118 THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [FEBRUARY 8, 1862, 
— A ference of the fence 
d nter from 95° to 105°. I|rapidly. Тһе circum ce round jj; 
the tropical house here. gera iunt Feb P kei Тои weather the plant was branches is 80 yards, 2 feet, 7 that the a ide tw 
рр in 
ste and then was, in an unhealthy state. ме? i e soil i ki always very close ely s sha ded, ki psc 1 бо! 5 o be interesti 
ich i 1 itable for it the h moist. Ње Bn vui 
medien: or rcge em wee y old soil | 7 4 Ga АГЕН! ола Т —Сап any of you I pugno of trop v vegetation "а 
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as was consistent with ва! fety, СА A from а a vm rid out how I may obtain some information | hot-houses the eres E. UE IUE 
post consisting of three-fourths old tur M: of | dificult to propagate fr gs. I should, hoy 
penon and one- -fourth rotted € in England, such аз | ever, have thought that nearly all the difficulty w 
i condition. After this was s dotió P evi ы Apples Pons, Plums, м. together with apt maller | have disappeared i in countries ; lat Е сап grow under 
m ап open Uttla trawberries. urrants, Je 
ith water to which a А " dx f, 2 
бумен sit ME d in i two months I had the | &e. p" iw a iet deed bs what. H Бө бал bo M AE ыр Me Аг pese x he d 
satisfaction of seeing a much T yomg leaf done, ut what is UN эу ibis of е АЕ s The 6% say : сета ius Bread-fruit 
r "- жи, да чы: dimer € weekl y аз оё. шу particular fruit бет for market, in |, tree "(Artocarpus 8. із ite Бш M Nes the Јад 
continu: lue is ano ) B £ propa. 
follows, viz., two weeks „рше rain water, the next bearin g andi Шап эзи ја emet DG d L4 bans Tshould ig $ "expoete ed that in a hot, mos 
[4 1 lon to'4 gallons of rain in the following iere Form of the € Fir. —'The Scotch Tir climate large branches might have been taken ot ad 
ot 1 ga 
ly as those of a Fig; bat 
which some bits of a cone and а а photograph | struck almost as easi | ; ж 
i this plan has been tried and failed. T hare 
р t began | accompany this йыйднё йд m, grows on loam with likely plan 6 і 
€ In » ла теап оте c teme few feet lI the surface in ш tie grounds of|tried to strike it by np - pe^ shoots, bat 
toi е inh r to oe] t ext en nt til the Woodstock House, near Sittingbourne, Kent. There | these are too stout an e "ind pithy. è 
€ Н m" се нА шүре d not appear to be anything the matter with the rd bei п p i е, by ang 3 KA T ly 
tem to ers 3 its peculiar growth. | the weak shoots which an stem will som. 
bre P Tt Ei e et orans band watered an| 7 yn 60 ye ears surrounded. by other time S push out; the for ormer eto failed, the 
before, , The ' plant conti inued to grow most lux y, dat the U^ : 
s rds si tt uced. A foi 
in sight and opened on the 23d ui As regards 
I зу aa that the circumference of the stem at the of view to de е twice as ai as it is high 16 із жеше а m years ago, S qe um nii mea 
method 
gated to аш 
d to the base of t ears old; and on 
€ the igi PE A ан de 12} feet | leaves and ente with thosó of common Hefe Scotch Most ES Jes a£ TOA oameni СЯ iig ш 
near of about the same age they аге in | about а 
uw aep — I i eed рез (€ «ее А ved eis | Мне? апі stronger. Indeed the cones y cA at Ned SEU, Ta the coal uem, or pee 
to 30° higher | of the common Scotch Fir of this year are hardly yet | dust sifted ou coke, used as a plunging material in 
2 н 10. il amango of hom a range. of 10 | formed, The sap too is more Mi and and appears to|thespropagating house, The brisk bottom-heat вош 
MA mid-day ; ' the bottom heat in s | have more turpentine in it. The tree increases in size | induced it to throw out a few shoots, these were taken 
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off when about 2 inches in ss » potted singly in| Gardeners’? Chronicle of the 25th of the same month, | by the anthers. Meurs Sadler and Bell Il inserted à $ 
sand, and plun; ав beneath a bel the correctness of an observation I published on the | thermometer by a narrow slit into PA unburst sp 
easily 20th of July, 1861, in this Journal, has been calle : ves [and when Ret out after a lapse of 20 mit 
К question by Messrs. Sadler and Bell. The authors was found to be a half а a degree leas Gir) ue 
-€— e couple of med of these little shoots before | endeavour 
it exhausted, most of which stru y within a | the report made by E. decem elegans i in the d eat | 
fortnight. or three weeks after being taken off. 
g Palm House at 7 ЫП staken that it was 
There was a little pd ооб Mer them |not caused by t paa x S spathe, but by a 
after they wer Bio — of Ды m pretty pus ire which mhe d of bs old b 
succeeded. It may be Wi э truth i said to when dropp w 
in ii Mingan it would Бе тоге ыл to obtain ois а | visitors of &. tartled p 
cuttings, the rem a huge lenf ef ан оп Eid 
falls ор НЕ 8, = еге the Gardeners’ Chronicle is as | 
floor, but t "his could not, , possi íbly deceive men like 
much read as at de wi where it hen be ver srs 
dvantageous to 
crease the number of Bread Fruit ai rakeen bir ke perfectly familiar а 
meh an 
trees. I ойсо во situated would take a few good occurrence. The fact hos no she repor as Bend |t 
roots off ап old tree, eut them in lengths of about | in , Edinburgh does n А. opinion invalidate the 
18 inches, and hem in some sheltered nook, I d at T ue er maintained that 
think they — find no difficul in soon rers a all spathes | do open with. m d re jon, dc Iam 
stock of it. D t any rate th e at slightest 
К toni. с he y be living wi ке nld probably be quite fient to 
e à | prevent i opening with an H río Of e se this 
"d hoe Tar off Hot-euter Pipes t g ly repor is eat generated when 
“Old Reda » (see p. 94) rema: at this season unfix | 
more about the о. us Messrs. Sadlar and Bell will 
have renderat good se 
with well foun 
he can remove it by the application of Lin "osé i 
oil and a hard scrubbing brush, after having Ъ „б-ды. the | | them. 
to distans their pollen, but that there is ai 
times of the day a maximum and a minimum i 
of t 
i 
ce if паго objections, whether aei the surrounding temperature. Bert 
nded or not, Дого € pow 
his hot-water pipes for the p urpose of. burnin ng off the | 
coal tar 
the question to comm - Mild. ihe North of Ireland. (see . 70) 
Dr. George Bonnett, at Sydney, ere of оос оаа uo frost aO 
t 
,erust a little by scraping the surface with an old knife | the ** Wanderings and ings of a Naturalist,” ERAS tuat tiere- ч мес 
blade of an old scythe broken into suitable | wrote to me o by last mail that he had read uth of it, we have had sharp frost duri 
lengths, I have known this plan to be effectual under my communication -relatin the bursting of the v f this 
similar ei 0 those in which your c fd the wi i 
ent is placed. Oil will also readily remove coal 
» ү fane es interest, because durin 
в stay in Ceylon he often observed this curious | 140 1 - ld hav 
Vs the hands or faces of those engaged ir n painting | pendens It tbat when my friend reads this if we had + Pig pads the бові J 
AN ч т» somewhat disagreeable article to Ls te ро ий ha ten t Мадани all he knows on | to did no injury to shrub or plant of any 
. A 0 e subject, and on what Cingalese Pal iced | ) i 
,, Opening of a Palm-spathe with an audible re. report. ўй bursting. я агі t6 the -—:; [YD dy d INR кажыс pur 
eiore the Botanical Society of Edin- I left it quite 
Ее ха ET s НЕ weather we previously had, jo 
п, and m 
[eim оп the 9th of January, and reported in the|a suggestion that it might be уар, е, e IG of Bag dme Шс i is side of 
