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844 THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[Dec. 2, 
German silver medal, Rev. Mr. Beadon. Best 12 Chrysanthe- It also differs, he says, from Caprariaand Russelia, in its decidedly 
mums, dead silver medal, 1, Rev. the Warden, for Duc de Cor- | two-lipped corolla, and is farther removed from othi r 
nigliano, Vesta, Theresa, Coronet, Grandis, Mirabile, Princess many points. ° It is a very pretty greenhouse plant, quite peculiar 
Queen, Memnon, Gem, Lucidum, Criterion, Goliath, Formosum, | which rise up from among the leaves on long purple scapes, It 
Rosalind, Theresa, Vesta, Tasselled Yellow, Mirabile; 3, ditto, | is a tender greenhouse plant. It should be top-dressed in autumn 
German silver medal, Rev, the Warden, for Exquisite, Memnon, | and kept rather dry, in an intermediate house between a stove 
during winter. In spring it should be re-potted 
Gouvion St. Cyr, arquis, Triumphant, Isabella, Surprise. | in light free soil, chiefly leaf-mould and sandy-loam, and placed 
Best 24 Chrysanthemums (in pots not larger than 16), dead silver | ina greenhouse, where it will remain in bloom the greater part 
medal, Mr. W. Barnes, for Vesta, Queen, Minerva, Madame Pom- | of the summer. It may be propagated from seeds or cuttings, in 
padour, Beauty, Grande, Conqueror, Grand Napoleon, Exquisite, | the usual way.—Botanical Register, 
Mormopgs aromaticum. Aromatic Mormodes. (Stove Epi- 
de Cornigliano, Gem, Princess Marie, Gouvion St. Cyr, Coronet, | phyte). Orchidaces. Gynandria Monandria.—On the present 
arquis, Tasselled Yellow, Bijou, Triumphant, Adventure, | occasion we shall only point oat in what respect this plant 
Mirabile ; 2, ditto, bright silver medal, C, Deane, Esq. Collection | differs from M. pardinum, the only species to which it approaches 
(in pots of any size), bright silver medal, Mr. Wickham. Nose- | closely. In habit the two are similar, but M. aromaticum is the 
it ri i Collection | smaller, and has shorter leaves. The spike of M. pardinum is 
of Plants, bright silver me Exrea: | much longer, and bears three times as many flowers; the sepals 
12 Chrysanthe ilt-ri re dal, Mr. Wickham. | and petals are narrower, and more taper-pointed: their differ- 
Fruits: Black G ilt-ri » R. Knight, | ence in colour is obvions; the labellum of M, pardinum has the 
sq. gilt-rimmed bronze medal, Mr. | same form as the sepals, except that it has three sharp-pointed 
Stride. Pine-apple, gi bronze medal, 1, H. F. K. Hol- | lobes, anda kind of stalk, which M. aromaticum wants. This 
lowa si itto, bronze medal, H. F, K. Holloway, Esq. | species, although only introduced a few years since from Mexico, 
Colles Mr. Bea- | is now common, and although of little beauty, is valued for the 
ties of Table | peculiar fragrance, which is like that of aromatic vinegar.—Bota- 
S. Best Varieties | nical Registe 
al, Sir T, Baring, Bart. Austra A LINEATIFLORA. Lined Alstreemeria. (Green- 
‘al, 1, Rev.Mr.Beadon ; | house Perennial). Amaryllidaces. Hexandria Monogynia.—At 
K. Holloway, Esq. Best six Varieties | last we have the pleasure of publishing the true Alstroemeria 
{mow in eating), gilt-rimmed bronze medal, H. F, K. Holloway, | lineatiflora, from Peruvian roots presented to the Horticultural 
Esq. Medlars, bronze medal, J. White, Esq. Exrra: Grapes, Society by John Maclean, Esq., of Lima. It is one of the finest 
i in} art., and Mr, W. Barnes, Apples, Rev. C. 8. | of its class, and although, doubtless, very near A, Ligtu, pere- 
Bonnett. VecEranurs : Celery. bronze medal, Rey. the Warden, grina, and pulchra, apparently distinct from either. It will be 
Onions, bronze medal, H. F. K. Hollo y, Esq. found that A. pulchra has sepals and petals constantly 
Morningside Practical Gardeners? Society, Nov. 7.—This was | serrated, which is never the case in the other three, and that the 
i Prizes were awarded as fol- | form of their leaves or Sepals affords clear maj 
lows. Six Chrysanthemums, 1, Mr. J. Young, grto T. Oliver, Esq., | discrimination. In A. lineatiflora, the leaves are short, very 
i #em, Marquis, Queen, Venus ; 2, Mr. | blunt, and of nearly equal size; in A. peregrina they are also of 
J. Downie, grto Gen. Robertson, 3 Leeks, 1, Mr. J. Dov nearly equal size, but very sharp; and in Ligtu the upper are 
to Sir Frederick Lauder, Bart. ; 2, Mr. A. Walker, gr to Mrs. D. | very narrow and taper-pointed. Then, as to the sepals; in 
wii a A. peregrina they are deeply obcordate, in Pulchra narrow, spatu- 
Mr. J. Douglas. Red Cabbage, Mr. A. Walker; 2, Mr. C. Jack, | shaped, with a large point. 
gr, Causewayside. Brocoli, 1, Mr J. Douglas; 2,-Mr.J.Furgie, | these species may be certainly distinguished; and that being 
grto Mrs. Gregory. Endive, 1, Mr. H. Gibb, gr to Mrs, Stark; 2, | so, we are constrained to regard A. lineatiflora as a good species, 
Mr, J. Furgie. Two heads of Celery; 1, Mr. J. Gourlay, gr tothe | and not a mere variety of Ligtu. It isa greenhouse perennial, 
Dowager Countess of Glasgow; 2, Mr J.Douglas. Brussels Sprouts, | and thrives best in a compost consisting of one-half loam, the 
1, Mr J. Douglas; 2, Mr W. Ewing, gr to Mr J. adams, Esq. T i 
Sorts of Pears, 1, Mr. Douglas ; 2, Mr. J. Downie, . Three sorts of | meria, produces tuberous roots in a horizontal directio: 
Apples, 1, Mr. J. Furgie; 2, Mr. J. Douglas, AmArgur Priz: i 
Savoys and Leeks, Mr. J. Robertson, Prize given by Messrs. 
J. Douglas ; | place, where it will receive very little water, until the beginning: 
, Mr J. Gourlay, Also their prize for the best three sorts of | of January, when it should be re-potted. While ina growing 
Apples, 1, Mr. J. Douglas ; 2, Mr. J. Gourlay, state, i i i 
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Perennial.) Iridacece. Monadelphia  Triandria,—This singular Grafting the Grape Vine—Nothing is more simple 
SpitnaY oa eine wert pot io the garden of the Horti- | than this if the right mode be adopted. Cut off the old 
sims othe West Indian Sraricn pica rend rebans | Vine below the surface ofthe earth, alter the leaves ate fll 
fhat-it had been imported from that part of the world, From | expanded, and all danger of bleeding is past. Split the 
Marica plicata it differs in its “warfishness, in the leaves tapering | stock as in cleft-grafting. Insert the scion, consisting of 
long chan- | one-year old wood, and bearing two or three buds, having 
first cut the end to be inserted ina wedge-like shape. 
ve, unob- | If the stock close firmly on the scion, tying is unnecessary ; 
is was an | if it do not close firmly, then it must be bound up tight. 
Peculiar | Draw the earth up around the whole, leaving the bud 
mainly depended on, usually the second from the top, 
just even with the surface, and the work is done. The 
after-management consists in taking off the sprouts that 
rise from the stock, those that spring from the scion, all 
but one, and training that up carefully as it grows. No 
tree is so easily propagated by grafting as is the Vine in 
this way. No clay, or wax, or adhesive plaister is wanted. 
No special care is required to fit bark to bark, as in other 
cases. Ihave always put the scion on one side of the 
stock ; and; to insure success, I have usually, when the 
stock would admit of it, put in two scions, one on each 
side of the cleft, but never have taken especial care to 
make bark fit to bark. I have tried wrapping with waxed 
with leaves and flowers not half the size of the subject oF “ite Paper) and then drawing: nptte earth; a8 before mentioned, 
Present plate, and stamens placed from six to nine in a parce); | but have found success far more certain when this was 
cinciese, it has much the same appearance. This species is | Omitted. As to the time, I must repeat that it is essen- 
OH ceoene The former comes, or is said to come, | tial that the operation be performed after the leaves of the 
i) ing George's Sound ; this has been raised from Swan River stock are fully expanded, and all danger of bleeding is 
over, Iam informed, however, by one who has tried it, 
that success by this mode is just as certain, if the opera- 
tion is performed before the sap begins to rise. This I 
have not tried, except in one or two instances, in which I 
took up the stock, grafted it as above described, andjthen 
planted it where I wanted it. On the Ist of June, of this 
year, I puta scion of the Gros Maroc in the root of a wild 
Vine. It had on the 30th June grown about two feet. 
Ihave had scions grow, when put on strong roots, fully 
15 or 20 feet in one summer, and invariably produce good 
crops the second year. A white Grape from France, 
worked on the root of the vigorous-growing Tox- Grape 
of our woods, produced abundantly the second year, while 
cuttings of the same Grape, treated as cuttings usually are, 
grew very slowly, and were five years in coming toa bearing 
state. The delicate foreign varieties I have invariably 
found to be wonderfully strengthened by being worked/on 
the roots of our strong native kinds. In propagating by 
cuttings, I have tried long cuttings, short cuttings, and 
single eyes ; but I find that single eyes succeed with 
much less certainty than cuttings. I greatly prefer short 
cuttings, inserted in pots, put on moderate bottom-heat, 
in January, and planted where they are to remain in 
April. I have Vines that are now four and a half feet 
high, from cuttings inserted last January, and managed 
in this way.—Hovey’s Magazine of Horticulwure. 
New Medicine—Much is said in the United States 
about a new vegetable medicine. Dr. Mettauer (and after 
him many other physicians) make use of an infusion of 
the unripe fruit of Diospyros virginiana, also called the 
Date Plum, whose bark has already been employed as a 
febrifuge, with surprising success in cases of Cholera infan- 
tum, and the worst forms of Mississippi diarrhosa. The 
particulars as to the manner of applying it are to be found 
d about the figure being 
8 of the gardens, as seems 
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plant (that portion of the stem 
be a little elevated, otherwise 
winter, Water should be libe 
months, and plenty of air at all tim, 
applying no fire-heat except to kee; 
gated by cuttings under ordinary t; 
TETRANEMA MEXICANUM. 
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in Hay’s | American Journal of Medical Science,” 
October, 1842, 
Cranberries.—The species of Cranberry most commonly 
found in the United States has been described as an in- 
digenous, low trailing vine, growing wild in bogs and 
meadows, and bearing a beautiful red berry of an exceed- 
ingly sour though agreeable taste, which is much used in 
domestic economy for tarts and sweetmeats, Mr. Kend- 
rick, of Boston, says the Cranberry is a plant of easy 
culture, and not a doubt exists that meadows which are 
now barren wastes or yield nothing but coarse herbages 
might be converted into profitable Cranberry fields, with 
but very little expense. Any meadow, it is said, Wi 
answer for their growth. They grow well on sandy bogs 
after draining. If the bogs are covered with bushes they 
should be removed; but it is not necessary to remove 
rushes, as the strong roots of the Cranberry soon over 
power them. It would be well, however, if the land could 
be ploughed previous to planting with Cranberries, Capt. 
Henry Hall, of Barnstable, who has cultivated the Crap- 
erry more than 20 years, usually spreads beach sand oD 
his bogs, and digs holes four feet distant each way, the 
same as for Corn, though somewhat deeper. In these holes 
he plants sods of Cranberry roots, and in the space 0) 
three years the whole gronnd is covered with the vines 
The planting is usually performed in autumn, when the 
bogs are drier and can be better dug or ploughed than at 
other seasons of theyear, A Mr. Hayden, of Lincoln, Mass.» 
is said to raise 400 bushels cf Cranberries yearly, whic 
bring him 400 dollars, in the Boston market—sometimes 
more. An acre of Cranberries, in full bearing, will often 
produce 200 bushels; and although a moist soil is best 
snited to the plant, yet with suitable mixtures of bog earth 
or mud, it will flourish, producing abundant crops, evel 
in a comparatively dry soil.— Dover (N.H.) Gazette. 
On Fermentation, &c. By Prof. Mitscherlich.—Fer- 
mentation is effected by a vegetable, putrefaction by al 
animal production. In the course of the two last winters 
the author observed in a large number of putrefying sub- 
stances only one species of Infusorium to be developed, 
which consisted of one or of several globules, in the latter 
case arranged in series; the diameter of such globules was 
about 0°001™™, the motion vibratory. According to his 
observations it would seem probable that the other animal- 
cules which are observed in putrefying substances have 
been conveyed into them by means of the atmosphere, 
insects, or some other means. A. certain quantity of 
oxygen is requisite for the development and existence of 
these Vibriones, and the putrefactive process is dependent, 
according to the author, on the free access of a certain 
amount of atmosphere to the decaying substances. ‘The 
maceration of vegetable substances in water, even when 
the temperature in the rooms is kept at a summer-heat, 
appears to depend solely on these Vibriones, when the 
substances are employed in a clean state. During this 
process nitrogen is disengaged. These Vibriones are 
widely diffused in the intestinal canal throughout its entire 
course, in the cavity of the mouth, and in the stomach, ©! 
which it is very easy to be convinced by examining under 
the microscope the matter which collects or remains Os 
the teeth ; sometimes they are even found on the skin, 
but the author has hitherto not succeeded in detecting 
them in the blood, in the milk, in urine, in the gall, or 2 
other fluids of this kind. When a little sugar is added to 
the liquid in which these animals are formed, their number 
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augments considerably, and at the same time a vegetable 
production is generated, viz., ferment. If a larger amount 
of sugar be added, the production of these animals is a 
pended or ceases entirely, and a greater quantity of fermen 
is formed. ‘The author has never observed ferment to be 
formed in a liquid which contained no sugar. Whether # 
fungus be the fermentative fungus or another species, val 
be determined with certainty under the microscope; ay 
also very, easily by adding some of it to a solution © 
which must not exceed 48°, nor go below 32° Fahr. 3, this 
ular 
ment. In the older ferment an envelope and gran’ 
contents may be readily distinguished, which ay 
however, more evident on the addition of a drop 
