285 THE GARDENEN CHRONICLE. \ Apri 10, 1838. ™ 
been collected by pasta that now yields annually mare Gan ipa, 
cherish favourites whose charms vanished as | informati ore than 10% 
quickly as revealed; and so Scotch lassies wer re | Mr y. AUPELL, a Dene eee ema, : | jes bing inous wood. Here Pines displan 
set aside. Then came the first attempts at cro pot appears that the stiair forests which | Bee ech, &e. e same happens elsewhere the 
southern coast, and which serve to | ancient Oak forest of Letzlix Heath, tal 
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with the ever-blooming Chi ; the result c 
a eaer eee Ghia i yea ow that Great Britain was es one time a pro- | deburg, is metamorphosed to the extent of x 
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oo; successful ; breeders saw they had pine 
a rich vein, floral nuggets rapidly turned up, and | montory of the European continent, are id ticalja te Pine fo e tree 
from that time indo the field of Roses has| a “a ep: of Scania, Fionia, the east coast of|made simil ds in Luneburg, In the Ste 
becom a fie ld of cloth of ; gold. Ju , and especially the west of Sleswig. In| mark Coniferous trees no grow where fo, teier. 
T ast depo osits of ancient i me the trees | according to authentic evidence, the soi a2? 
tion and stimulate “ingenuity. 5 Sey her, rot | re principally Birch ; Oaks a ‘ines are more entirely covered by Beech and Oak, Si. 
remained to be achieved. It was useless to raise|rare; trunks alone are fou ‘le fruit and leaves that ges have taken place in German and 
a-wouder unless people could be found to wonder. | being absent. In the fresh-water limestone esin Denmark. In Germany Pines turn out decid. 
Quod scias nihil est nisi te setre hoe Lara alter, The | calcareous tufa, on the other hand, impressions of | uous trees ; in Denmark the Beech has ex 
jeulturists;| leaves alone occur, often o e mos beautiful | e ery other tree, Pines included. Be Re state 
hey saw their dreams ; it ain gover their sharpness. Of these limestones those of Ystad in | formerly there were none but deciduous re 
parterres, only visible indeed to the mind’s eye of Southern Scania contain remains of the Maple, Oak mountains, as also in all the plain that 
the enthu Whenever a new beauty was| most abundantly, Sallows, and Birch; but fie | entanas "om their feet to the North Sea, and thet 
gained the ras he aca ted the gardener. | leaves of Pi are redominant. It has| those trees were a Lie most part Beech and Oak, 
“ What avails it to raise this charming thing ? My tufa of | In our days thos are diminishing, andthe 
visitors are yea and poor; my acquaintance is small; | [Beros ta ri. pe > this Mr. VAUPELL poiniei denies. Pine and Spruce Firm oe s daily g gaining head, Hoy 
is i poor first water, and should be | In the tnfa Elm 
laid at the feet of = universe.” He would have | —_ Fine, an, and Sallow ; „one of the Elm _DurEav DE LA Marre referred them toa natan 
called it a Koh-i-noor, had he ever heard of such | | leav 
a jewel. | tion, gi 5 inches in sci 7 succession in the reproduction , n the 
But fortune never withholds her favours s from | The bogs which Mr. rincipally species ot Root especially when they 
the ere vals new a ally, a unheard of, was | examined were | those of N. TAN Se lithe country to liv ciety, is a necessary condition oftia 
t Chiswick. Exm came into the | between Copenh d development. This rule is alike 
i; E. et first like Wb pact things ; but | rich in this kind of formation, thousands of pat spine to long-lived forest trees, bushes, and 
growing fast and waxing strong he soon arose a being daily sated into the upi ital. ae are | undershrubs ; it governs the vegetation of sial 
l Colossus. One foot rested in London, the} found in a hilly country, in the bas ae Siittle plants, artificial meadows, natural fields, perennials 
other in France; his limbs were merens ey valleys pesii amidst ~ hills i in no sce k order. | biennials, annuals, whether the i 
Roses; crowds of all nations came r | The slop to them si i i 
and admire ; ; and the hopes of the ge with tim nad or unks, leaves, and fruits of se of all good ees and reduced to 
breeder were fulfilled a hundred- fold. Forth- | those eae forbate still remain rt the bogs. The | n the alternation of crops, is a fundamental law 
with Roses became a rage; of s sr e thal trunks indeed bee n imposed u upon plants by the ‘nthe of all that 
took place in every direction ; even ‘te for uch heaps are heka t of the | exists.” 
charms of the old ones were not overloo ates yearly a and "piled up at the edge, that Zeland| COTTA, a (P writer on Forest manage- 
very R wedd ina me has furnished more than a million within ment, expresses a similar opinion. “The hi 
ceivable ways. No cna of peer ac no incom- | the last 30 yei rs. of forests tells us that the soil cannot support, 
The construction of these bogs is thus age tee a. without rest, the same sort of tree. In nature 
proceeding from below u wards. The bottom| everything turns in ceaseless change; night 
of a blue and sandy clay ; on this peo follows day, summer winter. All is altering, 
or an oly: the native of erpa Reiss am ade uddy deponit, called by the turf cutters “ fat | nothing is constant. here ancient Oaks once 
in Paris; Barbary offered himself to a Rose of earth,” but more exactly named nage bach stood we find nothing but Pines ; in another plage 
Provence and was accepted ; elaine joined hands | On rs enn several layers of Mos Pines have fallen away be pie aks and other 
with Milahese, and even Spanish hatred of f| firmly together, ni forming i close felts Lary is vol irs trees, which, in will be driven 
France melted away in the presence of a Rose. | called the Hypnum bed, because it consists of that sors some ages hence, by thane Mosa je is 
From these intermarriages children sprang up in kind of Moss. The spongy bade: which comes next, | 20w supplanted.” 
swarms; sickly and robust, handsome and ugly, | is formed of Sphagnum, but it alternates two or “The mean ing of per fine = s we beli 
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spice island; others, like some human beauties, | the surface. The s he alone two-| other crop for which the soil is well adapted, in 
most charming at a distance. thirds of the bog. Tn he in are buried the | Consequence of 1 substances wor ae by the second 
ExnrsITIoN took them allin hand ; each was in | Birch, Oak, and Scotch Fir, of which the leaves crop not havi g been rem A ore 
turn © ped had er cee Aeren the admired were and fruit remain in prodigi i 
prese: a finer race, the 
apy, tl the pony, the worthless: punish in his gripe. ie r and Ha ech 
ye pasioni; each | there is none. All the trunks of ‘these trees have ovis XIV. in1 9 up to the present day hare 
year he e stronger, but, as is the way with | fallen with their heads he | ended in nothing, and he 
other pentane na K jŠ he Tessas more ea valley, a circumstance which Mr. fare till the Hornbeam and Beech shall have worn out 
rod: more vic ctim mola ap Like A he| to their having grown on the Siope of "the Til | the Jan nd a ie heen Capel when they will be replaced 
ara But since Saeg iik [and died of mere old age. Their remains form |in their turn by the Oak 
z sence except t t those who are unworthy . | tolerably distinct layers, the Birch, ‘Alder and Pine)! Mr. VAUPELL l does not subscribe to these dogmas 
ve, what sore = a crime in othersis with him a | most commonly occupying the middle, while the|— nor do we. As Mons. Graves, añ ex 
virtue, w become peripatetic. No longer | Oak is confined to the edges or circumference. dire seraa of Forests in France, says, “We 
Sini exelustvel ia’ a great metropolis,he treason From all the evidence before him Mr. Vauretz |do not agree on this side the Rhine to the notio 
: Beaty oleis see those can gaze upon concludes that the ancient forests of Denmark, | of alternation of species, There is no one fact 
ad only before heard of the wonders he especially those of Scotland, consisted of a mixture | Show that the substitution of one kind for anotht 
performs. _ | of Da en ae trees s. Of the latter, the |is the result of any natural law; and the pe 
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Z court a Roses somewhere $ m "Landon m woe to ry The KUNA Sallow, H azel, Elm, and Maple |land (masses) from time immemorial would b 
Sac, “Pre soar th cee to gain his| were then, as now, quite a Alder, Birch, | incapable of explanation were it true. No do 
ee emselyes they must; not tojand a second sort of Pin ne grew in the marshes, | it has been observed that in certain places Conifer 
ag or ju ger Sih will be to confess worthless- | The Beech was w holly absent, “|have a tendency to displace the Beech, that 18 
rose Ther will n setae gardenia will be a better At the present day o on the contrary the Beech i fes but d places Oaks give way before u races; 
taving he t these facts clearly depend upon the mannet 
portent vena moe ors seth who have paris sof the co ountry. T fact the Danish Mhada |in which forests have Sit ore shill Jt is certail, 
to glory ; the decorated and the andaa aaa ants |are so generally occupied by the Beech that all|for instance, that the constitution of the Oak 5 
pring e semen. neo = i rent bossa = —— into insignificance. How sppe sed to the system of cutting ~ p 
; 5 en has it ha that th ti te ` 
symptoms of decay ; for old aze tells on Roses as|of the forest aes been comply ex ea pi nd to T render ik inoapabla get hard woot 
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on men; of the second The are eit youth | stranger? Thatis the que: 
and vi ae ene Heres Sanr inen step or | answ ef goea We entertain the same opinion, and trust t 
ra rr s siada eae Swill at least} [| b ne that Beech is | Show cause, before long, Wei = Peat 
prore them of the ee NEO TAN Serie water, and thus has let nation of forest crops has nothing to do with 
r re en +8 5 judged, or for ever hide tes traces where other remains still exist, Wel facts aes us, and what the ir -troajo 
their dishonoured hea agreewith Mr. VAUPELL di considering this a | really i 
q dmissible.- It has been assumed 
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om jec scussion how it/that the climate of Denmark has me less 
to pass that ANCIENT FORESTS have dis- rigorous, and consequently less favourable to!) Warme Baie : soon near Perth I pa 
ea g or been swallowed up, as it were, in.the | Pines and Oaks, but more favourable to the Beech considerable B. bs es on number of Pere 
bogs = N. Europe, and have been succeeded rai the Beech tree is as eres as ei 5l penne: ace 
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the ancient evidences that still lie Bur urope; and oobi the Pine i it interest 
. Nothing indeed is more remarkable, | suffer from corti rail does not Climate rae Martins is ot patel e cold; it was ol 
t ton, than the undoubted | remembered “that similar changes in forest trees by using screens of different materials t eor ese 
the tree has in modern cans so | have taken place Seyran, and qeda vin an opposi of Pears and hardy faite could be secured. n 
I usurped the place of the Pine, the | direction, of which we ha striking | ScTeeBS Were generally put on early in February, 
gae the Oak, in _ nya a pta is road examples, There isa eae ae Mun Noh whisk |S allowed ad oper down night rem Sess 
waly which now rem resting | formerly consisted of Oak, Beech, Birch, andl op oi ike ios Wa ar chara day K! 
