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found in 1856 that the effect of ringing, under | we trust that many ig will be fairly and | of that country, ; 
proper conditions, was to cause the ti pes to St aj | kwi S Tike iew to ase certain practically ind erect st the pan ag ob. t 
= Am earlier, ard to produce larger her ae yy a 3 Whereas they 
ut several points remained for furthe t determ cutlatum, to which 2% 
tion, and Aethetiens had been most aese i A , WONDERFUL Fuxavs.—A paragraph has erne pe app roaches very pe a EN rs 
directed to those points in 1857. a similar aad fi = e the sepals 7 a 
The trelli ao head ing, as for example in the Moving Post of satis a about its SA aes however s 
ofc old: tools of Chamois ale is gu A Al 28th ult, b relative to an enormous fungus Speke peie. pi 
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could be found between the ringed Vines and the _ Deane li fad by Oak Teaia of | the plant called cucullatum by pe 
others, because, on g to re hot summer el Donca ae support cee is Ps w ee ae haga ad 
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had found no reason to alter his peri in any — fungus creping closely phat the mean a k 
i i reading iameter. e He 
respect. The time for performing the sention pe sp. ng somewhat after the man AMATEUR GARDENING M FRUM 
Vine is in full growth ; but the exact time must | Beech tree, the interstices being filled up with a| Tw the last Number of this P 
necessarily be regulated by the earliness or late- | thin white flocculent Se eee assumes | who signed himself “R, K, H.” fac laani pondent 
ness of the season. As tothe breadth of the ring | tufted appearance at the xtremities, his | directions for am ateur gardeners are not si that ony 
of bark to he’ removed, M. Bovrerors was of | tufted part is full of little ‘pits resembling those | evidently mistaking altogether what w, 
opinion, and the Com mittee aed toe agree with |On the thallus of a Lichen, each of which contains | amateur. An amateur gardener with 
him, that the oy Grapes and largest berries | @ very pelni rop of w ater. We are happily in | pursues the art for the love of it, 
inv wi on molog a 
effect e n no fructifi | 
if =: sania e of sap is stopped for a short time, | Common dry rot, Merulius lacrymans, assumes so | whether small or large, himself, than 
They also report the aes ing ‘experiments Pean frequently a similar form that we have no hesita- | others. For such men our remarks are intended, a 
had been tried by M. GEOI tion in considering it as that species. Sir W., J. |as we give exact descriptions of what we do ourselres, 
Hooxer a few years since called our attention to a | they are aids in amateur gardening. We 
ia: A stool of Vine ae jaiai erit two arms, | epdelmnity which, wie deena Seat: tition wall necessary to explain so far, lestauch sania we 
every branch was ringed immediately below : 4 partition wa hink E 
th first b h | in the shape of a beautiful festoon 12 feet or more | Should think we are travelling out of the Teeord in 
Son une 5 a high’ pe i pi ii length wd as it was in full fruit i ai ry writing upon the culture of fruit on walls—rather ar 
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tion. Many other instances h i more 4 
ie as ARA t hens NRA vegetati ny es have ni | otara n As pricots—more indeed than we hiye 
one ethe Vine, y: pE divg the kd a fobies Pred i in which dry rot has attained equal been favoured with since 1855.. We keep the nets at 
roid it had r Paet dim mensions, , and noth ing is more commo on t than ts | hand, be because we do not Eia the pe eo 
runnin; 
jon 1 which it t has taken its origin. Indeed it ame 
caused fruit as ‘large as as Damactn's to o fal all off, an dl 
a splendid crop. Should there be hail, or should other 
own to destro estroy walls by its penetration 
| be observed that fungi in’ mines oř caves sel zay ture, we shall put the nets on Ta hooks again; ; but we 
aeons attain their perfect form. ry rot is one of hope there will be no occasi Our object in remoy- 
: stool, again divided into two arms, one ‘ | ing the nets before we are quite n they are 
3. On a stool, again divided into t ag po tng oe — even “diet Saas ais st in|; k sts befi É = rite cortin MEN 
such eases without fru in 
superfluous shoots, to search for insects, and to destroy 
ie t is sage necessary to advert to some of the Botan We found the green fly had got hold of some 
it were inferior. On r arm a ring not Wate the hreina been published in connection portions of the trees, and thata colony of snails were 
tiga three-tenths of oi inch was removed, i i f marine ng Wek the sea | doing 1 their best to disfigure the fruit. What we have 
-and soo: a: Hoel te ver. The Grapes on all the of fungi gr ig ie aha vary tie Where 
com above the ring became very large and | or upon marine Al infected 
gæ, a al Both: ans hee t the fly had got a firm hold the most of the 
fine, while Seg on y agn below the ring | minute species, one being deve veloped Mi 8 trey leaves asi off, If nails and shreds were fount 
were Nips inferior. n this arm, after being waves on the stems of Posidoni and ‘the other|in the ingle e or fruit, they were loosened or 
singed, ranches was also ringed; but on seaweed thr b a veh 
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cnn CUORI Th i li ly, were ext back to ha 
fore double ringing is useless, rae > on the old fangi-of E anki so oe arta H lieve that poin hen the f ti nd had removed all 
V vantage, that one ring |in teier Soi Lichens, sort ge be d a is nearest asta decaying leaves, &e., the eee 
d ‘be enough for 10 or 12 laterals; but it | bosom o those $: COVEN PEC TEIE t nging of soft ster applied a ae 
me c b was o n or two a a still 
Înjurious, ding tha: Cidnaiitles: eea expa fhas" fou in Borneo ee cae a le an syringing of Je water was giva e and Hig 
us 0: arger imen- the ee = = than half a ce 
ts to be confined for the present to young | s sio ns, e iva re son lio dee 1 ata edib a fee difai 
as been brou ome from that island, and | from m that which it had the day before. Š 
aft es above the bunches were disbudded | nothin ing ap approaching such dimensione i pri in |2 healthy and clean appearance; the fruit stands ont 
ving been ringed. This produced a bad the co een none, h the | free from the withered materials, oe before 
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gi ae do not answer near so well as rings, We once ind 
6. Ringing will not prevent the attack of apa w. SAMH ir ere goa ke Polyporus us more satisfaction than cleanin: 
8. A branch with three bunches was = in the Cambrid Geciteha ae ree eve, still | wall iam to remove, 
rate ; once sheer the lowest a and o 8 i ‘shoots 
ow the u ermost bu ch, The sists tel eir te 
tho bim ving je Vat $ elow Au, regret to announce the decease on the 10th inst. whi, if left. ‘til, the winter, would have he 
hides thei b a Wee Ene arly + | ee nham Green of Mr. Groree McEwen in the taken off by the pruning knife. It is th 
that sad ati 3 ecam sae rA fre de b rel 38th year of his age. During the 14 months that he re allowed to remain are hich arè 
tween the two rings, cut o om bot e as e mi: of the Garden of the Horticul- the early excision, or pei off, of all w 
berries whieh = would not pe sap, only formed small | tura Society he he evinced so much skill an d energy as to | thought to be superfluous. By this is treatment 
ch would not ripen mak th le remains h fag e 
: consider was how a a spirit should fe dwelt in so frail a body. @ pruning, and the Pie pee Sati 
ragi ing aieo i avon, Upon th this p “dior Mand repo: = neat appearance, p aa ep followed 
e Commi not clear t you New Plants. advan’ This its 
i ” “ t pi g we may presume i z 
Ty aan taka ete ars yon oam Ñ em Roc aneva on (D eueulati rar 2) |P i arenen and E We sone or 
ble to the fine Chasselas of Fontainebleau, linum : caule foliisque D. cucullati jod anna, s, sepalis that we lates a sens a that ae sr 
evertheless that was iee So n which M.| fa vis enen rotun- | this plentiful a of the youn cnt harika 
ited us N it-| This is figured in the Botanical Magazine, t. 5003, | °°, a tial for af us pinched of f fige 
s under the name of D. nobile pallidi oen. odl mai part of its produce sia all ite vital pate the Ae nee 
d | and we ler been inclined eo attribute 
dying shoots of our trees to practice, a 
ight ond i iff ~ mereri id Sela an cucullatum on oe ote a to raise a suspicio oe n | hi ed to let berks 
te h one less y amount of that t they ss Saal Pe of hybrid origin. Ad gerbe Ee left our treesnearly to ranches 
really done. iay we ie, to be e sxeused however, lately afforded by Mr. Charles Warner, of | course, so that in the be walla Fro harreto ofabandsst 
r Paris his stock Oe, nl 
or friends =s a Mie “must iy mid a med, and th de at sing cont 
D. nobile. The Bey of ‘daha is given to it, crtali our trees were never in a more friends who 
ve he flowers havi ving a yd he odour ‘a Be oi a or than they are now. Some of our im neret 
Z process. In the erst i Cove A good m ts have been in : is wild hanes: told us t the fruit would ag 
when out-of-door Vines will ffi n. bl fro Sikkim f ‘nd it an r. We merely rel v 
l h in this country, and| De $ aes di m Sikki ie nd i mong Aa but it did, as wellas ever. We mm them, and 
