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HE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
{Mar. 4, 
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as follows :—wheat, 24 bushels per 
potatoes 74. The number of live stock was 673 
sists of 626 acres. 
gest 221 acres. The rent of land varies 
e 1,605 acres of meadow-land, 
acre; 
ot RAR ONRI ce emiiaiaed, 
they cannot be considered as having consistently maintained 
it ter. Of Seedlings of 1842, the only flowers which 
eee Se abhe to promise first class properties were Alexander’s 
rimrose Perfection, and Stein’s Sir R. Chester ; but they were 
not positively placed in that class. 
= COUNTRY SHOWS. * 
at v ne, and the exhibition 
The Society’s Standard is Length, 
yaight, slender and uni- 
lack spine, ribbed, bloomy, 
blossom, fresh cut, and in every respect fit fortable. The follow- 
Th: wages of labourers vary from 12s. to 14s. per week 
of two different descriptions of soil ; the heavy, 
nerally held on leases for 21 years; 
agricultural machinery. The impl 
same kind that were in use 30 ye: 
of Ealing consists of market garde 
of the western road, which may 
and vegetable garden of London, 
upper and an under crop growing 
The soil is an excellent dry lo: 
a hi 
wheat 22 bushels, and hay 
599, of which 
dat the rate 
ains 1,363. acres. The rent of 
Manure is supplied from London, 
w or pasture 
dens. Therent paid for arable 
to 60s. per acre. Farmsare ge- 
ements of husbandry are of the 
ars ago. A considerable portion 
ns, and forms a part of that 
a in the vicinity of the metropolis, lying on both sides 
e regarded as the great fruit 
The fruit-gardeners have an 
on the land at the same time, 
am, and is abundantly manured. 
‘The number of jabourers employed on these gardens is very great, 
The average rent 
at js 10/, per acre. The wages of labour vary from 10s. to 15s. 
per week, ‘and the proportion of women to men employed is as 
twotoone. An important benefit was conferred on the labour- 
of 5s. Th 
is the demand for those that are. v: 
present time, 50 applicants. This 
‘with most beneficial results. 
rl 
forfeiting his allotment 
assessment for the relief of the poor, from 1827 to 1833, was 4s. 
in the pound, and from 1835 to 1841 it has been reduced to 2s. 8d. 
The wages of labour vary from 12s. to 15s. per wee! 
‘The agri- 
cultural produce of 1842 was, wheat, 35 bushels per acre; barley, 
50: oats, 43; potatoes, 85 ; and hay, 1 ton per acre. The number 
of live stock was 1430, of which 1200 were sheep. 
FLORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The following is @ List of the 
Seedlings which have been 
lected by the Society in the year 1842, and considered to pos- 
a aitiovent merit to be placed in the First or Second Class :— 
When 
Raised. 
First Crass. 
Auriculas . + + + 1842 
Tolipa +s + ++ || 1882 
Heartsease +» > + 
1842 
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Heartsease . + + +| 1841 A, 
Pelargoniums - - -| 1842 
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Do, Mirani 
Smith’s Empress 
Mitchell’s Blanche Shelley 
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Goldham’s Duke of Wellington 
Brown’s Polyphemus 
— |Goldham’s Queen 
1841 |Lane’s Sir J. Sebright 
Do. Alpha 
10. 
_- Cook’s Alicia 
—_ Welsh’s Blue Perfection 
1841 |Brown’s Garland 
Do. Model 
Do. Eclipse 
—  |Willmer’s Prince of Wales 
Norman’s Princess Royal 
Bates’s Briseis 
1842 |Willmer’s Marquis 
edley’s Nanette 
eville’s Dr. Lindley 
—  |Barnard’s Mrs. Lindley 
*Taurvill’s Essex Triumph 
\*Mountjoy’s Virgil 
—  |Smith’s Sir R. Sale 
- Bragg’s Antagonist 
— {|Wildman’s Bianca 
Edwards’s Mrs. Richardson 
Sxconp Crass, 
oldham’s Diamond 
De iola 
‘ire Chillman, 
orman’s William 
. Bridge’s Commissioner 
1g42 |King’s Princess Royal 
Bridges’s Martha 
Catleugh’s Omega 
Gaines’s Pride of Surrey 
Hodges’ Oberon 
Willmer’s Attila 
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Black Prince 
Do. Hero of Middlesex 
Brown’s Vivit 
‘ilimer’s Mary Ann 
Dover’s Jemmy Webb 
Hedley’s Sarah 
Robinson's Nottingham Hero 
—  |Holliday’s Queen of England 
1842 |Edwards’s Emily 
—  |Norman’s Henry 
illmer’s Maria 
Do. Miss Jane 
Oakley’s Surprise 
Whale’s Hero of Stonehenge 
Kinghorn’s Chieftain 
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During the evening, Mr. Smith, gr. to D. Alexander, Esq., di- 
rected attention toa brace of Cucumbers, grown by Mr. T. Latter, 
and called “Dr. Lindley’s Perfection,” which, in his opinion, 
possessed every property isite,according dard la\ 
laid down by the Editor of the Gardener's Chronicle, to constitute 
d to s principal points in 
which this differed from the standard of the Society, and to defend 
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excellence, 
NOTICES or NEW PLANTS WHICH ARE EITHER 
USEFUL OR ORNAMENTAL. 
at the Royal Botanic Garden of Glasgow. They continue for a 
length of time in bloom, with a succession of flowers continually 
expanding. Tho stem is simple, about a foot high. The flowers 
are nearly two inches long, deep lilac within, paler without, 
especially the tube, which is funnel-shaped. The limb consists 
strongly fimbriated at the 
margin.— 
MPARE/TTIA RO 
do not dazzle us with their brilliancy, or powerfully arrest us by 
i i ercise a considerable and pleasurable 
influence on the mind of the real admirer of nature, on account 
of their peculiar gracility, delicacy, and loveliness. Although 
drooping. They have a delicate, wiry stem, and the pretty rose- 
x their extremity. So scanty 
will be further beneficial, if kept moist in summer, by encourag~ 
ing them to develop more and stronger roots. They should 
always be grown on logs of wood, in preference to being kept in 
pots, Paaton’s Magazine of Botany. 
Variesta psirractna. Parrot-flowered Vriesia. (Stove Epi- 
hyte;. Bromeliacer. Hexdndria Monogynia.—This is an ex- 
tremely pretty stove plant, for which we are indebted to C. B. 
Warner, Esq. It is said by Si 
neighbourhood of Rio Janeiro. In cultivation it requires to be 
potted in leaf-mould, with a quantity of potsherds for drainage. 
Plenty of water should be given during the summer months, but 
sparingly in winter. Or it may be grown suspended in a wire 
basket, like an Orchidaceous plant, It is propagated, by suckers, 
Botanical Register. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Horticultural Society of London.—We are happy to 
announce that the arrangements for the despatch of a 
collector to China have been completed, and that Mr. 
Fortune has sailed for Hong-Kong in the ship Emu, 
amply provided with the means of forwarding the objects} 
of the Society, and furnished with most valuable letters of| 
introduction, both from her Majesty’s Government, and 
from numerous private individuals. In addition to his 
duties as an agent of the Horticultural Society, Mr. 
Fortune will occupy himself in the collection of objects 
of natural history in general; and we doubt not that he 
will reap a rich and abundant harvest. If any gentlemen! 
desire to participate in the collections of dried plants and) 
zoological preparations which Mr. F. will form, it will be, 
as well for them to communicate with Dr. Lindley on the 
subject. { 
Presentation of Plate.—We learn that at a recent meet. 
ing of the Morningside Practical Gardeners’ Society, the 
chairman presented Mr. Liddell, formerly gr. at Canaan 
House, and late Secretary to the Society, with a hand- 
some silver snuff-box, on which was a suitable inscription, 
as a testimonial of the respect in which he was held by 
the members, for the diligence and attention with which 
he had discharged the duties of that office. 
The Araceous Order.—These plants abound in an acrid 
principle which is volatile, and therefore dissipated by heat; 
being soluble in water, it is also removed by washing, and 
easily separated from the fecula with which many of their tu- 
berous roots abound. Hence several have been employed as 
articles of diet from very ancient times, as Colocasia anti- 
quorum, mentioned by Herodotus and Theophrastus, and 
remarkable as an Indian plant cultivated in Egypt, and 
now in most parts of the south of Europe. The roots are 
without acrimony, as is the case with many other long- 
cultivated plants. They are universally cultivated in India, 
and known there under the names of Kuchoo and Gaglee. 
Arum nymphzifolium, which Dr. Roxburgh considers only 
a variety of C. antiquorum, is but rarely cultivated in 
Bengal. Arum indicum, Man-kuchoo and Man-guri of the 
Bengalese, is a species much cultivated about the huts of 
the natives for its esculent stems and small pendulous tu- 
bers. Arum panul now Amorphophallus, Ol of 
the Bengalese, and which deserves to be called the Telin- 
ga Potato, isalso much cultivated, especially in the north~ 
ern Circars, according to Dr. Roxburgh, where it is highly 
esteemed for the wholesomeness and nourishing quality of © 
its roots. In the Himalayas, the species which I have 
called Colocasia himalensis forms the principal portion of 
the food of the hill-people ; so Colocasia macrorhizon and 
esculentum, forming the Tara, Taka, Taya, and Kopeh, 
and Cocoa roots, Eddoes, and Yams of the Pacific and 
other islands, yield a considerable portion of the food of 
the inhabitants. The stalks and leaves also of some of the 
species are eaten in many places; those of Arum sagittifo- 
lium are said to be called Chou Caraibe; so also in the 
south of Europe, Arisarum vulgare, and A. Dioscoridis, 
which is perhaps only a variety of A. italicum, are occa- 
sionally eaten; but even Arum maculatum, and other 
acrid species, deprived of their acridity, are sometimes made 
to yield food in times of scarcity. Some of these, how-~ 
ever, from their acridity and irritating nature have been 
used as vesicatories ; Arum maculatum has been used me- 
dicinally even from the time of Hippocrates ; Typhonium: 
orixense, having exceedingly acrid roots, is, when fresh ap- 
plied in India by the natives in cataplasm to scusdis, or 
bring forward tumours. Dr. Roxburgh pronounces it to be 
certainly a most powerful stimulant; other species are 
likewise employed, as A. i oxb., ( hizon, 
Ainslie) ; the plant called by the latter Dracontium poly- 
phyllum is exhibited internally when its acrimony has been. 
subdued, it is considered antispasmodic, andisalso said to 
be useful in asthmatic cases. An emmenagogue is said to 
be prepared from it in the Society Islands. Scindaspus 
officinalis (Guj-pipul of the natives), forms an article of con~ 
siderable repute in Hindoo Materia Medica ; it is described 
as acrid, diaphoretic, and anodyne; but the statements off 
authors differ on the subject.—Royle’s Illustrations. 
The Abaci.—Abacd is aname which the natives of the 
Philippine Islands apply both to the vegetable fibres of 
which they make their cordage, and to the plant that 
yields them. This is a species of Plantain, the same 
which is called by Rumpf, Musa sylvestris, and in the 
Malay language Pisang Utang. It is found wild on the 
Philippine and Mindanao Isles, and is also most carefully 
cultivated, on account of the singular advantages which 
the inhabitants have learned to derive fromit. Extensive 
plantations of it are to be met with on the island of 
Luzon, in the provinces of Albay, Laguna, and Cama~ 
tines, but particularly in the vicinity of Mount Mayong, 
the base of which is about 15 leagues in circumference. 
The soil of this extensive tract is well adapted to the cul- 
tivation of the Abaca, which thrives only in moist, shady, 
and fertile ground. In such situations thickets are formed 
by their trunks and young suckers, which last are sheltered 
from the intense heat of the sun by the beautiful and wide- 
spreading foliage with which the full-grown trees are 
crowned. The stems issue from a sort of tuber furnished! 
with fibres, and grow in less than 18 months to the height 
of 7 feet, their thickness being that of a man’s thigh. 
The leaves forming the crown of the tree are from 10 to 
