20 THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. |JAN. 14, 
[ы i ы Nes in t ttr rete 
moreover, in coal, are quite different from those | of the Vine-dresser, the barrenness, badness, and casting | 
which would prevail, had the plants of which it is | of the green Figs, are all so many indications o of affections | 
ар. EN 
m 
Deodar as a timber tree, I have been induced, tho 
considering it unnecessary, to inquire again "nte lo 
facts upon which the general, but opposite opinion has 
bee b d b 
i | hich the several plants are subj In ancient | 
ourish ely by carbonic acid {0 w p je | ; 
and water. Accordingto Unz's analysis it contains | “0те, agam, eee among Pond | bewa formod. "Those vs Pr ^ seti —. r; 
fr 75-16 cent. of carbo -8-1 5-6 H, | Crops that an especial Deity was erected, according to | your notice, as ing g plant- 
- : : : " 1 | their custom, whose wrath might ted, and | ing the royal forests with this magnificent tree 
nd 1-2 №. 1f, however, it be a hydrated carbon, her protection sought, I l y matter to | of Directors of the East India Company have now 
there must be from 40-4 -6 H, that is, eight select e earlier and later Greek and | for sever ears intro r seeds into this 
times as much per cent. of oxygen. There is, how- | Latin се, рй occurring incidentally ог іп |country from their botanic garden at Saha 3 
ever, on the contrary, an excess of fro -5 рег | works expressly devoted to the subject of vegetables, the foot of the Himalayan Mounta ence of 
cent. of hydrogen, which i is quite inconsistent with | illustrative of the matter жес - but at present | its having been considered мга р Web 
the notion in que it would be quite qd of place The revival | eountr ese see ave been freely di t 
нани still remains, which may of literature in the middle ages А witli A but | landed proprietors,as well as to erymen, so that 
perhaps be called the topographical, deduced | few just views on dui matters, nor indeed was it e, from being one d the most rare, is becoming E 
from certain facts recorded by Darwin and |to be expected that very sound and tenable ооба of the more comm of the ted kinds. 
others to the effect that in x parts |8 should be held on points which even now are subjects of | Loudon, in his Arboretum, = the year edere quotes the 
f th 14 successive crops are bo land Ms meters etis the absurdities of animal pathology, m as being sold for 21. 2s. They are now obtaina 
x debi — ears witho wh eurrent up a very la riod, we т 6d. a-piece. This tree is evi А йм манча for 
through a long series of vithou "t апу жү поседи со iere "with undoubting favour. The subjeet, how- ds and valued as а hardy evergreen. I hope it 
of manure, uxuriant veg tation takes i vely will still more esteemed for the goodness of itg 
in t o 
; 5 че gst 
entering upon any particular instances, it is easy to всйепев, and even up to the present day, except 
there is always 
eodar or Devadara (so named from Deva, а 
та, 
see that in the former cases ys an regards particular Мн, the nés of Ач is | deity get Dara, timber), s0 on, is one of 
abundant supply of гена sometimes of many Bm almost beyon "e ception. Till P dant the saered trees mentioned in the ancient hymns o 
feet in thickness, which gradually imparts its|of the 18th century w y nothing а а very few | Hind nee the inhabitants of different parts of 
hing —Ó to the water which either falls | seattered notices of ү wer During the India are apt to apply the пз genous iu 
upon from below, and the cultiva- e of t Ma «ону D» itself арил. with m Pec ts E There = no doubt, however, that 
we have isserta — or short e e true Devadara of the Shas s 
rev s tops d Мане ir aiy rn “чине Dar QD Himalayan Mountains ; but there the name has 
rrigation, the influence of £ which depends, in great | by Zwinger, Eysfarth, Hasselbo 
tained by the ork 
d а larger w by Zallinger* with a slight ad- 
j e organic matter contai эч Se > эдин. 
: prene subjects, amongst 
watér.. Besid nisl — рти ms the which one of the mportant to — the close 
di ш Ад m tii of the century is r^ of Forsyth on the s 
sandy soil in w ourish, the nutri- | of fruit and forest trees. At the анаа of 
erived ra near us there is an immense | the 19th century appeared the important work of 
ment 1s m o 
difference in the degree of fertility i in proportion | with which our readers are well acquainted, from the | nam 
to the richness of the water in humates. While on | translation which has appeared in our 
some coasts the Cocoa Palm bears fruit in eight |first attempt at a ан of classifi 
years, in proportion as nutriment is deficient the | relating to many objects, on which we 
rfe 
i 
period is deferred, and while in one v ace very imperfectly in laformed, it is 
flowers are n every month, an пса e | interest, and may sti with 
ir ers the "-— 
roduce dininihed to me or геній to two nuts. consisting of a few ШЫ лы ди шу, = 
any other examples might be brought forward as in emere pi cu 
respecting t 
vegetable nosology, always harpi 
cultivation of cotton in India, by КАРРГЕЗ and | the impor Fond b E Oed hyll, ll or as he he 
Јохононмч in Java, by n in China, all tend- | calls i и globuline, not only i fa the fo RE rd : 
ing to to show the fallacy of those theories of ме. of vegetable B cm or енын 
diseases ; "n 2 nó АД г Unger prin rinted his | һа 
alone. remarkable treatise on the орке of plants, in which, 
of 
tion which would derive the nutriment from ai 
iter 
град full of 
dvantage. At th 
beari 
and treatment = by C 
кй сч In 1833, Turin published his SON o 
ба of 
: applied to two distinct trees, опе а Cypress and the — 
other the Pine, which i ч ES subject of M communi- - 
ich is D 
e Duidar as an Indian Pine, y g ind | 
turpentine, panapa tar or Cedar oil, which the Mee 
d tree is the Cedrus, or Abies Deo 
tanists, 
e discussion has, I observe, lately taken place | 
distinct from the Cedar of is а revi 
f “м A 
Som | 
e | respe iig the Deodar as to cin it is specifi | 
Lebanon. This | 
d for 
abit and general appearance E ean be Mr 
The fertility of soil depends upon its capability of sfe uot man so many of his countrym e | considered to be so allied. I P urs p 
communicating to the water with which it is more or чег i it appear that the organisms by | not believe that any sowing of the seeds of one plant 
less saturated, those matters which are requisite for which Ha are ‘accompanied, ог rather caused, will p ce the other. Besides whi es of 
the поа of plants, and in due proportions. | аге теге modifiéations of he ellalar tis of ar r from of the Cedar in this, that 
The insolubility of the ulmin of turf ers it un-| the matrix, or t po s development of|they cannot be p rom falling to pieces, the 
fertile, while matters too easily soluble would suppl му with а the intercellular poorer à gor А seeds falling to the Dd чытен к pic 
: - n 1846 i i on atura n a E 
com im nu made — ео e consisteutiy th History of Heakh а isease in Vegetables and | аге obliged to envelop them with a netting, while the 
al expenditure by perc Animals,” with a view, how wever, arem amd to human | cones of the Cedar of Lebanon remain for months прой и 
eal 
Bion , Pianis reie Tor their тре nutriment а релеи, Previously to this, in 
hu the purposes of vegetation. "t iind gu ann, | 
consequence of the highly attenuated stati in which 4 Is 
lan 
caede іп“ ibio! heca ег а, 
889, 2 irc by 
XIL, 
s аы 
the tree, м msrt be kept for years after they have bo 
detach ven with difficulty separat 
the disea vegetables 
үз жошо b their Fiuéfionl Өн; жыл 
ur arra 
nutriment is received that plants are endowed with | 1, those а mM: the system of nutrition ; 2, "those 
such ing powers of ragéistiva, к is so | which affect the organs of de vic 
n se 0 1st 
$сишл»>. in corroboration of his argument, as the easy erint 
h 
ion ; 3, those "Which | a 
Two yea 
c 
diseases are divided into external and internal. Even 
: : ч їп its . present form | it must be regarde 
ed as a burn 
e um of humus into gum and sugar, the ana- | the description of disease, forming, info, only part at 
обу 
of humates to many of the products of vegeta- куйе complete whole which 
view. Finally, in 
: h he had i 
tion, the pepe per е humus is obtained |1847, а small pamphlet appeared, ка ы the sub- 
n now 
om sap, ich we cannot advert | stance of a leeture by Regel o n the e: - external | wood 
particularly. "We shall mention о. in conclusion, | agents оп the life of plants, міо h places many matters 
the fact connec 
ted with the first of these points, o of. те clear and — чөө. light, 
the far greater success which attends the cultivation 
JE 
E 
of papers 
vend ot which the 
vailed him 
of the presen 
f Beet Vines in soils i are black eur t. in rd Re ер а on ^s Diseases of Plants i in the 
and 
with humus—in both which cases ormation of pce 
the main object. In н ошеа Mi, is not к that the list above given is at all 
sugar is 
though the immediately apparent produce may some- complete s ; it, however, contains the principal sources 
is d 
: Knight, Deeaisne, is Schleiden 
х : 
formation ot saccharine matter. 
_ VEGETABLE PATHOLOGY Lie 
ture of the cellular tissue in „plants, 
nd upon as firm 
(From 31st Report си mc of Her 
Havne heard, mach to 
entertained | 
гав on the subject of vege- 
o 
The researches s of. the pe ten years on the true struc- 
: | EXTRACTS тази А REPORT FROM DR. 
ROYLE TO MR. KENNEDY ON THE USEFUL 
PROPERTIES | OF 1 THE DEODAR AS A TIM- 
BER TRE эз 
; Appendix No. 19, M. 
to my : 
ich g 
t though mew reds of separate memoirs might be quoted | 
hich has been well 288095 on particular points, and some, like those o 
&e., conta эы 
bench h diffe rom, the Cedar of 
a" might be considered immaterial, for the De 
i А 
Lindley has wel rv i1 
s gas drawn from the supposed relationshi 4 
it (the Deodar) to the Cedar of Lebanon is T 
o | ficiently shown by the Scotch Pine and the Pinaste 
y ar rly e old ti 
" * A similar, but more striking contrast is 
by the Pinaster and Pinus з hispanica species, surely m 
+1 ГА) Jar of banon. 
He has further observed b e Deodar, *that itis ай 
evergreen tree of singular ану, perfectly wes in 
these latitudes, the value of EUR et be Mare 2 
whether it be regarded as а nurse, most eloi ie d 
tection and profitable for thinning, or, accor cording to the 
timony of those who were familiar with it in Indis, : 
strong and niece as tim 
Before e proceeding to adduce testimonies sesperig 
as ascerta tained b 
erose 
© LI 
ground as anim 
r^ uud s Woods and | 
par 
n | from Nepal to hmere, at elevations of 
bu 
llin sn very indifferent to site 
su 
h take some 
t e ,pature of the timber, it is desirable to ta 1 
rows and flourishes. Major qom idi who has written 
expressly on these Hima: — Coniferz, describes thé — 
r as found on the higher zi of these moun 
to Cas from 5: 
to :: - учду above the e t to be M in eh 
nea snowy range and lofty mou 
interior, where = ан half the ге it re арте 
Sene ота у А amongst the clefts 
ө the most rocks, eiss, quartz, | 
one, granite, 
black. vegetable mould of the 
