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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[JANUARY 24, 1857. 
opinions are that he controverts. We are, there- 
fore, obliged to quote at length the passages in 
Prof. Linozev’s Theory and Practice of Horticul- 
ture, > £ 1, which have caused the discussion to be 
reviv 
ce It 
had bee 
“that propagatio 
division the races of plants wear out ; 
tree or other perennial plant becomes unhealthy f 
age, the offspring previously obtained from it 
euitin gs in “all parts of the world Sabet unhealthy 
too. Is such a doctrine a reasonable inference from | 
known facts ? or is it forced upon us by evidence 
although not deducible from mere reason? This is 
an important question, to a laboured advocacy of 
which lets papers e b 
abundantly brought into requisition. The subject 
lready adverted to in th ages ; it is 
x = it more carefully. 
s, like those of animals, 
al, so ye as akey ng mundane 
e. There is not the sma allest 
reason to suppose that the Olive of our days is 
different from that o oaH; the Asa duki |n 
Names. a saah She coins A anap still flourishes 
und the site of that 
mountains of ikindi as oak oe there in the 
e is not the slightest 
some appointed 
several natures eterna 
It would seem moreover that, with the arta ne 
of annuals and others of limited existence, the live 
of the individual plants born from such seed would 
be eternal also, if it Dacia not at the many accidents | 
hich are ee pore 
a 
was originally 
n the nature of things must 
The yaa ais of their existence is 
e! 
e Acorus creeps along the mud, ever advancing 
from the starting ae renews itself as it advances, 
and leaves its original st ie as its new shoots 
anni ms new, living matter over that which 
was previously formed, the seat of life incessantly 
retreating from the seat o f death. Wh 
e tre 
at the circumference, 
w life is perennially distributed.» But 
inevitable- sot ate interfere, and trees are pre-|o 
vented aaa ar eng mortal. 
pecie en, are paar and so would be the 
individuals s p ees Mk from their ag Bas ; if it were not 
for circumstance te 
y | of their own 
een | b 
r sense | individual: 
m. 
leged, on the | Then 
menes are principally’ multiplied by little scaly 
bodies resembling tubers, and that these are formed 
in suc 
ntire unacquain 
penne su wtHiciently show that Nature does pro- 
vide other means of propagating plants than seeds, 
and that tubers are f those means. 
Hyacinth and the Garlic propagate naturally, not 
only by seeds, but by the perpetual separation 
n limbs, known under the name of bulbs, 
their bulbs undergoing a similar natural process of 
dismemberment ; an on f 
plant blonde to a sidaitar class, 
bends its branches to the ground ; 
forth roots, and, as soon as these roots are esta- 
ished, the eonideigttit between parent and offspring 
is broken, and a new plant springs into independent 
existence an turns this property to account by 
mon „processes a multiplication; one tree 
propagat y layers, another by cuttings nueig 
in the mi anA Going a step further he inserts a 
cutting of one individual upon the stem of some 
nar mamia Ea of the same species, under the 
a bud or a scion, and thus obtains a 
mai- 
Oe 
5 
z 
vegetable twin. 
t contended, for there is nothing to show, | m 
that these artificial productions are more short-lived 
than either parent, m rovided the constitution of the 
two individuals is er 
t the small 
e t 
opera one mai pirn s that the Garlic 
of catcn ey only a ‘thor life, aera it has been 
propagated by subdivision from the time when it 
ore the name of Shummin, and fed the labourers 
at the Pyramids: nor do we know ym the bulb- 
bearing Lily is supposed to have less inherent 
re es than if it were mraltiplied by seeds instead 
f bulbs. 
Sofhe maintain that vegetable, like animal life 
Ta its fixed periods of duration, and that there is a 
time beyond which the debility incident to old age 
cannot be warded off 
o 
the cultivated races of plants require to be i 
santly renewed by seed, in the absence of which 
and 
thought that although 
possesses indefinite vitality, yet 
that. the wien of it re brought into 
cultivation pass thei r lives Creemer within 
me doctrine has been 
The first person who proposed this theory was 
the late Tuomas Anprew Kwicnt, who, in the 
latter p of the last century, finding that the 
rchar Herefordshire no longer contained 
ties of ap which 
for 
failing in his a 
varieties by sant ing, assumed that 
overtaken them, and # at th 
contrary, that seeds renew the pate; vigour of a megs ~~ and mea writers on vegetable sna 
species as often as they are sown ; at if an | rather out of respect to K great e 
plant is multip eds the | than th any co iret examination af facts for 
<a Ši 
imm pring es healthy. It is Soli 
said thet ‘tialtiplication by seed is the only natural 
mode of Aides rte known aap plants, and that 
A other kinds, o re artificial, and lead 
ity. 
"Tt would, we think, be difficult to find an hypo- 
thesis more entirely at variance with notorious 
Tha seed is œ natural 
means exist is a 
is rarely propagated by 
natural mode of propagation is by the ‘stem, ahah 
n blown down by the storm 
emits 
and | bed o. 
ce of failing vigour in a lant 
iieo o! t aa paa It there ai 
Providence as so wonderfully e 
ts | wo A 
roots at every | i 
ai 
y | essence 
the 
that account | w hich tty leads to 
a desire to push analogy 
bezoni its P a 
All who un aed “the sai of rg and the 
manner in which they g e witnessed 
that incessant renewal of tl their vitality With which | W 
ndowed them 
an 
bbages which load | 4 
the wag na a market 
rdener are in their 
e as those 
meng: cliffs of the oce ay. 
greener or redder, more ptica hetei and tetger’ but 
= are physiologically the same. We therefore 
must dismiss from our argument. ae variety, | garderi 
a confusion of 
Among plants, as among. sims 
.| arrival of Sioa oy pny which is the 
eeds of these in 
| placed in É the f noy of a hot bed, 
si ee sae fine s 
t of 
pid rA made, when the thick matter has fallen 
ich sprin 
up in a forest is not in kea smallest physiological | 
icular boned from that which rises from the 
ose which tals i forth from | 7 
Tee 
ephemeral and perennial species. The butte 
perishes in a few hours; nothing can deter ay 
portion of 
such beings. contrary, is endowaj 
with a fongetiey the limit Kad Besant, is bi eli 
able. In pl: nuals, bienn and 
perennials, to - last of which belong all I tren 
bushes perennial Bumy Wii, 
woody or Hethabed whether forming a trunk or 
e annua ika is, as h ! 
stated,’ an n absolute renewal of their vitality, in thy 
absence of distur rbing causes. Hence the e enormous 
age at which trees arrive. A thousand years is stil] 
youth to a forest tree which no accident has injured; 
tj/and there is no past ible reason why it shold i 
not if guarded from 
rnity. Traveller 
in the forests of kepy rees 
the age of Hox There 
that | the Wellingtonias, now growing in chi 
were wags in the days when Manomar was in 
caree 
Te; is true as plants do in reality perish com 
only without attaining any such longevity; and 
that constitutional feebleness is E one of 
niments of advancin 
, not i 
we 
a 
© 
=a - 
these and other causes produce ! 
end in death. Bat this is very different pre a 
of mere old age; and for practical purposes it 
wert to draw the distinction. 
page exist to show that wild : 
suffe einige mere old age, we cannot admit such’ 
property to ts incident to those which 
cultivate 
We hut ger for ae lenge of this extrac 
which ought, indee 
the opposite views of the Scottish Gar 
be discussed in our next jt Bn 
We understand that a gardening periodin! 
reprinted for the benefit “: o readers the 
OLMAISE HEATING, by . MEEK ri I 
appeared in the Journal of the atar 
We therefore deen it right to warn the pu 
the article i itten 
t 
which m 
was at hiit time unknown 
CULTURE OF. TOMATOES. ' 
UT pi end of the a of last February 
wed some a pot, which was thei 
When two or í 
nsferred the 
rass 
had becum mi ceynepe 
singly into separate pots, and deposited tk 
house. On the 17th of i Be which time the 
ng full of flowen- Danes 
of the presente, rol 
sae further t sa shortening the taps, apd sun 
in a border f my garden ihr a close o paling 
the sou 
They were then well watered with weak liquid 
made from fresh cowdung that was allowed to rem 
ren nth or two in a large cask before being used 
a a l quantity of Peruvian guano was ë added, OF 
» ata 
Saioa dustI ‘mean clenr liquid manure a diy 
it has 
same solution may be obtained. I grant it may; 
Nee same extent, nor so pure, 
ge of 
Besides: the pong ae article cannot n s By 
been frequentl. 
quently divested vem 
