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2—1850.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONI 
amateurs and cultivators for a preservative or r remed; 
most so Ke st be considered that th 
difficulties to be overcome are often not commensurate 
with the powe ture is stronger than h 
and it is only by great la and uni up e 
s. pa he is ever enabled to obtain what h 
ires. peat it, agriculture 2 div ed k rself of 
koy e a sae ackery which some are trying to fi 
eke aopean lt art. Our ae have va A 
poms ied of Nature’s secrets, most of 
ery fi 
which — bias e 3 He however who 
is disposed to work, and does it with method and with- 
out E alarmed at “its ioana, will often succeed 
in his king. 
— also, with water fresh from a well or from 
a temperate spring, may produce an prt rae effect on 
plan ew sca or with their buds ready to Bis oy if 
a minty rise. Others Ta 
nding a rou i de stems of trees a rope, end o 
which e be immersed in a 3 of wales; tanking 
t by this means the caloric ea kg water may be 
2 to the tree and s But, in the a 
day, this method is er a as N quite use- 
t some 
IF 
m the winda, may p revent 
~ = R L the certainty of success in other 
The of the cultivat 3 er be 
— to farg off the consequences of the evil, which 
es aggravated by the cosines 
i dire ura 
t 
t be done ti 
sap is stop that on 1 >s beginning of 
summer, But, in are ral, the ischief am 
us is cause e giving Fimselk the trouble to cut 
rendered ineap»ble 
alnut is perhaps of all the trees 
he, one most subject to necrosis of the 
From the neglect of 8 g off 8 
branches. 
b 
Pursu 
| 3 open on the 
e 
viiia E 
? 
eu nother view of 
w 25 fee 
ongst mor 
ranches 
Althoueh plants cultivated in gardeni, from “being 
the most to fear from the conse- 
a 
Sas" ciroum- 
j them. a 
stances the necrosis can ve a ga ag ted i as | backe 
ELVASTON CASTLE, THE SEAT OF THE 
EA = OF 3 
Garden the — 5 105 through a grove of Cedars of m 
0 feet high with the “Deodar. 0 
upo 
of these are ze of ta 
— 
its eee aryen like surfac vast 
with huge rocky decoration, “ato 
occasionally with lofty Pines, is advan- 
of Broom se other aik 
this the eye reaches for t least half a 
0 water, without disco covering any visible 
5 Turning to the ois we enter the Fou 
n, which com comprises v. eios that rise 40 
recurva, an 
noble plants of Juniperus 
In the Tockery is a shell groto o te curious “pe à singular 
with much tas 
points, 
I. T 
y 1839. No portion of it whatever existed previous to 
that date. 
our * rse by the margin of the water, new 
view, and the —— eran is com- 
preg lost. Following this — — 
i 7 le h 
e * 
and r rising a above the Yew hedges, that 
are 15 fe A eb are beautiful Mino rea Hollies. We 
Ts, 
dulum. 
e the water enti ou enter an — 
garden eee of nearly 2 The walks are o 
turf, 12 feet wide, with files 0 of Trish vou on cach 
adi eet high and 20 fee apart. Every sort 
this kind is te saad 
r Rhodo- 
After be ‘through — —— ground, we sha 
idge which crosses the lake at 
ormous mas sses or r 
bri | 
— 1 rich 
— 
dendrons, e huge pla nts of An Andromeda | u 
—— nd of Daphne ve a noble 
Cupressus eee. 1 h. and two Taxodium 
semperv of nearly similar * all in perfect 
vigour Mere: re — foliage. Also associated with 
there w magnificent weeping Larch, 24 feet high 
nd 3 feet in diameter, a perfect drooping column. 
d | was as great as in that above 
i 
e ach s 
s and backed with lofty plants of —— Holly. 
Before proceeding far along N we suddenly tura | 
e la Here we observed a 
benutifal r Ilex var. Fordii, forming a column 
n on we com 
J ＋ scattered as before 
e lake eee the castle, which is * ad seen 
old Cedars with horiz ranches, 
ica. seen rising up 
behind hai covered with patches of Genista 
3 2 ae Aralia 
high, was i de were also 
weeping Vitlagated Bor, a — 8 
| fruticosum on the way occasion- 
red with Vine 
and tions of the 
bold involations, is advantageously com- 
island comes i good 
covered with rocks and planted with Wastin —— 
obtained large plants of 
3 and Douglas Firs, 30 feet high, with cones 
surrounded — Yews 100 — ears old, 
On this m 
of lawn i 
hai Gold Hollies nd: Pinus — theory 
ta radiata, 
a japonica, 10 in a su 
lants ar 
f| you 
CLE. 21 
Chambers, Dale street, t, Liverpool, may be. Can 
be Mr. John Handford ! i i, 
Home po Aaa ge 
ee — 4 =- bed in * As you have invited 
tate how far the 
Professor S Schleiden 6 the subject " 7 rhe of the 
sap in plants, make a 
ount of wo atter around 
the upper portion of the wound, there was still a cer- 
tain amount of growth of wood on the lower lips, which 
could not have taken place had the formation of wood 
nd t 5 from the lea I ac- 
counted for the greater quantity of the ormed 
wood 
upon the speak lip of the wound, by the fact that in the 
eatest amount of 
he fluids of the plant, which obeying the ordinary laws 
of the diffusion of fluids and gravitation, would 
rily produce in this part either an exudation of fluid 
or a growt tissue, according to the condition of the 
plant. hat this was the I fou ringi 
8 case 
smaller branches, i in which = crack in the tissue below 
und, and here the for- 
r of ha matter and exudation of fluid was nearly 
fel 
7 on the 4 pi 1 bt 8 ve, 
xper w of the case 9 be per- 
formed upon a plant ae — If the stem 
is cut through, and the cut surfaces examined, it will 
3 tion of he tissues in the ear 
S this 
re evaporation takes place, whether 
relation to the whole stem is above or below it. It: 
physiology that every 
| e of plants is formed direetly from the assimilable 
e. boni 
id, water, and ammonia, or a 
rs—car ie ac 
n — assimilated matters which can pass from cel 
parr 
r readers x 
have called continuous blooming; but 
the two which may dey seen in front tof 
cottages, and as the 
three winters i situation, 
ground but 
notes, and gi 
