$20 
THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[Dec. 10, 
time, it eventually rots. The best Larch soil at 
Dunkeld is said to be what is called by Spee 
r W. 
garden 
or inset. rich in humus, is most especi 
suited to it. 
f this Mid ns well assured, ‘that7no marshy, or 
nd, where water lodges either 
ar 
to the roots not being dra 
for proof of this, but dain content ourselves with re 
ni to the writers on the subject. ink, how- 
the situations in which therot is wal known 
at subsoil, moors, and similar places, 
reprobable explanation of the cause of the evil, than 
9 it to the action of previous crops, as som 
one. 
¥y, 
sa Mr. ‘Fortine! s absence in China, his place | o 
ed by Mr. James Donald, from Chatsworth. 
WEIGHTS ee FINE HORTICULTURAL 
RODUCTION 
- 
PINE-APPLE, Seeclesher weight, 8 lbs.; height, 8 
inches; breadth, 7 inches; number of pips in depth, 9; 
C. 
Yr. 
crown, sm A handsome oval be grown by 
Judd, gr. to Geo. Knott, Esq., Hertfordshire. 
Grapes, Black Hamburgh sak weighing 1 lb. 3 0z 
estim preg number of berries, 70, oes A sbes tam average weight 
of 4d yG y, Esq., Colney 
Hatc “i Fars abate 11 Hill. : 
7 i, 13 083 
Pear, Uvedale’s St. Comer weight, 1 
hi readth, 5 inch nega by Mr. Jas. 
specimens, each 
ee 
53+ s, Esq., 
Hemsted Part 
App: mundi = io ote 1 lb. 7 oz. 7 drs.; 
height, i aes: 4 breadth inches. Grown by A. C* 
APPLE, name unknown: let 1 1b, 4 oz. ; ideas 
4} inches; height, 4 inches. A h andsome fruit 
fe — ore gr. to R. Gorda, Esq., poet 
The specimens marked thus * May be seen at the Gardeners’ 
Chronicle Office 
_ ON TRAINING APPLE AN D PEAR TREES. 
(Continued from p. 804.) 
_ Ty then, it be desired to train a Pear-tree on a Quince 
h a tree may be apenas to fill or cover with 
a surface of 200 square feet, each original 
0 feet; then, if the 
200 feet will be pro- 
fixed nse 
The as year the y each be ex 
, ole See shoot of? to fet log It must, 
howev WwW 
y 
Gar Ge Gul eet bots ween the lower 
or root, must be take off ieee sf « tien hey pe 
necessary. If they throw out wood shoots where they are 
hey 
to form fruit-buds. This dines fo lowed year after yea 
vail ot ie rer a tree, covering the full eats 
allowed, thus 
ing the seat of ENG “trees all wood branches 
h push out-from the outside or underside of the 
may be brought to 
ack. astem be broneht down 
b 
put forth between that 
those at 4 be rubbed oft ae will, in the course of a year 
or two, attain a size and strengt th equal to the first stem. 
When this has ans the same size, if it it be bent down in 
nner will 
obtain the same not of sap, a m in 
“3 
B 
ia) 
figure and produce will be Died, as if it originally 
ni eat two equal stems. 
en are desired to form dwarf standards, the 
t be obtain 
et a plan 
bra say as may be on 
stem, and as many 
To train it, bend e 
the 
ach uegteh gen towards 
em 
ee 
e buds offering t 
ost 
vertical channels @ at a, will throw | oe t wood shoots. These 
the autumn wd when such as can be found room for 
may be brought down and fixed alongside the original 
branches for hedgamaie and such as are not wanted may 
be cut away clo 
‘Another mode, ra conformable to the yt ee 
is this :—Let ant be obtained with thre 
ith: few w 
being provided 
ix stakes, or—which is better 
rods “of wire, affix them in the earth 
bes 
br 
to lie on an angle of 45°, bend them 
ircle of wire, so as to arrange 
It must Le obvious 
that the branches being thus ranged, the 
will flo the sid in sufficient quantity to 
wood-buds will push out near the baie, tise 
a wed to grow erect in the centre, and 
ain for waste anil rag can be cut out 
élbo it autumn pru 
As the Kyple is subject to the s ai laws as the Pear, 
i f course anag' me manner; but 
ON MANURING WITH GREEN CROPS—No. II. 
[By Pror 
esson SPRENGEL. Translated from the 
German. 
i from page 
HavinG now treated thus generally of green manure, I 
shall d to notice the plants which are ploughed in 
green. Their value is very different, Sy (as in all 
nures) their ical ingredients. 
consider to state, not only the amount of 
nure which each plant yields to an of land, but 
also its chemical constituen’ 
yy (Spergnls arvensis).—The weight of herbage 
grown on one M 
y appear | and roots 
‘ot prem Sputty 
is 3500 to 4500Ib. 1000Ib. of the hte plant consists of 
780-0 Ib. of water, in a flui 
4-0 ,, nitrogen 
93 ,, potash. 
3. 4, oda. 
ALi bees : 
| is + ies nesia 
1:0 ,, sulphuric acid 
15 ,, phosphoric acid 
0-3 5, orine. i 
o's ease in iron, manganese, and silica. — 
1100 ,, -carbor ! 
850 = ,, pea iad hydrogen. 
1000-0 Ib. yl 
Sew ‘organic substances which are to be found in © 
as in all other plants used as green 
fwea 
in will amount vege! with its 
weight on land, the i — which th 
nly 400\b. 
3° , ° 
> 
ed 
inches, = _ 
r nt while 
umus, because the 
must 
oes expect from the two latter neta abi a great improve. 
nt of the land as from the first. 
‘Sperry succ 
which alone it ca 
three years dung is 
that pe considered 
t will oak 
e be sie def 
sirale eabataeioes'} reqae for its growth. 
n be ens 
apt contain a: substance which, before decompositi 
can injure that cro 
(To be continued.) 
AMATEUR’S GARDEN.— No. 
TuosE who live in parts a fe count 
winters wild—such, for example. 
counties of Fagiie and, or th 
sea —on the banks of the Firth of Forth in Scotland, 
€ § 
ars would succeed, if planted in 
r otherwise shelte ae _ stand en 
particulary if the more har 
ardy var 
, F. Riccarténia, 
re The Mexican and Peru 
and pc “of the oie hy 
inds in cultivation 
F. microphylla, F. fulgens, F. corymbifos,F cylind 
F. splendens, and their hybrids—are ender, and a 
caeestore not so well adapted for nouns in the opea 
ground in winter. 
I know of nothing more beautiful in a small or large — 
oho than a clump of hardy or Rae knee Heaths. I” 
ember ve seen a ‘lide s kind several @ 
Garden at Ed ale 
other sind | 
ear gg in the Botanic 
ring months, when few flowers of any 
