The Gardener’s monthly and horticultural advertiser . HANDSOniC GREBNHOnSES. The anncxud cul is taken llie Catalogue ofMessrs. Weeks & Co., Uie oclobrutcd English Hot-house ^Ve iiilr«iduce it here to give some of our readersan idea how pretty these often very commonplacelooking affairs may be made to look by the exerciseof a little ingenuity and taste. PRUNING TREES AT TRANSPLANTING. An animated discussion is going on in the Frenchand German periodicals, as to the propriety of thispractice. Very few of the disputants appeal to facts,but to the principles of vegetable Physiolo
The Gardener’s monthly and horticultural advertiser . HANDSOniC GREBNHOnSES. The anncxud cul is taken llie Catalogue ofMessrs. Weeks & Co., Uie oclobrutcd English Hot-house ^Ve iiilr«iduce it here to give some of our readersan idea how pretty these often very commonplacelooking affairs may be made to look by the exerciseof a little ingenuity and taste. PRUNING TREES AT TRANSPLANTING. An animated discussion is going on in the Frenchand German periodicals, as to the propriety of thispractice. Very few of the disputants appeal to facts,but to the principles of vegetable Physiology,which is being drawn in by the ears by them, in muchabout the same way that poor nature is with us. To prune a tree at transplanting, says one of theleading German spirits, is opposed to the recognizedtheory of the saps descent, without which there canbe no extension of root growth ; and therefore themore branches left on a tree at its removal, the moreroots win be the result. It is said of some French philosopher, that, whentold that facts opposed his theory, he replied, somuch the worse for the facts. In this instance we can truly say, that if the prac-tice is opposed to the th
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