242. THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE [Arem 11, 1863. 
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S-asons in their natural state, and overlooking this they | ripens its fruit well, beh r grown as а dwarf or St tephanophysum В 
e led to carry the dry treatment to such. an excess| pyramid, and that too т AES exposed situations; of having introduced QU as A арас а at x 
Mea make mo: kal their plants cripples. But ігеаё | but from а wall the fruit is double the size, more | Instead of having sent i Kew, >» I wa rdi 
thain well and they will rewafd you for it; indeed | tender, juicy, melting, and higher flavoured. No one | indebted for it to the kindness " $ed W illiam- Hox 
their wants are not pressing at any bof js they | possessing accommodation and who values late Pears | who sent 3 to me with many o other valuable plants, 
want watering to-day, and it is a ing hot|should jomit Bergamotte d'Esperen. Occasionally a | when I w eei de Janeiro, I found t atit grew and 
summer day, and you make them wait s а А they few may prove uncertain as to ripening, but this в occur- | dades best i in the open ground, exposed to the fall 
will take your neglect very patiently. ing |sun in the n part of the year, and did not т require 
thing in their favour; but itis not wise to carry this | sunless summers. Allied i n qualit ity to ein the sl адет › їп which 
neglect too far, for this has done more in my opinion to | PEeren in size and time of ripening I ma azi light, 
set people against succulents than everything else | Beu: Sterckmans, which is a splendid Piae that йге vas ed та beliero that E Brazilian, thés 
besides. When Messrs. Loddiges' succulents were sold iay’ e grown as a dwarf or pyramid, bùt its|must come from the drier and warmer provinces of the 
off by Stevens about years ago, Mr. C. Palmer, of | rich sugary and vinous properties are never so fully | north. "The only ad punt of the same fa mily Ms 
Shacklewell, remarked to me that they were nearly all | brought out as when grown against E south, east, or | recollect репе sen Kew [^ med 
irrecoverably starved—and he was an advocate for the | west wall. Тһе usual period of ripening is during the | after me by Sir W. Hooke ег. Herm mann erbst, 4 Trl 
dry treatment too! N. зауы Hackney. end of January or February, but n may kept till | Cottages, White Horse аа мыт on, A Surri 
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Ma ry искат now P flowe 
Bergam d'Esperen it possesses the property of|here. There are five heads of bloom on it, averaging 
Veneri тън enc red aped extendi ing over d couple of months. | six flowers each, the ке Ьез. about 5 incheg асговз, 
Garden Гат 5, Trees.—Tre э belong іо Ње | 4. Cramb, Tortworth Cou It is remarkably handsome, and incomparably Superior 
owner of the soil i in metn ther g TOW. ө land is let on Ncc Les.— О, is a e Een S ід my last |eitherto SEA ен m. W.H: Ва awson, Jun., 
lease, neither the landlord nor ihe tenant can lawf і rà numbers of Peach houla be 1024, 197, | Hil House, near Halifax. 
cut down the trees out the consent of f the other; 755. 480, 94 ln the year 1861, 510 were left on, but Rockets. Can you inform x: ы the old t 
but if the trees are d nova down, or are wrongfully cut | 480 only were gathered; 30 dropped at stoning time. | Rocket is now in existence. Yea о 16 wás the ошу 
by the tenant or by a stranger, the Pay ] to | T} t Aag ы dropping, viz., want of water, | sort known in this neiglibourhood, Sia abounded 
the landlord. Bushes and underwood m: cut by | апа leavi n too.many. Since vang my last | every garden, and very ; bu t from 
the esee and the cuttings, whether iiy » himself NS they tavi set “epilat Y and abundantly, and some cause with whi ch I am unacquainted it has 
or „ае g to hi im, and not to the landlord. The | m Aie thei abs ns. Тһе leaves sod beautiful, entirely disappeared, and ‚1 уе tried on many 
peor ue itl d ev om blister; the foliage is always beautiful еа to obtain it again without success. Ы. 
Mit Aarb bie lenso. If an ordinary tenant plants a tree here, and "but slightly blistered. I attribute this to | nurserymen say they have it; ut when plan 
it becomes a fixture which he cannot remove g the trees, and to giving them water in dry obtainad, they are found to be a rough MN kind 4 
his landlord's leave. Nurserymen indeed ч VEM sultry weather, even desit the nights be cold. I|recent аі enon, having floWere of а French white 
to remoye what they Wu planted with а sell | have invariably found that after watering they have | colour, and with blossoms more diffus used; and this sort 
in the way of their rade. But even a ridic, immediately set their blooms. "The wetter the winter | seems the ма one common for sale іп the shops of 
spes he has нана if it has|the more water Ey gs require, x thé sun and dry | florists and seedsmen at this season of the year, The 
grown so large as io be incap а of removal А зуїпйз “ве” the g und, Moreo ег, I believe that |old sort was a pure white, the spike of flowers close and 
tenant, t ewed pod (er want pede AL Ne upper surface of the leaves 
a Box edging plant d by himal, id ho same rule | of w. Tha ave wa рей with с a vater, but, doubt- wnish. It ainly is, if existing, a plant too 
is чаў а аьей аѕ аруа to ordinary less, Eu with the chill taken off would be А bant tas be pat, d I should be glad to obtain it 
bulbs and flowers planted in the earth. With George Wood, Rochford, Essex. у 
respect to these, it is certainly not easy to under- of Feb., Il let the rain to-day і атпа е ті ridiflora.— 2 mentioned this plant а 
stand why they should not be regarded t is fi d sky i is diede short time ago, but where can it be obtained? it cer- 
fixtures, and as forming, on that ground, an exception | for a morning fri vg 1 es ib s year ei ered my ig^ is one of the most beautiful of the class, I once 
tothe general rule. learned judge, however, who | Apricots, and the hoar s have killed all the|had it from the Horticultural Soci iety's Garden » but 
was once asked whether a tenant could not remove | blossoms, which were very abundant. W. F. Кайс. | bein аа impatien ый» lostin 
flowers which he had planted in the ground, answered | ^ Zeea fibre.—I have a sample of Rheea fibre grown conseq have seen n ii advertised in the seeds- Я 
n0; andit would not be safe for a tenant to go to law | in Jamaica and prepared in England, which was sent | men's ees es, but I pointed out to several of them 
to test the soundness of this opinion. Atthesame time | home to me to ascertain its commercial utility and that it could not be true, or, if so, it could not be sold 
the question as to the right of an ordinary TE I heard that it is et 141. per cwt., or 2807. | at the price offered. І have bo ught several packets of 
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enant to remove flowers and bulbs has never, that | рег ton; but cannot learn for what purpose it is used, | seeds at various times, but not a s seed of it Mi cameup, | 
[' know of, been actually decided, and until it re whether such pee be really Pe. T shall feel though the class is extremely easy to raise. The 
has it may be considered as doubt ful. „Curious ques- | greatly obliged if some one will give me the required | catalogue in which I have seen is ts of it advertise 
> y iuformation. Inquirer. [Wil д em vert this and that recently, is Mr. Van' E y n in 
Ifat clearly in my land, the mere that it; , Belgiüm but s ш (25 frances) seems very higb, 
roots - “branches extend into or over my jenes urs| Fruit Wall.—I am contemplating putting up a dt te it ness George Wood, Rochford, 
land does not confer upon him any property in the | for Peaches, Nectarines, and Apricots, and will be 2 Essex. 
tree or in Lith fruit, But if the tree has not projected | to learn from your own experience, or that of your The- Poet “the Holly Tree?—In the April 
beyond the boundary long enough to give rise to a бесу whetherit would not be advisable to | Number of the Тоб of the ted orici 
prescriptive right, ruat cut off so much of the|grow them under glass instead—I mean with the aid | So ociety, which just been presented to the 
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those parts of the roots which are in his soil, and |in pots. Notwithstanding Mr. Rivers's partiality for English Holly. The ОРТ: quotes Southey's well- 
however much the tree may suffer, I am in the position | Orehard-houses (without artificial heat), I find that | known lines ón the Holly Tree:— 
of a man who sustains a loss, M no E US d Tti is as | most peop le еп p by introducing a pipe and boiler ише Below a circling fence its leaves are seen, 
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hand, the tree being mine, db ait v4 Pss if Ilike. | under glass {= e hs Файне system of bedding ont MNA, VN уб epic 
А real foem tree, however, i is one which cannot be | plants, these fruit houses, when thus adapted, can be But. as the y grow w where nothing is to fea 
ки т to grow in the land of one man rather than bnt to good Mie Australian. Li Me adopt Sm d unarmed the pointless fam те 
another. Тї дтозуз оп i the boundary of two or glass, and the e mex of warming too, if the expense of and | semarks, ке 16 may seem чегер то ws 
Archer its trunk is on the а its ^ doing s ideration.] fantasy, joy opéra 
ánd branches extend irection: equall Cork es—Referring to your article f observation have not been ийне е extended to 
nearly so into and over all the e edjoiting land. In vies очаат. ОРОО page 292, I beg to say he de dow me to speak decidedly; but as far as I kave 
а case as this, the tree is considered as belonging to all | specimen of Quercus Suber I have Te seen, stands on | observed, the evidence is not conclusi тў" in favour of 
the owners of the y s on tke boundaries of which it | the left hand, and close to the road leading direct from | Southey's view." I bad al ugs believed there was no 
- grows. Tt is their common property, and none of them oem Green to Fulham, in tbe nursery grounds of doubt of its being a fact that two kinds of leaves are 
сап lawfully Ашы p по ың consent of the rest. - Osborne, and only a short distance from the | frequently age I d Holy t trees, just as d 
dl eed ticular any ciri cumstances ааа Ец lham OR А portrait of bu Cork tree pog t d сер. e ‘recollection o 
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1 in the 8th volume of Lo Arboretum. | havi ge vb. pen zm mad, 
m the days of Whitley, Brames, & Mi ^d I ye n "dir cornuta), s which is a species somewhat like 
e thickness of 1 the. cor rk on the bark. of this fin ak with more confidence. When 
às у itl basi in MN allinstances, prickly leaves 
(о? the "blade of a pruning knife, and quite зн near пе ec “wrinkled and keen," while above 
cient for a ope. corke GI or ашау а not bad sen EE үзгө ess leaves appear." 
bre ndis been disbarked. | R. Fortune. 
vely from. personal| At the time referred to it ap rh s. gae peni Cannas.—Many no doubt will be trying t heir hand 
ore I can upon them with the апа the seedlings were -— for their dissimi- | at Erici Cannas out of doors epis the apis 
greatest security. Our soll i hok what Mr. De я cm larity to the parent ges г hae чылы веазоп ылу ear for the first time. v4 
erui gne ii pon about nen P тет и op my la чш wn | in the maker, therefore, I beg to o ra fer py E E. 
C , al eet high т av Е 
ripen their fruit satisfactory, jin in the ith foliage cl Pa P E Lm S MM фы next Ары = ka T da y abed 
: when Beurré Bretonne: 
But where 
e's position, 
au. But let us Port ha er been pruned to a single trunk it has mors et | has been emptied of the soil о tho del he TIT 
is position and take the case of t геез trained on a ie any cork, It blossoms un AR uk, "p that the ыы of К жон ia er 
south and zin Sb entis the [унн уе, of this| has d no ripeacorns; they fall off every winter 
garden all the original soil was removed | wh whether on account of sey ere frost or for want of 
to А, е dep uH fet; 1 foot of stones was € I tell. 
bottom, an 
с mos петсоѕ 
cropping has ever been allowed, | ће “ Arboretum," it flow pril, and ripensi ay heavy, river pea d 
w Potatoes or Spring | acorns in the climate of Lon "Ock f the; ре сел, ; the bed will now bé 
invari Y etimes ii autumn of upi , 3 à 
in | inquiry. s at) ol tha pet 
inquiry. e be 
strike a | that the т ЫЙ plant is Q: 
during | it is the tree of the Atlantic d 
that of the Mediterranean being Q. 
