; 
Jose 25, 1859.] 
Fora 
the Public Vaults. — € distance the soil 
was filled with human bones rotten wood, which 
were found in large quantities p digging the f foun- 
tions of the choir of 17 Seas dral. This Ivy has 
therefore grown in lan in an exceptional 
red i 
manner, and incomparably idee jn phosphate of lime 
dg the richest ordinary soil. 
obtain an idea Ls — influence of this unusual 
Pin of food, I have 
what would have been the age of the Ivy if it 
d soil. 
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541 
clothing them with a ppo No traveller 
"ini 
gree 
3 the prvi spring. 
will forget the Ivy which the ruins of i house than mine it 4 ld flower yi in spring or 
"wu tle of Heidelberg, ‘the feudal fortres ss of Bressui perhap in autumn, but as the thermometer falls with 
E 5 or 36°, it — tear loses some of its buds 
the inheritance of the vespere "eun Th s wich are iae n autumn, but even thus, enough 
on tle has stood since 1440; s flanked b mains to ma! 1 plant very gay in th spring, and, 
metres in height; the vy is trained with much | well culti ated, it would be by far the most gorgeous 
over a s, and the pp we know. J. 
It is i Glenny's Manua lof Practical Gardening. 
are 
of the foliage. 
charr 
ib idea of the 
rming effect of this castle s» veri 5 In England 
—80 a 
“ Carlton ” ae questioned your 
writer who signs 
L E * 
Y 
for hes i 
in a soil whioh i is neither cultivated nor manured, may 
t have i" de en 
the A trees. We have ascertained m “the mean 
decrease of the layers is represented by a hyperbolic 
curve with a horizontal asymptote. Other considera- 
tions show that it is very probable that the > hyperbola 
The 3 of the ago of Ivy on a ruin would o 
itself be very interesting, for ^ 5 sure examples of 
prodigious Me ll vity would be met with; besides which 
we | should evidently have | a minimum limit by the age 
e of 
grown in a non-manure De Candolle 1 a I have admired e Ivy clothing the honesty or judgment, me tels you that your review 
basis for the ulation; he measured at Montpellie worth. Loudon diis those of Brockley Hall, in will cause disappointm He “ss “although the 
Ivy growing in ordinary gro yae “old 98 in climb over the trees; one itself very acti is put together in a 
and w 5 in diam e Uam tablish a Om. 266 i ameter, another Om ; both m st anner to le the most pte r In 
geometrical ratio between the diameter and age of this very old, Ke the growth of the Ivy is slower in Eng- truth it is a mere jumble of g od Qus without any 
Ivy, and the diameter (Om. 245) of the Ivy of the land than in the south of France. Another Ivy covers | means of finding where they are. he As. 
cathedral, with the view of date the po le ge in the town of Morpeth, in Northumberland; | for Chrysanthemum, but give up the sı name 
age of the latter, we sho rror, for i out of a wall and measures Om. 490 in is not in the index, as it is aet d pt to 
foresters, horticulturis! en e and C iid at the "een ze where it branches, a height of meen nor can I discov er its place r ar Da I ‘that he 
saw. in all trees the ligneous 3 metres above the groun volume. 
laore dinh jn int — the centre to the cir-| Ivies so often ada r ruins or old buildings, that it fished i in the ‘Thames for a red herring. He loo 
cumference. tely the laws of this diminution | would be very interesting to study their growth i ork t M denied to rata 
even been ascertained for the commonest diameter; this can be done by countin ged number of | operations, a id: io h d sin ingle 
i assistance of my u „ligneous layers i in old Ivies cut down at the base, or by | florists flower, and 8 it Seine not 
Mus I have determined them for the Pinus measuring the diameter " those of which the age is | find what had no business there. 1 must contradict him 
+ aha the — of which T 8 studied known. certain number of examples compared | flatly wl s “the index leads to m 
rom 70? of N. latitude to 513; s to say, | together would furnish s a mean by which we might AE is not a sir item in the index à 
“sok Lapland to the north of Fra — Tt is in| y lea to the number of the page on which 
the middle of Sweden, in lat. 60°, hat this t e shrubs, ars. doubt Carlton fancied 
ove 
h 
ald h e 
f | but I can assure AN that Dr. Lindley's “Theory of 
Horticulture” mg as j i 
to prize fighting. There’ is nothing about the 
ring in | the index, * “nor can I discover its pe in any 
Clever fellow, thi ! Geor orge 
all species of trees in our climate. - to the A which clothes it. hiat physiology and | Glen enny. 
For want of other elements I ee 3 pp nich ld tl QUT struck Oak.—I have a large and handsom 
that the Ivy of the medical schoo! ould have followed p ig ich has Hemd beg * . gee -— much 
this law had it grown ina mer 205 : h I|tion Charles Martins. deis rein The bark ri 
" that it M have been abou 90 years old. — sereme rarem e E about one-thi en i dom, bas wiles orn m of 
us, an Ivy planted in a highly manured soil has orr ndence. loosened, 
acquired in 65 years the den which it would only Geraniums st um esponde accompanying | the trunk, rine not splintering the bark from the 
re attained at the end of 3 f unmanured ; | is gee of propagating this class of plasta by first point of injury to the ground. The tree is in a 
nsequently a manure abounding in ph f li ts. I don't know if it is generally known. I find place where it i a great ornament, and I am very un- 
2 — the 0 ower of this 
These facts complica! 
on 
P. for example, the Ivy 
trees deduced from their 
E — pe, by De udi in * and which 
ameter, would hav tained the 
oí ut no if it had grown in 
an unmanured soil, but in a well manured garden pi 
would be 5 pin while, had it grown 
2 Ae ry of the Abbey of St. Germain, it 
an Ivy remarkable 
est horticulturists 
and FEES more than 
those of w ae been speaking. 
5 De Candolle planted in dee: newly faded northern 
a forest school, in A gr the trees were 
ral The common Ivy was plante 
* 
it v very useful. Roots eut into short pieces at any time 
i 
Uy n 
wx" 77 
| AJ l 
NL 
} ; 2 
can be taken to rad its nd P. 
he bark I could see hopes by 
fear ock to the 
whole system een great. The age of the 
tree — be about 100 or 120 years, in full vigour and 
beauty. L. W. G. 
Gigun 
loc. —At a jobbing gardener's 
“Her 
s there is an American Hemlock Em — * with 
EA 2 to 
in perio ilies. 
there, as usual, with a s The stems 7 
er on and 4 €— 5 5 X it formed a whi 
lar to t of the Am Lianes, which. end b br the flattering — of fine * flaps" for breakfust 
killing « p replacing the tree which T enfold. e and “ — ? for sauce to € boiled fowl at dinner. 
support not high, so that the is only Im But alas! nothing came. — id get one 
high; it is » ain, in ies d at Om. 30 above e whole —— no Viet Discouraged at my 
ground; the top of the tree, which is perfectly round, failure, b yg d that it 
is not more than 4m. 35 in height, but it is 19m. 30 i to try, and not seeing in what - 
circumference. he extr emi ities of the lowest branc ent was faul ore But, 
touch the eart ow that the subject is revived, I trust that among the 
ance of a pyramid y verdure placed upon the e grou Y many intelligent correspondents of the Tdener: 
This Ivy is now 46 years old; its trunk, as I have sa Chronicle some wi ble to di this inte- 
is not simple, but dr ae . of an e e des ‘al resting subject. For myself I cannot see why Mush- 
e ed stems and branches which have been co room spawn should not be made to “run” in a lawn as 
tin i ing in If we esi m wel on a Mushroo ; nor why, esta- 
an idea of the = of the Ivy, it is very important to blished, it should wear ont faster than in a meadow. 
distinguish these compound trunks from “single ones Suppose long surface drains were rammed full of loam 
like that of the hys on the aeg of ors and ho roppings, and ned! y 
This tendency to form trunk hy "the inter- ———Although I aa thered 3 Mushrooms 
n ur of s bran mier 1 d ftl arth, If put in in| from ai an exposed A: paragus bed n April, yet I have 
0 the ornamentation of parks and gardens. I the autumn they will — in spring ; any t been able t on my lawn. y 
have proved this by experience. In 1852, I transplanted | summer they are up in a few weeks. W. W. allure I — attribute more to the " api 
a Pinus Laricio of 5 ranged height, and placed i Tacsonia Brita: A plant was distributed a few | being a d to mismanagement, and I am 
hic} cupy in the botanic gar- | years ago by tbe Horticultural Society under this to say good spawn is difficult to 
den. After some months the tree died; on which I name, but I do no f it as having flowered in | either hot present at allinthe “ D: you buy, 
cut a its emen and planted at its foot two Ivies AM erg nor have ever seen it exce in my own has beg to run and has got Y 
© Banksia Roses; for two eui both creepers | gre 1t l 
wed to advantage | 
‘th bu t by o 
and the top of the I 
ieee 15 e 
Fy soon ed 
the bra 
e of this, and they now fall — all around, pre- 
candel 
ouse. 
in v colour of the splendid g emus Passiflora, and more- 
a hardy greenhouse climber, Se ither Passiflora 
), the Brazilian 
Le Michauxii, nor P. 8 m 
they 
lour 
colour is intense orange — s0 Sentient with the 
aid u upon 
| average e scarlet Geranium, that petal bein 
. | that dire 
ek, 
found that in ev ery instages d xa. p pes and was 
dead. I however intend to the 
ctly aa follows tala 
get good spawn, 
circ 
senting the appearance o of an labru 
eit st 
support itself if the Pine should decay, but 1 
nature of this tree ensures its preservation. Were I to 
l — the hoop twice tl 
whilst the rays, s, which are 
€ gan 2 the effect of a scarlet Anem 
flow early t the same size as Passiflo — — 
Te " 
nearly black, enim this | covering 
The | sods, 
ween the stem and the ipe! oo 
may be: 2 i in any ordinary — and it is so 
Mee 
the 
on M. 
d I see no good 
in, 
as to leave, betw 
n verdant summerhouse, always“ cool 
ral E 
, but 
it —.— ot pass t he 58" of N. latitude; it exi — how- 
ever, ^" the island of Gothland, but it is not found in 
Sweden In Britain it stops at the Shetlands, and 
neither grows in the ct ond nor in the res isles. In 
England a nd Germa ermany it embellishes the ruins, 
& 
on bars of the lights within an incli of the glass in a 
- y 
— — Its only pecu liarity is in pruning. 
It lowes 
year, bat est niet ams roduced on that wood, and 
most su ul — — is to shots the principal | reg 
shoots in August when it forms laterals w hich produce 
were ee. 
3 not ris obtained from 
the Wa. jost describe 
men ia d E —I cess observed in recent 
bers of your Paper ome commu nicati ions with 
tation 
— the difficulty i is aie by the oon quantity of 
