, 
556 THE GARDENERS =o oun [Jour 17, ig 
—— that E say moved our attention ‘ 
till the acid is neutralised an - indifference. We h n all Was caught by a 
thi | valuable for naranai rasi kea flourishing in pearance on the discs from wh = 
pans oa yl arene oe bet before z tli ht sandy loam not more than 18 aye deep, previous year had been cut, cae eae 
be thoroughly rotted down before use, pe og: s | resting on a bed of cl in . y 4 aa found that they were studded with tation 
n horti culi tural phrase what, the Saute | resting en gravel, their progress was an E ut | tude of little buds, while i one case a ‘mule. 
mag i satisfac reason is ob my he first | lateral shoot had n developed, The Bal 
To usit a ppe certain that vegetable physiology | instance (clayey sub- soil) while b sure ots, it were sod all confined to the pith, for buds 
must be called to the pact warble of pe gardener if vanist ed tl yagi s pass Pa ong the $ ale gam ma ma Pies! but in aa 
h really d con pivtaine in close proximity belo marginal, an al 
Suaiiy bow Wo. sada pet wer ute. wn femal itp wards in case of drought, uee maintaining | of vascular fibres in W at as an bi - 
occasions attention h wn to this matter, necessary conditions of coolne s an nd m oisture, | t s ge sone of buds in Phionogens ing 
f ce sound practical | the extremes of stagnation ular tissue alone without 
Lome S —— salle be mes en Wat, Pict, the | being equally avoided; while rare other ¢ ease ese except i in a few aquatic piai Y abjec 
amatan pr gn man at ‘Cheshu nt, induces us ow, reer the aiaiebiers passed rapidly je ly rare, is possible rad 
Bs” sek: to subject.  “ Gardening,” he |a way, = e delicate hair-like roo suffere ka ‘experi ent, In some apparent pi bs Pe, 
truly observes, “ has asai assed that era when fo m ex gee in dry weather. Be y kind, as in the seeds of Crinum and some ti 
the most bstacles were š magnified till mole- soil sare deeper in this latter case, or. more reten- | genera, bar a Pe ually an embryo allied 
hills became pakar aean the ntain of moisture, the subsoil would haye been a ees gh bur such a multitude of tise ae 
for labour or a cover for ignorance. In no art, matter of little moment,” it is eatin overloke d, and hence it ae 
been made in recen ted 
perhaps, have greater strides 
Dimi than in the art of gardening. _ The dark- aene re have nothin ng to 
That substance would be 
t unless thoroughly rotten, whic 
at aol Ap use | from the cellular tissue o of thes 
a dangerous 
ung plant = pe 
tae 
y any vessels. 
it | base of the t Gis TO ne ‘of a srt 
Sire the dim mists in “which so man ape T o Pr 
f but indistinctly seen vow ee Tainter ; piini is in gardens, What we wii recommend Potatoes whose eyes are confined to: ne end, thy 
l empiricism is settlin fate aol finely sif sifted burnt clay. g rare, tage 
steady process of induction. ie h direction becam 
com sia ae of of peat exist in a eA rate state. Sor , tan, or any em oe Seat ae ey may Pubs to rg tights n the e functions ani 
Sand, decayed leaves, turf, old tan, e any Rotten sticks are so aji mildew roots that their | development of spiral tissue, the former of Whig 
sherouphly: decayed vegetable substances, m be | use is to be carefully avoided ; reduced to charcoal | especially are at present imperfect y un 
merican | no mildew can liv them. ` This, with the | and because everything 
plants thrive perfectly. 
they will not thrive in ite lame | 
es sem to depend upon the 
0 
obtained from the con es oo iis tows lead which for a year at least has been ly a| capable of being produced is interesting ta the 
decomposed, iS e trouble of collec nd | heap, will form a compost for American plants as cultivator 
pram dh y y may be Bii, w one Laven as the finest peat in the world, to the p Our he cut d 
with equal portions of chopped turf and sand of which a knowledge of vegetable chemis- | the natural size. Those s have been selecta] 
they may be raked together in autumn, and lai i is s entirely brar ry. in which only a few bada- "bate been developed in 
in heaps for 12 months, until thoroughly decaye When we t Mr, Pavr’s little book we had order to avoid confusion, In some i 
adding to the heap, from time to time, any garden | proposed to adve tto two illus- | whole su d by buds 
that will rapidly decompose. We believe |trated in his pages; but our diminishing space opportunity of watchin ng the progres “i th 
the only condition necessary zí by ee | obliges us to defer them to a future occasion, evelopment we have no means of asce 
cultivation of Americ lants is a soil t r AEAT SN oe ops the cut aane PecemeH ce with eut- 
loose and t, containing sufficient ‘epee Buns are in general developed from the axils of | icle, by me which the wound was healed, 
matter to „preserve a due and equable amount of | leaves, or where leaves have fallen off, but they | whether spongy as first produced on its 
moisture,” are developed also in many other situation ns, as | surface. Weare ay enabled to state thatthewhole 
No doubt these are the conditions—looseness | from the edge or surface of the leaves themselves, tissue sae oe S was oni 
pite ess—to which, as Mr. PAUL states else- | from their petioles, from the stem, and in fact|¢ 
us matter, which A ok rom any situati here there is ab nt vas- 
cannot bear, must be added. Their sE cular tissue. oe y, ho adventitious}, WE regret to announce the death of a 
Tike to lime is e know is that bade „as for n the|Loupon at an advanced age. 
the great horti 
ral vepar, and was herself the bg yon i 
pop 
ular works on gardeni 
iariti bundles is itself perfect] 
pos fibrous state of their | pe eci 7 Zon, from. thon 3 | som 
The roots of a R it into more complicated tissue, | flowers. 
and active of excessively delicate pran which tun the el mentioned in Site d. Chron. 1852, 
R GARDENING— POTTING PLANTS. 
among the soil, y rough sand and |P. 339, w e exposed pith w AMATE 
; matter, but burrowing in eve ry direction | with cattles peeti which a eh of woody fibre} Ar feats sight nothing appear: r than to pot.a 
into ents of decaying leaves or wrote of | Was produced, Itimately a number of adven- =| plant, It must be held perpendicularly, haye the roots 
Totten- bsta: is ma titious roots ; sometimes where the tissue be surrounded with aeri jap 
seen when the young fibres of a Rhod defian are | not exposed to the atmosphere but a rupture o f | down, and watered. hs an Bein ork is 
very carefully washed and examined in water. a takes place, a spongy mass is posite have only to wait ti 0- ih or 
Some precaution is, however, nece essary in order the surface which gradually becomes more | °#rts, makes the plant ro gow, 
to observe this, because of the excessive delicac i But A a itie, Ne 
: and brittleness of the aeons hen viewed wah, | em cy work with ı us; 5 but then ni aged 
_ & microscope each fibre is found to be coated with lB Eros 
an i | pae: sui movements to her wishes, or she will aset 
aes emely fragile skin, not producing feeders as her power, and disappoint all our expectations. Men — 
case In so many other instances, but with 
, com w seed e ground and Na ill work 
r eire de ea s ‘on poe them; but then they must consider the i 
fx ‘7 her e leas of soil, and clima So. when an amatett 
Sa preng a more delicate is known be gardener, whether lady or gentleman, undertakes top — 
pes re than this remarkable skin, thro a plant, estion must we 
; Which K plant has to imbibe ot y an ; ms on which success 
ges becom brown, as thicke epen 
ne » and ultima: y in em old roots it There is a wonderful power in vegetable life, asin the s 
loses a and power economy. of sentient animals, Pye np T ; 
mere: absorption , that i feeding. Now The child will grow, 
it is KÀ pm iniponibi mp a rero routs. ikas thus} ~~ E healthy, — re k ia Py ae en 
| way h hard matter; Ae Rh dne tte the opera- 
| therefore what is soft and y penetrated ig | hi organised and is at len p of the violence done to their P rieg 4 
Ne Stake ro capab. tion. But the s, that for a plant to grow’ ; 
A Y CaCa SBE e their vital | prod nite organid datae ae nutri e apet ie rtain way, and that way 
power if exp ree to unusual thin- | reproduction of the imen or S it must be po in a certain What w ae 
ness and d y renders them iin of detain- ins tle eae teas ine Eaa uch ease e shall | now attempt to point out. oe 
ing moisture; ¢ ihe reall: takı ete a 
eadil : up, » Te ne of the connection prr quality, air, and moisture ; and it is 
readily happen, they wither irrecoverably ; iae which is established betwe. eh vison there is more difficulty i in supplying these Trea 
fore soil must re damp, by which term wetness | of youn, Balanophore and hee of the an fem the pot. 
un . Moreover it is | which they grow as described by „Dr. Hoo R fasta roots can travel pes n ae +. 
all fragments de- | irable mei on that t We zy | appropriate R md th em ass of eart od Si 
tter, in search of the food that | actions of the Linnean Society of | pak lee. y to the atmosphere viral adate 
; there: soil A remarkable in se ? don. moisture pige: but in pots all these nat anil 
ts, buds in great num s ns fn Ai fas s ie —< = [Seve Leena: Orte eee ‘pore all cme 
i 5 e cen soil, and it fficult to hold the balance i 
p S sl for Rhododen- | lately fallen under our notice in the case of some | too much wet and the dryness which an exposure to È? 
p Teee plants of Seakale. These plants, three in number, | air on all si ust . All these venient? 
w iy immaterial how it | were treated precisely in the sam Eers | are, lowever, vey ran aeie i aaa patient 
ot calcareous, Dampness | in their immediate ine tisigh touted whieh prođasod | ae gird aed 
usable, Upon this point |a good crop, by simply surroun unding them with a mill, widovat ass bethecharacterof it 
tien mg meeting above to to preserve a free space, oo particular tribes of Scone it aoaia in det always be 
nili of the im- |an covering the sti i | in as large 
oe American plants, the |sods.. Some snails, however were eB ~ the soluble — y not run posite ee pA 
not altogether a matter of | Closed in one of the heaps, wh ich ate off eve vai age Kt to the Toots for Fea sifte 
with full Descrip- aen so that when the ap A ae aar ton from oa inch to an 
pst u in lum S 
F.H.S. Pier & Co. there w: nothing! in the shape of a shoot. | square. Balsa, 2 flourish in leaf-mould; >™ 
A week or two a after the e covering n re-/should not be pulverised, employed with 
