ApRIL = 1856.] 
THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
pool exa sery th o Pear 
g es varie iety Ah drine Hélie enai after 
Malle. Hélie, of Paris, a daughter of one sabe the corre- 
te 
"a udden change, 1 it 
ma vie sefu I to shade the trunks ‘of valuable trees 
=| whic are = peeuliariy exposed to injury. 
pe mee f frequen takes place, how- 
simple fronded Ferns, having so 
reson no doubt arisen 
spondents of the late Van Mo ons). The ariety ca 
first into bearing in 1844, two years afte 
Van M d was named as above oy hi his son. We| wl it is als 
may add, i and the fi 
belongs to the race of the Passo Colmar, Both trees 
© 
ng or the use of sea or 
P 
grammas now alluded toa an jirar hont rarere in rate 
limited ; and as 
ground glass, the ot by p nig o 
were planted under the most favourable conditions 
soil. eo 
3 | Pa 
when 
ss, as to induce injury to tender pons It 1 
the latter ote as monni pro 
Swartz, had somethin, aes i 
the leaves are young that they seem 
susceptible of i ` injury. , The destruction of the tissue is 
it, and 
be 3 
ey wi edi ffer 
ined to settle that point, I 
of t 
delicate tree, r3 E ead it, at the ner of 6 feet, inj 
tock ra Poi 
on a stoc @’ Amande 
double. 
Ar, 
ka s vigo rous as | pec 
an unsigh tly blotch appears upon the BETI ali ae 
leaves ultimately fall. 
f 
culiar kind o of glass w whi ch may | be u used d, thou 
h 
ugh from 
+h 
ong ago 
d Dr. Greville, too dist 
Rath i man 
the other tree of the sam: rth y 
zs ajr bore ae fruits eacli hew ae Dest ther 
ariety, This result leads to another con- 
‘ous s seedling wen after having 
stock which exercises an 
which 
"The “presen 
in 1848,+ in spite of some conflicting facts, it i 
certain from its peculiar mode of manufacture that 
c 
glass. The e perfect 
= these will be 
lose its essential prope: erties; and 
ed under circum- 
ve 
soon a the tree is 
ir 
the influence of ti 
ro- considerably 
terminal iahërent ‘as Pri fronds of about 2 feet in 
length, lance- al ry tapering jan A much snow, the 
lowest pinnæ being merely ae tary ; enw are also 
tape! ered and e ongated t the The 
+4, 
bability there is of injury, In small 
eee a is <i a evident Pld ra rari pene be 
ried t with —_ The medy 
ilation. 
mple. Two strong pyra 
of the variety Nowreae É Pöte; which forms part 
of our collection, “One of these pyramids s has ascendi ling 
n secured, from the patient: of Sir J. Rati and | The 
bee 
Mr. Rivers, no evil has been experienced from the use 
nate at the apex, sitet almost to a rachis, the 
segments narrow- ar or mnt sometimes ware 
tuse. occasio: renate at th 3 
is has one ob 
extagen oa the ro i frond is pubescent. 
The ‘fronds are fertile throughou ni the so: 
of sheet glass. 
1 
469, pred bate occur frequently upon the tender 
at d 
produced for four years fine fruit, especially on 
Th 
upper 
November, a 
nd a el 
pyramid has re ‘eancitee less u 
of being of a deep green colour is yellowish 
he | fi ter acting asalens, It 
t the end of aA whether this is a true explana- 
tion of the c case. It is much more probable that so: 
d th d mica takes place at e young tissues 
action 
and the water, which is injuri 
470. The re however in i this latter case are not 
ins 
brown, et fruits are not so ea formed, their quali ty 
is far from bein ng d; ai 
pe itt 
hyil , but the chlo- 
J 
me | name os ‘have 
T. M, 
e ‘aes Riser. 
side 
cases 
and ranged in an eee men parallel $ series on each 
the midvein. It isa of Jamaica, and was in 
duced to our gardens mi mut five yea ce. It 
taken the opportunity to associ 
with i 
Home Gorresponddnes 
The Horticultural eon have anxiously 
1l in your Journal 
oo the fruit is peat at the same ae and me 
are both under the same system of management. 
arise 
spot ‘appears acre ae a rocker raare. 
Sometimes | the centre of the ) spot is a mm bya few 
hed in 
regarding the question of a mpewe the garden of 
the Horti cultural Society. oma 4 a foreigner and no 
en oak this difference from the difference of t F y, 
itocks on which the trees rked ? q han tł Such spots | littl 
t believe so; for the person fr ibly be due to th d f tl ius fone with the core af 
J P 
: e 1 - 
oy he Tali 
generals, avd thit E may perhaps risk a similar treat- 
ortained employed the sa same me kind. of 
tha PD; 
k. | action, on the og of “oe ment. e the lively interest I take 
Asthird proof confirmatory of the influence of | and cold aid ae escape ie noti £ Virgil, who conse- a ‘Horticulture and the 
the stock upon the graft as me hes ma "period cme: quently describes « vara parning: $ or, in other words, | COUV. victio! Europ 
ripening. The effect i s to destroy the: di Senne of which would be a 
ł š vitality i in “one or two celle i in q gree deplorable for all SERER r riirn than the 
which ripen eal in the ver ot ane mber 1 te ndon Horticultural Society in its full and unabated 
beginning of October. One of my standard trees, | face eof a , smooth, sheet of water into hicha’ fob “has | efficiency, and the Gardeners? Chron riick journal con- 
in the same soil as two pyramids, aei fruit fallen taining more real praci ractical knowledge — = te con- 
of which ive ripening did not take place till ofan of leaves giv spots, s l à are too s n me, 
the end of November, and continuing till the end of probably ys the action oan bg pate ok os their not to give them way and make me bold E Toffer 1007. 
December. The stock originated fi seed of the |acting as lenses, a time eA vitality is compara. b 
Catillac Pear, on which at half-standa: eight was | tively low. In noie cases, as that of a Cherry the woes o be eSB for the conservation of the 
budded a good winter Pear, and on the stem thus/|] shes of which were figured in this Journal, 1849, Chisw wic k Hortieu tural Gardens. Sir, I know very well 
formed was grafted five years ago the Williams’s Bon 595, the whole subjacent athe 5, des estroye ed, : and the Sar noo is a trifling sum in England . But I am no 
Chrétien. f Pp means, ani ka will 
the fruit, a in the same fruit room, is it not owing portion separates as the leaves eee i ca oe fail to find a good place irections for 
to the influence of the stock? We forgot to ‘mention are left, as if they had been bdr ioe insects, | payment will be given upon notice. Hein, 9 
that the wc of the fruit left nothin be to be desired, | M.J. B. Travemünde, near Lübeck, April 9, 1856. F 
and that it superi c flav — huja dolabrata and Cupressus japon In looking 
the b over “ Thunberg’s Travels in Japan in 1775-6,” which, 
Quince stock. i NEW apy FERNS.—No, by the way, is the most i we have yet 
These f: lear] that ld b 21. p aama tıs Hewarpu, Moore, in Dise Filicum, | had of the interior of that country, that 
to ledge the uence of the ~ Gy caine part Heward, Mag. Nat. | Fakonie, after passing over 
graft, and that the latter can onl its of an Hist, 1838, ae LeproGRaMMA GRACILE, J. Smith, | his road to Jedo, and at about two or three days’ 
ameliorated character in proportion as it is favourably| Hook. Journ 2 iV, journey t , “one of the handsomest and largest 
by the stock. Itis from of the | Fronds lanceolat ses te pldokteupiiarieds pinne oblong I I r h p p je 
stock and graft that healthy vigour : and unless| lanceolate Ktos into; alternate, decrescent below, the lowest dolabrata, h h l h the road- 
that analogy is sufficiently close, it is impossible, in our a tpos di nied and Pnet beset ian open mouse side. I consider this the 8 ts z 
elimate, to obtain fi a tree, the Pear| sori oblong niple, ok ee es tiniserial on each side } Fir-leaved on account of its height, its 
stock, either as a dwarf, half, or tall its in| the costa; fronds te adherent to an b and aves, which constantly green on the 
all their beauty, and ing all the essential qualities| We side ited a view of Presl, which appears | upper and of a silver-white hue on the under part.” I 
of the variety. De J B the most as to neric position of | have seen Conifer me fi 
compound Ferns iibb h as th talogue, do not ever having seen it 
TPT ee in English collections. it been introduced ?”” 
poe an PATHOLOGY.—No, CXVII. O f Vl [We believe Messrs. J: Veitch & Co. possess it.] 
467. Heriosıs* (Sun-burn, sun-spot, d&c.).—Under the AAN ax he says, page 164, vol. iii. of his “ Travels,” 
article Say x) t a powerful ANAN TS ie (Cupressus japonica) grow in gr apne 
action the sun in promoting or destro; the fune- Y FAS hereabouts (i, e., near the village of Fakonie), as 
tions of plants, but it is no less powerful in producing TV PA RN as in most of ; but nowhere perhaps can 
erganic mischief. One instance was tioned in A MANAN Kat finer or in greater ý 
car part of this, seriea under the article Gumming: N AYNA ENR y | indeed, the straightest and tallest of all the Fir-leaved 
Th ’s ray "S We AIS Á rees. Their trunks run up as straight as a cand| 
of tt bmitted to their d \ZS Za RA nAi he wood lasts long without being subject to decay. 
that the bark bursts; and the an a As Bit ey ys? t is not only made use of for the construction of 
induces further evil. M, De Jonghe has very lately UES Nn e OLANE IS bridges, ships, boats, and other sorts of wood-work 
drawn attention to this circumstance, and wn NS o O VA to be kept under water; but of it is made also 
moreover that fissures in the trunks are sometimes due | 2 ONNIN ARS oiners’ work of all kinds and dimensions, which, when 
to the same cause, which are often attributed to frost. | Oo AY VAN ANG aa lacquered, show all its veins through the varnish.” 
The circumstance has perhaps not attracted the atten- O AF NZ NAZIS Has this fine tree been introduced into England? 
tion which is requisite in this country. In extremely NZ VASA [Yes; it is pes comgehed japonica.] In the = 
® From vamas I am exposed to the sum. NZS ate a pigs; see ene he Theja, hoe 
t The action of heat or cold in splitting such solid structures as SZ EA Te > northern and mountainous part | being 
wood may be illustrated by the following passage in Sir James OR “> very cold, I found here several genera of trees and 
Ross's “ Antarctic Voyage,” vol. i. p. 225:—“ We have often in ike SS shrubs which are otherwise inhabitants in Europe, 
the “Aree regions rid rarer Ne ne LS for the most part they were a new species. 
SURGE D a aaao miliea.azient; apoiar an the, frie of the present species, that is to say simple oblong naked | Thus I found here two or three kinds of Onk, some 
water lakes of those regions, where the ice being perfectly trans- | gopi, They are sg 9 — referred to Gymno- | Vaccinia, a few Viburna, and trees of the Maple ki 
pane Senn ga e a Ma the ae aser aeS gramma, or to its offshoot Leptogramma, the genus together with a wild sort of Japanese Pear. (Pyrus 
pamikir grain aet r er whole ext tof the lake in = en ee nica)” We ma ee ag Pa 
direction, and attended with frequent ; some j P jap flourish 
Stha pisite haa Cerk Gal oF WE | Maien. Ea : ‘las, T. R, Herts. © Siar 
saone.” in-contact ‘with the irigas adurat—Virg. Georg. 3, ¥. 98. ‘Thermometers.— Persons acquainted with Rutherford’s 
