4 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[Tanvary 7, 1860. 
was obtained from a wild plant whose strict oe 
tionship to W n Triticum) hac 
not been suspe 
Some Cipari s by Prof. Buckman published 
in the report of the British Association for 1857 
bear in a striking manner upon this question. It 
would be difficult to name any two Grasses more 
dissimilar in appearance, while naturally allied, 
than Glyceria fluitans and Poa aquatica. Such, 
indeed, is g dissimil 
have placed t 
m 
n different genera, th 
pew indi ha Although | both live together a 
and 
“slot na or 
at a 
Glyceria tans i is a deli 
with a slender, s 
sed of a few wine 
about 1 
somewhat p nfloresce l 
cylindrical spikelets, each thi 
white-edged flo Poa | wit 
us desi 
sowing two pafati yee of wa side 
e 
nce by their habit and etl 
icate narrow-leaved Grass, 
innated i nce, 
owers. Poa 
broad- leaved 
Sst 
were 
en 
= Poa i aquatica. sare aras SA attempts, by ¢ 
855.- During 
uestion 
These 
1856 st tiff ar and sturdy aii and 
leaves were aò o ha 
the flesh on the slightest touch. Hee 
Lt ena Feats. aik they have flowered, a 
ent the plants 
were forming ; these 
: aa ee wer 
caer OS T wa 
id-leaved plants 
= 
of both sore are =the 
h 
ecies ; > 
estua Tolinen, pra- 
wth of the 
tensis, and elatior presently to be d etailed.” | ie 
atti Py feel of expert 
; | ho me pp 2 tin with” some new kiai 0 
car 
ce and at th 
that thet are oertain laws which a tbat to pro- 
duce the change v o that i om a 
Mad W ay 
ope to becom 
connected: with v 
egetable growth.” 
e | that no one say what 
of plants aes “possible, an gr 
ent to gardeners to À a cl re in their 
cross-breeding, selecting, changin 
e 
why Wheat itee lf 
ot by 
g by soil may easil 
the aa 
observed to be taking the same course as the| further observed that the soil in | which the ation: 
others, Here then, I think it satisfactorily proved kerey is an extremely rich alluvial earth, ki 
experiment mei ese thre e allof| We have no doubt that many of our reade 1 
them referable to a single spe ecie he changes ho are. interested in propagation, will k 
indicated have taken gre in individua ls; they, | discover in what way to apply M ACHAT 
however, mai heir distinctive characters process to other plants besides Pear and Peach thy 
under the following Renal he This method, be it observed, is iffy. 
He also succeeded in the course of 10 years in| from what Duruy calls fente-bouture, `a way 
“ennobling” the wild uneatable Parsnep, just as | working Vine r on old stocks; butitis E 
MORIN succeeded with the wild Carrot. It is | e skilful, inasmuch as i if the rae fails 
not a little singular, however, that Mr. Buckman stock r es no injury, e this fets 
could make no impression whatever upon the|bouture, which might be translated ld fti ca 
latter. ‘‘This,” he observes, ‘‘shows that we | ing, is quite Saini mong nslats 
cannot always command success in experiments of | Abbé’s account of it. Take 
this nature—some circumstance or other ma. least from four yes; 
cleft ints 
ashes; an 
aah oy so that the Vine 
5 MOL 
scion is laid i 
far art its — state as Erana Beet, and 
ca advanced beyond their ‘wild 
conditi 
_ ALTHOUGH the GRAFTING wae = os ; 
| called Mannington’s 
| account of the o; 
r 
MANNING TON’S Pran MANE 
: Reinette Platte de Cham 
THE prim mitivo Pearce an 
varieties of fruit tre 
Pearmain. 
work on the appe at pp. 131, 132, a Ee 
is variety. 
Lans 
ja 
the ringing the 
sides of ait ah stuck into contact, the b 
each having b reviousl 
form two plane 
ns | together wi 
wax, 
n be tween the 
a the stock 
of one: the ee a a gated aioe As the second | . 
asle plant on its o 
But ais must a Ms 
his unim 
arth Peace! 
here alluded to may be thus 
juscula, 
_ ovina, duri 
no botanist would 
tot uca 
Po stu: 
rubra, and eee lost in a | 
Pear 
great measure Bre ah distinctive 
be surprised 
aracters, ut 
at ‘that, the specifo) 
pr 
cuttings from 20 to nod inches long, a 
pushed their lower ends fro m 6 to 8 in ches 
4 4} 
dw 
| Hort rticultural Society’ ea Catalogue, 
il ae that this ide ati cal with 
va 
meme n a 
‘authority w Sess. the e present timel 3 
hich 
but little Kaw or eren in in France. 
Aa ci 
fais 
oi sent it to him under 
Champagne. 
period from w. 
pete at Uckfi 
tionable, even in the absence of experiment, as to 
What was 
to unite 
the e gradual | § 
have led rece: 
joalegs 
Festuca ? 
able aa 5 In three great changes | 
ad been wro a ht Pe under: ist. loliacea : 
‘ ti o 9] ii sati 
a a 
On 
operated on. As soon as the latter 
had grown so 
far as to show leaves and flowers 
, the scions and 
ted ; 
ad sproute ; nt | Am 
| for want of bd Aged ay ery The same hig C 
1a] with the Pear cuttings 
thé experiment o perfect 
25 ose sw th Fese teras and | 
Pec tron tos worked tho = 
amakc were Aen se and secured in the | beca 
A eyes only being left peas 
it yi) 4 
foreign 
is 
bh k: 
th Verdun or other par 
of. A 
eld, 
tis =e that Turley, a 5 
cation n 1770 wi ke 
tha a he sent scions 
some ama 
re Tonghe, Brussels. 
—_— Oe 
ON THE NATIV. is peas, OF TECOM: 
“In is well inna AEA a are of Aust 
ican, 
e rine 
anant, a 
decide what is foreign and what nai e i TE s5 
category ] 
