36 THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
Ey 
[JULY 11, 18y. 
series of articles on the climate and Be mee of = 
enter into oer now on 
that subject, particularly ; as the Pons shall hav 
occasion to Per best test of. e ali 
We have, for instance, m Sears the Oliv 
„The eae or are on; oui archal trees of large 
ge Willows (Salix aes 
Elsewhere in Italy, 
the Olives are eni 
scrubby trees, ind little to "recommen “a after 
the novelty of their appearance A 
similar remark applies to the tree as seen in the South 
rance. The traveller war 
of the ig Uys before he gets to Lyons, and he is not 
so, for, however valuable their products 
5 stunted 
but with @ dork wrey foliage. 
Floren 
oe 
as 
gal grt: 
in the Riviera ; there the traveller may see fine old 
trees, rift into three or four separate 
ed by large holes. Still the trees 
ie -a apparently as hale as ever ; if cut down, they 
rout again, Jea often throw out false roots—as 
Virgil long ago noted :— 
oaoa et caudicibus ons mirabile Seri 
e sicco radix o 
Indeed, v$ number of plants oerjaan in Greek 
strikes one forcibly here—the 
and Latin aethesa ee a one ve 
Asparagus, the Olive, "Myrtle, and 
scores of others. 
tree yet more sensitive than the Olive to 
climatal vicissitudes is the Lemon. E 
the Lemons are grown as low bushes ined o! 
trellises ier-wise, or even on walls; but here at 
a Mortola, and in the vicinity of Mentone generally, 
a small - from 
is grown 
a Narn its crop it forms the staple agricultural 
the district. So valuable is it, indeed, 
pae undergoing a rather undefined discussion. 
From what h puea it is 
ed i 
ve the twilight aE uncértainty 
pepe -e ing abou 
ith reference to coppicing and what it is, 
e are told that it is cutting the trees down near the 
ground, cutting inches fork the ground, like- 
wise cutting no trees down other than such as ha 
shoot n them. It is also said that only small 
wood is the were ges oe coppicing. The above 
modes of proc may or may not re 
ducing small suit all that 
s 
light as prae a an explanation of coppicing 
chonas pei be given, and the results of such practice, 
leaving it t ataie ted by an ho chooses. 
Coppicing is is thinning out a plantation by cutting down 
uch trees as are required for bark. 
ea ting is definite, viz., with a saw, pay sloping the 
cut—the saw entering the trees as ‘close to the ground 
as it can be worked, afterwards smooth 
nearest the soil. 
‘being close to the ground, ts, 
with the aid Sos aar and the pm roots still active, 
rapid transformation of the s 
s a matter sina —_ there noait Ss no cavilling. 
this mode o trees are produced in about 
three and a-half years, measuring in circumference at 
6 inches from nd 144 i 15% inches, and 
catialactoy out-turn of growth 
coppicing, the case of the Teak, Tectona na gra 
which possesses the power of re reprodu cing itself from 
shoots, may be taken as es example. Dr. Brandis, in 
his remarks on the growth of this tree says, that ‘in 
the forests of Kjoonchoung nine — from Teak 
estimated at twenty-five years old, had an 
4 
ten years in twenty-five, proving satisfactorily 
that so all 
ere it is only ins mething other tha ood i 
t ergy is kenar age ba hold its own, for cane from coppici: i A enghenee be other and 
taal Oy bow g shoots and leaves | better modes of procedure in the treatment of Cin- 
— rost (May 22). oa Pe honas, but anything else hitherto suggested is hardly 
es 1S, rth iderati 2; , British 
joined to the of the soil and the aay st ported RA n M T 
of water, narani facen. the ae wth of certain 
_ descriptions of plants to whi afterwards refer, 
With little or no frost, a mild equable winter tem- | ROSES AND THEIR CULTI- 
pee eerie Weather in spring, and a hot, TION. 
bites a pÀ j t 1s ., . . 
erful that many plants thrive here with a vigour Mucu modern times regardi 
and force which we are qui to see in | the oo ei of the Rose, and and 
ume plan glass in Britain, . ons from some of the 
ur advantage of these favourable cir- | Many cultivators of so univ ersal a favourite. Even 
cumstances to constitute his garden a so-called gd of it at a very | an 
** garden of acclimatisation.” From Australia, of time past; and one of e varieties, as I tak Leng it, 
China, from Japan, from the Cape of Good Hope, which that Roman wri salen see to, is worthy of far 
Chile, from Peru—from s mod bri ‘dicts. have 
globe whose climate assimilates to that | afforded it. “We a meagre rching for constitu- 
of the Genoese Riviera, Mr. Hanbury has got together | tional vigour, and a forced rotsti of growth ; hence, 
e of plants. 5 it to mean “hoa not be that the Cabbage 
necessary difference of circumstances Rose—even of Pliny’s a s be induced, in 
roundings, we may aptly oupa thir this collection of | connection with some other at once a 
anaa nha omeni Er ME ilson Saunders, of hardy constitution, fine utmost 
of average merit. 
wili 
Now, as T take ths the 
Now, a1 ake thi is fhe very property a good 
possess. 
a informed of the great ad- 
by this or that kind of parent stock. 
plete revolution in all 
l vigour it was to 
the skies, and what is really the ime? S lagra that 
trade aid, The Manetti will root 
E. 
are as thick as they are upon Rhododendron ponti : 
—not otherwise, as root suckers will other 
Manetti has to betold. It will grow vigorous i 
most vigorously, h weaker kinds will not sui t 
pon Take t ne but t seldom f 
E pote Recess th illustra’ As against < 
stock we have yet another innovation i on £ 
edlin; ng er? e Bria f 
i 
of 2 all cultivatie desi s 
e face dye this latter idea toc * 
Of all stocks kel standard Roses we 
aware none can in anywi atch s s same Dog-r 
Briar, hence we may in on is good for 
ms po would Srially suit the more oi 
pon rs, much in favo 
rfectl 
we cannot look for such in newer varieties, but : 
may be secured in all the older sorts. 3 
rational system of culture” referred to above I mä } 
a mo It is a f o o 
that we y impoverish the root base of our Ros p 
(standards or dwarfs) by the very severe model k 
pruni ich we follow system of the m ¢ 
reprehensible and unnatural kind. That <7 
kind and of meritorious quality we are Mo eet 
made aware of, by the fect 
mai 
worked on Briars, ‘possessing, as we know, gi 
few s s formation, P 
following this lead, and permitting the head to exten 
to a more liberal, yet still a moderate limit, we cot 
duce to a more extended illustration of some “effects, 
ornest 5 piaia as you 
Currant tree ; stake out after 
> 
afford the means for a moderate base to 
y, perhaps, a little subsequent by ames : 
during owing summer 
of the future plant will be fobised, 
size 
ill be readily what an incentive to futur 
display will exist, so different to the 
w these sug 
ants, more Sasi blooms, and! 
t also finer flowers individually. 
plant, 
fig. 8. i is 
tent, or sun-shade, 
‘om a recent number of the Revue Hor: 
time are required to make 
brella” as this, It was exhibited at 
bition of 1867, and now a 
more 6 feet in height. 
branches, if i , would be 
(between 32 33 feet), but they are 
arching leave an 
