THE 
GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 833 
a FASTOLFF RASPBERRY. 
NORFOLK, 
& CO., being the parties who first i nee: 
notice of the Hoewcoliis y kiio the 
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Se liberal discount will be n fas ed'the Trade ig ‘“quanti- 
es” are ordered.—Great Yarmouth Nursery, Dec, 13. 
exhibit every diversity-of constitution from 
| berry is a modern and coe instance. 
above | to v 
of its. fruit animal “ie, 
of that 
jon from health | 
to decrepitüde. Of the latter, Myatr’s Pine Straw- 
trustworthy writers, to y have been the Mauri 
Early Black ed agèn, e of the present ay: T 
n the 
W s therefore, regard the whole string of propo- | i 
sitions now examined as ent tirely destitute of all) 
the idah Co oai 
the e our Cornichons or 
[Foundation i in, fact. Buti 
Ww + 
ege: 
affirme ed that some e cavated plan nts hav 
ghee: Re PEE a en Pippin, 
lden Harvey the num- 
ber uted The fst “ofthese is Title know nto us, 
and the Golden 
cpa and Golden Harvey are coral not capa- 
of Mr. Knicnt’s 
ty. Botha e to be found in various ps 
this moment ja as perfect health as they 
enjoyed. The Golden Acta is, among ie most 
vigorous apos of Madei G 
; of 
od gardens. 
9 } of 3 
r 
ereta 
It is mai intained that 
has. = fixed periods o on, an 
beyond which the “debility inci- 
The infer- 
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so 
Se 
Ki 
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Mi 
po finding that the 
er contain ned healthy treés of certain 
ch were said to have flourished 
his 
The Gacbeners’ Cpronicle. 
SATURDAY; DECEMBER 13, 1845. 
MEETING. FOR THE POROTE bgr K. 
Touespay, 
Dec. 162Linnegan 8 Pm. 
is w 
otter Brie A e- 
age all the oor 
vipa 
3? manner in which ue grow, a 
+ 
Agen a state as ‘ever, and is 
now growing in a ike arden of the Horticultural 
Society. The ai Nonparel was "e Kho own in 
the time of Que ZABETH 5 in à places it 
} ii 
can be, more healthy fek that ey. i favo ourable 
a | ieee In what is called ev reaks 
down w ene n examined? A and p piema on 
i the wearing out of proves to be 
7 | heal sby grafting, assume ed 
old a ep e had ove Eok , and tha t they were in- 
. Then eory 7 - other | 
etable 
h 
ett 
great n n from any co aoaia examination 
the fis ets for themselves, have blindly ado ma ed ts 
t 
ae conclusion, which s 
ofa mista en phant evem of “the pies of animal n 
to pare tables a desire to push analog 
er limi 
| baseles 
4 We y easily conceive,” says Dz Can netin 
that every cultivated variety „owed its origin 
anc 
me 
ince ‘that but once: dn such a case the variety has been mul- 
ich P and every 
rop 
Sp da ire plan 
se este 
of t their vitality: wi ith w 
y z 
AU 
nat 
pees 
r 
hich 
pam ont 
iaai, 
all being fanit e ike eal a jd 
n all the plants of the same 
tate to sadoni Mr. Ki ounts f 
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nits various TE cts. 
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racked) from that of a AA sgh In thew in- | die of ‘ald age. 
tends. that the species, of plant s 
5 are the 
apia to. us di 
y oe neu vigour of a species as we 
re sown ; and th ni if an; unhealthy plant i is 
z b 
: multiplied from seeds the immediate offs spring be- 
‘comes healthy. It is slap said that t multiplication 
by seed i onih i mode of pro paga 
so 
known among plan that all other 
Tease are ficis va lead to debility. 
è difficult: to find an hy po- | 
gation | The Cabb: 
a 
Pip Bat 
bits a gardener or N pirn birds, ga or other | admit, up om sch a s a single fact, an uspa og 
agents pe Oak which springs up ia a forestis not} posed to all o That varie will last, 
i lest ease ied of e TE from | so long as man gto of them ah aves to be 
en jenat rise bed o eryman. | prove od by se of them having been: preserved from 
But it ig also certain sp 
disappear, jus 
4 
industr y 
cane is rarel ly EP et. by se 
Propagat ion Lis e nem wich W 
arune) 
SA sige 5 propagates itself by bal fotine à in li 
tsz] 
y its t ubers, whic 
a 
root ‘otato 
E ce sod in this sang 
Very eardener pe that his Ac chim e 
ever saw it pro 
ocea may be ee er, o the more suc- (Pig re tale, p. pee eae abridged.) | 
nd larger ; but t ay physiologie ically the | Although’an examination of evidence leads us to 
is a pangna method of same. ‘We therefore must ie ss fro r arg nument | the inevitable, eon clusion, that "thn keine aos of 
gay that no | the aly ened to es of plants by old age is a delusion, yet we 
es de The ugar- | ideas. Now, wild aa parte bere ad brie y | are | far hen denying the accuracy of the statements 
it vi d pre wr a recent writers on this subject. We 
admit. their rey ey 5 t their reasoning, 
Of | ¢ rascal evince to W hae to eee ad ee against the inferences would have 
lel as a | arisi nee from old ag e. On the contrary, every raw. This, however, bi h ayes import- 
ke T: a I pita ity: ant practical considerations, which wi st defer 
in the absence of disturbing causes. He nee the till another week. In the mean anwhile, we would 
t form a enormous age at which trees arrive. A thousand | refer our by Mr. 
i years is ae oma = rs acim tree as no acci- | Garp of Glenae, in the “Farmers. Ga zette of 
h are Lm of th is no intelligible reason | Nov. ‘39, au Irish payers ee nducted with talent and 
to ; no | why it should not, if guarded from violence, gontinue and, in those mery offering a strik- 
to Grd ow to eternity. ~ Iti y true that plants do | ing contrast to its rival, the Irish Farmers’ * Journal. 
konani * without attaining any Po ee 
s are | in reality ee c 
ly multiplied by little ly ari longé and that constitutional feeblene ssis ABYICES from Forruys, dated Shaughae, 
Ts, and tl — fo be such kopra August 16, mention gi he had B sao from 
as to arane seed u essary. n short | age. But th is arises from external, not iaeiiai river iape and was busily engaged in ga athering 
€ not spac other instances ot this th e| causes. The soil which surrounds them ex-| together his bolecina of plants left at Ni ingpe, 
of whic ovat poe ap e from entire hausted, their r wander into datieatvial aiid; Chusan, ü nd other places, p to bi 
aintance with sonmi n facts in unnatural e xcess is introduced, „fhe food Eng Ae where he is expected i in “April or May 
ly show that. N s provide ats they require is withheld, md | next is plants are described by ie as being 
propagating Rra Fi pert and that mutilate t them, severe dole: ‘disor organises a and | extremely valuable; and he bad d Poy upon 
of ae ose means. ther causes produce disease, which may | bringing the whole of them home his 
to on, that all other means than in death. But this is very different from dying | superinte ndence, 
maltipligation by. by isis lead to debility, we mist | of mere old age ; and for ractical purposes it is e had been in the Black T , and had 
‘ask for. the e-proof. The wild Straw berah been | most material to draw the distinction. witnessed the processes of pr the leaves 
ted by its runners than by its seeds;| If no AE g exist to show that wild plants| he had rene seriously ill with fever, from which 
ere. do we find any sign of debilit rig uffer from me olda age, we cann not admi t sue ch a| hé was rec ed; onhis fram the Min 
erusalem -Arti was intr efore | property to bei: o Chusan, he had twice ed by pirates, 
ay ar au: for nearly t two centuries and : a half if | Ke It would indeed be a a of space, which we ean | who, however, were on each ion d 
aseti itself ely by r upon this part of the anga] himself unassisted by his cowardly Chinese crew. 
seed. any one aad debility i in ier plant ? |me 
G n Bs chiefly by its creeping roots ; wit e called facts, the real value of which e been requested by spm corre- 
Wish we could addice, at least, that peua ‘we’shall presently discuss, have been adduced to Pan rel state what kinds of Foo: _be 
vigour in a plant whose seeds jon > but I e| prove that if plants do not di e of old age in a wild of Potatoes. | In deh 
d. therefore, is not true that plants multi- | state, yet that Socontestably do wear out when ent substitute be provi 
d much, or wholly y other means than seeds artificially multiplied by division. Jn T to|of food in general use, it 
Sepik t t this it is a o quote the White é Pe he nature of foods ge 
er, are said, in all instances, to pro- of Fra which French writers ous Mr ea and physiological 
me sy pluie, But. this, like a Age — cir = propagated fi i debili e imme ee ale , pi ipar de ay that 
no i bi ity ; Eise J rusal 
Bather of TE se not bear exact invest iga "o renee He he cultivated Vines kin alom that pail 1 eO 
yield 
i par oa 
in 
ee. Bh an ent tirely “upon that Artichoke already n n 
of 
vigorous are $ this is A shat te every have 
amed ; 
arieties oli. of all pats anim 
a division, Dut tions 
an 
" og one class of t 
en Saas e a distinguishing “Site 
jagar deterioration or be called Guphanaccons s the other, -in 
to carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, eontains 
ed 
e Vitis preeor of Colu | 
T gi Henperson, on the autbarity of rae most! nitrogen, and is called nitrogenous or azotiz 
be aE a a. may be 
ra Nabe 
