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I' Hi! GARDENERS* CHllOMCIE. 



to a roajsiatic *e» 



I* MOttftivb* of alt 



gll^jllssll **• 



to* among tb*0 »IC **° * 



m or few Umai the h*.«ht of the 



pnntini? piw »« <H*J 'red, 

 latton of Bible*, which led t the 



m. I 





to lite 



WeBi 



draw q oa a 



otfleion, »od * »• a yroyerttey 



I ffivtMr * lllWWrtfr P* n^H Of 90 Wilf Mb A 



ETTT^. oiv .ottld be ••flWetit to floor that «ni. I .oo4 



» eetael peelmeti c fcta bum*, -at, b«t 

 _ accurate rawlc of U, from which he lr. 

 interna barfwpWdU* isgrma to which et tanllr ^ ' 

 ~~~" tie vary Hy expiate*, a dlafpip "■P**** 11 ,""* * 



ftttfewt Mich, ewlSMO year* old, which had beeo 

 of 1 foot to I yacew For th* parpoee ef a* 



he bad rted the drawiof a 



_* !•©«!. **et*Wthatranlc anda 



e jrlicanttc % the ttee dwarM the fa 



te an aopearaeee like that of a wal aia g etk lr , and the ma n air 



* Beoteh rir tpd ia Oai ton « th* mm mm; bst , 



'?■ f both -tank into the appear anee of i elfnineant 

 ihrahe iiawrewer, ha tab he eye had a etftcal 



ha imi-TTf kmmAMB, end he had adopted 

 0f affBpari Ua taaU draw a •katehee of the 



talleat buikU^ in the a i***^, ' ' J 2?m? iLffPZi 



Bt. « at Raw SaHaeWy CethedreJ aa £■§ .a 



T,i„ j trr *oa!d, hew«T*r. aee that the W ellhkftoaia left 

 ft. hiara far b-Wmi i it wm «*» Jtat hifher tha SaJhiburjr 

 Ca eata the hfeheet lla* '« Erj»lend; It contented the 



•aim with ^m " bat a amaU «-^ **?*• 



FynauM then cwewavtw It with drawing* of oltar M, 



_1 II nililiiii h« said, the rum tree appeared only Uka a 

 Sewar ( ftiaeTtaa «proe» r like a er, and ar«i the famed 



C*3ar ef Lekaaoa © a boah. To cotirey a more perfect 



Idem of im aetealehraf etat, be rtUted eertral anecd ?** cooeet 

 top; aathad by which th.ee tree* waft fella* u . 1. 



waa to hore then th i aa«l tnvMsfh with I m me nee r 



lit f< * ■♦treig wind to complete th* work He 

 ltd therreat . law* which Attended the fall, and mo 



>rMeeeaete rav«tlw on betmebnefc rode a 

 i of acta >f the felled tree*, to a dlatanee of Marty a 

 y» fleoa the hotkw trunk* of theec tree*, he 



tdhaveaerrad for amaller tabee of t Uritannla 



l jnt for redrwey wm tre e t D T* . ft ibaj 

 MaV« over a etream. they bad only te | >t one ot 

 ^eeonthebft. end >ea It waa fnlh en, fell it ho ae 

 la rear eea b*r *1 <{ *. ■ n ' 1 f keve would be a bntlfce 



already mad> :ty In the wey waa ie which 



h* would eoafcaa waa rather a atmng objection- that they would 

 bare to wa * '"year* before the tree had matured Itself, 



that belaf th • it* full growth. 



(Kan*. *n lie then dire* *n' ^peci 



an of tbe bart '&• w.-iim«toma, *\ .^u be s'tadMaJ yaai 



whleb was of a iir th ii- aalc! bad a corn- 



Are ad |ra^ r rth a itamell. Ho related an 



ana* clewer praetttloaer In tbe land of Harnnm, 



where be ea there were men alwaya ready to turn an honeet or 

 diaboeieet penny, who ttr «ed OM of these trMS of Its bark, ar. 



)en *rk toget »«1 produced an actual representa- 



tion ef the tt i* » a, and made a show it In Sen Francis 



fur ic it Inine with % flaaofoftj and earpeti, and reoarrios 



rtte lit. io Interior of one of then tree*, he said, would 



already be ranarked, that botanists frequently gave the name 

 airseiay, nu J*™/*^-; ^^, tes #halr ^ iACOVe ries. He men- 



and 



Hon. 



tbe 



hem 



aai I 



» ^ 







m area large ei 

 1 ea Virrag, and all 



war. Ala about that tin 



and soon Mh>w»-d hv the cU ■ ■■ — .. 1A>K 



Sfornaiion At tbe ttee of that erent, c the 16th 



l he InVgreen old age, and so t continued 



SlT£ tt ry arES. ^f^^^ l ^\ 



■ wned heeds, ami then this monarch *t,}^™™^T%;* 



fell before tbe axe 

 the tree was as y 



-^—wui irreat men to their dfaeorertoi 

 » •areTeTtoUmies in illustrati< and said that this bad 

 ™» carried out until for MM time past there bad scarcely been 

 a family of note which had not fur ,hed a name for some i plan t. 

 IlnUt strangely happened that in th particular the G reat Duke 

 had beerTomitted. Staboot the time that we lost our great 

 man* tbe great tree was disooTered : and a specimen waa enbrmtted 

 to pWeeSfLindley, who, finding that K belonged to a new 

 genus, proceeded to name it, select! or that P«*^^ ltt «« 

 the great Duke, ie read the dedication as made by the Pro- 

 fessor, which concluded by saying that the most appropnate 

 name for the greatest tree was the title of our greatest man and. 

 therefore, it should be henceforth known as Wellingtonia 

 n. This was not the first occasion, he said, that \\ ellington 

 and giant had been coupled together ; and he amused the audience 

 by rending a French nursery rhyme, done into English by 

 ;- Walter Scott, with which, during the time of the Peninsular 

 war French nurses frightened re fraetory children into sleep, by 

 telltog them that "(• ' V* Ellington might come that way. &c. 

 He raannei to become nrious, he did not know if we should 

 not hare > go to war with America about this choice of name. 

 He read an extract from an article in the California Farmer, in 

 whlcb Dr. Wtoilow, writing on this subject, complained vehe- 

 mently of an I ,'lish name having been given to an American 

 tree, and characterised it as indicating scientific arrogance and 

 indelicacy, to select the name of Wellington as that of the greatest 

 of trees, when the name of Washington would have been in 

 every way more suitable. 'Laughter.) And the doctor, in mag- 

 nlloquent language, propoeed that the name of the tree should be 

 c and it should henceforth be called * Washingtonia 



I re observed that both law and equity, however, 

 were against the doctor— equity, because the Americans were at 

 full liberty to have discoven the tree themselves, if they could, 

 and to have named it after Washing », if they chose ; and they 



were now at liberty to discover, if they could, a tree still more 

 maguiiteent, and might designate that by the name of then reat 

 f ler. ( Laugh t<>r and renewed applause.) P.otanical law was 

 also against hii for It was a prin le established by scientific 

 men t for their own convei that, unless it could lie shown 



that the discoverer was wrong as regarded the structure of a 

 plant or tree, the name that he had given to it would continue to 

 designate the ud of time. He relet- some amusing in- 



stances. In which this cireaaMtance had been made se of by 

 botanists -r t gratification of envy, and otherwise. He would 

 now proceed, ho said, to speak briefly of the " great m " himself, 

 ncluded this portion of the lecture by drawing a historical 

 parallel betwixt Wellington and Cflesar; and alter remarking 

 that our Duke was as great a warrior, as good a writer, and as 

 distinguished a statesman, he added that he wasanobler patriot, 

 and gave the precedence to Wellington, in that Caasar treacher- 

 ously assumed lie purple. He then proceeded to offer some 

 general reflections which the progreaa ot the >ct had 



auggeeted. They had seen, he remarked, that the existence of 

 t* of these tre*M would span the whole period of recorded history. 

 i?h to contain all the wives of Mr. The progenitor of the tree represented before them would have 



i> 



■ 



i hands of I •- Montee. who, by 



n upwards ot 



tbe way, was a resent in Sen Francesco. (Laugbt* He then must have been contemporary with the placing of the first man 



pointed a t entaoo to a diagra i u repmanting the lower portion of upon the earth, and witnessed the world in its primeval beauty. 



the trunk f a young WelliaMonla, abo 1000 years old! He The a* nd tree had scarcely arrived at middle age when our 



proceeded to explain the general characteristics of the tree, and !•■ r d descended upon the earth, and pointing to a small specimen 



placed It as a distinct genus between the I'm and the Juniper, before him, scarcely the length of his finger, he asked what 



having the cone no, though pr ionably smaller, and might bo the fate of that plant Already, as it were, the shadows 



the JbUage of the Ji per. It belonged, he said, to that meat of great coming events were falling around them. He concluded 



useful race i wo were indebted t l>eat or Fine, end for by a magnificent description of the new world which would 



masts for our ah I which also furnished main, pitch, tur- succeed when the earth emerged from its fiery baptism, and from 



pontine, and many other useful article*. It was a! d that which not one human being ueed be excluded. He desired them 



from the bark lass of trees the wretched Russian serfs not, like stiff-necked Israel in days of old, to think scorn of that 



obtained a sort of bark bread, wbkh. of neceasity, must lie a very p ^aant land: mid refuse to give credence unto the words of 

 d seahle Cemp I. And while on this topic, ho would trod. He concluded amid g and prolonged applause. 

 met n that a writ* an - Quarterly I: '\v says, that it Is j •' > beg to add that tha diagrams, by whi Mr.Bateman illns- 



Kby skilful mampulatt' to martial* re a respectable treted his lecture, were on a very large scale, and appeared to 

 >f a deal board, and as it was well known that sawdust have been executed In a first-rate manner. om the Stafford- 

 contain* I * e grains f albumen, it was possible that, as the i »h\r*. Sentinel, January 20, 1856. 



Writ* • y remarked bread and " boan might come to | [These diagranis have been very obligingly sent to 



V m • S tf^^*^ 1 - _ - i l. ._ _ — — ^_ ■ _ — - _ _ . I l__ il k W "11 



be syaaajneM terms. (T,a htar.) The Weliinc a, it would 



be seen, was rah; ti considerations of ntili and n 



Hon was a magr ament ■nilTnapr r Mliiiilat 



fte fitness of t name wh . had been given to thin tTee, be 

 reminded the audience that figures of trees were often embler 



■dnJr/Mad nSrHpfan io reprennl green m gaai men. He 

 dr i • tottaet m b at w ill the nana ha which the PnJn anl the 



Cedar were en d ir I'ible, and read a length v passage in 



illostrat i fp sekiel (chap, xxxl.) Then) authorities, ha 

 amid, wr l jMtffy the title of the lecture, although the v destroyed 

 ail laims to originaHty on that point, when it was seen that, 

 2-5 uturneago, Scriptural writers had compared the sreat rr^ 



with the great mai; .pplauae.} II hen ^iplatned the method 

 try which they a heageof the Welti iia, by court 



the number of ooncentric rings in the trunk, it having been 



Tuesday next.] 



Home Correspondence. 



Sweet-scented Camellia (see p. 54).— Would your 

 correspondent " Violet " inform me whether his sweet- 

 scented Camellia is a single or double variety ; if single 

 it is no great novelty, as I have a seedling which has 

 bloomed twice, and proved decidedly fragrant each 

 .,,,._ . - . , c time. To me the scent resemblesthat of a Wallflower, 



theproeea> reetoratiOB and growth uking place annually in llvacmt "' lfc « a large single vanety, and bloomed 



the veptable kingdom, by the circulation oi the sap. which first three years ago. Being anxious to get a double 



arrive at the raawlnaWmer ™*>* kind poan»ing themme property, I impregnated it with 



' mrb0W * 1 «»^^eh double var ieties and obtained seeds, plants from three 



and 



No. 1 



1. related to what they might term 



net dated her proceedings in the egetable ~^ w , —■-.♦.., - * 



whir-h was at timea nnfni in rbnking tbe vagarin of anti- of which bloomed last year at two years old. 



q K, ar VT At U *> ^ *?" \ n w ! noh nAtttfiate nad been was double, but it had no scent ; No. 2 was sinele and 



\i T^TJaX: 7^7^&TSi 1 ^ l n 8Cent and sba ^ re - mbk *• Parent fthe'd 



r the walla. p *e the ronrectana of tbe ' was 8U1 g le > bnt without any scent. Last year the mother 

 pie by which they thus measured the existence of trees, he plant bloomed again, but I was not fortunate enough to 



t^&ftiltt&AlSZAS: 1 ™?' -^ V from that or the young s^ 

 ■nana • b the late when it wns planted by a I mat wvanrnt 8cente<l OIlf> ' R* -• It 18 full of buds this year, and 

 of the estate. h»: minted the concentric circles, and found that appears to be a very free bloomer : but I shall not be 



»«tom», »nd by » diagnun on which spaces were marked J** 1 *^; n violet's' plant possesses these qualities, it 

 repnfamtir.:: each 100 rings, which he said were found to exist in ■ certainly a valuable acquisition. JohnHally Blackheath 



iaen <u the seats of 25 rings to the inch, and by c^ Datmra Ceralocaulm.— The hiehlv discinliup^ , n a 



«00 years. Ho obaerved to what a remote i "7^,1^1 « ' • i T - l, gam t0 massiD g nourish the stronger growing species grafted on w-J 

 ex,.,tonce of one of tbeM tree, led them. ! ™* arranging flowering p ants m beds, according to the nevertheless throw uo lateral shoots an! suckers, g 



w^ which he explatoed the diagrams, he harmony of co ours of their flowera aq » s ii ««, *i,„ • T- " csa ^ow up lateral snoots auu w* , _— « 

 waatet the thicknes. of that wSTK varie«tion of th Ali. « 1 Z *,!! ' .If * el I. "..* he i ira P hed Proposition appears to be that no stock ^ 



eould_aot be leaa than 3006 years. He observed bvwhat a rernoS ^l 81 ' *"*? of „ the P re8e nt time with regard to massing 



intin^ to the wand 

 aald, wham that tree _ 



t^H^H^.Z^ was ^ eQ M "important^ and had since "been 



-h^ESed to STnStT'S ^J** Pr8ieT,t ^P ° f ******* 



Wbaa it was about 2000 ^AftjAW 

 irarf certain that w>-* ♦*- — * •-*-- *^ 7 Araertca; for it 



it is still worthy of the notice of those who ^mayTeU^ 

 a border for the growth of mixed flowering p^ 

 alongside some favourite walk. The peculiar suit- 

 ableness of this Datura for the situation conj^ 

 in * a certain grotesqueness of stem and brancW 



!Ti:uMa^aggnia4on. (Loud »PPl*-"«f-) But I together with fine large funnel-shaped whitish flow*? 



ret v .out a name. Ther wouldbe aware ^^ expa nd late in the afternoon, thus giving variety 



and cheerfulness to the evening walk, whijst tho* 

 plants whose gay coloured flowers affect the sunlig^ 

 are imperceptibly closing to repose. Complaint h* 

 been made of the difficulty in getting the seeds to 

 vegetate. I have T grown this plant many years, and 

 have obtained a sufficient supply by letting it shed its 

 aeeds upon the ground in the autumn, and afterward 

 digging them in. The following spring when the weath* 

 set in warm many of the seeds vegetated, and when the 

 plants were sufficiently strong they were transplanted 

 with very little check. The seeds will lay in the ground 

 and retain their vitality for several years ; but I now would 

 more particularly recommend them to be gathered as 

 the seed-vessels burst. Let a flower-pot of sufficient 

 depth and width be filled with garden soil to within 

 4 or 5 inches of the top, on which spread a thick layer 

 of the seed ; then fill the pot with the soil, place it in a 

 cold frame and protect it from frost. About the be- 

 ginning of April stir the soil in the pot so that manj 

 of the seeds may be within one inch of the surface. 

 Place the pot in the shade in a house or frame, where 

 there is a moderate growing heat. If in a frame, 

 plunge the pot in the soil, and water sparingly. If 

 after a month or six weeks no plants appear, plunge the 

 pot to the rim in the open ground, there to remain 

 until late in the autumn, to be again taken up and put in 

 a frame, and in the spring following the same p 

 must be repeated. When the plants come up they 

 should be potted and treated as other tender annuals 

 are, until such time as the weather permits their beii^ 

 planted out. If under these conditions no seeds vege- 

 tate, the failure I apprehend must be attributed to the 

 seed not having been fertilised. James Falconer. 



Cure for Fleas. — I have not noticed any exact reply 

 to an inquiry that appeared in your pages some few 

 weeks ago respecting some unknown plant reported to 

 possess the power of destroying fleas. I have met with 

 the following passage, which perhaps 'may satisfy the 

 inquirer :— ** Pire otou, an herb which is sold here 

 (Erzeroum) in powder (Anthemis rosea or carnea), 

 instantly kills fleas and other insects, and would be in. 

 valuable to travellers in warm weather." This passaa 

 occurs in Curzon's " Armenia*" Richard D. Ball, Ht& 

 field Heath, Winch field. [The same is said of our Chry. 

 santhemum leucanthemum, and other strong-scented 



Composite plants.] 



Broccoli— In a late number Mr. Sutton gives a list of 

 seeds of this useful vegetable, by which we may have it 

 from September till June, certainly quite long enouga 

 Mr. Dixon and others mention theirs as being super- 

 excellent in size, &c. What I want, being in the 

 situation of many of your readers, viz., my own 

 gardener, is a list of the best Broccolis, with the timei 

 to sow as well as reap, and I believe that any respectable 

 nurseryman who would take the trouble of advertising 

 packets of the really best kinds in succession at» 

 much per set, with times of sowing, would find it ansif* 

 well. N. 0. T. 



Grafted Rhododendrons. — The following remarks werc 

 penned before Messrs. Standish and Noble's paper it 

 p. 53 was published, and do not consequently apply to 

 them. The advocates of grafted Rhododendrons have 

 one and all adopted what appears to me a curious line a 

 defence, a species in fact of horticultural alibi) aw* * 

 very Irish one, viz., that they are, in fact, not grafM 

 because they speedily establish themselves on their own 

 roots. That is to say, that there is no real objection to 

 a grafted Rhododendron, because, if you plant it pro- 

 perly, in a year or two it becomes a self-rooted plant 

 They, in fact, plead guilty to my indictment, and p 

 call upon your readers to say " no true bill." I tbinkl 

 need hardly waste more words on this point. It*P" 

 pears that a grafted Rhododendron is considered by » 

 advocates a sort of provisional plant, a l^"*?? 

 cutting, or half-rooted layer, which, if you understand » 

 and treat it properly, will become all you desire. 1W| 

 I must confess when I buy plants I like them W»? 

 rooted, and not provisionally, or at least to know wW j 

 am buying, and if I have only elucidated this p<^ 

 think your readers will thank me for having raised ** 

 discussion. Mr. Fraser's remarks, however, raise * 

 many questions of wider bearing, I must beg room f<* 

 few observations on them. In the first place, ^^"^ 

 charges me with refuting myself, with " "P setti f£y 

 own theory," because I state that the stocks of g**^ 

 Rhododendrons, though inadequate, in my °P ulio ?^ 

 nourish the stronger growing species grafted on ttjg 



nAifAMik A L a! t _ i it i J ^-«**lrol*Q. *** 



jiii 



yean old by this date ; and, consequently, 



London by the ingenious and learned lecturer, and will 

 be exhibited at the Horticultural Society's meetinc on 



Society's meeting on 



variegation of the foliage of the less showy flowering 

 kinds, has excluded and comparatively thrown out of culti- 

 vation many of our perennial herbaceous plants, and 

 also very many annuals, wluch formerly were universally 

 grown. It is true so many good things have been intro- 

 duced of late years through the instrumentality of the 

 Horticultural Society in sending out collectors as well as 

 through the spirited enterprise of private individuals in 

 exploring the d.stant regions of the globe, that private 

 cultivators are compelled to make a very moderate 



selection from the many new and interesting nlants that 



K2*£^C«!i^i =3i£EE I we at P re « nt . Po®**- But whilst I .dmit'thrtaW 



with a species more luxuriant than itself will V^jL 



or budded **[ 



suckers. The Plum when grafted 



&**? 



the Apricot or Peach, the Paradise stock when g**£ 

 with a ertv^rr rmi^n- * «ple, and many other exar ?n! 



The stocks, though obfiow 



with a strong growing Apple, and many other 

 refute this suggestion. 



■trnflM of the New World, tl tree wouW ^ot fc™. 

 « monarch of all it wmwd.- That nwM^.'Kl SSL 



remain 



•f^rfitng European. M foot on the 



aid not long r 



SfiGSMSk'S SSSr a~% ! =£-!» h «.»» fi*5 .*■-- ktt-5 



an appliance of [ vation above many others which are now seldom 



seen 



of slower, smaller, and feebler growth than ^-SJ 

 do continually throw up suckers, as every 8*^5 

 knows. My statement is that plants having a B*^, 

 tendency to throw out lateral shoots or sucker^ 

 tinue to do so, though grafted with species m0 *"Lftjflg 

 riant than themselves, In other words, that ^j^» 

 does not change the nature or habit of the stocK, ^ 

 ever much it may modify the graft, and I apP^ ^ 

 vegetable physiologists to confirm or refute my 



