86 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Fes. 9, 1856, 
es is. but let me first premise 
— ag lover of the Plane, and Im 
that I ania always, 
add of all | 
‘ornamental effect. There is probably no other plant 
of recent Sinaia which deserves mee attention 
pending as it pon racemes poncsnid as 
their eir pact im God’s temples; and I shall never 
wonderful for = om g-con ogre 
forget my feelings of admiration and devotion 
sta ago—dire ect] 
nued pes pr ve | eas 
eet unequalled brilianey 
bloom. west 
ns come from, and where 
‘great rai do they descend 
most copiously ?—from the S. W. and near the sea, or 
on the higher lands ? t yr in-fall in the 
of England less than the t? Is it not that the 
easterly winds bring less rain, an hat the south. 
nding—many years ag y under the Pan- of colour ae for si of bl tending ern have expended themselves befor they 
shanger Oak in this county i gni y do bes ughout the greater pies of the ch the eas ? I think it 
ficent branches and their a arta disposition seemed | year, gay the yet in summer, and without | the easterly s vier in the 
to be looking at Divine architecture. Some 30 yearsja rival for graceful of effect in winter, | west, and vice versd, and hence the mean ain-fall is in 
since—it pe be nearly 40—I Aie pl irere: F much | Some idea of the ara pert to the continued ex- | the centre of England. This, ae requires con- 
interested by two rows 0 of Plan y of bloom from the aie, flower stems firmation. But depend upon it that the averages will 
lfatl Plane, y he fabmada I y ag e S or removalof 
r the len f: tree: a 3 it id that since tr ve 
leaves, “but en d "bed „it made tlerbly vigorous able, aio they val” even real em the alm: been in Egypt rain always falls. As to the 
half way or utea has also expanded second ps asked by Mr. Horsfall, as to capillary 
n the ‘winter and si ung trees prope pase yellow blossoms, still larger than those of the | attraction (if what he says amounts to a question which 
gated from the stools P “7 ina “(this sort a ely, “ Whe ther the power of 
posh from cuttings s) w conse quently s mpy ttracti a, These species age the 1 
ill its foli: hł uable of s soil, external temperature, and as to the height do a 
s4 
1. 
avonrite with 1 me, the ‘more so perha ps 
I wa S, 
being aean ia pe a for = culture Prp 
f 
difficult to cultivate with success. 
another, impressed with the idea sec this must be the 
true Ameri Cay Baoe but pose Iw o the 
whi chit saturates the soil ?”” from what be nay ys ahore 
artistic wire-work or upon ornamental al pillars, o 
xe th 
countr: 
and suita mperature can be | Wi 
nurseries (I, yy 
authorities,). T oe, quite a prs variety arn 
Ha sat of pase occidentalis, and I was of course 
l parca paningy. On applying t to p hesi — 
e that t my fav 
would no 
} 
ensured. W. Hooi, Bactiouses y NUT ork. 
Discoloured Granite — pe? a terrace and 
Eet anite, 
I ai nee e between ch the pnd of ts 
ter Ot: the ‘tiv Wh and strongly defined 
ka to which the moisture rises,” I "thin that he has 
not taken the best way to set ttle the question. I 
flower garden sunning 
duri ring | the few years it has been i ssi hoe 
remained | e 
but some Lisne vie it I ams wd 
not; I oe wrote to the United. el some 
seed of were pons gee or ihl ae es of 
the woods ; me, young 
e the soil ie aga the bank, he would I 
think find that the re or less char arged with 
to say are now beginnin; g to assum: d gree’ 
appearance, which is offensive a, ahs eye of my 
employer. Can any of your correspondents inform me 
| yoba- ka le aS TAr 
and hold by capillary attraction promt of their balk 
and one-fourth of their poy As this water 
t 
1, 
namely th hick off by d rises s to 
Arum italicum. 
act SYT 
P 9 
h £ 4} a 
et convinced AIAR 
the jA ira on Plan e of 
the environs of London, and that. tt id 
of Mr. Hambrough’s ‘note. ait; is now in full fruit,” 
says Mr. Hambrough. But when was now ? Diss, 
vide the bank i is probably the pn Aea the nee of 
balances the pire 6 e zapina of 
if the face o 
vis very nae Ma 
an 
“ 
ne 
her I 
some young trees Bon. one of my 
can friends, and | put the question at rest. With 
of Edinbur; urgh.] 
eally cannot swallow 
and a 
Californ an Woodee kers. ei ob 
sheltered x ev: ais it would ety ‘low rte 
line to rise Baye at that ds ccording 
peci 
’s account of we woodpeckers 
rns 
J 
t AERE 
rray’s 
Woodpeckers do not feed on 
re dh 
PP 
fae to en- 
£, 
by na ature 
he hard acorn. The throat of the woodpecker is 
t 1 ill to gulp an acorn. as 
aisah rece! cited it, from France as | 
pakn only. attack pron an bark, a ae tate of 
od- | s 
Profesor Lei pe teannta that in T coarse 
ine a t the hi 
ey , the wate 
sand, 
in were sine into 
ould asce; 
a 
hyl is a mo: 
in it y of ver min 
is ost 
its pea are nop so > deeply | 
Plan 
tanı a. 
vigorous growing tree, it 
se Pu arsine of the true pear 
th f the 
pidly. 
which forim theiruatural and usual foo 
ould never bore the holes th gp an acorn in the 
act te ; because, when these bi rds attack the bark, 
i s 
Len. 
ly parted 
paral gives us ef feet ; 
in IE ys, except under the action of evaporation. 
Kas: ule: 
neir bills are invariably 
fi kind of eing the hen 
re 
jety e given fee in Feance,| 
ag i e cultivated are 
This bei 
where had they the acorns in the meantime ? f, Did the 
PPJ 
ze, 
where it 
French poet I find r the names “ Platane 
pilfer them from some stall where they | were on ‘sale, 
the mt) of direct Sainte so that below 
i Ci 
à s feuilles,” L 
and ed Platane apago t the Spanish Plane. I Dave | 
ved thence appear to m iep be sso: aimn ng | 
Manan 
It must have been for pastime—not for a provision | of 
y parti ied. J. C. Clutterbuck. 
Felling Beech.— —At 
food. 
of me conceive how they man: aged to assemble 
papkasi of it, viz. 
large leav ves very ri cut, and EI ana "these 
all i grow from cuttings freely, are very age 
the li 
in * “ perfect. swarms.” Woodpeckers will sometimes 
is the hardiest of ll, an 
of the ae neg Fp 
J 
a 
a pat no diffuse in its habit as it increases 
but no eth aos at all to the extent of P. acerif lia. a. "i 
will, I thiol, form by far the finest tree of all, and grows | 
well in soils unfa vourable even to the P. acerifolia, k 
may as well say why I think the latter and i its se 
some individuals nee 
ongst the acorns. In ase the d have 
| been suited - the food, and the food to a bill. Chart 
a Coas —I 
Planes ; they ‘are all much 
more dy 
than shogo 
robust and har 
rasa „distinct species, they | all grow freely 
great expos 
sphere. ithe pupe is S plan 
ornamental tree 
of ie jaia, (my Ocoidental) age instal E Li aye! 
will strike 
root ; the varietie 
SE name I fi it in 
in 
ood of Dover, paty exposed to A 
andy, and 
“rhe best 
the gac fr m: Oe 
rock. 
re I to hazard a conjecture, I are presume Aran i 
pe 
shrubbery, with rs, 
and shrubs 4 prinelpally pe ever- | 12 
a beach 
s the following I list of trees and 
as | a actually farioing- Me, pretty gardens facing the Pe 
the s summer ; and KAN a beam 
cottage in 1830 i is a fresh and soun 
The Beech is the indigen 
fore, beg of “ Sa a 
with m S, €g., Size of tree 
ountry as the e beam midi in upu Sapia or pre faa 
s he other similar trial, pe w 
prie ar h plank in water 
at well enough far bs 
of Beech pi 
at St. Leonard’s. 
jash _Aueu uba, ine 
a tree lover who has 
travelled i in Spain will pe: Mapai be able to zeeen 8 
on about this very interesting tree. Per 
me 
aaa my usual signature, and to s caer: 
T.R,, Herts. 
He ris mysorensis,—About 15 months ago a 
specimen of this beautiful „hothouse 
healthy young 
Rea iM planted in a quan ay of loose 
lately | H 
vealf Jim, “Pontic Ale, ane 
Lucombe » China 
um, Tamarisk, Egish pe I Turkey Pe: 
> 
agai iinta rea, Wue S, “im pel arbora, ee 
B 
gu sam ot 
Wint. 
n ki 
ppa ia Erica cna all in per rfect health.] 
Rain Fall and Drainage Sorc Ae — Capillary 
above sepa- 
the north side acpi tform of a 
house here, and trained ines 
ing then to 
ine S above 
rate heads (Jai } 
21, TARRY 
protection of opirale rp —, &e,, in ee, 
Lancaster’s “ Lig 
nent to direct attention to Mr. 
| num Te tile? "an example o of which was exhibited at the 
” Society's Meeran i on Thursday 
ern- 
ce 
| reference to the table ee vain tall — 
eve: 
venture to mshi 
1841 to 1855 
show 
the goes it was admitted iy “all ae to be 
gt 
years 4 inches verage. > — ‘of 
averages is quite wonderful, „whether ow the 
barometer, thermometer, or rain-guage 
pad jen nimst 
desirable and useful article. The model submitted for fot 
offered, 0 ape of a shutter, ote 
whole length and Sith of toe lah ; Another diyided 
across the centre, where thare aa lap enabling 
E to be drawn o 
vie aes back to 
e; 
hids ; 
ike 
sO, 
3 
aP 
| taking 1: 2 months, the majo: rity of th 
within the limit of that Variation, There ‘is no reason 
composition 
aimosphere, pte pyt as metl, 
is 
J 
of 
Aei a, Sn eppeontinn Sa the earth is not 
d b 
new year that its 
ossoms, 
Se aoaaa their florid tints, 
* These are stumj stocks from yone.-thentn. 
epee ost ee aia in are | 
it is a nurseryman’s term. 
thera gan the 
time the plant is daily increasing in | air 
Lynn itin en eres eee er re 
to give it off. But if this be doubted, whence do our 
