Max 7, 1859.) THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 407 
nt, the Treasurer, Mr. God: Mr. Blandy, and and, after painting all the young monkeys with this, arboriculturist, the principal advanta 
Eb. Were T Dilke), in order m pr the Society | treacherous mixture, set them free. Their anxious | sists in inducing a full state of bearing eight — 
to meet two thousand pounds’ wort of old promissory | pare! s had been watching for their offspring, and er than by y 
tes, bad guaranteed their payment by instalments, | iem them away out of eg am The liberated cap- 10 obtain this result, M. , Du Breuil commenced b 
thas relieving the Society from a serious temporary | tives were then surroun ed by the whole troop, wl wx 
- liberal an act on the part of| commenced licking the "mess — - r fur. Before eene part of the w alls where the produce of the 
hich showed how ch they are very long, the expected — sts made thi 
VE 
cie E nk was t ace the trees in the open 
as deserving the warmest acknowledgments. | ance. The rcsult of As pom was, that the im undi d distributed ro E qe garden quarters. 
Fellows expressed a wish t that the Journa l, or | were so terr tified a . — anguish w which their It is here that the — of M Du Breu il presents 
equivalent, should be revived, and it w the toont: that they fled | the greates innovation, 
stood that steps would be taken for the — rz a | the place, = Tt a 5 in that locality one of the enclosures double 'espaliers, with perpen- 
F sheet, which all Fellows might receive — ] long afterwards.” lieul iddl 
bs future arrangements in contem- Tere a nee of four MM beds, running orth and south. These 
jon respecting the a at Chiswick were dis-|, TRAD ange Receryen.— Fi isher, Holmes, § Cos a 
but as no definite conclusion had I Hands Catal oque of Stove, Green by footpaths 3 feet 3 inches wide. The trellises were 
at by the Council, the —— of this subject was prend ud 7. — Plants, a very good collection of useful ormed of u 5 laths, abc se 1 foo apart, with a 
postponed to some — re general meeting. aud rich in aon ‘Dut the names are terribly 2 post 5% —.— d må 9 feet 9 inches 
The Chairman ! announced that H.R.H the miss a. : pie eh at ever "n The pce was — 
Prince Consort m en unanimously E place rong ee wires cur their extre 
oe Pla bran = a Mide raa * ida Garden Memoranda. | tio i in the » each — 
Professor Lindley, e Rt. Hon. the €: of | rwe extract the follow: the top of the posts. Each line i two — of 
Ducie, Professor Henfrey, and Mr. C. Edmonds, j country-qurden fro — 8 trees — against i — n vertical. 
members of Council; n. Jonathan Clark e, Esq., pet uoa FRUIT GAR: OF THE CHATEAU DE VER- When the espalier which have been poned — 
Mr. James Fraser, Audito N. —Our readers know what a great i impulse an — bear fruit all t i gerer trees will be e 
i id the ground which ‘ney occupy cropped w 
ment of dessert make up - he space taken u 
righ 
fruits—has received of late years tables to p by the ne 
Notices ot > of Books. through M. Du Bret m active TE — professor, arrangement, We “ill now follow M. Du Breil in in tho 
e giv at the Con- examination of . “diferent kinds | of tree e of 
1 dem um 
Invasion invited by the Defenceless State of Engla es Arts et Mé g 
By T. H. Key, M.A., à nd A. Williamson, eas over alta parts f ios ^. numerous hearers who | of his new mode of short prun 
Bell & Daldy. 2d edition. could not ater have the opportunity of listening P s er trees in j lines, against a 
This important pamphlet, costing only threepence, to him. The 3s which attends the lessons of this | South as of varieties of win 
should be in the hands of every one who has even the | eminent arboriculturist, and the — increasing the trees p re "planted at 16 inches apart along a wall 
smallest influence over members of the Hou p 410 feet long. Two-thirds of this length have been 
3 though written by two — — edat a new attempt. | planted we Lr They cover two-thirds the he 
of whom however is the — relatio: M. Da of the wall already borne rui 
most a Na vies — officers, x — ed its 7 in the theatre, however “clear t hey may be, require e to T perpentielar espaliers : the t 
of a th h acquaintance wit accompanied = — — of results on the About foo pet 
de moot of P ich it treats. authors point out | ground. In fac wever gre the attention of the ra 688 " single d alio . These trees, which occu: 
— I force, but without a a word of py Je eme the ability rot the pro — d his in e new plant: re-men- 
kill to illustr: ate by sketching, there is in "natur al tioned, have sed planted two years; they consist of 
ise and how w great mmer and a n varieties. Old trees, trained 
is introduced i into the selon of the —— by the inspection of: the ol objects themselves, especially | e izontally ini no e wall,are the only ones o 
e aren sA ee = abundance ; but where | if ings, taken in Tre ne Pastori e the 2 plantation ‘which 1l be preserved. 
are the S opas an the form. er? We have of existence, and in the differen’ - phases of their e planted 16 Pooh apart against m east: 
admiral escis growth? Excellent ga e who now nothing of the | be inch 180 et do ong, n and t ines. 
mand. * — is not an officer 1 in the service who will | subject, a lesson in the pag ane eee ator | The eet have been planted three years, and im ve 
not endorse e every statement that these pages contain, | who already | understand it. t. One. may have — great | almost reached the top of tus wall. ‘The short pone 
— bei tt ich has ing — succeeded per rfectly. The stems were = 
ous isk of being wra wrapped in the confla- been done by his neighbours, and believe himself far | hid by the number ee 
gration al p^ x to rage -= the continent. For|advanced; but let him go beyond two or three depart- 75 feet vo be same aspect the trees were trair 2245 in the 
— pe b m Voce gend our -— Eee like z= | ments, he will see new and ingenious methods, and will same m but planted 2 feet a apart, ar s the nets 
mmediate acquire. Every ] ele a: trente er length. | ‘The trees, e year! 
and ver ers e, ha jg je * et à 
Against 144 feet of south. wall the trees 
were * 16 Vds à apart. TI 
and had nearly e the — n of the wall; they were 
e ered with flow: uds. dabout a 
s was 
“his - s; with | botanist in his study, working microscope in hand, | ¢° = be 
rmn T 3 TTT or apart, al 
he has much 
laissez faire ame we — — — o | botany will recall with pleasure and reg he rural 
excursions directed by the last of Jussieus ; the 
nce became a hundred times more attractive when it 
the 
—Against a —— — 98. L^ = with a 
s 0 ! south aspect, the trees were were planted 16 — 
and to make up for the want of a model fruit and trained in oblique lines; and a ener 69 
M double espalier the trees were about a foot apart — 
med uprig 
22d last, 3 
— Mandrill.—* Som they a situated near Alençon, and econ ing to the family of Apricots.— Planted 16 es apart as a single espalier, 
their disposition a — pom. aus Rattier. His n vita i arm response, and trained in eee cre; 'The espalier, 138 feet 
h meclf with bae ticket at long, is sheltered on the west side by straw mats from 
— Anne sport of rage if amy attentions be a dins to l P P rovide 
— within aug sight. Ths curious propensity was | single fare, a 5 Mich. the Western Railway | top to — and by a stra shee ed projecting ins. 
— made the means of re-capturing a large baboon— | Company of France had generously con on this| This shelter is necessary from f middle of February 
a chacma Jardi 3 U — o the weather at Paris o on the | pue - = Not May; they are sie removed, and: by 
des PI Plantes, in Pa T 1 had end bailed many | i 1 1 the enthus d th 
attempts to entice of amateurs was considerably n inished. of — reins quality than from a wall. 
tried, repelled the —— sev di wonnding several | Those who i ed id accompany M. Du- Breu on this bens vr wall 108 feet — is — with Vines 
of the keepers. At last, a ,ready-w witted keeper hit | visit will doubtles regret it, for their anticipati ions | about 14 inches apart. They trained w — ae 
upon a plan which proved eminently successful. There | were happily not mi ect and the kane in which the | Per — and opposite laterals. „Ano not ther pct 
was a little window at the back of the cage, and when | party took a lively interest, was — en n favourable | feet long. i is planted w ith Y E 
the keeper saw the baboon in front of the open door, he | weather. We were presen be able t 
in a young lady to the window, and pretended to give an account of it to our reader: walls have an east aspect, and are —— wit ih —— — 
c mag dios arcet was too much for The Chateau de Vervaine, cok 2} miles from humidity ^E the climate ined unfavourable for the 
jealous feeling of the baboon, which flew into the Alengon, on the road to Brittany, besides possessing ripenin Grapes. 
cage for the — — of exterminating the offending | the finest orchard in France, hus a park of at least 120 ‘Appice — are trained inito Fer d ihe 
Another keeper. was stationed i in ambush near | acres. We will not stop however to give a detailed Mm the rum des MICA 
: > Cag tered | description of this park, kept up in style, and | is feet. e trees are plant Arp sort" 
: the den, he shut and fastened the door.” affording, with its pieces of — at 5 pa about a foot from the edge of the walks 
„ Monkeys and Sugar-canes. — “One d y^ itted , a great variety of views. We will merely 1 bese are trained "vertically against a 
— succeeded in — the monkeys away | remark o es possi and beauty of the evergreen dwarf wal € the west, length 98 feet. Alo 
3 plantation for more than two yeas, phy that|trees, suc| 5 ias and many of Conifers; agaiust an (à alier 4 feet high and 138 feet in no 
pd any violence, or offending the prejudiees | together with T — distich un and American Oaks, | They are planted 8 sare apart. 
sia ig 
and —— A | growing g crops eaten by elephants, The fruit garden which was the object of our visit | in the form of goblets on wire fram: 
eys, and oth f four inclosures, adjoining each and Raspberries.—Cultivated in line 
able to ed d the ground from the robbers. The|s sene by walls; the a — a whole is nearly «€ we dem pe — the west. 
heavier animals he e escenas means of a deep t trench | 3} acres eee ears ago a number of wall walls 
eane pate a AR err part o which were in bad condition, deser Per ice 
just within the ditch. But the monkeys | t | nd; 
n ground; trained in 
nothing for ge or wall, and carried off whole ig E in im the borders round Bar of he vegetable 
management, w which | is still too 
shelter of the trees. dier a long time | much à adopted, the trees injured the crops, w which they 
and the planter 
: see the ripening Canes devoured in his vei 
dure ry the wall trees, to which the ä planted. 
Presenee, and the chewed fragments — — — o the ele of the, ciate they 
beca: 
— ene — soon me cove red wit h Moss, w which besides — 
ed even por his longevity S xtent. 
He chased a flock of the — M. Du Breuil was then employed to remed mera se 
help of betters. ian nt on ti 
. the produce of fruit. 
88 
anii straw coping 
the 
a number of the young, . — he however 
treacle by thin canvas attached 
