y is 
ea Pp 
are of Solan: importance towards th 
es cover too much es the surface, hoe 
gently amongst them to destroy all wi 
epee wn straw ; whence the designation of Strawberries 
and of Strawber rry-beds, so that such might 
readily aeutene s from Gooseberries and 
in one as eagre 
ppt 4 nse foteite ay ; and the other, probably, from 
its raspy can’ oe had Myatt’s Pine,by the above treat- 
ment, in ag greate 
the first 
are bed as in the previ 
us season; and whe 
is all gathered, destroy the ‘old plants, and bes sob conte will 
be then ready for Cauli 
