THE 
DECEMBER 25, 1875.] 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
813. 
a cold house with Aloes and New Zealand Conifers in 
October, where they ripened quantities of fruit, from 
which I now have fine flo plan wing in 
the open air, So or fourteen years ago I use 
pay oc al visits with the late Mr. Veitch to 
his favourite nu t Coo Wo re I soo 
saw for myself that he looked upon everything from 
Japan ashardy, and my experience war 
nd m 
saying he was quite correct in his f, 
n 
d for a group of ad Sean AME 
els 
ie pane atroparpuream, but never hav 
a single sp , to say nothing UY up, ica ur 
parks This aple is as hardy as an English 
Oak. Its leaves unfold in the spring a beautiful 
claret colour, which they retain all the season, and 
they are off in October or , & magnificent 
flaming son, Our la tree, about то feet 
gh and as many through, at the present time throws 
all the Liquidamb d foliage trees 
into the shade. At pr f my bes 
g umer any more of the fin iir а 
introduced by Veitch and Fortune from Japan which, 
P is e adian trees, are not e n hot 
and bright autumns for bringing out their 
brilliant Aree, W. Coleman, Eastnor Castle 
e Tronchuda.—I did intend saying a few 
Cou 
words in in паррон о of your correspondent's remarks (see 
ut have teen wi u 
560), b aiting for further proofs to 
зу me in givi ion more definitely. By 
doing I am enabled to fully endorse every word of 
raise jo ows upo or a 
vegetab Vrbs Tronchuda. It is ia a d 
uestion th ender, mp ul hly fla 
of all n Brassica tribe, and des 
mbe 
garden. er first seeing it 25006 ten years ago, 
since white tins I hav om seen it g to the 
extent which its merits deserve. There are "aig 
he 
may be assigned why the Couve Tro: 
uda is not more generally cultivated — either t that its 
edible qualities are not sufficiently 
preciated, or that its inability to withstand severe frost 
o impair its value in the estimation of 
Mr. Sheppar 
к. which 
with my opinion, will induce those r readers 
ho have not alre " in | the above age a 
fair tria], to do s ing season, ahee which 
I think — wi 
ill Sale aie it a hearty welcome. 
E. Morgan, Harrow-on-the- Hill, 
tica.—It is just PM 
Iud. great care must be 
ife, as where 
ithout havin 
eem рі the double re 
commonest of all, may be increas 
without hard cutting, and eer once enin the less 
si quently removed the he scarcer kinds, 
the double epe y single wie red, aaah mauve, 
wii, and others, should unti 
“ity a 
more eres of Жерш! 
To makethe e of a plant the soil should 
be well shaken from 
t У» much root ха 
6o-sized p 
eck 2i them in a col e until the spring, "hes 
they should be plunged in gars or in cocoa-nut fibre 
refuse, under a nort enc ing the 
er. The Hepatica suffers considerably at this time 
of year when gro rde ecause it 1 
most of its he and thus its small crowns are not 
easily seen. The teeth of a rake, or being trodden upon, 
ious itle of the spade, are all so 
gr uch 
less raking or digging the bius S 
mode of cleaning is bittet than the giving of a light 
[EN over the surface of the soil, and then dressing 
it with old pot soil, Cucumber soil, or vegetable earth. 
Under such conditions um g ty hardy perennials 
will thrive for many years. 4. D 
Dion edule,—Will any of your ирдин 
{һе ргорег со 
giv ve me information as to 
e eri а : eke plant of Dion Se wer ak 
mmer?  Findi some 
po кей in its 
four leave s, and thos very indifferent o 
y 
growth, Заб made oe 
d es—it w 
then in a 20-іпсћ pot—I felt inclined to "shift it, ind 
ATA Blake, Sedgemoor House, St. Austell, Corn- 
a good time to 
e oy satisfactory 
examined its roots. g it been potted with 
6 inches of its stem il, and some of the roots 
ecayed, others in thy condition, I dis- 
rooted it and put it into ат a ot in the stove. 
What results may I expect? Any information will 
Fan oven ae gratis sima, — I send herewith two 
ses of us lovely flower, cut from a plant about 
ШУУ ears old. It is planted out in a small conser- 
Me iid is bearing about fifty he ae of bloom 
which will high а іп is 
this plant eldom It doe че, ife very 
freely I sinit "but its и is of the simplest when 
once established. e one we have is cut hard back 
every spring, and receives an pe етт soaking of 
manure-water duri sre а umme Ser ж all; but i 
never fails at mas io. gla s with its 
pion flowers, a nd still more beautiful pani 
Nemo. [Fine specimens of a glorious plant. Eps.] 
СКА, Growth of Tree Ferns.—I do 
not remember seeing or hearing of any record of an 
itry mone taking place i in the case of Tree 
E 
> SSRS 
Ms. 
Fic. 164.—DICKSONIA ANTARCTICA. 
Ferns after being shifted suddenly into M larger 
pots or tubs than they before occupi erhaps you 
may think the preis S facts which uat to 
icksonia antarc th readin more · 
38 
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n practice I have 
nef the above plant afte? it p been shifted into a 
ood deal more root-room forms three or 
into as many pi ants. Ihave 
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Fic. 165.—CYATHEA MEDULLARIS. 
esults. Cyathea medullaris, however, throws up 
double "e branched fronds under this treatment, as 
e enclosed sketch (fig. 165). 
ai (hg. 164) shows the Dicksonia antarctica wi 
a multiplied head. A. Mills, 
Wistman’s Wood.—In Captain Oliver's very 
resting on Dartmoor (p. 711) he ==: ег to 
my account of a visit to Wistman's W: hould 
ike to say that the idea of this being one ‘of the very 
numerous hunting grounds of Wistm Wishman, 
d ish-hound not original. It appeared 
in an admirable article on **Sacred Trees and Flowers” 
in the Quarterly Review in 1863. I also in mind 
Kemble’s Saxons in England, in which he e 
ord Os£, which is one of the es of Odin in the 
Norse mythology, through its SS, ae cim equi- 
valent, Wunsch, in German, and Wisc in Anglo-Saxon, 
or first English, as some recent writers have it, to the 
modern ears 
f veral pla such ishan and 
Wisley, in Surrey, and кын i T diri 
I find that at sa a dozen writers on Dartmoor give 
a similar account of the derivation of this e, and 
they all begin the story with the words ** acad to 
ble's Saxons in Eng doubt the 
lack Hu крт might have been expected to hunt 
Оч Dens i 7 
o be nothin fe unreasonable in 
derivation, иу м 
of place and aroun 
tonic origin. Still one must 
of the Devonshire Association and to that of Captain 
who planted the Wellingtonia in the Yosemite Valley, 
dar on ae eir ck 2 the Oak upon all 
t 
suitable soils p the gout of the 
W m Bri No 
he tent entu 
ancient race from Мы and won 
when once the Oak had obtained oF ares nate ‘of the 
better soils its Acorns would com d the whole of 
rtmo Pn 
ontain numerous remains , Birch, and 
Hazel, that айар to the size of underwood, and 
were, in all pro мош, дио by pigeons which died 
on the moor, о by pre- 
hist wks, just ТТА with 
acorns at Tavistock. Piles , in the ey of the 
rme, appears to have been planted a short time 
before 1240, the date of the map w ptain 
liver mentions, and which still shows the stakes or 
piles which the planter, by an freak, provided for 
Th i 
it, and who began to 
mag eth period, in the tan 
events, even vifi they were N ormans. CH. Evershed, 
Chrysanthemums in October, —The Royal 
Westminster Aquarium Society advertises а Chrysan- 
ме 
the hands of such thoroughl 
perhaps they can infuse that ptit sate the C 
themums and induce them to go-a-head also in бае 
to meet the Moe engagements. 
dete Рали Pis fessor Kerner, of Inns- 
brück, has re ed from the Austrian Botanische 
Zatch a desertion of f the hybrid Primulaceze s 
mbering thirty-one іп 
the genus Primula, LE to 
гоѕасе, о 
Primulas by far the majority пө) ате included i in 
the section Auriculastrum, the remaining 
Primulastrum, Scho No uter idein 
eri these two eme à tage Primulas- 
he hybrids belon the subsection 
Eaprimnla, Schoit—P. acaulis grs Linn. e 
ing the met sexual eme E for the m n the 
section culastru ае 
are the 5 Pe ies wich show de greatest ——À to 
WA Sen т bet these two тая ot be made 
ertili another. These hybrid Расид ате 
of reprod than their parent fo and 
а а combination of the characters of their parent 
form 1 OE! * derivation hybrids,” 7.z., crosses betw 
forms, 
“Ai 
Ecldeigeher v. та Koch), between Auricula 
viscosa; P.F na, Schrad., arenes glutinosa and 
minima ; A <n тыи, Hort., between Auricula 
and carniolica, A А 
The Hemlock Spruce,—In oe — 
for lanters o make 
choice of ceri as are of comparatively т аин intro- 
uction, and in things of sterling value that 
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