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GABDENH 
CHRONICLE 
JANUARY 10, 1563.] AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 27 
I bave now only more poin t Gag leviati 
to. Pe cham the Roe dg o the dud "роп cle ж с o КАЙЫШ m to give small leaves and | sown the previous "ans but every plant ha ad the 
will be encouraged by the announcement of final ty, | thorny shoots—in fact seeming as if they would (if left | same rugose pointed leaves as the pareni T and I 
just as овет, disciples were awaked u а by him|to reproduce themselves without the care o ап) | lo oked in та in for some deviation. The Quetsche is 
as he came to the fly leaf of one of his essays, which | become, in a few generations, wild green Plums, p and seems, 
he was reading, to their tired Pars, by his crying | bably the normal state of ths sort. ow years | like e Gr reen Gus. to ћахе шге under many 
out, **Courage, lads, I see Ја p I DAY ve Dein, often | since I procured from the Horticultural Gardens at i$ ог пае on t bits of a race. There 
asked—which is the best way to win iswick, lies “Cabul Green Gage." was dee "E rue, several varieties of Quetsche Plums 
Ros My | Chi 
answer has been, high c eultiyation, new plants вр 
und 
or home budded), change (E 
as regards Briar Roses. 
, and hard cutting, 
etl PS when planted, 
far eastern 
wn in i Сане ny, some yellow, неде — нем 
а p earlier than the common sort, but they all 
of m b. ine habit rU mod na 
or even a afterwards, йо not requiro ard eutting. "Take m an onc also re e faet with regard 
p g nd hei, out the side wood, and | of its origin, m. ko he Fast we look for the origin of | to the “Petite Miel, S0 aped grown in France, 
cut the side wood t r three eyes. Тһе quantity | nearly all our ана and luxuries fertile to|and so long known I have searched among 
of Roses, i E ү) MS new £33 the hange of | the I world. Iregret much to say, that this| some thousands of sedibus raised from stones im- 
ground, are the reasons why the Barrera men beat the m most interesting d as pippa pes me,—it| ported from France for the purpose of raising 
amateurs. I eanno$ close wi тез ма my | bore "trait two years since in my orchard house, and | young stocks, to таке the Plum and the Peach 
highest БЕЛО ab all Mi Hedge’ s pans at the last ра to be а Cherry Үз а Mw of the Mirobá-| dwarf in growt he same way as the P 
National tournament. It is lucky for the «реп lan, with red fruit of a lar; ze than the common| dise stock dwarfs the Apple, but I have searched 
that they had po do ы а ЕА him. W. Р. Rad- | Cherry Plu The habi tof. the tree is most remark-|in vain fór any deviation; the same small leaves, 
clyffe, Rushton, Jan. 1. ably vigorous, it making КК» in one season from 7 | downy shoots, and dwarf habit, are promin in 
to 8 feet in lengt w years since I raised ks d UR Hio kin ^n € — ааа the 
жо Or i seedlings from the Peach Plum| German Quetsche, diverged slightly, for there are 
SEEDLING FRUITS: (Prune Pêche); one of these bore fruit 1859, | ear rly - Eres Mirabelles,"the former quite a little 
UMS, which ripened, J Oth, thus proving t liest m, ав it ripens in July, and is very rich, 
ly f that ieanti pum known, but as the tree was in а pot, and stood the b прен іп ver sdb s there is also the 
Plu trees sd t d buf very та р early arm place in front of à wall, І do Y think it | Mirabelle de Nancy and o others—still they 
kr cog AE planted by my Шан ент) € will in infüture тіреп so early. This sort is а remark- | are all m hia etait tl 
0, were їп L flourishing state ; they used t о bear able deviation from its pent yo isa lugo roun nd of the 
p n five years, and ab "n 
E ind in hen 
b h ga ons 
сог апа КЕ шаде 16 
eater аге, { 
Plum, a very old variety, grown 
апу piquancy, ripening in A m 
smaller than its parent, аа à fa ver, ud risk oik; 7 its 
habit i is wi idely iffe rent, for its shoots are во slende ;d 
Whereas those of the parent 
аге > stout and robust. 
There are, two races of Damsons, опе with downy 
shoot ts. 
rgely in the er 6 2 of France for drying, 
торгосо itself. roti eed without the slightest 
variation in habit, so n 16 опе w оша think it a species. 
ave п led ме i lengthy notice of the 
adherence to in alite raised from our ve 
ry 
old varieties of Plum e ecause 16 may prove interest- 
d 
and lead to agreeable and inter- 
à boyish inso T dd iod to Ere Ai som 
stones ОЁ thi urite Plum, and in due О 
some young e s made their appearane t was 
S0me ten Took: ог во pue they bore any fruit, for 
they were looked upon by my elders as wild trees, and 
кае in, à shady sonet ab last two ч. Шеш bore | o 
g ý as en of ап age ake some 
interest tin pch fruits, I was wich pleased tI 
them valüable sorts, on э ЕП s than its parent, the 
other as early ; but so hards t it боз pof а 
the other with 
Prune or p Гаи. 
n Dàmson, which 
the 
smooth 'shoots, calle d the 
is the s HUE 
moms 
edial ied W Tho gh 
species, во little 
PERAE SAR hàs ‘gone, w when 
em, My. experiment was ih the 
Hs pae їй 1t A oe. é Та generally so 
dates sóme thirty or nearly forty y eirs inco. 
Damsons were then ‚вбагсе їп the nurseries, aud the 
t 
hr n my 
Le 
etions —in ѓасб to matters 
ing в erben a 
k about, but 
and dedu 
that ou Sed myaglf mer think and tal 
t mit to print. 
I have narrated the 
s of а 
this, I bici fear too long an article, оп one species o: 
fruit, І feel 1 I ought ыч mention a жүлүн va- 
— t fro 
Fôr вое Аз Phe зт "distinguished t first-named 
as No. 1, the second as No. d i 
shoots were smooth instead of 
being ау like those of the common Sloe. І 
(9 
lien thought, and аш still inclined to think, that РЫ 
8 
ons owe their origin n to t the Slo ое, апа tha t after 
b Ваве 
іп шу а of thes ese my first seedling Plums, 
becaüse their "opus have léd to а trái of reá- 
soning on the tende 
ency of seedling ee to return 
to the n I 
ormal T ia on of their s 
P 
ew t ey, 
n common with all our fine sry of domesticated 
fruits, would * ge io their 
Greengages would be like Bul 
ike ОКЫ vd Poches thick-fleshed Almonds; 
nave опе Ог 
ERAN to йш i 
verus у and White Damsons reproduce themselves 
вее the 
seedling Peaches approaching very 
5 
alluded to in my last letter vele well gom in 
in e 
seed, but from what 
for sale; they gre d perse 
, | they had fruit. "Their е to, Qs párental tne: was| In the i ia of "капу Prolifie Plums, referred 
then most interesting, for they were all Damsons with| to above, one tree, about three years ago, A rapea 
smooth shoo pe but some bore dul fruit, oils ro und s of а ies t yellow, and has continued to do 
or roundish, à fe th small fruit approaching i s Рр n аб the same time their 
very nearl t appearance to Sloes, but. they were | purp ith ow: e of the same shape and flavour, 
ds | sweet, aid their and ү boo "^g ч of the tree are exactly like 
those of the Ea vie зеге. „л! is unlike any other 
Riv 
yellow Plum known. 7. 
PLANTS OF PERU.—No. VII. 
(Continued from р. Т.) 
CrNoHONAS.—By tle 21st of December, the plants 
E 
rows on the fore part of the raft; а little ined thatched 
rais 
hie same ion in Early Prolifie, hop i = о igi- | from with but little variation. Some from with Maranta leaves t о protect us from the su unhea by 
nate sorts still earlier, so ave Plums ripening in former, however, a recent generation, the trees now n 
Nature, however, seems to hàve stepped in, three years old, are of interest, for one among the a lad 
e М from a ^ inds, have ripened from | with а close pyramidal habit hás broad leaves and | who һа петел to guide е raft to нч The 
month later than the ERE m hopeful. Dens swollen n byr recent rains, was fu il of v haec д 
rts, and аге mostly of inferior quality, althoug Coe's' Golde , which, compared with 
dir of the same race, being тоге like wild | Green Gage, is a new kind, 1 КАБ produced here а round iit nst the banks of thé Tiver, which were M LAM 
lums than sorts of a good paréntage; wild Plums| Plum like ап Orleans, and no a] like its | with branches of trees and climber ra; ns our raft passed 
ofa eptember, and шу ings from seedlings | pàrent, for it ripens about the end of August; its | swiftly along tl m ttle shed, 
of an early Plum seem to m be еп uring: to quality rich & nd | goo od, but although it has been in pulling off a portion of the roof, and sometimes sweep- 
проби to a state re. lt is still to be as enty years, i it has à not been honoured | ing off the old n бадо also; who, hopu, was a` 
ы: ed if m dlings from these INE а Plums si M o This comparatively early Plum, from |swimmier, and so always s suecéeded in regaining his 
Be. i bns epa [e firs& generation, and 1 hod of ой ишн Mw ce P "t Pp а position, 
ot t aiu the аси j s to Apud ру train of thought relative to se who was full of anxiety for the yc 
m һауе omitted to say that is first seedlings raised | ling Pears in No. f the а е expected that we would have di 
v he bres of the oldest varieties Plums The Тебе lun, which; conipared to the Green wrécko d on some sand bank, but about four clock 
ка de Pica viz, rly Fav Gage, is a new variety, has produced here seedlings|in the afternoon we reached the village of Caracol, 
КЕ GZ EN t pattake latgely of the ñatüre of |varyin 4g extent in tete foliage and habit. | where the river runs smoothly dead, and from thence 
t pare our, in size, -— лош, ү show- | As they promise to bear next season, the varidtion ог | we were carrie y the tides to err iei where 
pee that seedling from ruits long | non variation of their fruit will soon be ascertained. we anchored on ће еу и. of the Deeotmbef 
b p» deport at eMe front »- parentali} Тһе Reine Claude de Bavay, a new and late variety | Next ay the appearance of а а attracted - 
that à ts ИН ассоци М the want o ui: uccess in | ОЁ the Green Ga e, has produced seedlings giving Еа выво ОЁ: бойййётойй me who in numbers 
Е Dind ire po | el, in raising e for they have departed widely in Pec d ТОШ | seé is thé ө glass boxéá "pM Some of кене 
е аа fróm d iw old kinds, wi ich | t rent, havé seedlings from Guthrie's Late | how , had previously ipei that were Cin 
ortion redit another variety of the Green Gi Tt "Wou байв. ov British. Du à, and therefore ds of them 
may m, therefore, that às кооп as a deviation from an old | as had kno owledge en "n at the result 
the 
thou- LEVE 
oyed he hab 
s their pareat z "ак чоч our a нн веей- 
in ised fro 0 ше ч. a 
ings га oval 
Sod eu jm all 
Qu mus Plum, Мон is нопок, thence so so gel, 
Plums ues co een 
тшш uude mp MES x STW dollars (about 201.) for each grain of 
might be seemed m ned ; Азн y this pare 
there existed no law io proren the cases being sen! 
rari apii wes varied v oe 
м0 which "^ "rk afterw. wd 
Оп board a a mg he Straits of Ba 
Mandel. Whey niy E pA on the Slst 
and were disembark a Payteon the dadl January, 1861. 
The removal of the cases from the steamer at Payta was 
a work of grea! pat n у. E AW us 
from the deck on to a raft, а thence transferred 
to boats, w ud them to the ML x B which 
mind ome 20 or 25 feet Uy us eans of a very 
effect, that any one 
e cs of the лөө 
