JAN. 2.] 
THE GARDENERS 
CHRONI 
CLE. ; 5 
stan ai a nd as all these propagate very freely b y buds, 
rece. , and leaves, the others are thrown into the back- 
ound. Gloire des Rosomanes, a. only prgange 
ead, te for ced for the last two or : chee the 
pre core tons, a real ages Lee with what pectieactr ns 
these kin arket t purposes bu t the 
grand resource in 
“cc 
rose du 
almost incredible ex tent, in 
e most 
a 
r 
whether ly blooming. There 
are also se everal varieties of wa are “betachel glycine, 
violet is always in dem: 
&e. he tree v and, and readily 
sells at twenty and thirty sous ; anothe eiaaibe is the 
yrtle, not grown nag as in England, but with a round 
trained 
are no such apace pdr 
mn of er 
ce: 
y “Th er 
in Paris as those Sd Pere ayers 
apple Place, or Mr. Sm See 
the _ (generally called nomics) 6 
Boulevard du Mont Parnasse, at the digas ae ane of 
ing the better sorts of pla and for orced flowers, 
having the advantage of a goo 
stocratic quarter of Paris, together with every requisite to 
render the was 
standard, andkeeps till February. The Bergamot Cadet has the 
property nek rege aan kd for a long a ne perry oh from 
the same tree. The tes Curé is the e as the ar of 
becom 
in flavour from a ‘ctundard. The Ne plus Meuris appeare 
the best-flavoured pear on the table. 
INNEAN SOCIETY. 
So peed pmo Read, a paper 
; Esq., of plants allied to 
cqibaesen order ; together with observations o _ genera 
consinetiog that order, and their affinities. A n of dried 
me — of Ferns collected by Mr. Cuming in the Philippines 
ig Ww. 
or eh Fors! 
Dec 
bd G.B 
were Maton 
were remarkab! 
them were many rare species, such as a alternifo- 
bes jum, Grammitis Ceterach, Aspidium spinulosum, and Thelypteris, 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL eae o OF ENGLAND. 
woes peter ate ob Henslow delivered a Hap upon dis- 
of corn. ject was to explain nature of the mala- 
dies that corn is ite 05 whether he the carachen of parasitical 
Sam 
poor thr by, the first class ; and _ pepsin ar 9 
ro 
to the opinion that such produc- 
intaneous, or accidental; and he 
—— all. _ 
called ii e by 
will of the Almighty. 
The Bunt fangus (Uredo caries), called also Smutballs and 
Pepperbrand, was described as a powder occupying theinterior of 
a grain of wheat, the only corn it attacks. The microscope shows 
bs to consist of minute balls, 4,000,000 of which may be included 
na grain of 
bi wheat; and each ball is filled with minute seeds or 
however, turned out a co’ maples ettare, sat four s ort pri i so that 10,000,000 times jad first 4,000,000 may be 
any ave seen it change hands three ie with loss to ponent up ina single grai Hence the excessive minuteuess of 
, from some cause or other Fculctes are ms ome parts, as facility » —_ sehich they are dispersed. Th 
fects whi aline substances, such as potash, lime, & 
flourishing in Paris; the expenses for iii: firing, an roduce in destroying the ana wien" eed-corn is dressed with 
and a re qui ite as s much, if not more; — sae don, Jeg those eames, was supposed to be owing to their forming a 
q' 
a price part of | Scapy compoun with the oil of ys i which is ome more 
the Puts growers havi t: little spiel har tmnall gar easily ‘etached from eon surface o: orn, to which its natural 
~ | greasii makes it adhere. 
dens, of about an acre of eae: upon this are erected on€ | " The Smut, or Dust-brand (Uredo segetum), di e last 
or more span-roofed houses, about ten feet — aeaeae _ bey ‘its ant Ne vee —_ in ‘ccaping throug’ — 
sides of the infected grain e of a sooty powder. 
on the ground, and just fi igh e ns ar > roi *i ee rin rarely a ks wheat, but ii : mon enemy of oats and barley. 
n the middie ; some few are heated wii water. | The usual palliative of this evil is steeping, as in the case of 
These, together with frames sunk in the earth, are found | the . Henslow advised, however, that many ne’ 
: B' 
lItiplicati e uid be tried upon this subject, and he suggested 
answer the purposes of The th Ge caieyice tiem take = He. i } 
winter covering is paillassons (straw seats) ‘al leaves ; reccmamendel fis peacticn of raising seed. cora poe, tite the 
and plants thus excluded from li ght, air, or fire-heat, neral sary one of the probable means of securing 
preserved for o r two mo in a perfectly healthy — y, a me eee! ced. : 
# ust (Uredv rubigo) was deseribe orange powder exuding 
pares x Peat is used od tayo everything,—roses Pex: rom the inner chaffscales, and forming yellow or pads wn spots 
» geraniums, Fuchslas, ver Sy -—and it} and blotches on vario rts of corn-plants. In itself it is a 
answers the purpose by insuring a d st of comparatively small importance; b fessor Hen- 
flow made the very curious discovery that it is the gsc a 
the Mildew, the Puccinia gramin rie, which is so 
The we, has been severe for the last three weeks, as you 
will — by the a retarn :— 
Dec. 
fy Ora AM. ‘Ther 4° 
ge a 
ee ae 3 A heavy fall of snow ; 
7 : ESE, { "ihe dst this winter. 
is — — «me — EASE. . 
19 o— — 2039 — S§.E. Rainand sleet. 
20 — — 253 — &£ Much snow. 
PROCEEDINGS OF SE ABTIES. 
HORTICULTURAL SOCIE 
Dec. 1.—H. Moreton Dyer, heer Pe -P., in iy Chair. Sir Frede- 
rick Poliock and George Bai were elected. Among the 
petalum Mackaianum 
Pica 
OF poe ts 
‘gol garded as a-mons' of the grain of rye, 
produced 2% the external actio' ofa minute fungus, which causes 
ito 
e action of ergo corn 
to be highly gear both to man and 
deed, preferred s _ to feeding spon when 
which had been fel with ergot mixed 
acon 
anda noble plant of the old £pi- 
The latter, although its rata ae hae was, 
f health. of th 
fro} the beautiful state alth, interesting 
objects in the room silver Knightian siete ons assigned to 
these plants.—A set pgstie — wee r. Jackson, of 
Kingston, gained a Ba medal. these re 
silver nksi ong wel 
E. caffra, hiemalis, hae Seban, pyreinidals, and carinata, 
all in fine ———— Mr. Gree! of the best December 
Cucumbe ver saw, a in moar He 
and thelr rit was acknowledged the a a 
medal. Hes al iso exhibited pee, aap Epiphylium —— 
Begonia octopetaia, and a new seedling Cineraria 
bear cae themums were in the in from Mr. Edmunds, Guia 
the Duke of De vonshire at Chiswick, Messrs. Chandler, and 
the garden of bert contributed 
inde th 
farm at Lodsworth ; 
Bullock's Heart, the Large July, the Early Champion, and the 
Pheasant’s Eye, were said to be most prolific. There were also 
Som er ~ Gai of Batterse: 
pears from thes: es on his tadle on Christmas-day. There were 
also various fr f Cacti from and a Phaius grandi- 
Jolius, from Mr. Moore, gardene: R. , Esq., of 
Stamford Hill. ordin imen. was meed of 
2 iaurel-root which had penetrated an old bape or aeons 
Isaac api diag of Bush- _ ioe — It amass 
ble number, the Saeeeiee state- 
pear rar made:—The Jean de Witte Pear, fruited = = 
for the first time, is very like a Glout-morceau; bears w 
in France. case, 
in the parish register “Of “Wattisham, x sue in Suffolk, 
occu red in 1762, —_— as it was thought, in cons 
ad alamity was referred by "the Professor, with 
great A. to the eae n of ergot, which he finds a Kod of 
the Rev: d of! 
ghbourhood par a 
re 
Tritici, which te ia cong on s small 
scale. They fo: a cottony the 
which, when the latter is and, will an 
cloth, but remain behind in the no. aout h this. creat 
is Opically small when young, it is a gia rs 
— , becoming a quarter of an inch Fadl Nev 
er had hoger gomoto ig 50,000 of the geod might be canals 
rag pat Eas 9 Sealdin ing water entioned as the 
edy for these creatures. 
the Wheat- midge (Cecidemyia Tritici) 
millions of millions of which 
is, therefore; 
re, reason Ppo: 
the thresher up to that season = earl burnt, thi 
wheat-midges might i n time be annihilated. 
ecture an exhibition 
kind that have yet been made, the microscope 
anything better than the shadow WS, OF ins r ghi 
malic 
NICAL ‘SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. . 
for the. fon of an of 
of specim 
ong the members. 
pitt saree token sheniame 
distinct species. 
ee ree aa, 1. Dr R, Kaye Greville, 
ie fn pc hor eh ppredet . R. Kay’ 
President, in the chair. 
production of Messrs 
A valuable and elegant volume, the joint 
lasgow, was presented 
G. J. Lyon and Wm, Gourlie, Junior, of G 
by these genti 
ritish Mosses tice, with the exception of six, viz., 
Jungermannia lanceolata, Linn. ; J. cuneifulia, Hook. ; Marchan- 
oa levis, Hook.; Glyphomitrion cylindraceum, Taylor ; Funaria 
n. 
mens were presented. Amongst the lat 
pty pre Keith Murray, o of Ochtertyre, was pention 
for the admirable manner in which the specimens | were preserv: 
e following communications were then 
"Notice by Mr. Robt. Ball, of Dublin, ot a a singular deposition 
or some Levee poner yes yaa =s a of snow in miniature, 
in one of his and the 
eculiar mode of hybernation of 
Pin; nguicu andifior 
2. Mr. Edward Forbes exhibited a beautiful species * Mucor, 
onths in a damp cellar. The filam 
silky. looking hair, between three and sour | ieches long, many of 
sm. being peeaney tipped ja bright yellow thece. Dr. 
ed that many Lg ago he had seen a 
=. tote iry appearance anogh. as far as 
Souetaberek: destitute of the be wth black spots on the present 
His friend Mr. Robert Cha and himself had both 
tne fongus =p the pee It was grown 
tch, and 
rkby. Lonsdale, Westmoreland, 
with a catalogue of the plants found in that neighbourhood. By 
= ete rrid herd of Bury, Lancashire 
an excursion to the Clova Mountains in August 
of s 
d from the circum: 
of comparatively rare orn 
same period of the year, 
late Mr. Don’s discoveri a 
re! he 
found by Mr. Thos. Edmondston, Jun., on a barren 
of os Shetland Islands; and that Orodus niger had bee’ 
by 
Scotland; also a specimen of ea as, ted presser tote from 
the Braid Hills being an a addition to the Flora Edinburgh. 
Mr. Campbell stated tha tense Vicia lutea had been pvcerd the Hon. 
in Devonshire in July 
three mosses collected, 
cordata, ‘a 
R. Rollo near Auc! 
7. Notice of observed 
seventy-t! 
Listera 
‘entrionale, and we een ~ saad were particu- 
by Mr. N. B. Ward, Pteris crispa, 
Asplenium gon 
larly noticed as being additions to the ra of the north of 
Devon. 
Mr. Brand exhibited proofs of the tables and maps which are 
in course of being ‘printed and be er for the purpose of | 
pr yo acer geographical distribution of plants 
Su and Neath Hortieu —The An- 
nual ‘Mee ox ay —Owing to the esting uh of the weather few plants 
wae exhibited, but the necessary business of the year was trans. 
acted. 
nw 
liural paras La 10. 
unity of exiting to each other any of the pr ane 
pective ;—to excite a feeling of yroees 
of baad neighbourhood ; (an 
r. Di 
an, 
ine! aS prize 
ip" : Bree naar: 
ree ; 
Liewelyn F id 
presen’ y the President, 
year in oe eaaanoer of i D. elyn 
The “Silver Horticultural als, 
number of prizes obtained in the year, in the several departm: 
of flowers, fruit, and vegetables, are due to Mr. D. Liewelyn for 
flowers; Mr. Vivian for fruit; ditto for vegetables. : 
‘ Prizes given by the : President for the best Bouquets 
were 2’ ded at the shows to Mrs. Arthur Jones ; 
atthe second show, to Mr3. Webber. 
desserts were awarded at the firet show 
second and third, to Mr, Virian; and 
first and second show , to 
to their arf 
in te ai an 
| Hine pe 
