Ocroper 27, 1860.] THE -GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 855 
extended far enough e ground to be trained | already been introduced, but I have never learned from village of Les Trois Tours near Vilvorde, by M. M 
under the ak r the. a story. Solong as the | whence. At this moment I have a fine e plant of each in | Van Mons’s erg Prof, Bia: caisne alata that I hga 
Bougainvill onfined to the eastern will it pro- | 12-inch pots, w ich ise in a few weeks to be} has seen Hi uit it 3 rom a wall which measured 
duced to ae straggling. imper erfec' ctly colou red | covered with ayer hint hf 4 feet 6i f 5h i inches = leads, a & Mathes a 
blossoms. Bat when to 5 feet high, something more, through having diameter, nia which we RRA ed 2 lbs. 3} ounces. 
1 the building, throw- been trained i: yea shape to admit of pid bein Poire du Tilloy.—Fruit small or middle-sized, oblong, 
They are plunged nt at the ends, a little contracted in the middle ; 
ing their shoots i in wild eo Be over the cornice, Pigg 
me rich m 
placed wae to a wall for yy a 
in t the fo ot of the 
fact 
at each returning spring became 
glo A colour for toan ny weeks, 
intercepted by growing tre as dis- 
tatty M reani Dle at Aie PaA more aiai a i mile 
The branches Bis to the full morning sun on 
e the eid was 
_ Befor 
the north par of the gardener’s cottage. 
been starved since the summer by want of pot room 
and moisture, but within the jaa 15 days have been 
well supplied with water and liquid manure, „Already 
blu 
stalk straight, thick, e 
t | open, no ; skin 
e | with 'ferruginou s 
olive yellow at its insertion ; eye 
ecks, h white, rke Piei elt- 
ing, juicy, a with aight, bee Fa med, but 
not musky. sha: wag end of 
October Bd begin 
eastern wall scarcely e yo r ER sige ever in profusion, 
ears Intai a secon nd pi was turned out t 
sth’ D, 
t gly a ners | and more of b 
a constitution), the gable me val of 
wi 
thet are idv very different (being m 
may be distinguished. | 
uch | 
cottage with a full mer es aspect. Thi 
Tess she! It ter red fro om frost than the other, the mere is 
of eae upon the old variety growing close 
numerous ] laterals are repeatedly shortened ‘in during | 
eh 
A paa along ben fhe 
other T will write Bo by the n mail, and 
Paris. 
shed from the ground upwards with yo ung § spray, | 
not erbendtin on above 10 or a fered from the wall. 
Even at this distance they ne im 
With our two lar 
pene 
s junction; eye aot more or peed 
sunk; skin dull Brech yellow, marbled ane Fong 
with "russet, obscurely tinged w. ith r 
Flesh firm or half m iz ng, 
ahi 
rge Pants 3 it is usual every year, 
| afte er t tha f + 
s gf EE AS 
niey, sage, 
g ery goo eason; ay, and 
l ariety appears to me been obtained 
to a 
Thi: 
arde, Belgium Cauwenberghe, 
es 
xposed slg eae falls 
ugust to cs ne this Pa ako thir 
one riers of magnificent bloom, and before the br aa 
fect ods. ip 
} 
x youn pd al as toar and mee 4 are again 
miea 8s the © Catalogu of the arcana A Exhi- 
shortene 
pped a as requisite; only 
not like to co ae this system 
more than absolutely 
ced, 
but, oa the r hand, in bsg 
Annales de Toia, Belge, itis ai nibeil Bouvi 
mon 
glass, and as pots were filled with roots ve givi siderable co 
lib manure. By making iea ENR <= tities of which are 
uae end of five or “six. weeks they were perfectly beau- consumed in Paris. The fra t, when it is produced 
near railways, is al 
but t growing p hea or festoons of the richest shades of| 
_ Groseillier Cassis (Ribes nigrum) rar yar. Gros Cassi sis de 
5, Sole, for | the Doyenné 
ft 
seems evid a hat it is the influ gts requisite after the autumn is well advai Poire Muscat Lallemand.—Fruit rather large, ax 
ditions upon the young shoots and foli will sot 7 “stopped even sud rh or Pri binate, s e a ne side than the other; 
cause of the free Hon Ad and not any par nat ns eae degrees of frost. Wim. Macarthur | stalk middle-sized, curved, thickened at its insertion; 
of the roots. In both the above cases the foundation eye level with the top; skin sprink 
of the walls ren whi ich they are planted i PERLE SE AOE" Mii Ka H yee i esh y 
“pigeon-holed ” beneath the surface, to permit the roots yellowis Ae Y, mus y, somew. 
E through to revel, during t eats of summer, Notices of lites ingent, with a Tittle « of ce yaw eh: but less 
in the cool damp earth “peo the floors, The original agre ble, ovember till March. _ g 4 
— has a considerable extent of surface trained, as I Ie Jard din Fruitier du “Mauston, ou Teonographie | Vigorous and fertile. This is included among t 
have said, with an sa a aspect, which hardly ever t variétés T arbres fruiters cul- | good Pears by La Quintinye; it may be distinguished 
‘owe ; EE very bit of spray which turns the Sue te cet établissement t, &e. &e. Par J. Decaisne. | from the’ Royale @ Hiver, with which it is often con- 
angle of the building so as to get the full influence of} 4% Paris, Firmin Didot. Parts 25 to 36. + by Ha eyo beg coe 170) Wich De. ona Oh ae 
the meridian sun in the winter months, covers itself Continued from p. 935.) fruit, instead of b sunk, as is the ease with 
with rich blossom. Your readers m ere reminded! BAe denk Danaa i Pie aché—The fruits are | that of the Royale d’Hiver. The Poir lexandre 
that in this latitude, a full meridian aspect against a generally smaller than those of the type, and taper Lambré, described in the Annales de Pomologie 
wall is by no means the hottest during the sammer, | more regul of a pale | Belge, 1854, app the sa the Muscat 
especially if there be rais or other slight pro- | green, with very little russet, exhibits yellow stripes, | Lallemand, but different from the round Pear described 
jection ane in E e sun’s rays being so| more or less broad, which extend fi ton the ar to the |and figured under the same name in the Album 
nearly ve fisse hn Sh eats are nearly | eye. The nature of the ffesh and the peri ae the Pomologique of Bivort. f. Decaisne further 
Rieni o a ren Se ant cana suffer. Very different is maturity of this variety biti wai that the f; t ne of Knoop has no 
the ~ th an or western aspect. Our | Saint-Germain. logy with the sort descri d red, » oo 
or ginal B vil i mt with the for ee was somewhat _, Froseillier Versaillais (V ersailles Red Currant).— work before us, but resembles the Martin Sec 
indisereetly too closely FS, n during the hot weathe Red Dutel ds the | to the figures gy Ss a She Pomona A e ws 
an ain stem, suddenly deprived of ef bias e shelter, size of the ber: The bunches are always very com- | well as in the r of Noisette, they are, as 
although above 30i eis in circu arly HAN consisting wally © 15 berries, as large as a wild | usual, ome from De Ae 
cee et a short distanc se aon Cherry, glossy, ofa fine red colour, andall ripening a at the | Poir e De Do, oyenné Rous. —Fruit middle-sized, of the 
S niaii y 
Bougainville Pe 8 to 10 inches in me Impériale, Victoria, Ki &ec., are not | essed at both ends; stalk short, ae ataigh or 
diameter, “te immediately ired for E rr Ba distinct to gers eek d scriptions: ki curved, = at itsi aa eye in a regularly 
seattle on and we > did not t wish to give t For some Currants a the bushes as la formed shallow depr rs moot = ae 
shift ; so they were put on one side—neglected, in fact— | November, necessary to remove wes of ie tng daa becoming red as the maturity. 
until their growth w. ite stopped for want of water, | and to apata fa the pona pn stra Flesh h white, very fine, Ser rote perfumed, not 
and the leayes nearly all fell off. They were rely | fruit has approa aul a turity. 
kept alive throughont the winter; but getting a season- | be chosen for this eie the frui ras yes aeeeg The tree is a good bea bearer. "Dot, Decne 
able drenching during a rainy period, we noticed that | served from the action of Huq suf which would othe. | states that the Poire Emilie Bivort is closely allied to 
they began to show blossom-buds. They were at this wise dry it up, and from the pillage of certain birds | the above, if not identical. |In England th Doyenné 
time plants with stiff upright stem 3 feet high of it tie in the . The fields | Roux, which is the same as the Doyenné Gris, is higher 
requiring no support, furnished more or less with spra rants which wa REE in be > Vanity of | flavoured than the Doyenné Blanc, although thé latter 
and long flexible shoots. They were placed under a} Paris, in the comm SE é- | 1S paged i 
e 
wee opt under fay 
vay Ris ich rained against a wall, 
are ap he pene ibe? and 
comparatively favours, 4 
ntinued.) 
Plato’s Doctrine gpa the rotation of the Earth. 
purplish cr: [Bl figured, but not specially os Geo. Grote, mane Fre In an essay of me 
why this s case he roots had been starved from want of describe) .—The Black Currant, in its wild state 
in Kamtschatka f the three 
sti ats from heat. Thibet, the Himalayas, Candahar, a at | following questi 
They had been confined in = 
bee a br rae acd the maximum temperatur 
e n the shade, whilst He mini- 
mak ote pred to 30°, s sometimes 
wer; tå think, then, I may fairly assume ‘that 
stron: 
and in Cas 
an elevation of 10,000 to 13,000 ee Tts penetrating 
odour arises from an essential oil ontained i in E 
of 
%, Whether the ppa 12 fof the —, rotation is afirmed ar 
2. If 
l| glands with which the surface 
is furnished, and which likewise exist in most of t the 
“ae is stated as follows: 
the north-west of America (Ribes san- | 
alm atu n, &e.). So on 
Pla to co ariig the kosmos as one animated 
the iier memg bué that i may be . pa e interesting ep r- 
in specimens ns quite small by Tain their a ached ‘ticular hi l s i g eing or god, composed of body and soul. 
i » by withholdi ng water afte er the end of gauner ho the Pi to which the Black C i | Tes ly is moved ae i ne k by. its sa, “which js 
es and by exposing fixed or rooted in the centre, bat pies tches to the cir- 
Possible, when fis desired i rare rr into fiore er,|  Groseillier Rouge (Ribes rubrum) [common Red | cumference on all sides, as well as raii exteri 
years xoot, I am p per: | Currant ant ].—This.is met with. of-rivulets, | It has hekia 
1 that an nte gardener could hava failo in P mewhat moist. aad spaes, _It is a fsame 
ons: 68 & have yet to learn what I ae dered native of Northern Europe, the mountains of India, at | most worthy of a rational 
whens, as a pot plant, ean be produced fr om it. T recol- | from 6000 to 9000 feet of elevation, and likewise of | revolutions of the : e 
i at a very small size, bu North America, This species has given rise to the Red | the Same) d on and termined by the ı 
particulars T hav Dute ite Dutch, and other cultivated varieties. | lutions of the solid cylinder or axis, which traverses 
At Paris, in 1855-57, I made Pete with the| Poire Diel—Fruit Eee Jango, variable in form piro ie 1A saris: a om sabe ah ok 
wd intelligent gardener who had charge of t kbo ier ge | turbinate, pyriform, guns. prer Stalk — ore epleg matin gina glad = 
e Jardin des Plan regularly- ed cavity, | which rotate by distinet variable pulses in. 
Palms and hard wooded plants, ntos which conta wre OE RE et goi i nibs 3 opposite to the eo pono 
a distinet species of i - | is so Sie; > 1t .catries 
true B. spectabilis, end that iE pr odneed bios said AOne skin tit aoe sprintiel with brown dots inter- pers = with itz yet: they ike good, to a 
La brillian nt than the, ‘known speci end of au . An abundant | a. extent, their own m we ve] 
pproach lour, and, h tikeh bearer. Tie Paice De fel for Beurré Diet wis namo named after | which causes their Aga aoia. dik o ; 
more beautiful. I think also he mentioned ie 7 the | August - Frederic - Adrian Diel, 3 Chea yE ‘movement aT te 
Brazils, where he had been collec » there are several | German Pomologist, au se of several ‘cae vers pry uniform, Si hci P of the solid axis, 
other species or varieties with rns of different hues. and among others, , _Versuc ch einer _systematisc n | kosmos, consists i tof the exterior si 
Through the kindness of Prof. Decaisne T obtai which determines, tha nits to thia egal 
pe of this spec! hither, which I succeeded | sorten [Attempt at a systematic description of of jet The impulse or stimulus cater ate 
upwards rote ears since, I found howev ting in German ¢ 
thate ther the same, or © aiiother species very on it, hed ies a R R ane found, kan. a name, in the | at this point is pe bak the earth, ‘ the oldest and m 
