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теа 4p | pe quem per qo umor amm rmn merry ТҮҮЛ 
for nutrition, which would ЕЕ RES tough and ч DESCRIPTIONS ОР NEW PEARS CULTIVATED 
even in some cases poisonous. | T CHPCEUPICE шо N D'AIROLES, AT LA CIV 
ever, gar »forthough| TIERE, NANTES.—Bx Німѕкіғ 
if Ве bleaching has not barh carried to (Conti атр: р. 437.) 
агапехі nt, theshoote will gradually, whenexposed | Poire Prince Albert.—Tree vigorous, and succeeds 
acquire their; proper green іші, yet In màDy | both on the Pear and Quince stock. It naturally takes 
fare can therefore be 
8: 254 абери to many 
un 
D be pré- | colour pale green, becoming yellowish when ripe, some- 
D 1 
vegetables; and a 
ч * i$ one ef! QU MM "óbjeéets: rr ы + ё: 
PEN diis реза "$üch manner that та 
times slightly coloured n he sun : it is tinged with 
stalk, elsewhere distinctly marked wi 
е every part shall have а v — hos Mf And reddish spots and sprinkled with black d dots. Flesh 
i£ thls 48 not: the;ense his fruit will be deficient in colour yellowish-white, бие, witing with a rich sugary flavour. 
and flavour, plant itself will-acquire | Season, Febru ry and March - delicious 2 was 
озу which wilk soon. manifest itself | obtained y M. Bivort, from on the trees raised 
ifie disease ; for, as im the. buman frame, | from seed by Dr. Van Mons, and which fruited for the 
when once the mu "t ёс | first time in loa. 
ү} аге diseased action is sure to be 
Van Marum. — Tree vigorous, and an abundant 
beide, suitable Ter a pyramid, 18 succeeds on a Pear 
and Quin ll 
Гера ы, Ape: ро рле the dif-.| the pyramidal form. Fruit middle-sized, pyriform, 34 | Y 
eS on aud decay: Any material inches in n length, and 23 inches in diameter. Stalk about 
h| but rather мете ^ which ‘must 
ні : 
| everybody knew, but whie i" too few practi praelio é. Чеге е | 
- | no incursion of the caterpillars from &' d 
in i 
destroys from 30 to 50 Barn эсе) 
is required to examine many bushes ; it is 
for a month. i you allow the brood to 
over the А your labour -is 'endless, . and 
rfi Thomas рей, ] 
success 
ese creatures, Lapply 
about the bush (but par tieularly close to 
time in February, an pon let it slake of itse 
вікова! peculiarities, idi р weakest and most in- stocks equally w On account of the bave it well forked into the surface t 
fien mee rrt re propagatio poris ovd size of the "fruit we have aere the tree нф of | of Apri o not find it necessary to do this every 
аф dict individual, disease once | tria] against v wall year— perhaps 
or а centur М. . B. о size of tie fruit s, 7 inches in length, | (t&ke care to have good quick- lime). Your advice 
EE эк TRENE? and 12 inches in diei miim vrbs shaped. Skin|!$ good as to pinching off the end of the shoot to 
поту ДРЕОТАІА "GRACILIS. зей ойе, brighter where exposed to the sun. destroy манды, but if I were * R. V." I would MM 
Амоха "e nümerous introductions of late years, few | Stalk very short, e fleshy, but sometimes it is lon а cloth over a dozen or two of the bushes, and give 
have found more admirers than this eharming Deutzia, | and slender; it is inserted in a small narrow earings them a good е = | with tobacco smoke; if this 
sud. possibly аы лет Бон watt plants are | Eye open, in a wide speading hollow, surrounded with |*b9wered he could carry. it and the trial 
more especially It is easily eulti-| small plaits. Flesh уйн, ers Siete breaking, | Would cost but little; if he succeeds, I hope he 
аа will report his success, for the benefit of others, 
- tolerat (шег тле еу фә greatest facility with but little juice, sweet and pe Ein 
ood has been properly ripened, flowers рго- | October. This su uperb "rit was obtaine by ES Mons, 
fusely m in а small state, and ы шау be had in марам іп 1820, and was named by him in сизем to the 
the whole of the early spring. months. . At that season | eminent Dutch chemist, Van Maru 
e appearance of a well Й — м» covered gin Désiré Cornélis. — Tree midal, EM .pro- 
Д pyra 
a a р of snow y white ers, i 3 duetive, thorny, its branches мы ost horizon- | © 
; апа the long duration of the: blosto S|tally. Fruit large, nearly 4 inches in height and 3j in 
ender it es especially a adapted for the decoration of ва on- | diameter. teg ады more than an inch in length, 
So general a Tor this Deutzia has occasioned | coming yellowish as the fruit oni 
it$ being extensively e ted, and MEM d spotted with light brown, slightly tinged with red next 
ants may now be obtain any n at &|thesun. Flesh very fine, white, buttery, melting, with 
trifling ` If proeured at this time, the Яб, if| abundance of sugary, perfumed juice. T n begin 
— well rooted, should at once receive a tole- | ning of nene “Вава by M; Biv 
oire D 
shift; u A compost consisting | 
turfy 1óam and one-third leaf soil, or other decomposed | and an abundant ih earer. Fruit large, жоет кч long 
vegetable matier, adding a sufficiency of sharp sand to | and tapering to a point, 43. inches in length, and balf as 
sity of. the вой, After potting, place | much ів. diameter, ribbed. towards the eye. Stalk 
situation f. d te thickness. | 
„Н. 
——The ravages of the Gooseberry caterpillar ЫАЛ a 
to by your то mely dus might have been preven 
Пе 
eir 
seraping pro when under six or eight weeks old, · 
e e any young Cabb 
planfs in their immediate vieinity, they, as well 
as the caterpillars, will quickly disappear. G. P.—— 
To get rid of —— € and aphides take two large 
them. in. а sheltered out of doors; and tb. of. mod watering pots will hold about 4 gallons each ; put 
as th y beeome established and commence growth, Eye e d Мызы, JM mAh, ia шо уг with | into one of dé. wn quart of soft water, а 
remove them by degrees to an open and airy situation, | brown, interspersed with. black dota Flesh. fine, | table-spoonful of spirits of turpentine; and one of soft. 
when the pots should be plunged to de rim, EM. | yellowish green, Luttery, modera Eon juicy, very |soap (heaped up) ; let a man stir'up : until 
pe е mp somp mems of preventing worm s | sugary, leaving, ҮНД tasting, a decided nut or almond the: soap. be. dissolved, tl 
&e., ома to the roots. a ion as т Season, November. vis foand i ina oca К неч 
quired, die g е plants to be checked, bu бабка ansbt dor: | ano gets. er 
iie aera пеш о garden at Mesi sad need by МЫ p 29 у” : “шеп, теп = oie in 
tumm : E: otte Éspéren.— Free vigorous, hat thorny. | "es 
or severe weather [sets in; being deciduous, they inch im length, slightly curved. Eye in 
occupy but little room in. corner of the e greenhouse or | de mes Gri deia with small a wrinkles. 
other convenient place, where they should be wetesed Skin rough, green, becoming yellowish at maturity. | 59 
sparingly, but ponas Pa- should be given to| Flesh white, nged with pale теке, уегу pne, 
prevent the ball fro: g melting; juice abundant, sugary, and agreeably per 
2 started in time, 25 шау AZ had in flower in|fumed. Seas ason, March and April. This delicious fru 
m 
me MOI PRORA NES 
а con- 
wise, of pruning forest trees with the view of acceleratin 
E А адаа of timber, The theory I then adopted was 
ranches, 
e —— degree that өнен" їв бешге by өр 
еу | is one of the many seedlings raised by Major Espéren. ї | 
r ОЛ мыс ни 
Vine Pru — Some tim ned fr 
troversy in yas 23 SA RE the Ceci or other- 
E reto 
Corio; it I4 adi tica - 
ath @ d ена urvé- een two hill 
ting ї бп its ; 
Hi z 
exposed {о ће S.W. sea breezes; and: being wi 
| miles y> f patent fuel works o n the east, we occasionally 
suffer from the effec iil бозду —— o 
be 1 
2. of. 
om 4? 7 Notw ding, our Coniferæ, 
&c., have d wi ch less in 
| шапу places. Cunninghamia sinensis, 22. feet high, 
another 18 feet high, very hand р 
have had the tips of s of the branches slightly eut, 
TO E 
but their situstión is well chosen 
to expand. remove the г to а cooler | or prüning, in ; like degree will the inerease of ste а be | b. ptomeria 
piss mls make room for a second batch, which chüebdb cy niéurded; Чыл тшт dedil pro | and 8 feet through at vo {ее fron the ground, із а 
лоп progressing. and con, the above theory came to be pretty generally re some plant, its ri в sweeping 
„After the à have finished flowering remove them | admitte d. I referto it now, тот inti a doubt has arisen | the ground, foliage very dense „and the plant 
to а warm greenhouse to complete their pun. giving | in my e whether I have not been acting in violation | itself perfectl ical. I believe it to be ariety 
ift i hardening | of my own theory, not as regards forest trees, where і ealled Lobbi ; at all euni, its dense and thick etie of 
if necessary preparatory to 
them out of use when all danger feel : satisfied, but in the hr cae of Vines. I hav 
will bloom much earlier the successful 
ear than they did the first. "M not required | an rion generally adopted the sputring system 
foreing the temperature of a warm greenhouse uM. Now I had lately, ач some intelligent neigh- 
iuce | mes, mein April ; after blossom- | bours, a conversation, part o ich tu 
n гав previously directe difference between a Vine being confined to one rafter 
is pnt oot freely iu spring ; use young | and spurred, and by another mode, one Vine filling a 
e M h 
give а мышы ны shift, and | spurrin 
wt бово. D. тараны 
seen, Picea pinsapo, 15 feet } high, Р Peet rohs and 
e 
во | very handsome, lost some of its foliage from the 
branches, either f rom the effects of cold or indi 
13 feet high, and protected during the severest frost; 
has been slightly eut, but is now doing well. 
int а long taken off with a heel whole house, such as the Hampton Court Vine, and others | torulosa, pendula, sempervi ; Juniperus 
a pot filled with а | like it of my friends remarked that when a Vineis | chinensis an celsa, 16 to 1 high, 
4 cover with a bellglass, and set | suffered to gro as er а whole house, its uninjured. The foliage of the followir wi 
warm Rich. in which, if in propor ches, whereas by | more o ed :—Pinus Devoniana, 5 feet high ; 
ttom-heat, so the cd spurring, and thereby cramping the upward th, Hartwegi, 4 feet 6 inches; hyl lt 
the g patula, Montezumse, Gerardiana, radi Gre туйеге; 
jata, 
californien, i m 8 T high; eembroides, and Sequoia 
ffered 
become filed : : Быш g own . | gigantea (Taxodium sempervirens), all su appa- 
dterwards harden them р reparatory to turning them | Now is that the саве—ог does the v mem. a =ч. а rently from exposure, "but m чём doing well, although 
n5 9L. door; bere, with due attention, they will grow | Grapes promote the reciprocity in kin egree, 80 ey are late in cap their growth, as all Pines are 
much. strong M, kept puo ик rie o flower | to have the same effect on the кыены of roots that this season, Picea N órdmanniana, & fine Vy ea kind ; 
rong be grown n before | ће growth of wood would have? I сона my doubts. | nobilis, grandis, n ri, Abi runoniana 
wea that ew т well: treated, tbey | What say omg what say you Mr. emn (very pretty) — — with us, 
The d.be well established plants айа от 9 inch pots, | Quercus. P.S. There appeared in you pa aper, a good | Jezoensis — alepensis ; 
pni. ону, фоне ui И" pots T much | while ago, ше, чеш в, by some one who adopte; high, han plants, grow 
уг ion di post not be RA more ibn one | or rather usurped m nans whieh I beg to protest | T an et à Edgari iana, as wel 
уеаг уз shif: og? e refore where small plants are | against, as it would hs ds ook ise sh in the eyes of | stood the winter реек) as have also th 
desired it is prefi to propagate а few each season, į those who know who © "Азы. eally is oya onica, Saxe-Gothæa conspicua, 
zasto: 
planting out eh да hare bet o too large to be ke | of th 
pt| Gooseberry Caterpillars.—Mr. ыг сона tof these 
conveniently. А | pests induces me to state а remedy which I thought 
giata, argentea variegata, Thu 
