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THE rLOS.yj WORLD AND GAEDEN GUIDE. 



described by Von Siebokl; and he dre-.v 

 attention to the plant upon tlie table, Cailo- 

 bogyne ilicifolia, a feniile Kuphorbiaceous 

 shrub, the male flowers of whieU have never 

 yet been seen, and wliich, nevertheless, for 

 the last twenty years, has produced its 

 .mnual crop of fertile seeds in Kew Gardens. 

 Not only can we find numerous cases of 

 agamogenesis similar to that exhibited by 

 Apliis in the animal and vegetable worlds, 

 but, if we look closely into the matter, aga- 

 mogenesis is found to pass by insensible 

 gradations, into the commonest phenomena 

 of life. All lift', in fact, is accompanied by, 

 incessant growth and metamorphosis ; and 

 every animal and plant above the very 



lowest, attains its adult form by the deve- 

 lopment of a succession buds. When these 

 buds remain connected together, we do not 

 distinguish the process as anything remarli- 

 able; when, on the other hand, they become 

 despatched and live independentl}', we have 

 ajamou'eufsis. Why, some buds assume 

 one form, and some another, why, some 

 remain attached, and some become detached, 

 we know not. .Such phajnoraena are fur the 

 present the ultimate facts of biological 

 science ; and, as we cannot understand the 

 simplest among them, it would seem useless, 

 as yet, to seek for an explanation of the 

 more complex. 





CHRYSANTHEMmiS. 



THE FOI/LOWING WERE THE PEINCIPAL WINNING FLOWEES OP 1857. 



StoTce Newincjton. — (6 large kinds.) Mr. 

 Argent. Albyn, Defiance, Phidias, Chris- 

 tine, Pliitus, and Madame Camerson. — Mr. 

 James had Vesta, Albyn, Christine, Mount 

 Etna, Plutus, and Pilot.— Mr. Scruby. 

 Defiance, Madame Camerson, General 

 Havelock, Salter's Annie, and Dupont de 

 i'Eure. — (6Pompoue3.) Mr. Holland, of 

 Hounslow. Bob, Duniflet, Cedo Niilli, 

 Brilliant, Pliiie d'Or, Compte Vigier. — Mr. 

 Wortiey. Duruflet, Brilliant, Drin Drin, 

 Eiquiqui, Cedo Nulli, and Sainte Thais. — 

 Mr. Scruby. Tropliee, Drin Drin, Duru- 

 llet, Madame Eoussillon, Bob, and 

 Graziella.— (24 cut blooms.) Mr. Wort- 

 ley. Themis, Plutus, Arigina, Beauty, 

 Annie Salter, Lysias, Goliah, Nonpareil, 

 Madame Miellez, Pio None, Aristee, Du- 

 pont de I'Eure, Rosa Mystica, Hermine, 

 Madame Andre, Eacine, Versailles, 

 Defiance, Elizabeth, Stella globosa, Miss 

 Kate, Marquis de MoUeville, Stafford, 

 L'Emir, Formosum. — Mr. Bird. Anaxo, 

 Arigina, King, Themis, Trillby, Goliah, 

 Queen of England, Nonpareil, Madame 

 Lebois, Hermione, Stralibi'd, Versailles, 



Defiance, Plutus, Pio Nono, Formosum, 

 Stella globosa. Miss Kate, Voltaire, Albyn, 

 Warden, and Dupont de I'Eure. — (12 cut 

 blooms ) Mr. Monk. Alfred Salter, The- 

 mis, Queen of England, King, Anaxo, 

 Goliath, Nonpareil, Beauty, Plutus, Cln-is- 

 topher Columbus, Trillby, Dupont .de 

 I'Eure. — Mr. Oubridge. Nonpareil, 

 Arigina, Themis, Madame Andre, Queen 

 of England, Plutus, King, Miss Kate, 

 Dupont de I'Eure, Voltaire, and Hermine. 

 — Mr. James. King, Queen of England, 

 Themis, Beauty, Goliath, Nonpareil, 

 Dupont de I'Eure, Anaxo, M. Miellez, 

 Plutus, and Formosum. — (6 Anemone 

 flowered.) Mr. Wortiey. M. Godderau, 

 King of Anemones, Gluck, Marguerite 

 d'Aiijou, Fleur de Marie, and Nancy de 

 Sermet. 



[The above is published to meet the 

 wishes of several correspondents, who 

 complain of the omission of the list from 

 the Garden Oracle. We may add, that 

 the winners of 1858 were, with very few 

 exceptions, the same as 1857.]] 





COilPAEATIVE PEODUCTIVENESS OP SIX VARIETIES OP 

 POTATOES. 



The varieties enumerated were planted 

 in rows of fifteen yards each, in a garden 

 with a dry sub-soil, the top spit of which 

 was very rich with manure — perhaps, too 

 rich for the production of sound and well- 

 keepipg tubers. The produce in sound and 

 diseased is stated in pounds. 



Sound. Diseased. Total. 



