354- Domestic Notices. — Scotland. 



his garden more than two years, has already gathered mulberries and wal- 

 nuts ; the latter are from considerable trees, which had borne in the nur- 

 sery before removal, and which were obtained from Harrison and Co. of 

 Brompton ; the former are from standard trees from Buchanan's nursery, 

 Camberwell, which contains by far the largest plants of this tree in the 

 trade ; many of them have borne fruit for two or three years, and when 

 removed to a private garden with care, will bear the first year. — A. S. 

 August 20. 



Removing large Fruit Trees. — Sir, As much diversity of opinion has 

 for a great while prevailed respecting the removing of large fruit trees, at 

 least after they have attained a considerable size, I herewith transmit you 

 four fruit from a Gansell Bergamot Pear, as part of the produce of a tree 

 that was removed by me about seven years since. It was at that time about 

 fifteen years old, in a very unhealthy state, and growing as a standard tree. 

 When I removed it, I divested it of all its branches, leaving it a bare pole. 

 I then planted it against an east wall, with no preparation but that of pud- 

 dling the soil well when planted. The third year after planting, it produced 

 40 fruit as fine as those now sent ; the next year, 150 ; the next year 100, 

 most of them larger than the present four ; and this year it has produced 

 60 of a similar size, and is still in a thriving condition. I may, perhaps, at 

 a future time, trouble you with some remarks on the pruning of pear trees. 

 I am, Sir, &c. — Wm. Moore. Green-Street House, East Ham, Oct. 20. 



Chloride of Lime, it is said, will destroy insects on trees, and prevent 

 effluvia from arising from vegetables or other matter in a state of decompo- 

 sition. It was used in France to preserve the bodies of those unfortunate 

 persons who had destroyed themselves, until owned by their friends. A 

 body, if washed with the preparation, will keep for weeks without alteration 

 or offensive odour. Timber washed with it will be preserved from the 

 effects of damp and confined air, and it would also prevent the spread of 

 dry-rot, and destroy insects on plants. (Newsp.) 



SCOTLAND. 



Fall of Leaves. — An article on this subject, translated from a paper by 

 Professor Vaucher in the Memoirs of the Natural History Society at 

 Geneva, is given in Brewster's Journal for October I 826, which appears to 

 us to account for the phenomena of the fall of the leaf in a more satisfac- 

 tory manner than any preceding theory. According to Professor Vaucher, 

 every leaf consists of a distinct system of fibres, which have only a tem- 

 porary continuity and union with the shoot, kept up by a kind of adhesive 

 substance, which, when the purposes of the leaf to the parent plant are 

 served, is dried up or dissolved. " This adhesive substance is probably 

 formed by some portion of the parenchyma interposed between the two 

 systems of fibres. While this parenchyma is under the influence of the 

 vegetable action, the adhesion is maintained ; when this action ceases, the 

 union is dissolved, and the leaf falls/' The reasonableness and truth of 

 this theory, as far as respects dicotyledonous plants, becomes more obvious 

 by reflecting on the difference between the decay of leaves and the decay 

 of tendrils. The leaves of palms, grasses, bulbs, and other Monocotyle- 

 doneae, in a strict sense, cannot be said ever to drop from the plants. Dr. 

 Brewster judiciously observes, that M. Vaucher is the first who has directed 

 botanists to the organic structure at the base of the petiole; and he adds, 

 that a similar arrangement probably prevails in the other parts of plants 

 which successively drop off, and the connection of whose vessels with those 

 of the stem, though necessarily intimate, is merely temporary. A new field 

 is thus opened for botanical research. 



Grapes ripened in the open Air. — There is at present to be seen in a 

 small garden adjoining the property of George Fenton, Esq., sherifF-sub- 



