~ Ocroszr 24, 1857.1 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 725 
they reaped 4 good harvest at the confessional.” Further 
su plied in an extrac t from Mr. Mac ken- 
12th, 
or rather pieces of ice, were of an incredibl sion 
in shape, with sharp edges, p poy story tender 
plant within ieee re range. veral Vineyards more ex- 
than others were literal stripped bare of their 
foliage and aba Pa jai ately this terrific storm was 
local, its ravages onfin iy one district. Th 
pties who e the pass recorded in the book 
of Joshua, chap. x., sho hate: witnessed this storm. 
The mo ag peuo ous of the natives oa for some 
e 
quence of a gN r that a Ga, commis- 
TW. the earth 
er ov 
louder and louder, ollowed in rapid sue nion, while 
anie 
ene was, in truth, prek Pepe gra 
b 
s. e sc 
impressive, and no doubt par de in the minds of the dr 
x RETRA on m appearance of the 
e bee | unk nown or disregarded by those 
Sean! © 
ippers 
To dies. details m may be added a notice of the usual | s 
state of the weather, and of the customary rural opine’ 
i in the month of June: “The corn and 
hay harvest begins and ends with this ses and the 
gardener’s labour commences. Everything vege- 
table line requires irrigation, and ext the swe! has 
to be brought from a distance this work is tedious and 
ious, hee considerably reduces his profits. Tobacco 
atar now transplanted. ng sky is pure and 
“th barom eter seldom varies four-tenths, 
and 
3 Although the heat is great, the vot remaining near! 
16 hours above the mives ‘yet there is sufficient mois- 
month pleasa 
agreeable, and to good con utions it is one of the |1 
Ithies: i ear.” Mr. Mackenzie has 
y observations aes ~ last 19 years. 
George Lawson, Ph. D., Edinburgh, Oct. 12. 
ON THE sitio pen i i OF VINE 
CULTIV. TION. 
(From A. De Candolle’ hie Botanique.) 
Continued from p. 708. 
S facts regarding the retrogression of 
iat of Vine cultivation are peated in the pet 
f German: eyen 
80 
sype fenimen me that Grapes are not grown now 
pi ec there are ab iain after the 
ney which on ther 
To re to the peat limits of the Vine, there 
: e Vineyards in mes a (notwithstanding 
ha elevation of that country), in Moravia, and morn still 
n 
beyond aas eg- eastwards under the 48th degree 
the Bukovina where 
there ie area in favourable localities, but there 
are none aes aiey Kiew Grapes ripen badly and in 
e being made. Descending the 
; Dniester, ~ "first Vines are met with at Mohilow under 
Axais 
toTcherkask. On the V it is cultivated at Sarepta, 
lat, 483°, and probably as far north as 
ra Asia Vine e grown here in hi 
Populous mor Humboldt mentions their rae 
t. 43°), and at Lhassa in 29° 
and ova of the mountain sais ¢ in a 
de nia continent are an evident obstacle to this 
even as far north as Gouan-gou, beyond | its 
he saw no Yew but ti the pianta we were every- | 
obi , being viewed in front. Bees, owing to the gr 
ose | original wild Grape of = nee: of which 1500 acres are | with which they can reach the copious. nectar 
tithe left 
t omb the tree could not have begun to encroach upon| -Honfleur 
where cov with manure during the winter, the; ment, the plant would probably at that time have been 
cold often deseen nding to 5° Fahr. cut down S. mutilated. =F Topham, Wolverhampton, 
In North America, at least in the United States, the Sept. 2 
Vitis sage sp» angie yvir It was first attempted = and Fertilisation of Kidney Beans.—Mr. Swayne 
by ks he Ohio, lat, 39°, but the |in in the 5th vole of the Horticultural Transactions 
: 
Again, a Mr. Longworth, of Ohio, pu a his mielie f 
for 30 years with remarkable zeal but no success, and it arh like a Pomeni hom to cna “04 ee Pr 
ecessary to use 
from 
cultivated in Ohio, o 400 in eens and about eft side, invariably stand on the left wing- 
inna uri, Indiana, and Ohio. These Vineyards | petal; their weight and the effort of suck ing depresses 
are increasing and profitable. this petal, which, for its attachment s the keel-petal, 
In N d Californ nia the climate is more causes the pistil to protrude. On the pistil beneath 
igenye asd the E ca «ge Vine is cultivated, but it|the stigma there is a brush o pe airs, which 
has not been introduced into the more recent settle- | when the pistil is moved backwards and forwards, 
men fn ake itis is impossible to say what its future limits sweeps the pollen already shed out of the tubular and 
may be i in Ore curled ner the and phoan ushes it on to the 
In the southern hemisphere the 'Vine thrives in stigma. I have repeatedly tried this by gently soi 
r 
Chili, and excellent wine is made to the east of the | the wing petals of a lately tec flower. Hence 
chain of the ded at Mendoza, Saint Juan, and La | movement of the pistil indirectly caused by the os 
Rioja, but its southern limit is not known. Schouw | would appear to aid in the fertilisation of 4 flower by 
mentions the Vine “ Conception under fu “ise degree. | its own pollen; but besides this, pollen from Lay other 
r Ti y id Ha 
ty uced at the 
Cape of Good Hope: th at of New So ath iy resembles | right we of the head and body of the at and this 
the wines of the banks of the Loire; and in general the | can sea: fail occasionally to be left on the humid 
y climate and light soils of Australia are well adapted stigma, quite ojom to g an on ee left side, the bees 
to Vine cultivation. That of Tasmania is too humid. invariably ir their scis. Believing that the 
nthe above excellent resumé the extensive Vine | brush on the sti its backward and forwar curling 
cultivation of the North W her Himalayas, Affghan- | movement stant 
, and Persia is not m oned, pes rt cat. alighting of the ey on the same canis were not acci. 
vation at Lhassa is open t pers uc ae the | dental coincidences, but were connected with, aan 
only Europeans Mier have visited Lhassa, make nts allu- | necessary to, the fertilisation of the rma I examine 
sion to it; and the testimony of recent Himalayan | the flowers just be eir expansion. The pollen 
pi serait ube sars questioned ‘the Tibetans upon the | then already sh bàt from its position just beneat 
e climate is much too | the stigma, and from its coherence, I doubt bem 
tarpe pey arid. ap could get on the : 
a, without some ; 
wing ; and I farther doubt Poca any move 
ment, which the wind might cause, would suffice. I ma, 
e Correspondence. add that all which I have ie described occur 
Wood peng iy the descending Sap.—The ac in a lesser degree with Lathyrus grandiflorus. AT 
panying drawing was made in the shecrehsied of Kir rk test the agency of the bees, I put on three occa 
- ee 
ERRU 
ntact wi eIl 
stone, accidentally affords a good example of the depo- | half I daily vel the left wing-petal, exactly as a | 
sition of wood by the descending sap. The fiuid| would have done whilst oe Not one of the un- 
siege ing through the central portion of the tree has | disturbed flowers set a pod, whereas the greater n 
met opposition to its course, but, d the | (but not all) of those which I ‘moved, a yp which were 
t fine pods 
wit am aware that way. "Tittle experi- 
” ment ought to have been repeated many times; an 
y be greatly nean, but, ay be < at ‘present 
lis, that if every 
we should not again see a on our Kidney 
Beans. es rig To us 
the meaning of Baaai gens on y the 
good arising from the e artificial hrtane f early 
Beans. I am also aston nished t he vatictibe gje the 
wn near 
they would have 
the stone aro respectively January 7, 10083 
November 21, 1311; hrei 3, 1836; which it 
dent that when the last’ tenant was ae to the 
entirely a 
this has 
felon.—I have 
; and had it done so to oy cae at eee ighing 18 lbs. 10 oz., which has bee pee 
as you would Cucum 
as it does within the iron railing of the place of inter-| jn the open 
