pagated or 
oy opt as it has been ec 
breaking, an 
it does not dislike a ardi subsoi 
. and as 
ee ‘Sha After ee borne fruit for 
: ~ the ; of a Weeping 
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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
[SEPTEMBER 
summer Mre attracted s some, o attention, , I beg to 
inform on the even 
23 
vigour, and w on the 
ensuing week several ones bu 
uick for us; this wW 
t s ‘C 
first appearance € ar h ery hot summer 10 or 
11 years ago. it 4 Wanie that they breed 
in the sandy "ae which skirt the sea for seve oral 
miles ? ” 
e alarm seems to have been felt lest we 
the ies 
a Delgally i in 
DWAR 
Taio i in 1748, 
Donovan saw a live spec 
iinet ee bare A ‘boat 1809, 
me writer 
tells us that in 1797 he received radeon the then 
y “raphy: a true migrating Sage taken at 
Packi in Warwickshire CURTIS also 
states in the new part of the J ourn nal of the Royal | to 
Agricultural Society, * that this formidable insect 
occasionally visits t is country in autumn in sm 
quantities which are evidently stragglers from 
some continental swarm. The Nord indeed ane 
us that an immense cloud of these insects pass 
over Odessa on the 6th of th nt month, m a 
direction from the south-east to the north-west. A 
i m alig 
riously in 
as hi 
ds 
W aid. if it ‘eft peel 
g iu y young successors 
would speedily disappear from the same cause. 
ON THE ney id OF FRUIT TREES IN 1857. 
ppt om page 
sat ge re ae 
ost freely 
undergone ae various changes and 
= retained the 
nE é Diel, on the Pear stock, grafted 2 25 yea rs, 
planted 12 years ago in a light, rather free, alluv 
soil, with a compact, plian subsoil, at the 
5 feet below the oor i as a pyramidal half- 
standard, 35 feet h ears 400 ny sais nt has 
only produced half “that in for 10 years. This 
proves that the ta 
tock, upon 
ur or Sve: coe it is 
cies 
al ited in 
he agers end of a a 
aspect, it acquires a larger 
y- We have observed “this hitais 
even in the prese 
gard 
cularly at Brussels. he the present day hee te 
no | plan 
hardy, but more BE i and yielding 
fruit re better quality. 
aniste.—Three trees, one a half pyre on 
k, grafted 15 rS; another on the Pear 
a tall poste ete on 
any fruits as ap? formed cluste of 
extremities of the twigs. It is chiefly upon these that 
this variety ce its cg = a fog? must, by Seale 
much a ible 
The viziet hree 
a light moist on soil, and 
It requires to be 
such ait nsa large 
or a few 
mag. aor, as the be 
towards the i interior ior o the og ‘te 
well on the Pi 
this variety, are 
the fruit. menus ee of the Urbaniste fir: 
__ Msited in the garden Count Coloma at Mechlin, | pyramid, resem 
of the fin 
4 Urbaniste that is anywhere to be found. It is a 
e é bea ery. year 
uds 
e | above the fifth one, to which the shoot was first ‘hein 
depth: ‘of, 
sira 
are to be fo 
out Belgium, but more parti- a 
in i 
by pr ote exyually freel 
I 
img already we believe that we can 
S, 
the fruit, the 
fifth year from the 
tai ia three fruits from a 
bore five, and this 
in 1786. The original we a there now, and has | In th 
ast 80 years old. The ex- Daido ane n the Pear 
blo cn the G a k i 
least entivély distinct variety pridnoes e Quis è 
50 years old, and its keanaan ste over a yan of 60 | year after budding. 
eet in circu = is ry high i 
garden. Nea 
old garden one 
We hay 
by side grafting ol 
agin a wall with a west ede 
r stated the porte which has been nina 
s | 1856. every r aT 
da epen! e pru ania, which 
forked chore in 
shoot two-thirds 
= = tree is not touc 
ety is barren, or at test only a poo 
reproach is certainly deserved not by the tree, 
of attention ma incapacity display 
uit, as large as that of the Mts 
he butte ery pao esh o A 
vinous juice is of Re mo 
ually aa in eurt ak 
r bearer, but 
pat by 
Decem 
seventh Bigs bie first js fruit 
APA than th receding, mi 
h of Beurré 
i ‘that the Pom 
in September last believed tha 
In conclusion, as. well for the fete of the t 
properly managed, as for the excellence of the ‘fruit, the | on n the Pear s 
Lag deserves to be propagated and cultivated in | and still 
ar as 
7 3. ‘Conseiller de la Cowr.—This name was intended | rate ity N . Ag 
designate M. Ti ore Van mer R barrister in | an east or we the t comes ne 
the Court of Apia as sels. Van Mons Lagan the Calebasse Bose against a wall, Van 
this variety to be the ba of those raised by him, and | Clere, or Poir Marum of Y; 
he therefore named it after his son. It is the ‘Gout the same tim 
Ma eines es and sig variety that eed be renee n 
I grow, for rhesi and exa rs in my own gar 
tion, 1 D pias = ini S f stocks, and in different 
na and situation as. pa bg it influences the rasan 
le n the Quince, by its vigour. It requires to be gro 
as a <n half s standard, or still better, as a tall star idard, te 
or five years’ 8’ growth. or clay 
n ag aiala mode of | Diii bek 2 o 
1e 
| 
condary | on the Pear stock. J. 
end of Ma nnin (To G continued.) = 
n | buds, and breaking, in the end of July, at tw eS 
PREPARATION OF eis FOR 
B 
y J. Dantina, Forester, Ochterlayy. 
ga fo PERE on the prepa dil 
In the, beginning of March the leading shoots are 
runed so In 
| for Ht eer A ae state them, in the — 
| , Clearing 
ch 
as to leave seven or eight buds, and 10 on 
the ste oh indik Ev ey year at the Sagacuing of ts 
_ arian over-luxuriant avie i 
n short, all useless 
these i instructions 
a large pyram oe ca d wi 
fod e years’ cultu If, on the contrary, the tree is sb 
ected to inandadesbe’ mutilation, shoots and burr 1. Clea 
p i crow wd of s spray will be „produced instead. “of rae which ae iai been n used f 
fruit. H Hia thus that we had ror gar der i tI the 
a magnifi IE which in 12 of thos | yoni ki s if left u 
hee ay might a prod abundant ¢ nore of exellent nt |] i =. Te ‘ged other coarse ligneous 
At present a 
at least 60 good Pea kn nown, t 
al | variety is nearly as Tirgo ee quit a aiin me as 
of the Marie Tor uise. It is afer ally matta and buttery 
and oh vinous juice has a higher flavour oe an igras A p 
| the Marie Louise, which ripe nsa month e 
o be one of our best modern so re The Con 
veces de la Cour, which first bore Reg in ae experi- 
ns of Louy ain 30 years ago, is now gene- 
ved, that 
e fruit of this A development c of the t 
ha 
as 
55 
a, 
| of sods a 
vi not pae ms Hea 
tem of ae ne Fa pursu 
of barreness, but 
Pear th serv ahai ted in jaria so much as | 
this, either on pa ne Quine stock as a low or half stan 
n 
n be affo red pr m - lanted as a tall stan 
ay 
the Pear stock in the ard h bar 
not t suficiently hardy for the English soil and ¢ te; ground is altogether l : 
ethan’ cultivation of the Pear tree mus E te] peers therefore be taken to remove them 
oned. and any necessary expense M amount of 
4. Comte de Flandres.—On another occasion we de- will be amply repaid in the penri ames 
ic ; ed in the m ' 
pyramid, not more than 12 or 13 years old. This y 
it has at _— 50 Pears on it. neous 
5. Kirtu é Clairge eau. = can only | reiterate what I 
have 
of tag varity, both on the Pear and on the Quince stock. 
By this time, I Ler ges ought to be no doubt as ber i 
its qualities in Eng ven in re ot ores "of the m 
circumspect am my garden I observe more 
than 100 fine fraita on Poy fre Ay basali. I remarked wood, and m 
that tall standards, two or three years, and trees 
budded on the Quince stock only three or four years i 
have borne fruit in the nurseries. , Soul. 
6. Leopo 
first bore fruit. was sent ou 
foliage. On the ear stock it ‘ton 
resembling a small Italian Poplar in miniature. | 
‘er damage 
