i es a 
u greatest pe 
kills the roots, which are then attacked by fungi, and | tion in the lake of Bonen where it sometimes weighs 
infection i ied rapidly i i of th in thi i exceeds 2 I 
trunk, which does ~ however prevent the develop- , lbs. And now for the tench. 2 most beautiful 
ings of gro 
i 1 
| Jour 1 1, , 1857] 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRON ICLE. 
ee 
, at one time greatly infested by , dep eposited are green, and the young are excluded between 
y of the trees | the 16th and 19th days. The flesh of mn yrs is 
n to believe that all these | white, fat, and agreeable to many pers s and” P. 
i ich is strengthened | particularly the part mnih the tail, but nt |In the 
dating from the same year, and by the | of its being luscious, soft, and difficult to digest it is of from 
. . . in 
that t may be » bur! 
therefore om = vdeo has done its worst that | very highly esteemed for its rieti delicacy,” much | has been 
the plantations m their health. It is most | resembles the eel, except that it is shorter and thicker. | it should rhe The ‘soil in which these trees 
unfortunate for the Yiu " that the Larch, which, if|The head is broad and flat; eyes small and lateral; | growing is not of superidr q 
uth j ith sh i 
bright red colour; said to be of slow growth, to live on which i 
oe last two winters has'kil 
us Ayacahuite, 16 pet preiar pat, 14 if — 
ana, 16 high. Thorp P. 
Sabini 
spring of 1839 Mr. Barronjof f Miar tige raised 
t: 
the different | recommended to those who ee weak stomachs. It is isl have never been in pots. I mentio 
“fate used as lard. i scarce 
it has made since April ra 
J. Rave Th 
insapo; these plants 
in s off, ie ghich it sa 
promising tree may present nothing save a hollow Genny, differing from the common coat in being of | made n: nbihiúg i in t height, Dut it yie 
e science of planting has not at present | the richest orange-yellow variegated with small black | tree notwithstandin 
i hin, t 
er. Th g I hav binid á shoot 
been sufficiently ieh tree as ome the origi n of spots, while the fins are thin, transparent, and of a young plant of Pinu s ‘calitirsin ca, “about 2or3 ae ai 
i tow ight b 
Igo 
belie: 
ay | are observed to swim in small shoals near the surface. se wing are the aimensonsof A. Pinca pom Cupressus 
Par 
ee reser uence for a new era in cultivation, and | How readily in these days of steamer and rail may | ocarpa at Gunne k, the seat of Baron 
i i house in i i i last 
which measure 8 feet 
es through and about the same in height. These 
bear hipoi ta bad ar eae where they 
S 
the case 
more ially from the fact that the importance of any hou Lon in this t R othschild. Both were se a oe BE ears 
the selection of ] seed of all kind d the | consignment all these fish and advertise them | October ; macrocarpa 
of inspecting the plantations from whence p ants | for sale, with a description of their habits and the par- | 18 feet through 
are derived are daily attracting more notice. ,M. J. B. | ticular localities for which eac species is ee and 11 
EN a ae a elie A AE EN Paes cannot be ber bes doubt but that the mens, well feathered to the 
of rivers, lakes, , &e., would gladly introduce the one of Wellingtonia gigantea, w 
Home Correspondenc diffe € varieties Aeri adding much to sport 
The Rose Isabella Gray.—Permit me oe ada a little | | id bias tó th. If the fish are not ‘ead per got a vont he pots W. Forsy 
to the history of this inter esting Rose. It was intro- | in sufficient quantity their spawn may, and I have read Viole 
duced by a miar three years ago, through my friend somewhere that in many parts of iti in ths “ary cannot eas e flowers, No do 
ad 
. t n | 
Aiu at 1 in The United States. The first con- nothing but hard mud. However, on return of the | have been unsui sun: ae badl 
signment went to the bottom of the ocean; a second Trains fish are observed in these very places, and it i is at a wron 
followed, and was attended with better success, supposed that the spawn remains dormant during the | blooming or cating the w 
: ; ithout | rou i e wea i 
S wi f 
mending it, as it had not bloomed here, and hundreds | moisture. Now if it will go through so rough an o 
tember, this looming, 
were sent to other customers who were dis to risk | as this, there -= be no wos it ger sir ose the until the end of the se ie ge at which time it 
b as 
get 
Violet Spore 
the issue. It appears hardy in constitution and | transit to England from with- cua acai earing se 
. of free growth (for description see Rose Catalogue, out i injury. i 18 ge nerally b balioa ‘that rene orien | den 
1856-57, p.19). On reading the report that there were th ~ d crm on h, was introduced by the monks; if so, 
two or three Miss Grays in circulati | o w 
vr 
may call it Isabella Gray, Miss Gray, or Miss Isabella naria; it is like recovering an old friend; and likewise | seeds. 
Gray, they are one and the same.” Th ho pur- to the Gardeners’ Chronicle for stating that the trees dried ever comes ye much after sowin 
more hardy. Iam pe 
to you; you to “E. W. S.” for his information regarding Pyrus coro- | of blighted seed-pod, co 
i ld 
g with your correspondent’s plants, which must either 
ntaining 
I don’t think t that Violet sood gathered 
ose who 
chased it here last year may therefore rely on Pho ‘can be so readily got. F. N., o be 
correctness of the va riety. William Paul, Nurseries, Connexion of Thunder and Lightning with Lunar | sand, ‘or earth, fot am 
t, Whe | Changes.—In a late Number I ventured to assert that | only come up at one time of the 
“Tree Pois i 
on the following cian case of tree poisoning. Our e ara that both frost, and thunder and lightning, are the 
eing eaten up by roes and rabbits, I applied more common a e changes, or rather at some of the | perish for an age, provi 
to the hard wooded a mixture of train oil and mice ne | changes, of the mn ar at the octants. The accom- surface. 
so kind as give me your advice the register of the weather at Chiswick bore me out in 
Rob ert Shackell, Bat 
ed it “ei not ee to the 
quite successful and in nt. The sam lre ying ae will show at a glance what is the number 
was innocen 
application to the Deodar Cedars and Austrian Pines of da: ays i on which thindl or ab sg vagie ias been observed | Cliff Hous 
seems to have killed d nearly the whole of them. Is there | at Chiswick pin the 1 sev The wide | the residence of Mrs. Prideaux, one of the most magni- 
any difference in the constitution of the different trees columns five day afm na mes 2, 3, or 4, | ficent specimens of this nen that has ever blossomed in 
which would render this probable ? F. | as the case may be: the av erage riran 2}, or ke conei? so:— | ba favoured ergo ht i hea Hes be Poe 
aloata.—There has recently been in flow A SS EaR? ve high water mark esplanade formed al 
seat of J Soe i near Kingsbridge, South Devon, the C 4 | ə ED 4 |o ls z| 23 years ago, the — aad then 6 or 7 years = 
ol , 1 
i is bentii vo iene | aoe 5 1 : 1 4 å : } | liarly beneficial ot cola as the leaves, which are 
T rbe fond in the air in the United King-| 1852 4 Fia l $ ii 1 |9 feet high, embrace a circum feet. 
dom, easured, at an early period of the by ayn: 42 1853 4 1 4 y flower stem od a height of 16 feet, and 
fet in height, w wi me d of branch 2658 4 1 3 1 as no i shoots from which the blossoms nd 
and its trunk is 4 feet in circumference. Dai w a ee re Pe have yet out, it is idered the 
latter part of April and the beginning of May its flowers | altitude bee fully developed will exceed those that — 
rendered it & mass of pale yellow. A Devonian. Total .. 12 | 6 | 19 4 | 16 6 i 9 i PAETAE i one soars 
New Kinds of oe has often struck me as f these porate p sa prow goa 
singular that althou new varieties of birds and In a a it will be noticed that there are two Saloombe, who has travelled m in i | 
are constan nthe ntroduced into England, our list mum new moon, and the first quarter. Of the 19 | 
oat er where I doubt not they might be easily | is ed as occurring at the period of ful 
to and they would form an admirable addition uring the years 18523, *4, or’5, simer es the number of 
the table in inland observed at new 
; po gro 
variti T, ge was drawn to ese | belonging 1 some Mbank, Esq., a 
of fishes should continue n early F not quite the same | on iylik stele or Sgro was observed about the 
as it has been occurred 
3 r many y 
wys Balmonia, third edition, 1832, the following change. And ee 18 6 days on which storms were 
observations occur 
counties. Since Engla nom 
has Protestant, the cultivation of fresh-water fish | moon was about four in each of ene years. In 1856 
been much neglected. The burbot, or lotte, bg this was recom reversed. Can the ee of the 
exists in some of the streams tribu he | solar spots have had anything to do with it? i 
a 
a3 ngel should not succeed in some of our ya aaa must be multiplied Wi 2. J. Park 
w 
whic ou Ji 10 feet broad 
fist ino ld do admirably ae pond or aquaria ; | to the pata be is an feet high and over 
of i a the Datiube, the 
e, e, Salcombe, n near oe adeila South Devo n, 
ears. In Sir Humphry time of new moon, within a os of the 
of t 
:—“ At Lintz, on the Danube, I could registered at the first quarter, no fewer “hain i suppo 
i nt i o 
t 
which I am sorry w e | rently pointing to new moon. No thunder or eee 
record 
Qu 
as | days on which the phe 
he perca, lucioperca, | compared with those of the 5-day 
Society will, I hope, tt etl of bjoined is the hei 
Socii ill, , attempt wore pe oboe etek joined is 
&. &e. Now ‘in to at "ei breadth of an Abies Pi in the 
m 
Ithorp Perrow, in 
lates, and likewise Hy the. golden the north of Yorkshire. This plant, irria is feathered : 
n 
glanis, which is found in the | last year’s growth. In the same grounds is 
growi 
ga, utiful s ! 
_ and other parts of Asia and| feet high and 9 feet broad. This plant was brought |t 
sometimes to the nae of 6 or | from the garden of Prince Woronzow, in the Crimea, 
T the weight of 300 Ibs. The head | by the late Lord Alvanley’s brother, and given to tabs 
shag te the body, thick and gu or form, | Augusta Millbank for the Pinetum here. The 
thick and short, ; | observes the | ance of the young growth is not unlike that of the Norfolk be just 
tga an Tis habits a slow | Island Pine, iertectty horion the branc re | in 
The ova when| closer and the tree very compact. The severe weather | way 
