580 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. [Avavse 29,1550 
f is, as we know brought exposed to severe frost; but their winters suceeed | approved in France, namel 
erah ps dee pe meengi nd therefore extremely hot summers, which have the effect of| sulphur unmixed with oben 
searcely concerns the question before us. It is not | ripening the wood so thoro ughly as to render it Biren therefore, is passed by without mae al 
unlikely, however, that the prevailing and very | more capable of resisting cold than with jus under method was once highly co ed, b 
roper practice of clipping evergreens in June may | even the most favourable circumstances.’ with good effect in a large vineyard Bry. 
e le ini the ha 
eR ie should nee be depends, we conéeive, sy ths Sooieté py ental pour |’Industrie | another inhabitant of Margate, ms ; 
upon climate, it and the extent to which the abea y = parties who had made laudable efforts sulphide of calcium is at this day + 
r 
runing is ards o ; a 
p The Sect “of ‘all pruning must of necessity be to busted tte possibility of our making some observa- | we prefer on the whole the crude 
force into growth buds that would otherwise lie ag n the subject on a future occasion. It is other form of ra rag go. as the nee 
dormant, and if it is severe to cause excessive and | not however our intention to take upon ourselves har - the m ermanent, it 
rapid growth in consequence of the sap previously i invidious task of weighing ne papage prov ia u e of the a tro, of su 
directed to many outlets being concentrated upon | merits of me Pe arties to whom t ward has as been be applied so sero and. eo 
i ther to express our IS that some | they | 
und i i rit ha indeed be objected that tl tion of 
es which if unpruned | been passed over in silence. We presume that it | tions requires to be moore some i 
would haye been protected by their own foliage. | was not the intention of the French Government | that the first application hie 
his last circumstance is what renders pruning | to reward those who had simply studied, however not always preclude the nec 
such plants in midwinter inexpedient, for the | deeply, the characters of the plant which is heyoud oF even of a third ária 
ur rgreens ar 
on m 
quently demand all the Lane pe shelter with| Moun, AMICI, and PromLEY could have been over-| the award, though his exertio 
whioh they are nearly provided. Hence there | looked. Mont was the first to describe the pecu- | diffusion of knowledge respec 
can be no dou as a "general Aui their | liar suckers by which the threads of the parasite | Fr e been unremitted 
pruning A F, a place any | exhaust the juices of the plant, and Amicr and | commencement of the disease in ‘ 
one doubts it let him cut packer ai a soem of the | PLoMLEY, at the same time and independently of | Dr. C. MONTAGNE, if he was not thet i 
common Laurel in February. Should hard frost | each other, made the first step towards ascertaining attention to the subject in Franc 
follow he will be pretty sure to me i alarming | the multifarious phases assumed by the fruit, and te first to lay a desertion of fi the 
amount of deaths among the bran e has un- | these writers were followed, with their wonted skill, agricultural society,* his me no 
advisedly laid bare. The s me rest exactly | by the brothers TULASNE. Aa is one of thp best which has appeared: 
TEY great) There are however two persons who mastered |France, and he has tran ed the memoirs 
majority of cases. Doubtless his bushes may the subject as far as practical and successful treat- | Monn and BERKELEY with a ¥ 
escape; there may be no hard frosts, or he| ment go, before it had been even noticed by any of | accessible to his countrymen. — 
may be in a ee like Devonshire and Comwall the parties to whom the award has been na | thought that his aims 
where hard frosts in spring are unknown. Such | with perhaps a single exception. The mer erits of reward enough f oxen but if 
cases are, ee entirely aad lg Mr. TUCKER were Faboraa by Mr. BERKELEY in| should still peis “gt that Sus tad 
t whatever season the operation is performed | the name by which the fungus is universally | able memoir of Bouc HARDAT, which th 
it must be succeeded either anane A or ulti- | known, Oidium. Tuckeri, He was the very first effect a the divcnse; Of of 2050 varieties of Vine, 
mately by an excessive development of strong) who published any no tice on the subject, as we would have commanded the motio 
shoots. When this takes place in the spring such | have lately stated, and though in that notice which | doriiiiasfonebhe What however we: regn ms 
shoots have the whole summer before them in | appeared Oct. 2, 1847, in the ‘Gardeners’ Journal,” and what in our opinion is the most glaring 
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runing does iat ber n to appear much before the | has nee in this periodical, Nov. 27, 1847, that of grave regret that the judgment proumeti 
elle ae August, eg then grow at oriad ar TUCKER had c a: mpletely mastered the evil by | French scientific tribunal upon one Ain 
in the damp nights. of DA n winter the apinain of pik aes and lime water. This important applionnons of science er 
© comes they are watery, unripe, opty liable t to perish artiele is quoted in a every pamphlet which can ever engage ath bats oe 
outright under. the action of frost; or what is appear a on the subject i a tate and there- singularly open to animadversion., 2% 
much — orse to frost-bitten, so ‘at they soon = the vi E cou t be ignorant of urged in extenuation is. 
iseased, and produce incurably unhealthy | his meri It is true that dowats of brimstone looked the claims of their own coun pga 
A Þranehes in the Diois. summer. If he a are not seca of; but as this substance to been as those of others NR = wee 
a Lees 
_ dendrons and Az in August. ' We ies dew in hothouses, especially against Peach gi Pe | We learn that the Kuve of H 
: altogether obj Prr to pruning evergreens after | the peel i merit ha pms the parties who first charged Prof. de VRIESE of ayin with a wi 
: j suggeste a i 
ascertain i 
Here again, ho owever, circumstances may justify fitting ra When once the nature of the evil obje ort, 
wsi n me area pets tang Fins For was ascertained, and sulphur in one shape ee = agriculture there, with a we 
and then late pruning may be allowed. ar again, | It maa rs, ae very aeir ih in our nr n that pondent also informs us that 
‘winters may be so mild that shoots run no risk of | Mr. etr ought to have had a principal Sinan’ in is preparing in Aberdeen, to 
injury, however unripe they may be. But these | the award. Prof. Borer in the wr 
too are quite exceptional in these damp islands, to ar pa very time that Mr. ch was Mauritius ; be expense ye the 
which our remarks of course apply. making his experiments, Mr. Jonn Boys, an tion amon is friends, sided ts 
l putting the question en this form we mee eminent solicitor at Margate, was pate ea a far. by the Colinin Governm 
assumed that pruning really consists in removing | more extensive series of observations, and on a has been drawn up by 
se gpa Siggy more is er than dinning larger scale. His observations were nordn: sonal friend of the deceased. 
uperfiuo Ta en it matters little recorded from day to day, and though not pub- 
when the the work i is lone, 'and Tepak giri bably midsummer | te at the time, Mr. BERKELEY has given some 
or August are as good Lh eae count of them in an appendix to a translation) ae i 
is matter was not ER when the of Dr. LÉVEILLÉ’S memoir which appeared in| tyg Raph, ha Botanic 
nd Practice of Horticulture was written, | the Revue Horticole, 18 June 1851. : This transla- | Hookex'’s account of, this most | 
4s will be seen from the following extract, which | tion is contained in the sixth volume of the Journal the specimens of which, when 
.. relates to an argument in favour of autumn| of the Horticultural Society of London, and there- | Renee Street. by. “Messrs. 
Eeri “to which we have Tot here ady erted : — | fore was easily accessible to every one, nee NOt | ingariestbsed 
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likely to escape notice, as it contains several other, « We intimated, under 
for all Evergreens, It is Tes = notices of greater or less importance on the ije laurifolia, Lindl. Gah far, 
when a Rouergroene arè en t back in the Mr. Boys’ favourite remedy was, washing the intention’ shortly 
- pras : apa pot afeto by tia fei e flues when not of iron with black valila and | beautiful than that, ghg 
: to. ) during the whole winter, and to | quicklime mixed in equal quantities with water, or group as that ‘cal, 
render all the mutilated branches turgid with sap | or where made of iron with flowers of sulphur, redeem that: pledg 
against the return of spring; the consequence of | taking care not to ignite the mineral. He had 
sage is that every bud pushes with great vigour. | indeed es any other methods, and amongst’ 
It is also said that if pruning Evergreens is| them epplylag: sulphur to the leaves ; as this, | a 
delky ed till the spring, the removal of branches however, is not recorded especially, he can Only these seeds 
at 
with the Neha 
been concentrated in the trunk or stock, produces | on the record, and this s goes to show that he had inom an 
the effect of weakening the tree, and rendering its me uall successful in curing the malady, | plants during oes winter an 
ere thickly less certain. Possibly in mild | th tigh like Mr. To TUCKER 
ns, where there is no danger from severe pais itself which produced it, and there- formation, he informs 
i ut it is| fore, though not entitled to so high an | Lx the vol sD 
-| award, as 
Black Sea, the Pi from Tucker’s and Mr. Boys’ EL a 
Fike: kaai the coast | were complete in 1847, a period at, whi 
, and the Alaternus, Arbutus, nknown in Ma 
qd many. more, from similar | ever. tet Wis coeumsiontrs tore IARAA YA! Seles 
na x that such trees are sometimes | no iy eeatsents except that which had been ultimately 
