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a GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
| Jory 18, 1857. f 
South of 
cultivated in Italy and elsewh 
used on Palm Sunday i in Romish phir sgn 
introduced it largely into Spain and Sic 
of the land of their birth. Plants © cultivated for thet 
e | ha i 
One of the most simple cases is that whic 
e 
r the | tio 
even to gue ss at the cause of this curious affection, 
much less : to suggest meat reme 
also may 
he eferred those cases 
e cellular a 
bursts thro the 
acquires an abnormal 
hreads, warts 
mon in the carpels of Apples, the inner surface of Bian 
is often cracked, with white tufts projecting into 
Saif resembling closely some mo for as they 
metimes tak 
uman in 
gardens, has a 
culture, although with les 
y prese 
and at a proper depth — conditions almost the opgdto. of 
those to which they eei in as ae pol nature. 
If the seed 
surface presents but 
walls of which 
hird case has 
ed Grapes, in hich m some un- 
known cause.a cavity exists at the base of the ee 
The greater part of the cellular pon in these w: 
localities 
delicate plants wens young are protected by 
and in less favourable climates even ei . fully 
are shel Thus the 
age of South Russia bury the 
ine shoots to protect them from 
and elsewhere the Fig 
ed during 
n 
of & any to be modifi 
t of their ‘eae by 
investi- 
of the divit: 
however, were forced into an abiria growth resem- 
me 
species are ag adapted for such purposes 
pee wild plants, becau eir limits are better known 
more easily veri 
athe plants selected are Barley, Maize, the Grape, le 
ce: 
Vine, and Date. 
i (To be continued.) 
oe PATHOLOGY.—No. CLXVI. 
Excessive ar ibe 
very curious case of 5 of ais the > 
-has lately been forwarded to ailh m may be classed 
under the a aah th seer aa e have 
description of the malady, which 
iari Sacra marked that ; it cannot fail to be 
terminal shoots of _ precoding 
year are apparently i in their normal condition. At least 
no difference is either in e itel or 
-in structure, but some of Nore shoots, whether arising 
from a terminal or a 
appearance with a 
genus 
a res 
| Hopie cells saat. 
ned | In 
the ainly 
and all require further study. Notwi 
to arrive a owle ae “of their 
trade, Ihave never completely satisfied myself about 
them. e productions known und oe th, name of 
Eri ineum, and which by By cod authors 
ibed as Fungi, are mere hypertrophies of the external 
cells of the leaves. th pn Vine a many other plants 
the patches o! a considerable portion of the 
eave but they do not seem to affect the karoe of the 
E ants on which a are developed, and rincipally 
teresting for singular forms aiad the hyper- 
shall reco 
our next still stranger 
| WA Craven ga of tissue. pites riike clopments it should 
be observed, can only be exp: “ache ia es free from 
be com compared \ 
isle hotaracof witch sean Moskof these from thet 
are less go gouty, mon in which the cuticle retains its 
i Sa — live the winter, and produce cous 
ormed, an 
for the dense coat of oie eee with h which 
eter betwi 
Es action of the external a a very i mála atmo- 
re. = the air is ie either a mr Saar r 
eee or where decomposition does 
chemical — takes ae ‘iain the t ical 
impervious to moisture 
l sith a saad hypertrophy sometimes takes old I belie 
confined ponr if not entirely to the die great storm Hy January, ft but 1 et, ty 
there traces of fungi, | that I was at Ribston Park, which was about o years 
. some of those reduced | ago, there was a young growing in the place, 
by authors to | which I understood to be a sucker from the root of the 
; awe ower: it had borne Ap of 
kind. With -respect to -= fruit you 
ardly done ar gi to your wo aat ae 
scarcely a good garden in Yorks hire without > 
two Ribston Pree trees in perfect health, ar 
good crops of perfect fruit every year. These 
alls, but i in the orchard at the 
ood 
tally pot worth 
guing the T of the 
of species or varieties of plan 
an believe that we eiin on crite from e 
to show that they wi Individua nstantly 
appear with such a apik conatitatien that they will not 
grow, ry me ne , the 
Gloire de France, is not a bad instance of a constitution 
of this kind: but respecting the p, Se question, of 
e weari _of species, or rather the 
laws which regulate 
te probably but a small one in the li 
species, T therefore, the etparte of a few 
n hing from whi 
e 
be produced by cultivation, are as 
pecies are, and we have r- rig say that 
RI AOTEA have not arisen from the w 
laws which have A c those varieties; Bose are in fact 
utterly ee as yet upon this subject. © W. 
Strickla 
Lucombe Oak.—Asit is ea aor few only of this 
hybrid Oak have yet been imber trees, there 
may b 
in the details which I se 
only remaining out 
the et had Enipo more than 30 years 
Total height from g ground . és 
4 feet 2 inches ‘by aa iy 
1 feet oc i 
very raaka in the 
soil of Cornwall are unfay rer 
S — foot of dry bark of Lucombe, taken from ste 
he trunk, weighs 
1 sedate foot of dry bark of English Oak, taken | 
from 2 trun 
2y 
f Lucombe 16 inches long, 21 ne ; 
Sin girth ct bo 
The bark of this Lacombe cr “nothing of the Cok 
character ascri j y i 
boretam, vol. iii, 1854, but is very “ fatty,” e 
it, i.e. it con a large proportion pos =>! 
„ and having a much oother surface This 
that of the English Oak, has much less waste. 
remark applies eq the bark of the mer 
limbs. In justice to the timber I should observe 
ce co nm me from I 
mparison, 
likely to show favourably in this r 
jonal case, 
interested to know whether this is an © i 
or whether the parti roperties which Pin bee 
to be indicated as belonging uco ibe important 
cha ic of the i If so, it is very mysele 
that they should vo paot to sto bose en whether 
ignorant on the su ains to pares 
test 1 
own use, an 
e and season. 
strength. 
mes i the timber nd 
variations of temperat 
Hi 
Itr 
the timber has Aa s in proportion 
is I propose to 
i edie bf 
e 
