Jax. 19, 1856.| 
articie, in os be ma 
qu 
to come 
uickly as poss abie “The E rRe selection will 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 37 
into bearing ripen i in succession, and there acquire their full flavour, , cardboard chart in the tool-house, and make a 
Iti nf jall m 
Februa ry 
To say nothing of the 
some 
onths. I was told that some sharp fellow hal ool 
the marriages of Ferns with an enormous mi 
y fine colo ured divi isions ! ! 
e Beurré Diel and Bo aye the 
rsk a of the ripening of thes g December som 
January. In colder and heavier pers "keeping Pears do | 
nen 
SC 
Minne * said I, “ suppose 
ere too numerous on the mihak ste s the | Howeve er, the mat tur ity of the fruit on hy tree and frasi e half-dozen other sharp fellows watch hed too , and 
enà of the second fiow of sap (last aie in Soptsaibe period for F spats Senande greatly on the aspect, th didr n't see em.” At which I resent the Sede 
beginning of October), care will have been taken the greater or oa warmth of the a have died, for he laughed consumedly ; and, 
neat the shoots, and also the vertical stem, more o: ason, This ab rsa as been treated at greater p mg A at my expense. 
less according to their vigour, in order to give greater 95 in an article in your volume f r hs 54, p. 6 Now r Editor, you long ago answered a letter 
r me o the parts Firmly established in the s the fruit of a seedling h with much ne and affection ; may CI 
well subdivided pon the seedling will begin to smali wooden label, on pon h is citi “the number e an one line in your an; to correspondents saying 
r fruit in its upper part. It is which has the fruit, as ae aged NEW hav ret or genes oa may still 
exbittt m T o to i P 
at the se coming wt into bearing that a seedling 
ular atten ion. It must be 
rey o hei 
i chart i in the tool-house, in soil of the Er gardener, 
ing, whe en the fruit sets, and when 
“off 
tied to the tree. On the other side of th iela ibe a who is a most respectable gentleman, Yours to 
th her Joll 
Its vigou: 
ned, it is ese its h 
bres Giles Jo 
t, successional 
het 
or final, as the case ma: fter 
be paipa done by ic produ ce, and its ‘erty Ea 
s 
_ Pas stscript to Giles Jolly s Letter.—It e's be that all 
tter has been settled in some of 
yb 
red the end of the tots ‘arg by dipping it 
e B-p 
number of fruits. he observations made Ae slightly i in ited rosin, the fru laced | your adita works, Sued can’t afford to be flush up with all 
points can only be conside: pee ; their on a shel foi ‘the air of wi hich new ideas and discoveries ; and I live in a remote dis- 
correctness must be tested by the p f is rather dry than otherwise. Five or six days | trict, and gi e part keep company with vege- 
y which the characters are more strikingly | afterwards the fruit placed et k fruit-room, | tables and insects during six days of the week, and am 
brought out. where it is watched until it appears to be ripe. nt compelled to ask for information short and pithy from 
_ When: these „points are s the next pangs is| should then be placed in a small Wil iow basket, a ) 
there are too ma any on the daily i inspected till the time of tastin Previously, | wo uch my poor poc You will see, without 
mb, | P ly to doing so the fruit Bhapia ‘be i in nony A manila; that I don’t mean api. to publish my letter, 
a a on ur one fruit, and on an longitudinal ly, or from the stalk led fi 
Biosca spur, “Grin ine at most, The fruits | injuring the seeds, which, if i A prove p he ere ment, and the 6 means of settling the moral een 
which ought to be taken ould be cut horizontally | will be required for the purpose of resowing. The a large p parish of plants ; and of my being pla 
mid ro Sto injure the parts left ERE of the fruit is then traced on a piece of waits oi |È position to speak with ae about Brackens a 
a a | paper, in or er t att e exa ct t form may be prese 
In tast ting, ldt oh 
e fr 
ifferent parts of the tree Perae better 
pa re 
% ts with e adorns her pe 
ing thesmallest portion. The slices, which should be sve | | sent Brow, Giles Jolly ” wishes a 
For 
vere thing ought to be placed betw een the palate | and Ad = happy 2 =e w year to ool John L 
Ka, be’ acquire a oa and n mo; g e that Fern: rts of organs, which 
Erarsclezistic properties t say | its th it having b l possibly be sexual ahs upon this lipan we must 
form, nor 3 all i ts qualities, ean that form is and impartiality, feelings of p I lowed sk our ae friend Giles to consult 0 lumns next 
after four or five years’ fruiting, fi judg t, th ly noted 
and because = qualities become better as the the paper on which tt li fiere fruit and 
acquires greater strength an arpit is mor l tall d. If the fruits b i rt A 
o tha abs wick ae TE Toca KE Goa y ate, UMPKINS AND SQUASHES. 7 
mat Eom e remark appia to Pear bad, t the raiser first — The following communication from Dr. T. W. Harris, 
_ trees near the ground on the P ar dated, will serve Ax reference i in folowing Jeans, Taon ake aroa), farni pation ig to rie Pennsylvania Farm 
i bet 
grafted for dwarfs n 
| stock with scions taken from trees which have bee 
furnishes neki desirab e information respect- 
| bearing ml several years. The young stocks influence 
| the pa 3, they retar d the formation | of fru buds, 
n, cuslitie 
q 
oft hist Gesabics 
ing th 
If the raiser discover t 
i not possess its proper form and flavour. On the e 
trary, a strong stock, grafted at the height of 6 or7 feet 
| with a scion pS from a part of a tree in a lg rig be 
condition, will in The e or four yea’ roduce fruit S 
the same form an Maoi as iai produced by the tre 
, from which the scion was taken. This is solely owing | 
, to the age of the stoc ck and the condition of the se 
j itself. 
3A 
thai Fs prt du 
possess pee. gpalies, he wiih submit the ‘fais to the | 
ell known to be impartial. 
of the seats of the va 
mological Committee: 
In September, 1834, Mr. John M. Ives, of Salem, 
Then, when assu aed will kabere te iid exhibited in Faneuil Bie ao, a 
submit the fruit 
| By trying this practice it will be ene that | 
assertions are founded on facts ascertain sár HA experi- | 
ments. _Let us now return to the see edlin earing. ng, |sen 
to Po e will new Squash, to which he su uent]. 
collect the Snp given. all are uniformly fa favour- of the * Autumnal Beg w Squash.” rhis ap and thus 
able, there is still a final ee kari , and the most | introduced, and brought ne pini soon became a 
important, at is, whether the cage. porien all bes great b favoundts ey has e been extensively 
other properties requisite in ew variety in full ne De cu T for ta , AS A SAU se for pies, in the 
yn | ing, in the -opea air. This may be ase nl Be nity of Thien o popular t become in the 
last for ugust ° | maar rket of Boston, that it may well be “the 
Finally: tho 3 rais t drawing of the | Boston sh,” though I never heard that name 
fruit to be rhea. AA i ra to its average size and applied to it. Mr. Ives, in his description of it, called 
general torm and he will “also describe it. He will | jita variety of Cucurbita melopepo, which is . 
t 
So 
light nor poor, yet if prolonged drought occur in sum- | 
mer the tree will suffer, and the growth of but fruit | 
will consequently be checked. his may, how 
“Pegler ey the soing moge spl is S applicable to | 
all recently planted t When the s finally 
penea where it is to 
i 
, are ong perpendicularly eth: 
distance from each side of the tree. These pipes a are 
p fro from th foot to 2 feet in length, and 4 inc! ches in diamete 
ll A all th info rmation relative to the tree and its | If not a mere variety of Com 
fruit, t } former | Squash, it doubtless descended from the same $ ock as 
in it fal be jer hardiness, and fertility, according to | the latter. It must not be confounded with the kind 
ver, be | experi made in different soils, situations, and | cultivated i in England r the name of“ 
a iy arrow ”—a very poor vegetable, as I am as assured by 
al By adopting this rational mode of _ proceeding, so | friends who have enten it in London—a nd apparently 
vill merit | one of the sorts which in New e 
well th in the eu ae ation of | summer Sq Aa The Marrow” € 
fruit trees, sparing both amateurs and pgs | only when "rally ripe ; the abe pit? Marrow,” like 
troublesome Ra ig which i aie result in |“ Cymlings,” is is eaten only in an a state. » The 
J. De Jonghe, Brussels. | y 
g onghe, “with ull E When ay by 
E bes di 1 pure 
"ine above the tee of the ar SE opper S “san pers Se wats wee ts, it is Riera as the very 
r paving hy ght previ fe & and linch thick. If exces- HAVE FERNS SEXES? best autumnal and winter Squash in New w England. 
p” e ri 3 in summer, these long pipes are | P and d of | Many cultiv: ators “have Psi it to 
xed with a littl who wrote to you many years ago. I am still only iz e larger and alparaiso, 
f- ca ji he l j hat we a not often find it in entire purity in our 
roots ia Nhe sufferin ing recruit its fi You took a great fancy to to your “ New | Lee market It generally has only three double rows of 
1 during the night, and next da vegetation exhibits Distribution of T Vegetable Kingdom,” as you pro- Z 
z fresh ¢ energy. it is hare econ from being | pounded it in your “ Elements o Botany,” of which I The Valparaiso Squashes, of which ety mes te 
e checked in its growth, and from dropping. Even the managed E obtain a toond. hand copy. Imade a sort several varieties, known to cultivators by man; i- 
, Watering of t rface of the d ful, but is | of a circular chart o mapo of your eight Ergun com- | ferent names, cea ar gp one pei in their app a 
not sufficiently effectual. These waterings are gi p: getables now discovered by | cation, belong group of the genus 
every other day, and so long as the drougl 7 th the assistance of copes to | bita, the dng rs se gos have not 
3 oot. Qi different at sae ea has athe ory, | been fully deseri ape haggis The word pn 
With respect t dling, the training of which has ae then I took the card-board map and hung itn up in | as applied to ee A is a k m 
7 been properly managed, the sions well established, | the i house by way of being handy forme. I found | shown hereafter ; it wl be we to drop it entirely, 
i pi which has arrived at a bearing state, pinching and Se e had egri es in England, natives I mean, of | and to call the fruits of group 5 ed — 
į Summer pruning should net with great care, classes out of the eight ; and by degrees I got | kins, or Pot It is my paie bary y were 
i EES put epar sparingly, as at the winte: r pruning, the shoots fat $i could claceily pint a I met tage ba gene pt. ary indigenous me rag tropical | 
ter w monti o 1 was | s e $ , exten- : 
: a ong wi bun rns in erg TY of | sively cultivated from Chili to California, and also in the - . 
king they belonged eat esexual | West w rmous specimens are some- 
division (or State II.) at p. 230 of your Elements, in the | times ei to the Atlantic States. How much soever 5 
dition. I sometimes fal d to myself, | these Valparaiso Pumpkins my. differ in form, size, a 
remember things better when I 1 colour, all agree in certain ] 
plain And so I was doing about me | that are found in no other species o r varieties of Cucur- ia 
bunch of Ferns ; when up st the head gardener | bita. anar payo pin agia aa “i ae 
g m behind a e sweet Bay tree that eve AE other more 
i j mires, a and ir k steals ad of leaves een, and | angled, or almost rounded, and shaped at base ; 
a light soil, it will, about that nme, says he, “ Mr. Jolly,let me tell you that Ferns don't | they are also softer of other Pumpkins and 
iik kesy gy he adh Mes practical man | belong to that diios 3 yor ve clapped them on the | Squ Boone m nas = cia ot pie = 
as the hed, ut the | a € projection upon 
=f E fruit itself, or | wrong : EA wa ge." And e pulled ou th J ass ie 
Professor Haatros of St St. George’s Hospira 
may | in in that bi book as x 
cis’s British Fines chica by 
and read 
how Ferns have sexes, and lead 
f 
it Pe eae Ea 
ier enlarged vith projecting anges next to te rit 
great number | 
ears gathered towards the period of the 
nt tig Bel keep well in the fruit-room, 
flowering ts. jega gus a ET yx me | few ex contain four or 
smock oat of ebook cag ge gig rg e AA 
= stars and elastic garters ! e e a 
