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Novewbzn 5, 1864.) 
THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
1063 
Liverpool, as noticed at p. 800, “has of late 
u on account of its wen "contraction of the iris, | they are oasted now, until—as often h 
and its property of in ing jp oce on which ha - of pot-bound p iants—the ball of soil shrinks | 
om n the ) side of the pot nder such circ m- 
its antagonis 
account, as well as 
first br 
yea T Dr. Robe 
pe eriodical professes to gi a fair and impartial 
ie heat increases; if the roots were frozen before | ppt little hope of its ever 
n | of inte 
mein an object 
rest. It may be to tion here, that 
this tree used to flower profuse! sand prd. immense 
| quan ntities of TA ir had a nce 
n tim X afforded for the 
vu Mis, 
| upon the shelf odd be an idt. of the evil, but 
The y feo , however, perhaps owing to its 
The wild birds 
exponent of the views m „practice of E No doubt strict attention to rege f extremely bitter tute did not a Appeal Ub Cont blacks 
Op hthalmic Surgeons, and if i is conducted according and watering lessens. such evils conside rably ; but birds ¢ thrushes "ug until it was perfectly ripe, 
1 fruits get somewhat scarce; they 
source of information to d practitioners. can altogether compensate e for the disadvantages of ar. commence an abinck upon it, and make short 
such a system. I fully believe that a large prope work of the immense quantities with which these trees 
d of the dise ases and diio d k at we encounte in the used to be loaded in fine seasons—ever ry d 
The Useful Knowledge Soeiety's Family Atlas, in appearing in the course of a few days and no wonder, 
20 Pa Ha A nes Stanford, Charing ene. 1864. plant y m Hs cause, The Mpihty | when the number of birds is arr — -— 
This capital Atlas f ds ts to the E t of red a ve have been seen to be believed. 
Fo under th dui wüperintendenes of the 5 Society for d n in pot hose few days to have congregat ted dete re E 
e Diffusion. of Useful O san dew It comprises a aE A instances “of i ite en come under " he of the e Pee ation rather ze 
£8 n. I have seen pot Vines, wie not|a stiffish loam, drain very 
in addition t nano Di the Proveodings of 
atest date. 
pl d, brown. ik spider, "while othe ers that have | 
atrae 
Lith 
gravelly day clay. 
M Se resa ee 
"£N 
mes general dude bnt h 
for tl ane and it is well known that nurserymen who oft | The Sober and its pm —This plant is com 
of rapid tefe erene l p tering | in garde th in its ori; 2 and in its 
bnt the ex rev | thamb- odes is E singularly | and sucl seldom suffer to any extent, The preva- | prog , the innumerable vire ties of Polyant thus Many 
awkward, Many years ago, this most useful Societ ty lence of no disease more or less, which is certainly | varieties pe occur which cannot be legitimately called 
deservedly earned ‘a high reputation for their publie: one of the e that the gardener has got | by either na e, having the form, though more laxuri- 
tions, which combined what w re before that time | to contend with, i Ny attributed to the character smi, of the. [: ture Cowslip, with A aa mm incipi- 
thov to be two seemingly Hp dun es, | of the season use no doubt that exerts great | ¢ my. s 2 olyanthus, ‘The most curiou are those 
viz, cheapness and musti td, fro the | influence in jt ng diseases, especially of the | i; ealyx is partly or wholly dong d into 
first, their ps did them the pest. "B pa rasitical class; but the occurrence of red LS in | coroll a, ea A » tolerably common, and called King 
Whether the maps of the nited States of | particular case by sucl Charles, the calyx is half green and half crimson; in 
America were exceptionally good or not, it is certainly | causes. In uch cases the ie is enti rely loc cal, and | another, a very old-fashioned plant, called H in-hose, 
true that we have on many occasions found them par- | one of the tat iom mon I believe to be dryness at the | the calyx is an exact dupliente of the corolla; and in & 
ticularly valunble of late, when people have been root. Evidence of this is abu fi nt iaa ery where. Z third it is forme E distinct leaves, rem in 
endeavouring to discover the locality of some recent will be EX that in shallow soils up ry subsoi "apt a oint of the ordinary foliage of t the ant, excel 
battle, or to follow the course of the ing armies in | fruit. trees in A peut ral, and eveegttlog. liable E its pn 3A iustrnting the physio v wem S meme e that all 
liat land. we have often found the information Pen niays s suffer wo uet. x nd sor metimes toa ery | f flowers are resolva o the leaf, as t 
hich we had failed to obtain elsewhere. This is no | great g in pots d- | vir T typi The qim lucidnti of wide 
small praise, when one considers the changes that are | ably kit a to severe checks from bein — - ny is that the leaf, the , 
wrought in the face of a country by the railroads, | larly supplied with moisture, suffer in the sa the stamen, and the carpel, rected ee 
especially in a go-ahead age like ont, and ina and everyone who has orced a few ere modifications of a single Organ vnd impressed with 
ountrylike America. In addition to the causes glan ows that if he keeps their roots regularly Puppe different forms and entrusted with different fanctions 
at above, whi to render old maps obsolete faster | with moisture, he has little to fear Pe i at bed 
than ever, immense fields of discovery have recently | but allow th to suffer but one exchangeable one for the other, Whether the Pr 
been opened to the enterprising traveller, in every | drought, and tl t will develo} ‘tet rt at 1 rose a d the Cowslip be really distinct, is b 
quarter of the globe. British Columbia, Australia, and that is perfectly astonishing: ca 
various parts of the great continent of Africa, are | of other things as well as. Btrawberren. When a pl dificati type. 
constantly vide d matter for new maps, and full of T lieve bet rine p ie 
the laying down of railways iu Indi and elsewhere | red spider will seldom make its appearance. This fact | is not a matter few of Wipe: 
mands continual attention is s well known, and until Vines and Peach trees have “nature of a plant, its ey d 
e have before us more ‘than half the t their growth, a ei every circumstance c wit it 
this capital Family Atlas, and the unanimous opinion oí | their wood, n Bose seldom dread its appearan If|position in the x thé v 
all our friends dio have loo ked at the po a it does appear before then, it is owing to the emm m Shade, growing on sheltered banks 
ti the iden that ies and ers Ap with the Wood 
1 vane he Co 
d Seeks 
well e 
p ace "with our own, tha is a wor 
G 
" Q 
ly when th a fro 
net fall growth, and the ripening process has 
ced, e free add MAS ning, proces rh bo 
have ceased to a certain exten 
7 
| when the Pr 
racer sedia with the M 
opens till the Anemones are : 
Evils of Pot Cultu ong the utensils for carry le Portugal Laurel Tree. —I am ds - 
inn on = eka sof onary the flower-pot is : | m Lord "er non to a 2x [A e informat: e on] 
perhaps of the et dn nsable, At the Arboricultural Din n S Horta ip and rose 
time the pei atte = ng i Society, At [i sh hs ^ iip. t m in the open fields, 
nces are probably ore consequence. than we “to ker Di Portugal E P a solitary indiv an uel. It is a gr 
and is 
pi hale of, or if we are, w 
rel tres 
grounds of Sudbury Bali, "fotum Killed to the 
cottage gardens, figured 
ior, under whieh nam 
ground by i the severe mita fal 860-1 
} Al mhi 
— act them. I allade us "partida to the 
codi n system of growing our hot that it enerally, but penes it a no 
the pecs shelves and ages of our ope and m one n originally bec ome a lar group of trees qe donee he Cowslip in its i 
houses. To the most superficial thinker The points of the! a wer nde. by | of the corolla is nearly flat, the 
cannot erw an contrary to ' most resting q on the tan und, had e A. taken root, from |taller, the flowers 
common laws of nature, id not at all ance | which strong erect shoo sts h ad proceede e d and half. 
with an plan which the least acquaintance with — diede plants; these, in the which it is probably o term 
vegetable ph y would teach us ado t. Welt y became larger, laid. their outer branchés down | mate so sources, Pale-fl i 
readily prehend the importance of maintaining d Primrose—in fact, it often 
equable atmospheric temperature in our Er and Hios until this group of Portugal Laurel was bent handfal of Primroses placel on the scape 
t uences A from neglect in 1 Cowslip. The seeds produce, along with Oxlips 
pee oliage of à of distance, of an immense bush, which in a'l probability sembling the parent, Cowslips, an 
much, and e ore Y^ nce then, g itself had its career not | This is good evidence of its being & mu 
to protect ‘the me fs with the e been cut short by the frost. Its ate was not pirti- | between the Cowslip and Primrose Moreover, 
more susceptible of injury from such causes; and yet | cularly remarkable, perhaps never tuch exceeding | cont inent, where the slip and ig cer are said 
in the m jo ity of cases they receive A least atten- | 20 feet the dense mass o dist green foliage | be rarely seen together, this comt Oxlip appears to 
tion. In fact, where plan gro the e ma made it an object of interest to all who saw it. Nor|be unknown. There the Priatrort i is rather a south 
i nter 
e 
before referred to, it is hardly 
ditions of both. 
owing in its natural state 
same variations of tempe pein Ri an 
the leaves and branches are. The nature 
1 whic h th foots s 
It is plain that the roots of a plant | summe r day 
cannot be rr eru to the F eio qtethead, 
mo 
wa less i eresting to walle through it on a fine | 
| plant, exten ding from Fr ance to the “pone of Asia, 
and examine the co inks | 
nnectin 
which | between the different trees as they still lay j^ qmi 
SP which after the manner of Straw pL 
the E = or) 
e, extending 
as far as Finland. I Primrose and Cow sli 
it is quite true, near together vero the Al A. 
e former ical Pe plant o of Arin vellege, th 
` se of plants- trees, of sizes from the thi t iey 
in e sun and air, these evils have full 23 m Nm inches. ae and it is not tes 
play must affect health to a very iderable poin rm partaking of i of "bot 
extent. The pot being an Me conductor, and pre- ense t to increase in size between the parent and young The true Oxlip is = very "different common 
senting a large radiating surfa ace, it is to the bail of bs The circumference of the whole group at the| Continent, but i ens E E the cóunty of 
exactly I have no | Essex. ough feel Ju in 1799, it was 
ther i in tt Jd of ascertaining the age of of the or — tree, only determined to be a ine Ft this 2 
to keep | the water cool is to Bee wed tac rt an | ne doubtless was considerable, z it had bee ina when en Mr. Do ubleday, o of Epping, discriminated it 
instance. We shall suppose that he plant i is water | te of decay some years previous to 1860; rdfield Oxlip, by which name it is now 
in the morning until the ball ee il an slof it, gine is still to be seen, the diameter of| among Nes sts. 5 loe ht Me eatlier than t 
Bono: ip gg th it turns m is paci sn daya which is 3 feet 6 inches near the ground, "On fy Mod the flow scentless; they droop instead 
there a dr culati sap of a evaporation | breakin f the frost of € f standin e y bredi, and it uces itself 
takes ph ce from e of t the the heat pe above, it was hoped that this group cnet have tered, and without any intermixture >rimroses 
pre off along wit A the: molitur nid the tempera- scaped wil with li Qu om EPA WAS — ted to remain and Mgr among its prog This, at least, is the 
M A of t m -— is rgo e lowest point, jus! it every chan ee of breaking again, experience o riend Mr. Sidebotham, who has 
ten hs e lea i are enjoying “the Ths, b owever, ‘it refused to vated and carefully watched the plant for nearly 
igs ET sn in nature thé roots would be | the ground, and it was therefore oat down to the living 90y ears. There are in England, accordingly, three 
also, follows a suction as evaporation pel parts, but the feeble efforts at growth: it has jot since genuine species—the Primrose, the Cows slip, and the 
