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THE-GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
UNE 2 
— 
Soon-aiterwards 1 veral rings of smoke or 
gas floating slowly i in “eee air, uhii sign their 
ng an pa diminish hing 
betimes in small parties, from every point of the c 
pass. When i they are all mustered, perhaps to roll-call, | 
This 
surprising, cage} there can be no aif wena: in ț 
I hav 
of forest-trees is still a disputed poin 
o idea that any individu al wo uld 
circular form, enlarging 
“en Lae ultimately a that form on the sward | 
a day or a ate rwards, on passing the 
of being newly clothed with leaves, 
T 
h 
and like 
leaves, they are almost corstantly in motio 
Id think that the late Mr. Pontey firmly belie 
PR 4 
after the 
and s sey 
nt 
esi or 3. inches wide ; et „grass of whic (eircum- | 
ad that sho 
ing to make ‘the 
appearance. T S e been some arr 
highly ferüilising ma rty in it 
struck me, that the same ma; 
pr 
as 
the hills, 
for 
ior 
sun has surik behind 
and so I think of every writer from Pontey’s days on 
ent tim The cause of disagreement | wo uld s 
Ever 
the Campsie hills, they prepare 
oP 
mitory ; the 
top of which they | 
pete w men, § 
a 
2 
ome bably. 
up in a musty, and Set ‘are nt hes 
Ry 
They do not t all go'to o'be ed at the same tim 
th 
nA pple- bea? aeria 
nwards 20 or 30 feet, k 
but beg in hopping aos 
is f ‘the’; br. anches, and when they 
ue experiments for 
ric ro rods and wires, 
they atariy magine that they can tur 
anda’ kyt Bf a praca “proce s. 
3 that th 
pilaki veri 
s are man d sninvyen 
re 
hunder-storms ; 
bird help to rede the upper regions of the 
Ah 
solution vf pe eno ae then 
re 
ana says, “‘ if fi ai sorte ie 
1 
An 
afforded t a ee elated. Nor 
an. o had see 
or el 
eee, or rae spring 
when other favourites are away or mute 5 E when little of 
b 
them ?” Ros 
f at 1 Ls hi 
stem, aiita a large wound, 
The 
will ‘ither see heal over, or if it does, there wil F: 
s go quietly to my 
? lish ei tru 
sage ma € that oir Woe enn a common centre. 
ambeth. 
first came to this "place 
The Vines sph or 
Pradai ain are met 
es Fond im to do. Na wees 
t may be watching yn NEA feos 
r. of e 
sit 
of tiber, 
ow well known that branches assist’ the g 
the more branches wi boast ve: ay tree! 
ther a any system of prun 
Paa er r ely 
oft he 
draw a little closer; in a moment a 
evil. but close pruning. 
dt oF 
R Toy our first obje 
m 
formed, Ti sing higher and higher, and wider and mae t 
‘that I never pie ger souii 
Perhaps this fact 
(.%—J. Aiton, Conishead 
olour, and cobweb-like veil, covering 
beneath 
alighted, ready to pounce sine one to 
e Som etime s it would | follow them and ap “one on the | hy 
t 
in small parties to the place. from whence they set out ; 
they will scarcely bave all waite when the same thing is 
repeated, and done several times in the ne of the 
evening. it was some time before I could fi d out the | 
cause of Ker sudden flight; but after eesenigiatinas it | 
o be an evil ovat in the shape of a hawk, 
make 
hat ite ae, Tak nee the help of a igoa plaster ; 
better have a) small branch ` 
niches of the He of thi 
very tiie “nots all through th 
face, like buffalo horns, and nearly a as, Pee ee the 
at lea st). grow! 
be 
sol 
e; cit Kaia en comes lurki 
bs which Ri jehi: had 
ma meal of. 
of the tree, and not down me stem, as Pea-st 
t reine shortly after it would beseen skim- | 
I have also bine another v varie ety 
a n4 soi 
hy gills. 
ushroom, one of which m i 
+} 
of t the Eve rgreens, „but woe to the | 
meter, and another 9 Toes in 
5 
| tients wes ere as w 
pa th. f 
o ya w, ray ‘the gills a 
n confirmation of what 
ubject.—Joseph Hol: 
i Hoe, 
|p victim, Nice away ies Hat leafy cen never 
to rejo in the green feather ed band again, or help the 
ould have heir neighbours, and th 
brought their arf as stakes, &c.” B. ‘Speaking 
ship ma asts, do you know that the best are brought fr 
f 
the band o 
been tou 
on Gooseberry blossom or Cherry buds.—Peter Mac- 
00T, eea read with interest PLIL D 3” 
ee 
is statement, that the 
| birds’-nests bym means 
asps.—I have practised the following method of 
| deatroying re P pests ppa spring see great success. 
ead of pistol ait 
en wall; at the ti 
> eggs in it, one eneko s| 
I |. powder, as mentioned are “ye er, my dead], 
‘missiles consist ly of a good „Mirong patent gar arden 
Wherever I find 
ever seen a euckoo’s 
the size of the bird, and 
scarcely believe that it 
one ; I was also puzzled š: the = ee know how 
he could deposit | her egg in na nest, t 
r size. 
and began t sit, As 
ey previous toi that time, from. t 
I coul 
was 
8 
ter ‘being | 
n matched the’) h 
a wasp, erat in- Pal or. Be Gy pi the-syringe upon it, 
which, will ise bring. them 
|.to the.gro’ t kill 
| they ar 
und. mie, of neat th 
ely shea hy Ai terns no tim 
n them, or giving 
In the | 
‘ont the 22d of May , the young Sag iy ats 
est daily, i rn if the eg 
he as K harbinger A te ’ whieh it er rh did 
ng kon etn on 
the syrin ge 
owever, with a eos 
to | as 
em 
TAN “Yes, but they. 
buy whole forests 
till the day they were felled?” 
as ‘to a Gorse-b 
rogn for profitable Sepi of eithe er Hops 
B. I perce ive that y 
School ; but as you have jesar that bran 
h of timber, and as you confess ha 
| soon as they had perfo formed the fun 
att intended them to effect in assisting a ormati 
mber,’ e syeu 
ly i ho panta t of d “on recon, “el they activity, in 19 cases out of 20, the first will „p: A. “If fareshottening is the e sys 
na r what means I do | effectual.—D. indee d a system a ery 
know. s the poet! potan ii the nest and de- Pruning Forest Trees.—1 have observed several the year, but nat ra the purpose — of improving 
yy all ‘own offspring ? I went to po nest in} notices in your paper lately, on the subject nd! 
the following morning, and discovered that t oft Holly-hedge: 
g wagtails were gone ; I went ag i after- y, and that no lopping of trees oat ever vert eae eine tae bongs ‘of trees that over 
I a small space of pro neig hbours, A a 
of the nest; the other two young wagtails I found laying paper, to state the theory, or rather the eat I Rand t be d tree 
dead ta bottom of the wall. As the ‘pier eee cate. Any person may ob: n 
y observe that lants thick] wood, phere so man sf St 
bel e fledged he became too large for the place planted shot t apiy upwards, and that r 5 r putting in us rains, &c.; and as 
Allowed him, so I put him into a cag kept him » they | incline the more to _produce trouble, the reverse vill het und to be the eo 
there for 10 days; during his confinement age" n the tree partidlly Liang bbe: 
pe pacing the eare and assiduous attention w | by paT there are neither planters, pruners, nor he axe,„and then to prune 
“i vei parents paid to their ait of th osing 3} eh: the seeds of the trees are sown hfe nature— Petey when ma e ground, turning "ie over, 
1 et cage è eing a ray to ad s of rubbish is on the ground all at one! 
$ 3 ey grumble to ,be to en 
Se ease of trying t oon him, oT tage ither and meee ‘under the oes of a eos baat at laid amd twisted oye sayin worth d 
ahi anh afraid e iam: Ma ae what "rood they which ‘in every case of plants rise towards light and | the. money. ut now for the branche "depp 
nd wi t 
gave the’ little harbinger: ‘his Tiberty, hing next spring | pleti sly epson nn si the in miedo legen pee i sane on second, wj has vide ti rine 
Pt ppgmantaie R mgp such as the land ble S do that—they all drop off; but the question is, whe 
i P i š e beautiful forests o in Stra h | Never, until killed by more luxuriant brethren, TA 
esas il piber es. own eran b fa wood- | Britain are a most striking illustration of the principle | have ke t off the gat Pe . Here is a Scotch F 
Ea ae ot he ies q i sfe p fe os cut, | here advanced ; the seeds are mostly sown by nature, | growing on the outskirts of the wood ; it is very 
Pays fa ed; i TRE T trie Ka experi- | the tree own without care or culture, and the nches, one of which measures ten feet from © 
men ts one. | Will op A el a i im to be| carpenter when working the timber.can tell if the tree | ground, but the points droop down nearly to'the grom 
pre y Koig 2 i pepe a. v n7 i OPE it | has been self- planted. In planting trees of all | I have co males the knots or mie growths on th 
ins urn well in its —A Sussex | kinds, exeept the forest trees, the number per acre ount to fifty -three and the rhe ugh bein z te 
Subscriber. [We donot know- should be under 10,000, and the latter should } t must be 
This reen Bird, or Green TER ETE AR xia eens -) planed, not. exceeding two feet . The original | sixty years np age, and upon inguiry ey old mi 
s e inju- | cost ma; ed; but it is afterwards expended in | this to be the very date of the plantation. 
r field and garden cr ops. ‘Tei is 4 blamed for Beito. | pruning and m gling the timber, which alte hows | have found skeletons pf trees left A forgotten in w00 
ing aps 9 plants, oye for disbu men fruit-trees and|a pines where the knife isel has been applied. | with all the sap-wi ted off, and only ert 
shrubs. Althou s lassed among the ‘‘ decidedly | All tr ra Sat send up shoots from the root should be |-of heart or red w.: nas F ler rida and hard 
£ y yet I hare great respect cut o y the ground the second year after t h had come di from 
this pecies I cannot say that I suffered much laste, aa ike aS ened tree 
aniy by them ; but for Kiepie in one place T have | are proc The Duke of Athol i d.sound on th 
‘ uch pleasure in watching their evening and morn- | Duke of Portland in TAa te o of ee m 
i i s r st - : au 
ing habits. About the middle of October they begin to | sive planters in Britain, fo eo this plan Mi yen ae ay E chu, cil vee 
assemble in small pa in Pages evening, on the pe 3 cess, Sometimes the inferi w = te 
Some tall Poplars ; wid may not exceed ‘ten o o be used for fencing Bs one or orate diffe 
t ti thers, the Laré 
„Bozen at first, but evenin j: n atter evening it is increased sak the preferable ms snot to thin at eae = not U mi hi rel pag full c ails in w 
Raat small additions, until about the lst of Nov the whole to Na tur s operation, the best pe oin were put in day of ore, to be bigs’ dow 
“Ber, when they amount to several hundreds ; the gerd p ah Imed 
to meet half an hou as b f do. er he bark on 
wes our before sunset, hn Donaldson,. Hoddesden ne n the b 
come at 9 . of the old‘trees iis some ha woe 
oe their place of rendezvous, but come aia Forest.trees.—I observe that the manage- | but it was pressed or squeezi zed so thin as 
