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paris of these vegetable hillocks. DA 
rying 
we gr ‘and though often Semis 
hi even 8 or 
m a a near 
= he 
urn 
und to bo her- 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
NEE eR Te RE Te TT ere 
psa former, set oti its flowers to more AES and give | 
d a more pharaajeniatia appearance, I would 
suggest that the plants be grown in pots 
the bed 5 ; they could ‘then be removed wi 
: Wall Tree Pr wections. — = Ther 
| which it a appears to m 
may be materia! 
of British cli t 
mildness of temperature in 
- The fault 
improved, lst 
H 
manos 
little ve ae rising to the same length, | 
the early 3008 of winter, | in a of which ibe 
excit. table st 
(Fes. 23, 1856, 
my views the distinctive characters of the plants are ag 
follows :— 
Arum maculatum (Linn.). Leaves bastate-sagittate, with 
deflexed lobes green or spotted with purple, appearing 
in a 3 spring. ayetha ventricose below and sor with 
bes hes ny-seeded 
pia pie 
I le rom Mr. Ham a at gore eye 
penal. in the south ae the Isle of Wight, on 
flow onth later than 
“an 
innumerable far 
covered with imbricating leaves, oath d 
that it is even mon ee cut out a portio 
knife ; while the f 
Lic! ens sometim 
oF 
th a 
that 
plants 
sora on Aea 
or, the n ure 
4 
[araras or so act ra and timeous' — to rest as 
they ought o be, and happoa be in a a on and 
climate. . There ant of pr yA ) 
anna in the met a pa oiea of a ground in 
| weer nd the wall a which | 
each of ens: A foaiee the size, is va product of a| 
. R.” asks if “any one has eyer 
.” Every one the least conyer. 
i ag Oa ii or the mana gement af 
y have he ard o! such but 
antai 
ae often peered. 
ps from a mixed Pa} and 
| the trees are traine e latter part ot 
single seed, and the result of 'many, perhaps h 
Peed Re Inay ae ze it is furnished with | 
very lon; slender, ag sen cular tap-root, like a 
whip lash, that penetrates the 
or e! 
ant whole length with cheathing Thebes As th 
e 
under the full dominio; 
ivi- | meter mari 
spring, before. ti 
a 
= 
nur 
s varieties of the two species cultiy 
he dayne oe ay 500,000 seedlings, in sach batch 
es und s hy brids 
woul be dissimilar either 
par. py urseries we y Ma s and 
ornamental 
hes A9, OFDM 
winter. 
which ked 32° in the, shade at the end of 
pes, Fiato in size, the br anches re Bly more 
more, radia gula rly fro. the rooting centre, 
of oti ey or from young | re Sessitis Ringjald, 
The Pla me Trees o f B yukdere—In reply to Mr, 
r Ciona 
I 
out lateral s hott rom Hie apice s, and in such numbers 
‘that the m: erna and by the time 
the EREDE has ‘gine the diameter of Me. t it i Aisi 
stone wall facing the south. day t 
wer, the fall Kowa le which is felt | 
against an upri the (as yet) slanting rays 
produce little impression on d. A tree perj 
con vex 
againdi ta south wall then is place 
m o say in “the 
well as all that 
arge Plane 
L pi in brs ae hart 5 of 
common 
leaves — ide 
ed in an 
in beg the stem and branches are re from | 
while 
ct tg 
mhn 2 
F 
h 
ha in 
72> «my 
ve 
part of the big and 
Is a 
and they are surrounded ed by a free current of old air 
cultiva tion : of the Oriental Plane with 
which reduces it to a minimum. Tł 
remain in correspondence with each other, and 
stem and aleve, } bat soon turns a aove in Serine 
both continue oly: at rest till the, gradually i in- 
the 
cimens of the foli iage of the latter remarka! e trees, 
mich I Figen in the autumn of 1846, were aid ‘owe 
sao with appa arent effect.” > A bottle of this gum- 
Some idea may be 
t/ to resist t 
bard. 
¥ 
in m motio on _As a consequence o pri 
oe yA 
ra treesat Be uyu sed 
throughout “the 
syi pancia being so differ 
developed early frosts a 
in nny ct, it may be pies that the fruit c | 
tua will be fos Lacie excited and weakly 
nee osed to 
—As to the 
which species thoy. belong to, nor have 
nificent izza, on the Gulf of 
3 at once e 
them. For 
fi it is de- 
for the 
sirable that the roots 8 
w 
ae ee e pac ackin, we wt. 
sone weight of one lu wen Phe embeli forous plant. It 
3 cut oft Prantl at its krai rom the place of 
rowth, b rings away no earth o stones, the who 
t Its  heig ght 
-i 
_ 
Qk 
aa 
y 
J 
undue 
bould a ae and put to ang 
alls from the act tion of the 
years ago be! — * to that 
oopa Tih Se indenters 
ery fi n the wil 
s "n Me 
n.d on, 
trey « pers I would pAb the emplc nyment o 
wei 
tan is 
ip 
an rom one side to 
ke is t Fy Re ey packing materia 
mrs, mposed of filamentous and ran aoe 
U. 
of frames which pers wore i? 
| office on us ground from October to the m of 
January, and from thene 
us | Should serve as a some to 
succession 
= 
Lichens, viz., Usnea melaxantha, pi 
ata, toget! ether ith various 
te: 
a STS res 
ee ars and Willows do with 
one piat the wie age 
of one on th 
us, 
vihat when re 
tely a Platanus psaniis Lae deeply in- 
dented ea a own little shrubbe whic! ich ae 
à thriving plant hardly promises to ie ` 
specim s of the — species 
l Aa to 
| the frame, when laid vetted to any off the eno The 
| ends of | the inner or bottom cross bar of the frame will 
ps B 
pla ace, I paas this autumn p the experiment of 
anting a Platanus orientalis on the banks of the river 
mp an but I fear though in its own sunny clime 
n North Yorkshire it will prove 
Sea- 
Hook. Bot. Antaret, Voy., 1. ¢. 
uscescens, together with what roay 
cens and L. cordata (all figur: 
nia 
red L. nigres 
ve 16 7, 168, 189, ap and 171) if really ast 
Althou gh the f fronds f the Le 
decay 
when no longer wanted for the border the frame might 
| os — rt and hooked or aaa d to projec 
ear the 
kept clea: 
ci relation cr air. excessive 
rain: 
too damp and cold for it it. A e 
Platanus occidentalis is the pc grower or of the two, 
i country attains the largest size. In thisl 
I saw 2 Gacoenas in 
m ltalicum 
n tak 
PUARE IE 
? Chronicle 
+, f 4 
2 
y 
$5, 
F 
gro pleas ea, 
at once all our fo: Fe: omano of acl science about the con- 
w forms, 
the presence 
jena nen | 
or not of this ewe | of se and I am 
| srry to see them tryin ng to o dis stinguish the A. italicum 
the 
We may talk and 
write to poopledp ioe. ie tno oxygen, hydrogen; ae 
and Professor » the glaring fact will | still remain 
ows T werd 
Of “this 
weed, specimens 100 Sr 200 feet in a ag 
paratively common ; rom observ: ay the t are 
of trust. I have | also been Sorry to see an namai 
forced or mene grown pone oes 
and 
Serge there is reason to believe that po attain 
length o 
f 700 feet! —and if so, assur redly the grea atest | 
T EA a native 
the rearran| ed, reor anised, or pte red 
id mtd hp actually the 
cou 
of ? 
is does not occur in the Gar aes 
sca 
"J.H. 
f Ferns. by “& R. E.” of 
en of Them e has, called the spiral itary 
filament a worm — will n t this unintentionally lead 
urnal it is to be 
s3 
ga production of a Pe struc- 
ese ciliary Al 
me, ventures to eae ZAA them an 
or a Poua vitality. R. Bree, Strick- 
A 
are the; 
expressed by “ The 
ELS he opini relative to the valu: 
of this mat:rial, for I find AG my notes of the proceed- 
ings the subject was not discussed 
John Carll, Secretary to the Streatham 
in 
e did not intend, I am 
Al 
Pigs Turner must I} 
m —I 
agree with your York corre- 
respecting the merits 
of this be ire 
t this se: 
peara sar “an ag ang 
more rece so in the botany Normandy 
Brittany, th 
very es: ssence of some horrid art 
or one of thi roud monuments of 
climate the south-western counties of Bolas 
whether poets had not been — disi 
when my 
eyes 
from that work, , and even from Declongehamps Spi 
lica,” i 
serena in the nar western provinces of France ; but if 
e turn to the FERREE - amy ree p” e” of D Drs. 
Grenier and Godron, it | appe 
fell with ‘delight Priha two huge pots. con containing, 
at I knew full well would soon be 
converted into Rhubarb pie. Now then, I said to 
will this great question be decided, Feesn o 
as well as in — Medite: 
ean region. What der, 
therefore, = wonder, 
s there that a p a plant that i is a native of the 
W i 
» What would look better ai 
indow a piam 
Py ae E Tine 
A aaiue with Daphne ) BRUTE The 
The wonder rather i is that it should have rema te | 
known until now, and that it still niie unknown in 
wh 
von, and rnwall, and in the 
that smok 
aah Pogo age would enhance the beauty of the 
$ * From one plant there is a very fine tuft of the « “ Diddie-dee” 
of the Islanders (Empetrum goum, atoning 
the side, and another See ol 
summit! tuft of the same form rey 
south of Ireland, in all of which te may safely be pre- | 
dicted that it will be soon noticed. Let me hope that 
pany pirtin Acasa ers who may read these 
will have the pleasure of finding it. According to| Rhubarb.” 
in churchyard. dion 
A ay te m and a pie of that 
smoky o the question I had: the 
Rb in enh t on the spot, and the ple 
wherewith it nae’ was not smoky. pater} 
case, dear,’ said a gentle voice, 
7 my Rhubarb was foreed 
