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to ripen it wh s grown, and ai vith certainty | make this final ce se or not? 
It cannet be hoot by hea and will not flower | from the number of l ayers of “new wood which | re it first 
the second year in the south of China. It is this) been deposited since the injury. In some instances the | fruited ; ranean eps it is is by 1 no means E pG to 
ey. and dignified character dragged rough mi pins part will dry up | d ill } dling, even if it is rote wit 20 years 
the dreary winter months that makes all tree Pæonies | evil, f fi fi “But to ess, certain precautions must 
at ma in this country, whereas the ven cae or = by m of the ecvering of new wood. Sometimes, | be taken. = fortnight before planting, a a hele at least 
keep snug unde ae ae during t that season, and r however, “if the conditions are unfavourable, decay will 4 feet s squa: and a y feet deep « should be dug on 
rapidly in eat: ng, 5 It should then 
as the other does in three. is only ae ut 70 years | tree will never die or become worthless. If rea be d up to the pon of 2 feet, with good light 
since Sir Joseph Banks got the firet Tree Pæony s place when minre mou uld, „AS soon after the ripening of the 
Kew Gardens from it has gree of cold may p 
China, 
re kide Ciau specimens : forming a rik 
in h 
1 deg 
was ‘the case with sa cold frosty winds of anii 1809, 
rks we read of one that was said to 
England, Though many of the trees were lopped, mbr 
vipera wor 
ox 30 years at, and that ete some years nearly 
thousand bloo) This ribs uite a gem for | com- 
| tolerable shoots, | the general vitality was so de} 
pla 
Lae ; itis E ireréfore casily'p tected 
ecessary, A and doe s not like most showy plants soon 
epressed 
failed, as was the case, amongst 
a thousand other instances, with a | wh ole* a et of 
Plan: nes in Northa mp’ ton: ishir ich | 
be a csr tent for a Moutan for 20 0 years. A 
Sometimes under ae 
Herbaceous Pzeonies flower early, and carry a great 
deal of EEH oe that upon Saige slender stems ; x in 
refore, to strengthen these and yet not to | 
erect a fo te of masts by re ih each fi s al 
se one stick, I had some iron rings made about 30 
in n diameter, _ of §-ths of p wire, and placed 
I ge, supporte iron rods 
with hurdle claws ; ; this ring is raised a isthe i pem > 
fally over their own foliage. pë 
Pæonia Mou — var. papav is no doubt the 
normal form of the Tree ree Peony, Kaba ak aoe beau- 
Moutan are evi- 
tiful doable-flowered varieties 
the offspring o 
ook 
und nie roots. 7 The latter are rare sintag in 
ai parae —— out in the article oe ‘planting am 
Vol. for 4, p. 740). here ked | that 
ma ne w hich fen 
ted, 
final aii are better than a tree which has been, 
ly once ste 
all the — straggling fibre off, and the 
s being spread out, and seek i in The kois so vie 
ph strain is so grea at that fissures nm aro in the 
their u upper shat may be 3 inches | below the surface, | the 
trunks of trees, traces of which remain so lon; 
rfect. This phenomenon had 
n P. 
an in guile 
expansion of the 
contents on freezing, since it ERS place under Pfr 
old, and ee ete n first free Z th e proh toplasm will 
and, 
ex) con on ce: d after 
het £ expansion, the original aide will b 
restor me then, as the degree of cold i 7 pron 
| portionaliy diminiehed. Thee xternalrings then older 
of 
_— ally decomposed hot-bed vam 
| winter solstice ; ; 
a barrow. 
* Before ions roots 
finally co oe — pee = of sc should be 
e pheme > 7 about 
of a kitchen garden, } mixing it wit 
us ensure: 
dently of this heterna sto ek, ate since in aiarren than those within, and t herefore contract | additional. tly, three nmap 
it h so freely into beautiful as be form a R at the base, ae bal uniting 
in this country n be n oubt that | the internal rings may not be ee at all ; the con ag the stem at top i hich should } 
the beautiful kinds which Mr. Fortune and other sequence is diet the oe layers no longer able | sufficient hy for. the stem of ‘the seedling to follow the 
par! tell are n hanghae have mosti cover the, internal, and a S uia place, 
sprung from the same parent stock. Itis highly im h cl fi i f winter. The branches 
portant, in future improvements of this genus by hybri- overgrown by n rings, may ari he foll n 
dization, which either from the atomic e faid ebrian the next autumn, ih ene at the fall of the denl; they 
if possible, by one of the parents being | Ps Moutan v. admi ted fro m some wound, or contained i in the dee ecayed are shorten tened pee poke put the current year oots, | But 
papaveracea ; the deep colours of the g itl f the pre Wh 
herbaceous kinds might. be selected, and plants ts possess is opened, l finally transplanted, ihe « extremities of the shoots 
ing them, if necessary, h | ti t distant intervals. Frost i, how wever, t: 
to fertilise with. This would secure high arae in the 
place more frequently at points — peasy tissue is ? 
ath t 
_ The final aeons limits the production of 
effspring. 
extended by very di ds of fallen or amputated branches, ‘though th they hould b remain on the tree. 
day a such a blaze of bloom in Ma ay ( y If too many be left before the roots are 
before the Roses) as is nowhere to be seen except i any anterior lesion. Dr. Caspary has described a lished, the fruit will be impe Feau os ourished, and the 
the American nig at that season; and notw vith. he curious deny of ice under particular circumstances | tree itself will be be map es under a load of fruit which 
standing the greai weeny if of some of the so-ca lled | in herbaceous plan f which wil itis not yet well mee _A , the tree 
scarlet Rhodode: I know of none that would not | in this Sarns 1854, p. 739. The rupture must ul uy prun entific pri rinciples, for 
look pale if placed “a ‘the side of a scarlet Peony. in such plants and za formation of reas plates | 4 or t may oe en yi left to itself, witb the 
t no one imagine th: e have to it for of ice takes place far slighter degrees of cold | exception of ih ae proper nt to recruit 
hybridising for plants to produce a Pony garden now. then those which rot ates frost splits, new matter | its exhaus powers, and giving it every year a 
‘The plants lready got and actually offered for sale being” ecogensy su sapped. ae oo ges fe ae rising | moderate thinning. The must be carefully 
in all our best nurseries, and the whole of the species | sap, in a seque: — the ed from insects if such there be, for ets do not 
and varieties that could be obtained are now growing | peculi estates th oor rfacgdpeing con- | readily attack vigorous trees, in which diseases are 
here, d last year in the — precas ; | stantly valved forward as cor tips oft the E thread- | rarely to be observed ; and genoes in such trees are 
it is because parties well versed in flower grow like columns freeze. This curious form est promptly healed. J. De Jonghe, russels. 
made notes for my own 
a whilst gr pation, and have now enpdea- | 
w public po fe the subject, Alex. | 
tora As “Mary s Church, Tor 
p 
vee a0 
VEGETABLE PATHOLOGY.—No, CV 
415. CoNGELATIO Cee: —That different ips 
i 
ng 
were quite taken by ae ae m see that Pæonies could | p poet 
I ha fi 
arres 
the pls ranr may be only a few 
oe The formation will of course cease when the 
Home Correspondence 
tal Plane. —You would wey’ a great obliga- 
of lei culture. ii irog some of 
rrespondents pa e Gardeners’ 
Occiden: 
tion on all lov vers 
+ 
ae art the root — its 2 italy, er new 
| shoots are sent ul from the 
Sis s| by the name ve hey “ Occi 
Chronicle, you woos enligh ten fighten them upon the regi of 
| a tree well known about | ae which „common ly goes 
Plane,” by which i 
jured ; if, however, the frost is so severe i $ 
are endowed with vey different powers of end j a ; American Pla occi- 
heat and cold is plain to every o; ihe Wh o has e i > bari k just as the Seana et toe, the inje eee den op pi y er por 
appreciate the simplest appearances h re- with two fear fferent Plane tree, in this 
sented in the natural world. While in some in 2 pe 418, Frost is more injurious when the atmosphere is urhood (Kew) there are many fice s old trees of 
as the Potato, a few degrees of cold are certainly fatal fluid, h kinds; the one with very sprea ax branches, 
in others the uid contents of the cellular tissue m. y | pania, ype gorged Hong go ee Boere pt ey the mass gene ser than the tree is-tall, with 
be complete! zen without any evil consequences. It| which come from a nerally overcast with deeply lobed leav narrow elongated segments, 
is manifest, therefore, that the first instance the 7 ateri that frost of radiati which | every one acknowledges w to be Platanus orientalis ; 
e diffi 
i z which we subject in England. f sa f pi 
decay or rupture are d the total suppression of | the cultivation of the Sikkim Rhododendrons in the the mass taller than ‘with much less cd piy 
vitality or to increased intensity of cold, ‘though x serious open air depends greatly on this circumstance. The divided leaves, at 
par per miy a ay place where th e cold ‘is is not sufficient paie destructiveness of such frost arises partly from base, and with broad acute segments, and phn fre- 
jected t carne f frost several days in succession Di rientalis) goes by the name of Pons snl 
morning: a ind yet no pen tbeir normal condition every | exposure on te: sun an rege its sar AS rays. | Y I ere first led to believe this latter could not 
M. J.B. 
freezi lea 
AFTER TREATMENT OF A VIGOROUS SEED- 
a 
A 
on 
out mani res i $ 
of the individual cells are found to be entire. A LING PEAR TREE, WHICH HAS Spa NE 
later period they may be di or give way fi h ha T FOR SEVERAL YEARS 
era tion, or one portion of a t may be killed ro hich has borne fruit ‘toe three 
pro other retains its vitality, and ‘ultimately | or ‘pat e producti aving pa pre- 
vented oye Judicious 1 as thinning of su fruit, will 
als. PAsi in most instances of depressed or apparently successiv: its full degree of development. 
suspended vitality perfect d s upon the 
change of condition not being too abrupt. If the plant | characters,” The he spines on the upper branches become | v 
therefore is thawed too rapidly, or und to|fruit spurs, and it loses that ap which is 
strong light, death is generally the consequence. Plants 
| generally considered a 
be kept in a dark room while thawing, and if 1 so, the 
injury may be trifling. Th eee ee ts and smal 
is only a fa able indication of 
and late keeping of the fruit. 
When the fia Sai tie wise has been finally tried, 
sign of wildness, but which, in | havi 
the delicacy 
twiggy shru bs the effect of frost i is seld om partial, at 
sen hg I 
h 
> 
a b f 
D, 
| other meritorious varieties ; Aecheghernwe tx: 
causes may fe affected while the 
various dpr padaan ET 
sound. V We have therefore « occasionally decayed patches 
dolle’s “ Organographie”), traces of which | may be found | 'xuriant 
in the tree a century or more afterwards, insomuch that | the 
yng ce ape R they made 
