THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
by a mantlet.of the old ropes laid up in ne J 
tical arsaa; Ay ice a his 
by even so great a 
geese die ‘ a a 
Such be 
may 
Seottish friend’s F istus ; ; but jtvaictoutets will 
scarcely become his disciples. With a remark or | Exagg disease, circumstances still remain- 
two then upon some miscellaneous ae we gh ing as before, becomes ent disease 
iss the stion, at least until som n t ut ceteris imparibus, circu 
champion of Spain acy, armed with inp stances having changed, aonad, is mitigated, dis- 
Eaa iedgo, shall ar pear: the plant returns to its original | its 
The Scottish ite ag now says, or een to say, | health. Suchis sa history of ‘the Ribston Emi 
ing pi 
h th cancer, 
or to be born blind, or to be scrofulous. Tom 
up totally different matters is to render 
argument impossible. We may as well be told 
extine of races is the result of 
xy, and that the Dodo has vanished from 
New Zealand because it degenerated, not because 
the natives ate it up. Why the Irish elk ceased 
to exist we do not know, but it will hardly's 
3 
keg aa ga Strasburgh 
throats lax 
the case our a W Sii probably 
thank us for declining pi re an rue 
pae mee only of prei m when 
cankered. 
ing, &e. 
Gini and is propagated in 
but is me degeneracy. 
The Scottish ate thinks that if 
aide ecay is te of the Ribston Pippin, it must be true 
of all other Apples, and ke cannot understand how 
ERN we cannot pass b 
unn made by our btan 
friend, 
ractical knowle 
ifference betwee 
wai 
shrubs or trees is Tati in the latter there is woody | „q 
this | f 
ins CONLE TERT. 
one hour; Age if tinged with Breen ar an hour 
rter, 
Hoon AQUILINA AN. ESCULENR 
Dr: Hoo having i incidentally s 
time since that t the British Pteris aq 
The r 
x wet is entirely in the 
the young fronds, when com hae poy are 
agrésabts esculent Bibar tE parcels bel ba 
med 
Saas to others name 
Th fronds should be cut as soon as they frst 
yee oe ee at the surface of e ground, and as low 
d when quite blanched, Dale 
an hour and a 
de the 
sightly saline flayou 
ver i when at all green, a somewhat 
Pha he atest eous flavour, not unlike T + of piety: 
requires some such Sauces ‘as are hag 
=p tiasa 
the plant is a v or even partially 
as in some 
p c 
y having been thrown over a mass of the 
oad or not - ik gti 
e The v 
to 
organs. Benjamin 
Botany. 
y Apostaxts (Discharge of Tiri ous fluids ja 7 
short account was given in 72 of an ulcered stateof 
the trunks of Firs, accompanied by a large discharge of 
resin, arising from their gro i pe vitae an imper- 
vious bottom, so that they were alternately waterlogged ue 
\S2 a and ctly dry, without poss ty of ee l 
a. Ps less hes X eas their root esr Rac e or nutriment, TRA 
cane now before u t specimens of similar affection 
be contended that the animal was the victim | fibre,” ane) T ees ing hantly whether ‘‘ wood be hows several Larch planter si ome | 
of degeneracy. That a race indeed may dis- | fibre "is ial o of whi A to ¢ ack Bip 4 pa: Prag l siog evidently eer pe : 
appear consequence of hereditary disease, atarnits ” "Not mie we ko of. As m his novel reang = : some per santa yh ei Some are oR 
intensified in each succeeding generation, is| distinction between biennials and trees, which i f brown loam w ith a subsoi avel, some aa 
„consistent with facts notorious to everybody. And wn, the ploughboy who has ever tried to | peat above coarse gravel, others on good y Soil, ame 
we cannot but wonder how any one should fail to/ bite a Turnip or Parsnip after it has run to seed | scme on the hi sch fe. All are affecta 
see how the loss of certain kinds of fruit trees is| must be rather gigaa at our friend’s statement, | equally, and there is no evidence to show that as ugh 1 
perfect] Teton Dippin upon wea aapna me pee at i is to say, pens to know what w oody soil is in form of concrete or eee l j 
à : e has been en as si re i this is sometimes the case where it is 20 suspected fit i q 
ae Qe of the fabrie in discussion. Let us The ottish Gardener further says = Afeira the extreme dga is vel.* The evil, patel j 
a e ascertained facts are with respect to that Pie han multipli ed by grafting a SORMI a the sp at commant, C Sa q 
n E variety. Thel last a the Florist | riously deficient in vigour. Had he skid that al pee” gap heal fy ars ago, ‘including begs ga speak with 
| tls its the had dim A see pga yas fated about 1707, le Boson are deficient in a > would |25 the trancheons are rather short ‘that in all tho 
ate of Yorkshire. Its — was | have astonished his readers, Yet, oe snc ketis ee oo ne the same tie -— 
come é i eches are propagated b; eile, tou the on in whi i ig 
Was Firmed, ee into me: pie ages and. ther it | thing is to say Noh Sa : d e na — of esata seo oy wr grey 
ae , when it e very much objects to our assertion that ‘‘ an | have exceeded tons ears, at | 
age of 128 — To what kind of neglect it Shed orch is but a wood under another name,” | ulcers r. The v of these 
: sufficiently shown by its ruin, | seeing no doubt that to. admit that papin pri pig is little distorted, whic 
of whi ich an clastic was given in the} would be gy e ground he has so long which is much discolour -roi 
rs Chronicle $ for 1844, pen 812, and which an saa defended. He must foel- that it is his | been developed msg ag except opo ie inal 
we reproduce, rom this tree, er from the | Malakoff. And nothing is more true. We did not | and sometimes the n w bark which has aes 
first, and thus uani, eae a very eee? ex say that all orchards are woods, or that all chr ree or four y cars agait 
situation,” as Mr. ABBOTT, the pos gardene rchards, id we assert, as he seems to | Which is some inches broad, is covered wi a 
at Ribston Park, now assures us, fruit after a time | think, that all garde wo s. What we did | ™ in turn ay OL eae E ies gens. p 
a gathered, and gewyn the excellence of its say is, that Oaks and other forest trees cultivated nnn es ag ids t died 
‘ a wood are perfectl analo t i i se 
tree could hardly haye been Tosa than ten years | cultivated in an pa A We i i: = Lae: pig oe 2 pr gps 
when it began to bear, and probably was twice | to impute a agg ake to the one than to the other. | and unless some fresh attack takes place 
those its constitution must | Whenever OWN assures us that the Oaks ripened that the sores will eventually D 
m bad , and | and Elms kefky dares under his eare are affli healthy growth and the evil "e 
e that of | by degeneracy, we shall think it necessary to r visible. In one case onl rage ae pa 
Eo eir sown in its ee sinned = on — re ai about Apple trees—but Le Hers the sore, the hrm m 
om developed, so t 
phn gre sons is aie K And now,” to borrow th ion of a graft and scion, in 
inereased 1, {ill at last healthy friend, “we trust we are dons with the subject as | Mimatural development at the 
in a few warmia controversy. We beg to thank him ie n irp myself point out asta asna 
at x pecan A this rok en hall course of it, cid we healt Be either from above bove oF from beneath, whee eak 
tu trees sorry that our is not suspected by ¢ vators ig 80! 
k in the year 1815 | pen has not been a guia oy tie oe lta A [eet This is a eiroumstance whieh x 
