812 THE GARDENERS’ ee Se a 
TS, 18 finest j 
pre is evidently to vs _the Swi H ey of | mit to the consideration m our reade: , ~ tin E : in land, oven we om = 
Is it true that the grows at " rate sat i | gateway a ay oepa a a little to poh) ros 
i esnuts grow vly ere 
g i Ji tue that, Spanish Ch real e of growth ? wen is in close ae aa 
upon wha t ya we . a their paste real ps Nowe -direc drive feat oe 
eserving the ‘orton on the Mansfield Toad, which is fhe Te 
gth : d from which 
obyious. But it is apr this which, y ota and : 
fc d d? „This ubjec 
Book ks. Teak contain sea a ely a a onetration: rate Teratia Toite è aniei foresters. | are st ma 
; timber, and be: tiful 
t. One writer. atimates the age of an : autiful lakes, 
` T feet in Sira lereioe; to be not la WE understand that beer is great ie wher e» egalar pile of, building, Abbey Pry 
ther OH pen. i ° ew and red s original situation hayi ted 
the Beatle y Oak) gi rac pon sa nly haying been discovered. ' wholly free from. the nig deplorable a - gromd opi Sà 
d; 7 ieke roof saa no sear’ pa J a uilding. ie year 1789, | 
s a ite kny thas writers. The late |in a volatile s ° How valuable that agenti is cies Whe tar tlandealled in Repton to his ever, the a 
g i ly, uncer- e and genius have been nniyi 
Prof. ZUCCARINI ked to work out this| a1] know; Ae ie is troublesome to apply, et | and who has bees deseri 4 eral aan 
roblem (see Lindley’s ‘Intr. to Botany, 1, 204), | tain in its action, and, if mismanaged, more mis- the “Landscape Gardening ang anon the rand 
Pat without success; for he found such enormous | chieyous than the evils it counteracts. As for] «as the foun idee Of a sehen combining 
differences between the rate of growth of specimens | example when it is fired, the effect of which is to| cellentin the former schools, and in eee 
of the same species of tree (Yews and Scotch | ghar arge the atmosphere with fumes of sulphurous | the union of an artistic knowledge of the subj 
Firs, the subjects of his examination n), humbe be! acid, one of the most fatal to vegetation of all oe mort and m pet Repton thus i 
umoer o rst interview w ` 
with a our inférmation amoun y to|plained to me his wishes oonan Welbeck 
e rom the ekes exe apt vin plac Sav ace A sii Mr. Wisor, the very able Ti S Semen rh s0 irna and decided that all difiden of 
grown under exactl amea — a Sse ut wha sir = _manager of Prrce’s Candle Company, has sete en te nd ee ee had ith 
Sanus exactly similar conditio inqui red a soap, wih hii dissolved in water | experience, Ber Berna 
like Exacti tad literally ‘speaking, ean cae oe ed with a syringe mm effectually and ny ae poche ER 
never ae into s inqui No two trees without a lat here be See rg of sulphur gracious Fite “ait bis ron ty 
ever existe d ly similar. | ean do. oa the Seer nur-|his taste and  judgme ae 
soapy | alarmed me sen doly at. tee but soon com 
ty in comp 
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All that can be meN is that conditions shall be erha = dey rres t gt 
tolerably similar, which was far from being the hbo of different s sfréngtlik and is very livawatiy me that I should have no difi 
case with ZUCCARINI’s specimens o of. Yew > aps mpresse sed with its efficacy. Six ounces of the soap |ing or explaining my opinion to him: Sek oe 
tained, as he tells us, from situations o in a gallon of es killed mildew for the time and | the ee under which ve vast 
Bavarian an. differing by 3000 feet of Sidra: waapa to Aeae when applied Tkr, ments at Welbeck were boldly nr ae 
tion above the y | per’ 
Sufficiently make conditions would, we thin = 
in a case like this be found in the Sonparini of 
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clean, an eie were in faot saved ; an soft young | UP 50 as to cb the reo! the en of, 
that no oe n emin ae 
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point we would for the present fix attention. Is | sah its ao Te ice handi red spi idler oes Principal rooms Whisks oe Ae Ah pt Pi its eo 
f $ 5 | effectually kept down; 1 Ib. of the “ole ian gh ed | counteract this awkward effect without 
in ns ne 
English Oaks which remain to acquire anything lik 4 gallons of water completely even | operation the pediment in the centre was : 
anti i i in other words, among vigorous Oaks, Peach trees after two or three plo n =e uare tower, and the parapets at the Hy 3 
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for all ot would be _ in the onary yri trees Suring been well syringed a day o o | brtilding were raised to unite with t meys 
tions of the for erhaps point is not ables; the colour of the roof was 
t afterwai g wl 
altogether ayoni ‘t e E ch o a nguiry, ine The name of this new soap or substance is, we | red tiles to blue- wa and these improvements, — 
many opportunities must are informed ‘‘The Gerhurst ina Bei ” and i p y the Duke - a 
the diameter and countin ve ths oe “of wold it is found in other hands to preserve the good confesses “far r exceeded ‘hs oe | 
Oaks when felled; and there must also be pana now ascribed to it, Mr. Warso aaan ideas of rai ee pas od = 2 
many standing Oaks, of some consi erable sizs, | og ft ib] eein died Kd cet e a 
the age of which is ascertainable without felling. | benefits u n horticulture. A trial is about to be Bee : 
. A collection of such data might be formed from te in the Garden of the Horticultural E 
which averages applicable to e inquiry before us | Societ: ty owood, Trentham, Chiswick Ho ouse, well expressed, “ moulding E 
might | $ wn. U y can | and sided oiher large éstablighsinntys yak owing | venerable ple, that it might E 
hardly be said to exist at present; but some are on | to the lateness of the season, we fear tha’ t no good |f; E un 
record, from which by way of illustration we "e | results can be looked for at present, “The eke ber! _ — e | ed af j 
— the following Talie: is evidence seem DEEE in view of the 
to show that on an average vigor at| ANOTHER report on RINGING Grape Vinus has >x ether n with “its ert P 
something like the following rate in England :— been supplied by Mr. Rivers with specimens of | hous oe at We fle pe ro 
Tn the let 50 years they reach 12 ins. in diameter (50) /the result, which, as will be seen, is encouraging | i aa ina the mame ofa made lak ee 2 
2a 19 a 
» (100) ‘oak to “astify ‘farther trial. always more beautiful than eer 
-3d K 5 DE 55 » (150)| No. 1. A branch of Muscat OF ALEXANDRIA h wat’ alsó by altering is 
» 4th » 3 est » (200) | which had been ringed in a cold Vinery produced a xed A e miid 
» 5th » ATA, i 3 » (250) | good bunch, nearly ripe, the characteristic yellow | coursé ofa nftoraksi 
6th » 40 » » (300)! even appearing; the bunch on an unringed branch | Bh 
That i is to say, a igorv English Oak will on an | in the same house was much smaller and very 
d 
ini in ipe. the 
when 150 years old, and 40 inches in diameter) No. 2. A br anch of Brack HAMBURGH pronac ia 
en years old. i =ne PRAE o it is|a large kamet ie bes ov te Had Ate bie! padi 
i fi 
y 
that after 1 d noft| re 
inches to s — es for the the next 50 7 ars, to 6 bore a bunch intensely Baek and te ectly ripo, | Teme 
then new | ‘bat ‘ak half the booed of the ot ou 
N Vine that had | 
om 
We fied th tha mode of a brings the | 
age of the Boney Oak, 34 feet in circumference, | an res in 
exactly to 1500 years , the period ie ste by | th first nothing ¢ uld be more promising 
would carry the Oak 47 feet in| than the appearance of Giese Dia The shank- en 
circumference, mentioned by Sourn, to 2150 years, | ing occurred all at once m one or two days. 
In like rE the age of the great Winfarthing| If "e regard the last case as inconclusive, the nehes in- 
Oak, said to have been called ‘The Old Oak” at shanking being due, not _ the aes aot to | 3i 
the ase prs which in 1820 was about ce sea Meine at the roots of a Vin -to | The two * 
in diameter, must have been at that time 1 that way, then it would seem that's ringing | p ormous, 
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years. 
We have been led into- a — from a peaske sap nh ted, from the inevitable accumu- : 
wish to ise rtain the age of some perb old | lation of oa sap above the ring and in the 
Spanish ey trees vis ty of 
ona es over- | vicini the Grapes, Dakia of ripening | : 
M Mippreton’s| in the Muscats was counterbalanced by a retarda~ onmferannb -i the little “ 
, near Ips- |tion of ripening in the Hamburgh. The trial | sound, and at 3 feet up the 
are vener- | should therefore be renewed next = ; and in| at one time 
ans | forcing-ho ll . At some little distance £ > i 
ait pirate iiy the e universal tt JERDI ae Sisters,” — er remarka imbs, sever i . 
these on WELBECK ABBE sions, of late you" 
feat Wiens an at Tuts, the principal residence of re ‘Grace the Duke | however have re beon ieh t ee t of the T 
h | of Portland, i is situated in the heart of the “ Dukeries, ame 
of growt! 
alt the | on the right hand side of the road leading from Mans- decay ; 
is he as the Oak, field to Worksop, some 9 or 10 miles from the former 
‘mes | town t w h 
in | there ar m 
| public road is by a handsome gate and lodges, through | 
ears would | street of re remarkably fine and sb stone buildings, ; 
wo erame: Fee the seam e-horse stables, brewhouse s p Tho E 
= ces on anh perp offices and the 
what We want to know, and what we sub- i viding bans on the oth 1er—the atter said to be the 
