L 
1—1850.] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
&c.—Primroses being of several distinct er yn offer | frosts, it becomes very injurious to trees. The young | meg 1 — ber and 
considerable facilities in their arrangement. A border | buds, at the moment when they are 3 to een ee meas a eyes in Novem 1 — — 
Primroses in Il: ly FE dard w 
nt, but also of i ult, (This must not be confi 
white, orange, &c., — series in the same essential to their vegetable life ; pe whilst the rest of | with pore Goubault.)— Fruit middle-sized, almost 
order. Ifa circular or dries ome border we required, | the branch ~ am rä Lg , they, are in various degrees | round ; in pale green, passing to a yellowish-green, 
one composed of Pri arranged as follows will be | affected. Thu m observed all the sprinkled 1 brown dots. Stalk slender, about half 
found agreeable to the eye : woe white, red, white, orange, or | flower- ay kiled. Bay the! 2 s have not suffered. an inch in len ngth. Eye e large, open, slightly sunk, 
edged with violet or lilac, yellow, Oxlips | So 2 the begs: of buds which my leaves and Flesh fine, pore ng an buttery, 221 
or Cowslips, violet i "bluish lilac, orange or orange | flow 1 latter will sometimes be fo to have been | near the Season, beginnin ing of September. 
edged with brown, white, red, white, and so on as killed, v whilst she le eaves are unin al ag inat: Gris d Hiver. Nouveau, (Bavay.) Syn. Beurré 
before. The yellow Oxlips or Cowslips occurring at- Fi ifth species. PisrilLaRT Necrosis.—The winter of | Gris Supérieur, Beurré de Luçon, Beurré é Gris d'Hiver 
equal distances produce an excellent effect, their 1805 was very mild, and moist beyond measure. Vegeta- of Bivort, St. Michael d'Hiver.—Fruit very b 
straight peduncles, covered with yellow flowers, agree- | tion was far 8 in the beginning of March, and oval, flat at the ends. Stalk short, ahout four-tenths 
ably destroying the flat appearance which would other- | several trees re already in full flower. At the end of of an inch in length, thick eye small, slightly sunk in 
wise arise from the uniformity in the height of the that month a pe wind, followed by some hoar frosts, | a small larly-formed hollow ; Skin shining, greenish- 
i with red 
lants. W 
If — the last arrangement the orange flowers be care the flowers of various plants, which were either firm, juicy, and of a very agreeable flavour ; 22 
taken away, the effect is greatly deteriorated A pr fully out or ready to burst. It was my fortune to sometimes a little gritty, when the tree is planted in a 
loss of symmetry. This observation must be born observe a phenomenon which I had not happened to strong soil, Season, * be d January. The 
mind whenever a border forming a closed disci ie, is, read of in any writer. Examining the flowers of the tree is vigorous and extremely fertile. We think this 
from i size, at once taken in by the eye ; — this Cherry, the Apricot, and the Pear, I observed the male variety ought to be classed among the Doyennés rather 
be not the case, the first arrangement may be preferred | organs generally perfectly sound. Those attacked | than among the Beurres. 
to the last. were flaccid, but preserved their parts to all a Beurré Lefevre. Syn. Beurre de Mortefontaine— 
B. The large-flowered Arabis, Saxifraga c crassifolia, | well organised, and the re appearance of the sun Fruit very large; colour, a mixture of brown, 
the Arabis, Caucasian Doronicum ; then repeat in the restored their vigour. But it was very different with and red; but its quality — ot correspond with its 
same order. If the Arabis are left to themselves they | the pistils, _ They were all burnt up, as it were, which ee and it soon becomes mealy. It ripens in 
i oment tober. 
is then too much white. If it is too much trouble to The Pears were in a worse condition than the Apricots.| Beurré Moiret. Beurré Moiré.—Fruit large, 
keep the Arabis in bounds, the following arrangement | Thi ished m ersons, as it did me a ; for | pyra yey. elo „ wes tinged with red next 
be found useful: Arabis, i t seemed that the Pear, ural uction of our own | the s wih green, wn do Stalk about 
Arabis, Saxifrage, Doronicum, &c. country, suffered more than the Apricot, imported from | an inch i is N of . ů thickness. Eye slightly 
C. Doronicum, purple Honesty ; or, Saxifrage, Do- the hot climate of Asia. Upon carefully investigating | s unk. We have not had an opportunity of examining 
bis, purple — or, Saxifrage, Ara- bd matter, I observed that in the Pear the pistil is ita flesh, but we have been assured that it is of first-rate 
bis; then begin again, observing the same order. To much less protected than in the Peach and Apricot, in quality. Ripens in the end of September, The tree is 
insure this border looking well, care must be taken that which the petals form a good screen round the ovary, | vigorous and fertil 
the flowers of the Arabis and Doronicum do not spread | to which the external air has much less re ready access, Beurré 8 Fruit middle-sized, b 
too much relatively to the Saxifrages or the Honestys. The Pear does not enjoy this advantage. This necrosis sversely, rathe i 
in, in the last arrangement, one Honesty may alter- was not confined to the style or stigma, but the whole length, thick, fleshy, deep brown, implanted in a shallow 
nate successively with one Saxifrage, so as to have the ovary was affected, I examined some unopened buds | regular cavity. Eye middle-sized, irregular, placed in 
Honestys between two Doronicums and the 3 of the Pear, and I found them injured in a similar an evenly formed shallow basin. The flesh issaid to be 
between two Arabises. manner, which was not the case with the Peach and — 0 1 — buttery, and of first-rate quality, ripening in 
D. 1, Blue — paes 3 e Hya- Apricot. Looking at the trees themselves, I found the en Oetober. 
3 2, Hyacinths 3 in that it was the oldest among them that had suffered the N St. L „ er. variety — been * 
the following order : W white, — » &c.; or most. Finally, after several days, during which I did | to Lyons by Prof. J a very em 
thus: year aap. white, red, white, blue, white, red, &c. not lose sight of these flowers, I saw the male organs | It bears Piri n — to the D Délices d g 
Large b of blue Hyacinths alternate well with . Se — time in their healthy state, whilst gi 
—— so do large baskets of white Hyacinths | there cely a ves tige roy of the female organ, rré S. Nicolas.—Fruit large, obtusely pyramidal. 
with Saxi xifrages, which Fad fallen off in the of a blackish powder, Salk th hick, 8 uae about eight-tenths of an inch 
- 1, Evergreen Candytuft (Iberis sempervirens), | I must not omit to state t w laiite several successive | in length ; eye very large, placed in a shallow w cavity. 
Rock Alyssum (Alyssum ile) Candytuft, 2 years, the observation of the flowers of herbaceous Skin smooth, , shining, 105 0 yellow dotted with on 
Ke. 2, Candytuft, Virginian Lungwort (Pulmonaria plants which have suffered from hoar frosts has shown | red next the lesh tron, fine, 8 
virginica), Alyssum, then ote 3, Candytuft, Phlox | me that the female organs are much more injured than — abundance of fed ties ae a 
urple) or i . 
his 9 and excellent Pear at the end of 
f 
— 
© 
®© 
K 
B 
isd 
© 
E 
— 
* 
© 
** 
. 
p 
a 
be- | Se 
or Anemone pavonica, or A. apennina, then begin again | tween the at and ad at systems, will find in| Bézi des karre grey dt Mons.)—Fruit, large, tur- 
and repeat in the same order. this observation a fresh argument in support of their | binate, o ther more than an inch in 
F. Beds of Periwinkle (Vinca minor and major), theory, as it is the general opinion that sterility in | length, yellow, very slender, oblique. Eye open, in a 
— and blue mingled with white and violet Violets, animals proceeds more frequently from the female than shallow cavity; segments of the calyx erect. Skin 
with Anemone nemorosa, or ith alow we ote pet from the male. To me it suffices to observe that the a yellow, with small russet patches, tinged and 
a ojs 
—— Cowslips, Ranunculus Ficaria &e., 1 a good | that which Linneeus has observed, rene that the 3 fine, a containing abundance of sugary 
ui 
G. 1, Dwarf Peach trees with double red flowers | Nov ember, and will even keep later. 
penpan persica) Kerria japonica, dwarf Peaches, | NOTES ON SOME NEW VARIETIES OF PEARS, | Beurré des Charneuses. Syn. Fondante des Char- 
ra r e en dota Société d'Horticulture Pratique ; € 2 
mine (Jasmin fruticans), dwarf Peaches, yellow du Rhone; pour 1 —Fruit large, turbinate, rounded at the eye, diminishing 
Jasmines, &e, Tuts contains descriptions of Eee ‘old and new sorts | and slightly bent towards the stalk ; the latter is about 
H. Tartarian Hone: oneysuckles (Lonicera tatarica), red, presented for exhibition ; and as these descriptions ap- | three quarters of an inch in length, thick, oblique, 
Sie eee e variety of the same plant, then the | pear to have been carefully made, by M. C. Fortuné | yellow. — yellow, sprinkled with numerous 
red again, then the white, and so on. This is is, ho er Willermoz, the a extracts will probably be ac-| brown dots, Flesh pale citron, traversed small 
in nish fi 
gre what uneven ; a rp Ponte oe e, B d' Ezée, not Bonne des Zees. . Belle 
not be so near as to touch each other ; there must be, oblique ; — smn smooth, so k soft, of a golden yello À l Dasi ds Zee (d- Albret).— Fruit very Ries ad 
moreover, behind sucha line as this other good-looking | reddish dots; flesh pale yellow, very yee ting fo — long, obtuse. Stalk three-fourths of an inch in length, 
of su uice, perfumed. Season, i ish brown with dots. p large 
yrus japonica siting in thei = of a bush above | and 3 October. This was also exhibited vir tick yellowish brown with grey dots. Eye he, 
a bea oft Violets produces a good eff by the contrast otte ith 
of its searlet flowers with the ear of the Violets. 
— wma OF PLANTS. 
819.) 
as ene, Necrosis.—The sub n 
—.— — effects analogous to those of i 
of 
H jall fleshy tion 
short, "Skin light green, ghanging greeni 
ellow at the maturity of the — = 
8 
SFr 
of the z 
ed with carmi 
heats have not been able to ripen p | e numerous small brown dots, 
— .. a on et ber daad |" en te "Fite, aly ting 
nourished and delicate plants, In the spring the stems | with reddish brown russeted about the foo cotstalk ; the and full rich sugary jl with > 9 
of Tulips and other flowers perish from the same ee — gen 1 The 
It appears to me that it is to this head tha L fertile und veep Ai me in tree 
ref disease of the Olive called Brusca, A fe 22 at oe 
which we have two excellent irs, between wh Colnar CAER „ 
certainly give the first place to that of Cosimo turbina dee ey p “i 
Moschettini. The co „ | soil wards the stalk, which is short, thick, oblique, 
bright hot days are followed by cold clear nights, Bergamotte Edouard Sageret. Syn. Poire Sageret or aaa in a cavity surrounded 
seem to occasion it. The leaves turn brown, dry up Neva Pito —— ac pea on small in comparison with the size of the fr 
and fall, leaving the bare tree with all the ap flesh coarse, rather gritty round the core, tender but | placed in adeep cavi vity. Skin green, changing to golden 
pearance 
of being burnt. As it is observed that it is always the | not melting, sweet and perfumed. Season, oes — —v—ũãE⁷u¾ 
kest hat are i to the Brusca, I con- A isset specks and 
clude that the best meth p ring Bergamotte Lucrative (not — e 
good cultivation, judicious treatment, and more espe- Bergamotte Fiévé.—Fruit very large, fiat- 
cially reserve economy in pruning, a thing so little ed. among those of first-rate quality, | Novem : 3 is 
attended to, or I say almost entirely , | Ripe in September, momen t r ea 5 
Fourth species. Necrosis or Bups.—If a spring, Bergamotie Sageret. „ No. 1.— sharp, too late ay a AE fruits 
‘following a mild winter, is interrupted by hoar frosts or | Fruit middle-sized, roundish, 
fine, | exhibited was upwards of 15 inches in circumference. || : 
