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THE GA RDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
709° 
stakes and mats, or some other material of that tenie: 
the whic 
tion, having a door which opens to north, and 
can be opened and shut at pleasure ; but hings of fet 
kind should always be placed in the est and most 
sheltered situation. Leavy shes, tan, and many 
other articles are all useful, and can be got together n 
r the protection of herbaceous plants. The branches of 
extremely useful to tie against plants 
ere is no act of protecting the ends of 
ats shou id. _ be ‘Salgecsent ws Bad tas for cover- 
ing frames and p The generall 
done 
of the pi 
the amateur may be pre t 
covered up, however, until the weather is so severe that it 
is no longer ani - leave them exposed: this not 
s 
The showers whisk have fallen this week will enable 
the amateur to proc anting of evergreens, 
ich dy given. As 
at the 
Box, the arity gad bene kinds of edging, pe be 
attended to now 
ME ri magic etis ENCE, 
ome ee trea erie of 
ith Larch and For 
HO 
Scotch Fir 
not in ircu mstances prevented any parti- 
cular i inquiry into the cause of bi s, and it was attributed 
e soil, whi 1 is in genera 
many parts reas on a grave or pan—t 
me ath. 
to contain one or more ins 
of the common bark- 
g shoots of the 
e w 
through it cording 
the beetle bores through shoots of the Spruce 
th ad, 
site “ek but it is m 
devastations on the € young shoots, which fre- 
ctr a become serious. In young woods, cutting off the 
attacked shoots and burning them is the Only successful | 
ers os wiseiine ye et ~~ applied to lofty trees. 
insect do less i injury to 
so that fibres and all disappear. In mmer months, 
many of those trees which escaped the r of the cater- 
illars were much dis » Which de- 
@ % 
nirw The 
aves ies af eer, of mt reetew soon become 
ng shoots are unable 
jur 
perish in mes, ich are once attacked 
being scarcely ft for any other purpose than to be burnt. 
—Peter Mackenz 
merican (Co iton) Bligit.—1 find that common oil 
rubbed over the infected spots wit ’s brush 
ay it not iia deuthead abvolhie: 
this tree is ever li kely to be raised in this co untry as a 
profitable tim pend and if no ot, whether it is worth 
whil h trouble 
tha 
It is ee. a brittle har 
subject. 
ted for 
fore little suite 
cept at an enormous 
most cases, in rane J a large plantation 
nded for hare it is better to 
tr 
ow. 
ay eveaaie of a change at raed 
_ 
a 
ranches which the aaah 
Any per 
° 
aving been greatly damaged by the wind at an 
pe period of their growth, they do not appear to have 
much injured latterly. 
in perfect’ as to qi miei qua 
must be importa 
lity. It pr ot then, 
those laws. 
correctness of my conclusions, I 
n to prove 
obvious 
having confirmed the 
have ee no hesitation in eae any perso 
the contrary ; and if it can done, it must 
that ste thei ie er ra Mr. Rivers, nor the break- 
e 
Mr. Bowers. offers 
+ Ee are 
i 
spurs. 
the head is ’ hae 4 fee 
tion, from its being a constant bearer. 
marked as <a ew whilst in land none 
ut French Pears, the Pear that sells more than any other 
i re — aywar [The Pears 
nd good specimens of their re- 
The Poire “dung ltles is also known as the 
Beurré d’ Anglete’ 
The Flowers ial Seeds of Laburnum.—Notwith- 
ngage the i. 4 your: correspondent s,t there can 
t that these man, 
My memory is at Lote and 
pa se the inferior adiaien. 
ther in ** Jesse’ s Gleanings,’’ or the 
her late publication—I 
ge 
3 
ne Searast of a 2 Nat ralist "—a ra 
have FH reco cokied the death of ro parent bird with its 
bro od, nest, from the seeds of the Laburnum, 
n error ae instinct.—J. Murray 
 Downastied Arush.—Mr. W. Falconer, a 
da hen thrush for the aoe fou 
liberty. 
every season, lays 
threa i in the last Por anays building iz a same place. 
Her labour is, however, all in vain, for she n never re ws 
her eggs, but atte solitele feeds’ her — ” broods 
whenever a pean s br ote om a 
RY 
than sorry 
or even Engli e. f my are dis- 
playing a profusion of fresh blossoms; the early Straw- 
crop oe aepeeraes 
the Ulex 
lains in in your last 
Retitier’ of the unhappy co’ his Vines, 
and asks the cause of it, salty te that 
This effect sh ee a ae ca 
He says that his Vine ri arge crop last year, ne 
we 
r 
crops too a 2 
ressed.”’ 
“di 
80, perhaps” 
mers. re i 
cowie for spar edges ventilation. Like your Milesi 
friend, I had last year an excellent crop, well sr in 
spite of the ss of the season. This — my crop 
equally abundant, and the Grapes appeared to do very 
ll, and the Vines to be in excellent pealth, till the time 
arrived that the Vine ought t ripenin ig y 
rprise, in contradiction to the beauty of the season, and 
t e of the most splendid sunshine w - 
b show si 
my conclusions, and to act 
, Subject now appea ine to staee 
your readers, and 5 
