764 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[December 28, 1895. 
ОЕ РОБЕ БҮ, 
By Harrison WEIR. 
(Copyright) 
(Continued from p, 489.) 
Tana are many more varieties of French fowls 
besides those mentioned, but as table-fowls none 
superior, and many not so good; m 
bred look about them, such as the Faverolles, La 
Brese, and others. Some of the best are a black 
breed that I saw at St. Servan some time ago; 
bat these were far excelled by our own Dorking, the 
old Kent, Sussex, and Surrey breeds. I do not mean 
those now reared in these counties for market pur- 
poses, but those so carefull ке some 
years since, and which ma; n repro- 
nd by careful mating and selection and as care- 
with the 
fully avoiding any contact or mixture 
hai or Cochin, or what is termed the Bramah ; 
yet for all this, most of the mongrel-bred new breeds 
have a Cochin or Asiatic basis, for the one 
he general 
surprising with what persistency even poultry- 
More cling to the coarse, large, — a e 
in preference to those of almost а ect symmetry, 
sad of high quality, with an even distribution of flesh 
and fat on the breast and without an undue 8 
of inward, and therefore, as а rule, 
In the best Kent, Sussex, and Surrey molt, white- 
, of medium weight there is generally 
, sturdy old 
— а: any other. “and of these the 
white-legged, black-breasted reds are deemed to hold 
their own against all others. The enen 
Indian game, though somewhat i рули 
good, scarcely ever fatting on t. 
having also more abdominal fat, and — —.— 
and larger bones, besides which vag de are worse layers 
a 
public estimation is abundantly proved by the very 
namerous entries at the late Poultry Show held at 
cross-breeding or cross-bred 
a tendency to depreciate instead of enhancing ps 
good qualities лит — y possess—atill, 
there exists ving for crossing which is, Ithink, 
got; therefore, it would be well 
ооо sU шац] 
irst, there will be i the king of 
the best of table-fowls, the old English white- 
rangers an 
MAMAS TUA Wi jola wich Ot tale Bring ty 
their own exertions, besides which, this exercise 
ud to male then more muscular, hence 
and even causes them to put on fat, 
vol bv аен healthy condition, unlike those 
that are | and crammed, 
Next to this cross is that of the Indian (so-called) 
—.— pies me e Peta an 
 fowl, with а long, and generally a lean breast, the 
fibre of which is close, short, and and somewhat dry, the 
fat generally being ‘about the belly, with much 
internal fat. I have known more than 24 lb. to be 
taken ont of the inside of fowls of this cross when 
ideas 
& large size, and nice appearance to the general 
rver. 
VEGETABLE MARROW. 
e Marrow, which we give an 
illustration (fig. 130, p. 765), was obligingly sent us 
er the name ge by our honoured 
correspondent in, the Director of 
M. Cha N 
the Garden of Acclimatisation at the Villa Thuret, 
Antibes. The drawing gives an excellent idea of 
i M The flesh is 
good cooked." 
The plant is a climber, and produces abundance of 
fruit, It will, says M. Naudin, succeed in England, 
We do not find the name in M, de Vilmorin’s Les 
Plantes Potagéres. 
THE LIMES (TILIAS). 
Tue confusion which has overtaken the nomen- 
clature of nearly all the more popular hardy trees 
and shrubs is shared to the full extent by the Limes. 
In the List of Hardy Trees and Shrubs issued жетт 
in the following notes, enumerated the sp 
жөн. ol the important varieties in Wee on in 
n, with a description of their e essential 
mic аман» characters. Whilst the slate — 
interm several : 
ediate 
species are often puzzling to identify, the feeding 
types, with flowering and fruiting material at hand, 
аге not been: to distinguish, апа these, of course, 
mos t in the establishment of a 
uniform nomenc 
Tilia is саат orth temperate genus (not 
represented, however, in uu Iadia or Western 
North America). About n species are known, 
eleven of which are in vein at Kew, Most of 
them are trees producing а soft, white, and 
useful timber, They have a tough inner bark from 
which, in the case of the North European species, 
ropes and the well-known Bast mats аге made, The 
leaves are alternate, usually more or less cordate in 
outline, and oblique at the They have & 
somewhat distichous arrange e and in young 
trees there is frequently а is pine ШӘ arrange- 
ment of the bra 
mid-rib of a 
pale or bere h-green 
middle of which it appears to apring. In the 
American species, in T, argentea and T. petiolaris 
among the 338 species, and in T. Miqueliana 
and perhaps — Asiatic tic apecies, the stamens are 
j in the 
other species, "The fruits are small and nut-like, 
rarely larger than a small Pea, varying slightly 
in shape from globose to ovoid 
As 
in Britain, the European 
Limes have proved by far the most valuable, being 
hardier and freer-growing i^ dii American or 
Asiatic on lih; QE V tated бреу ton’ of them, 
like dasystyla (euchlora) and petiolaris, are not so 
much planted as they They might, 
| ty а and variety, 
to some at repl the com- 
mon Lims in gardens and parks, All the Limes 
like a fairly rich and moist loam, but they suc- 
ceed better than ma do on poor soil, as is 
shown by those at Kew; in the 
they are — — — after a dry 
. у. They are 
propagated by layers, suckers, and seed, and in the 
latter case, however, - 
case of special varieties, by grafte. They are subject 
ttacks of various gall-making and other 
thy trees seem to withstand the 
most of them without serious injury, A 
solution of soft-soap and petroleum would probably 
be effective on specimens small enough for it to be 
applied, Few trees respond to the pruner's hand 
more quickly than the Limes, The chief point is to 
obtain and keep а single erect leader, and as lo: 
thetree upwards, Wit 
and yet retain the natural and informal outline of 
The following i is a list of spectes - chief varieties, 
with the better-known synonym 
UROPEAN, 
T. cordata, syn. Т. ulmifolia, T. parvifolia, T. micro- 
1, ex syn. T. intermedia, T, europx 
3. caucasica, syn, T. cana var, 
T. platyphyllon, syn. T. grandifolia, T. cordifolia, 
T 
„ Warts 'asplenitolia, syn. T. laciniata. 
„ „ Var, aurantia, syn, T. europa aurea. 
„ „ var. Blechiana. 
„ „ var. obliqua, syn. T. Beaumontii. 
„ var. охусагра, syn. T. cordifolia, var. 
охусагра. 
„ „ Var. tortuosa 
„ VEN vitifolia, syn. T. vitifolia. 
T. argentea, syn, Т. tomentosa, T, alba, 
T. petiolaris, атп, Т. alba cole Т. argentea 
pe eere 
T. dasystyla, syn. T. eachlora 
AMERICAN. 
T. americana, syn. T, 1 T. glabra. 
T. pubescens, syn. T. americana var. pubescens, 
wo Жар, e hylla, 
E; heterophy бет. а var, heterophylla. 
T. mexicana Ga ia cultivat 
ASIATIC, 
T. mandschurica. 
T. Miqueliana. 
T. cordata (same as European species). 
T. Henryana. 
T. Oliveriana. not in cultivation. 
T. Tuan. 
he three c ultivated American species are figured 
in Sargent’s Silva of North America, t. 24 —7. 
EUROPEAN. 
T. cordata,—This 3 which is now admitted to 
specific rank, is one of the three leading forms which 
formerly constituted T, europsea—&a now lete 
пате, It may be distinguished from the other two 
(T. platyphyllos oa T. vulgaris) by the following 
characters: It is a much smaller tree; ita leaves are 
smaller and glabrous, eed the exception of tufts of 
the nerves on the lower 
8 
а i Tiber in the season than 
the ex AE two. It is found wild in Britain, although 
sparingly ; of these three species this has the most 
northerly habitat, the south of Britain being about 
the lowest latitude in Europe it naturally reaches, 
but it is also a native of northern Asia. It is a tree 
of compact and handsome growth. The leaves are 
2 inches or occasionally more in width, and of the 
ordate outline as those of Т. vulgaris. The 
flowers are like those of the common Lime, except 
that they are smaller; they are produced in great 
ahundance during у. 
.— This is the common Lime or Linden, 
and i is by far the most abundant of all the species As 
gard of thi ntry. As 
pina been stated in rates pos with T. cordata, 
pecies was, and T. platy- 
1 * sepul under T. europea. It is 
ediate between the other two in se 
