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33—1846.] ` 
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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 
551 
Seeundus, Seedling, Grace Darling, Lee's Mary, Sher. 
Wood Forester, Green's Queen, and Diana; 2, Mr. 
Gibbons, for Victoria, Wildman's Isabella, Sharp’s In- 
vincible, Green's Victoria, Ely’s Favourite, Wood's 
Lady St. John, Sir William Middleton, Hope, Wood’s 
Victoria, Wilson's Pluperfect, Wilmer's Agnes, and 
Cornelius; 3, Mr. Staton, for Ely's Mrs. Bosville, 
harp's Hector and Agitator, Brinkley's Hope, Barren- 
ger’s Unique, Josephine, and Hebe, Fleteher's Ne plus 
Ultra, Hudson's Madeline, Marris's Lady Sale and Morn- 
ing Star, and Matthews’ Enchantress. Heavy-edged red : 
l, Cornelius, Mr. Buswell. Liyht-edged purple: 1, 
Mr. Hardy ; Marchi of i avr. 
uswell. JZeavy-edged rose: 1, Green's Queen, Mr. 
Taylor; 2, King of Roses, Mr. Buswell Light-edged 
: tose: 1, Wilmer's Princess Royal, Mr. Hutchinson. 
Yellow-ground :, 1, Seedling, Mr. Staton. 20. Pansies : 
2, Mr. Staton, for Pearson’s Milton and Magrath, 
Staton’s Fairy Queen and Mountain Sylph, Lee's Tacitus, 
Bride, and La Douell, Gibbons’ Sovereign and Prince 
of Orange, and 15 seedlings. PrrARGONIUMS.—], Queen 
of the Isies, A. Lowe, Esq. Orchids: Cypripedium 
insigne, Messrs. Pearson. Stove plants: A. Lowe, 
Esq., for Vinea alba and rosea, Gloxinia hirsuta, and 
Rondeletia speciosa. Single specimens: 1, Russelia 
Juncea, A. Lowe, Esq. Stove Ferns: J. Riley, Esq., 
for A jch alcicorne, Nephrodi ltatum, N. 
Patens, Gymnogramma sulphurea, Pteris chinensis, 
Adiantum hispidulum, Polypodium pinnatum, P. crassi- 
folium, juglandifoli G g artarea. 
Greenhouse plants: 1, A. Lowe, Esq., for: Swainsona 
Tubra, Pentas carnea, Martynia fragrans, Crassula 
Coccinea and grandiflora ; 2, Captain Legard, for Swain- 
Sonia purpurea, Gloxinia rubra and speciosa, Achimenes 
grandiflora. Single specimens: 1, Humea elegans, A. 
Owe, Esq.; 2, Campanula grandiflora, G. A. Beard- 
More, Esq. Fuchsias: 1, Messrs. Pearson, for Achilles, 
earl, Eximea, Norfolk Hero, and Edina ; 2, Captain 
Legard, for Eppsii, Exoniensis, Magnifica, Lowryii, and 
a Seedling ; 3, A. Lowe, Esq., for Serratifolia, Cassan- 
ta, Mrs. Fry, Bride of Venice. Single specimens : 
1, Exoniensis, Messrs. Pearson ; 2, Eppsii, Captain 
egard; 3, Pearl, Mr. Shilton; 4, Goldfinch, Mr. 
right. Calceolaria : Lady Constable, Mr. Hopewell. 
Ericas : A. Lowe, Esq., for Juliana, gemmifera, Hart- 
nelii, ampullacea, vestita coccinea, andampullacea vestita. 
ingle specimen: Juliana, A. Lowe, Esq. Greenhouse 
Climbers: Mx. Shilton, for Maurandya Barclayana, 
Thunbergia alata and ti Brachy iberidi- 
fola, Petwnias: 1, A. Lowe, Esq., for Prince Albert, 
Queen of May, Cupid, Punetata, and Arrah Neil; 2 
Mr, Edwards, for Kentish Beauty, Constellation, Gem. 
Hebe, Bicolor Grandiflora, Eliza, and Grandissima. 
Hardy Herbaceous plants: 1, Messrs. Pearson, for 
Ucea filimentosa, Aconitum grandiflorum, Phlox omni- 
Ee XEnothera splendens, Delphinium grandiflorum, 
pira variegata. Hardy Evergreens: My. Shilton, 
Aucuba japonica, Andromeda polifolia, Arbor-vitæ, 
and Ledum buxifolium.—JVottingham Journal. 
WMebiehos. 
Choix de Plantes dela Nouvelle Zélande, Recueillies et 
décrites par M. Raoul. 4to. Paris. 1846. 
Tus is one of those beautiful books on natural history 
which have, from time to time, been published at the 
expense of the French Government. It forms a thin 
quarto volume, with 30 exquisite drawings, very artisti- 
cally as well as scientifically drawn, by M. Rioereux, 
charmingly engraved by Mademoiselle Taillant, and 
rendered of great value by the admirable analyses of M. 
Decaisne, who has much assisted the author, and to 
Whom we owe our copy of the book. 
M. Raoul was surgeon on board the Aube corvette, 
Sent to New Zealand by the French Ministry in 1840. 
He visited the Bay of Islands on two occasions, and 
Passed a long time in Banks's Peninsula, whence the 
Most important part of the materials for the present 
Work were derived. The letter-press, which is entirely 
technical, includes a complete catalogue of all the 
Plants hitherto discovered in New Zealand, which is 
extremely useful to naturalists. 
os 
AN interval of leisure permits us to examine some 
Months’ accumulation of New Books, among which the 
following may interest our readers. 
NGER has published a short introduction to botany 
Under the name of Grundzüge der Anatomie and Phy- 
Stologie der Pflanzen, 8vo, pp. 131. This should be 
translated.— Dr. Joseph Hooker's beautiful work, The 
Botany of the Antarctic Voyage (see p. 440, 1844) has 
reached the 18th number, and contains figures of many 
Most remarkable plants, such as the Antaretie Beeches, 
the Tussac Grass, and the Kerguelen's Land Cabbage, 
& b 
3 
Noticed at p. 411 of this Journal, to which m 
added an elaborate account of the singular p: of 
S. Chili, called Myzodendra.—Mr. Hinds's 
the Sulphur is completed with the 6th part.— Gilberts 
Modern Atlas for the People is a very neatly execu 
Work, and extremely cheap. We reeommend it to those 
Who cannot afford more costly publications.—Professor 
Moritzi has published a catalogue of the Java plant: 
Theodor Nees v. 
e Germanice, Con- 
Endlicher, 
Esenbeck’s Genera Planta 
i Putterli 
just 
-Walpers has published his Animadversiones 
in Leguminosas Capenses Herbarii Reg 
; a collection of evidence useful to systematists 
Sand to no one else.—The Voyage Botanique le long 
linensis 
Botany of 
des céles seplentrionales de la Norvège, by Ch. Martins, 
is full of talent and interest. He was the botanist to 
the Recherche surveying ship, and had good opportu- 
nities of observation, which he knew how to use. It 
forms an 8vo of 138 pages.— Charles Pres] has published 
in 4to a supplement to his Pteridographia, containing 
13 new genera, and many new species, —Mr. Bentham 
has pleted his Plante Har iane, part 2, which 
now reaches page 203. 
New Garden Plants. 
44. Berperis FonrUNi. Mr. Fortune’s Berberry. 
Hardy Shrub. (Berberids.*) Gardens North of 
China. , 
At present we know of but one pinnated Berberry from 
the north-east of Asia, a plant called by Thunberg an 
Ilex, and reduced to the false genus Mahonia by De 
Candolle. Mr. Fortune has added another, which seems 
to be quite unlike the B. japonica in the form of its 
leaflets, for Thunberg describes them in the latter as 
being ovate and but an lj inch long, whereas in this 
they are narrowly lanceolate, and fully 4 inches long. 
It is obvious also that the details of the inflorescence 
of the two are very different. This species forms a 
deep green smooth bush, with from three to four pairs 
of leaflets, and an odd one to each leaf, The leaflets 
are about 4 inches long, narrowly | lat i 
ES being able to e ally banish them from my place 
altogether.— Edward Guthridge, Carres Vicw, Sligo s 
in the Irish Farmers’ Journal. 
The Biscuit Root.—By the first rays of the warm 
sun in March or April, this humble useful plant emerges 
from the sand. In about two or three weeks, the plant 
isin bloom. ‘This is the time when the Indians, espe- 
cially the Saptonas and Spokans, turn out to gather its 
delicate tubers ; which are commonly of the size of a 
small Walnut, somewhat bread-shaped, but then they 
are atleast three to four years old, far inferior to the 
thin spindle-form two-year old tender tubers. The 
substance is farinaceous, snowy-white, and in the young 
tubers not entirely insipid. Like many of the tuberous 
plants in Oregon, this also bas a very short time for 
vegetating above ground, for in three weeks after 
flowering, the wind sweeps already the dry stalks over 
the plains. These tuberous Ferulz are to the Indians 
here the same as the Cymopteri on the Platte are to 
the Pawnees in Missouri territory. Another and more 
remarkable species of Ferula, is the “ Pooh-pooh Root 2 
of the Spokans, whieh I never met growing myself ; 
and only know from what I could see from a few dried 
leaves, I found that it must be more than twice the size 
of the former, and according to all descriptions a rare 
plant. The tubers: are of the size of a small Potato, 
hat b: 
with shallow distinet spiny serratures. The veins are 
scarcely visible on the upper side, and very slightly 
prominent on the under. As the plant only reached 
the garden in April last, no flowers have been seen ; but 
it appears from Mr. Fortune's dried speeimens, that 
they appear in terminal panicled racemes less than half 
the length of the leaflets. The flowers are small, 
closely arranged, and of a yellow colour. Mr. Fortune 
has furnished the following memorandum concerning 
it:—' This species is an evergreen bush, with pretty 
pinnated and serrated leaves of a dark green colour, 
and grows generally from 2 to 4 feet high in the north 
of China, where it flowers in the autumn months. It 
produces its flowers both from points of the young 
shoots and from the sides of the old stems ; the spikes 
are short, generally six or seven together, and tho 
colour of the flowers is yellow, which contrasts well 
with the deep green leaves. It was found in a nur- 
sery garden near the city of Shanghae, in the north 
of China. In all probability it is an inhabitant of those 
provinces which are several degrees farther north than 
eangsoo, in which Shanghae is situated, for it is ex- 
tremely rare in this part of China, and evidently not 
indigenous to it. If this be the case, there can be little 
doubt that it will be perfectly hardy in Europe, and 
will be a very nice addition to our collections of hardy 
evergreens. It will grow well enough in any common 
garden soil, and I dare say will be found to be easily 
propagated either by cuttings or layers. It would be a 
good plant for a rockwork, or for a small neat garden 
where large st: ing shrubs are itable,’—Journal 
of Hort. Soc. 
45. CLEMATIS HEXASEPALA.  Six-sepaled Clematis. 
Greenhouse Shrub. (Crowfoots.*) New Zealand. 
This is a little twining plant, with shining nearly smooth 
ternate or biternate leaves, whose petioles twine round 
any small body with which they may come in contact 
The leaflets are cordate—ovate, coarsely serrated, and 
often three-lobed. The flowers are small, pale green, 
very sweet scented, and appear in 3s or 48 from the 
axils of the leaves. Their stalks are long and hairy, and 
each has a pair of small bracts below the middle. The 
sepals are very uniformly six in number, of a narrowly 
oblong form, and spreading so as to form a small green 
star. Contrary to the usual structure of the genus, the 
stamens are constantly six only in number, and about 
half as long as the sepals. It is a hardy greenhouse 
plant, requiring a light loamy soil to grow in, and is 
easily inereased by cuttings of the half ripened wood. 
It only requires the protection of a cold pit or frame 
during winter, and flowers abundantly in April. 
Although its blossoms are green and inconspicuous, itis 
far from an unimportant species, on account of its 
blooming freely, and being very sweet scented.— Journal 
of Hort. Soc. 
Miscellaneous. 
Sale of Orchids.—On Wednesday last a fresh impor- 
tation from the southern coast of Mexico was brought 
to the hammer by Messrs. Stevens. The number of 
lots was 205, and on this occasion the highest sum re- 
ceived was two guineas for two large plants of a Cyrto- 
chilum ; the same sum was also realised for a supposed 
new species of Cattleya ; two plants of Lelia furfuracea, 
and two of Epidendrum vitellinum, fetched altogether 
1L. 4s. Plants of the sweet-smelling deep-yellow flowered 
Cypripedium irapeanum of Mr. Hartweg, were sold for 
l4 each ; but others fetched only 17s. Other prices 
were as follow :— Four plants of Cyrtochilum, 30s. each 3 
a supposed n ies: of Lelia, 13s. 5 attleya 
lossum, 
num, 16 
s, and two of 
Other priees 
nd finally two p 
D same specie 
Lelia albida, altoget 5 
ht 15s. 
Phosphorie Hat P. n.—From long experience I 
never found so effectual a remedy as the Phosphc 
Compound. I have not had one since Į used it, which 
I think is more than six months. I do app end a 
visit from them again when the harvest is gathered in ; 
but I have some waiting for them, and I have no doubt 
* See Lindley's “ Vegetable Kingdom " for an explanation of 
these terms, 
but ped, and contain, as the former, 
a white farinaceous substance, which has a rather 
strong, but pleasant aromatic odour and taste, resem- 
bling citron, which they keep for more than a year. 
The Indians gather them in but small quantities, and 
file them on strings. It would be well for future 
botanists to get tubers and seeds for planting, as it 
would be a great acquisition for our kitchen-gardens.— 
Geyer in London Journal of Botany. 
Calendar of Operations. 
(For the ensuing Week.) 
Storing Soils.—The end of August, or early part of 
September, is, I conceive, the most eligible time in the 
whole year to procure and carefully store the loams, 
&c., necessary for special purposes, during the next 
year. A good loam should be uniform in colour, rather 
tenacious, and containing a fair proportion of fine and 
sharp sand; rendering it somewhat unctuous when 
squeezed between the fingers. It should, however, not 
cake together too much on pressure. The more Grass 
or other rank herbage it contains, the better. It should 
be dug in a dry state; for if handled when wet, its 
porosity, and consequently its power for transmitting 
moisture, and receiving atmospheric influences, will be 
in a considerable degree rendered nugatory. When 
removed to the compost-yard, it should be piled up in 
narrow ridges, about 4 feet wide at the base, and as 
high as possible. If carefully placed, it will exclude 
much rain; it is, however, an excellent plan to place 
thatched portable hurdles against it; these may be 
removed in fine and settled weather for the purposes of 
aeration. When it has been in the compost yard for a 
few months it will be found in excellent order for use, 
being in fact what gardeners term “mellow.” From 
the compost-yard it should be removed to the potting- 
shed, in moderate quantities at a time ; for if it lays too 
long there, it becomes desiccated, and in this state it is not 
roper for composts. By the use of the thatched y- 
dles there need be no particular hurry in housing it} in 
doing this it should be cut down with a perpendicu'ar 
facing, and cleared thoroughly, in order that so precious 
a material may not be needlessly wasted. 
CONSERVATORIES, STOVE, &c. 
The drenching storms which have been so prevalen; 
and general of late will begin to cause a little anxiety 
amongst plant-growers, as to the condition at root of 
some of the New Holland tribes, Ericas, &e., which are 
placed out of doors. These matters are a severe test 
of the efücacy of various modes of drainage, and fre- 
quently teach the young beginner a serious lesson. Cold 
its or frames will soon be in request, if at hand, if such 
weather should continue. Common structures of this 
kind are after all much safer when placed under proper 
regulations, than trusting tender or young stock to the 
mercy of the elements, unprotected. Stove and Orchids. 
—Little fresh ean be added here at present. Take 
every means in due time to harden, or rather ripen the 
growths already made; it is rather too late to defer this 
until September. Give air very freely indeed at all 
times; more especially when the warmth of the natural 
atmosphere is a guarantee. Nevertheless, shut up 
abundance of solar heat, with a good amount of atmo- 
spheric moisture betimes in the afternoon. Mixed 
Greenhouse.— Keep an eye on the remarks in the Con- 
servatory and Stove sections ; and give every attention 
to flowers for a late display. Everything intended for 
this purpose should be thoroughly established in the 
pot ; late shifting will never answer here. 
KITCHEN GARDEN FORCING. 
Pines.—Where tan is in use for bottom-heat, see 
at it is renewed in due time, so as to maintain a 
Stir frequently, and 
noon, if time permit, 
a brisk atmospheric heat at this period with 
of Pines, and sée that th 
have abundance of 
weather is so very wet, fires s 
lighted to the late 
the heat, but to p 
ld be occasionally. 
; not, however, to increase 
mote dryness of osphere. Apply 
sulphur to the pider may 
| gain a footing.  JMelons.— Keep up a comfortable 
warmth through the whole body of the bed to the late 
[swelling Melons; it is impossible to command success 
