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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
[Marc 28, 1857. 
212 
. Of the sorts ‘figured b y him the] which the difference in the spécific nature of plants | of Messrs. Burerss and Key, of 
oo o = OF he by age Er in 1675; the| and animals forbids our admitting. On the con-|infinitely preferable. It is the inven 
Bellissime d'hiver, one finest and most trary, believing as we do that the vital i of | Orway, an —— mechanic, who ope wil] 
healthy varieties known in oa r at the present | plants and animals is the same in essence, although deriv vantage from his discovery, À smal 
y, the glory indeed of the fruiterers’ windows, is | distinct in its manifestation, we rega d it as a|bar of i iron is a boltad to the maior = Basi aeo F 
mentioned by the same author; oire d’Angle- | truth of the highest importan not yet | upo a shorter bar, na pivot a i 
e wel in 1665, and is still commonly | forgotten that the Potatoes w h longest resisted carrying the heel, is made to si fre el 4 
sold by the en in the streets of Paris; the|the advance of the too celebrated “ disease,” were oe forwards, and when Bs ab ap usted is fimi 
Poire ie Madame has the e date ; but none of | crops from which the usual stimulus was withheld, | secured by a , 80 t cannot If pen 
these an a site’ o ecay, and yet they must | namely those in the famous breeding ground i in the trial the cotting | is edk el a rif: it; j 
each be fully two centuries old. M. Decaisne Calf o fan, and such as were gro own in the most | be altered for any purpose watever, the nut is 
assures us indeed (Com ee. Kacie Dec. 22, 1856) | barren situations. is no reason to suppose | loosened, the blade is readjusted, and the nut is 
that he has been sa gy ny satisfactory | that the Golden Potato of Peru t apart from the | agai red. t ans the sevthe 
orem. to show whether s races of F ees | debilitating influences of European cultivation, is | may be literally set to a hair’s breadth, The i 
= or do not in course of time degenerate. To|less healthy than it was in the of Pizarro. | contrivance veable, d to any handle. 
t ly stimu- | and will last for years with reasonable care 
it id dovini clear that such evidence as can be calle 
Gibli, a AEN, bears against the theory of 
De 
he onl dily « cases which, we think, can be really 
said to offer some kind of support to the theory of 
of the Potato, the Dahlia, 
ed to by our able 
ng w 
es Justice more than a ce tary ; in | see in the Vineries whose aes are made with | have the reputation of great e xcellence, I mean thecal 
existence in the Dutch nurseries.” pe chs iais carrion and nee aiian garba vation o ge trees, particularly of small plants, 
ny of the Dahlias cultivated 30 — ago} Such being, as we think, a ahi interpreta- | which they contrive to have in flower almost at alt 
are now to be found ut ce he in the same|tion of those cases eka the advocates o gene- | seasons of the year. Th ntleme d ladies who 
breath admits that cea and fine i may | ration rely upon, we su hat their doctrines | are in the habit of resorting frequently to Paris are gene 
have driven them o eld, it seems hardly | must be regard ded as unt pa even although some ar much ey one by ee little dabei 
necessary to introduce in into the discussion. | other facts, which indeed we regard as too trifling eae ; — freer a 
Remains the Potato, concerning which we must | to be worth touching u on, hte here passed o aie? BENE SEES ‘are wonderfully cheap. It hag 
i ist the F words:—| In conclusion, le es sk whether it is considered therefore become a a raara ita -n 
binay effects 
y different 
progressive 
of the influence of age, u 
ned per- 
ies. The quality of si iad remai 
y good after the produce in quantity bas beco 
hgh defective, whilst i 5 others that has ig 
. the vigour of lant. I brought to thi 
r 
P- | tion 
maa 
e ment 
of Potato, known isas = y pro peal 
names, once highly valued, which have disappeared. 
We recently asked an extensive farmer if he = 
S | trees and e hand Sa eat we reply pi 
2 | Bra. 
cuttings. 
e- ri is S 
-| simi 
tell anythi 
pot oak 
using the words so offensive to the opponents of Mr. 
Zo We can even dog a variety of Potato in 
t t of that which i in the South 
of Scotland he Don, Calicoe, 
Drappe See 
30 years after it yielded most exuberant crops. 
It was the best Potato ever known in Scotland, and 
for its remunerative qualities was called the Golden li 
extinct. And let it not 
y that mo ae plant and fruit 
ogous. t is a species highly 
mured, overfed d, constantly forced in’ rs 8 
reign te to its nature, Foon th 
the time that 
ga the victim of man’s 
ankindness. — Strasburgh geese which are fattened 
or the sake o onstrous livers, perish long 
vefore the sad of the tials allotted to a goose’s life. 
ir system from 
item | 
ars ago, a and for at least d en ofa race in 
r t take 
smith, and have the esl or tang heated and 
f he hands it to| wer 
unw wholesome matter ; | 
cceedi 
Now fruit trees are no 
soy: e do no 
r our stone 
ee of gum a canker 
natural exuberan 
evidence of aor nite pub 
to what the doctrine of vegetable 
d offer the strongest possible support | | 
= 
n our the Scottish 
er. For it isin vain to say, I limit my ay 
ri Plums, 
and Ash lies 
Dk ù name. 
If iti is a osna i that eg first consists of grafted 
that is by n 
frequently liveni than jedia, pe are largely 
fted, Willows and Poplars ck f 
Besides iti - not Sodien dii that degene 
t by grafting, o ding, o 
ar opera 
cultivated trees raised from 
almost all our Sonat trees now-a-days hid. fests 
the na of cultivated plant mng yo a planta- 
a park are aiena Oa mainly 
rom ‘their seeds that other Oaks are ERN Accord- 
sof its parent ; bu er 
that 
but if you put the savage into 
regularly, ane ae him, his childr ren wili be short- 
an “os mamat force o f vitality being caused 
by she e kd k aiment. Surely it is not 
nimas to push this panai further. 
C 
adjustment or mi gn bs SCYTHE is one of 
Tae adj 
a gardener’s troubles it to the 
mered till he cin it right, an 
another workman it must be hated and hammered 
and altered a = a the workm 
lej ae the same len 
stoop 
removed 
A s since Mr. Boyp introduced a 
oP meer in this respect if adapting “ the « ie 
blade a m contrivance by w : could 
n scythe was 
by the same . nt th 
Wa lage failed'to discort. 7 o motik of Wile 
Born’: s first invention certain ly 
erfect. The we a 
oe le of setting “the blade 
2 whic ne work, such as 
e 
nsufficient, 
e and that the 
of their culture ae that ee har pits which they ue 
ous seasons ia 
and then thoroughly ripening 7 the wood. A 
Having se he well pas of the 2 wil 
‘point is to res an ir plants, fo egetable | like the 
abou’ r bu s 
tions; sa is held to = constitational i ia 
eed. But are not |but I a 
i i“ could se be for the sake of nee af fresh 0 
omplee integrity all | d 
his | Bu 
the cultivation of the tree is — as it. ab 
d | small plants. 
ntical. onvenience in | ' 
of little paces and it would be better if it gld be 
ripe Nar 
€ 
ana ingenuity ryt explain t 
To amateur se themselves with mow- 
ing thei lawn, it will 
SAUNDERS’ = rican quadrangular stro 
ant use a raz 
JOTTINGS MADE DURING A JOURNEY 19 
PARIS.—IV. 
There is one point of gardening i in which the Freak 
` French m 
either to res ow the 
which they are required ; perrea s means affording t 
Mee: alternations of rest and excitement so 
producing these results. 2dly. would urge thonin 
she wh ch they have of ‘climate, rag remark 
soilin the tubs or pots must warmer in 
atid of Paris, than it is in that of spite 
En 
wearie 
m sure I am right in 
tree they must be > limited to “that oe A walak aad 
n 
ran 
r purchasers to 
to the influence al "teoat until the leaves showet 
prs of injury, em flower ; but fe" 
pe grag the result is equal to 
with in Fr. et those who doubt this gos 
range t rees which Lord Hole e 
REER. e agp of 
schild at Gunnersbury 
The = =: 
th 
salle | the he Citrus = 
Mats of Ty aee of 
ager are Sek asi for covering 
are doubtless a very cool 
