such a situation having 50 an will form 
e will break 
plants, t 
of multiplication being limite 
50 eyes, as is the case under ordinary circum- 
stance 
The process is in most respects similar ispa 
WEEKS nursery, a 
In ir pema 
cu 
and there the operation enc 
supposed there is p panite of getting 
e the use of laterals, 
ce 
the subject. 
have not been stele L employed by paoa 
hat the h as theory w 
eral axi ry 
i cutting will papa ps > aaialy than an old 
one ; Shat green wood will = pe readily than 
ip wood. Propagation by th of the Vine |m 
indeed, in some degree, an poh tet of this fact. 
But ripe or half ripe wood, though least active 
and charged i in the smallest degree with organisable 
usually preferred ; 
le 
come 
Wherefore neatly ripe or fully 
e its vitslity, alt ough co mpara- 
tively low, is reser easily s ee ae in the absence 
of roots than if it were younger and more active. 
oe or not, therefore, if is desirable to use 
green, 
can onl; 
cases it 
old me things, two- year 
wood f and Beeches when 
' uite green w 
ed), w 
Angin say 
its 
This Heten t that 
‘the method ‘a in desorbed 
coming from eyenin = ypa way. 
ever mere spe ur part ; soe we should 
be glad to hear that 0 pe anticipations are un- 
founded. 
A moti peep 5 paa before our readers some | 
e FORMATION OF 
of the cells of f plante under cire 
an where all vitality m 
their origin 
and 
must be due simply t to y chemical ‘laws. | 
tre 
we |S 
old 
cases the qui 
bee! oe to to Wich latter class the 
rtd. ye 
and 
um- | 3000 feet of elevation, and 
THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
they ooze out from their ARPES are | 
naked, without the slightest tra of a membran 
ease rie collected i in pram 
ar of impregnation, they 
inin 
from the 
placed in 
ont Po is 
grumous mas 
of chloride of zine or rey as 
naked spores are float- | t 
the first effect is a slight contraction, and then 
i id ooze from 
t with t 
farce produces 
visible, while in 10 mi 
s seen eee oping the. spores pi ae with the 
and restraining more or less their pro- 
the mass of chlo ron il, kad as all the 
spermatozoids, 
traced, from th 
all sides oy a 
embra 
pore 
aoe oan mbra 
aot ston 
throws on co of Physiology i in more hi 
p which it may be impossible to 
direct a TRER of the immediate effects of 
impregnation, or of other vital processes. M. J. 
A FEW _ of CHAMZCYPARIS THURIFERA, 
ry rare evergreen Conife erous tee, obtained = 
the Hortioultaral Society from Mexico, be dis- 
tributed by lottery "ooy the Fellows entitled to 
participate in special oreren whose names 
shall have been received on or 7. The 
t 
Ape also 
in sufficient quantity 
ee vs pa of the 
a supply of 
seed of that most beautiful hardy priii tree. 
ew Pla iA 
URYBIA GUNNIANA De Cand. Prodr. V. 
. D. Hooker, Fl. Tasm. p. V6 6. t. 44; the Willow- 
leaved variety ( wg aiaa 
2 shrub tage ra graceful 
prot are parish ‘ai Tal angela, 
Big a thin meal. sh A rrowly 
n the upper 
er heads in short 
ah a dozen snow- 
surrounding a dull yellow disk, and | j 
star. 
198. 
pense a pretty 12-pointed 
This, whieh, “notwithstanding its ys nase — 
ded leaves, ds as of E. 
Gunniana, s from other states of t 
having leaves without any notches 
slender flowe oe mpi So 
Tasman ascending in the latter oaii U 
yen haps 
only specimen we know of is n the Garden of the 
Horticultural Society, a 
rst time in the conser 
i piant 
tory. e forms fi 
Dr. Hooker’s beautiful Flora of Tasmania have mid 
ee -heads than this. 
e | surface soil on w Which they stand. 
d | rapid, that 
this locality at aaro outgrow th 
at, Deo 
Cc 
268 ; | 
eit eh just flowered for we pr 
a 
name has been given. 
n, w 
crimson on en | 
e flower 
“a 
whole 
ire, very “ip pink, standing but a ip 
REMARKS ON THE EFFECTS OF G GEOLOGICA, 
POSITION ON a CONIFERS, 
EARL OF DUCIE, i 
THE e 0 a ot one aa in this 
country, a and their ioris, pe only as regards | 
effect. which they w ae ventu e produos i in or | 
eth scapes, but as regar 
rai "elicit pai on the same 
om persons who are qualified to treat 
eds of ihis limestone and old red 
t a high with o 
ns resting on their flanks; 
e ee s of surface, but 
in a at a 
chie 
madly es 
geese oid 
efly, I believe, to Sopa: pilin: a 
and well. 
nera sam ‘heen sufficiently obvious relly | 
pi 
Conifera A n proportion to a4 depth be 
n the cold an 
limestone, as oa on the deep and warm worda 
old Mein _ ston 
The I hare 
: 
fastidiou us of the Coniferæ which 
i doubtedl 
gro 
nest mori 
a4 
m the other 
m 
t di 
A che Conifer: 
Kim 
clay, s with equal facility—thouga 
depth of "E as ee ii stated, invariably conta 
rapid growt 
Pinus insignis — to prefer the old red: te 
m 
of the old red can 
This tree, which w: i about the 
now 40 feet high, a at one foot from 
gi in cireumterene ce. 
ucaria imbricata, fes i planted in oot 
of soil, T hav? 
not been able to žer tect a 7 ls 
Senne over a 
wet loca ce dg 
ustify me in seam in ee 
eneralist outer in ihi 
ndeed, all the remarks which I Genture ior 
any 
Lorne it is true that many 
upon one e, more 
fi 
appears ae ae cbt exile ATMS let 
dir ach knob ste aos 
ict of more i aen 
foal that I ee wers rowed Seo itish 
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