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THE GARDENERS CHRONICL E. 
[J AN. 
discovery that Maize 
Greeks and — 
before the parade 
and | Tobacco were known ad 
shrunk into insignificance 
n that 
loo 
ked upon as a poor creature when 
he failed in i grafting a a Myrtle 
Gooseberry bush. 
on a 
ars es a statement by Mr. 
Chi 
se claim greater powers of 
take their 
of which the annexed is а сору, will 
enable the reader to form some idea 
of the appearance of this Photinia on 
Birch ; but. of late years the diameter 
of the Birch has in. ed so much 
that it has burst the decaying case 
or that si de Nas 
and wou ld con- 
latter i is now aboye 50 feet 
. at 6 feet from the ground, w from 
. thehollow The portion of Сый, {тее кш 
alive is 20 to 25 feet high. This 
` feet vidently 
natural аралаба of the history « of Mr. Fortune's 
tree: 
be WEIL 
given rise, in the first instance, to 
that at the present. day at. Genoa, 
that | 
Florence, Venice, | the operation with perfect vy ан upon both a a Ta S 
and an Ash tree a foot i 
1] continue to be formed in eter.” 
€ a Ape баға these places пе bes -— to give bot em heads consisting of Plug 
| stems of Pomegranates, 1 Mss, Lemon Hazels, d ya 2 rvices, 
add | trees, from the midst of "whose eg e. 
р У, 
way the het to the expanding. process, 
The 
в posed. о have 
Vitis falena 
e trick by means of which are obtained such 
trees 
as that to which we adverted in the beginnin g 
of these Ани is now perfectly understood, an 
30 years since was explained, under the name of 
“ Impostors ies » by the late Awpné Tuoviw, 
' from whose arti ouveau r 
rtiele i 
d' Agriculture (CN ta following i is an extract :— 
“ The so-called g rlatans is nag 
— — a ын (йел within the tru 
as hollowed out заета 
p lis the ground below its Эней cd re 
‚ young plants furnishe g wn 
through the trunk, and their roots are е then overed 
with rich vegetable mould. Thes hs grow 
vigorously 1 he cavity i E i 
* n this way was mos t probably formed the e 
of trees hh PriNY the naturalist observed in the 
gardens ns o curtus at Tivoli, and which is described 
dn his * Natural Hist n the trunk of one 
saw branches, me of which roduced Pears, 
. ethers Figs, Apples, Plums, Olives, A dns onds, Grapes, 
&c.; but he adds, a little farther on, that this won- 
ul tree, which he considered as produ the 
1 art of. ig, did not live long, and that it died 
some years after he first examined it. 
y by planting differen: t species wi within some 
vie ie var os pei ng from o bd 
M other га ul 
SN 
bs о 
of which the owners are very proud, and 
а Зо 
make a prodigious mystery, 1а { instances 
only one species is introduced into ihe] ае trun к, 
be sometimes you see n'4merous examplesof differen 
M. eed Farther 1 tells us that he himself tried | 
- - Myrtles extent, importan orms of disease may ari 
í different берега; аай by this interesting information respecting those which has 
wil 
Peaches, dnd Vin 
tho 
he gives a c reprod 
and cg perfectly ilustra 
syste | 
leave to offer dá to ё 
on Pomegranates, in order to be 
f Roses 
covered by Tibetan characters. 
анек А РАТНОШОО 
А VARIETY ОЁ eiecumstentt but n wo 
а the t 
objects of. ‘cultivation, havo concur 
since the commencement of this Jou 
e 
ecom long | 
perplexing, d. is amount of info 
tion so large in (esta of mere bulk, 
desi o place before: 
Lr] 
Б: 
o 
every availab s pu 
indeed,to genti strietly to the plani 
has been lai 
may possi 
а system of numbering will 
mentary ma atte: 
in the series, considered as a whole. 
which itis purposed to to adopt will be as T 
sary "before a more formal commencement of th 
the sübjoined division is p. d= 
PLANTS IN A TE 
Under this head their nature and struc 
of nutrition must riefly к 
ner in whic are affected b: 
agents, as light, temperature, moisture, 
ore prominent chemical conditions, 
these are modified e vital prineiple 
en w . 
IL нат 15 DISEASE WITHIN THE MEANING @ 
T ED IN GENERAL BY CULTIVATORS! 
III. Tug Causes o "al 
а. Internal or с constitutional, 
"d External or accidental. 
c. Doubtful or гоја 
ІУ. ронса тох or Dis 
а. Internalo Шнде." ҮЗ External o! 
5 Funetional. * Fun 
те 9 e ** Organi 
V. REMEDIAL MEASURES. 
а. Certain. b. Doubtful. 
* Rational * Rat 
** Empirical. ** Em 
fd. 
_GASTROLOBIUMS. 
Trese are free Ё itm plants, of eom 
cultivation, and being of good habit, Bud form 
specimens with no great amou care. Th 
wi 
young shoots in a a half ripe state. 
а ese young puei mA а аав p TA is 
y to NNI 
will be а 
