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THE GARDENERS’ 
JT RONICLE. 
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22. 
to the — of the species, and a beautiful 
— double white is to — mane in fs N oe 
ur Bra wo 
x ing will parce’ e 
entirely forms 
popular. Osher crosses are being proved. I have 
are) R. rugosa to ba an exceptionally good plant 
for a town garden, and if they cau ba crossed with 
tiona of t » still retain their 
vigour and freedom from diseases, there would se 
e two types of 
gardens, and 
itisa 1 of surprise they are N more generally 
that the best of our single and semi- 
. Tats so suitable for certain sorts of de 
rative work, are coming to the fore, these Ne 
also do 80 
PLAN TIN d Dwarr Rose Srocks. 
For many past seasons it has been my practice to 
plant these early in the spring, thus avoiding injury 
Imagine the condition of Manettis lifted 
prefer 
to keep both in the cutting-bed till the month of 
March, When the stocks are lifted, . them 
may be 
to the habit of growth your intended Rose possesses, 
a suitable distance apart. 
ra may be put at 9 inches 
apart io the row, — the rows at 18 inches apart. 
Medium growers need the rows at 2 feet apart, and 
ng habited rai the 1 foot space in the 
row, and not less than I yard between 
need to be 
that they require, Stout stocks are beat for strong- 
growing Roses for two reasons, They will have too 
for weak varieties, and 
ge buds of extra 
edling Briars it is the 
ef would point out that any Briar thicker 
a an at Cedar-wood pencil ia too atout for 
planting. TEA of the sizə 1 an be. . kni 
aa are t for general p 
swell more jata than the pie Era Briar after it 
hen rea ash this stage, and by August they are quite 
ough for the si of Tea-scented and 
h — auen tel bu is. T continue to swell 
elit: during late summer and et autumn, and 
if too strong at first, will often smother or grow over 
the Rose-bud, 4. P 
2 
SOME AMERICAN CONIFERS AT HOME, 
Unper the hea ling „Sketches of Forest Scenery 
from America,” Fore describes, 
in the Zeitschrift fiir Tora und Jagdwesen, a visit paid 
to certain forest districts in the United States which 
our introduced 
forest growth of the b Park i is first 
Teviewed, in which the prin e 
Marrayana. The soil of this ae is com 
& mixture of gigg lava and chalk, forming a 5 
and hot soil, which hum 
in damp aeia The above-named 
umus layers only form 
Pine rarely 
aches a greater age in this soil than from sixty to 
dae years; although in damp places, and when mixed 
i am bies a neogen. it may reach one hundred 
years re, The thickness and growth of the 
siete = with the eee cg poet and east 
slopes, where it is frequent! mentioned, 
the trees stand remarkably ah penton, so that 
single stems scarcely possess a handful of needles at 
the close of the struggle; while a plentiful crop of 
occu every available ace below. 
Forest of this kind is almost impassable, on account 
of the fallen atems, and the whole scene 2 
the idea of — n of growth and 
decay. Oa southern slopes the trees are patchy, 
fallen stems cade predo aas naeng and their average 
height is not more than 55 feet, reaching 60 feet in 
ea situations, The growth a shoots and annual 
ood-rings is uniform, and the seed sage at 
r plentiful. They suffer een from storms, 
On exposed sites whole acres may p be a seen 3 
nothing but leaning aud crooked 
settlement on the South Pasis Ì Railway in the 
43° of latitude, which had lost ite original forest 
growth by fire, showed a few 300 to 400 yeara’-old 
Douglas Fir and Tauia gi antea a a3 survivors, the 
0 
rest, 
pron nadi and although the 
best in the valleys and meiegi it showed a clean and 
er growth on slo age and hill-tops. 
mongat the setae were Yews, Capressus 
Lawsoniana, Hazel, species of Spiræa, Aldar, 
š arte 
piece of primeval forest land was visited be- 
teenth 46° and 47° of latitude, in theneighbour 5 
of a tributary of the Columbia River. Here th 
writer found a lumber- camp, almost totally ee 
on account of the prevailing 2 We eee and 
was unable to obtain a guide to a n i 
the neighbouring rete Taking 
his 3 
B 
8 
oo 3 to 
h paper, ia order to 
sft an explorati of forest 
— on damp loamy soil, with a oe 
humus la w undergrowth of Hem 
Spruce interapersed with 2 and preg ves 
with diameters of 9 to 10 feet at the bat 
Tae s ner was Pate — Oxalis, with rar 
the siz? of a man's hand, and moss hillocks a foot 
in height, fallen f broken 
branches, only a 
slowly, The chief tiite treas were Tsuga Merten- 
siana, Thuis e A. nobilis, and Douglas Fir. 
Tne Hemlock Spruce 22 3 by reason 
k its power of withsta the darkest shade, 
and occurred in all ee . growth, reaching a 
maximum height of about 170 feet. The other 
species were distributed according to their light, re- 
age-Classes, Douglas Fir and Tauia 
oe n 
a 
an old tree had been a allowing the san’s rays 
to penetrate the leaf canopy. 
Bier lamberman’s 7 had been mainly directed 
ards the sant of S 2 a Bee resinous 
adie the Sts erally 
die in a 3 * afio exposure, n resiu 
areas oe by Hem- 
lone, beneath pnd h seedlings of the 
other species pe N ous to exist, 
The writer 1 to considerable detail regarding 
the growth and requirements of on omer Fir, in 
view of its possible extension a forest-tree in 
arope, Its inability to withstand severe gales after 
sudden exposure, and its preference for a damp but 
not wet zoil, are the chief pointe, and which ~~, 
already m confirmed 
opinion ex to the effect that free hing is 
necessary and desirable, oe is open t on. 
No doubt, with pe e thinning, th growth of individual 
trees w oured, but rt what we know of 
its habit of e we should consider its great 
development of side-branches as likely to depreciate 
its value as a timber-tree, which can 774 be coun- 
teracted by close 3 of the crop. ees 300 to 
feet in height, aa with 
ri mber 
plantations artificially formed, is a icp which few 
bat British landowners can afford, and 300 years i 
rather too long a period to wait for the clearing of 
the pb 
A visit was paid by Herr Renleaux to the home of 
the Menzies or Sitka Spruce in Alaska. The neigh- 
bourhood of Sitka has an abundant rainfall, with but 
slight extremes of temperature. In this district also, 
the Hemlock a predominater, mixed with Sitka 
Spruce, and toa 
Chamecyparis ebener. 
contorta, Tsuga P 
also occur in places, while among broad-leaved trees, 
Acer glabrum, Sorbus are Pyrus rivularis, 
&c., may be mentioned. A disagreeable constitu 
of the at de ie Fatsia Same (the Devil's 
Walking-stick), the shoots and leaves of which bear 
innumerable small prickles, which adhere to the 
skin phi Raj N touch, causing nasty sores, 
Oa account of the damp climate lichens develop 
e upon N stems and branches of the 
trees The Hemlock Spruce here h 
ag an average 
imits of tree growth 
2 
U 
> 
Hemlock is said to be but slightly valued, and both 
it and the Sitka a are ae = firewood, The 
latter only occurs pure or xed in wet places 
and in the BRESCIA of may See and attains a 
height of 150 feet, with a diameter of about 6 feet, 
ina ; : K 
both i 
ing of huts and also in bridges aad for barrel- 
I t ert 1 7 from Teredo 
is ed by th N for their canoes 
when “ghe paneer: nfo Bt Thuia gigantea cannot 
be obtained. The method of ae these —— 
The desired 
Riek in hot stones until it approaches the boil- 
ing point. This renders the wood soft and pliant, 
and iced piecas are * 3 in, which press out 
the sides 1 desired e 
e learn go 8 N sth the forest reserves 
of the Uni ted 8 e now patrolled by cavalry, 
troops being stationed in — neighbo urhood, in 
or order to check fire o : with both of 
TREES AND 8 SHRUBS. 
POINCIANA Gee aftesi 
Tus has, we learn. Feo Mr. 
severe winter 
pa bee which is no small when so many 
fi ga hav. —— Now ‘that ite complete 
1 . „ it should find its way 
an illustration 
e ed 14 Mf of sane volume. 
