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406 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. [JUNE 29, 
spelled with two l's) with Amelia. But bad as this is e Potato Disease.—Some of my Potatoes were] for two or three weeks, then] they became — then 
it is, in my estimation, far less offensive 1 to read piai in a hotbed, about 3 y. square, wi t any | confused, and finally ceased to m a ye x 22 e the end 
and hear of Oncids and Ceanothes. Only in your last | manure, and from that quantity of ground I have not of J day, perhaps somewhat ear’ 
2 it was — necessary, in one short sentence, had more than a pint fit for bpas 3 others Sere n nt of the Sap. 5 iai . = ae a ques- 
othe and — thus. is is more more y than fore. | tion gon you e suggeste our correspondents, im 
—. * to ee nurseryman than adh g solely to the | They were the early Ash-leaved Hither, — whole, asking their opinions of what is meant by the “ Descent 
atin name. Besides, —— is ‘this Anglicising scheme | and at the usual depth. J. Taylor, Weddington, near | of t is cal d to awaken at tion to many 
stop? What right have we to appropriate tropical ente paes ne facts that -i — upon the general t eory of vegeta. 
plants that abhor our —_ ot — go any further Terraces.—In = rage for oas and the | tion. I was glad tosee the communications at p, 117, 
than hardy pla —— pes lication is popular and in- Nr. a! 8 bbery walks gaa ser- | though I 44 not find in them anything that new 
fluential — to induce people to tall ef of Campanules, | pentine paths, the 8 iron, elevated gar terrace | light upon the subject. Without proceeding to after 
les, — and — — — must got out of 3 e go ood t taste ces of the | the authority of old ex s in su of the genera} 
of course for the future be called G but what | present day is Sects =f nd feature fi | impression they have left upon my ow mind, I consider 
shall we do aan Eschscholtzia and — i 2 1Igarden. Southey, like ae had seen the felt their the fact established I believe we all that an 
firmly persuaded man of acknowledged terraced gardens of Lis and Cintra, and fe their | absorption of water, with whatever it may hold in solue 
taste will acquiesce in this — eme. Gents,” pergi y. To prove this ion, is constantly taking place through the extremity 
perhaps, may be grateful for your abbreviation. 0. P. ne of his letters just er shed: —“ I 3 late you | of rootlets, -> that this “crude sap” 
Orchids, and the Establishment of a new Society on exchanging the pavement of Whitehall for — 5 forward, either gh the serine ee a or 
ni to them.—I have for some time been satisfied | noble terraces, which I never can think of without plea- ug — vessel ic still wiis 
t would be very desirable to establish a small | sure, because they are beautiful in themselves, and | to be . of better weal or through. bot, by a foree 
— for the propagation of the knowledge of Orehid- carry one . to old times. Anything that does this is which acts.“ by prop and not attraction,” 
aceous plants, reco: ovelties, and any peculiarities = “pe d a mansion with the means of as Mr. Beaton supposes. ehe e experiment 
as to their culture, &e. The taste for thes — is Lord Thatiedale rosvenor, I would certai Hales upon the Vine, and the experiments of Du. 
spreading — and Mr. 1 sale, w the make hanging N the ground permitted it. They trochet and others sufficiently. blished this. If 
p wers or their gar cted, | have a e cter of grandeur and of permanence, with- Mr. Beaton had cut away ec e at the end of his 
reminded me * the Roxburgh hook club fter | out which 8 ean be truly g 7 ey are serine Vine branch, he would har. fi with sap, 
of the rare Roxburgh . think | ev decay.” R. Southey 2 
from 100 to 200 might be reckoned on; and, say that [Yes ; but who is to do such a sikot the e portion of a perfeetly dry — = held it vertically, 
the su ions were 2 neas per annum, and | fortunes no and poured water upon the uppe er cut surface, this would 
1 guin nce, this would enable the society to ated ous Plum The inclosed, which I suppose | have been imbibed, and ultimately have passed th: 
defray the small = apep of periodieal meetings, and is a malformation of the fruit, I have taken from a and dropped out at the lower end. Moreover, in = 
probably to publish a small journal. Perhaps ing of “ * the simplest axiom in Euelid,“ he has 
igh th forgotten that m does not admit of proof; nor 
use of the meetin of the — o Society, can it be 3 as an axiom, that the sap 
and the 1 guinea entrance would go towards defray ing as we ce Se ~~ e describes; for trees 
any small preliminary expenses. ink I know at are not transparent, e cannot see this to be the 
ho would join the society, I throw as | case. We must test the fact by. ee ee his 
out these few random hints to see how the subject és ut allow 
taken up by — a and your readers. The society as the branches to be filled as you will with — — then, 
pror d not interfere with the great Chiswick by exhalations — — stomata, a large amount of 
nd Regent’s-park exhibitions, as I only propose that the water introd <a of, leaving whatever it 
plants should be exhibite the meetings of the held in solution still in mainder water 
embers. process of lithograph enables persons that has not been exhaled TI e stimulus of light, acting 
tot lish figures of plants comparatively cheap ar tissue in eaves, or on certain stems 
rate, so that the journal would not I conceive be vided with leaves, enables these parts 
return may be ex to concoct (if I may use the expression) those organic 
its sale to rs, especially on the Continent im, &¢., which i in 
Dodman. P.S. I protest n a —— jokes , and are capable of being transmitted the 
suggesting that the new society should be called the membranes of the themselves into the spaces 
Parasites, &e. upied by er p. Thus, a general diffu- 
Rose Stocks : N. Manettii,v. R. canina, oe ch organie compounds throughout plan 
ing over the remarks on this interesting subjeet, I do This diffusion has been termed the “ de- 
not observ tice made of the great difference o of the sap.” It is m these organic com- 
habit that obtains in Dog- careful in- hat the tissue, in whatever part of the 
spection e stocks of this kind, it will be seen that plant, is developed. Whatever other compounds may 
the foliage differs considerably in size, colour, and form, found, in particular parts of the tissue, may be de- 
and that the shoots differ also in their vigour and rom special functions of the tissue ia those 
manner Some are like the Noisettes, some they have been supplied with the ingre- 
the Galli the irens, ents previously prepared in the le and very pos- 
Ko., and yet in budding but little regard is paid to these th other ingredients also among the various 
s it wo if the take, that held in solution in the crude sap. I quite 
the plants should ultimately fail? In looking over a th you in supposing the starch in the tubers of 
er of Teas this season, I found that several very a Potato to have been formed from the gum that was 
i growers had lost their buds. It seen t previously pre in the leaves of that t, and - 
the delicate infant had been placed in charge of an rwards found its way to the tubers; and E 
£ t, and in the animal’s endeavour to place it on d to find the ordinary explanation of the 
its back the babe was in its trunk. In has been doubted 8 ve th 
budding indiseriminately stock, then, we know very simple experiment (no novelty) which I prepared 
what we are doing, we ing our ears ago, — . — rs 
knowledge at defiance and taking the By careful club that the leaves o ar more absolutely . 
attention we may classify these varieties, and ascertain to —.— —— of their root. crops 
a tion to ents ions; but is it wise to Tw us 
ject the results of experience so slowly — ir mmunis were planted, one of which was allowed to 
—.— on peesaa things. e Dog rose, as a family, grow — it became a ee t 6 feet high, 
our in “the peue of fully one to ad put forth its flowers ; whilst the other had its 
ns The Mi nettii, &e., are uni- — Shige ao 
form in their growth, and the: habit of t of — scion has only 
to be 1 in insure success, while the 5 
f the Dog: rose almost unfit 
culture ; ee 3 spawn gi ves incessant trouble. e, . Plum tree, which is nearly cov ered over with such 
tilation prepares it 7 decay. In my — soil the | productions, F. . — Easingwold, 
dwarfs succeed but indifferently, and are far to | June a [This disease which i ly 
the standards, so I — but hail the prospect of their | Some ne fruit. in a fungous 
2 
place to se „ In a light sandy 2 yl 
a water. course, I have found cu Nore 
as the ales — — Foster, Edgeware 
Exhibitions of Northern and 
nations an 
series. | 
mie Car- a 
up into a soe a leathery bag. is 
unknown. rd Cherry, found in the Himalayas, 
a similar is given 
kinds of sto consists | 
8 of the shell of the young fruit, which then 
root as | Srows cruso 
i y green, and were perfeetly vigorous to the end 
of the experiment. plants were growing 
ne period, the mutilated specimen did not 
attain above 4 or 5 inches in height ; and it must-be 
sufficiently evident that its being kept alive at all was 
to be attributed to my allowing the coty re- 
in. I think we cannot doubt that the into 
the system of the rials elaborated in the leaves 1s 
ne 00 all parts of a plant, and 
been 
I ha 
nature may g the note, and hence 
require for perfeetin 
e | the defect. W. M. Fisk, Ely poe Ba Dan 
observed the e change o 
-Though I have not 
90 in England, I 
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