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Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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be maintained by the non-removal of treesoverthrown by the wind and those of a larger growthwhich die. The shooting of wild birds has beenstopped, and the number of wild ducks breedingat Waustead has greatly increased. In theearly part of last year it was resolved to take acensus of tho deer, and tho operation provedone of considerable difficulty, but out of fourcensuses three were practically identical, audthese indicated that tho fallow deer numberabout 130, and tho roe deer about thirteen, alarge increase. Westminster Gazette, February 1,1897. The lines in italics are our own, and point toa mischievous practice not favoured by foresterswho have charge of forests and plantations iucivilised countries. To poi mit dead and decay-ing timber to remain any longer in a forestthan iu absolutely necessary is simply toafford breeding and hiding-places for insectsinjurious to trees, and centres from whichmany species of fungi inimical to the life February 6, 1S6?.) THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 93
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FlQ. 2C—ROSE-ARCADE AT PLEASURE-GROUNDS OF LUTON HOO. (slF P. 95.) 94 THE GABDENEBS CHRONICLE. (February 6, 1897. and well-being of trees may spread to thosewhich are sound. Of these injurious vegetableparasites we may merely mention Nectriacueurbitula, whose host-plant is usually theSpruce, and nioro rarely Scots Pine, Silver Iir,&c. N. ditissima, the cause of canker in theApple, attacks Hornbeam, Hazel, and Beech ;N. cinnabarina, whose mycelium penetratesinto all the elements of the wood, decom-posing the starch, in consequence of whichthe wood turns black. The Oak is subjectto many forms of canker, of which itwill suffice to mention Ayluosjwra Taleola,which attacks the smooth cortex of Oaks underforty years of age, causing it to die inpatches. A year afterwards, remarks Har-tig, in his Diseases of Trees, numerous roundor oval cushion-like stromata appear in thedead cortex. Later on these break throughthe periderm in one, two, or three places,further developments follow, and

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