"2 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. — [Avever 15, 1869, 
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HOW TO INSURE A CROP OF FRUIT. ihe frost of ifa ipis year (12°) мт | Ll o: pe pira т i Yer few of 
Some of ondents have inquired if it is | the К вче portion Ф "ће most promising trees have regret, 
absolutely песенеау | "o protect Peach po in „spring py r see n here. Plums, Msi Pears, beca cause the res ult with whi ch they would | have fup. 
in order to insure а erop ; I answer pples, k sa more 
yes. But then comes the question, how shculd this|all my trees covered with Fri Pare Domo = not in virid and for that- "- on : — pee agi what 
mplished, what material should be used, and the least injured. Edward io G. S.|I am now able to place before the Acad The 
n be incurred | Foljambe, Esq., Osberton Holl, AK ^ Notts. ae glance s the coloured figures now produbi Showg 
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w much the fruit, in each case, has already changed 
so important that I not le З а ан TIES. ч inal ; thus in the Sa e 
ass, ed thus late int а ri ws N as od HOUGHTS ABOUT VARIE have borne fruit have given four different forms ; опе 
rie o on the subject. Á ө Ovn learned friend M. Decaisne, the very able Pro- | egg-shaped and entirely green ; a secon і dumpy ang 
: fessor of Cultivation in the Garden of Plants of|almost Urt rs red е green ; a third, still more 
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Present ШЫ ин a аге certain ly in favour 
upon the varieties of cultivated plants in е чан yellow int. 
of Pears in partieular, the substance of which is From the Belle-Alliance Һау nine 
varieties, none of тй resemble their "nother, cithe 
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advice certainly, where expense is not an i object! but 
t ies add, to be doubl i d 
better to "T a fond её сите hot-water pipe, thus | follow; му „шаа AR 
on. Aci yu Su. Р build Peach: она d Pc varieties in "roit t ees, xe гыз and. all "techo To two 'of these I p to draw attention, one for i 
turn the walls to some other account? Garden walls are | pantei is a fact to which science has whi ch is double that of the Belle. е-АШалов, th 
too little attention. What is p more as жаз: фаза th the dumpy form, which imitates the Appk 
vacy ; and it is entirely doing away мн the | this fact has been remarked by those who are almost | shaped Pears. = n Е с Bosc produced аа 
original idea, if. they are to be cased with gu That strangers to the study of plants, whilst from time | new fruits of very differ "ip i 
good Peaches can be produced under glass we are immemorial it has been an object of important con- | much one of n Ж ун С ba the Sour iat 
quite aware, i that good Раа cuí бейка among cultivators. - — 9 be в сагсеју dist inguishable. The variati 
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he expense of glass coverings ? euh tar employer z more recent date, "Аа as 5 (he troes ЕТ -— fruited we er six new rideo all as 
J. P. Wakeman, Bart, used to e ers Banki in, Ch and R. Estienne, Dalechamp, &c., | d ach other and from ha mother, ав 
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we But d the art P) Атау ue EMEN Y was to АА rith, | һе most manifest, but it is vain to search бог the | the Saint-Germain. It is not ч їп {һе fenit 
сеи really Mx at as little expense as possible, for | origin of these varieties in their works; "e though | that trees raised from the —- seed differ, it is also 
all = thing ‹ е be vet good for money. | these а - ave us loose y 2. conclude that the | іп their time of ripening, general appearance, Y ie 
That is sie establishments are thi varietie ay be, the of cultivation, no | form of their — 'These "differences are striki 
produced рее at "little expense Now ss P е says "positively t that such А a new variety ғ peooosds when the trees are seen growing together in the sam 
(not always а cg e: ee Stands against us, viz., | fr rom such another, nor is it any where explained how | border. So many ines в, so many different appearance 
the expense of Ped material; the eden 4 that they go on multiplying from — Some have spines, some have v [бзш үөү 
риот is, Wha Ps wall fruit from frost? entary. These new forms, what are they ? wood, in Some i it is stou t апа с . Upon во 
To this I would confidently в say Frigi Domo, in pre- Сап they has b true вр g 
ference to kon ing I hav ve ever seen o or tried. The i2 S remained unknown up to the time when lobed leaves, Шы thog 
p il re first в — to cultivation, or are they of: the Hawthorn or Ere ra hee Everything varie 
13 fe ll fi er live to ly ош — a Species gifted | in the Pea. вар. As proof of thi 
encounter. One of your m emet d Љав stated | with the [rmn rg. iffe e graft, ассог 
that although he protects his trees his crops according to climate or або ing to the ets ка: АП the — 
are always scanty, and Њаё he h been in- | вітарре tha еч атро should be уюш before E of Pear trees bear grafting upon a P 
formed by competent gardeners that it is і |4 E он does it seem for is to say upo n the: wild Pear tree ; but "al wil not tl 
consequence of his protecting them. І must add that | 2 сера $9 cid but we will show ауа as for example, the Rance de 
much mischief is done, the blossom weakened, and | this question is not one that ought passed over | di sd Duchesse T Mars, &c. Wh 
lost t h blight, in consequence of over | without cm mination; for x: it is of importance io prac- | keep these trees whi 
shading, whic may'be the case in „this , partieular | t tical agriculture it iia be equally so to science | employing | ше е баа вик 
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evening, and pull them up аз soon as the frost is off ndn e the present day пау be divided into Bonrécvart ‹ =ч е other that will do on the Quince; 
be called may be successfully regrafted 
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excep dà , when i" rees were peri kille ‚реше, idera e e ned, dm nerally eas » 
by frost) has been all I could desire. Т ат rà iied, to characterise by a € hort descri mem Tho теш co {ы te ie fog g o the "t il 
people imagine that Frigi Dena is dear, that it will other School, = КУ Ех pec y to our own bá Gnoec: 0, Spenge the Poire de Vallée, base рене 
ear а ре n ich may be desi o; ч ауе from 5 to 6 
prefer them. * › the expense of Ln 100 |immutability, denies most podiüvely any tendency | с Feeder and their ^s p yoong E 
yards of wall w. h glass would come to a pretty con- | to variation in the vegetable kingdom. According у «бнс Е е Sauger ; 
siderable sum; 100 yards of Mis Domo cost 127. 10в., | 0 it the forms of species never alter in the pec woo olin iness. Others, аде! Héric, Sylvango, 
for years, which is | slightest Чеге. ай, when two plants of $һе | Fortunée. 
little more than 927. per yea е4 insure а crop of fruit. | ваше genus present апу palpable difference, how- only ha e as Мо as the - Finally, I have seen in 
But suppose we have in use 500 yards, which for|ever slight it may har Mire two plants form two the collection of M. Jamin-Durand, a Pear tree which 
ready money would cost 607., the expense would not | Species, ically T from the beginni of | by mistake bore the name prr eamm whose linear- 
be more t 101. per annum to insure fruit enough things. , According to M. Jordan, of Lyons, a very | lanceolate pet w were XN more than 3 millimètres 
for a nobleman's establishment, and in many places he Bidet i school, all the races | wide by 9 lon 
кон be more than would be required by the and all the varieties admitted by the ancients become It * evidently vain then to look for specific dis- 
ousehold,and 107. worth, or even more, might be | во many species. In his eyes, all our races and all|tinctions in the proportions of the flower and its 
me with, thus getting 500 yards of covering, | our varieties of fruit trees, of Pears amongst — pum Can we pretend then to find them in the size 
аа ы for the trouble and labour of letting it | аге „distinct, unchangeable species, always i 1 form of the fruit? It has already been seen how 
up ап their own characteristics, from generation to genera. E | these two circumstances in the nempe en 
The question then is n longer one of ti He 
expense ; | tion. Hence it follows, that these trees did not Spoken of; and rthel ех 
but npe e it rne some "wy ayt to risk 607. pr oceed, as is нану lieved, from a single or further ае TapE s n stereo a Ades м. 
me : -— rigi Domo? This cific types, which cultivation has | have fruited. The modifications might have been far 
portant poin o — but ^t any doubt bt exists, caused to vary, “but from as many original types as more numerous, em I MK E m upon all 
try y pene 8, ma I fee vinced that ман гъ аге perceptible varieties. k f trees We ий ө Шм Ше 
double it not far more simple to account for this | епо; diff hich ts, wi 
When we uU into consideration the е of|everincreasing number of сопдепегїс varieties by som же. do pue жа tha үлү wd Pear of Bush 
У аз they are term Mina UN e annual|the principle of the changeableness of Lr if this | which м8 have named а e prema g 
expense M lue ed es uM кае e à and сап be proved? Now І think, 'says | Pyrus longipes et azarolifera, is only the size of а Pea 
bes а nu bec crop, pacc lu M. 4 em can. Жойгара Fu astonishing whilst our саа Pears, d'Amour and 
nd red spider peus er e мав emen Е- which have recently been observed size with a Melon of middling віле 
ot Pe Dona e el РТ yards|amongst Gourds and whose varieties may be es innt es 1200 or 1500 times larger than the 
100 yards of glass wal TO AIA wem pomis itho P maiin f th e A — icq ceci d 
( rds. з B in the Pear аа e same order, | the characte: prov specific di 
[oo ge apetece de o TA double the | lead to similar i y, on the obe iud, tbe ds P orit vhi But, Miete DU is nof 80 
the wood UN I y. Bu а С а the si multaneous аро of now racos ав т аЬ for the шісговсорісаПу small Pear of Blidah h ге P 
flavoured ; те S wood Fipening, the | all the race si^ c of the cultivated Pear tiee i our north-w: ces, and | sesto : 
sereta my prac- n raised a number fro th Sepe 
i à ings from the | than the first; th 
dinig ix Tin À er «шу аз possible апа to|pips of Pears, selected from ius varieties acknow- | gueule dba Tom dhat yo ES Io of sub- 
REEL P EL E. by blig} ‚ and bot n vA us | ^ all рина as being quite distinct from varieties, whose fruit varies меа size of а 1m 
m a | each other. ey were our old Poire TAn glet: and : 
tion. These points - , properly oes to the wood | which everybody knows; the XE which чон "Аа е а our mod dus Par, аш 
your growth through|is lik i i ibiti i qe. 
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25 amd he Secon uw Fin not always | uniform cinnamon colour; the Belle-Allian dehet, F from the 
glass " ith respect to favour, | Pear with a yellow and red co -€—: m үп |long Cornemuse and Musette Pears, down to those 80 
Seasons wild vari med | penc sir БЕНИ 
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pening the fruit, and. C they | from its foliage resembli: re es How, І 
but where 
great help in 
casing, 
ity, and where expense no object | common Sage. The batch of Vinh Md ppl weg = «еу 
: : арра insi of however little value, amongst a multi- 
& bt i m ime x чон the plan | all raised from а tree which grew d e on the > road | tude in E all extremes are ли to each other by 
I would 
ап object;from Marcoussis to Gué. The f the hi ibl i unlimited — 
the ше of Prigi | camo up the same year as they vaio Vice BE Wl ils а Ер ROM ud HCM M ; ; 
said, to any other: of the Poire d'Angleterre did not appear till the mo T of plurality of species, more especially 1 
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