71845.) THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE, 101 
perfect development of | Calendar, i in a late Number. It will not Dee your | injure the tubers of the Jerusalem Artichoke, which 1 
Piesom without rest, =! a and glazed PLANT, om le I should g jealousy of that | have frequently seen lie on the surface of the earth 
be found of great use any plants be Seir o this prighincey considering the use, or rather lenes that | throughout the whole of a frosty winter. I have a quan- 
f driven into a state of rest, through the want has been made of it. The ‘ Norlander’s” definition tity of small and refuse now lying on the surface, that 
ld ha e come er | ha i a $ j — 
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omes alm i; | had on to rem 
if kept i rm or comfortable atm osphere, it | tier of branches ; $ in that will e excuse me for thinking soil if the latter has ica re SRN kereg or e ub- 
on steadily towards blooming, and ee a healthy | he errs. Calendar ; they may be plant ea, prerio w the large tubers 
e aeia is similar, no o dec ded res t being in the light ‘of weekly and authorised instr ructors ; con- y be cut similar to neve! I prefer the middling- 
à ve proved for year 3, | quently the import of the terms the 7 agente should | teed tubers planted whole ‘ebruary or March 
: h ayati which is, and will te a blaze of | be clearly understood, or they may lead (as some inter- | 2 inches in depth. The rows should be 4 feet apart and 
beauty for some time to come. pretation of “ju ndicious i penning’ does) to Aat evils, | the tubers 2 feet from each other in the rows. y sys- 
Pink i s I imagine, another ie say Mr. Mainivaring’sHop:poles (see Gard. Chron., | tem is to cut the dead stalks off in November, and to 
of this class: its capability of of panes at | Feb. 3) pares n his estimation, very “ judiciously 
f ~i - clas c ”pruned ; | spread a few leaves, Fern, or other rubbish over the 
almost any period is we ell eens provi t has a| but w ny one who wishes to grow timber follow his | roots; then I lay the stalks over this to keep the win 
| powerful action of root ; and I not see re those oti He lives in Western Surrey, ayer where I | from blowing it away. This covering greatly facilitates 
‘plants ich are ‘ spiring” : for bloom in flow wer-pats have been also, and no part of the cou ffords | he forki in frosty we: baihen and prevents 
trength, t pro- | examples of absurd and ruinous mana gem ent of sty wi ing the pheasants from scratching them ut. Trench out at 
ve the light of autumn to ass sis woods. It would require a little vo to giv d, manure the 
emum pulchellum also is a eos thing if | ticulars. All I can say is, let the piini look to it: | latter and plant it soil in 2 feet ridges, 
d; and, there being few blue flowers through | — Quer. cus. o be hereafter re x over eip snieman or “the 
e winter, it becomes doubly desirable. Some persons | Pruning Forest-irees.—In a late Number there is an pubers bet tween the two spits of — alternate e ridge; 
pot flower t thi is plant unti til the Pr ng; and why? |article on Pruning Forest-trees, tec a gentleman g 
ase their ept in a state | Farnham, who states that he plants the Larch Fir to r bury the I h, that 
¢ constant excitement. This plant for autumn flower- | large extent for the purpose of Hop- poles, and that „he | are pie hi for fature use, onl thi row the refuse and 
cuttings in February, or the | prunes them after three or four years growth by where pheasants resort, and they 
hould be disrooted and their tops reduced | off their lateral shoots, leaving only two or three year s of | will soon be p Pisanen i by tiom m. Where the root is 
out that time; they should be grown freely, and | the upper lateral shoots. ae also myself a planter of | grown for the use of these birds, protect some as above 
ed for the last time by midsummer, so as to become | Larch for the same purpos when the ground 
und by the „begi inning of Septe eee at which plan, and carefully avoid praniog at all; and although. À is locked up by sot; and se some up in November 
a dec 
wa to go to when te und is covered with snow ; others 
oto and dryer one, kept ra rathe er py ae root, ano opiaign, still, from the state of p7 lapiasionas T ent could be left for the. AnA themselves to work at, 
ed to light, they will soon exchange the growing |I am righ tin not pruning at all; as I am now thinning | which they will do. very dexteronely in. open weather. 
The 
ri! we for the blossoming one; an the Komedi the | out some of only six, seven, ied: eight years’ growth, | They January, February, and 
n buds peep from the axils of the leaves, they | which produce me ‘fine op-poles—some feet poles, |t I have never observed 
‘be introduced to a sweet moist heat, and be fed|12 feet do., and 10 feet do.; the largest poles being | game Mia _ Kind touch a ea or stalk of these plants in 
iui manure. always produced from plantations that have had the | the gro season, and they could be an in many a 
pereertorcing z 1 papaje, n my opinion, of greater | least number planted per acre, If your correspondent | corner “that iota Sone and almost useless. 
naa a Pelle sehen: than E gonid favour me by answering the Mersey | qu pig The fruit of Leyeesteria cigs ata r two or three months 
as tank s s perfectly un might help to decide which is the best and mos in autumn, and early in winter, is a favourite food of 
toc iin all ie ssi tal I lire ne EREA that oo: tatie plan :—1. What number of z arches he plants per this bird, The plant is also very ornamental during 
ting will rapidly progress.—Robert Errington. when La rches alone are plan - Wh several months in autumn, when loaded with beauii- 
ey arches when pl fal ong racemes of blossoms, a by fruit of 
e Corresponden 3. At what ae he aei bee Larch z And whether A various sizes and colours, for which, when ripe, I have 
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: Training. — Tn addition to She REE, f e year, or ken inviat them ofie en obse fd pheasants | most industriously seeking, 
Duro” on potting (p. 35), I wish to observe that ? "5. gre what number of I 
raning, trainin ng stopping, &c., | he per acre, distinguishing ng different sizes, sion, a Pitords fo od for a poder length of time. It 
uisite is well vin 16 ah yi St 14 Te do., 12 fee ., and 10 feet | is a very trable plant for underwood in partly shaded 
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of our most pee tiful pera. do.i Should I be favoured with thes a aries s, I shall} and sheltered situations; it pk most luxuriantly 
T E pee potting will be i eadily answer any ques AtA that may be put to me.— | amongst leaf-mould or soft porous open earth of an; 
e useless, and our fi w. igh kind—making abundance i meats as free asa Willow 
5 to8 fi i th 
ry ow much this neglected ; ikii Propagation by Leaves. — This interesting subject from 5 to 8 feet in length, 
ght necessary after fmt m a plant but in abundance, all of whi ite 4 roduce fruit piepiimigi it 
ater, and consequently, in a compara- with us, particularly i in Germany; and a begin- | may be incre eased either by seh p cuttings, or layers. 
hort space of time, a valuabl plant becomes a | ning experiments, it would save time sad trouble if we If sown or strack early in heat, and potted and turned 
y object having a few thinly-scat- tin May, after having been gradually hardened of, it 
ers on the extremities of its. bra nches. How country. Would it not, therefore, be aie to solicit | will grow ate and beara ti aR portion b fruit 
for instance, will the beautiful E li d h infi danin iguas, jin the same autumn. The best system of after m anage- 
E +) grow unsightly if not care fully pruned !|and Munich? The expe riments commenced by to the 
Aer ag out all the Awong shoots and shortening the | Lucas, in the Botanic Garden, Munich, “in 1839, must Willows when used for oziers, to two or three eyes, from 
sized ones, the numerous pace ; TAR 6 thus | have Bi shed some useful data, and at they will again put forth abundance of strong 
strength, the piant gradua. pe Pee com s a handsome | have been accomplished with wh ‘ch. we are yet puzzled. | shoots that will produce fruit in great abundance in the 
Y bush, and e shoot, he ^ very smallest, | Lindley’s ‘ Theory of eg cal was lately pranata | succeeding autumn ; thus i in two or three years in favour- 
E ari abund. dead ex the ery edge of the | there inio German, and the translator cientific | able situations they form very strong stools.—James 
y this means the beauty of the plants is also e gentem eS ome a kotes of kiso ore to Gary | Barnes, Bicton Gardens. 
apa Sores, 2 and they always look young and v of the paragraphs (vol. iii. p. 398). Under par. 78, which | The Yew. — Sle I sometime ago ventured to 
ject, he Sers “The fine leaflets of a| assert what I thought (it appears in my ignorance) 
He: in this respect than He: eaths. When a | pinnated Rose- leaf yield, under proper caltvation, gon everybody Shaw pos a “ that any animal may eat the 
Es ning has arama well e sa pn hog in a Wank little plants.” Now, with this ‘ pr opa cultur: Yew without hurt, from the tree green ; and that it is 
j ot Bro the hei eight or 3 inches, t | are not yet acquainted, for from these fine leaflet: ny a | only poisonous when withered,” 1 was kig y several 
d then be an ER Sas n able to form one | accounts of death having ensued when the foliage was 
continua n length, should iiss be Sgain gett and so plant, as far as I am awar Fro experiments which I | eaten from the tree. Since that time I one continually 
ashy, Wien ar until the pens becomes handsome and | have made, I conclude that > eae all leaves that have observed my trees eate en AB horses and sheep, and I now 
gui be Pais ved a a flower ring ‘state some kinds sufficient substance i in them t o allow of their b attention of Sit readers, 
tr without t withering, will form | and } request | them to pevanna those branch ich are 
3 upright bi such a weii, and treatm Ithink th a will fnd that do 
which up strong pct mat soot ts "tn om or anit ae Bat the gate of eacifability in in ee ne they have been regularly br browsed. A cott: 
‘smal nes.on the lower part of | different plants is such that the callosity of some leave e told me a Sr since, on my observing her 
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these strong shoots, E the | will furn ish, b uds i in a week or two, while others, ire eg Siten all round by her cow, * that the Yew never 
and ra plant beginning to gro Others again take years before ned did anything any harm that eat it off themselves, but 
not only preserve the sy Sen form a I have kept Cam elia leave » ha ving e | that she knew the greater part of a dairy killed by the 
Eee g lso cause | callosities, during four years, clippings of a hedge being thrown to them. Indeed I 
and is treble the number of flowering | and I have d of leaves shish did not pis ‘bad can find no one who is not aware of the fact, that when 
a Again, other sorts that are shy in | till the ioth, sod oyen 12th yea’ g the Yew is Boge to peal mara withered— 
: koe near the bottom of the plant, | took from 1 months, d uch w oe fa ome correspondent to ex- 
» Should be carefully stopped, in order to they | aes See i have oral tat ‘old keaves laln why dni is.— "W.D 
na para or 3 shoots. When these | will , but yo _Dr rai ning. —It the draining of land was not a subject 
ot ¢ or 8 inches peg them down | leaves will form ac he in less time than old Peal 
~ at regular AR eet the stem of ee the latter, if per are ag aed are best in cases | I should not êansider it necessary ‘to offer an opinion on 
pd them at the same time. By follow- | that require a long ti i the petioles of the remarks ma ade t p. 21; but on the principle gion 
cy ith Strong-growing kinds, the plants | old leaves, like all soft y Pgs d and Wik the fact before mi 
> Spreading, beautiful specimens, and will pele SRNE buds, than that. it is almost impossible to gree, spe too well roa 
‘ profusely than when they are allowed | those of young ery at hence their power of must contend that, under every 
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as is generally the case. The| forming buds. The Dean of Manchester, in the “ Gar- | circumstance, , any gsr of Pons drainage must st be pre- 
os Will require little pruning or | deners’ Magazine,” proposed a very curious experiment ferable to distant drains. In t 
R ccasionally will be quite sufficient to be riea by ae re a few years since, which mi ight 
ve observati . He inferred that if th 
Mr. Johnson says he should hesitate in ee Ee 
re- 
series 
wooded greenhouse nee 
plants: havin 
P naked may be treated. Bend press what being io that a bud from the ae ma oy 
top them, or shorten others ; | would partake of the habits Ws the two ee which are Seay chosen 
nd kept in vigorous health, | formed the callos sity. As this is a curious problem in freq 
nto fi rt of pruning, an may be a. vegetable physiology, and as there i is nothing it in science | that we h m 
% md ioc sii aoe POOR will may be re- | to oppose it, it is well worth trying. —D. B n. [We|to.o 
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under i oe n Poaha, bhe time that the ey| for Pheasants.—Having cheered for years that 
Pore R.) Reid, 3 pera T. nt they generally | — beautiful birds are very fo oe of Jerusalem Arti- ? 
banking Tree Pruni ore a ch okes „I have often Sona that game pistes woul 
initio, 20% corresrondc e been prevented fi ivating this fe vourite Stood to some extent, 
SS m Of “judicious ne adent, a s “Norlander,” for his | on apa n Sad won rners of fields, Sc, near pre- 
Pruning,” recommended in your | serves, for winter heals Frost does not in the least 
