DECEMBER 14, 1861.] THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL САЛЕТТЕ, 1093 
island have itin their power to contribute valuable informa- | in which he gives his dates) Against a south wai, anu, p ET. nodo CRY pant ADS Г E "a E. 
i dis s Л! uS 
ti some of smi: кы. {© апу should feel disposed to do | 5, ; аы 
E "should be glad to enter into erre pondence with pu the AETI — "icr he correctly describes, Ang sust | in the matter of soil. In the climate we were not во fortu nate, 
and point out in what way their assistance would be m the 2 In hard house [o of Coimbatore being on the е bos dry to do justice 
E During the past year, several plants new to the Flo c | I have: never e dn the Nutmeg Peaches to ripen till | | to the Аң аһ plent, ev : though we found it bore heat and 
ofthe island, and some of these quite new to science, have | | the third week in July, nor the Noblesse till Sept. 2. | drought fully "T — — better than the 
been brought from the jungles and adied to the collection | Th f 1 t kinds of fruits was tm indigenous one. ' hese › Leda ing well ascertained, I conside: 
here. To the Rev. S. O. Gienia and Mr. Wm. Ferguson, I| -Ne season 0 + ovher Kinos. « E the essential object for which the experiments were under- 
ha in to express my acknowledgments, for interesting | | (130 yan since) much in advance of what it now is, so | taken, the introduction of the American Cotton plantinto In 
communications respectin Жыты plants of their respective | that to the рт и. lowering of our temperature we | Was fully Cea vant . Tam Р green pm үр 
neighbourhoods. e t в to disease in many |" generally looked upon as a failure, because we did not 
pro y бз) tendencies ч Y | realise in India average crops of 200 or 300 lbs of clean Cotton 
DE | of old kinds of fruits, for if the trees аге | рег acre, the same as they do in Am . But that is a 
HE GOLDEN Р IPP PIN |s uffered to grow unchecked and to root deeply ныр р itie trying it by dea ero pM abren 
“ө В 1 yat these large crops are п а we 
Евом an ша iry made tiy in your columns | into the soil, canker in Apple and Pear trees makes ite | v9 to cultiv ii dde any system of farming, but segecially 
uem зай аб а peant t App! and the trees can only be kept in health | under that of y eee which is only applicable to its own 
has been nd 1 am tempted to give mx when pl: anted away fror om the influence of walls, by | rich soils and favourable climate, but quite unsuited to India ; 
babl i | | and the planters had not the skill and knowledge requisite to 
печад —- to its нася мге, which may probably | koping their $ y their t iron ái. 
interest some of your readers. 1 have one -- 04 һу вап кле» now apparently less t tores in poeni 1 64 
al ba thi 
from 80 dre Jan old, which I have always m ne a century or £0 since. 
upon with eased селы whenever І ere he а If дА 1996. оп ту д 
the la te Mi die Knight's doctrine of the лы meri cue by "telling ders what I feel I 
worn Birs 16 has been en vcensionaily | ou ught daa done in in alt 2 ав ines pe Шү тау agriculture. The fai failure then, if an; d with 
in your columns. lave г epeatedly taken grafts from | Pi and Nonpareils in as high perfec- | and. planners of the experiment, n e artists w 
this tree, and although it - aa full of dead and | tion as in the olden A dio, if they place some trees in му E out diy, to Диас е A dono" а pint , 
can — oote, the fts when placed on healthy | 19-ic ch pots and — wr in orchard houses, Indi d expeeted.i& 18 trma, 
vigo ks have made a e growth, and ar eis lacing them ou f doors, the summer and the ч tine and pr эчеп farmers, was 
gor stoc А "2B ary 
if not учей to remain too long іп one place s to climate be warm, in cen and бна) but keeping them provided. Sot етв га honestly and zealously did their best; 
root deeply in the soil, have died. еу «па. free under glass the remainder of the year. T. R. A кан лин. "ei there Mud че ~ и Торе) —— 
from атр А if left to grow uncared {ог ог unre TTE eR MR that “the Government farms di ucceed because the 
une, s atter how favourable ds soil for Apple | were not o mate LC inse r r en 
tl таз the ^ iird or dew t 
fourth year, t ending of the season, ern Соттевро е өы 
р upon Cotton. Cultivation in India an the verformance of their agric cultur: far as тя 
n bécomin p" 9j ete with "ha fatal Desk: iled it was from want o S козо . When 
g T x lies : 
am miel тшу йй broo, кшй Maye г> resina, mmo pdt d урса e PI 
marke the : rof temperat alth, | I say, pe ee icq science ted and science of ce Sonate, re the e planters them- 
m fluctuates еа е, sensons. А Tus. - nfirm those no ow in ure as t! y it eto d. | selves aware that such was t NS trei their Perle dis- 
the hot summer of 1857 it made healthy. 
shoots, e: ee not canker and die na i ue 
[o 
| 
i 
| 
zi 
the EE ttim 
the two or three preceding" seasons, во that last spring mne: re e n 
it loo a mass dead and dyin g E 
the past summer, although warm and fi ere ble, o eh 
has not restored it to its usual health, aud | n tos 9. З o оше Па рань БББ 
it seems as if it would require two or three warm | different. from rroandi The бош! in like | cast а the 
$, е. а 
few healthy shoots among clusters of those that are| 
cankered "A" СЕ dead. І sus ct that for these 50 
years st V 
manner e cime mem finding, on ana lysing several specime: 
from different ^ ee - е country, Sonstderae АШЫ моне "et | | | Ав: dod ati 
g pretty well i EA ee | no 
— of v 
e has thus been battling with a 
limate e е e its well-doing, making in tv r| ct 
nsecutive seas em Е =з | th: at, ` cultivated on 89 al оре though with but 
када neutra 1 plou moderat M skilful farmin; ng, Cotton may be produced in In dia 
ic the trce although nearly a century o Tota he Ry e ў 
is : 548 ama ОЎ only 3 feet in En ts nus хык far zi 
circumference at 2 feet from the P it is Sorghum отап or Cholum оге e natives), and 
growing in a deep tenacious loam ve The first ааа t, 
the growth of Арык ы andi ts loo forward, f Novelties i vincial Nurseries. has 
if hardy varieties make inon ЫЕ „ы | marked that К lists of the London п nurserymen en for 
with > rd T contain less than the сер number of 
plan ju Happily, pia tu not uu case 
with their rb Athe in vd the catalogue 
d E E ve just received, а 4 which ] I vé пећ E 
ard to you, ie siwdanty tes tify. It ains 
ә multitude of plan t least, are entirely 
ow vase exqui weighty body, man and beast, P; and as the peg br vie ыт rarities, are 
trees are all md since dead, and younger trees | This deposit, бең ode geologist deems of diluvial origin, but extremely moderate, I felt tempted at once to send Mr. 
planted about 40 years аро langu wished and died after a | which must be of much older date, varies greatly in Ent M эш order, rm on wd Bere e I A kindly eo to 
few years, even in fresh soils, іп which Apple trees of | 5° om less than t, b pe that y d ki 
к — — ng when quite a boy my father'sold | to f 
who a great, Apple connoisseur, talk of the - 
old nde Pippin — in the =» er's orchards in the 
parish о І also ember of them very pis 
frait. ey кыылы. ith russet, a nd 
rmation 
| the sje tt rg is within yonr reach. Tihe rte "1 om 
was a lack of force in our summer climate to warm 
theearth sufficiently for ће! iking deeply | trai m dry | will vh contains not only a long array 
into it. This idea isstrengthened by the fact that young JY | species o , bnt many ofthe genera ol 
trees of the Golden Pippin, the scions of 2 - were pint unknown to our gardens. 'I might 
cut from the old tree І haye described, can be kept din over th Пдегв,” * Syringers,” “Andromedarys,” 
trom canker if the trees are taken up dd P eeplahted x t а оте ге er wit u Ribas» t MIN M ue T of not 
biennially, and іп а warm season t it being an observ metiheli е one of which have I ever heard till n = Ее 
fruit; trees also against walls with a southern aspect d. unseason са аге а Sarif nur mber fn "s аен + tees, 6 
"n" well in some soils, and bear fine and well-flav КӨП ground to crack freely, the following crops are g р Ee Ip ted for eriei among which I LS 
ао M wii Water, Uy the. mam tig fe alied the Following бо n Sen rely new kinds :—*“ Od 
ача g proof, however, that with the by the first irren Eu чей the ў vrit and — the | Holly," the “Led Boari Honeysuckle,” the “ Daiks 
Golden Pippin and Кї Y" old Nonpareil, which is equally sre natus | Berberry,? the “Citissis Broom,” the “Strung 
ve 
y 
-— — хе Arbutus," the Satur tin. Yew,” the “ Bleeder Sentor 
n | Colutea,” with a host of others! But the greatest 
рор of novelty occurs rae “the North iam 
ег Bog plants," м of which adds 
to those e 
not the sort E which there is 
or „ачаг о deca сау, but +ће | +0 thi 
fault. 
epe 4; ш potted a 
ated fro! 
зеза 
bright |. ré 
i: their peculiariti 
pins all the Vitae во ея ре 9С Бы ЭБШ DN ee | —then 
ted with our cold winter me to T know not wbat besid throw all 
ı Mr. Ms trul ly marvellous Catalogue, 
Тулогатш in the Midland Counties. 
convin 
without чароге Ч 
ура of ut pt more ен farming: that 
though m and 
years there has been lowe £r y еси ecently been in rdshire, Devonshire, 
ture in our climate, Н im a Somersetairo andi in all of these counties rb pid imde 
in meterorologists, e demand, for I а 
у because 
tempera the year may a differ to ay gr reat | one given MC WR adop ing pe rowth and sale of. Apples, di бота Des a Ape A 
exten Ж et enough d affect, vegetation to some extent, | one, esti 
may be cooler. cl 
ing to A hiar. who wrote in 1727, ae Nutmeg |! 
ts which are still well known, ripened the least one erop 
Лаві week in б, e (allowance being made frc im style, us, The ur 
bi —— 
anchester for ду sing purposes"; “To fix 
Sup. n nake one of the new colours 
e got "aie bag from "ee Manchester men? 
trying |“ They will pick pus and take them away themselves 
