170 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. [Avousr 8 184, 
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fl fruit, all taking i a shade of pleasing red, oi a statement in one of | Virgil, however, applies the name of Li igustrum to th 
tara i pretend E to be proia p~ but ssn the most eae and ETa books of Eastern great white hedge Convolvulus, Calystegia Sepium, a 
which finds its best education travel—namely, Zo¢hen. To this day, the author tells | Ovid does likewise (Afet, xii. 789). The resemblance | 
in e d the ee flexibility as well as the | us, in Constantinople, as in the Turkish provinces in | of the two shrubs, the Privet and the Lawsonia, is | 
f Nature. Sometimes I am dis- | general, not to conform to the ancient practice of | noticed by the old traveller, Ranwolf, who likewise 
ers think that poole lant are id ought to be siaining the ae with henné go be aa g e eee a: pieten rwiety of the eastern 
L reon the Mi h was named, as | indecorous, if n orse, erever the. | a representa- 
aras pe a pennan tient the pa a visitor meets one of the native ladies clothed in white tio on in ne s Malabar, vol, i., fol. 40. Leo Grindon, 
way in which the leaflets, when you touch them, mock | from head to foot, he must see the iti ips of the stained | Manchest, 
imic the movement of a hu being, every | fingers depending like Rose-buds.” 
plant, I mean to say, is after its own fashion a Light is thrown, perhaps, upon the onal by the 5 Forest f 
Sensitive Plant, doing something quite the contrary of | famous epithet = he Homer, when he speaks of (0) ry. | 
what in an orthodox and respectable indi- | ‘‘rosy-fingered morn.” Aurora, as befitted E Giecik How SHOULD we Lop TREES ?—This subje ect is 
vidual that has no feeling or sensation, sg. Fi goddess, wore a saitrousbekdered n pacer one well tk careful consideration, and ju dging 
placed in or t “The cheerful Lady of the Light, decked in her saffron | from the way one often sees it done, it seems 
also are scnaitive plants, Mimosas every one of them ; 3 ae SS iep natant ann! fectly understood or very careless yaaa 
= parallel is og neg oye ace _ Dispersed her beamg through every part of this en- Tn t hete ois t place I would laik, Why is prun iming of large 
in the wor — rom - mber trees necessary at wo or three reasons 
ciently elevated oeoa becomes for the time | but she also had * rosy fingers,” and as such aterm | might be given, but the best one seems to be that 
being the very centre, middle, and pivot of Nature sipli to the fingers bodily would suggest ideas of | those who had charge of the trees up to a certain age 
As with the Forum in ancient Rome, a street 1 ut pretty, we are probably intended to | either suffered them to go astray through neglect, or, 
hess. rimen irhnlihit Aaaa maianen am pespestetion siete: M miannan ok cies [emcee tee A aaa ee ae 
. es to o ci re order 
so far from my original apm The leaves of the | 4 th ana i sg Aurora being sup à gh make them develope themselves into wh 
eraan let me proceed to say, are rightly described | finish her toilet after the same manner as the maidens — be most beautiful and useful. But since pruning 
the interesting article in P. "833, as having been | and matrons of earth. All the ancient Greek divi- | in some form must be done, the question then is how 
employed Pd the material’ for a sort pan ~~ nities were glorified men and women, and the highest it it Best fo be done? I am of opinion that no definite 
m the earliest ages. t is not impersonations of them wire the loveliest, the most | rule can be laid down to apply to every case, so 
toda, h aire. that they were used by the ancient accomplished, and the most exquisitely adorned of | depends on the variety to be operated on, the sur- - 
H and that we have 3 p reference to them human beings. Aurora steps out of her golden mee circumstances, and the object to be at attained, 
in Old Testament, e name of copher | chamber, a saffron-co robe, and wearing | and every one entrusted to prune trees should have a 
or kopher. The passages occur in the Song of | z light and flowing veil, which pg see back to | } 
lomon, i. 14, and iv, 13. ** My beloved is unto | denote the dispersion of night, this last—the veil— | and branches, and how far the daunting a tree of 
mea cluster of kopher in the vineyards of Engedi.” being the sweet early mist upon the mountains, so the one affects the other. This sho oe be left, as 
“Thy p are an o of Pomegranates, with | dear to Shakspeare ; then opens with rosy fingers the ~ too often the case, to mere day labourers, who know 
pleasant fruits, kopher, and spikenard. si The gates of day. It is true that, as in the opinion of | nothing more about it than to do R aii n work for so 
Authorised Version renders this word kopher in both some, the saffron-coloured robe may refer literally to | much money. Iam sorry to say I have seen men of 
places by “‘camphire,” whence the popular impres- the tint of the sky at daybreak in eastern countries, whom better things might be expected from the posi- 
sion that Solomon referred to camphor. But thereis | so the ‘rosy fingers” may perhaps refer to the level Soe teed ae making but a sorry mess of it as far as 
not the slightest reason to suppose that the white, | bars of crimson observed in and training go, With = exception of trees 
crystalline, and lid fami therewith; but Tinuso was a man +g sympathies ee ays, or w] inter- 
everybody as camphor, produce of too deeply an go to inanimate Nature for | cepts a view, I would never penip dlus to the bolent 
hora, was known to the primitive H œ | a simile when he could take one from living | leave a stump of a few inches, but in 
to any nation so far to th of the native country humanity. In a later age, nevertheless, seems | w t le dress the sur as 
of that tree, at the period when the was indited, | to have been the view adopted by Ovid, since | smooth as possible, and give a slight coating of paint 
say B.C. 1000 or 950, though it is a true that the he represents the courts or atria of watchful | or varnish of some sort, to counteract the effects of the 
renowned old monarch had organised cent | Aurora as strewed with the flowers in question, | weather. Asn stump system, I consider it 
system of oriental commerce, both by by waten, vid the | but the weight of argument is certainly still in | of as much service to the tree as the stump of an old 
Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, and by land wié favour of eg Gnid finger-nails. It is s probable that | tooth is to the head when left by the dentist. Be 
lmyra ; and that camphor, as we understand it to- | the stain g of the nails os not so much in view the | unless in exceptional cases, I would never close prune. | 
day, is the pro gd mec of kopher, no one an any | colour ther’ was communicated by the henné, as the | The system I would always employ, as I have seen it 
longer contends, will be intere: esting to see how | clear and definite patina that was given to their | done with splendid results, is what is jira ton vibe 
the learned dines the chief priests and the pitted shape, a characteristic which, as every English lady | borihori which means cutting a part o a 
who now periodically assemble at Westminster to | knows, is of the first i mportance to a wi ed may be one-third, more or less, according t to tb ; 
engage upon a revision of tures—it will be | a te Good sails will supply Shia place a costly paces and object to be attained. I hav 
ings ; the most splendid and expensive circlets, with | in a gentleman’s home park assuming a esis 
all thei ls and diamonds, will never redeem | shaped head from rival branch contending with 
er- that are y, ec lgar. | 1 r, whi g foreshortened, all except 
That the clear delineation of the almond-outline of | leader idal form, and had 
nails was the principal object, seems to be verse been the object desired, b foreshortening 
illustrated in the curious expression in Deut my | the leader a O 
pa Ee it is re of the captive I fully convinced y timely 
upon ai Pn as a | attention to fo: may be indu 
wile, that vi shall ‘pare this | to take almost any form the fanc . How 
injunction seems to indicate that he shall spoil the | often we fine tr poiled from allowing 
shap ith the 
shaving her head, she still pleases her captor, the | leader, until the evil becomes so glaring that even the 
matrimoni ur fe. m A ise in arboricult 
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is evidently some connection between the | be don 3 and what is the r restody generally emplo oyed? 
Hebrew Toa and the name of Cyprus, the ifrot Cutting the branches off, and egitim the tree in much 
Prenat ca ey Sa selected as a m name of the lant, as quoted on D. 833, an ture 
suitable image for a bride in the May of her lifetime. | between this and te name 
e same state for en 
of the celebrated aia at has lost one of his lungs ! Bya alittle timely foreshorten- 
the tree might have been a well ced healthy 
x at once, he re st ba ‘Senne 
p sap to flow more strongly to the pataia, 
ago. and orange: in this self-same island, surnamed and thus make Nature the main agent in restoring it. 
Macaria, o i f i 
oaio dt o iioo are we to lop 6 ur trees?” would . 
thie of tha 
rn Sot ous Caka iio be made much 
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more valuable by a at se Set f training in their 
ee ae ? This inv ves another question of 
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importance 
: of national wealth? I, for o; comer Gai ae 
arge It would | far too little care taken in ies of timber 
; ee st aeng on PoF. 7 Desk printed’ da during the last wos Pag 
: > a ee points information is wanting. Red | years has been sucked < out of the books produced by Oa aa C 
lı ince ‘ alkanet i rio, P ir iiei i 
application of whic legitimately be sup- | of our co! Sree eee tia led to the | Jetabti nt! to nothing, and go through se 
posed to refer to it, is of a : The modern former of one of the fr cae t goi s 
alkanet, as need hardly be a ekiek & the | of latter, s Ligustrum, pellation | even then at wages often less than 
| as y be said, is obtai om of the latter, namel the i i r ! , 
roots of the Anchusa tinctoria, a plant of the natural | under which, poner to Pliny, the hewad plant wilslaieieas of m wa 
Or Boraginaceze, and in no way to be associated | was known in Italy, , and which in lib. xxi xxiv., Cap. I0, ka pen 
with the Lawsonia, T am disposed to to believe it to be | of his immense itamense. book, Pliny applies to it himself. all the time receiving fall 
