CRUSADER GERANIUM, 



THE GARDENERS' CHR( 



Possiblv Mr. Pakkk-V collared pipes may ] 

 impenetrable to roots ; perhaps some other coi 



to those points, we want experience, and time i 



irfcetterg' ©ftrtmtcie, 



7RDAY, AUGUST 4, 1849. 



1 hollows. It is evident that there 



within 6 inches of each other, in heavy land. 

 inches below the surface. One row was torn 

 with Parkks's collared pipes, the other with n 

 semi-cylinders, fitting very imperfectly at the ei 

 and edges. Over these a row of Willows v 

 planted. Upon examining them this morning \ 

 ground is found penetrated by their rootl far b. 1 

 the pipes, but no sign of roots is to be remarl 

 inside of either the one line or the other ; and, w] 

 is very remarkable, a root has reached the junct 

 of two semi-cvlinders without entering the drai 

 on the contrary, after reach im: the junction it i 



which have followed 

 junction right and left, and finally plunged into 

 '■■■■•■■ 



■ 

 i advanced, so tl 



' with all except 





i their interior, that water can I drain-pipes so long 

 ;his in gardens as well as farms, j support them, and 

 is by some, we might say by | lf the SGl1 chances 

 (gendered in the ! the neighbourhood 



the earth is moist enough tc 



it they only pass into drains 



.en they are ir 



luction a men 



; and inquiries have bee: 

 i men concerning the habits and j portion 



i^TTha^eV-.. ted" I The dl 7 



samples o! 



report by the Inspector of the Highland offt] 

 jroos mtter was found to have choked up pipes |fj ief g Board, dated Lochalsh, in Ross-shire, - - 



SttSfcSJ: estates that it has broken 



about; for there were no trees nearer 

 joining hedgerow, and the obstruction 

 the middle of a large field. In other 

 land has been found to have given rise 



trees have scarcely more power than 



s that have been observed are as likely 

 to weeds or Grasses, as to Ash trees or 



which had been detected were Ragwort' 

 retail, Coltsfoot, Docks, Thistles, as well 

 7 bushes, Elms, Poplars, Willows, and 



suspected ; but they a 

 their roots, if extend 



ltioned by Dr. Neii.l, where the 

 acobaea) had insinuated the point 

 . drain, and had then extended 

 to fill the drain completely for 

 l hardly need observe that it is 



kief, provided tl 



^-irainSl 0rS0tCp,u Th *"" '^ ""' m S •" ^; " , 



intelligent officer states t 

 out in the village whence his lettei 



spot where he first detected it in 1847 and in 1848. 

 " I showed it," says Captain Elliott, " to the ex- 

 cellent proprietor, who gave orders in my hearing 

 for them to be taken up and thrown into the sea. 

 His tenants, after I was gone South, induced him 

 to believe it was the effects of frost (from which 

 it was distinctly different, the leaf having a black 

 spot in the centre, and not frosted sdgat), and in 

 reply to the Secretary of the Highland Society, he 

 said it had entirely disappeared, and so it had ; I 

 found on my return not a plant left where I had 

 observed it ! 



■ I have only seen it here, and on a spot 10 miles 

 from here it exists ; but now it is very rife, and they 

 are making it disappear by cart-loads. There were 

 about 20 women and carts employed cutting them 

 rying them to-day. 

 re late, but I 

 Potatoes planted than for 

 p is unequal ; some very 

 t of bad seed) very shabby, 

 dependence on them very general." 



here alluded to, the bad effects of a safe Potato 

 harvest are already observable. The peasantry are 

 losing their industry, and trusting to the root of 

 idleness, while others, who had prepared tojemigrate, 

 have changed their minds. In illustration of tr,e 

 condition of these people, we may add that although 

 the herring fishery is more abundant than for 20 



(the stems) over and 1 

 "The cereal crops 

 There are many mon 

 several years. The c 

 good, a portion (the "" 



salt, barrels, or purchasers 



wilTnever do^fc 

 feed upon. 



ey never will find 



hey provide them- 



and industry ; and that they 



^nouT a fortnight before the earliest Scarlet 

 sived from Mr. Cuthill, of CamberweU, fruit 



t irarien* 



Prince Strawberry ] 



deenshire, and were culti 

 hill-lodge for four years ; 

 than any of the 



the public 



new to them, and that its good quaiil 

 we have described them to be, about 



I MASSED FLOWER-BEDS. 



tine art;' yet it wi! 



be adhered to, that 



