02 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL СЕВЕ [JANUARY 17, 1863, 
— hes. hs ould be in тиде: health, or in ај] pur rendered more suitable for сабаг locali- - aver: ае, wh as little more 
vig state of growth; and — id Sarl tie n 1° high r than usual. In inii instances the 
long. eaved. Pius, p specimens, were КОБЫ Знае заа UM ns ное аамай та afow y dag s of freezing ; 
similar. condition. bs. afted plants therefore will "thrive; | —— Two or three printer's s errors have rather | and as late in the month as ће 256 d gs. within 1° 
oE 1 1 Fuchsias at p. 26. | ot that points The high EREA was maintained 
* do тепага well ” at certain places. Оп the other In the second paragraph of ts first column the|in consequence of the prevalence of S.W. winds, rather 
hand, we all know that seedling plants : as well as | reading кау ld be—*' Indeed any exhibition subjects | than by xn bens ыны eat ther ' was generally 
1 be found jin whi ch are now shown throughout all Zheir classes cloudy, w 8, and the 
Н y a flourishin ng condition—ay, e ted pete sn of thes soil, proved very обо 
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it may indefinitely mixed,” &c. In the second column, first satura ka 
be in clos oximity to other grafted Cue. Much are|paragraph, 16th line the word *retained? should for beddin ng o out pla apia ion made very slow progress { 
Кушт М the heart's content of the planter. What | replace “returned ;’ and in the fourth paragraph of the made comparatively a poor | 
is the inference which is fairly to be drawn from these|same column, Madame Cornelissen should appear as a show i їп n the early par ке! er. 
acts? Why, surely this, that it is the adaptation of | ‘splendid’ nota ‘slender’ variety, which indeed it is NA Ee ghe precoding months were warm an 
ne n the soil (от vice versá if you please), and оѓ | not. Sn: bu t E is 1 ma ir 1 -— гаре, wi QU t Р { 
e stock with its feeding apparatus to the trunk or Dar rature was neariy ow the , або | 
head to be supported, which makes all the difference NOE verme t Я паде A eiecti Shoes е the nights was more than 5° colder than usual. o 3 
between success and failure. As a commercial specula- announces in his recent Seed Catalogue, that ed season may be cold; buf if the temperature advance 
tion the Deodars we bave referred to may поб LirrLE GEM, bod which s Сарой eril SCRAP regularly vegetation wil continue make sound 
perhaps be quoted as a profitable investment, the - 1173 of F 1 ra: 1862, sà o TRA ffo red this though not rapid growth. But when the progressive 
stocks, we believe, being as valuable as the grafted P 9 d "js atok. reis arrested for а considerable time, 
trees; bw iewi their ipulati F peuri "—doubtless from want the organisation of licct according to the nature к 
уно olo ogical experiment they have their value, their the e mu Дона ош r les nes ian ged. ER а 
ourishi diti i 1 > warm summer ollows a mo erately € ga ait 
h ng condition furnishing evidence that the HUE AND CRY. E aii LE 
P xA PrAYrAIRIL—Seedlings of this. beautiful | ны їз succeeded [y ac tea 
et 
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other plants which are increased by this means, ап lant are livin g in the Royal Gardens, Kew, where they rature of this Youth advancing АГ, above that of 
wi uestion, а а were sent by Captain Playfair from Aden. "These аге | its predecessor, as on the average is, the case, it did not 
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ovide a stock which is hardy at the root, of vigorous | OWn co unt; sa seit ai is vds rers iid em | on Wat of the 28th, А Moe within ай s Kad zing, Int 
слано, that constitution assimilating as nearly as | if not identical Зна. the old P. elata, L., which is а | previous month the poris wash 
PA «ш with that of the sorb to be grafted, and let the | native of Arabi still continued, bat їп in йй илгек it as accompanied 
t о го the ве ferons and 
we can see, wh rafted Conifers should not be en | may be fairly attri. 
шша: ds yen irum i anus OF 1862. De ted the s nge A uer dal exhibited by some kinds of 
e graft our Apples and Pears on free-growing January.— favourable winter month, | vegetation. Strawberries, for examp ple, which promised 
dto | for the аа "although slightly flow the | а fair crop, swelling ап commenci g 
average, a ime severe, the lowest|rotted off, and the 
n of tug өйүзгө being 17°. Тһе ground | disappeared in many instances abo А 
mer, | m. gathere 
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endure the fall term of their species, or at least of the 
dwarfing stocks, for a definite purpose, not e ex ng d s, at the forme 
21 42°, ү at не latter 40*. The prevailing winds. were this fruit from about, half of ground, and he 
the кз,  Wograft our delicate Кутыру from and the barometer was generally low hth g bout 
of the more vigour into but the amount of rain was a little Бае аз шап e from the me space. To the sam 
them, and thus treated we get them to grow dutem ihe average. ашау Duns obit ation of titii kia may like. - 
freely, men to endure longer than they would do on ebruary.—This month was umi for the vite be attributed most probably the failure in the 
their own гоо The same principle runs through the | small amount of rain which fell; there was none atio wi i 
i o the 16th, nor after the 23d; and altoget er little more | by Messrs. Watere 
nd w: from N 
e propagati 
had recourse to; and why, we may ask, should Conifers | than 3 of an inch. he win s chiefly fr .E.| *It appears that e to make an 
i he e barom igh Exhibition of American Plants in the Horticultural 
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т оп the 8th. Th n temperature was nearly 2° above Gardens nex 
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ere are, а ower it 
of healthy grafted Coniferous plants in the most satis-| was in ne following April The ground was med we tell you t that out of our immen : 
factory condition, to var us to admit that there is| 93^ warm r than usua al at this аны ie the n. | find e к= decent сові plants excepting h per E 
ger se anything hurtful in the process of grafting as On th weather throu; avour- r kinds. 
applied to them Poyoni. other plants. . Indeed же goa able for M pugne operations. fully е with a P T" it. and with an ordinary 
step further, and March.—This month was characterized by a low | season we have no doubt we should have made 
the grafted plant may have the ie s ee ў» state of the barometer and ап Meere m large amount | show than that of ast year. As it is, we are ош 
seedling and decidedly over m cutting ; v^ we of rain; on the 20th alone there fell more than an inch; | di i enti thi ] hi 
tain that a species whose constitution ther the amount was abo ing ze 
towards tenderness (not te absolutely tóc У енене nearly 2} inches above the average. This in тапу | plants, and сап co i an that _ 
for our climate), may be iram 2 5 eed in which | cases rendered y ground unfit for the reception of| we аге not in a position to carry it out either with - 
it would otherwise perish, by u with a vigorous Rian and other crops usually sown in this month. It satisfaction to the Council or credit to ourselves. In - 
hardy stock, if the disparity ту the two is not too s the wettest March that has been experienced for | ordinary ul a two ort 
g eat, and the unction is sound. On th E in pn the last 36 years; in that period the nearest such places, and it was our full intention to have Я 
it is certain thata species naturally vigorous з and har ,| to it in amount of rain was March, 1851, when rather | so. We T — aen an d , пог does the 
may be ies by тену, or more than 3À inches fell. ecd winds were from the | oldest m Of course seasons vary, but 
even of a dissimilar constitut We must not|S.W.and N.E. an equal number of days, nine in each | we lavo hitherto кеен Заа воше (ides but this year 
dd quineofy ^ » p Conifers if we к them ion develope direction; in the ш osite е of N. aud S., and | we have попе.’ 
themselves in all their true nobility of character. S.E. and N.W.; the агы эй vind, were likewise Med — Since фан every month has bee n marked - 
It wi үг be seen i our own conclusions, based | in each an equal ма. of days. Тһе lowest tempe-|by an excess of rain; but їп the present the amount - 
upon such examples as we have been curred on the Nights of the 3rd and | was below the «неде з sti on 15 days rain fell 
able to recall, are these 1. That grafting in itself is 4th, and these proved the coldest in ы whole year. | or less. The temperature was nea h below 
t (2) p The ground temperature was about 2? higher than | the average as in the previous month, and frequently at 
upon the proper ары е, A the Ces tock, both to the | us night the therm was ver or the period of - 
graft and to the soil in which it is anted. But he ere pril. —The mean temperature was above the ave- the — uring days the wind was ny 
practice and erige must step in om settle what аге | rage ; 5 bu t there were some frosty nights which did | warm south-west quarter; d 
он. ргорег s ocks for pra =", ki nds. „Тһе | ш uch E Wes to the blossoms of many kinds of fruit | want of penis dd average temperatur 
ES ing,as we have said, a ihe 10th vegetation had advanced further | maintained, and great fears were ееп for tho 
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to m a of our Toni and TONES as 3s have| The thermometer indicated 11° Eo freezing on the| August.—The day mperature nearly equalled the 
сеа under their =: Б they will report ав | 124 ; оп the 13th, 12°; 7° on the 14th ; but again it | average; ө; hut t the Чаа were still colder than ж 
by йа y as possible such fi may be ascertainable | fell to 12° be x fre ezing on the 15th. Peaches on ere was, however, a considerable improvement i in the 
by t bearing on this po which information, light covering were saved ; but Pears, weather of this mont в compared with that of several 
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prats he ага heads: HR | аде чау саб off, especially on dwarf trees, for days; бач very little ie after the 1 the 18th; due from 
b e за zé of the species grafted. these suffer more from spring frosts than standards | date the days were uniformly fine, at the | 
T m nd of stock employed. do. of the ground was rather ind the nights were eie cold t 
à e age of the tree—approximately if it cannot | above the average; but dedi was very wet, owing to | the season, being on e 23d as as 36°, andin 
e exactly sta! с | the great quantity of rain which fell in the preceding | several instances below 40 
4. n height and other dimensions, month, whilst in the present the eit —— y .—This, on the whole, was a му 2 : 
ооа and progress, аз compared with вна) E inch more than usual Wind from most | month, and the previous gloomy prospects as to 
lings or cuttings " any) of the same species revalent; yet the barometer averaged үм Ше its D and other crops were greatly dispelled. F 
under similar cond mean, 80 that whilst the lower deat of air was from | previous months the xp wipe was 
М ing | the S.W., there must have been a strong upper nen НМ [eom the average, but in this it was above it. 
- EN particulars, RES Pura set ы puc пту. at m N.E. or perhaps from North, bote with air moving | days were ge and with ош of light and sunshine 
ed ; and although | the crops improved wonderfully. Оп three 
opera ion of our reader. | the lower current may та S.W. ; the upper and en de thermometer, ке the weg 
e do not indeed bud {о imply—let us guard our-|colder indicated Ww the height of the barom: аге е в, ow freezing. igit cra 
саа being thus misunderstood—that grafted| шау take the place of the warmer апу day udden "hills at night the бо h 
plants are as a rule or even generally better than seed. | night; and tender vegetation, brought out А the black in many instances; but this is € what 
* that seedling plants are not to b y soft breezes from southern ns, | have been from the сє комен eather 
ed, all other things being equal. What we wish | easily falls а prey to the cold which NM ie chilly ignc The barometer a i 
set forth is our own conviction that there is not | polar winds, f rain was above the s venta but more t! 
in value tr of on the 28th. 
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riy two c JMajy.—This month was warm but wet. The mean | half half the quantity for the month f 
TRO ld have us believe ; that when | tem €: аа 209 above the average; and this] In the period from the 18th of 
je ud d оп proper stocks need | was more 0 e heat of the ih ex that of | the present month there fell little more than 
bre fne binds may bei the nights, [iy Pian pira: being fu Шу 42° above | inch, so that during these five weeks the "9 
