-— THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [Avavsr 6, 1864, 
gra indiiy amon gst them such desirable i improve- pare of water, by: mere space, There is perhaps | which we refer the branches which issue from th; the 
ments as may be practicable. " m. nature more beautiful than a rh uprig ht main stem are all TM ught i - five radi. 
y vested à and, towering up in the centre with|ting lines fixed one above another, $6 that 
dtd bane i about them, crop Pers ai and | tall egal red and fringed about the e edges with | their point indicate a pantag 96, with the Stem in 
alm rt parr omage to the prevalent | light feathery foliage, Spoopit down, and so i e centre. The advantage of this v of train- 
shading off the central mass. dii 
n 
9a ai l 
reri Md Bs ges f pe Gre of ntinaous level recesses of this embowering green, we will suppose dist ey the centre of the tree from five diffe erent 
flat-t tables, form the foundation on ittle of beauty— prre ie ey 
rest upon with d atten Kides sof proin regularly disposed tiers of branches 
bt direction in are more thoroughly expo sed to the influences of 
ag ents ; ti lé tó some extent à they 
e 
ILE an “ths ramidal outline is rather | lack of m ea be um have v de ead a super- | are also sheltere 
vig He y , ev st | abundance of the higher e of objects. ust as the Faire df of. the same — d TUM lias 
d d f slowing | o Gont en deseribe in à recen number oj 
ebur. "So also because Pelaegoniums happen tc | enough fo make up half-a-dozem of the ordinary |ewlteur Frang Pria he MALIN m 
Y i calibre of those of modern times, 80 one ol ROUX, of Sceaux, and hig 
arks are iecómpanicd by a ske teh, which 
we Has reproduce, In this the branches ‘re receive 
form, that in which they are probably the most enoügh 1 er the 66 good shows, |v 
s i ion of the shade of if s sup pple Ades. ur iit complementary 
brilliant dine ide vede ci Then those | piante: whi ab co ld be got in Un quantity. They |t 5. but t the tip of each branch is carried upmards 
n thus dis isper ks pun geris at ‘the ^ prse p of he ue ma 
that after | than Mr would not only nexf above i at the whole sym 4 
collections, RIDE E E attraet t e | from E "killing * they effect of their own neighbours branches is h eld firmly by means of this series of 
sight-seers—the fault lies nobi in Gen subjects thom- |b ut would in turn also escape being “ killed." | artificial unions, and the branches are at the same 
selves, but i in their trimnes and sameness of ou de Foe pi a Ad diffie ulty under present | time kept at fegulür distances. When this plan js 
line fth arran roducing any great number of | adopted, M. Cnoux points out that no othêr means 
which are brought into juxta-position, under | the "sti old of beauty ” im are suggested | of rin is needed Mot any part of the I and 
ry circumstances indeed, as a whole, they look | e the letter to which frog quent allu: -y m has been | conseque ntly that the trouble and expense of pro- 
ull enough. made, buí the — shou di m viding trellis entirely done M 
then, are three series of plants which One att empt, it is said, to carry osi thisorany| Whatever practical benefits there m ay be in M, 
ü her idea in advance of the old style “‘ would Croux’ s plan, of pitas 5 together the ipe of z 
fith 
a 
rfeet or depress the variation in form i i ing that g 
perm Juss : 7 made ; and further that a decided advantage will eas mention 
i i those who are first i 
effec neces proh h u 
"oed being om. fo indivi dual ands several beauties | making this po aH does not appear to us si SiNCE our observations on several peculiarities 
of each of the plants. And li T 2 possible however that such an “ idea’’ woul be so well in Gowns were published (p. 721), we have 
in the distribution of even thie ome eauty, | left at first to the soient treatment it might P etieed one or tw " addi tional particulars which 
Fo i : n|receive at the hands of any one or more ex: sem wor rthy of record. 
lech as | as been supponed that the roots which are 
who hol e kind of shows now «rd bs 80 redi developed in some Gourds, especially in 
ron urbita m 
plañts : 
there e er a rnis l 
^g ction of the aan egr = group ane have it thoroughly worked out under their own iitites of th e tendril, which in some 
gr p of “ dull miscellan us ” things, ass s nie Bron of f this ne ma of settin r4 M curbits is developed A the M p or left hand 
D of brilliant eo du. in earo pes a anno uro of the leaf as This howe d is 
inuity—here too, possibly a phalanx of giants, and | ext TH m em “and it would most dortatsly not as pve wake « dessert. rto 
1 There effectually serve to bring hemo the the matter to the | not sa like the tendrils by one dt tho these 
mprehension of be exhibitors themselves, who main dles of vessels wk n — into tis - 
is no softening of sharp angles, no setting off of | © 
, might Su ia. be left to vary or improve upon | stalk of the leaf where no tendrils xist. More: 
bright Co Bes cool greens or other comple- h 
the original idea over they are frequently developed “at the right 
e 8 o 
mentaries, ach series, each petens, - m 
down, doabtlens ; with the best skill o 
e 
nearer to the soil than the other side of the foot 
but as if no othe plant were there, ais withous THE pyramidal mode of training dwarf PEAR 
the smallest reference: to its surroundings. This TREES, growing upon the Quince stock, is one | Stalk. 
is where failure manifestly sets its stamp upon our | which finds eee a with etme but we| _ We have moreover observed (in that variety at 
present arrangements. Our cultivators can STOW | have observed in the continental garden. varia- | Cucurbita maxima seeds of which pe formerly 
anything, everything, if they but know what is ton of it which ns to have š " è s special bg to "a dist stributed by the Horticul ral Soc 
wanted, but the plan of pe bh a ga that | of merit. In the o ordinary pyramid Pear an and vti 
nei ey nor our sho et J, both thetendrils - 
shown the Mosdiy to rie efficiently with the to xt developed, audi in pn casé the three bundles - 
arrangement of the ae n» collected vee of — m - - distinetly defined, one going 
with our, and with s into ea ot tendrils, the third in the 
minent a rum of productive hut. centre pes ^ footstalk of the leaf. In this 
It is not in colour, as our talented correspondent ease th ch the more distinct beca 
points out, * so fas as in form and variety that the bright yellow stalk of the fruit was perfectly 
we shall find the great defect of flor: solde: , making a striking contrast of 
exhibitions,” True “itis very diffie ult to ive wg ls in this vai are often very 
that consideration to form, which the importa mue g with yellow petaliform wings on 
of the subject demands, so long as we ei either side, the setaceous tip in some flowers 
is t almost resembling a t : 
e seems, moreover, in this species a peculiar - 
tendency in different parts to assume the colour of — 
M the corolla, In the iut vpn 
invited on to several varieties, and in those no eultiva- - 
M of | : whioh is ing he lore 9t it plants ato if rotted Wi 
moreover by no means speculative, since it has yellow as at i fhe ovem and. 
carried o our con- sometin e E ws he lamina is - 
urs. Flowing vari similarly coloured 
foliage; striking groups of bri illiant yi ou. w tion umstance that in 
expanses of flower an i foliag with Ginodgs peeaicanta ucurbita hata the sepals sometimes assu 
of foliage or flower in contrastseth ithe the form of perfect leaves; these fall off just like 
them, and sometimes arching overhead ; erpentine ordinary flowers, leaving t ow 
boundaries ; and the outer plants has low so By behind. We have just gathered a flower in 
the eye may range freely over —thes | one large leaf is developed of a w low the 
features, which would a thonmndold i improve t the flower and apparently below the poin 
aspect of our thesi; ut, as we also n, | flower would fall off. As this is clearly not 
they cannot be carried out wi yo " rid porn ie euet it must a 
without breaking up the separate collections of a braot. We have seen no 
instan: 
peo several plants of the ty Couco 
zélle of C. Pepo now under cul ‘atte: come até 
B 
| do so, and in this respect we have not found 
fof — of Bush Squash received — from | 
he ed to proeeed from the stem in| erica more constant does others, dem 
ns 2 UR RN PURA the outline is spa of a Gourd whose seeds We recei 
oh d a yt tall cone. In the Cnr tol M |a oily under the name of char 
e 
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