January 17, 1857.] THE GARDENER®Y’ CHRONICLE. 37 
two trees. eee the tree treated with charcoal in The most catrevegeet thing I saw was some elevated ground occasionally stopping to 
‘ovember week earlier than the other; | universal use of copper boilers and pipes, instead of iron; nimiro some gigantic tree, and paying a visit to some 
it carried sien dozen of fruit, and the other not quite = ng s s these were preferred, the answer w. reach tainebleau, after one of 
dozen, an ch tree, as I may all it, had they were worth more when old ‘han iron pipes ‘nes delightful days “ in f the picturesque ” 
it on an average twice the size of the other, pare There is one peculiarity about their pipes ; instead | which it has ever fallen to my lot to enjo 
I am by this reminded ex ent m soot on [of being virdir they are flatsided, high, and narrow, who would excel in wood anagement 
my own Pears, but a no bene e or calculation as to | thus p , à flow and return of this shape traversing the — not go to ew forest of Fontainebleau ka lesson. 
the enia ent qualities = a he ae eya rh e | tp ont of the structure, never saw w Ae A ar ‘of thanin pirkums e ® young 
winter of 185 gave my Ler a ne i me r Grape as, Brey have no such houses as e f ahi oe ti B: ng Ro 
ef ai nia tn iio ainn oe © cts of the soil | 7° Bave sth o Fontainebleau is forced | (eet ‘and T beli ve th 4 the picture mri prg 
in which they are planted, it being too ealeareous, giving | i Pits liko that "epFevented e accompanying | iiS not been overebarged ; but really nothing eon be 
ps gdh ASA ne we giving | woodcut. They are coustracted of wood, which is | bas not been overcharged ; but really nothing : 
to the leaves a ye aves corn ways promotes a in no case pain and are about 4 feet in height este an Fon 7 es ani in a Rear ° 
th ves o > Oa ae Sh: thee tintin ond: ©. Ae zi at.. The tralile caa he w o mg ture seems a Rg 
bol ter i pad, le sie The teow! omen represented by the letter a; on this the Vin meri g ae pote Agn pe 
th fir xen vot P rd ost nee oom Om ara polat Weems Shee wood, yo e far between at ver fine, and the host 
f feria DAR gas bite to beli = Hii iia force a different portion of the te every year of pabi = kr hs ae P 
= bana “lot” of Lou ie nd Pen: pire: which they sa moy i renee "Baile Felon ort 8, 1857. 
before seen in Covent G arket, I am now in- | h ch he ben a ee of foree end ee {s iis 
| whic! ve e renee nnn e nae 
clined to think that this at least was partly owing to the t have acquired the aS breaking’ at m 
e amount of soot on the surface, and shall | © 
_ The » 
tch nares its effect. | 
are the a oa pipes. 
of Chavis Gra 
| from 12 to 15 feet in height, is ma ar a fine sight to see, 
with ripe Boms which in this charm- 
It would appear from the interesting experimen perpar 
t, covered w 
uoted pt that mony a parh imac ame ‘covering | ing climate is of an exquis iiie ai 
W aBa aiii, AiR Bait iant ha Ntt w| Pi oct re ground a 
itand conveyed to the Pear tree, if we y judge from = 
t effect in forcing the tree into com aratively | [ures 
early and in giving enl} fruit. e ex : 
riment may be tried Aei hey on trees with | with e noble 
ear ines Pear 
y 
roots n the trees on 
Olke stocks, Apples ý a, and Peach and | pe an t 
Pium trees, are always inclined to near the | g 
E ee The 
quantity, ee s and te miram of the flowers formed 
singular ty, and was much the 
d ` 
gs may be given at once; the | hich : ted i 
effect, if ay, will be the sme as if given in Novera ber. TER 
| see their seu 
a ee bes now went to what may be 
HORTICULTURAL JOTTINGS pon DURING | "The pai 
A JOURNEY TO PARIS.—No. II. palaco. i 
300 yards long and 
avour. 
at the back front of 
most effective, and the 
PRUNING OAK TIMBER. 
We find in the last 
oods and Forests the 
to Mr. Gore, relative 
affected by dead eee 
8, Whitehall aron dee April, 1855. 
Sir,—I have the honour to ac mip ap de receipt of 
your ‘letter of the 3lst nanan cling my attention to 
vom question which has been rai 
expressed by 
ee of the missioners of 
following — from Mr. Clatton 
n which Oaks 
with me as 
boughs, it might appear 
paman bn on 
t of my own experience 
father and preien A daing a period 
ow ha same g estates) leads 
me to adopt a different conclusion 
as regards one 
next | the points adverted to by them, I feel it right to submit 
lanation. 
s FONTAINEBLEAU, 
Tue city of Paris a dense at hal D ai | Peet 
I it by the yeu satuun f the sky outline of the whole being broken by towers towers of E Sones proasta; that ap Sho Os aiiews Royal 
Fontainebleau ; and I could not but notice the great | Forests is reared with a view to an ultimate crop for 
difference between our smoky, staking, 1 pa fogs, | po pact de the navy, ‘aa as it is grown in i 
and the one in question. It the 20th of October, | y set apart for the purpose, and where 
and ose vy ed which so aranan denr m speaking, it can be with any 
herald a renlly fine day at that season. Starting advantage, will have 
at 6 a.m. it ery dense through the suburbs of the af reference to the growth of Oak and its healthy develop- 
city ; but as progressed ly away z ~ ment when in as these coppices are 
ES nE, r ee an la X composed of, not to the growth of the tree in 
ethereal sky, o breakfast, 24> Nila situations where it is distributed over the surface of the 
distant from Paris 40 miles, rarena town, £7> d X ground at wide in 
and, judging from appearances, it seems to have ys X The manner in which are by dead 
out of the march of progress. | g S| boughs, may u! three heads ; viz. 
My first object was to see the kitchen en, which be R 1. On young trees under 40 years of age, 
is upon a palatial seale, and I here beg to express my l 2. On growing trees, having acquired a size to be 
great obligations to the head-gardener, from whom I D | called timber 
received every possible attention, Proceeding there I- S | 3. On large or matured timber Oaks, 
saw some very Pines, fruited in very small pots, %7- "S _ As regards the first of young trees :—When 
for the size of the fruit; they were com to By [timber is intended for yr maga eee 
force the Alpine Strawberry for Christmas, Ina | ec requiring length of bole, the young trees 
pit Prises Albert Peas were just sown, and there were all kinds and sizes with pointed The entrance stand sufficiently close, to allow them to make rapid 
ranges of for forcing French Beans and from the town is through an i rt formed by | and at the same time to drop their lower 
Strawberries, by dung linings, and having a flow the half H. The garden front hasa most magnificent from time to time as the trees increase in 
and return copper-pipe passing along the front of them, sunk terrace, the beds of which were filled with is pat e 
Their fuel is wood, and the fires must want unremitting and Gladioli, which were of dazzling bril ere ‘or the removal of these branches no mechanical 
sive Of tools ea paapidity with which such pipes thought, looking at the i scale of it, that the means are necessary, nor should any be resorted to 
off their There were many cloches, arrangements were most admira na | under any circumstances. The sapwood as it is formed 
under them, and Batavian Endive (Escarolle f liparin wove some handsome kinds of Gladiolus, a flower gradually tightens round the base of the dying bough, 
Cardoons, and Spinach formed the staple crops of the, which attains to to great bennty in thi delicious climate until the branch is quite rotten, and drops off when 
garden for winter use, I did not see the interior was the sapwood extends its growth over the place ; and so 
I saw nothing novel in the training of the fruit trees informed is ne oy Pas adrar going to drive in | perfect is the process by which the dead bough thus 
here, P one of the most remarkable features the è therefore set off en route for | leaves the parent stem, that no appearance, either 
of French gardening is the rudeand simple manner in it, soon Se ee ee ee 
which do thi For instance, almost all their It did not at first present any very striking objects, the bole of the tree; but if the 
is in little moveable frames which are made but as we progressed we noticed ly some by cutting, their base becomes 
Out of old ship timber purchased ata rate, and gigantic Beeches and Oaks out in bold relief | rapidly covered with sapwood, and the tree will be 
there are never painted. Looking at how ttle paint the entangled thicket of of . 
coste, and howinvaluable it is when pat upon really dry trees were named, and two of the finest were, I have thought it necessary to be explicit as regards 
wood, I cannot but think their in thie called La Reine and ing on, we | the result ral decay in I 
short-sighted. Perhaps I may be pardoned for a slight tlyt t which harming! que, observe, in the extract which you forwarded that 
digression here on the subject of painting frames, &e, We stood upon a bold projecting rock and looked | the referees state that a process, such as I have 
t is much too common an error in places where upon an enchanting scene. The view described, takes place at the base of a decaying branch, 
poe fania might be expected to allow both houses |o the forest, the foreground was lovely ; looking the “ defecti is detected” when the tree is 
frames to go three or four years without painting around us we saw gigantic bou of sandstone ultimately 5 the f is, that in Oak 
them. In the interim the putty cracks, and rain rock of the most grotesque f now an enormous trees grown in coppices, like those to which I have 
insinuates itself, causing decay of the sash bars. This in| mass poised on some tiny point, and everywhere jarge referred, and upon soils adapted to their no 
ought to be remedied by three coats of paint rocks overi each other in such a manner as | spot or indi i is found in the stems of the 
cutting out the old putty—a process which breaks | Nature’s hand could alone effect ; while intermixed with loss of branches which bave fallen from natural decay, 
a good deal of glass—but we will suppose it fresh | these were and contorted pe Bed pre ho ua paite S aep 
puttied and painted, and as it generally is put up was | ia i 
without sufficient time to , to endure the . is 
scorching raye of the ow- and an internal much 
00°, what ocre With a temperature of from 85° to 
20°, what is the resuit? Why, the paint is all in 
blisters, and the new eracks ; and wherever there 
a fault the water finds its way, Now the object of 
Sa nn fy vs a we | 
teject the wet, | 
year. I find | an 
it possible 
y 20 doing. 
