114 THE 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[JULY 25, 1874, 
, then, are ‘‘ cultural influences” misdirected. 
ather should we here, also, revert to disbudding, or 
to such practices as are followed in the case of 
Peaches, Nectarines an nd so stopping 
rowths save such as are wanted for the exten 
sion of the framework of each tree. Were a similar 
practice of disbudding carried out hould at onc 
ly se e necessary co! ns ars 
more perfect state of fruitful re oE sure b 
that we should in the end lessen 1 besides, from 
pakpa it m may be mainta ined at after 
eae the = glen 
retr 
are so celebrated, Thou 
exp: 
atural 
the pindi action c: cultu 
sulting in in perfe ct frei Sal nei: can be a: 
cord 
fully endorse the 8 Nira Bi oe to ison form 
that especial p the 
co oie in the fettraint hak pranteally followed 
(6) 
ut. 
Again, how observable are wel sails pa vec ot 
i n 
once a perfect state of fruitfulness be 
wards, ere 
with a desire to ini- 
r what may be termed the 
m of a for which the Chines = 
I do not desire this I m 
of that’ it is only by subduing the 
ht on by artificial means, that 
ral influences Te- 
y be those who would tax 
rograde 
Eg 
ssne = “Brdtizht 
aused 
nciple 
ansplanted s 
and all such subjects, receive in process of transplant- 
ing some kind of aid, which fi a nucle mpe 
the me the desired ‘‘ standard” of the 
most critical GS rules ; this in all but t ost 
arid a y rane weather. More- 
over, it i is when this said excellence has been attained 
that it is o fix the same = he simply seeding 
from ee ants. ‘This is seen in the progeny which 
spr i Oni Turnips, and th 
like, 
mit 
same kinds which are per- 
ced to seed as they ‘grow en masse, and their 
progeny. 
£ 
elections well and ably ted 
parents treated liberally throughout, and canbied to 
the leas sibl 
made, and selected seed- 
fect seeds with t possible exhaustion of 
per 
_ parts generally: gene the progeny ee from such 
takab It will 
with a cellen le. 
es be ” yis T s t pva laoa we ma 
assert authority over, s uce to the most per- 
fect obedience—influences distinct from all the more 
Erana practices of the culturist, yet bearing equal, 
ifn than all these 
last in the 
y na the painstaker. William 
EXPULSION. 
umber w. 
that ti they ar are forcibly expelled a at t the 
scattered 
plant, ] : “pi S 
Dy been studied oy Bi Henge 
with arrange- 
ope “isi tion ty ry salient and 
ngement is such 
e proper -a — 
ess circle round the 
of 
Fs 
ect in the al Jahrbücher fir 
(bd. iy s. 5 235). We quote the 
‘icon ai, pat Sak fruits, in ais the 
the numer ous, well- 
mechanism 
the ies v 
moens less than usual, Aid the oils whet coterie will 
d, this detent supply. Æ. 
of the superincum abet 
the parts coated with honey-dew. This, ho 
of expulsion is E i eg based on the fact en 
certain cell lay dryin di 
more 
an y be, the connection of the base 
= the fruit ‘with the stall, is desttoyed, and the seeds 
thrown out, And he e it may occur that the 
fruit- hte 7 the ctl are nöt thrown off with the seed 
Vi , Hamamelis), or that portions 
pe (Diosmeze, aphor rbi lacece) 5 or 
that the entire fruit, niyet 
off, in which last case the seeds are 
time expelled from their envelopes a em Acan- 
haceæ, Eschscholtzia, Geranium), o in 
"AII these 
kA rea 
ed along w of the bottom of 
the > fruit, the, hard ts o the capsule are not in 
ect connectio , but there 
is an aee layer of soft c 
“ Lastly, it ma noticed that several of the fruits 
nder consideration — at the maturity, 
different position from Feas previously had 
bre rpm er Oxali ie in this way such a 
direc s given 
o the Aek as to puse the 
a i satai ey the seeds around.” 
The aes examples suflice to show the interest 
aching to the — Ern of plants in its 
biological Hr aa A. 
only bears on the origin of the dew, not Bs pere method 
of po aa which must in in an great degree find ieee 
surface of h 
These 
seen someti h 
nection with the tip of the abdomen 
them so with the Rose aphis, and still more 
aphis, 
h 
see 
o! urray’s suggestion, I 
an aphis on a leaf just gathered from a Bee 
watched it continuously till the whole p 
aree was sho own. — was suc 
of hë: d and the tai tip iteelf was cl 
moisture. Ater sucking some time expulsion 
e first r i min o 
fluid followed, eS p dro 
= tail, pot interv: 
in 
a two- third ar 
ee a LS VENTE aren e meee la: 
2 : ia mos ai = x 
: cae orced into the inside of the attached d 
Home Correspondence ig van end pedal lata 
avender Fields.—An afternoon’s stroll | half an hour commencement of its 
through the adjoining parishes of Mitcham, Walling- the diameter of the excreted drop equalled the j 
ton, and Beddington, which are well kno wn for dth of the two terminal rings of the abdomen, 
growing f the finest Lavender and aking this as the uniform rate of 
that can be obtained from any part of t , show | require about three hours to form o 
how severely these crops have all suffered by the cold | Sized drops of dew on the Beech, which is pecul 
e 
hese 
weather Sod pela ye a he "a see spring and 
E period o s yea sual season. 
Mitcham, dee tis the cultivation “kasi probabi dege- 
ed from former epth of soil above the 
uneven, an we th 
tage h 
The blacks and white Pe rere and th he Camo: 
that flourish ae side by side Laven 
e short and 
= BF 
ere is nowhere 
white thate con- 
urs aroun: uring 
the past three w: these have fortunately aioe im- 
proved, otherwise there was a prospec t of a complete 
failure, meee meron oe now the results of the er the 
“ferent. The Roses have sulfered from mildew, and the | 
of | many herbs ‘grown have been and are more or less 
manner. 
presents a glowing picture, heiste ‘in its A amy 
1 by the bright 
well 
glow F: p Re Ae. fer RT o 
— is now overcast at s prospects o of 
e forebodings of the ieee 
for th wer has 
d with 
the harvest ; 
at so 
known for the last twenty years, seem inevitable. 
quantities to be carried to 
ost probably be eggs m 7b value in 
` Honey- dew. n a matter of which such various 
| viewS™are taken as that of the sistas | 
F pewa ; rTestions sto the ar 
mw are and I 
yond to M oe with 
h reg Ee ae erent 
will be found t tot m strongly of 
the peculiarly- 
flavoured juices o t Poppy in all 
wever, 
ewdro 
the aphis POR ve attached zlomia at 
its formation, ording any impellli aa 
previous to the eo oat of the size which 
with it a necessity. 
diffi, 
brought forward and investigated, Areas cause of o 
might possibly be shinketaly proved 
Roses Madame ees: and 
Hole.—Some doubts havin 
ving been expressed as to 
alue of these Roses, it may interest your 
know that I visited Messrs, Paul & Son’s nurseries at 
Chesh ast week, and ascertained that the formeris. 
genideliy perpetual, and not, as was fe 
pad and that the latter was the very best € 
Monstrous panties —I send you u amonstrous 
flower, taken from the point of a spike of. 
growing on one ki our s plants. I have 
blooms of this kind « on the Fox; 
have- never before m an 
on. Alexander n, Bedfont. [The 
y the oft 
poe ei by a long term 
followed by wou Hee late inure during A 
yery soon ater Which the disease has 
to appear 
