. The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. substitute for the climate required to develop a Gum tree fairly. Even those inthe south of England and Ireland, where the climate is mild, never a£sumetheir true character from the want of sufficient heat.—Ed.] The Virginian Cedar in Winter.—The Red Cedar, when it grows mnatural luxuriance, is sometimes loaded with beautiful purple berries, whichmassed among its dark evergreen foliage, present an exceedingly ornamentalappearance. By selecting the berry-bearing trees in their wild localities, astrikingly ornamental
. The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. substitute for the climate required to develop a Gum tree fairly. Even those inthe south of England and Ireland, where the climate is mild, never a£sumetheir true character from the want of sufficient heat.—Ed.] The Virginian Cedar in Winter.—The Red Cedar, when it grows mnatural luxuriance, is sometimes loaded with beautiful purple berries, whichmassed among its dark evergreen foliage, present an exceedingly ornamentalappearance. By selecting the berry-bearing trees in their wild localities, astrikingly ornamental efTect might be produced.—J. J. Thomas. Andersons Oak (Quercns Andersoni), a new species of Oak from theSikkim Himalaya, was the subject of a paper read by Dr. King at ft late meetingof the Linnean Society. It is the •? Katoos of the Nepaulese, and one of thevery tinestot Indian forest trees. It is closely related to Q. spicata, but is metwith at higher altitudes, and will probably prove a valuable tree for our garden*uni woodlands, Feb. 26, 1876.] THE GARDBK Sol. ^02 THE GARDEN. [Feb. 26, 1876. THE FRUIT GARDEN. FALLACIES IN FRUIT based upon extreme ideas when applied to gardeniugmatters, as in the case of most other things, is rarely often owes its origin to insufficient knowledge possessed bythe individual with whom it originates on the subject withwhich he endeavours to deal. It might be supposedthat appliances and methods of cultivation thus ingeni-ously foisted on the public would quickly die a naturaldeath; but such is by no means the case, for it often happensthat for a time at least they are endowed with a vitality thatwell-nigh defies the clearest proof of their worthlessness, forno matter how glaring their inconsistency may be, or howclearly they are shown to be useless, they rise again hydra-like. Some twenty years ago the wonderful discovery wasmade that growers were all wrong in cultivating hardy fruitin the open air according to
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