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Feeavary 12, 1859. THE GARD NERS CHRONICLE. 131 
— 7 t that the more nume-, 9. cv" the — or Branch immediately below 
he less gend chich each receives. the cry exhibited to the Société d'Agri- Home B erac. Papers 
— of thinning, in order t — | culture de Parisi in a 1776 a branch of a Plum tree which Ple ) give some informa- 
ng Sel nourished and become | he had ringed. fruits situated above the incision | tion à about this, also : alled the E Der Fan Palm.“ Is 
EN for performing this — M wok were much larger than those beneath it, and their o hav It is stated to be ha 
T pe much farther advanced. Colonel Bouchotte, of ot very nearly 50. ter é ex and Butler & McC 
A 8 r dr 
ncipal Branches.—1f the length 
es is to a certain extent dimi- 
i uning, a 
to that produc € pruning 
; but the effect on the fruit is much more 
[reg NE ht of practising this operation on 
order ccelerate their ripen ing. He ‘tinged abo 
and 15 days ie 
perc 
s have e within the last . po repeated the experiment | & 
early every year on nst walls and alw mr 
with like results, 1 o. get tried it woes Dung sam 
g shoots of the Peach 
t is very deat as an o ent of 
action of the ‘sap is confined within 
It is, howe at 
ts handsome fan-shaped leaves pes a 
rous shoots, of whi g 
z2 o make their speres pom they 
— — with those of Cam nellias , Oranges, 
opening ; the inger it is delayed after this "period the 
is the effect produced. The 
ze Fruits so that - Weight ma; 
fepe pany nd the ring of bark re removed shoul 
exceed o 
inch, e ze 
success of t the i, ais ration bd È T al 
Eh? erem 
"ia digi mall i instrument, 
t | called a coupe- 
sève 
10. Ins — on ; vigorous tr trees fruit- EN = a por- 
tion of wo ardin).— 
This 3 is only applicable to Ales — We 
ld 
to half "the diameter à the eM 
e-fift a |e 
y 
Rhododendrons, Azaleas 
You will 8 get it hen 3 feet Miche although it 
is said to become a tree when very old. The fo llowi vin 
se 
i. 
uveai Du "Hamel, 
feet or psg 
es Plan = in 
{Chiefly to these we | sho uld say y; for it has succ 
117 ies cu in con- 
Moreover x: 8 are attach 
rtical direction, their 
talk 
hig "The trunk of 223 of this size is 5 indrieal, 
fi m 
sequence of excessive i-a ur las 
rot ‘the sta 
the passage of the sap. Again, 
that the fruit does not make an equal 
th a 
mes consequence of whieh t s par- 
ted. Now, if a sport is ec — 
hese effects on n the stalk, it is 
,and buds, may by 
fruit of large size EL the “abundant t supply of " 
which the inserted blossom buds w e. But i 
order to derive the 
e 
the i injury o y the 
i fola Ed. 
to 
se these 
he sap to 
. vigorous shoots 
the se ame tr ree, or On the 
3 
red 
Ix M the rA stalks, ak remain 
tioles have 
hne being 
some after the leaves and 
ur- 122 off; and which -— with great plausibility, 
the first hint h^ the 
es of it 
aised from it exposed to the frost, some woul 
har: ly 
th 
tally 7 — on —€— Trellises 
ze than the 
nt of Evaporation from 
wth will 
e be less 
t the — will ae a grea r de — of 
and lose 
of 
on the co 
wever, in order "that shadi may not 
ch 8 ~ dato des Greffes, a 8 opera 
s of 
ess rapid. On the — hand, ti the tissues | fru 
cd t us inarc 
losed a the of 
run dn fruit i is introduced, the | latter i is 
the air, and is con- 
a moist warm 33 
h keeps the e the piens pliable, and stimulates the 
t 
> Moistening ruits with a Solution of Iro 
pperc ay) —We — ‘ready — 2 — -— os - the 
rawin 
unt we doubt whether th. 
: if the A results vmm not be - 
4 — 
. tained like results Three 
kn ED. 
US | of Mower s and Fruit, will take ‘pais on Thursday and 
| the 12th oo 13th May. 
under the name of Greffe approche oak ag 
ae | te Luizet, of Équ uilly, who 2 did not know of 
that description, again discovered this kind of inarch- 
ractised it with the e view of increasing the 
which the fruit is situated 
as a nurse rse to the fru 
at the Exhibition. ofthe Paris Hort: 
iety, ter Beurré and 
ed rosse Cale —.— assüm 
| Pears, and likewise Clingstone e Peaches, which had been | go, 
red, | treated according to this method; and they were cael 
Jou 
ve the 2 size of these v arieties. 
d' H« Gand. 
HORT TCULTURAL SOCIETY. 
MIL. flowing K Cx 
* 5 
W., Jan. E 1859. 
The Coun H ural Societ, y fin ding that not- 
Witeatandifg i the liberal — in which à è considerable Sub- 
scription was made b mber of the Fellows, and the 
alm 
"public is ‘evident tance from 
— ar, even 
at the "eoe don tha a the 
of preme A a Show Gard a 
A the nA h 2m ver, 
periment 
tion more Pr parading to the Society can be fou: nd. 
Suggestions have been made on 
475 
oe 
^ 
ory a si * 
e transaction of the Ee 
of Original Dra 
gin 
take place of path we work padre showi 
of the Society seldom or never eo sult. 
iffi 
e large collection 
a 
that the Fellow. 
state of transi- 
ante 
aa the = — — — m to thr 
en Exhibitions y those whieh gave so much sa 
at St. ue idu iit; 
eto 
the pn time to a share in them. 
of the Se 
WES i in St t. us 
tant-Secretary." — 
's Hall, i the Exhibition 
The — d rer Pr E 
nesday ursday, the 29t 
big 
and 9th December, during the meeting of the imithfield | 
ane por 
to the Fellows of the Society 
and places. exuded ‘through the old bark. One gent 
rred by the dis 
n th of E. M E 
8 s b disconti e d 9 by hornets,” but still though I knew ine roots had been’ 
njured, T 2 
than othersi and these might 
be perpetua: ted from the suckers arise abundant 
. The soil which t 
deep ; in which soil it is said e grow in the south 
of Europe, and spread over the surface, in the sam 
anner rn does in En As a single 
object on a British lawn, few, in rarity a ingularity, 
can surpass a e e. Fan Palm t has stood 
out in the open air in the Edinburgh Botanic Garden: 
for several winters, with scarcely any protection." Sow 
your seeds in and dcm the young 
plants appear treat them like Jin other 5 
xposure to s 
rub, hardening them by gradual e 
"Tr ir. 
co 8 destructor. p 3 as to derogate 
twood’s position 
the groundwork, draining, making * &e., 9 
rtion of the surface roots was considerably 
— loo 
su r looked healthy. 
a sickly hue, but still as the summer was dry, it did n not 
cause any particular uneasiness. As the autumn how- 
ever ires the iren became much infested 
hornets, who seemed to feed upon the sap, which i in 
enar ked that 
ought they might r Findin 
w s Seolytus 
dM athed. 
cil sl: wind brought 
enables me to judge, quite 
prete in the early pe: of : tai a heavy y ple 
a modera! d branch 
each of three different rodeo re pes nches were - 
it acceptable to 
fit her places 
I found the „whole bark a mass 
undergone vedi a chemical change 
this truly destructive pest. 
I cannot ; 
em - cannot not tell but one fct manifes sts itself, vi Zan 
d Th 
Meeting ‘will be on Wednesday, Lern nien ti "Fides. 
cubs 
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