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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
| Novemzrr 17, 1860. 
inherent constitutional difference in the plant, or dis 
oo of the fruit, either as reg gards as possesion of | 
hav: Seen 
sent examples of 
since esq had 
rot which, “had sient 
1849. Thes 
Apples, the produce of 
romig and fruiting ever 
been managed on the Ha mil- 
places removed from the equator. 
As, for instance, in 
vegetables, the crop of fruit in one occurrence will p 
zaten : 
eppen aun that in the other; or there will bea crop of 
Eg E and in the otlier only a crop of blosso oms, 
ie 
Muscat, and therefore can offer 
i that thie re P aista a 
scat, and the 
ey, and is in 
Ja Lapa of the rry, fruits fre 
a A . A. Cramb, 
be 
every way identical with yes agg Mus 
The Ga rdens, To rtwo 
Ag ur readers _ tell 
27 feet in length 
of the 
cut at one time. 
a 
red 
weigtiod abou! 
12 Fares in he eight. 
awarded. ‘Among some 
9 
and 7 feet 1 
width, 
e plants as ont as hte fruit are sometimes 
he s Black J 
it bens the ees EEA, as the ole 
is more a yes And as 
™ 2 
g'g 
t 
Jate Grapes fu fur nished fr 
he | make less 
3 
he summer phenomena in all tropical - 
of 
reson that a my of you cannot fruit 
that I bring him from Ttaly, 
tains of Switzerland 
undantly. The 
y grow bea 
‘The te 
“a kind called Mor 
lay than Old 
White 
of Pear: 
esd gona eae 
ciret 
blown from the stool, 
ip trus: 
s 
eatin “Orchard House Trees.—I have read with | 
some amusement the a ici ve of * .” on my 
use trees. 
to find trees 
amy! 
in pots. 
po 
on three bricks, g a triangle, Ma A DA of | 
for the water to escape. The trees had been 
twice or thrice dr abe with i manure, 
d abundan Riy watered with soft water. 
ani They 
were in 13-inch pots, and I have en om or never 
seen, such , vigour, of growth; it seemed scarcely 
bushes 
could derive i they | W 
required to support such a crop of 7 foliage, shoots, Prag am f their new Monstrous i 
and fruit, fom the small quantity of aoa con- | XO ny 
tained in a pot of that size, In this hones we | Some good specimens of Parley were exhibited, and | a 
had an opportunity of comparing th of an Turner, of Slough, sent some very Jarga Leeks, 
Feaches under three different modes “of oul- | Some of which wagi “an Ibs.; the 
ture. The wall was covered with old Peach | blanc part m 10 i ength and 6% 
tre n it; the fruit on these was very large, inches in ci leoni terend They ware eae d Henry’s 
the crop being thin, ie on the e alier rs wer Taree, E a variety w whi ch has been oen successfully e cog nn in | 
old story "about precept 
that |A 
Bosc 
mas 
Mr. Stri ick 
advisable Sotsid hen 
for pee 
ary | Cour’ Wic 
flavour kie flat and Perrien . Glegg, Esq. 
came a handsome large green Appl without name, It 
Canada. stated to b 
| resembled Reinette Kir 
sh 
season of the yea 
ai _considere 
from 
ng they w of very g 
inert to be attributed to the "ba 
ripen 
be Sear well flavoured, an 
py bi them at future meetings as ae beca 
black 
ee a t much better 
on 
e 
places except the equator, and the smallness of thio: 
be according to the distance of the place 
r 
A ale ction 
ciety’ s garden 
from the equator.” 
„_ The author then adduces the evidence upon which: he 
ve this year 
occurrence of two sum nd t 
in various Ria “of the sa att Ss; and petro = r 
subjec ct by the ma £ a life. 
“ By such pro oof, ,” he * “the double seasons , 
o tes ess th: an 42 differe nt 
Jal 
e 
yl it of M arie Louise. ae 
o ia pida 
eedlin; ng Apple came from Mr. Reid, of Sydenham ; 
Pg pail Golden 
Noble, 
stated to be a good 
ie a October till Rag cine Mr. 
eedlin 
by 
| u universal p 
orthern an sout. at m wasay in te th the easter rn and - 
estern hemispheres ; thus establishin, ng, beyond 
the e reach of controversy the important fact i ihop 
Also, by similar proofs, 
courses has bee prea in 
x months’ 
i so extensive 
| existence of the 
3 countri ries an 
ha 
o 
winte converging of the 
latter gett Tee not been so largely exhibited, 
Nor, indeed, could it be pes pres as instances of them 
nomena. And 
vw 
t pisu tl 
phe: 
are ee a few peer tom naing life; for, in i a 
animals mo ve al 
ed as sb 
A 
and are therefore ces 
e it| that eed stationary. These fast autem could 
nd ther 
at be suppli lied 8 ke an 
may reside i pics 
> 
a ia 
p y go. into 
va fora tinie. } 
ey were well Rag ex 
with hay scp "erking wt good fruit. Fro th 
s. Lee 
nyse 
n England 
espaliers, This is the only pA Read in which I 
have seen reagh, trees trained as golin and the 
effect. of these, a row eat planted o side o 
f 
the central ea iş very charming. i writing these 
few lines it must be understood that I have not a word 
be. 
Notices 
as it show 
ae s. 12mo, 95. 
i market | hae can answer Lyd hag I an wish to 
combat the idea that trees in pots must necessarily 
ro; 
his 
pit 
The Six Months’ Seasons of the fit 
of 300kg. 
By James 
pp- 95. Longm 
N this small volume the au athar attempts to prove 
that i in 7 nm Srana ther 
is 
er- | Honeye 
ither in a work of his ow 
cals of the day. But 
e only 
publish ee observations € 
of the scientific ' periodi 
mths’ 
“oS 
o, 
latitude. great 
mistake of the r Smas Coffee growers, who cultivate a 
tree in a climate so uncongenial that one of the cro p 
is near rly 
J 
It is for those who are personally familar with , 
tro lial countries to pronounce a judgment upon 
Mr. Lees’ theory, and we howled 4 ie know what our 
tropical correspondents have to 
Routledge’s Illustrated Natural History, Part XXL. 
ogeupied by the history of Hoopoes, S unbirds, 
irds, o of "ahh. a glittering creatures there are 
nae excellent figure: 
en 
rious and ver Y able ‘editor, to give an hda 
small fruit, Apropos of this aineet an orchard- | and two w cee an d one winter = es 
homie friend has just written to as follows. “The T apposed. =a a circumstance entirely o 
Pippin h ed with rat ti This | °° y other writers, ev 
R 28% %9 7 inches high e very na or Me É SiE — ae have expected to have received some 
Apples, si ; ef, a for an Apple unt of t —by Humboldt, pie ois and Buffon, 
R i well as b ape ama of our o n astronomy, è 
treg in a13 inch pot. z. R s Keill Tore Ferg Emerso: ha to ast ns 
Sari house, and Sir John Herschel. So se itet they 
Societies. ie heen pita totally disre gardod, Oh at the 
ape ave me ut a passing notice. 
aan Nov. 8.— as went ate go After eras as the question in an astronomical 
From Mr. ater of the ay al Nurse int of view, he proceeds iis 
Celosia aurea in the form of a large o bushy anak joaded 
with handsome as rere St 
d 
Ta tenes 
a} a | animal and 1 vegetable 
ouble sammer and win 
life. 
consider the. effect: of a 
pon the phenomena of 
fig 
are an ‘cing ii ur LA 4 work a reference on 
all at connected with „the T ni inc clu ded in, big 
des f the 
the most 
hi 
"hylan eb 
e 
t 
~~ meeting by Mr. Crowder, 
h ybrid Gesneras raised | 
ernati 
innabarina and piota were shown by Mr. } gators, li TR pa 
effects we must, 
same cause.” Apna 
and 
mals—The 
ting of ‘ids the 
Nhe lambing and ki yew 
| S cemaeces $e f bats; F 
hyb 
vinea, p parent of the crimson Cockscomb. 
been raised from ı imported seeds. A pc group 
berried japonica came from Mr. 
This had 
of the red 
Noble, of jo 
and o 
12 months’ s seasons upon 
nce a y and for the 
them 
Symondsin of upright Kan rg wee Box 
and. 
hin ne sin That we doin p 
en ongs 
saa ‘vegetables, the fale Sad Gea m mi leaves, 
he | and the nee 
En ne a 
in natural philosophy i E e that So given in 
Chap. IL), is the pe el 
natural 
ee JERE 
as possible, assign the 
so Ny ae aria the same 
Ei 
e 
laces beyond | ` 
may- te enumerated 
fruiting of — 
ication: vitae ation, and 
‘shedding of the ace of deer ; 
sheep and goats; the 
penta ‘the 
sea is to make 
sam apap :—1. The double 
a year. 2. And in 
d shrubs. | 
which involve the: 
ther ae o 
me 
act details 
application ate tne sioner of e 
emistry. 
To include. o oe of science 
such com 
dial ioformation Ree ide the anata, > 
ly pence “he history and value degie 
CERA aeg 
of 
say that i in all im 
skil 
deny that the three volumes 
t admirable of the works of 
the present da; 
ike oval lea 
ves, Sn eae 
brought for eodh b 
Zealand Ferns were tion by Mr. Stn by 
MNES Wro, 
December; and tl 
pe 
principal features of the six mon seasons 
peealiar. 3. In the great and little summers 
affect npon them of the t 
wilk hal 
and 
Garden 
HORTICULTURAL 
Gona- Gus saaria will be. : pai te 
the “Had of ae Committee). — Mr. Os Je, gt 
A ae P 
Hamaga eee Ea 
