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hich we are threatened, end eerte too near 
and retardin ng 5" е ото 
t be completed in econ r 
ed oft 
dd дењ е 
action of light, the shoots will acquire а bitterness 
and a discoloration ich ubsequen nchin 
can remedy. It is this error in cultivation which has 
prevented nig from making its way in France 
although the Z Pieds о calls ** Chou Marin ou 
ыш. cellent légume, indigène, très- 
Crambe m 
cultivé en Angleterre, et digne de l'étre également en 
Franc Some even, thinking to give it a fair trial, 
have had the glaucous green leaves coo e - ke 
ing e РР Һау 
еар. Nevertheless, 
md ice on 
vi i 
the line always 
. looks neat and tid he ga is all eaten— 
and it is generally finished by Easter—the en is 
| removed, thee barrowed back to the spot whence 
1 After е sys неки du 
_ сап be thrown between the ridges and by the side of 
Cows pue ridge, either f art o hol 
eir 
so grown, even without 
ER eng 
| ' апу brc. precedes Asparagus as a vegetable—one 
Cra ridge 
E its m 
cks in the of earth indic vw 
hen cutting we 
d, into which each shoot is put as ГЕР 
ls avoiding unnecessary breakage. Æ. S. D. 
| PLANTING ON CHALK 
% SOILS.—III. 
Tn this, the third communication on the subject or 
uch plants are worthy of trial, and in some 
_ situations may perhaps succeed better than they have 
IE ү Айту land, They may be е as plants of the 
class for cretaceous 
In these classifications it is dificult to draw a hard 
E nd fast Ee as to which division some of the plants 
occupy—some grow so fairly well in the more 
_ favourable situations that they might almost be ranged 
_ with those that have best succeeded ; while others 
. lave been so ill-nourished' апа weakly, that it might 
E es better to place them with those to be 
i altogether discarded. After enumerating the trees 
and shrubs of this division, I will point out those to 
| Which the foregoing remarks especially apply. 
П. Trees оғ THE SECOND ә FOR PLANTING ON 
CHALK 
Себе 
Picea cephalonica 
э e |» lasiocarpa 
| `». Шота | ctina 
ho lise у | Pinus Cembra 
D rus Кетен | » Sabiniana 
P DDechinont Tre 
macrophyllu | | Pavia. арай 
» Pltanoides uit flava di 
do» а 
Tübru tanus occidentalis 
a 
R 
Salix caprea a pendula ( (Kilmar. 
nock Weeping illow) 
Sophora japonica 
ndula 
» » pendula 
Ulmus анан pendula 
SA 
Arbutus Unedo 
Aucuba j japonica 
Berber 
rubs. 
, Magnolia conspicua 
| Soulangeana 
Lenné 
ris japonica a 
erba 
ээ >? 
Chin nanthus virginica И eee ‘Nocbersiam 
„Cytisus albus Y grandi! dE 
»» Scoparius 
E purpu 
Daphne Mezereum | Prunus apii flore-pleno 
alba triloba 
Exochorda grandiflora Syringa meo 
Forsythia suspensa ft 10 xis 
viri sima ээ рег 
Fóthergilla ed folia d lp. audi _ varieties, 
Halesia ier a 12 or 14 in number 
Hibiscus Ulex europzeus is dene 
| Viburnum СЕРР" 
» plica 
nd 
Exe а | 
is quite possible that time and more oar Ag 
si may rectify or modify the foregoing list 
e trees become more established, their отш 
a aa soil may be apparent and they may p о 
those of the Gist rank ; while others as they penetrate 
deeper into the chalk, may seriously suffer and show 
that they cannot remain permanent occupiers of the 
adit 
© 
Among the oniferze, I may mention that Abies 
Morinda is the most promising of the genus in the 
second class, a see Libocedrus 
њаф which did well for the first vidis years, is 
ecoming sickly and feeble—a circumstance greatl 
to be deplored, as it is а most charming tree, I fear it 
will soon declare itself as quite unsuited to hal 
e ees it may be remarked - 
rally that the varieties are often less robust than the 
ed on the latter; 
with me it has been provokingly frequent ; and I 
fancy itis more apt to occur where the plant 
not quite adapted to the ground in which they grow. 
Acer macrophyllum has done so well during the past 
year that it might almost be placed in my first list, and 
A. rubrum thrives if planted very small, and pro- 
tected by nurses; otherwise, it is very disappoint- 
ing. Two trees of the double Peach (Amygdalus 
Persica flore-pleno) have бош, so well this year that 
t of the second class. 
о 
common Beech. 
(Fagus sylvatica asplenifolia and heterophylla) are 
among the most difficult of grafted trees to establish 
when transplanted, and I have had sad experiences 
w in successive years, but three that are now 
safely rooted are growing з well, апі will repay 
the trouble that has bee uglans nigra and 
J. regia, with the varieties er f the тийе, = best where 
the loam is deep an t battered with th 
wind. ‘The less chalk ees better x Te татабы, 
but where the loam is grows sufficiently strong. 
i ourish ; they look 
promising at first, but t e die 
back, and I ey pass to the t class— 
those to be ded on such soils as mine. Apples 
do not flourish on the chalk, but none have done so 
badly as the Crab оа baccata). 
Sophora japonica stands low on this second class, 
but its weeping Turis ty stands higher; exactly the 
said of E alba. 
Et rubs in this pina I -— little to say. 
fete] татр will, I fear, have to be given up, 
but in shady situations май wit e better sort of 
he Snow love d 
shoots fro 
same ede be 
to the soil, and may establish a position in the first 
class. Though the Daphnes do i tage 
near me they have failed on my gro The 
ow in this class that I fear it 
pily a small one, as far as my wee ; 
must add (as I wrote regarding the last class) that 
more extend s may aps still more 
diminish it. But unfortunately some very choice trees 
are hopelessly unavailable upon chalk lands. 
Conifere. 
Abies Albertiana Capres sus Lawsoniana argenter 
5 i Pinus nine 
Douglasii : Taxodium distichum 
ээ glasii f + ae 
Cupressus Lawsoniana gracilis 
fon -eight died "ud 
sickly. 
Deciduous T'rees. 
Betula alba i de ac pendula баш. excelsior aucubæ- 
foli. 
».» » elegans oa ас 
Руг 
аага “hispida 
Youngii 
*Calophaca wolgarica 
Ai babylonica 
*Caragana jubata 
Shri 
| Mackie gracilis 
plants have 
Berherid. 1; 
e of the so-called * American” 
ut it. 
and A. 
urses, 
very NIU ER 
modification ; the foliage became pale 
then is 7n and then fell off, and the на at 
growth became feeble and ceased. рат ted wena 
ave not one alive on the chal n one corn 
of my ground vee loam n on grave Ty and there s 
no chalk; her uglasii grows freely and 
healthily. "The ый of ‘this species on chalk is very 
е: it grows admirably on the upper green- 
which is a "grid ous soil; and moreov 
Е. its near ally, is 
land. Pin 
= an inus Stro s is another singular 
tance of marked ше, of fifty trees planted 
ht, f the two remaining - 
"ае tree that flourishes is 
and has 
e Pinus 
Strobus thus declares its antipathy E chalk p its 
eiie close ally, P. excelsa, grows orous and 
mpant health; I have not lost ls o 
pores ye nor have I a sic of it ; "ада they 
grow with re able vigour and strength. Taxo- 
dium disticham b has died on three successive years. 
Of 
iduous trees have prin- 
cipally of grafted specimens, and this may have ari 
from the circumst y mentioned, that 
grafted t greatly suffer by transplantation. In 
my short list nine are ted varieties ; 1 
however, made ials of most of the 
ted em, 
but with the same unfavourable results. ames Salter, 
F.R.S. 
EFFECTS Ох IMMERSION ON 
LAN 
M, ROBINET, of em. has lately contributed 
to Revue Horticole an account of the injuries 
to sein plants by the floods at Toulouse, the 
substance of which we here reproduce. 
During the terrible inundations which devastated 
Toulouse from the 22d to the 25th of last June, in the 
current, and were not uprooted, дате | not жану 
suffered ; 
IO to I s centimetres [4—6 inches] ix in thickness until. 
July 15, but, in sium of the tops of many of the plants ` 
vered, they have suffered very seriously. 
ts are — y rye even with- 
- agg А ond trees, 
Japanese and Cali- 
poses Тотай, Box trees, 
e Va tree, St. 
Haw thorns, 
ere water 
ed ot бына: Mick 
the mtd of the he thickness of from 
[6—10 inches], could not be 
rot, nat perish 
Uy oes 
Among the trees which it is customary to o plant ia 
avenues, Poplars and We Willows not only have 
not i but they are striking out roots | м 
buri Neither have the Plane trees, 
xm n 
perishe cacias, both the common and 
varieties which have not already perished, are very 
mu blanched. Lime apanese Varnish 
( Ailantus), а d Chestnut trees ere lost their leaves; 
tful whether they will shoot er again, 
erry 
det two veria „Д1 С trees, 
ytisus, Soapwo Service trees, Paulownias, St. 
Lucie Cherry, cuca To. t C., many 
Peach trees, Caragan 
Pear and LATO trees, um i shoots, and young 
* Grafted on Caragana arborescens, 
