22—1846.] 
THE GARDENERS' 
CHRONI 
CLE. 355 
ORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.— 
EXHIBITIONS AT THE GARDEN.—The next Meeting 
"will take place on Saturday the 13th of June; subjects for 
Exhibition must be at this office on Friday the 12th, or at the 
efore Harr PAST Eramr o'clock, A.M., on the day of 
Exhibition. 
Orders from Fellows of the Society. 
.B. No Tickets will be issued in Regent-street on the day 
of Exhibition.—21, Regent-street. 
È OYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY REGENT'S-PARK. 
- The Second EXHIBITION this season of PLANTS and 
FLOWERS in the Gardens of this Society, will take place on 
NESDAY next, the 8rd of Junz. In the course of the day 
the three Military Bands will join and perform the following 
Overtures—'* Yelva," by Reisiger; *Freyschütz," by Weber; 
** Don Giovanni," by Mozart. i 
Subscribers to the Society are admitted free, Visitors are 
admitted by Tickets, to be obtained at the Gardens only by 
orders from Subscribers; price, until the day, 5s. each, or on 
the day of Exhibition, 7s. 6d. 
Promenades will continue to 
be held every Wednesday in 
‘the road from Park-square, over the bridge facing York-gate, 
to set down either at the Front Gate or at the New North 
Entrance icati i € 
tory. 
HREE SPLENDID NEW SEEDLING PETU. 
TAS, distinct varieties, colour and shape very good, 
have been inspected and approved of by Dr. Lindley (see Gar- 
deners’ Chronicle, July 5, 1845), and many good judges in the 
trade : 
P. AT 
by TRACTION, Convolvulus-shaped, beautiful pink, with 
pencilled centre, 3s. 6d. each. 
P. ENCHANTRESS, crimson pencilling upon a peach ground, 
fine, and very pretty, 3s. 6d. each. 
P. ALLIWAL, a splendid large, well-formed rich crimson va- 
riety, 3s. 6d. each, 
‘New Seedling GERANIUM, SIR HARRY SMITH, brilliant 
scarlet, with rich black eye—this bold and attractive flower 
merits a place in every good collection—7s, 6d. each. 
Best mixed Geraniums for bedding out, 6s. and 9s. per dozen. 
Applications, including post-office orders, will be immediately 
executed,— Direct to Mroun. Brewer, Nurseryman, London- 
road, Cambridge. 
N. hoice Cineraria and Petunia Seed, saved from the 
t sorts, 2s. 6d. per packet. 
B. BIRCHAM, Hedenham Rosery, Bungay» 
* Suffolk, has now ready to send out the Best Varieties of 
PERPETUAL and BOURBON ROSES, in pots, fit for trans- 
planting into borders, to form beds of Perpetual Roses, 
12 good varieties: a e 6. Bs. 
12 most i 
erior . " 30s. 
ew scarce varieties from 6d. to 5s. each. 
A descriptive Catalogue sent, upon application. One ormore 
Plants will be added gratis, to compensate for long carriage, 
‘Carriage paid to London, per Norfolk Railway.—May 30. 
SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1846. 
MEETINGS FOR THE TWO FOLLOWING WEEKS 
oNDAY, June SO EC A B 
M e l—Entomologicnl — . 
$ 2 
"divae sui eus Horticultural ieee ten 
ordre PRU sre aides 
Wenxscpay, — af Royal Botanie Gaidens | 1 — 9 ra 
Society of Arts . l arm, 
Faway, — 5-Botanical |. ; | . Reon 
Sarunas, — 13—Horsicultnral Gardens olx 
Tur Vice-Secretary of the Horticultural Society 
will be much obliged to gentlemen having commu- 
nications for the next Number of the Jounwar or 
THE Socrrry, if they will forward them without 
delay to him at 21, Regent-street, London. 
AN alarm has arisen among some of our corres- 
pondents as to the state of various kinds of plants 
in which they think that symptoms of Unusvat Dis- 
EASE are appearing ; and they are apprehensive lest 
such general affections in the vegetable world should 
be forerunners of like plagues in the animal. The 
best way of dealing with these cases seems to be to 
take them separately. 
A gentleman living near Sevenoaks sends 
Specimens of a Lilac whose young shoots are 
dying off irregularly. “I first noticed it," he says, 
yesterday, and forty-eight hours seem ‘to 
Complete their destruction ; the gangrene seems to 
begin just above the bud. My gardener had seen 
it the day before, and has called my attention to 
the common Laurels, many of which in various as- 
Pects and situations are also affected ; in these the 
disease manifests itself first in the deaf. The Por- 
tugal Laurel also is partially affected in the same 
manner, and I detect the same disease in the shoots 
ofthe Yew. Neither wind nor frost, nor any acci- | 
dental or local cause exists to account for it? The 
Specimens here alluded to consisted of Lilacs and 
Common Laurels. Their young leaves and shoots 
Were dying back, after becoming spotted, much in 
the manner of the Potatoes, and here aud there the 
Owest part of the shoots next the old wood was 
black and brittle, exactly as in the Potato haulm 
Next the old tuber. No fungi were visible exter- 
nally. The old wood of the Lilacs next the dying 
shoots was brown and decayed, and the evil looked 
as if it would spread backwards or downwards. 
is ese are, no doubt, unusual symptoms, and in the 
me not such as would be referred to the action of 
di m usual years. We suspect, however, that 
the appearances were really so produced, and. that 
in. anomalous: symptoms are caused by the very 
| plants was ripened last autumn. In many places 
‘the common Laurel was half bleached, instead of 
| acquiring its rich green colour ; and wherever the 
|yellow shoots have pushed, there seems a great 
| tendency to perish under the least impediment to 
free growth, such as would be eaused by unobserved 
frost in the early morning, or even by a dry wind. 
We have not, however, succeeded in finding Lilacs 
or Yews iu the state described by our correspondent, 
and conclude that, so faras they are concerned, the 
affection is local. Roses are much injured. In 
allsuch instances the dying shoots should be re- 
moved along with 3 or 4 inches of sound wood 
below the disease. 
Another correspondent, near Clonmel, finds his 
Peach-leaves shrivelling up and going off, on trees 
planted with all possible care in November, 1844. 
We entertain little doubt that the cause is the 
this case. The season of growth in 
2 ast vear rendered it impossible for plants 
like the Peach to ripen their wood perfectly 
in such a climate. The yellowness of the 
Laurels, the want of blossom-buds on the Indian 
Rhododendrons near Dublin, were unequivocal 
symptons of the badness of the season. In this 
case the diseased appearance will, probably, dis- 
appear.as the warm season advances; and if we 
have plenty of sunshine now, healthy leaves may 
be looked for hereafter, unless the wood should 
be so unripe as to become gummy and cankered. 
Our Clonmel friend will do well to lay in no more 
wood than he wants, and to keep the new shoots 
nailed close to the wall as fast as they grow. He 
should also have cut out in the winter-pruning all 
the soft spongy shoots of last year’s growth. 
To the same cause (that of badly-ripened wood 
of last year) seems referable a disease that has ap- 
peared among Coniferous plants. Mr. Ayres, of 
Brooklands, says that, at Blackheath, the whole of 
the foliage is falling off the Spruces and Larches; 
and though a few new branches are breaking out, 
their numbers are so few, that the trees must be 
removed. “ At this place (Brooklands) a number of 
the most healthy young trees will in a few days be 
complete skeletons, and I noticed the same thing 
happening to large trees of 20 or 30 years’ growth 
on the estate of Colonel Lone, at Bromley-hill, in 
this county. Mr. Wirsox, the land-steward of W. 
Pieorr, Esq., of Dullingham-house, Newmarket, 
informed me the disease has seized thé Spruces in 
that neighbourhood.” A similar complaint comes 
from a writer near Wrexham, with whom Larches, 
from 4 to 12 years old, are dying off this season. 
He has some hundreds affected. The disease 
seems to prevail mostly among trees of the age 
above mentioned. In a plantation, about 30 years 
old, not one appears to be affected. The leaders 
and most of the upper branches are quite bare of 
leaves ; and the lower ones seem scorched, and only 
just alive. These trees have hitherto grown very 
rapidly. He has three or four Silver Firs dying in 
the same manner; ie does not see any other 
species of tree so attacked. 
We do not recognize in these symptoms anything 
incompatible with a watery condition of last year's 
wood; arising, not so much from excess of water inthe 
autumn, as from want of sunlight and heat to carry it 
Under such circumstances it may 
be easily conceived thatthe resinoussecretionsneces- 
sary to the health of Coniferous trees were inade- 
quately deposited, and that now, whengrowth recom- 
mences, the young leaves cannot find in their neigh- 
bourhood their food (or organizable matter)in such a 
state that they can assi it. The result of that 
ü the foliage will drop off, 
and the probability is that in such cases the wood 
will die back, or prove permauently diseased. | 
Ve have offered these remarks beca 
lit our duty to point out dan 
st, we have no desire to see persons needlessly 
alarmed, as we believe those to be who dread, in 
such symptoms as have been described, the advent of 
dis: 
forerunner, We cannot say that we perceive at 
present any ground for uneasiness. We doubt in- | 
really | 
rer 
the mysterious destruction that has overtaken the 
Potato. 
While, however, we thus de 
readers against undue apprehensions of evils not 
likely to arise, we must not conceal the fact that a | 
disease apparently identical with that of the Potatc 
has broken out among the Yams in Jamaica. We 
know not to what extent tl gone, but we have | 
in our possessiou specimens for which we a 
debted to Mr. Bzcxronp, of Upper Portland- 
whieh place the fact beyond a doubt. It 
jortant, moreover, to remark that the di 
ire to guard our 
ini "lent H A 
sufficient manner in which the wood of most 
assumed that virulent putrid form which 
ters of which the Potato murrain is but the]? 
| is 
à 1 3 } t 
deed w hether. the eases which have been brought | diameter), distinguish it as an attractive 
under our notice would have excited attention if it | object. 
1 hee or 4 i e i 
had not been for the alarm that exists respecting parterre, or for part 
largely in lreiand. We cannot tieu out read lest uie 
food of the West India Islands may be destroyed like 
our own, and lest the sufferings which have been 
experienced by the poor people at home should 
be about to be transferred (?) to our colonies. Such 
a calamity would be the more severely felt there in 
consequence of the advance of the Potato disease, 
which is evidently increasing in other countries 
whatever the event may prove with us, for in Lis- 
bon, which last year was almost uninfected, the young 
Potatoes are already attacked to the extent of 
one-sixth, as is proved by the samples now on sale 
in London.* 
We do trust that the movement that ee sae 
been made at Cambridge, to Sarr we last eel 
io weet ore be prot Sirve Peono sobd advantage 
o -4eral cause of public education. 
We now find that at an adjourned Meeting for the 
purpose of considering the subject of the New 
Botanic Garvey, Dr. Crank was called to the 
hair; and the following Resolution proposed by 
the Master of Christ's, and seconded by Dr. 
Pacer, was passed unanimously :—* That the pro- 
posalfor submitting a Grace to the Senate for the 
appointment of a Syridicate, according to the Reso- 
ution passed at the last Meeting, be deferred ; and. 
that in the mean time a Deputation, consisting of 
the Chairman, the Master of Christ's College, Dr. 
F. Thackeray, Dr. Paget, Professor Henslow, Mr. 
Romilly, Mr. Power, Mr. Hopkins, Mr. Williamson, 
Mr. Smith (Caius), Mr. W. Stokes, Mr. Babington, 
Mr. Sykes, and Mr. G. Stokes, be requested to wait 
upon the Vice-Chancellor, for the purpose of ascer- 
taining whether he would be willing to propose a 
Grace to the Senate for appointing a Syndicate to 
consider in what manner Funds may be raised, 
which will secure to the University a surplus annual 
income, sufficient to admit of the execution, from 
time to time, of Works of general improvement 
counected with the usefulness and splendour of the 
niversity ; including primarily the formation of 
the New Botanic Garden, as an object of immediate 
exigency.” 
Let us hope that the Vice-Chancellor will readily 
comply with this moderate and, indeed, necessary 
proposition. His acquaintange with Cambridge 
studies must tell him that it is hardly reasonable, at 
the present day, to refuse all aid to science, or, we 
should rather say, all aid to students who would 
prosecute science, in the greatest of our English 
niversities. We will not do him the injustice to 
suppose that he personally wishes to render per- 
petual the system of offering hundreds of thousands 
of pounds per annum in premiums for the study of 
classics and mathematics, as is really the case so long 
as all masterships, bursarships, scholarships, fellow- 
ships, and other ships, if there be others, (to say no- 
thing of preferments,) are filled from the ranks of 
these two pursuits. He, we are sure, regrets, as 
much as ourselves, that, in such a University as Cam- 
bridge, the only reward assigned for the promotion 
of Botany should be the miserable stipend of 
1771. 6s. 105d., which has been successively paid to 
four individuals in about a century and a haif. 
For ourselves, we entertain no doubt of the re- 
sult ; the stream of Cambridge opinion has begun 
to flowin the true direction, and nothing can pre- 
vent its accumulating force overthrowing all the 
barriers which supineness or prejudice (and there 
are no others) can oppose. 
SELECT PLANTS FOR BEDDING OUT, &c. IN 
FLOWER-GARDENS. 
(Continued from page 316.) j 
16. Campanula Barleri?—This, probably, is the finest 
of our dwarf or creeping species of bellfowers. Itis 
a half-shrubby evergreen perennial, requiring a dry 
frame or cool greenhouse, with protection from frost in 
winter, and, in common witl l 
h several other allied species, 
it is rather succulent in its structure, a ounding with a 
peculiar secretion of milk-like fluid or sap, from which 
it may be inferred that a p. lly dry situation, and 
ervation from long-continued or stagnant moisture, 
s essential to a vigorous and successful growth. 
Its neat dark-green leaves and salver-shaped blos- 
soms, of a lively blue colour (each nearly 13 inch in 
c 
and elegant 
It is admirably suited for a small group or 
p ally-elevated mounds of artificial 
rockwork on flower-borders. is al 
of drawing-ri 
nies. 
adopted for par 
rained. ‘The soil ad 
, is equal portions of exh 
rde uld, and' perfectly 
growth in pots, 
e sandy loam 
Jeaf-mould 
o in the market what are nameó 
h come, we believe, from Cher 
