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5—1850.] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 69 
high, pols small, round, straight; very early, but Sans parchemin nain ordinaire, 2 to 3 feet high ; — 3 given, any one can select w 
Sender i small, abundant, very tender. regards either early or late sorts; dwarf 
Dina Dutch, or gions Crooked Sugar, Dwa En Eventail, the dwarfest of all the Sugar Peas, or 178 white, green, or blue; small P 
Sugar de Grace, "Early de Grace, Nain hâtif € de being only about a foot high, branching from the ground, | Early me, Prince Albert, and Auvergne; very 
Hollande. $ " 
short, small, crooked ; a week later than the precedin ng, Tamarind, or Late Dwarf Sugar, about f feet high ; | Peas, as Knight’s Dwarf and Tall Marrow. The sorts 
but o only a a moderate bearer, The Dutch Ares it | pods large, broad, and much curved, from 4 to 6 mpa enumerated afford ample choice; and where are 
in selecti 
under g ong. An abundant bearer ; the latest in this cla there can be no difficul 2 
D isr Sugar, or Ledman’s Dwarf, Gros Nain sagen i those here enumerated are sundry 
Nain Sucré. About 3 feet high ; ‘pods . neatly All the sorts of Peas to which numbers are prefixed 1 with new names, conce cerning which we have no 
round, and slightly lt a moderate bearer ; late. are considered of first-rate excellence: 3 and, from the | sufficient —— . ie 
FEW EXAMPLES OF THE WORST EFFECTS OF . epee 3 8 OF TIMBER TREES. 
THERE are two divisions into which the results of 7 dinal system of the trunk, mple at C por) bo: ving a considerable portion of the branch attached 
pruning timber trees may be divided: one which is mode of A often highly. . — viz., pam of I to the trunk, but in this instance the wood was much 
evident to our ocular 
Fig. 2. 
ant, that whic e branch removed, 
rived from scientific Vitality in a given por- 
data, and which tree 
in a great measure, destroyed. The effects 
be taken upon trust. ch in a a sei 
To the latter division 
of the subject I have 
ded in another 
5, 
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8.1 
speaking t ! . ak, 
to deal on the present TW RAZZ a few years’ gro 
occasion. The accom- \ | Uy its lo branches 
g draw NIN f f/f, were yed, to 
no exaggerations, they f 7 give it a “ straight 
are sketche N } n iv 
nature, and I t | | annual layersof wood 
on | the 
rrect 
idea of the abject 
kel E e 
illus 
Tn we 1, vel is 
wn from a pi ical effects of this 
of Elm, split longitu- apparently trifling case 
dinally for the pur- were seriously to da- 
n some a the worst 
elects of a barbarous 
mutilation are evident. 
A 8 
the injurious charac- 
ter of which, suppos- Figure 5 is a portion 
ing e to have of plank cut from such 
been used as timber, a tree. I imagine they 
needs no comment. will tell their own tale. 
At B, a woodpecker Reflections, and pro- 
has commenced a dor- fitable ones too, were 
itory ; the rain in sk 
examples, and 
at some future day I 
ma 
y n 
to lay a paper, in 
em 
Gi rays, the walls which I shall 
pe which ? s, d them, before the 
yed, an usly i 0 te ers of the Gardeners’ 
3 rh 5 8 
ng a bars broad. The 9 is loam, 
ELVASTON CASTLE, THE SEAT OF THE the least nn se eee, f gumming, a matter of such common 
ARL OF HARRINGTON. occurrence all over wr coun 
ang of low or its, having a walk along 
deu merge nets the back, is exclusively beep actor in the culture of Pine- 
HE entrance — to the kitchen garden, from the | a apples ; the latte: all planted out in the open soil, 
are very rich in pattern, serolls | 55 at Meudon, 3 such fine examples of this fruit tar 
w n 
mouldi carved 
are backed up by Taxus ineurva and Gold Ter It} sists had magnificent fruit on pa on ripe, while | the 
may be imagined that because so much attention has there were others in every stage o wth forming a 
n devoted to ornamental gardening at Elvaston, the complete succession, 
cultivation of fruits and vegetables has oon, little We observed a novel mode of ripening the Gree 
care ; but this is not the case : indeed it would be diffi- gage Plum here. A border is raised, in hisen 
cult to point out another establishment of similar extent an inclined plane, considerably above the garden level; | from 
in whic ing is carri in greater first-rate | p, are planted on this it i 
reason. 
grat ee of the walks in the gardens at Elvaston, 
slopes, are covered with as- 
palio, ot us tate how that wort is done A 
is formed of stones, briek rubbish, cinders, and ashes 
is tre 
A range of five glass houses occupy a portion of the heat absorbed during the day, and given out in 
of the north wall ; three of these are exclusively em- the night, as well as on account of ie — heat 
ployed in producing Muscat Grapes, no other variety | under sunlight, the fruit is ripened with much soe 
cultivated at Elvaston. One house contains flavour than it is by any other e adopted here. 
5 Peaches and Figs. The crops of Mr. Barron uses a great deal of liquid manure in the 
Peaches and Figs were over when we saw them ; but one culture of exotic tic fruits under glass ; and in order that 
of Grapes still remained in splendid condition, | this may at all times be of the right ar pores for 
the bunches were large, and the berries finely swelled, | immediate use, a hot-water pipe, connected with one of 
: exhibiting the colour of a golden drop Plum. The Peach the heating ap is carried throu tek 
trees, Figs, and Grape Vines, all indicated the highest | This ae the liquid at a temperature of 80° without 
5 on L ieo , and with much advantage to the plants. 
The kitchen covered 
e 
fashion, and bear abundance of . its appearance. The mixture is made by £ 
aao from dhe top of thé wall #9 the eeceg o _ On an exterior orchard, is a raised 3 hot on a flat kiln, formed of sheet n 
whole extent of wall does not exhibit a naked pot n P angle of 17°. This slope is 150 feet long | the coal-tar being also boiled until the scum leaves it. 
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