788 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. [Noven 21, ao" 
e mind led him to institute in Portugal, that; early spring. We Ley venture to translate | 
gentleman had the happiness to discover a method | Tourette Arabis gran 
i The other aes oe ae difficult. His aen: 
use of sulphur, that he saved not only all the} he himself h pink fi 
i i o those of many | Sa iting freee ri ee opards’ Babe he aad o ex- 
poor farmers who sought his instruction—and| plains by Doronicum caucaseum, a dwarf yellow |i 
unfortunately most of the Portuguese farmers are | flowered perennial. 
poor in the strictest sense wih. the word, the wealthy ane = er rn 
ppin 
of treating the Vine so successfully, without the 
ma 
z > cheap, harmless, and certain in its action, lator of CHEVREUIL 
aac om of Vineyards or the uguese Go-| tion, 
vernment could do which w aie be beyond the | obscurity he makes 4 darker, by omitti ng some of 
merits of its intelligent PRs that author’s wor 
_It seems as if the French Vine-growers had also pe eye = “example a translator referri 
ns hod of cure, independent of man e “ Honesty”, to Saxifra 
I y de Perse is Iberi 
srendering others. 
an aria | 
: 5 ejne h n the hea 
formation given us by a visitor to the neighbour- | paragraphs to which our ee he, as 
d of Bordeaux, where he spent two afternoons | good eee to of sar Mes Sines y this: 
as commencing, and where 
et with some small propri who were exces- 
sively interested about the question, He was sur- 
se e at sulphuring had not been so 
zenerally practised there, and was not supposed to} A 
be uniformly ful. One of them was prid A 
ayes his success, and the fine show of 
he average crop obtained before the disease was 
. The proprietor alluded to had not chosen 
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himse 
Grapes he had. (to which the visitor testifies), and 
i 
t 
known 
to sulphur at all, el attributed his success to the 
grea’ 
— he had b eae oo the bs Se ai 
working, ae ver 
certain bea slovenly Visan had a “4 ery 
diseased crop, and the best cared ones had gene- 
rally a good crop; m whether the neglect pro- 
moted the disease, or the disease induced the 
a, x! = no ate of judging—probably a 
little - From all our informan nt saw - 
ae 
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the ain w. in was less favourable to the deye- 3 
epig of the oidium and more so to that of the °| b 
| 
_ On "the other hand, persons. connected with | a report of thei 
B 
pra oo p 
it is sipheted that his produce turned out above! B. 
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NO CoN oe 
beh ea ber 
i) 
Doth ree 
WEY 
iflora. 
San ifraga crassifolia. 
low.—Doronicum canon: seum 
vite. aes again, and so on. 
r case, 
jito. Tberis sempervirens. 
atile. 
the other Melee cet of spring flowers suggested | t 
S, 
exa ample he § says that he asce Nw ere 
that the effect of his series of Fes) by experiment 
circle was muc ed isi ad 
mee beaut 
rd Dllowing : interesting sets which rike 
uctions is taken from my recent week ‘ dence 
at 2 hinese.’ 4 Rei 
“< Taking an pee breakfast, we ascended 
behind ‘the temple, and soo n reached the vale oe 
that . 
and history. H Vi 
place about or 15 miles distant the 
mountains, where the trees grew to a great size 
produced seeds annually in dance. It is called 
€ Fee-shoo’ by the a and its seeds are ina 
dry ce in all t shop Chinese towns, 
e consider od. valuable in cases of coughs, asthma, 
and frre of the lungs and ches ing very anxi 
S balt a any vor our wil et re have et them 
ould mel 
be 
valuabl 
a properly put on at the time when the first seize the present moment, a a very favour 
he 
— of the disease showed themselves, was in | for eh 
; bu a A s a 
Wlicte people had waited till the disease was na 
advanced, Be sulphur “did not check it and gave a DLOS ped places thus :—1. Yellow, violet, 
bad taste to the win ellow, and so on; 2. ze llo wail violet, white, 
These, stetenienta, ts, drawn u a4 a the reports of Yellow, an aes ite, violet, 
e objection Boon white 
possibly be taken, n, show that. although the cure for yellow 
‘Vine mildew in this country may be rega ried as Bisnis 
A 
se at denial, yet ‘that i in Wine districts, where | 
are different, the question is still 
ey ee fim its solution. 
A. CORRESPONDENT at Bagenal’s Town in Ire- 
land asks whether the plants recommended in 
ne woul 
such an ag be aane easily | 
ped at 
enough, yet strange to say we are stopped a 
very esto of aro a teply b by the ana Tourette, 
be? You 
caucasea. Here however we gain a clue to CHEV- | white, rose, 
forth caucasea isno other than A. alpina, | These se ent must slice, It has how- 
of w i under remembere cl 
any oeaqy 
c se 
9 © 
© 
"~ 
AsO IJ 
nd so 4: Yeltow, yokt vai white, 
w, and Ai oi 5. Violet, yellow, violet, white, 
As thus:—1. rol e sea ao ae 
seni, ‘ie white, and s 
white 
O rose 
white 
white 
O blue 
ro; What 
(0) 
a te die rag en for straight 
J, llow red, white 
w 
o yeken vidal t brown, white, red, an 
the se seque 
White ita, 
contrasts of 
. i | r | no doubt equally hardy, if not more 50, 
an annual now called Arabis verna, has er say), violet a 7 fo oh sage or orange sdgeà : ie 
enni 
p 
e name of A. “ever r be r 
during all the m 
oO procu 
considerable sum to one of the ers, prov. 
would go with us and act as our guide 
248 
| mountains. 
oth Oir fy led us over the highest ri oe which are 
— fully 3000 feet feres the Peepe of The 
ops of these moun are so cold in wt an that 
nothing but on eee vepri can exist; aome 
A ooking forms, such as the Bamboo, the Chusan 
plants e that kind met with at a lower 
teteg give place to wiry Grass, Gentians, Spiræas, 
and other > poma lants of a like — Here 
» | and there y we came upon fine examples 
© | of the Golden “Pine rre Spot Keng, growing s 
paa beic down on the mou Cephalotaxus 
mi and Cryptomeria prea ere also found st 
hee pier 
“<The jo wae was long and toilsome; padaan 
were on the top of the highest ance and at 
i se down and down until we were 
aan on a level with the sea. piped 
cenery, which were ever shifting as we ore =" alt 
area in the extreme, and richly reward e Sa 
our toil. While on the tops of the highest pe 
looked round upon barren pone ber 
us storm y Ee 
rage e Unk” 
.| got glimpses of the distant an Ft other times 
— far away to the east 
ed hro! 
n the 
Valle e the Nine r ir 
N oped fine of the new Yew were on Eo 
ee ta 
d at 
purchased nd 
satisfied with | ot eiaha the ‘ Valley of 
gen seeds 
` ae at onda 
Mr. Glendinning’s nursery at Chiswick, 
ere or wil no doubt forts an attrac 
d : 4 
ire. Beautiful as the two „species P are, they 
kemeny introduced from undonbte iter is 
ust yield the palm to Torreya grandis and wil thie 
the ripe fruit are before owe i, a 
foliage is like “that of the plan ewe 
under the name of Cree nian put the 
— will | prove, not ot to met re The leaves 
are finch ne linear, i 
so placed in two 
ort poin zt 
of enine leat aa Samat r 
