ing up I find that Major 
ing th eldest uth the 4g nstead a the 
house, there x oat ie heat. 
“Major Jebb states, kal pe 
* kept r temperature 
Bier ot aan 
Home Correspondence 
endlening out of the Golden te i cat sy the sub- 
of degeneracy of vari ruit trees has 
me threadbare. - presume, aketene. neh as far as 
matter is to 
be dione a hs the 
to differ pai wA sorone 
briefly to 
i Pill, Ae R Fife 
pee 
ters 
ce of the matter, a 
o recapitulate th 
An 
imagined that I had ‘had hit on something entirely | the wearing out of that excellent v 
b 
ne a spear lifi be d d het 
i nt ille Tees me a life may be deemed prophe 
cli p irbes S. diti th b ya nes. William Daam j 
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THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
[APRIL 4, 1857, 
t variety. But Kent ish | 
r ages, and their cultivators 
ormandy, 
Pippins and sell the 
e fruit growing district 
—* Stat nominis umbra ” er 
wed pe p M by fresh 
F. H. 8., Canterbury. [We convince 
ee that o ia history of a cases of what is called 
ave been satisfactorily explained in the 
t we have either recently or formerly 
o 
justing Scythes —Wi a 
our r observations i in last week’s Numbe 
s invention tet state that the socket a eae 
as not capable of setting the biade 
mis ermit me to remark 
= — to 
u ical contriva 
resist the n the movement, unlessit is pro- 
e | vided with some resistance, or rack work, such as is used 
lknow Mr. Otway’s 
which I bie ppn my opinion. 
r instance, what 
Askalon to do with the falling off of | over m 
e since, and offered it for sale on very = terms, but 
that it essed a 
inferior, possessing two great 
baceous plant ages agone wild in a 
E- meh and ~y ion prosent G time is to be found 
the liability to slip at- the 
inability to shut ae when out o 
d used by 
. 
tions 
from n cuttings, tempt m 
We come, iei fore, 
certain livate’ varieties = fru 
ma nie 
s nventio o 
on | gardener’s troubles in the adjustment or setting of his 
e maning. | scythe. This 
man’s gardener he kingdom ; they 
| employed at the Copel Palace, the pore e and 
and other G hools. They h 
oe ane at 
Min: that I had 
tent for a scythe’ ‘she. Velous aeythe), 
ould poopie i the necessity fo 
uld do away with one of the 
taken out a ne 
oe object of which w 
his i 
Mr. | m 
o | has decreased yore rably in value, ones to its use in 
i ideri 
h lave so, I must say that very ve: A of ra Eina movement referred to by you, as he called upon me some | con 
matter has crept into, an rat —_ vr too much of | time 
n advantage | i 
and is numbered 1 s2 3, &e. It issold atthe gomamapiictes 
| of the common seyth es, and is within the r 
“i 
eee is no pa e to take it to } the ones = peed 
l or tang h , hammered, and the temper 
= 
otally the reverse? In this place I will 
-only speak of one variety, we old ge Sob The 
" answer riven, + in te they still 
blado (and perhaps ywi own epe )spoiled. I fr o 
better illustrate portance of this patent Vulcan 
seythe over oie aan referring your 
readers to my si etecment i in another portion of ogee f 
have pictured the labourer as waitin 
is 
oduce good fruit ; and aa recently t ou at some grafts | often 
Eken iron Kent have grown well and fruited within 
20 years. om as | fine w 
are they the following :—Do they 
degen en a boy some 
“half century since, there were ak old Golden Pippins 
ood, whose stems at the vor were 
I was emplo 
the same kind, and did. maea $ 
es from the old trees, ja ensure the 
rees any ofthe 
gratts, 
; good ‘yd k kind. ‘a? There are no tree 
to make never form- 
ing: re any ewer and yg it ~~ a Bees vin. 
‘to find one that ae 
Hi 1e climate, soil and laiii were identioal ; had 
‘some will biel tha trees growing t o centuries | 
"before had the soil of the m food, and 
lanted were 
ar as was 
a result 
tie same. This eo usively shows that in 
conclusive us ostreeoformi: 
“climate, locality, and soil where Golden Pippinefesaarty thickly as to hide tie bat bark in many places for 2 seat 3 | myse 
they pap — ever as rengn inches. Ifeel much inclined to 
“attain 6 inches before they die. 
T ve 
teat 
the question as setiled ars the sega] e 
of the varie Wh 
f now alive that were so plan alui invaria- | 
] oaptaene a away—bearing a few apples, but refusing | wi 
wood, and consequ 
done, perhaps a t 
wer What seg be thought 
to buy a knife, a kettle, or spin ag with 
ites ses and be referred to a neighbouring — 
or DS to fix on? irae analogy is nearly 
e with the acyl “of old ; but the Vulc: 
ried ies these evils, is sold ety pies to handles for 
be had for 4s. 6d. each, 
ed and regu- 
es “eee es and i irag 
as much facility as 
ordan’s lead for an ever-pointed ripe om Mir. Gilei Glenny 
es = ~s frare — effective im- 
provements that ean i the “ Cotta: 
ardener”’ rts, “ We can giv i Dp 
e unqualified praise to 
Hl 
only say rt 
his is 
'by my having tried to ca aaa ha $i v mower, cache used both plans, and 
that as far known had nev vey experienced tway’s.] iat tore | dela 
er | much prefers Otwa: 
Phere abe “Si Trees. cna of my best Pear Trees 
s, I believe, so 
nt them 
crub t 
arene wih water at the temperature of 160° or 
see 
of all. 
Mr Ir. James i Whyte, ol of Chopwel re neat elore daing 
I think he ough ht to made Na ore fully 
nogaid with cal pon Poeuliaritios as 
stating bogie ad e under his sto a al &e), 
relative to E Oa coppice bar yp maie years’ 
standing which pine about 37. per acre iag piu 
double the s m that was Nabors 3g here for the 
e expens pte 
ser 
ya ity, me nufac mand, lst, 
to aa “hoy are generally speaking situated on 
ana hilly ground, a close n the chalk in 
-= instance ges fa r ars ye . ong way from any 
own, ” anufacture, the 
me, 
and used as fuel. 3d. As to demand, of late 
many instances being gg yd ed by more modern, and 
I should say ‘Ga pod: un) jes ple 
is my pe ion se ice wood, 
Ash and Hazel (no Whine e 
briefly as I can. , Cra 
Saive en t out with onii et as oy some men ost 
be fou wherein 
he 
he ing ow 
are possessed 
on upon the subject wit puro mi | 
mt + 
hunder | a 
an aati too 
nqu: 
‘Brag —— James Boyd, Swan Lane, London | mark of Mr. 
el i w decide 
of; C "Wood. —I 
time. orem n aà recent article by me on coppice | hea’ 
at a temperature of from 
Cramb’s 
eo 
Pa state that T kin mye lately seen 
er Mr. Cramb’s 
to sr it | 
e that! with common sweet oil, sag Anami afraid of pini of Mes mig aa of Bristol, who have - 
rpentine. I have never pa nd any insect that Ati fully and successfully for ten 
could resist it and live ; but not quite sure of a also to the letter of the Sie, ia a 
ow | effect of oil liberally a pplied to the bark of your for March 2lst, and if more 
Might I beg your advice on the eames A Subscriber, wanting to prove the efficiency of m, 
| Newbury. [You ou may do more turpentine | present it, I ert 
account | sceptical to call at o 
of that which you say infests your. trees vegi bof es forte ufacturers, Regent S 
in our volume for 1843, p. 805, under it and A E te Ma 
are re using my egg oa have af h 
nials as proye that they are n 
but that their men know how to 
bers. [Both si 
as generally managed in the South of England, I | Gardeners’ Chi ete 
Proved by what had been done under my own expe- raining Gourds.—In your 
| Sanon o woodlands i — ch I have the manage- | noti fo ental Gourds, 
| ment coppice wood description was a very | vain both in present numb 
bs | unprofi a eres ts me with the land under the | years for 2 
Plough ora crop of timber tr i best to train 
These are facts I will beet inp sexton a crop to give it their | vari i how Polling 
——- This has elicited a reply from oes but will the 
if 
