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532 x THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, [JUNE 10, |р, 
cireumf. her, and their | present time, and I consider their identi, mm 
circumference at 3 feet above the ground. Another | bearing features of affinity to each other, І ег their ide = 
20 feet 6 i hes. ori inal enus, distinct from all other genera and |in the following particulars : ЕС ow 
Быз араа Uns by its aide коа — A Fori inal, all plants had the power of|general сие of the seed ; the exa, me of ap 
а . Th zt largest one that I measured re eproduction in them selves. What we call m: I| above the sur! visis expansion of [s first ee 
i e boles, led the Ho llow ы Oak, which will hold six | suppose are nothing more than hybrids. I hay aid the gen Ен, арреагапсе of the plants in both ae, 
beople very comforta ably in the interior, and measures ү = the lenmag have found a difficulty in ngt ; th кие orn, size, 
t eet above the ground. | e t lin e bet een a veg eta ble and ud: nor is stis and midi € "t leaf; the of оо obe 
Sev 16 to = фе — in so тен. об g пет апа lastly, the tim Aa the Ped 
per han тай ae e all the of solidity, е at food are much the s In these particulars I have bem E & 
but doubtless, if " subjected to the! e. DH be found | learned reader oblige me by Чейин, p species 0» no pen whatev Mr. Sutton says Ri L 
wantin knowledge of i 24 осона: о floral - der or кй a was two days in айтан which is very probable cader 
n lo over the large number of these aged tion. WFR delyjfe, Tarrant Rushton. the appearance of the first blossa ‚ but could bL] 
h st k r diversified Ants, seen y ma ing a careful su 
ч array : Бок ЫП cmn of eei т um S | Kindness i suggesting some means of е ants | whole er op ? "Ina pea crop of Peas there maki 
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all fruit trees, I have lost in succes- | some difference in the ime of coming in bl 
or ] and this ear, although with tao | we ought to be careful how we judge of a whole ч 
in- | best pei ead to prevent iS I fear I shall lose by the appearance of ong or two individual К 
йй нА Позу ai tiak counterpart t third planting. The insects congregate by bh агч sis My Pea n December l4th in a situation 
itself, either "na ^ MM on to progress or|inthe leaves, thereby destroying the trees. Henr; St. | lightly а e kin , and Hebe the latter part of 
retrogress from desirable sample. "The | Auber, North Petherton, Somerset, [Guano is pU to | we were visited in this locality with very severe frosta, 
rgost specimens а to innn densely covered | drive them away. Try the effect of giving EN wor st | s so tha tI sho uld n ot have Pen A if the crop 
h these knots, which detract in some measure from | among your trees a good dusting wit ey lived on, however, and were 
iho valuo of the timber. On qutüng the tape-line experiment and give e rest Aw thorongh | blossom by May 1st, and were in fair condition to pg 
dorned in this way, | washings with clean = е] рона with force from а on the An. On the same day (Dece 
~ Ф at 1 foot fro ye powe werful garden e engin NUT after rwards strewn | in the раною І plant d оез. эу, 
Pa t tl came in som four days later, s during tte Ша 
1j гау t to girth 2 
grouud, but 3 feet Mee ip бра нечаси ed 1 17 foet dp botn 
m lled Queen Mary’s | 
Oak ут arezar есем ме, апа ү of her Disbudding Vines.—l h often thought that day ‚ which made a ангаа а Ге, Ти 
faithful att ould be a good thing if the. frequent stoppings and A distinguishing features of “ First Crop” are—lst, i 
d to Cad It is yet in a pretty good beris of "Vines а be Lys rid of. This led me to | tendency to produce flower-buds in the axils of фе 
state, measures 20 ft at 9 "d above the ground, | try how disbud erba eed, and I found to my | lower leaves, E 2adly, its rapid growth in all it 
and is one of the est and probably the loftiest great delight that it answered capitally. The way I | stages, and I am confident that by good treatment tiis 
ted was this: I took out every bud down to the one | Pea may be made to produce very early, I am 
"Pr hese Oaks I» as girth is reme stand favour- |I ho b ne pruning time, wi enblema! o same 
ably in com: n with any of the Scotch Oaks whose | the һе exoepiion, ". course, of those on branches on which | sown in Maroh, ан E was ready to gather е 
Ор Ыт аре person e оешкан T was maki ing, but as the plan | reduce the number of sorts of Peas 108e which an 
roved so successful in its results, and saved me much | most useful and re ally EN А. it is also highly 
some pros ring 16 feet in "eireum- | trouble ШОП any apparent d I venture to important ls the nu names should mi ? 
ference ; aud dao "враз ofi one Bade raised from | record it. ins lue of the sap в y mber of distinc ана, and that cars 
nder 16 feet of sini the frag- [е development of a fine leaf, which ble t uld be А EN to retai ose names which are 
ment of which emer бт 30 feet round; and, what|rate a good Т pply of [оре food, and this again ul descriptive. Чыршы many varieties of 
wasm interesting, found to be in a good state of | resulted in a good bunch of Grapes. By ү plan, | vegetables are named bis the least attention to 
preservation. These Cadzow Oaks, however, differ in | moreover, all Ae со of -branches is done away | description. І would suggest the propriety of retaining 
some moe cts from. the dimensions of m апу; e en the juices of the plant are kept in ther proper the name “ First Crop si ' for the Pea under d — 
d^ course, and a most rre appear anda gu i 
st the sequences. The best | Permit me to say (May 28) that I have кб q | 
f branch 2 Wm. Paul's Tom Thumb, sown on the first week 
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to altitude, e of bole or peri which mus 
entirely owing to the climate, for it is “анары to to 
d b 2 end 
Early re бей of the petto who informed protetti; Thos. Slowe, Garden . 
Oaks have all à pane in. Climate has more to | Mr. Whiting (p. 508) that they could not perceive any Esq., Brackley Lodge, Walton-on-Thames. —1 swel 
do am the of timber than many difference between Carpenter’s Express and Sangster’s | a row of each of the following Peas on the same day, 
people credit, а кш: be an object in the plant- 0. 1, can have had the "obe үш: „Wi th m e, bo th | viz. Feb. 6 :—Sutton’s Rin leader came into bloom o 
ing of estates in io localities to introduce only last year and this, there is г he 29th of April; Carter's Firs 
ood as is suitable. се а е old Oaks are, them. ll as S М ay; Dickson's First and Best on the 5th of May; 
an and it is a fortnight MT it is 10 a dern than xis Early on the 7th of May; and 
of the old English Oaks. Quem Ерера Oak, for Dillistone's. I G them all three side by side last | No. aniel O’Rourke on the 8th of m 
example, at EEEE we rea n circum- year, under precisely the same treatment; and this Seton s ing eader was ready for the tai 
ference 5 foet rom the ground; gu Тее "is сое з to yet the о Express has fully ay Косак its character for 186. of Mi > Ca rter’s First Crop oe : 24 е I4 
instan à of th 
sc Ж I cannot, pieta help. alloding = "Carpenters ore, 9 e a south- west border, on a Dillo s, Sangster's, e Ya н O'Rourke 
to what are considered to be the three finest living | NOV- 23, 1864; the Express was in bloom on May 1, | not be ready for several days du 
specimens, now showing ze aes health and general | and I gathered а good dish on the 26th, and nearly | appears that the three new ort o 
Stateliness, as compared with the`best of our Scotch | ^W pecks from 16 on the 30th of that шош. I have than kinds previously in стади tna agi | 
e “Great Oak," at Panshanger, measures ОПУ gathered the first from Sangster's No. 1 to-day | is mi earliest of all. William Ray Gardener, 
19 bove the lar 
is computed to contain 1000 feet of timber. Ta in Er A di de онно while Sangster's 5 each Borders, Ws Denis 
** Chandos ," near Southgate, is very nearly . l, sown on the date, is just podding.| answered your corresponde "d 
large, and fully as healthy; and the “ Bounds Р, Aes т" is only fair, however, н state that Sangster's turfing Vine borders (р. 488), will Lys EET 1 
Oak," close by Tunbridge, has a straight stem, and No. 1 is the best cropper, as the Express, like a word in favour of ariig 1 rr 
measures 22 ft, at 2 fi t above the ground, and alis ity Dillistone's, is only а moderate bearer. James extend to Vine borders, ye It 
tapers to 16 or 17 fee Mazwell, The Gardens, Exton Park, Oakham.——- | direction. About 25 years M ind d Mi ch 4 
eU these Oaks mall compared b: nos ny in І bave not seen апу mention made in you r columns of | of Morello Mert the border 
England, but there Шет. are in du height of vigour, Dickson's Early and Best Pea, "Mere атавы for over, and better fruit or more el. ted a house df 
nearly equal in girth to the largest samples of the | 1:3 earliness— at least I have proved it о be во against | saw before ог s sino «oes 1849 I p ће жау соп, 
Cadzow Oaks, which have for the last 300 years been other varieties. On account of my garden being low, | Peaches here, and as it was їп an опсо 
on the wane. J, A. and the soil cold and stiff, I am obliged to sow in -— to. cd ъ Ъо 
n w d I have 7$ ерй 
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sowed a quantity of Dickson's Farly and Best, and | sayin "that, better fruit than those tros e vile 
Home Sayay sar arrana Sa pe No.1 in turves on the 3d of Uu and | ч! ng th the foliage is 9 inches long and Mia i 
What is а Species ?—Species is a vori Ак. put them on narrow strips of wood into a Vinery which | and as healthy as роты: І inclose а 
applied, Species in ааа аге s Кек was starte d on the 186 Ка Jan nuary, When hey were | - picture. 2, health]. ^ 
1 ) I would 
several КЕМ dee 2 a vi with sm 
ега! preces ої gold, silver, and кезун врат in | and finally ani Cs out on the mé AT of March | sown dá in he. because when co 
logic expresses an idea d of by s - Mas with a few rows|long manure, or Fern, they become виш d 
called [del oe m e optics is the image imprinted = осп Dwarf Prol ific, sown in turves on the Ham moisture, but when turfed ov hi b acts asa 000 
obi e heir DS y the rays „ОЁ light reflected from an anuary. The result is, that I began ME rom | moisture is absorbed by the Grass, w Pind the bait it 
Pow I w Р аер нт The learned Dickson's s April 24th; I could, however, have p Led а | conductor as well, keeps the frost out, all what eH 
i y in their definition; nor Il earlier. The first dish of Singers | and is also a natural d Lim | 
: i th of April, and McLea warf | во well? J. Stevenson, Gr. 
vegetable is exactly as to fix p m that distin Ройс is jte open in, — with dodi fou t A | Lambton Castle. Arrow Grass" in 
D ө e бы an а паг “ Squeers," xs бе. top almost to th. und. The three varieties form Yarrow.—This plant is called “ xb of mine, 
кола ny, ii bes efine s good su "Diekson's g^ not remarkable as de | parish, e : used iy one old f di tereti A. 
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defined; ass of beings comprehending abundant cropper, but its earliness is ича! recom- | conjunction with gin, as 24 d should be 
Wers a genus invested with a | mendation for it, J. €. Mundell, ooley House, | the diuretio proporties of t 
6 and reasoning powers, it might address us in | Coulsden, don.—— send you along with хм Br ether assigned to the gin. 2. 7 
re рт оо a e тй pA Sutton's Ringleader Peas, which w Wee In your Paper o 
"st a race which mus proceed from me, arch 28th, and are now quite ready to iiber, writes that he has destroy 
| Yet my whole species in myself I see,”— DRYDEN. | having been only about „nine weeks gro FRA Seve ral | sumes were e, "Y well as fe 
e. lf this be so, then, however difficult it may be to | other amo i ion tha wasps whi 
define. е species botan nically,'one thing is certain—that all | were Daniel O'Rourke, which are now just Showing | months of vp а жык >л 
_— Species cles must have features, however they may differ | flower. 7! te Horse, Binfield, Brac pe ell.—— | е 22d о 
from. үөү Red imd also from all others, that proclaim | : haren now growing sido by side the two early Pea | garden Мева, t every very wasp they 
them to | descended > „Originally from one, and one | named respec неа Sutton's pee Ae ters [upto Мау 1, and the result was J will 
. it ren ге be the subdivisions of а | First С and I feel compelled to say, hd the strictest | 1020 wasps, for whic ы 
genus, If genus be the parent, species are the offspring, | investigate, that they are not only similar, but | vexed to be informed t isf 
rere айе relationship to the parent, but identical. I have carefully Pod. ай compared Can you, therefore, kindly satis'y many 
marks, and also at the same time ће two Peas from the day they were sown till the | I may add that I never saw 80 
