£88 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, [APRIL 23, 1504, 
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whatever on cereals, M. DEHÉRAIN’S exp t ful late hardy winter green. They | be no mistakes or mysteries in questions of t this kig, 
proved— had moderita zod heartiog heads like a small Savoy, | Mr. THomson has very judiciou any cleared u 
That perhaps as big as one’s fist, and the stems were com- | — by stating that it was raised from ; d 
gYT pplied to ario land does not assist | 
nitrification : ,no nitric ac eid being formed in 
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That moreover it does not pons the formation 
of ammonia. eee 
But that it tg promote the solubility of potash ra eg dar id spur dra A Foss p : THE HIMALAYAN SPRUCE FIR, 
buried in the soil. e ert Sprout, and b t he former espe: | rr answer to some inquiries respecting Grafted 
TE we exaniné ~ the first place what plants a iac e a advanced towards flowering. Ya reprint the following remarks from the Scottish 
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benefited 2 gypsum, we shall e d that Chaya? are e | remark * produces snan my head, and will not be i in n| Agns eee or A. d ex , a8 it is commonly 
Wh as aro Hh in P Wego |a Bt stato br ue aer e id as my veri forti led in edenn, as, is, fs he Bn SU 
plants, devil Cover ‘Sainfoin, and Lucerne now Be rat for seed, and the common Brussels Sprout | Smith, gar oner th pve ea ye paea. tme 
and the Vine, which es up à orate bis is likewise sending out its flowering shoots, while my Oed 818. It was called Pinus Kbut 
quantity of potash from th soil, is also manured | sprouting Savoy will keep good and be Yos for cooking | pote eM sedrchr, Fom one of it SERES 
with gypsum in some countries. for five weeks to come. I gathered some last year as y 
late as the middle of Ma I therefore think it is 
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That miri of vegetable that will be invaluable as coming 
when other vegetables are scarce, and all other so S 1 het riam 
It is much nasai too, than the everal of the trees growing in the easure grounds 
common Brussels Sprout, the latt " being „this season at Hopetoun House haye attained a considerable size, 
but he adds, that its à un insuifa bility is frequently very much paotsdir while tho new The following Vw saper of the three largest have 
overcome bya — = with a pn es. Gypsum, in| green. As it comes in at a diff time from all | been applied by r, A. Niven, the able and obliging 
does can only set it at | ot and will be Viable, I shall t it the Albert garde ener ther 
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liberty, Esc C e it Ph: and -x t No. I. On its own roots, 48 feet high, and 5 foot 
is entirely absent the m has n ffee ct; "The flavour after cooking, was all that could be 10 inches in girth, at 6 feet above the groun . 
ashes ds elves Mixte otis ash ind iy ve to x» — LE mild and mellow, without any kind of No. II. Grafted, 47 feet -— A k - 6 inches in 
pletely clothed with somewhat loosely hearting sprouts, | out o A a Muscat berry crossed with the Chasgelas 
neither the head nor the sprouts showing the least Musq 
indication of running to seed. With them were sent — 
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soil the element without which leguminous plants | coar: um Now Ill —— feet ; high, p D feet 3 inches 
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Pbi experiments bns uj a -— ap ram following is the reply which has been sent by the Nos. IL and IIL, with a few others, were grafted in 
omes soluble almost immediately after the ART s neil of de Royal Horticultural Society to the 1827 by Mr. Charles Smith, then a youth in Hopetoun 
sum has been applied. This explain s why a onstrance by Exhibitors against the second Eo Gardens, and afterwards landscape gardener i 
culturists recommend the application of gypsám Shows: VR we published last week. The Assistant Edinburgh. The stocks th Sp 
to the growing crop rather lee to the soil before Secretary says:— Ly seen by a tier of bra of that species still 
sowing. Ineither case, it seems that gypsum acts| ‘Your letter, remonstrating against the proposed maining. The grafts were niei [^ the leading 
only on the soil ; but if it t liberate or render soluble | second rd s Show, was E to the Council at their shoots, by the operation c Tat herbaceous 
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the potash whilst there are no plants to take the | meeting to-day, being e first meeting which they mL 4 feet from the groun oy II. there isa 
latter up, it may be carried off by rains and lost; have held since its rec Aig x poroi umian d X stom, dro 
but if, on the contrary, the plants are in a growin; “I am directed by them to inform you that they thic € “above than below the graft. ee os 
state, potash will Be adasrbed by them as it have received it with r regret, and that they are sorry | however, have grown with great vigour and, beauty; 
: to learn that you consider the perc sigan inimical to and cipem » considerably pecus r ie ear es er original 
your in erests, which ce ertainly was no ot intende ed. M 
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t, Iam to for rama ngnificent tree of A Donl to which it was 
poin to you that for some years past i it has been too close vicinity. me "latter, it may be noted in 
SRT h have stated," says M. DEHÉRAIN, “that 
gypsum produces little or no effect on cereals. und e the Flower Shows have not been on the fix; though perhaps not the largest, is one of the 
If we Ei mine tbe composition of the ashes of | w hole remunerative, and are very riskful owing to bad finest in Britain, being reL fe Mtn beighbd — 
those pla d in girth, and feathered i most exquisi 
id of S an aeaee and ect quantities of | are especially interested, has resolved itself into this, dios branches t to reed ground. Lol Coolbdus it ie 
silica at nitrogen ll, the present day graft 
absolutely necessary for them. Now, we have| must either b n jeopa: rdy, or means rare ; but few perhaps have proni o m" 
pois pem the formation | some c change be trie 21 in oe US atti which may | as those abo hes de —À At one time hal. a 
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"ot ammonia tor that ‘ot acid, and we have | lead to a favourable resul! ines was t incredible. 
stated tiet the solubility of the phosphates T “Tt has been m that a second day's show and cadet of tho n noble house of Ho eret 
weak a aside ta tub increased by gypsu whilst an evening exhibition might have this effect, and as| with the " Dr. Wallich, p thought it might 
experiments prove that the lines, Safi ite far compensation for the additional risk and trouble which the old Indian botani a tt to ed doctor avowed his 
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less energy than lime in re enderi ring silica soluble. of the second day’s receipts has been set apart for diei of the facts, and offered : 
PP them. d trees that could be = — to him. 
is rendered e wiluble by gypsum. 3 “The Coana were and are prepared to make any n Dr. Wallich never cam 
** Nitric acid, soda, chlorine, and sulph id rangements for carefully preserving the otherwise he might have had ee work 
are but little retained by arable land. They are plants, a amd would len ad very assistance to the exhibi-| ancient Pistol had with his Leek. The 
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: mation of the general nature of ane et pipi to| of a Sink sloping. gently t 8 
€ ierni who ee pattern a Ms exhibited id the space they will For this oe of 70 o a 80 — above "the level of 
8 eroi idely di I ME and subsequ nad printed tots will b be prepared | sheltered and slightly They have 
, yet in others they are widely different, and x be filled winter from the direct Po of the sun. ib ey Tyrio 
" : y 1 t arable cts the Fighting, the subject - niet never been nipped o m browned ud - 
land is to liquefy the soluble salts which the soil Qu & careful attention of the most ex d|frosts, as the iae ofte i Y" in — in 
I ni-|large tree in 
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mously agreed that it is simpl à question of proper | which was one of the original Hopetoun wt 
ventilation, and tho ventilation — ed by the Society | considerably injured by the terrible frost o 
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by plants. In this way, to use : 
expression now usually yt ed, we may consider | will be ample. Gas is used quite harmlessly at the fine | 1860. We observe that Endlicher, aa heig 
gypsum as an n assimilatin ent, iragai Pa at Bentley Priory, Starim ore, and in other | mation probably from Royle, estimates 
“The action of lime is "not a Nat: 7 conserva the Himalayan Spruce at 5O l 
ati insolnble matters sform “The tan had hoped that oa setae day Woe accurate, the Hopetoun trees have near d cations 
us oido years ra m made fr iig s wd — of the i of which, however, they givn the author 
rs t which ite eub E phos- have uch m ed any en expenses in themselves. Ano ne A: 
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of ammonia; lime, then, is also an assimilating | day's receipts into a fixed sum, or to guarantee that | from an elevation of 6000 feet to near tho Pho anges 
agent, but its action extends to insoluble | such share ionis not be less han a sum to be decided | forest. In the great Oak forest of the m" otimes i 
matters, It acts by chemically decomposing | on.; and s ould y a t, the Secretary would be |it occurs at intervals, sometimes , ire like top 
certain substances, and causing them to take| glad t tution b ur body to endeavour to | clusters, and its very dark foliage and sake iba com 
a different form. Gypsum, on the contrary, | arrive at some satisfactory solution of this point, if yon | towering above the be forest trees nearer the snow, 
seems fo act physically by setting free soluble | make an appointmen spicuous object. On some of the hills nearer it valmost mono 
substances that ‘are shut in the soil. As aot venin cet wil Lene dependet — j dirat — Pine br pe rs apo aeter s jarge pe 
me is = 3 e i rte nations polises the fores' e straight, oft? 
< ; : cà _— still be of on that A wall dee ire handsome tree, the trunk perfectl and 
apd of ren in TA state a ammonia, so e Si your 3a e peat nee Pe na pwards of 20 feet in circumference at the bases 500 
m is the assimilating agent of potash. will ie made to meet Jour was by arranging your | sometimes reaching a height of betwee? 
ous it seems that these test eurious MN plants apart, so that u may remove them at the close | feet. e branches, which in a large pore in some 
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= he has a preference for, in order that th a to the apparent height o a exposed 
Tararo ivp from Me. M accordingly.” ; or Y Prepare little A except e indoor work, as when 
à ord PA hybrid form of the Cabbage ram ospi it soon decays. 
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