THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE, | [January 10, 1857, 
pt which the Bis grig of the Fig is effected may perhaps | eet er shoots, from which there might be a prog. be a prog. 
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Engle a a su atop z pk : egg the ot pig bs how o be unecessary, It Lewin late in the season, it would deserve consideration 
soy. os chap op, toh in those climates, ripens in | is not difficult to pean atti e that Banii t the end d of Re be ont iale no i be practicable B mr vyu 
i t half their | active season of t when the Figs attain their | a habit or unction o imate _ 
oer ap p ae energies of the ee mb to fall size but are batt “hard Puii green, there may yet be | of Britain is at least en and aaa detrimental 
tha Abis of autumn, and the half-formed SEA a sufficient amount of warmth and other r agencies of to its fruit-bearing properties, because imperfect, and 
fruit is subse tly destroyed by frost. We aaa idea to maintain the motion of the sap in a certain | to bring it into accordance with the Sidney conditions ° 
valnim Ra S out 4 . i ivi seep the Fig tree in a growing of other fruit trees. J. H. H., January 10. 
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to Sootland, widi il lower temperaturo a ndan active | and Figs. As long as this state of growth continues the firmae me Correspondence a 
season of six or e find the whole period insan aee Figs will show an indisposition to ripen; and if the Ice Sta sappa —I am a pe sok ly in caida ice, and. 
in a single cour eis sa a ala all the autumn should be more than usually open and moist, | being so am desirous of ascertaining in a rather more _ 
growth and pada Saa are performed slowly ug wit i and favourable to growth, the period of ie is likely derailed manner the way in which your correspondent i 
difficulty in an ungenial climate, and the fruit whi ch is | to be proportionally protracted ; hence robable | « W, D.” anages to build a — ra ice, using the large j 
put- forth in May is still green and hard in October, | that Kam of this hanging, we 18 prot i in the pate for ine walls of it, peaa ing | waa | ramming the E 
though full grown and perfectly Il it only | ripening of the autumnal crop of Figs, sugested t oa ntre quite small. My o view is, that he must 
Š C3 the v tive action of | idea of Since aia other ey ant for the purpos É | nosnamtlg force the a now, “8 kö pu uts paki ; 
a iss a close from the Jinnishea pce of hastening their maturity. the view here | support them. a li ‘be ‘Mind “enoveh to enlighten — 
ture of the Thus we have we Fig in every | taken that result must come idat of itself, without the | me with another rc Pe explaining this? 
phase of activity, “sag eight crops in the year and an| aid of these agentes ik the gradua and | I wish also to ss Mr. Maxton if when he first o 2 
average te one month and a ee for ar Pons ii cessation of the sap, provided the Figs ‘a ave prr viously | his stack, he finds much waste, and should thank him to- 
course of it. dep eye effected spa a high pa Mil attained their full growth dd development, in readiness | state what proportion the _ bears to the stack. Hig 
ture and stimulating mode of treatment, a | for npag ; for if yi should mA be half Bord as | statement of there being little or no waste in opening 
single term of six a ge as the measure et ‘tsp per- } in the Pei of England, when cold of autumn | daily in a hot July seems extraordinary ; portal 
formances in mperature scarcely | c catches the hoa it is "of course fapihaibte to chifa will kin banat eom ei "o manages soas to avoid this 
suficient for the = Pro ast of its en that they z3 ripen We me here, and before doing 
pow A sugges n of a practical per presents itself) sọ I should’ veel. ees obliged by a few more 
The e conclusion to which these fete a to ae is | relating to tis “Galtitile of the Fig in the open air in the | from those who have succeeded so well. 7% Yro. E 
: a peculiarity in its re and ¢ south of Britain. There the second flowing of the sap| Qld and New Roses.—I do not pretend to deat l 
tution, not ia ad by any other er tree, is inde. takes place in July or August, coincident with which lEn the old or new Roses are the best, but on _ 
t of a state of pisealpe pi in so far x it is| a new crop of Figs begins to be put t forth on the ae nen “4 te ie a I find that 10 out of the 12 
imposed on it b gro tone sa mperature, moisture, | pesones d in the parea or early part of the summ w Rose ded by Mr. Paul were shown in 
&c., unfavourable t saute Frayne ot that | and a new set of shoots to be formed, a eho re to g his" keny whieh pne the first — at the Royal 
the. ive lengths of the terms or periods in which it the fruit crop af the ho flowing year. w these Figs, | Botanie Socie Society’s a in July last. I will name 
is eapable of going through a course of its functions, | produced late ever attain their full size | them here—Madame de Cambacères, General Jaigi i 
varying, as we have seen, from one and a half to six | and RLA ELAS p~p So senublidly never come to| minot, Madame seas Souvenir de Leveson Gower, — 
months, are in like manner to the more or less | maturity, but perish with the first frosts. In this short | Gloire de Dijon, Pidde ee (Bon.), Madame Masson, í 
favourable conditions of temperature and climate to | statement we have three undesirable results. First, a| Madame Vidot, Lord Raglan and General C f 
which it is subjected. The e a aa of Knight would re of ‘grag which should have been the best, as being | the two last the finest in the whole erkina My“ 
justify the inference that the Fi ig May be ke pt in a state | borne on the perfec tly devel oped and matured shoots of gardener informs me that there were no fewer than 
of continuous produc etiveness, under patil conditions | the early velp of t cai genes is entirely lost ; secondly, | seven competitors, The grand tournament has indeed 
of temperature and moisture and adequate supplies of | the tree is burthened w muc useless wood ; for, | been fine sport for the on-lookers, but whether the 
nourishment, though it is certainly prohable that the ge, amg viewed, it amo ats to this, as these inet professional is “ transfixed ” as re is I think more than 
would soon be exhausted by such an exciting course of | whose Figs Seite just failed, can never ett fruit ap questi “ge That catalogue thrust was certainly a 
k and th irdly, e new shoots, which are to bear the crop qe splendid pass, but it has ete met and repelled with — 
The oe process is worthy of thems of the a ipning year, must have their fruitfulness or le qual eae ; the professional may have been shaken 
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performed in a diferent part of the tree, and all Poy ‘net half developed state, when they are overtaken by | the field in full bearing neither dishonoured nor over- 
going on at the same time, as exemplified i m the state of | the nipping cold of autumn, and their further growth thrown. I wish some of your Serer who are 
the Fig after the second flowing of the sap at Mid- | puta stop to. The obvious remedy for Es drawbacks | growers both of old and new Roses would openly enter 
mn with the first paien: of | resulting from defective climate is to give the trees the | the list of combatants, not only to Tutas Mr. Paul to 
the shoot, the embryo Fig is formed in the axil of each | aid of glass ; but as the present hea: relates only to | continue the controversy but that their opinions might - 
leaf as the shoot extends, though it is not, as Knight | Fig trees growing in the open air, an inquiry may be | derive the weight due to real signatures. I do no — 
es, ordinarily visible to the eye, nor is it always | ventured w. ether, since two perfect crops of fruit | question “A. R.'s” honesty of intention, but I amt 
developed terwards in the perfect fruit, but often | cannot be obtained in one season, the disposition of the apprehensive—* Cæcus iter monstrare vult” Some 
inert in the shoot. This is the first stage, and brea produsa two sets of shoots may not with advan- | of the Roses named by your correspondents are com- 
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when the sap begins to flow afresh, and the shoot, | the ig tree accommodates itself to varieties of | acquain 
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now a season old (speaking in ordinary language, but climate, performing no less than eight rounds or! I w i ould = "A Experto crede,” Sri lethes opi E 
with reference to the Fig tree, meaning only one term, | courses of its functions in one year, where a suitable! How oes the radicle penetrate a hard dry soil P— 4 
= flow of the sap), puts forth its Figs, which continue | climate is provided for it, and in opposite circumstances | Many Perik e W. D. F.” for his explanation. I _ 
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sap ; but hry do not ripen until the sap, ou which their second flowing of the sap, which is useless in every | question. My opa i i rok cars 
Hip pmen i ded, h ceased |, How, as exempli- | part of Britain, and limit the fabsilons of the Fig tree | stiff clays and hard dry mar 
ed in the early or spring gg n. Taini Chosen pa a = a fene and preparing = set of well- | Examine the soft threadlke radicle ; cou y 
c forward he sprin t ripen ti — shoots for the ensuing year ? hatever would | means bri ourself to beli i thrust 
after the second flowing of the sap at Midsummer. | ha e the effect of retarding its starting in spring, and | itself tea Shilo had as soak r toadol 
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