. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. al, we should Ithink have discovered it here, as we have it indoorsand out ; and in both instances it has been in use someten or twelve years, but although this is the case wenever find a shoot affected except through pressurecaused by tight tying, and the wood is green enoughthis winter to have suffered, if frost has anything todo with it—for here the thermometer fell to within4° of zero, and yet the worst trees we have are thosethat are nailed, the joints of the bricks there beingbroken and damp. J
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. al, we should Ithink have discovered it here, as we have it indoorsand out ; and in both instances it has been in use someten or twelve years, but although this is the case wenever find a shoot affected except through pressurecaused by tight tying, and the wood is green enoughthis winter to have suffered, if frost has anything todo with it—for here the thermometer fell to within4° of zero, and yet the worst trees we have are thosethat are nailed, the joints of the bricks there beingbroken and damp. J. .5. If those who conteinplaie wiring their Peach walls have decided to have the joints pointed atthe same time, they need, for their own and theiremployers interests, to look very sharply afterthose whom they employ to do the work, or the con-sequences may be of such a nature as will takea year or two to rectify. As a caution to others, Iwill briefly state what occurred here last year. Itwas decided to have two of the Peach walls wiredand also pointed, men from a neighbouring building. Fig. 56. —.\ VILLAGE LICTURK, FROM THE LIFE. (SEE I. 304.) from being blown over by the wind. The latter isseldom high enough to snap over the trunks of trees,biit using the top as a leverage it upheaves the rootswith their covering soil en masse, and thus throwsthe trees over. By sufficiently weighting the rootseither with soil or other heavy matters the wind-power would be vanquished by inert dead weight overthe roots, and the trees would thus be enabled towithstand the fiercest gales. D. T. Fish. A Hardy Broccoli.—The gardener at Black-adder, Berwickshire, iMr. Reid, at which place 23°below zero was registered this winter, told me to-daythat, notwithstanding this severity of cold, he had afine lot of Broccoli, which had stood entire withoutinjury. On asking the name of the variety he saidIt was Russian or Millers Dwarf, a kind that he gotfrom Dicksons & Co., of Edinburgh. In seasonss
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