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Arr 7, 1860.] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND Een veee 2a mic 313 
pass. is Sane aS RE : whakla thai 
law sustains the lion in “his Sem art ye: aroi in her | generations, even become distinct ‘species pable 
pai oe and the fox in his wiles. ature, p 
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s of li a resets ai increase far dt ; is 
7 what is needed to supply the place of what rd life may, i n par oh Seow yn to the extreme fecuity of | mated existence, which does not administer to his ` 
by Time's decay, those individuals who possess not Nature, who, as Batre stated, oe s, in all the s of | wants pr ‘ineipally as laboratories of preparation to 
wA i A strength, swiftness, har dihoo d, 0 or cunning, fall her offspring, a prolific power much b Syon lQn any inas ruder elemental matter for asssimilation by his 
uisi cases a thousandfold) shah i is ibsdiiary “to fi 
prematurely witho or sinking Miler disease, generally vacancies caused by senile decay. As the field of eik 24 Much of the luxuriance and si of timber depend- 
ag“ b ik: of nourishment, their place being | ence is limited and pre-occupied, it is only the hardier, | ing upon the particular cred of the sped: upon the 
indu ‘ed by the more perfect of ae own kind, who are | more robust, better suited to mao teat R treatment of the seed befor sowi ing, | and u upon th 
eee Mf the means of subsisten who are able to eagle forward to m : urity, the ese treatment of the young pla nt, s l 
inhabiting only the situations to hiak t hey je lly under- 
“Throughout this ? — we hae fal felt considerable superior ` daptaton God Arealer “power of occupancy stood 5 DA 
inconvenience, ei h e Eu along been floundering | than any other kind; the ee less circumstance “The nsequences are now hak developed of our 
tion of plants, a thle Aaa Pino ce t enl- suited, being Soiled rely destroyed. This hen is | deplorable an of, or inattention to, one of the 
be a a species an h other. i rece opie constant action, it regulates ane colour, the figur most e traits of natural history, that v vegetables 
soften into Sr men p E: a: th e capacities, and instincts; wal: as edie are generally liable to an almost 
oF hl 4 species, whose col our ‘and covering | are best suited t limited diversifica lated by cli 
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vicissitude and inclemencies of climate, whose as is | varieties. In those with which man is most intimate, 
t | best accommodated to health, strength, defence, and and where his agency in throwing them from thei 
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pe : the ] physical energies to dvs -advantage ear to cir- | power of diversification in stronger shades, it, 5 
ence:to exist ci of eve E other, “Wea terre Ted |en | cumstances—in such immense wa primary and | forced upon his ndje, asin man himself, in the dog, 
h from that of e A i; a eik ful life, thor only" come forward to maturity from | horse, cow, pity Pel eee the e Apple, Pat, Plum, 
the strict ov deal by wh ich Nature tests their adapta- | Gooseberry, Potat 
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tion to her , colour, taste, firmines 
belon. ong to ‘ving p organised matter or rather E to the e con- their kind by reproduction. of texture, Te: of growt th, almost in every recogni 
ong a ase sede Be a iee Bo Hake me thehte, rom the unremitting oparahion of this law acting In all these Kinds man is influential in 
gements and changes a te ree it r- | in concert with the tendency which the progeny rie prev enting "deterior ation, by careful selection of the 
indeed by 5 agr. Mees SEE proof Se: SEa: ha sta to ta uke the ‘more particular paran of the par ents larges est most valu able ce in 5 h i hs 
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ar of ns oi ae aid the Hel ihood ene D togeth Aten a n pursue pss 
ave been very different in the differ 
and in abies ctive limitation to its own kin n animals, a growing varieties being so long of comin ng to produce 
iformity of figure, Ai ul character, | seed, that many plantations are befi y 
though steady in n each, tend ong ced to heighten t the ri nara e tituti cr Ae the breed gradually | reach this Mintai the small growing and weakly 
probability of the latter t ga acquiring the very best pasio adaptation of these to | varieties, known by early and extreme seeding, have 
“When we view the im menso a gibt HR bitu- its condition which it is susceptible of, and when alte- | been continually selected as reproductive stock, from the 
minous formations, principally from the nu and conveniency with which their seed could be 
atmosphere, and consider the ox idations and depositions to > these as far as its nature is susceptible of procur ed; and the husks of several kinds of these in- 
which have taken place e, either gradually, or during chan variably kiln-dried, in order that the seeds might be the 
some of the great convulsions, it appears at least. pro- rcumstance-adaptive law, operating upon | more easily extracted. May we, then, wonder that our 
bable, that. ‘the liquid | elements s containing life have the slight D but continued — disposition to sport in | plantations are occupied by a sickly short-lived puny 
the pro; geny (se edli ing v ariety), Coes not preclude the | race, ae ae of supporting existence in situations 
weight; that our atmosphere has contained z sae is yl here their ind had og Tk tency 
greater proportion of nd our | over thé: ‘configuration of the body. To examine into ticularly evinied in the genus Pin e particularly: 
e disposition to sport in the progeny, even when there | in the species Scots Fir ; so mach ‘Inferior to those of 
resulting from rta Sair of Gleaner have | ; only one parent, as in many vegetables, and. to a Me | Nature’s own rearing, where only the stronger, more. 
i tl arie can’ struggle forward to. 
f lime and other Bia 4 
solutions, Is the inference e then unphilosophic, that layer earn ss 
ave things which are proved itself during its progress x arity ; “We say that the rural economist i pa: Fed 
power—a very slight change of circumstance by depends upon external cireumstance, and kow far én | much regard to the breed or particular variety of his 
culture induci hid See oneng chan nge of cha ate ill, irritabili m r ion, is open to | forest — as he does to that of his ‘ive stock of 
1l the examination and experiment. In the first place, we horses, cows, and sheep. That nurserymen - should’ 
| ought to Che partie: its me ene) upon the ears. attest the Mra of their timber plants, ‘aiig Ba 
new Feitio, have sie ka ane diverging change- 
able e phenomena uaa stand pres va ed ex east or es. of former parentage; dl trees, ae fon te seed 
< id main before which the pair ae idiniin of the family, as Ball 28, of the in- of “the Demat Meher i also from that of 
and copes atin idual, must be embraced by our e: 2 aed ove idiin" 
, and mud, w ned between| «This premier of famil, Boe broken b; ie may be urperted to | sata an item progeny, . 
and ed thes e epochs, pr ‘obabl: Seetendials over the | casual particular berration, a tape, as well a | subject tö premature decay.” —See “ Naval Timber nw 
whole surface of the gobs, and destroying nearly all | corporeal, di Arboriculture,” pages 364 and 365, 381 piik 
living things, must have reduced e so. much, | or instincts of particular races of men. These ir innate or |106 to 108. Patrick Matthew, Gourdee Hill, we. 
that an unoccupied field ‘would bie formed Te new | continuous ideas or habits seem tionally er | N.B., March 7. 
sexual system of veget a life, which, from the er in n the insect tribes, end ig of shorter revolu- 
ee system of vegetables, and the natural instincts o tion; and form memory, may resolve - : 
d combine with their own kind, | much of the enigma of of tn and the fo vakasnwisdge THE DYING ORANGE CE AT VERSAILLES 
would a into Eya groups, these remnants, in the si these tribes have of what is necessary to com- UE.) : 
- oulding and accommodating their “a their round of life, aed this to ipite [Freely translated from a paper ate Carrière in the “Flore 
See, oie rrr the change of circumstances, and to ay des Serres.” ]. 
every possible means of -subsistence, and the millions of | is “Goo ing, my good friend ; wherein the name 
es of regularity which `a; to have followed of perceptio gr impressions, in re is igl of porecd an you cae of n from, that you look so miser- 
between the epochs, probably after this accommodation probables it. is even difficult in some to fem ain the pad a “The 
was Ne po affording fossil deposit of regular specific particular stops when each individuali ty 0 meinces, 
vent 
my 
. from rsailles Ah! you have come 
e A the different phases -of egg, a, pu jk cr if i» ae ‘from V ersailles, ade is natura etal since you 
only two probable ways of change—the much _consciow usness of Yor several i exists. The con-| went there; but what has that to do with making you 
shove, spite ‘the still wider deviation on prese by the | so sad—w ha t did you see there? Is the palace on 
ce—of indestructible or oleku life ( ends tothe p fire p” —u No, by good luck, for there is no water to 
prance to resolve itself into powers of -Aa on st Era of pie eater sietiettiy se a the put it out.” (This was written in’ July, ee 
repulsion under mathematical fi ge A regulation subdivisions Fe bye cuttings (even i in myer mt Tife) at | “ i: Gar the immense reservoirs built by Louis 3 
bearing a slight systematic simflitude e great livid they burst ?”—“No; but the continual dr rough’ 
aggregations of matter), ally witing a aia develop- ong the millions of specific Tai of living | has caused such a scarcity, that | if it were not for the 
ing itself into new circumstance-suited livin g aggregates, See which occupy the humid portion of the surface | Swiss piece of water they i 
without the presence of any mould or germ of former | of our planet, as far back as can be + rig , there a and the garrison, like everybody ‘else, would have been: 
gates, but this scarcely differs from new ae E not appear, with the exception of m o have been | forced to a. a retreat, and abandon the post? — 
only it forms a portion of a continued scheme or any ares gird engrossing race, fot ae fair sae “Well, but at is the matter than p? Much 
of pow cof oecupancy—or rathe er, most won nde rful | better or ratlier secs worse than that.”— euee, - 
“In endea g to trace, in the former way, t how PF yon run on orse Ben that! ‘alt ate at’ 
principle of these Yange of fashion which have me species, as a circumstance and species had gr 3 your silence and manner alarm m “Well, 
gta! Pag i ciles « of life, the following < questions | toge ether. ores are ep pro. races Z NN ie ‘he fact is that te the. Orange pl PE EIS 
early regions, but | and y “sais well” understand how it must grieve 
allied eo@teing Lote termediate species? Are they thediverg- | it is man poe tia: gh eee any general basen oo ’ an amnteùr like myself” soe The G : 
ing ramifications of the he living principle under modifica- dang to the existence of his brethren is to be|contemporar =n / 1 
HA of circumstance? Or have they resulted from th 
soned agency of both? Is there only one livi As far back as history reaches, man had already had is 
Principle? Does Sia ed existence, a d peta ing | iderable influence, and had encroachments | — "ae a fact t 
material consist i sites oa principle of | upon his fellow denizens, probably occasioning the de- ad it i is snot 
life capable of gradual cire sui ifica- | struction of many species, and the p 1 and con- 
tions and gre wi ithout bound tudor the solvent tinua tion ofa number of varieties or ota pecies, which troes, t es te elation eas OF 
Med mosion-giviig Principle, heat or light P There € Ltd 3 red or about to be 
more beauty and unity of design in this ity of th e occurred 
balancing of life to ci ce, and greater rome e ture, of which we have spoken, oat names to 
Kity deme enna of nature which are manifest | cannot maintain ‘uae ground without its culture and | co! 
0 us, in ruction and new creation. ` It is | protection. celebrated 
l that much of this diversification is owing to | z “It is, however, only in the present ge n jony S aa dak rales pie A 
hem of species nearly allied, all change by this | begun to reap the fruits of his tedious educa E ` snes Hen a la Sme piin en 
very limited, and confined within the bounds of | has proven how much ‘ is power.’ He has| iiiam to Fontainebleau, and finally KA 
_ What is newer rome the > Progeny of paren nired a “domi Tan n g lived ever since 1684, under the nam: 
` under great di of t n kerari geta le coo 5 power of increase, it Connétable, François I. 
