1842.] 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE 
523 
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
OTs IS HEREBY aty EN, that the MEET- 
N OF THE SOCIETY in Regent-Street are DISCON- 
TINUED re Tuesday, October t the rr in consequence of the 
Meeting-room being under repair 
which trees are planted. The omsersona so our advice 
that we perceive have been taken am 
z 
ees, if not prun 
and that leaves are not necessary to the prod 
is sup) Let us examine ite value of 
9 - 
The Grardevrers Chronicle, “ Trees must be pruned, if they are to have a clean 
= Sure “tg “ey to themselves, they will be fe to 
ame the groun d produce a knotty, unsound log.” 
SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1842. This be Mi think, the first line of argument. But let 
us whether the finest trees that have foun 
WE rues to find that, “We me Zealand nerd are not those growing wild in new ings where 
2 ag r8 si oa Chan sat ary a t Auckland. the the mischief of pruners has never been co ted? 
seat of etn agi os inablialithent of which a Where shall we now see in Eo agro such sticks 0 
have been st unfortunate error of rie 
Wellington, in in Port Nicholson, seems on the 
ounded by a dan- 
gerous coast ; but there is another town, called Nelson, 
rising fast into importance, to which emigrants should 
also Seated at the bottom of 
if 
ap 
8th, the population is stated to exceed 800, all in ae 
lent epi, ‘ out 70 houses were built or building ; 9 
shi ere in the harbour ; an 
could be procured for the me 
ors of a road of ieliepwanhie necessity to 
tow 
We have on a former occasion alluded to the 
EET 2 - ress gees ‘Society at Weling 
ton ; no ing well. We now learn 
from the “ “A nas e7ealand Gazette” that the fret show 
had taken place. 
bages of 21} Ibs. ; 
o 
been transmitted for distribution amon 
James Robert Gowen, 
s th New Zealand 
ose 0 
urther information et can upon 
“4 a ato of the colony should consult the columns of 
ie “e ew 
for to 
by previous snelct It should also 
t we said was—Prune not at tall, ° you can help it. 
Oak as form the beams of the oldest buildin ngs of 
this country ? and yet oe were grown yb an = 
aid hota axe. was it that trim 
mber are evi- 
© fecoane? the pruner is 
everywhere at w 
t is not true "that unpruned trees will n 
necessaril 
feather to the < 
= of the lower branches, their growt soon 
est d e back, and eventu- 
ally will disappear, or remain as mere brushwo. od ; 
trees much better than 
an-Det is feathered to 
not mike that the 
otty or weak in = pa 
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necessarily knotty. 
ut it is said that the «finest and most valuable 
boles of timber are such as have grown rather close 
é 
destroyed e want of light an 
that the finest and a valuable ee 
that are known, are those of the Kaurie Pine. 
reed — so many auger-ho les, are what 
ing rahe closely together ;” 
ground ; if a good strong leader gets the | pea 
together, so that the lower afc are oe n 
d air.” Now 
“ Where a tree is felled, and the stock does not 
t roots that fix it to the 
ound generally die. This phenomenon depen 
upon the well-known law of i Garagl that on ms 
= is deriy ated s 
to the life and of a "ered, nah. in the 
in those whic buried.” . 
eaves are 
se pee fe fllowing ‘ls 
en 
theory, that from the leaves 
remains 
Y because it is destitute of leaves, ee are espe- 
cially y the organs that 4 hte organisable s It 
€ roots and stock, and to ecw 
them with a trifling amount of increase for a grea 
ears.” 
n this 
t to be 
a 
ave only one more remark to make u 
The necessit 
ict is 
an quar- 
‘oot is necessarl 
ereu upon the 
tart, the terminal bud “scarce! Stirs, 
ropean i peetubles: and | 5.4 
t 
is a fleshy u 
matter produced by the cgenct of i itis is rg half. 
: aus and leaves is the 
hor n why we we gave this advice was incipa 
d Mamba principally 
of that | dubs for 
neg and eaves the | no ech sbard conclusion 
ecessary to 
wn organ- 
ence is wron 
pric a aloe 
e of such materials. 
young Potatoes to 
found stru; ne teho t the light and air 
| of forming g their leaves = prevent this, and ey will 
m_ suffocatio instances, then, in- 
Ae § ie hottie that. Teles are aipareia, prove 
——s the reverse. 
One of aa advocates of without a sto- 
mach relies chiefly “pie some well-known cases, cited 
o 
news that would be for dys a ea a people, ere t a later peri 
roduced 
nee | No space te enter. 
sat 
ble of it in Harrison’s 
y Bean 
7 inte So much for noy 
are clearly of opinion that eduee Oaks nor 
| Semis Chesnuts should be transplanted at all. It is 
far better to sow them w. 
for the mice, and tliat vermin 
man must have ty who cannot devise 
ittle ingenui 
¢ | Some effectual means of aaan them under, But 
T time sin 
AsH a correspondent made some 
eas of us persiees: a plant called Glycine cA 
to e answered 
that we knew of no <a spe- 
end neve since pointed out to us 
oricultural vas we find that 
new Glycine brs ee a : ear, at 
-a-guinea a t, is nothi apd than vy common 
Snail- gins © plane Caracal. ss} mtroduced from the 
East Indies in de yor 1690. ae as well eb as a 
to everybod Be ‘who knows anything of 
ROAD-MAKING. 
In the Prospectus of the Gardeners’ Chronicle it was, 
I think, ‘eteted that * road-makin 
h I do not recollect to 
e on these oe any su 
have ~t9 ae y noti 
with th 
mie appears to me that the art of making wooden > 
it ought to have done, from the x e 
effect which is 
advanced as 
taken up. 
no such a! 
