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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONIC 
LE. [Jone 6, 1857. 
wondrous beauty, 
stood Baty ent. 
phones ten and 
lia purpurata tailed FEDE 
we had seen before ; while a beautiful specimen of | venience of those 
urvi di 
oo aaae 
indleyan 
eultural skill ‘of Mr. 
e ig the entrance were superb specimens of 
Ferns, among which we venture to single out 
Gleichenia flabellata, from Mr. PARKER, of Horn 
e garden, or perhaps 
id on suppose it possible to 
uch perfection. In 
were dariari all the new 
rtance, and among th wi 
las ampferi 
Sod ag L Golden Firof Chine, fromboth dace, 
e 
hy Ats. Fon PSAE i the hands of Mr. GLE iom, placed 
these came many fine things, chiefly from 
VErTCH, especially an 
Thibandia with globular crimson flowers melting 
novelties, me 
essrs. VEITCH for their foliage, were a “coupe 
ans ‘of Theophrasta, Hippomane spin and 
pala Skinneri, capital plants e bet. class, 
e leaved variegated tw 
€ 
of 
unded i a 
uced was 
ers of florist’s 
manufacturers’ department conduced, as we 
oe iaiksbi pated, very much to the in interest | of 
Vases, baskets, and cat po with 
gay one profusely distributed ov 
the principal walks, and richly filled wi 
T duced. = PANN t effect. Namerons _ tents, 
patterns, we pitahed upon the lawn; mila! in 
other = a ections of orae an gines, machines, 
terials, pannis boilers 
tus, cement work, 
e appre 
toons ot. al that a 
c 
Catalogue,* with full a ota of most of the 
, is on — - the garden. 
rnoon the grounds of Chiswick 
in all thei 
articles 
e. 
was made yesterday 5 ; at H $ o K gans it was not 
e| over. The Messrs, 
pp sort is aaa as it _were, 
vari 
As had been previously arranged, — eine 
tion remained open on Thursda: r the 
A trial o a ag Grass lawn of mowing -machines 
EEN, 
SHANKS, F tly "aia SAMELI. 
No point in vegetable physiology is of greater 
interest to gardeners than the eiie a if any, 
of THE SCION UPON ITS STOCK ; It is 
a common belief that when the e graft of one Pear 
is worked upon the stock of another, neither is the 
graft influenced by the atock. 3 nor the stock by th 
ach is a Peach no ahhg less; 
e apa is a Plum and nothin 
true? or are we here, asin so many other 
ases, "ied astray by our own Minda and inability |e 
ee what really existe Perhap 
the green is always green. soi temi 
ra variegated sort the whole system of the se 
and breaks out into| Ë 
SS, 
08 
op 
=o 
e quality in 
municated by the one to the atbar, It is a true 
case of vegetable inoculation 
medical sense. Nor, in fe can it | 
when we consider t ili i 
er. e may supp that aaaea is 
produced by some virus affecting t m of 
lant; su 
ch a virus, or constitutional nhar 
whatever it is, is certai inly communica 
by Mr. 
= 
body no th i 
Laburnum, or Cytisus Adami, is a Laburnum that 
metimes produces yellow flowers sometim mes 
s0 
at 
the other. As soon as the union is effected the sap |! 
of the first begins to mingle with that of the nie oH 
and i in a year or two the „Laburnum produces 
r 
Pelargorsiaain| of | 
ill stood 
or bunches of flowers unchanged indeed in size and 
Er but topia tely altered as to colour. 
ere t 
who did not use Se tkati on | th 
the aire D and of the purchasers of the lower- 
f | priced adm 
artificially formed | inform 
ough 
wi 
by mixing purple and ellow on a allet. oo M th ew X 
Ponsen's paset RO E HR the cellular structurewhich is so conspicuous both in fit 
ed on the common Laburnum. Wide ely | and vermiform Tragacanth, and which has bene 4 
ama as the species are the one takes readily on say m. ‘The nature of Tragacatt 
frais trees by taking the bet vena : 
nstead of the worst: ana Varieta 
nobling’ 
for stocks 
d 
Bergamot Pear ; ' the se fase became a 
wy Salter fs and fa 
uch mo 
and address to verify these 
ich at Ein nt stand unconfirmed 
ekiaNoted. Surely, bier eis. 
ybridising has done 
ed, which is 
fai 
i 
. The loc 
us seems to co rm 
were for the most part gardeners -a an easy 
distance of Manches i Mewes NE, Cursos, 
& CoLE appearing to have been the d chief excep- 
tions. We also fin ef te Messrs, Lucompr & 
Prici of Exeter, WATERER & GODFREYOf Knap- 
hill, and BAKER of Napanee, sent collections which 
must have greatly assisted the display. 
VEGETABLE PATHOLOGY, No. CLXII. 
AX 
ge rry gu 
not, how: to be ascertained from the gum 
Tti is anaes to examine the stems which va | 
d this Mo with hi 
Moh?’s paper (Boi 
ceed ny thatwhich t treats of the stems from) which 
s (p. 356) the subject has; 
and 
his 
but principally those 
be | which 
EHE 
seal th presents numerous narrow rings of ‘ea | 
and easily splits oaro En into t 
incloses a ith traversed by a 
lary ra; 
aitan 
parenchymatous tissue, they offer to the 
hard t 
which Tinh been chaired ragacan: 
change ‘does not involve me whole of the g 
C Pareten 
Vase 
bee rag 
a 
ore | 
nie Shey 
Practice of Horticulture | 
indeed, been intr yor 
some evidence Hares 4 colla cted, as will ap 
, | from the following ex 
“ Since the 
the stock, it ore Panken to infer that the good 
e Theory and 
ali or ae fruit i is thus affected ed by c 
ness of cultiv Netenioratia by the 
ocks wh 
sya 
IA 
$, 
40ULU 15 
ey are 
e to 
the 
CUCI 
the 
tl nine times Tragacan 
simply a nes. “plant oozing ou out t pon teaa 
Apple, 
other iana if trees of oe 
“lent salle 
-| scion that is 
| Writers, 
“|e Gn 
used 
seyrors the fruit of the 
ome 
pratis the ar pres. 
for stoc) ey ought to 
srorted up 
less perfect 
[oem en ne 
supposes, an autonomous 
sort 
