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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[FEBRUARY 14, 1857. 
Asia Minor. It must hence, we submit, be conceded 
oa if the varieties of plants so degenerate it is not 
mong Grapes that degeneracy is to be 
a abi the arguments adduced to eatablich the 
i ost part 
e Pear, and 
acknowledged fact that “the Golden Pippin Apple, 
the Redstreak, the Golden 
now for the most part in a state of ay that the 
Herefordshire orchards no longer, w their once 
amiliar faces, and that attempts Ms reinvigorate 
The fact is admitted ; but 
says worn out and irrecoverable, sa 
irrecoverable perhaps, but not necessarily worn out. 
We it to be observed that ave no recent 
example of this degeneracy. All the cases quoted 
f English gardening which | subsoil, produced at least a er of aaa fruit, 
intervened between the le of the eighteenth | which, "though not so large, became in the course of 
century and the beginning of the nineteenth. Our | the winter as golden as those otra on athe The 
theory is that during this period fruit trees generally, tajos were “ n ong ago. eq nation i 
when ted as open standards, were allowed to any fruit of the Ribston Pippin have 
run wild and fall mia bad health ; ew when barne! in ba one year, recently, by all the ce 
cuttings were taken from ae for t propagat on they | trees in that county, one of the most propitious in 
carried oe with them, which disease, erat g| Scotland. That some are still grown is evident, 
m more intensity, atin ately exterminated | from the ` few sca pecimens 8 in the 
uni cept in a few plac This view seems to | fruiterers ° shops in Edinburgh, but unless we are 
s to bd ancient with a. fact that some diseased 
a as Madeira or the United States, which 
wholly inedit = e hypothesis of dege- 
nepation. r how s Mi Kyicut, the 
fro 
failare of were mpt E% pro SEKATA every ol 
of 
e 
youth, its maturity anid Ht its decay ; though they will 
not be any way affected oot any incidental injuries 
the par ee ray sustain after ed are detached 
from it.” And again :—“ emt act all trees of 
the same variety of fruit, where each tree pa 
y of one eo life, are in Kets habits 
strongly co ceiamnted with those of the first original | y 
tree of the ees is ri think, placed beyond the 
reach of controversy.” 
Let us vary “this language, seem what we con- 
ceive to be its true mean n Apple tree, A, 
Harvey, and others, are | and 
of a a pariant bes enjoyed 10 years of 
recovered hea n Rome, and who was subse- 
emg reduced hy one vinter in Edinburgh 
Gi tate as ever. all deference to Dr. 
Lin ei we consider the seth ncy to “sop nana 
to be established in the case of the Golden E ppin 
« The favourite Ribston Pippin Apple, é regret 
been obliged to put on the bdebiratok, 
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iti is actually kiA or 
everywhere infected with c 
Scotland, at pitty except perhaps in a fei wal 
ry soils near ne — it aar p a 
t. alw: art of 
so. It is a pa 
our early iah ha of East ie thian, to grist we 
have pred taken the liberty to refer, that tw 
three standard trees, in an orcha 
teaser above the sea, and of by 
no means a dry|m 
deceiving ourselves, like the Spanish Marquis in 
Gil Blas 
pee anta 
the | m 
1 thornden Apple, for e 
ote I think I am justified in| L 
its 
1 { has 
4 t addu many other instances which 
ust be familiar to cultivators. Take the Haw- 
xample—‘it is in a state e 
de ot Bud fal Macix7o, a conver 
IND s. ight also mention the 
Go seer? Clas et Apple thel Dutch Codlin, &c., 
take the following fact from abroad :—M. de oath, 
Brussels, planted 50 varieties of Pear trees, receive 
from France. ‘Cultivated as standar s, without 
shelter, in 15 years, 15 of them successively died 
arious diseases. — 
cultivator, unwilling to admit the principle of mk 
t 
rd of dare ye | 
, p- 597. This skilful | due 
parent, so it will carry disease, as wel] 
man eb 
when that period re arrive ; 
no such limits ex 
NEW ROSES.—Pavt v. Riv 
In this my second article I bri riety & consider ty 
question of large and small collections of ve 
ore to the advantage of the grower than to that of 
But I appr — beer theory may be pushed 
plish with vegetables mi 
fruits than ee! trees and Wows ers, because the palate 
less variable than the eye of taste ‘ vies say toall 
our jists 
will not always se e same varieties 
What one ve Set sad will highly approve, al 
in this dile who is to fix the standa ma 
he has the following para, 
grigie r tsu class, once nominally more 
ecome of secondary interest, 
showing m as single T snars for prizes, owing to the inte 
beautiful ete ual Roses, mt 
pertieulariy 4 he varieties of Hyb "Perpetuals, f 
comprise all that i 
neration from age, tries to account for his agg y ae i iw s most pone a nee, | 
arious — sa which we must refer to thej nsh or standard grt have pissi 
sam a us it appears that his pee as away is a most Pinte ting eta ; a fe 
doe ts not differ feat that of hundreds of gardeners years, it is most probable that, a hy ext 
in k is country. tion of Moss Roses, summe ; 
ow, what does the evidence adduced amount | of as things that we yoke 
vst We find that the once celebrated Red-streak , = ? acknowledged authori 
crept out of the knowledge of Dr. ees We 
ap that the Golden Pippin, from which hogsheads 
as aa We a not give up our summ 
e hardier and ferti er Lo 
body (scions). These children of its vigour will not | of cider were manufactured in Herefordshire, has |are on the wh thet 
om yp than 25 years longer. At 40 years of| betaken itself to walls, or has gone to France and climate than the Hybrid Perpetuals, maný 
incipient decay; and the offspring Madeira for its health. We find the Ribston Pippin raised at Lyons or in some of the rye tg 
p e “fom it have only ten years to live; | forsaking districtsof c j EnD ne agi x ed infasion .0f/ © gh Come 
and so on.” Is this credible? We think not. | and drawing towards the rayne bige 2 Pitas, C Che Sd K Ke si Mads á si a 
“Mr. Kyient,” says the Scottish Gardener, es other pegs and Apples in pari ca. hem ae a aoa ine nine ss | 
“ estimated, with what degree of. correctness we d f them well as those already mentioned, Tor ; a A 
° š g orious ot in when our at 
t pretend to say, that the ordi duration of a Gan infected eh anker. ‘It disease,” | at the finest; and at that season, | 
variety of the Apple was about 200 years, but he Dr, Linn We may examine that argument | have seen, they are as yet not quite equalled 7 
t by certain expedients, it might be e | more sudato afterwards; meanwhile we say, | Hybrid Perpetuals. Scotland, at least, the H00 i 
to last three times that at period. Overlooking the | well, let it be a ym then we ask if the Golden of the latter in September and October: ws 
latter part of the statement, some have taken Pippin, in ey cannot be g rized in itself—is only a faint Ind oh 
er it with ma l precision, | as a n large breadths of iey writers | it pared with the full orbed glory of the ferme” gj 
because „even in the orchards of H was rerama aa rE as a se L AAS is it not , another of gro aere 
- fordshire, are more than 200 years old, they have —— ?. The prevalence o and of |'8 light an ing, “ We will not gwe Pi hey 0 
nite ow ces pyys is vily eii wrong.” It arais in oae ity, is an ereti tia ae Ee although in. Soe pont sen “elas a 
- certain a singular way of main- |s; _—< e might as well say that the PT hpt Gla so veils 
amn: The ep asc of degeneration to say that santo f Amerie or tie Ann : Australia pro 
may take effect in the same variety in either two | are n ot Gegedteratin se their Br 
taidi years or in six hun years, about which | has been n precipitated rae the o imported abe mile OEE ai 
there cannot kind of evidence. Such a | vices and diseas civilisation. On these grounds | ever id 
sntence is a donment of the whole | we ask a general eit | in favour of the views of Page 
: speculation, for being’ interpreted it really means | Mr. Kwicur.” Jaat 
more nor less degen y take are the words of the Scottish Gardener aliy 9 
effect within a fixe or not at wonder that so aon a writer should not have Thus 
r northern friend attaches no importance to the | how inconsistent Mr. cnrs theory is ge thoss 
renovation of a sickly race when carried to a good | own argament, ih how consistent with physiological North” 
vipate certainty is that which we presume to 2 If ae th we 
“ We are ised that ‘ diseased European supposed to be dying because they had in thë J i 
Apples and Peara” s eei Asocio temporary res ginning only a given span of life, yet nevertheless d do mfr 
tion from of Long Island aa grow with renewed vigour under new influe col woti! 
Pae pore rawn iroi the fine pres extend their existence to six sg yea i and similar clim e varieties “pool 
= climates of France and eeng ~ not weigh muc! y otherwise say, into a limitless fature, | arer by all ermar Hows I apprehend ite 
os ‘When a patients sent to Nice, it seems to us clear that the in the obj to meet the redr met 
Mo unchal, they aa: ork y in a | ning only a given span of life. The two statertionts of all ; if he eultivate‘only for one class fay 
dheboway. oot pifon and pr ggegtoness « On the aig ‘es fied TRA Toe je 
demia has become ; TA A 
| diseased ant is Torotor dyin isà that so lon ~~ sex un analogous point of viv 
the original cause of wn whether bad t sh E inten want et ow Margy the large 
re or bad climate, or bad soil shall peer Sia it pee ee Tondon ahs t Evi 
become more and more diseased till it dies out, meme and cheap one or ; 
i we say, cm is phy ysiologically intelligible. For as/ these may. weight ara matter 
cret is novelty and vari 
long in Meaty sare We ave ‘heard | carries with : k such peculiarities as belonged to its Where, iis; catt aci advantage ‘of the small list ' 
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