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SEPTEMBER 30, 1865.] 
THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
917 
te is a bad traveller. Its large round ү decayed matter is found very useful for rardening | afterwards und into flour and mixed with the 
er w on very slender footstalks, and when mH purposes. Th und has to be first ploughed p "P | inferior T reg forming large cakes. A S — 
panch is shaken they all fall flat, and show badly in an|and then the large clods have to be for food h f sp po 
exhibition. en well grow olden Жашны! order to produce a tolerable evenness t ther summer visitors, who annually increase - 
in my opinion, is amongst white Grapes what the |person who had seen the jà b iom, Agri-Horti. ошата! Biciety of the 
Black Hamburgh is amongs st rie ones, but 16 does not | hardly recognise the change which m taken place, | Punjab grants a yearly supply of vegetable seeds for 
keep long when quite ripe, nor s it fit for travelling | or believe the rapid growth of the trees and shrubs. | distribution among the inhabitants, aar encourage the 
ong distances. William The en contains an immensi iety of plants : of esculents in the A valleys. Many 
Judges at Exhibitio —The managers of hortieul. | the Apple, Pear, and Peach trees ode pem Котб rhe and American vegetables have ее intro- 
exhibitions often make great mistakes in | fruit. The e early age at which fruit 8 p duced, and grow di The Potato, in particular, 
appointing judges ecause a man is eminent in one | their соб is one of the strangest facidenta in the pemen К Ае the inh abi: tants in the 
particular branch they conclude that he must be equally | Can ury gardens. " of the e Apple le trees, barely it For 
so in all, and accordingly they elect botanists or florists | 12 feet in height, and eased uitivation of 
to be censors of fruits and vegetables, or good fruit fruit esculen very ийм, ^. it ly 
growers udge Orchids and Ferns. tees iem actually wenn com à it. The Mie has poem кыа V to he dez dn of the Eastern Panjab for the 
instance of this occurred at - ast a Ro them, and the young trees in | commissariat of our European The 
two noted florists were appointed to ule t ihe. Plume, | ma ny in much азе мез ed and distorted | system оѓ bie: pursued wai describ. St 4 
Pars, and Apples, and a very pretty mess they iade as trees of f old. piv ditis ome. slo are preferred on account of drain 
eit. Surely, when fr fruit- growers incur the мее => Mr. Purdie possesses а ign e сойот of ornamental soil ів generally 10 and stony. The p 
trouble of se shrubs ne remarkable feature in his garden is the | wood is first cle “з апа риш, апа th 
s doing ' make the. exhibition mensis to the i success which has attended ! ved— 
іе, t 
Ios it carefully judged by men ho! may t be А учее 
to possess 80: knowledge of such thing 
Maider ыы i; to 
his i bading and ape dr 
operations. This is especially noticeable in his speci- 
mens of the Holly. On Standards of q 
Deodar trees are rem 
Asparagus.— —hAbout London young shoots of this are 
pringing up in emn pr rofusion that a great many 
and sent to table, and I am 
old t that as regar ards flavour they 
hort, quite equal E vga зый prod 
however, that the esult of t 
will be 
uce. I fear, 
en 
ATERN 
are Hier aet | 
his а € | 
Е the gr 
n k 
á 
31 
ve taken surprisingly ; of these 
bant — v variegated sorts. 
thriv ost ex anik indeed, 
seem v if 
Zealand duds "hey 
ew years, 
pril or May pes narrow 
h pod Чыг planting, the tubers 
dug up fully "T he 
ttain а consider. 
ar 
ked d tightly t in woollen 
bags, and re ched les, to р 
erally 
These are relieved of their burden | twice a day, 
E 
0 
- 
that no frost gets to the roots, otherwise the 
i suff s ind thus late boim. general 
? Р. 
tion to this new rad dej icr n od pre Мр 
f ТІ g, * the pro ae of the 
idi hh is view we have 
forwarded for your тотен а cabe of M in iren 
to enable you to judge of its taste, colour, and appear- 
ance when оске, беа s early, havin ng been 
be Seen, аз iter as some fine specimens 
i s There is a Бах 
Р. 
earing it. The 
oi. рг ебу sample ot 
ant of 
ich bruises са Potatos. 
in Er ainge might 
are sown after the cereals have bee 
° 
Тһе plan of LL: беш 
Б 
large 
on ue Рог qn India. 
=н Dr. 
Ins pector-Ge ene eral 
of Forests i in In dia, фо Author 
five E віх weeks, It is a capital cropper, free fro 
codes in its и high condition until 
C. Wheeler д Son, Glouce 
ium-sized, shallow w-eyed, thin- 
when cooked, is par 
white and — m excellent i in flavou ur.] 
Plane T'rees 
ster. | 
rticularly | 
p grea! 
istaria sinensis, Са 
t. | England. аз "dis sy gp It 
enough at home of 1 
h vi 
iom in 
common 
classes of for зс h 
ts of the 
Central Provinces ; he also adv erted to the system of 
1 a into Rritiah 
`s | India, as the only safe basis of 
pretty creeper for them. e one in Mr. Pu rdie's con су 
At p. sta ^ he only: sample i in 3. On the In ; e ved A d — on Climate By M. 
mow exists on the shori vecchie рр - Canterbury. He p elegant an the Fre neh pem com- 
- high and 150 feet. in dicumferne e. Did anyo shrubs к plants f Test smania; amongst them sac verd "a T8 м" Towi. Mr. Lowe gave a 
readers ever see a tree 30 feet in circumference ; i Éo, specimen the Peppermint-tree, as yo but small. | condensed account of M. Becquerel’s paper on forests, 
let him imagine if he can a bole of five times the size. In their он {== they аі attain a — — and their effects on climate, read before the French 
Eren the Wellingtonia — i e his diminishe not | y in May last (see p. 722). The first portion 
thi Count The | of the paper gives an account of the wins Ce of forest 
F 
ay 
m Dr. Daubeny* 8 ес is s perhaps a арин, 
common Бао во familiar to 
for 50 feet, с a composite one, 
may refer to the head, not the truni nk.] 
— Ж му, 
Nzw is D GARDENINI rms in n m 
Мало „has tho progress oi а 
ortioulturo. In i 
ок to be seen 
ien а very few years Am 
promises to be an се well ll worth fostering. | 
The Chinese Privet grows well; itis a pretty plant, 
and easily propagated. 
im me 
ond is of fores clim 
lio ваув, depen А-а firstly, on their даф тн ndly, 
the height of the trees,and their (C че 
having си кете а lea third 
fourthly, on -—- 
radiating heat ; 
B а 
tuit 
oríttíes. 
BOTANICAL OF EDINBURGH : July 13. 
—Dr. Dickson, 
рде, in he: ser. The following co 
1. Supplement Ne 
communi- 
rren waste, 
inel supreme, and where the еа was сотеге 
| the wildest and most rank native vegetation, 
red | the Vegetation juam 
any gu. 
d Valley. By Dr. С 
m A exploring the valleys 
бошу апа fertility those of old England. The 
d Touse, tributaries of the Jum 
ае аы pril'and May, 1862, p insp 
ains was at first the een absence of those essential 
м h Pp 9 
› however, ж К ыкы eve 
lose familiar to us 
ions of Australia а 
ry variety, fro 
n the home country i the pro- 
nd Tasmania Е 
ы калу, for cd a strange combin 
rishing 
different "ind ot the s 
on. от re explained. Тһе want of medical aidi in 
m | the intra he cel 
e 
f Bassahir. The official report has NS 
printed by the Punjab Government. The peculiari 
of the Simla EP КАЙ enumera! rated, and the tabi E 
japan Бараны ure at Kotgur was given. Тһе 
cation rie Hindostan to Tibet, d "the 
rope bridge used in 
ает districts, an 
i DÀ Pabur, | was 
author | 
ed 
p 
d ht nucleated cell, which it has in 
matocoecus and others. 
mi pie p 
cute 
showing that the роси called а 
ence is also iit. on running 
тосевв, us y pass it, depending e 
on with 
ped 
ently-by edem oid 
apex 
of the people in the skill of 
alluded to. The ‚ frequ jen 
European physicia; 
cy of goitre і and | ihe jm 
icul- 
c and Poplars Mah 
general fate, ord ear a stro 
of 
M dc com- 
was | Gleeocap: 
complicat 
to the simple struc 
gathered his 
of Arran. 
н ASSOCIA 
Aiya ós sitting of t 
| adapted 
closed wi 
melts ploughing commences, 
ya baskets of manure. Every pe menn бене 
his ure 
| one or two кз the 
In Весі 
the E А of all | Murchison,- 
о! 
plants in xpi caves on the West Coast 
"m September T.—In the first 
various Sections few E 
for our kei were disc ussed. e take 
dn ^. Mi g passages. 
n C. (Geology), the "President Sir R. I. 
in the со мө: eof his n! bserved, in 
recorde 
б 
аг y | 1% 
for nering зи «нес 
ost used 
КУЧ that 
for this generally considered azoic or 
of life aperi , 
which been 
the lowest sedimentary "ex had 
ira of life, had been 
їз, 
by hagang growing Mut ch the ripening frui 
TER себ сопрат of the. до Capo ipa Бой. 
considerable of ground, 
Даве 
bo oltin А" a work of no 
owever, is a rich 
groun! 
duce more grain than 
is annually imported 
scarcity the 
e inhabitants require, an 
into the district. In t 
Е 
апа S ысы p Md uj es dose = y 
дегене ле X у pnr 
dde pem лу уй the 
indica) and Apricot Паны . These 
water for a night to remove the bii лоны 
rich in all the low 
rs L mia ava | appear in the 1 
| to the prosent 
it are and n 
day they have never ceased to prevai 
w forms of vertebrata, adapted to 
