LAR 
JULY 25, 1874] 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
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mean temperature < of Brest sa but little from 
that of Paris, but at Par is the ee of temperature 
are separated by an peat a Satter as m 50° 
i s at ag s qo 
o ripen taie fruits. 
ponet every yea hus, 
the commonest shrubs 
The s, which 
the course of the summer through- 
to t Brest, 
er 
tree in countries Lavi ua 
_ sno wee Amongst especie plants m en- 
ponogeton distachyon—a fa miliar favourite 
at Monpellier a A e sewhere a sma 
‘stream at Lambezellec, in ae nvir sof p iE with 
se. Ona 
Helichrysum fain, 
Cape, has established itself on the cliffs 
nce, anches, which start 
m the r cover a circle not 
- short of 30 feet in diameter. 
o 
in charge, who spoke no French but Breton only, 
told us, through the antepeun of his daughter, a 
thirteen years of age, that notwith- 
the AE E male flowers the seeds of the 
wn on those trees were fertile. He had 
them, as are understood him, and they produced 
onfirmation he showed us what were 
Oa er to Penandreff? 
i j so the matter rested until 
gui iv etter from the owner 
infe rming con nid sae po ae 
duly fertilised ene, which had ane 
t to oo father from Sou th Ameri The 
solved without any shock to Toii 
behindhand, both materially 
face of. the c 
k, from which it is not saved by the 
lden Broom the purple Heath. 
we passed showed the taste of its inmates by 
in “the wild white Convolvates, „C. sepium, as 
high and nearly’ 
of its natural advantages and ihe nee 
vie vey it |. 
o bg begging to be cultivated, and there are the 
whi ch refuse to cultivate, preferring to hold out 
thei eir ee nds as beggars. The untilled a of 
melancholy extent. he 
he importance of seven. We came upon a fine 
old ruined ag pieter aloft id pi jackdaws, 
and below within a herd of cows and their 
guardian young bull, a chewing the cud in the stony 
and nettled s tg Piney and 
ched to the 
end, akis Khia ra 
e human passions—the whole scene 
tan 
What farming there is, naturally has- its local 
customs, In so rainy a climate, one would hardly 
expect to ra horse es treading out escourgeon or four- 
rowed Bar n a hardened floor in the open air. 
Parsnips ae Faak in sath for cattle, not for human 
food. Stable and c ouse manure is piled in 
square sas, so tall n ‘shapely that all the juice and 
oodne for manure 
weed, 
ii 
roying or det a, Sor the 
The seaw hair. crop is of the utmost importance to ne 
Bretons, on account of the soda extracted from it, 
ot for agricultu 
npe is f 
Br plants are 
cultivated at Bie endih reckoasd from 
and ey the self-same ggg p> ne Efe thinking the 
will ‘* n ikew Seq 
Eucalyptus 
n to he height of ve 50 feet in their 
respective ced forests. In planting the former in 
Blu ae tree in other otek. it must, 
however, not for one moment be sup 
will ever attain a a similar height. They m 
considera! 
non 
sequence of transplanting generally, of Pere Se a 
from cuttings instead el raising them fro —of 
striking, in fact, the m minute p 
t 
imannring, 
Take, for summer 
all pery plint of ie teed 
espalier t trees, Currants, Apricots, 
that of Par ha aatiweei are given in degrees | Figs, ‘ay ” Why sh hould any or all of these be per- 
Centigrade and ‘their tenths. | mitted to grow rampant, to furnish shoots wildly 
Latitude. Longitude. | os | Winter, Spring. | Summer, | Autumn, | tng 
Brest 48°.23' N 6°.50° W. 14.7 7.6 10,6 | 16.9 12,1 | January .. 32 
Paris 48°. 50’ N o.o 10.8 39 10.3 18.1 te. 4 ss Rg R 
Toulon 43.07 N 3-36 15.1 8.6 13.3 22.3 16.3 | ot DE BA 
—— 40.5 N iww E 16.4 9.8 15.2 23.8 16.8 j ii 32 
36°.47' N °°. 43’ W. 17.8 12.4 17.2 23.6 21.4 | March 16.5 
ge Be Canaries 28°.00° 17°.51' W 21.8 18.0 19.4 23.8 26.4 ` | January .- 37.8 
u Ayre ay 44° W. £6.96 e Sag 15.2 22.8 18.1 | July Tho 
eH 33.756°5 16°.08’ E. 19.1 | 14.8 18.6 23.4 10.4 | 9 14.3 
D + “50° 8°. 50’ E. BEE ly: Sh 19.2 23-3 18.2 lr Ere + ey 
oors in the botanic go o. pe many | 
were destroyed by frost in the winter of 1870-71, and © 
as at under noteworthy c ances, appears 
observations made by M. Blanchard, Jardinier- 
aT in the establishment. For instance, Agave 
americana froze with 7° in the first part of the garden, 
elevated portion, 
0.9, -it resisted panie A plan 
aila which had grown in a basin for a9 
pre evioualy, was ins pied to the roo 
at random and ipdiscriminataig throughout all the 
main growin g parta summer months? We 
a e the it gener ay in relation to 
ine trees, because gia do papa Ge 
most assuredly dency the crop first, and the t 
greis 
we ‘Red kapi pise Currant “bashes 5” 
seldom do they crop such as Currant 
naturally « cultivated ‘should do, tebe. 5 to te fact that 
ndless shoots are permitted to © grow upv 
growing in its place, where labelled in n the ‘Ecole de | i 
bgt a did not suffer ; an and a siird pleal aosi is, bet es may carry, and the ~ 
ide in the upper garden, was com- | exhausti ited growth, the tree in- — 
pistely fi Peek “With these two ;, therefore, the tably S, g n aA ects Weaken 
very reverse took pla pag, em the | and qu i ner and lower leaves and 
Ecole de Botanique froze, — the P. ium took monea and so exhausts o su / as to 
o harm ; en the P! ium very nursery is pests, issuing 
whisk froze ae ve wh hich resisted. Gunnera Toth attack the young ee sao ae tips of the grow- 
bra froze cont pletely at the edge of a small stream, | ing shoots, giving to them e hue which, ho ow- 
just escaped in the middle garden, a was not | ever ve, no a iat on qorteenss with 
touched in the loftier portion where the poser soil pre- | perfect imity 5 the fi themselv being 
ented the frost from penetrating. Dracæna congesta | destroyed irretrievably by being blackened with the 
froze to the ground sprung up again in sum excrement of these pest sts—a deposi sit which Jit is not 
Veronica salicifolia is found to fos anil} han than panice by 
V. Lindleyana ; it acclimatised ” in shelte oney- 
ony | alities environs of Brest. Fi ecg ‘ Pear trees wall nine Appl trees of the groser 
is | : turalised in the Islands of Mol | growing | such 
i apea they give it the name instance as the Emperor Alexander, Snott me at 
d’Ouessant. Eucalyptus viminalis has its stem frozen | leaves and numerous robust shoots, displaying a 
winter, but shoots from the stock. | thing but an eis o abundant fruitful 
every win! s up again 
None of these plants receive any covering or special 
shelter. Æ. S. D. 
EFFECTS OF CULTIVATION. 
PRUNING, &c.—In very many ways do we see the 
direct influence that a oie system of oo 
upon mites of the rg Sina kingdom. By cu 
vation I do not ficial culture of feld 
irectly - IF 
rrp wi 
i i 
ness, i still further oe Tti ded the ee and cons of 
culture as I would ee in t eo s customary to 
plant these in the best chest ail so as to give 
them an initial, and oceeeciuiatly a pee 
abundant — 
grow ble ; we waste a tithe 
of this ea strength by an entire y perse, system 
of pruning. We no tan rob a multitude of strong 
. row are ; growt wth annually 
pon all, but also cut t 
growth is 
