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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Feprvary 19, 1887, 
t a great number of small roots in the course of 
gat 
great satisfaction. Even D. Goldieana has taken in this 
way, though it was rather slow. P. C. F. Borregaard, 
Aarhuus, Denmark. 
Lity or THE Morea 
The first thing ea "kir s to obtain well 
ripened crowns. est way ‘of forcing them 
i + wah a Y Gui bed, in the middle 
d a return pipe, covered 
floor of pantiles. By this ae we are 
enabled to obtain the necessary tom-heat. 
he til are d th moss, tore Шу 
on the tiles My boxes "оочу dee 
and about 8 to 10 wide. I generality plunge sixty 
кя seventy crowns in а bo: the first part oft 
ason, I have always found that when the boxes of 
crowns are placed out-of-doors and get a night's frost 
rt much better. It is a matter of 
h 
а little moss ov 
placed in the pit for forcing; em the boards are put on 
the top of the pit, and та; sed as a stage; within 
have à Др wy plunged i 
he box 
sprinkle them now and again. 
get well up before taking them out of the pit, and ө 
їп is not too low, as it checks them. When they 
have been exposed to the light for a day or two, and 
the buds 
begin to cM od which they will do much bred 
than if left i e pit A., The Gar 
Винаги а Red hill, 
PLANTS vem PRODUCTS OF 
LAND 
Ix an interesting E ar your paper (pp. 793, 
810, of your last volume) on the “Flora of Iceland,” 
by Mr. lay tere I am su pred that no mention is 
made ofan Alth oug h 
not а botanist, I have, during repeated visits to that 
journeys, and collected a large 
h were severa 
growing in my garden, which were identified by Mr. 
Lindsay, of the Ro; al Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, 
i One of 
of the caves of Surtshellir, and another in the cleft 
of а sandbank in Reykjadalr, about 20 or 25 miles 
south-west of the first find. 
In a hole near the ead at dicen ong —€— 
west of Iceland), in 1 eight 
in Blanda-dalr 1000 fee 
profusion, with a few plants of the Erigeron alpinum 
with them. 
Icannot.but think that climate has something to 
do with the permanent nt dwarfing «е the Birch 
forests 
(Skogr) 1t is quite true аге 
reported to have been wasted centuries pi^ эё the 
very mies population of 70.000 i area of 
39, uare miles (about a det m м т tha an 
Ireland) could hardly have kept them down, seeing 
that there are very generally EM one or two dwellings 
within many miles of these forests 
change in cli 
cori 
the n ree, as the solitary abort 
weakly above the surrounding scrub, which scrub, 
however, is a beautiful relief to the arid wastes and 
lava streams around. 
The famous trees at sai t: (Sorbus ro тй 
really are trees, at the height given (25 feet), a 
of them the natives are justly proud. Several 
me acne жей is we eaten as а руне bya very 
few well-to-do fine old c d Conservatives, 
used in times 
arenarius), but bn rarely, imported Rye having 
taken their plac 
The hairs Tof the bog Cotton are no E required 
for wicks, as the whale, seal, and sh 
facturing purposes; the paraffin lamp and oil are 
now cheaper, and univers 
An iieri m. rm Millefolium i is still used by 
me as a medici simple, and probably also as a 
ede. as еен "d the bulk of the medicines in use 
ought from the apothek once a year, when other 
vek is laid in 
ЕЈ 
3 
(sEE P. 243.) 
Fig, 54.—ALTON TOWERS, 
smaller and younger trees of the sáié kind aie to 
be found in this little northern capital, and also 
in the metropolis, Reykjavik, but always under 
shelter of dwellings. 
Referring to the fossil flora, I do not see men- 
tioned—or they do not have the prominence they 
Tt is is a tighite rown colour, a 
without a blast, and is said 
American — not of any tree now 
known as a native of 
The statements as to y laite used for food are quite 
E 
3 
S, 
o 
o 
beyond E. Henderson’s travels, 1814-16, during 
which period whale and seal ten by the 
poorer classes, as also shar first tw 
have d d with them xm horrible disease 
eparted, an 
called leprosy, but indio elephantiasis ; but the last- 
Lichen islandicus, ig A eis ну e still be 
used as ordinary food; yi 
valuable as an export wa 
uro vog 
1 gathering 0 
invalid diet ; and the annua керген ho li ef of by 
but t fashion 
е 
changes in that as in other things, an and —— á 
Irish moss, an Alga, is ousting the lichen 
during the last sixteen or r eighteen Urs 
1 importers of ponies and sheep tr 
which they pay in hard cash £30,000 to a 
annum—an enormous boon to а оре x nly the 
years ago hardly ever ўч а детн " 
current account of barter the Danish me hant, 
somehow or other "фи was "рін often | 
side for the Icelander. James Wight. 
