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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
707 
TICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON 
iately aj ston —— the Com 
rizes for nex 
21, senent street, Oct. 14, 1842, 
Che Gatvdeners’ Chronicte, 
, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1842, 
MEETINGS FOR THE TWO FOLLOWING WaBSe. 
pk per hide OTs ple @ M. 
Tuesday, Noy. 1 + 4 Flo ping et ae ea 
. s. | ecies 2) ee Le 
Wednesday, Noy. 2- ogi 
A USEFUL i has lately Been Drovg under our 
notice wson, of Totten eh ar- 
gonelle Rea.ieae which ‘is planted against the 
gable end of a coach-house, and consequently is 
trained ony highs —. it could be on an ordinary 
garden-wail. One e principal limbs, at a little 
more than a foot from its tesanotiae with the main stem, 
st bark or young wood connecti 
er parts of the branch, the di: ectng 
part being black, and the wood extremely hard. Ne- 
vertheless, strange as it may appear, this branch pro- 
duces every year undant crop, invariably about 
a fortnight earlier than the rest of t The fruit 
is cert not equal to that grown on the ot 
nches, but its ripening earlier cayses 
be overlooked. Excepting fruit-spurs, this branch h 
gall that time, sy a ch 
ived i: Sai er 
y in 
troduced abundantly, i 
bel than it  otheewine pon have don 
som Wh 
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2 
upwards beyond the wound ; but 
that, in many pty the albu 
and loses all such powe 
seamed 
there is no question 
urnum becomes dead, 
a Peat 4 dependent upon 
phe ca hard part of a 
is consists of 
c. i rises from 
tubes are 
wep ae 
a ood, 
bes of various sizes, cheese al 
the roots into the bra — When 
n the inside be 
d consequently sap tacts throu 
they become o 
€ sedimentary 
matter alters the colour of the tubes, hardens them, and 
ePancec 
tic of ‘heart-wood, = ml any opening whatever 
remains in the tubes, 
ether in ofa 
ing suaptieins in 
1 dead, and yet the branch be. 
r ife, 
the sap tows upwards through the bg 
ks tubes have been c 
many easil i 
Cut down a tree in the spring andiike the whole prov 
i n be moistened rising sap, 
in the month of 
as well ag circumference: or, 
ag intrad 
coloured fluid which will rise along with the sap, and 
it will be found that the whole of he central parts are 
st eek while the albur “ is bo sg vib sa that it 
tis, we think, somewhere suggested, that in those 
instances where the communication between the 
part of a fess is intercepted “ti a spies 
process o 
blished is the fol 
That 
eve as if, in the sap avoids the | into the m, is interfered with ny constitu- 
annie, instead of being sheclesels confined to it. nal peculiarity in the tree that bears them, it is evi- 
* ta tree 2 mes extremely dark- | dent that they will form eget: but clusters of scales 
ubes are in consequence com- | of w ich the spoeresoet -will probably be somewhat 
pel filled waht inerostation, "ihe, no doubt, sap will diferent from 
be u rce upwards ; and in s But is wey be dk why we are to conclude that 
e the direction of it a necessarily be through the | an Aco posed of modified leaves, because it 
softer par even in that case um will faves of pose ike the scales o a leaf. bud? The 
reasoning = which this <elevetien | is esta« 
the scales of which a leat-bud is 
per and lower and which we shall call A, a rely im perfect eaves, 
wound with a dead su aves must provide | is demonstrated in the Storing. vwhil the buds are pro- 
eir own food, and feed tha branch, by attracting nu- ducing reat A, use scales can be readily 
triment atmosphere. » however, know | traced into common leaves, which we will call C. 
that leaves cannot, under ordi ry circumstances, do ye! Be ill be observed, that if B B (the scale of the 
S$; and it is unphilosophical to them such a cup) is the sam e scale of the leaf- 
ope power in particu ' ially when the bud and 3 if A can be so traced into C as to leave no 
real nature 
fap 
reference to causes habitually in operation. 
eek promised 
er in which tp 
r readers an exact plan 
chy Lapel fe gps 
oa is aieache cd to the 
ce gaomn and of which the peparate plaad that have 
proposed, and some of which are publish 
fe 
c = an incorrect idea. The following cut w “il 
now render this part of the mahoten: intelligible, pier 
apply to all plans of trellises, be what t ey may. 
eae 
Tt will be seen that a vabag | wire ring is pte: 
round the pot, a seb othe ts bottom. To this 
sufficient number aortalit: atin are attached, all 
roun, ih uprights are n upon the 
surface i Sg ah Hie rim, over which 
bid are ly bent till they reach hest point 
f the rir are . Af 
that | Antrobus ; and w sate aes at the surpassing beauty 
oe | of thus 
g tr er-pots, for 
sastk of creepers aad other st was ade } by Mr. 
—_ Green, the excellen ener of Sir Edmund 
specimen must be fresh in 
Horticultural 
wires were universall 
pots, and consequently w ameree that eal ek and 
security which are so essential to mc at plan 
P 
the memory of every visitor to the exhibitions of the 
Society. needa land 
Me old pe Oak, of t 
form 
catty 
soutpiotie them with true ne Acorn ter the scr 
ane on shall have been s 
its natural 
a9 ‘of small scales, placed one 
t like seales in a 
aie. pre es —— 
Of theues 
mee about its 
ust be the same 
ON AN 
(By Proressor Cuantes Sprencet. 
man.) 
on account of their m 
th 
ate useless to the bru 
ufac 
sort-of | which 
very in France 
natural death, in large i trot “retpite, 
as a manu 
a bank 
00 feet above the level of the sea, isa ; 
he sessile 
of the same —- then B 
NIMAL MANURES.-No. 
anus from 
5. Hair a 
) 
é and wool contain the 
mponent parts 
as horn-shaving and hoofs, it is 
tood wh e equally valuable 
act most powerfu ally the first year, because 
nute division, they are more quickly 
decompo an -shavings ; for the same reason, 
they do not produce any effect after the first ye 
rmerly, the refuse of wool, as well as of woollen rags, 
red, the ome confi the 
of _the hair left pri sping, and to such Seluehed as 
shmaker, T 
is neglected, such 
materials Poppin ose, and lose much of their nitrogen un- 
m of ammonia 
d us to strew woollen 
xing the am- 
or by the excrements of the sheep. 
6. Refuse of Glue Manufactories.— n the f fabrication 
of glue, portions 
trogen, 
manuring quality. They are 
es, but their action does not last Be 
fat are converted in 
of aca to be mixed with lime, 
perses their am 
8. ‘Animal ¢ Coat. ac nee chee Doe sidered a 
to car 
at disco- 
ayine a 
gre 
é the ace of siladdle, 
jo whe very young, con- | P® 
must 
od (containin Ebsch weier) ie ak 
solid parts must pomsess equal properties, There is, in~ 
