ga nai SL IR a US CL RS TTE sc. gee gram tm 
i, asas.) THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 737 
Home ee on nn _ |T had 84 beautiful little parts emia the caren sessilifiora.—As Mr. Malleson’s paragraph 
‘ne Borders—To say that Mr. Hoare has failed in of the winter. n this Oak 
ae many converts to his system of forming Vine- _ Proliferous Cabbage. pa ue eg te toa call attention to thi rm possibly mislead _ some who have sn 
Jers, is nothing more than mi ht be expected, | orp! i . 
of small public advantage compared with the benefit plant of Chou d e Milan hades many other leaves on pni vba Kosia vol. AA i wens hen of 
to ensue froma fair and free discussion of the | ame plant have similar excrescences. Ihave a few 1829, ; it is thus written n at the 6th page: ek There are 
ect. The mere fact o; . Hoare’s theory not | Put in as cuttings, in order to ascertain whether t f Oni kin aerian gan cn 
anding the test of practical inquiry is not of so much | EFEKO worse ssa and pirating or whether they A Sap ahaa of Which affords j 
rtance as the lesson it reads to all theorists, espe- | Contunue to elongate sorta still retaining the same se ined, firm soli a ‘i be 
quiring careful and deliberate iive pesasse orm as heretofo re-—G. M. Elio ott, Ripley | T ne y POTE SAONE, rarel subject to rot. 
vation, and that too during a series of years before = etre r ssiliflo — ppy, very 
i be read as authorities in matters of practical _ of the Cabbage-leaf produce leaf- ie extensions at | to on been introduced some tw ane. cae ago 
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ning. That Mr. Hoare hi ae not a in he T a with oe e plane of the leaf. In some in- | from the Continent. In the Gaia, Messed this timber 
at soil of n e, büt a pos 7 [stane /_ ass um the appearance of i asera We | is known to be very worthless.” The article proceeds 
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n any ¢ will row. ] | to say, Q. sessilifiora may thus be discrimi 
"E adie by everybody ; ; but if Mr. ae Forest-trees.—In writing on “this mulbjiiet the piah English Oak : PEA: i of preg ss 
cnet in ma in gaining h his prian Sts ely we must keep in view the object sought, whether orna- | (or pedunculata) are long, and its lea 
atl en own with a | Ment or a The former, being a matter of taste, had whereas the acorn stalks of sessiliflora are short, 
t an less earth and ma e thm an has been usually better be left to the diseretion of the owners. ejand the leaves long. The acorns of the Robur 
ined ; and that much, hs all, o © what is called | latter is a fair subject for discussion, and in the follow- | grow singly, or seldom two on the same foot-stal! 
ng is caused by planting in ees rich, ss — a | ing the object sought for is use, or how to make the | those the sessiliflora grow in clusters of two or 
at unavoidable consequence) wet ders, | land under trees ee ce the greatest quantity of | three, es t f the b h.” The followin 
e are, indeed, much indebted to Mr. Hoare a pro- valuable tim aber. is fi glish Oak Loudon’ retin 
à is inqui although we may handle his SERRER some individuals have retum,” at p. ar $ ae “whole article md be colina’ 
e our ini, rather freely, we have but doubted SS. we > should prune at all; and there f with advantage, but a - hints will, I hope, be sufficient 
ct in view: viz., of obtaining a clear ex- y examples of ti trees growing in woods | for the present purpos' It is stated aves that “ Bose 
a very important “pe perplexing subject in estaini ing the greatest size and value w leans ever and other French authorities say that » the } ood of Q. 
ening. ring the present season I have been aving been touched by the hand of m because 
rely watching t the result of several borders, formed | 20t believe that 1 out of 100 single se kode row trees it soon rots under water.” Again, « Atkinson says that 
a ays, nd by « different parties ; and , amongst could ever be K much value roe er, if left t 
“the ae one by unassisted han of Nature. T e reason is obvious. | requiring more wei ight to bend it, and therefore bette: ter 
ut, then, this was before he went the whole length he | A tree standing al f a pyramid, | bape sete r beams, as it will bear the ter weight 
does—when, indeed, his retatie s very hi buildings without bending.” Again “ Nichols appears 
oe ab ontaining excellent instruc- pee Q. pedunculata when he speaks of the true 
industrious momen sho Engli iaro su si g about Rinefield 
= Vine whieh e clothes their cotta; Th mer Lodge, in the New Forest.” Finer trees or better 
5 proved very clearly, if any proof were wanting, that timber for shipbuilding, h se ‘believes, is not to be found 
ine-bo' e too wet; that the richly ma- in the kin; pai p for the value of the timber 
ed 1 soil, constituting s0 lar; rge a Lr of the com- of Q. Ola orester, Northampton, 
{In printing this. Teter = must not be understood as 
ish, the wet cannot get away, the the or those 
with whom he. quotes, in 
peace pa So of Q. ee) siii iflora. Does he know : ne 2 
abou t the matter of his own knowled e$] 
In planting fruit-trees, which 
should be p ma ae t this season of the yah care- 
ful prepara of the soil, and good drainage, are oi 
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, a onan it is putroukdled:& on "all sides by 
tself. I will venture to say, ue 
rred, and when the bor 
been examined, the roots have in no instance ae 
Ground, and exposed fully to a summer’s sun, 
st would not even th of fria- modern — rs, that t-trees loamy 
and healthiness fit for any fruit-bearing plant, but soil “i a bottom, which #0 some wet ha making one 
a. ee Vine; yet we persist in forming these wa: me another ; but the principle to be aimed 
tions in spite of the evidence of our own s is to n ake cold cage ro ils equ hose that 
oare has endeavoured to prove the ne and gravelly, a as it is impossible to do 
rders, and in this he is ly righ this, » best artificial means 
in our pow event a roots from going 
down into the hs ‘lay, ~ „this must be done 
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stand mea way that the rincumbent soil will 
rtainly, neither a brick-paving nor 2 feet y - be only paronae eni anily retentive. Pre- 
earth. In olden times, the making ofa} ~ aza : esia that the ground to be pia ‘is selected, 
ot E ous matter, because’of the expense Fig. 2. and that the soil in its present state is not exactly what 
curred in the huge excavation, which, in ordinary | to di d if } d | the nat poe Sor tree requires, then you must have 
es, was 4 feet in depth ; poke this: AA is ob- | to grow on ne m, o form forks by rohit on cial means, and in the first place I 
S'y unnecessary. The removing of so large a | them, or large Taob air pro rohably, holes by oon off PERT in ‘al the soil to be thrown out to the > depth 
eSprare ers dis- | them, they may, w healing over the small w unds, form of a = 2 ft. 6 ins., M 1 substi f 
ed with, and the new border might reer "peen | valuable timber. I now recu t 
I | in former Naaiers : Whether the stems of trees of | broken brick- bats, = mortar, Seer ioe 
d with very great advantage on the surface. 1 drai ry ns 
satisfied upon this pomme Raving watched with a so as t a F Lia veep nage = at bog 6 we va ie 
: . th „gro ear. rom = ons expe- Ser 1s 
eee woe Se a a iW. ILE every, gs í dth of g p allotted for each tree, and these 
mstances, would be more in the position of a | on the subject, I am satisfied, and therefore assume, | materials should be well saturate d with hmas: — 
of compost exposed to the atmosphere to sweeten ; | that the ae do not gro n the manner described. before they are - in or after ; but it is bette: to be 
the roots would have free and easy inter- =e is, therefore, jw with = a A a 
mass of and healthy matter. . Let t branches, “there must be in all timber t t ver, th: ery particle may imbibe som ne por- 
e, therefore, be placed on the surface of the d of the brine. A bottom thus formed about 2 ft. 
ag ground, using plenty of it, and when the com- | young ; and if a large branch be — to gok on pie the et will ce a good and effectual drain- 
laced upon this, let it slope to the south rather part , say 12 fee yer of ep h, Furze, or turf, may be lai 
and when finished it will present a precipitate the ground, there will be either a large a ais ora over it, to prevent thi mg from manning into te inter- 
> ‘to the full influence of the sun ; the | large kno ‘at 12 fee t the time the | stices. The utility of _s wari f drainage is, that it 
ng rains cannot settle upon this, especially as it no matter at what age. If, then, a affords a dr y bot tom, and p ts the roots ts from ce ing 
apletely removed above the surro ounding so soil. The straight | ein bole, 30 foot in Pree st be the objet C int 
ce of — Vine-b i bel oe a oe A 
losphere ‘in this anything but a tempora: 
our intelligent positon “ean sear aara? to te treated eo is, i Seek never ihe un in a “horizontai maaca —W. P. 
pting the pat and or eannot be a es so tha t when  Presere er g Ice.—Som e, time. a ago the snow on the 
“of th eir success. The Vine, and, in fact, all | it is ape bo removed i w it lay longer in 
trais» which as small a om as vai “43 As to the question of how | one place than it did in "ier r tthe same altitude, 
are su k ible 
Soil, but — ne Ay En require |as these small branches should be removed, whether by and on the same exposure, I could not at first very 
zre ine, to-secure all those well-known advan- | the hand of man or by the emas Ge Na: mess aeit t mea ny inven to soe aai er the 
natural e em to rot of when overshado we am inclined to ‘orm seve: 
ne who has handled ager hni fe. confer ieee ce th an will peona the opani of "the "hil ie and when I was satisfied I thought Tae 
< intering half-hardy Plants.— in the less injurious manner, particularly if care be | mo ane ahopi it; bhii the few remarks I of 
sunt of the success T have had for the d last five win taken a F na es co branch with a <p ang cut, and to piss “Que us” in promoting his plan of pre- 
in keeping Pel re trees having grown to the | se ss se pi manner, he shall have them. 
ssulas The 
and te 5 esired Whe thes pes front of the Ochils is covered with 
artificial ve Last a ina cold haaa without height of 30 0 foet een GE that be the d length of clean FA a very fine appearance, y but when s thaw 
eats durati as spe pices Piha Sih PT ey zna Tie me soin Suh p 
Ag out of k aaa of between eriy, and 400 tans from tonne again on stems, soar soon egy Set cel ed than the snow on page 37008 
re 2... Scarcely lost 10. As soon as frost sets in I | becoming q gall ies 28) OT A person living a few miles from the may 
$ pits the additional protection of two in the I able to explain e phenomenon at feii, hah tien 
the frost is not very severe, I have removed | until they are quite fi fit for the axe—J, T. ts g them and knows ar 
time, to give the plants light. I give Y of A few A E T eee as enables iim. lo “und 
ke air as possible when there is no frost, | ing Anbo I observed cutie the morning a cat | thing about the angle of indianoa a s; m 
them very hardy all through the autum mi carrying as I supposed a box from the workshop of a | tribution of th n’s rays, culty vanishes 
little water, me taking care that as RE boatwright, but on closer inspection it appeared to be a | quicker than the melting snow on a steep roc 
as possible rests upon their leaves. The | large trap, ith numerous holes and sprin eat for | western parts of the south front are more steep rae 
: Siatgonius I have found to answer very well | catching mice ; two had been captured life- Ena fame thenature of the the east; this is soon 
fe ire UP in a cellar, s h 3 hod (lil } from t the plants and animals that 
i T tried » and starting them in a hot- | less, el E 
with great lan re- species) of conveying them to a place of vere by 
nded by“ WC.” of paa a handle for that purpose.—N. S. H., Sal the. gout stands on three legs upon the edge of a 
age an od ont ets a yo am poe St. gree precipice, unable to find a resting-place for the fourth ; 
