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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
[FEB. 23, 1856: 
be content to make his purchases | blindfold. 2 tol 
well arhin ta: ther 
e are p 
carry o uch more satisfactory busines: 
= sab: how their cost price, mag others Big 
25 per cent. for profit. Thus A will give a 
shilling for an article, sell it for Erling: ey grow 
B a Lipis ng for the same sticle, | 
ai — “a — 
raat, | 
the publio “hold pem be |: 
ad that our 
rs are procuring their spri ng supplies. | 
very body’ knows that after seed e been kept | 
tis 
ap 
It is also 
seeds are ae andtingishabl the eye rata they © 
uce A ti eren 
ai. 
| Benen Esq 
| 
werd cases where propagation by grafting i is] 
The ‘such a subject will be appre- 
ciated the asain of plants, i are invited to 
{Seat ibute any evidence they may possess. That |; 
vidence is not however required for the kre of | 
stat ing “that grafted — s are ofte per: 
| fect as teimas - a of iig ee to be 
procured anywher What wanted are 
| known numbers 1, 2, and 3 fail to give : crop, owing 
spn red to their blossoms being oa and an killed 
f aren 5, and 6, 
ty 
2 
me 
= 
s 
thus b 
planting several varieties ri ripening in the me monti 
ecimens, dead or = de grafting; that 
is to say of grafts Ayi te failed from any cause 
whatever—whether by reason of 
operator, or of the 
from m other circumstance: 
+h 
supply of “roan [a 
has hae aid for distribution from E. 
E learn with much satisfaction that the late 
pera ot RETAN A with Mo kalong (s e p. 67), has 
acted the atte ntion of Sir . HOOKER 3 and 
y an unskilful 
sto 7 not suiting the graft, or by two 0 c! 
fa ilure to a certain extent is guarded ian and thi: 
a) 
Lo] 
© 
Be 
Q 
o 
T 
£2. 
P 4 
3 & 
aes 
o 
Ge ae rs Dnro Ow wv 
remberg 
ripened and rotted Jeen in December ; 
oe Beurré Langelier and Passe Colmars kep 
through January, and yet penny they are all Pears 
wer ripen about the same peri So then let us look 
a few more September Pears, spot er 
Bs 
tance, can the as “of Ori’ round 
Turnip, b a Radish, &c., from each “lie 34 | situation in the museum a specimen n of the abundant bearer and exceedin ngly juicy, not pote ikea 
their se Re et, for instance, worth root of the Monkshood by. the s „side, of one of| Winter Nelis, but kai a aes auy of culture: 
a pound retail, is not to be known by its see m Ho rseradish, together with a ption of th rich oil , and forms 
i points in whic ey ditter. is is really using a fie b li Bonn Arg a full si 
gel aa P orth 6d.; nor Cauliflower worth t hi h they diff ae really usi pro e YE ll sized 
half-a-crown an ounce _ Cabbage seed worth 5 pop siy omotimes ripening 2 at car Pee of 
apo iH hese data furnish the clue to the grea! at == Augst, be opines: be “considered, a Septal 
before us —e rich, and good, succeeds ar bear: s profusely 
TIY nabot lien Ge: bar Ib. for Canll New Plants. en grafted on the Quince. Jalousie de Fontena; 
Pees ‘seq ee ae hi rq Td, pst BY i ACEN MAGNIFICA ; aliàs Loca ing te bee Hees Vendée, like the three preceding atidis; is_yet but 
hile B is satisfied ‘with 9d. “Al hist ae ce5| Planchon and Linden in Fl. des Seri ‘es, X. te 1013, | little artes” but it well deserves atte mation ; ; se is ng 
es manatee "o vee tee g © aS | Most eons would pes gs an ‘Achimenes, of which 
we have already stated ; while B is thrivi This, it has all the habit, far g Tt grows well on the a aa ones a nice 
like all great operations is Droog abont Piy very | 4 valife amid. 
, his pasai “We must, therefore, | P' pyr 
poem ta s. sells all bought it ; object to ithe. introduction of a new name for which We must not forget in this enumeration of Pears for 
bu ds the r one very old, and, I may add, universal 
t is said that Locheria differs from Achimenes 
les | tural, 
in having the cup in which the ovary is seated of a 
e emb 
raneous i instead of a flea! eshy texture ; 3 80 that the 
ere mu ust i a good deal of such 
ingenuity at w wel It i in the 
interest of the fair had no less than i in that of the | 
seeds reveals the 
secre ing is easier, or certain of 
success, We suppose a Laie has 
WoR a a sland of Radish seed is to count 
even number of seeds, A as they 
peg ps n spread on a piec per ; the usual 
and most convenient camber: is ibo These he is 
aS whist ic! 
Eg 
| only upon the mere 
flone of the collectors employed 
il | Reh. we, copy 
enera is now 
thicknes: organ, “but what is 
x 
x 
epte: 
favourite, oo A 
gam 
The 
seat soils look old even when t they are young, 
of a 
worse, of one of no PEO l we mh To that 
doctrine few in this country will subscribe. 
Putting aside names we must add that the plant 
| before us was introduced from Popayan by Mr. Triana, 
by Mr. Linden. 3 
would aj appe ar from 
It ey rs compared a gigantic form of 
mon among 
a | plan nts of i observe that Mr. Linden rer it 
r the name of Locheria mag- 
+ ¢! 
ich 
representing hed 
poe The “tap confined „atmosphere in which 
NOTES ON PEARS.—No. III. 
In describing Colmar d'Eté in the e ues its 
ü selves in the inte: 
xami 
ears old, growing in my iian bears good fruit, and 
looks as young si a tree of a a Ran variety 30 yeats of 
age. This s premature appea e of age in yo 
“4 
brought on 
he an shoots s generally tie half-way down every 
hr s ma 
die ak ie tilting winter. This isa Pear that 
need ae ant when a uthful, for it seems (when planted 5 as 
dard in e Pears 
as the usual w: way) m ore ine! lined tog 
to yai inks than ¢ rn yourself. I g 
al know that it 
and that 
~ m “g ” as hings must in 
these days. is is done by Freie grafting, oF 
os te iro and do! pia aah i bye as 
fo 
bales “ald, builded pol 
k oe Quince stoc 
tree, aoit a foot from its Sioa with the Het 
ergani 
or three 
a nice bea 
PE 
Sa 
w 
:3 
(z 
q: 
5 
m 
n orchards or i ja on 
ON FROST SPLITTING. —By Dr. ROBERT Caspary, 
proceed 
der two questions : 
pha of cp ip in e _athoaphor Se ube hom- 
of the and 2 ther the 
ed E ‘the time ees es vi entirely 
e time when the changes showed them- 
selves h a JERS of the tree, Schübler, R s. his 
researches into the temperature of plants (two 
tations, Tübingen, 1826 and 1699) does not en 
ave taken a very close view of this qu uestion, a and 
0g 
season is given as the “end of September,” exactl 
J 
a: 
Gittiners are not the only 
y the 
as that for Beurré d’Aman ail 8, but it Toe 
succeeds it, and in some sarare ek I may add, from 
the operation. When we ‘look at the prices be 
which 
ough rine a I may 
as well say here ‘that in giving qualified praise to 
4a 
lowers 
tati ion, p. Sanal 0). 
itself very much slower when that e akm ure 
descended below the freezing point ;” ani asain, by the 
converse occurs on the ae tio ce of a If the 
frost had sd wees into the interior Eth tree, if its 
agricultural seeds are sometimes sold, 
cannot ber that a “trial” of such agai 
su 
to gay consider how muc 
the stake whi a the f Tier have in their crops. They 
may nn that very chea denang ral seeds are 
as expensive as very cheap m 
NOTICE has bee 
o 
e had descended belo w the freezing poinh 
proper eaution, for it is “dangerous to say of any 
ticular Pear that it is always good. 
hat were a thered in time, an 
ar neighbour 
and ; he produced them 
te 
sharon and only twice in the da; 
rjat 2p, 
seasons. As Schübler seldom made daily 
ay, at sunrise and 
d for the most part only observe ed once & 
arauan which he ubah on 
P, pl 
serted to the 
eek his 
the “thickness of 
at his dessert, and his friends declared they were 
quite equal to pil amples white Tu ae To return to 
Colmar d’Eté : ery juicy, meltin; 
14 "French inches, he could « ob tain n n0 p information as to 
the a 
it g, and 
agreeable Pear, slightly vinous, aa very refreshing to 
a php vag y pa alate ; the tree is ——e ae its ea 
atmo- 
sphere with the temperature of t Rameaus 
(Ann, Se. wiee fisy nee 2, v. 19, p. ni et EN has has made 
oi. 
Fe 
nt, observing seven oF 
the re of the tree and 
ected for the purpose. 
the o prineipal piect 
f failar 
{UP 
on the 
Pe ear. 
here are perhaps too many September Pears, and 
mperature o 
that of the air, oH has ee the result that the 
influence of the outer temperature on the tree requires 
HY 
p 
were it not that Pears are so variable in their a ur 
and in be: rest old enoug 
of t 
is 4 ee coatinett (about 14 inch) diam 
een thic 
e tree. He found that a Poplar ‘rane o 
eter in e, shade 
e tempera reas that of 
will be to | e 
eae aring we migh and say “hold enough ;” f n 
ig anes ere A can ee soe e or success in | but as pyramids and bushes take z little room, it 
jes aras ilit operation 0 demonstrate the |I think better to cultivate si eight varieties 
possi Ai rin permanent -o or z hatig j un ction ing in the same month than ome in cultivati 
; and i ill say ieties all rip n September, I have 
In June 1841 a tree tree of about ball a metro 
ex: 
pei 19 inches) diameter felt the influence o 
