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28—1850.] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
— — — 
Miscellane The la are compressed, blunt, and 
8 ere | (alias Sue pendula).—4 — are — ‘at rt * but bright green at 
large w vergreen coniferous tree, from Chinese the back and ed edges; they stand in two pairs crosswise, 
Mr. e in- 
y 
Standish and 
THe ep nea 5 
— Y aE — 
ferous plant y et in 
tivation, and must in 
e displ the 
Weeping Willow. It 
is perfectly hardy, as 
was indicated by its 
figured in Lord Ma- 
— s Em 
China, where it forms 
a weeping 2 in 
- ground of 
view of the “ Vale of 
n si- 
in the ‘inele- 
ment climate of Zhe- 
The rude: 
sentation of it on Chi- 
nese porcelain, 
ing been copied ‘by 
our —— 
cil a arger 
willow. terne found in one of the commonest] the lower pair being much! ‘than theft 
kinds of table-ware. Mr. Fortune s account of | which resembles two tubercles. These — 
his discovery of the was given in the Gard. Chron. | represent the type of the ‘cones, which are droopi 
for ag vl last, to which the reader is referred for | short stalked, about half an inch long, 1 consist 
stailed info: gits habits. Paw-| f woody scales, also sswise, in 
ton’s Flower Garden for May. i These ‘applied face : 
~ Libocedrus tetragona (aliàs Juniperus uvifera, asan and have a sharp tuberele on the outside below the 
Thuja tetragona).—A magnificent — n eoniferou s point. two larger seales have each two seed 
tree, from the cold southern regions th America, | their base; the t ler are The 
I Messrs. Veitch and Co. ig. 3 — This seeds stand erect in the cones, with unequal-sided 
promises to be a vival of Araucaria and to | wings—Jowrn. Hort. Soo., vol. . It is stated 
hardy ; for i from j — snow line in that work that the plant had been also in ced by 
of ia, wh . Lobb found it in rs. ish and Co. This, however, proves to have 
the state of a tree from 50 to 80 feet high. According | been an accidental error, Mr. Low having been the 
to the officers of the Beagle, it is one of the called im r. Paxton’s — Garden for May. 
by , Alerçe ; but this is donbted by Spade Hus It is an erroneous notion, 
Hooker. The young brane e with small | only very good soils can be cultivated as gardens, or as 
pansy dark green scales or leaves, so placed as i cack garden-farms, with a profit occupier. e 
u arrang of all countries, es all during late years 
t ‘usual among the ae Conifi am Pry seen Sof — 4 : By wpatia : 
ing m 
ers, produce 
a to the spe- | 
of 
ch having a horn at 
back, and the « exterior pair not being h half — 
of the inner. These 
correctness of such an opiuion. spade 
husbandry, although yet — in its infaney, extensive 
439 
the late Dr. Yellowly, “ w id think of * 
kien, 8 * an ou ink o plant ing, P ota 
loughed land, if 
get it-dug ; lew the ditt ion 2 — i — 
“<> 
~ 
33 
32 3 
plan should be 
whitish inside, and inclose + dent a ursued wh 
which ‘stand in airs at the base ‘of the larger no winter crop 
scales; the sma seedless, These put in.“ Ex- 
scales, of of two o different sizes, are placed | in what ce bas 
botanists call a valvate 3 that is to say, * roved that a 
prac all touch at the edge without overlapping Ki good digging 
terior scale ; and in this resides the dis- vag f; or one 3s 
tinotive Li In the n benefi- 
aber ne (Tinja) on 2 contrary, 2 outer N 4 . cial to the g 
scales of alike in size, and ; an two 
alwa; ) Poet In y 40 three soni. 
other words s Liboceđar are ; 055 ings si m 
more simple ia their structure mes of an Say soil 
Arbor-vitz, in — we have the first distinet r more fally pil 
commen he spiral ee found 
pe the Sede ad branches of the us order. e a 5 
Flower for — ; pletely le- 
3 cee aliàs Thuja chilensis ; velled, The 
Alias Thuja andina. From Chili. A noble ever- rk 
with be habit of an Arbor vitæ. sng o is 2 
Meets, wand Co, Natural order Conifers. Š 
(Fig 33.) A fine tree. Mr. Bridges says districts of blowing-sand have been brought into culti- three * 14 inches Se rapin 
that it is from 65 to 80 h; Sir W. Hooker, that vation in Flanders; whilst in various parts of England | width. be more eases e i — 
it is a tree from 30 to 40 feet ‘igh, of * t has been equally successful: witness . For boys and lads, 
worthy ing introduced into our the cottagers of the black, gry sands of Bagshot- a paed Tighter fork, upon ‘the same — pia x 
pig relates that it resembles the Arbor-vitæ, br lees heath, the poor chalks'of Beachey Head, in Sussex, the | should be procured. ‘Azen ing to D Yellow „ whem 
sometimes branching the og — deep trembling bogs of Laneashi yz ny experi- | men employed, “the digging is effect d by 8 
the habit of a 88 but i in other cases forming a coni-| enced -agri the spade is considered to be the | in about 4 inches o t a time, pressing n= 
head. he adds, of this last arae 2 all gee not only for gardens | bat ularly, and getting toa proper depth at twot aoe 
is . as aA = as the middle, straight, taper, clothed e earth is not, however, turned out o nch to 
with a rough crac’ of a brownish a ch-colour, a raat g o — soil produces Menleulab le a greater depth “than 10 inches, th the fork may 
knotty, sea scarcely more 8 foot . om a cai, Hye cigs d the spade only, some of the down as ae as 13 or 14 ; but that which names at 
resinous, hash „strong nie) w ether — mu pen e ee ape: “3 her ir st the | the bottom in a state of what is led mbs; answe: 
it will amri the climate England —— men is deep trenching of the cottagers made to produee the purpo samiy well with the earth which is thrown 
at present uncertain, The all the common —— such as P i s Potatoes, beer | out, of erie edium for the roots of the 
ots he yi 
the „ and ight green, with glaucous 
h , however, for the 
tree, 
when they are visible, are compressed, obovato — Peas, Carrots, 
nodes br rows; been effected i sg the poor hungry ected 
most — oa by the | the South- West 
ns have 
eans, &e 
il way. N 1 
n re to grow in it.” From the Finchley 
Manuals of Iden No. II. 
or 
‘ PL 
Any more of 
pleted t Ae. Ag Eer and 
now bave a a slight shift if becoming root: 
a less abundant nfl gree to those with bulbous or 
| ow ripenin 
roots, which 
iven so 
to avoid ase 
manure ; and that e as * as owers, ma 
LA pranah 
it is necessary to mak exceptions to the 
. mcd a — 2 
plants which have matured matured their growth require | 
in | ihain Atop 
or | trimmed, — — be 7 eon in sandy soil moder 
| they 
e, and sparingly wa 
new growths 
a close fra 
pror in 
eautiful objesit sae 
5 some 
None of eee 3 
. 
ING DEPAR 
PINERIES. it he heating para of 
pots, 
—— or F shaded by by surrounding plants, to 
‘the scorching 
of the ut down some time 
| since and oy ag growth 
| shaken out of the sold sid soil, 125 alter horeg ‘their roots 
eee which were 
heat of men — 
„should be | affords the 3 
alteratio: Ar Ke 
oe 
structures is in any way defective, e aout, 
season admits of the artifici 
with a a risk 
— the necessity 
1 have the state of 
being w 
