Aveust S, 1857.) 
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Paton t to their length at a given diameter ; and this} y VEGET ABLE “PATHOLOGY. No. CLXVIIL jand might be further north in the same e longituda if 
l —No. 
sort of tree aoe ms canes G kept c e tor the} 3828, ? gpa (Cypress Knees). We have peace d that CT ie pre ori a k M M of Maize has 
< mpr en e subject of the curi ies known 
sect to Pe thine mors sevir, | et the name of awa, which ocene on Coe runka of SPee in proportion as the knowledge, of the bet 
is shah to ug ie Meameliy oitan. Beech and other trees. Scarce curious are the hires an tho watw 1 lligent, 
Sre increase the shelter, perhaps improve the Korth Ar which are so common in the swamps of Sod ha durin wre tes tak MOAT contac wadle Onkyo 
A "but will at the same time certainly diminish | } rae America = the hese of the franks ree rather rg rd ie uce i re Pa x f Maize be — P, iiy ei 
tl ich appear on the tree in our own try pand er, even where it will not suco 
nychiers e Eeee beer ott te very ret situations, as on one planted at Sion, ii in ppt farther led to its trial 77 “the very limits pima 
tions i terdwobd: takii „parti eat every ich is never dry, by the side of a piece ater. “a ae aa h Arthur 
that the hardwood trees are in These m. the roots, whether superficial Young defined the lir its of Maize ripening by 
the falling of the nurses upon them, or by ys oe Sa ht ot | lino A fron congo th of the A i 
ma of the felled trees. Grea is often | a 004 on the surfack; or twice es much wh reget: mrges and. Strasbourg. Sinco then is 
yr a size sp wap rome one of t 3 
Se aire and where's hess ie mitrala othe United Staten“ Dupat or instance, Tas seen one Dits have advanced, fr, a distance of 90 longues 
drag to the n roads. are proverbially |? f a pooner 2} fet high, + om a iisko at the “ts | parallel t <t een BE antiy in i e i . 
EEE of more than A fine epig 4 À 4 
Sear ir ne ning yt ai Kow, whe AG Th Me nt el 
Sear of their progress; but as i is " na we give a figure ram & aceton by E Fiten. | ; thence the line between La Flèche and 
Bod to pdng a = E trees, it is the Baa Le Maas, under Soh MR ah ed i ba tarred 
no 
s to have them carried rough a Nassau; it is cultiva et ween 
men, nen, an if p poii le not allow a horse of any Heidelberg and kfort, and in the districtof Wetterau, 
ii to enter the plantation for that purpose in the centre of which stan rt-on-the-Maine. 
To the north-eastward the elevation of the 
= the course of two or three years after the first an obstacle, it reap on th ks of the 
thinning, ge plantation ought to be again gone iester in Gallicia, four miles from Zalescy xi, and in 
through. gen two or more all the district t is not vated 
examined 
ter the 
should 
lanted as nurses have been taken away, which may sr 
hen the plantation is from 25 to 30 year phein aot 
25 or 
Larches mercilessly cut do 
red =<. ae ae and u 
in ke oen n Oak n 
* This was 
e ire 
en where ornament, od Etim is the 
Scots Fi y Spruce, 
k deta from 
manent proceeded with | 
i senting. very oo thinig È the | 
es to bee ultimately the so o 
mevwared every Sharebee the plantation is | 
been 
v 
up to this age, v a 
ds be required. In ae 
com 
es of hardwood, an 
is now supp ed to be, should 
coach-buil 
gradual 
a ee 
to be sacrificed ere t 
of age a well-managed plantation, on a 
may have between 60 and 70 trees trees per 
t a crop of Oak judiciously thinned and other. 
he laying of it out. 
the Scottish Arbori- 
age 
d appear to make 
te is trata ng wae to the constant supply of 
oistu 
Chili, 
.| Valdivia. In North America it is grown 
and Franklin found it clad at Okai ow 
continent, by the Hud 
te are erica ie 
used in Ame 
racow, nor does it ripen at Lemberg ; the limit being 
Dirai r a of 
Gorloff it is grown at Poltava and 
Kharkof i in: South Russia (lat. 50°), ot Schouw fixes 
n the garde 
Ally y Maize advances 
further peste in eastern Russia, owing to the summer 
Pi and is less cultivated in Asia. Bunge states that 
EA ypbind ae ab a deai i ae 
san ears is culti In British 
w | burgh says that! it is cultivated in parts of tthe 
and 
various 
continent inet kiera as a reece but 
owhere wit experien as an extensive _ it 
s hence evident that its limits have not 
Br ng iar a latent ore say 
t Sion tr may be very various size, 
and on the trunks of trees far removed from wile; little 
f pr e 
they'd 
e effect at the sy time of 
citing i ‘the bases $3 as trees as grow 
themselves to swell out to enormous Dia. and in 
such situations, Tike bent they a 
| become hollow. attain ie times a Aad 
base, while the 
petted 
whic 
ond 8 Poet or more at the | 
some 
| into little bodies of a brilliant 
| loose peltate sca li 
| | Tazodium 
aeai 
coi, and displaying in every part a spiral 
arrangement of the woody fibres. It ete th fact to 
into a gnaur, and differs rather | 
th 
rs are remarkable for 
woody fibre 
from 
ich it grew. ry 
the c complication | of the arrangement of sop 
ive, which their surface is marked w 
bark, and i in the little Pig cher 
in less tha 
ere are no less 
growth, a ioone which 
identity of their mode of origin. M. i 
ban mentioned 
different centres 
to 
ON THE POLAR LIMITS OF MAIZE 
CULTIV. N. 
ATIO 
(From A. de Candolle’s Géographie Botanique.) 
Maize cultivation m a 
much higher antiquity than in Europe, the limits of its 
lat. 40°, in 
(lat. 54°), in the centre of the 
son’s Bay Company’s oi 
In Wi Europe Maize is grown in the Azores, 
satisfactory, 
oe not obtain a a in time for the first incursio 
y If I had made such aiir 
saved 
springing 
ession A banit, from a stout wets aes ad 
No | Aphis pa 
of application 
of arise 
e 
e the not 
to my mind o erican origi 
the limits of its aiam cultivation as a 
considered to be— 
South Chili .. ve .. 
Interior of North America .. oe 
Europe: Vendée ‘3 oF Sa 
aris 
Coblentz .. 
Bukovina .. è N +. 
a sy oa at ws 
eyond these limits, gets are ascertained with pre- 
cision in Europe on i 
over parts of whic 3 
with bee — de “nt ing on the soil, exposure, 
em va e this, gain, Maize m: 
ill be | ns A but only as a + hidio 
__ TRADE MEMORANDA. 
Manchester. 
GEORGE Drcxews, of Commercial Street, Manchester. 
e Corresponden . ; 
d Powder.—I have ae te 
this pome on Peach trees on walls. a 
experimen so much so that I cs a 
in the spring. 
contact with the 
equally Heras may er 
beget wit D is the best method of treating 
