THE GARDENERS’ CHRONI CLE. 
hich are under-ground send up in- | a plant, ee ve Es, of ae = af ace 
; Tiar tha spring, pe where one had | is, Fier ig ay fibro’ 74 bead or in pgs wii Be Fee mer aye i gre 
previous S er, an immense nui ome hen proceed accordingly + $ ga bette ¢ sig tok tal duall ly decline, vy from that ic could’ ent 
nA folowing y a patch fully a foot in |I will explain what I mean by “drainage,” as ie in point of profit attempt roeping that variety 
and these may y be divided, or any portion, have to @ use nae ER word i pi ly. mix on on : were ing | from any of them. nd Sir . Smith idered it 
on Sliver sand, one part charcoal, fea |as established, that “ propagat 
e yay the plant is both readily propagated, moderately mat) four r parts peat earth (sep arated from | true reproduction of es ae E Re Net Dees ide tine ae 
A y ged. I may add, too, that the upper | the , fo ae parts vege-| differ in his carne from the authors mentioned, respect- 
ers whieh if left would die in the winter, T, Soy table Be uld, six parts clayey "loam, All the | ing the “ suppos law ;” 
e autumn, and preserved as plants. ) as they | materi cag | excepting „the loam must be y and weli | sophy of Zoology” where he h beep A ; 
send up new s in the spring. In | mixed; nd is well E arai ers per 
|l probability any plan found to piers he the com- ame up with the rest. When all the materials are | if anything | has Bee one of i- 
__it well mixed, they are aoed it i a sieve which is weet 
‘ake 
Orw: ards 
| loam which will not 
rm of lar; 
e apt to 
he wires hae ge 
e pieces are then Sante 
nd the 
| nions be such men as Ka 
fade improved Varintion of A 
lig 
les and Ress is ‘a t, bi 
y tend to throw + : 
ht on the subjectin future year; 
- wiih this, ‘as with some species of Impatiens, and 
any atten- 
free from 
Pe ° fruit mulch- | 
s | because wate er can per 
or 
earth, how can eieae 
enter to the roots. Sand is ierg ord ad bottom to 
prevent the glass from Sai ‘ing to “ot and 
fe. through i I use 
ro 
neighb a plant comfits The the sun, or near | Pele ackenzie, 
y a fire, for a py. -days & ey | become nearly as as hard Füngi in Melon-beds. —I, like “S, F. W.,” ” have been 
ose their vitali ity ing | bad seis ick panda n-beds. The 
berelore GE seat e s sticks, &c. The pots must be quite | plan I have adopted, for the last five years, with great 
; on the bott a lit Pe over the | success, is dy ¿s i the fungi well with ot Ih Tine ; it Ang 
unk in the h ate, e, over which place a sm mall p f glass, covering | them and no injury to 
e it up ‘and Sopu two-thirds of the o) opening, ‘and str little sand | J. Rolera Clin H ouse, Workington. 
little heat bs are Spring.— | over the glass ; then put in drainage, rhe rds a layer] Highland Pine.—Without entering into i 
of we decompos dh n a mixture | as the ego of the true nitte bya Pine, or whether 
Peaeh d Nectarine | of two-thirds friable loam, one-third teat earth, | its good qualities 3 are transmitted by seed to its offspring, 
eek aiaa as to pressed down, and lastly to the | I b show that its 
of Ee appearance of the pot the siftings of the drainage, The follow- | true chara may be som es misrepresented, and 
ing is the rationale of the above RY Gas: : the pots | that its distinguishing Y ities are ag permanent 
usi in ng s should be soaked several days, and then | than “ Pinus s Sylve Ta incl o believe; at 
bł filled with th slime or eye nts I think it ne pre: mature to recommend the 
ure escape, or air W 
“ gentlemen in En landan 
“al bi is variety of 
ine.” years ago, “when a 
was much e 
Som: 
gomeres vedi in in gathering for forest-tree seeds, 
sent 
1 
rs to procure 
althy 
is of a peculiar formation 
f 
the _ ingress of worms ; and in wien, E ‘am b 
f, 
nr ~cones” 
fp, 
a particula ar plantation i in the lowlands 
th 
f the trees, 
tissue delie blot tehed “distortions, like w 
This ‘plantation was surrounded with others of ‘Tess 
he ed | that ‘seeda “from tre 
f Pinus sylvestris, Kni: we all knew 
es from „the Hi; ghland apo: were 
t bei 
procure, 
7 
| very diffic ult to 
rg dey se fra that our cone E rh 
roba- 
t cold iay ‘ei “the tissues 
apr 
se of so man rors as 
The sifting being a poor light soil, and not 
retentive of moisture, cause > the plants with ‘which it is 
be pro- 
cured from low-spreading v varieties beside dass Bsc 
ever we had t 
to cas an 7 ago pore if we cou 
others 
ld, en he append 
whe 
| t there 
he rts eae. 
e ue: 
der leaves or shoots ? whereby their pm 8, such 
erspiration a ae p ordere 
e dis 
BYA protecting them from 
slightly shadi ing them during 
ng on 
ed would be od uced, 
td vin the night, and sli 
and | 
| In the autumn of last year I bea some V 
h y without awia 
"This drove us under, some BrE eii nadig 
p 
Cinerarias ; i E put them in m 
gs 
g 
mye ~ side oft E déi d 
W 
ta th: 
ie nt ell worthy of aoe mene, 
» Pelargoniums, 
nl] 
rea sown in September, not aly alive, Sins looking 
orely puz 
health Iw uzzled ; but as Di 
not restor est plants to life, i set about 
| removing iit from the pots. While th nus employe ed, 
go home without any coe han vould ‘a 3 o amount 
to minus our day’s wages, w to gather 
some of the forbidden fruit, hie ch ag in beautiful 
profusion over our heads; and these were erra over, 
of course, when we went t home, as seeds fr the ee Me 
Pine, and bt 
way of experiment! Since that period, Tv had 
considerable experience in tore sede w sige 
trees, and learnin ing thet same 
ros seh the ety 
wn We ma 
r and is entirely a absent on 
e c cause is discov: Ppears 
red ; 
| was at the root of the evil ; I, therefore, laid a pot on à | 
erie ring mp, removed ' " A disturbing the 
ure was aged 
edby atmospheric ov ple 
ra es. Thesndden dictators 
| The ro 
tion and f thel éxbandiiy 
ar A 
of my own potting in hg same ig and found the 
Paqueous tissues, ; "ata rns E D 
sicheatsuec 
d the roots l 
J 
d Now, my ‘imowledge i in che ihe oy is 
n Hor a i h 
ra 7d 
some plan ts | allu 
ooking healthy | 
oa 
Prva Milla agent for the 
estate, and well known as a Piece ii arborist, and from 
his long experience and yas sive 
a sound opinion as to the 1 
|I to hi 
re me : 
grew that on allude to 
nd before it was plan 
outer the ding a 
< 
th 
gravel, 
en up, ‘When he rina id was induced to 
p urgin 
Bh some dégres | of force, produc: at fhe’ g 
PSical appearance: 
me, Chek e of the disease described: 
F efor “eri As the Peach-leaf.—In re 
m the opinion of no J 
ummy and 
— William | 
tS to this I beg 
Sar p. 385, as 
eon and we kno 
|p it Sith Scotch gs which was cut d at 50 
that 
at 
PER, 
, d on the ground in jots a at from 
nev: shar suffer from dr neil: Be or oy jos wah iting but they 
hat of the Meas in the annexed, 
bed ta to 
a wet sol F have 
do su suffer if a seeing $ nly be given them; I water 
ted against a south wall, i 
e inte- 
f 4h re- 
not being eae absorbs 
A 
tains the moisture from the mite 
inches in de pth, ri 
The sh of the 
n | besides 
used, plants | i 
ars’ growth, being so 
351. to ae per a? en average being about wg 
l for thi 
a great dea 
hed For 
ost affecte: d 
caused 
Af 
uch of it; 
but I think 
u 
| my attraction, i is again Peo ie the 
erakin A oe Plants.— 
t pe of 
that mpass 
| lightly ; 3 but x afterwards found apie the ioe sailors 
varie ty, an very Barer. 
from the less S valeat sorts. 
of many trees on (heia Aysh 
aso: 
cause, 
puo pro 
was of little 
ing a leaf from this 
Da is deform Me 
h 
Without losi 
torily prove tae is 
Sup n ai ndane: 
it, therefore 3 my inforraton 1 is of Title value fait 
ce of wet in the s 
of me a shrew 
se action hed 
| Reprodusti n of Plants. 
by the Rev. Dr. Fleming, hended. s € Remar no on a sup- 
posed Law of Mis ae limiting the Stearn: 
f the Qh, 
Doc aa 
utan 
eous erup- 
eretain our own 0 
Week will 
wn systems, it very | imperfectly nitendo phenomena, that it is 
an apolog 
” The 
“It not cneqent Sead aivi a hypothesis i is pro- | 
oy e possess face “of Pinus for 
reams sidan I would Tokda gentlemen ae 
plant the Highland | Pine, forma dry that Aes 
J. Finlay, hilworth, 
osed whic earance serves t 
ii cafe embraced 
y for ceasing to investigate, Ne: naj 
en 
rather as 
pinion, 
blister of the Peach 
ng like the colour of 
The 
co on.” st ie 
yal erally agreed that the at defect 
of sth Small ieee hae of par Sm which | 
Š ve r food, and yet b 
p and i Moss Ne Til i is made less; an 5 nha 
an two-thirds of t 
| near j f] d. 
—Som e. ago, in 
mentions several authors who appear to have believed 
that there was such a law as that noticed above: 
shall l says, that “ a ae fruits are not permanen 
| they conti inue but a time.’ pis sone in his | 
a 
Fair 
inquiry imi to va of a yi Fifeshire Florist” | (E-363), 
E related a 
Apple an Pea 
his opinion, that ‘the continuance of every variety 
appears to ibe confined „to a certain period, du uring the 
n by 
of those tical! natn dete” thesdent to hot 
climates, es MS ch ae — to the s slight 
movemen elem 
aaa consonant 
When I am abou out to pog 
tage to the planter.” “Mr. Bucknall sa ays, “ When the 
first atock shall, by mere dint af old age, fall into actual 
Whilst taking e ag the fury of the storm, the 
forked li lightning struck several objects not far from 
