JAN. 9.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
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ploy yed in sugar-refining in , Lond on, and being able to 
5 the ~ t of wr ep over the boilers better than 
ost other workm selected fo or this purpose; but 
7 aes 
tered into their okey to grow the — ae 3; and frivin’ a 
letter we have received froma the 
flowered frécly, and Vibehed | a maoleited of jong and 
containing a great deal of seed. Blackbirds ‘eh very fond of these 
berries. At the present time there are hundreds of yen 
— nts come up round the parent plant, n Bt on nly on the bor: 
even on the hard amg walk. The only protection given pe 
Biel to exotics planted oat, is to put over the tenderest some old 
tan or leaf-mould. 
Wheeler and Victoria Nursery, Bath.—The beaut 
Salter, ful 
in a dated 23d July last, there ‘is n tion mad of Poinsettia polenertink is cultivated here with great success. tt 
uch scheme. Indeed the land they have purchased receives the same treatment as the generality of stove-plants; 
Pt thei é my and as it flowers in the winter season, forms one of the fairest 
P' + + } ornaments ofa stove. Some plants here are from 3 feet to 7 feet 
sufficient for thei Sugar | in height, crowned with magnificent tufts of crimson leaves from 
pleatatize, d the latitade of Syd itself ay not do 0 inch 16 in dia me fer og is ta hena 
? J 
Almeria Grape.—As this is now sold in Covent 
arden Market, we cope 8 publish a memorandum con- 
ing it, for which w indebted to a learned Pomo- 
logical friend. The ‘Haas pe is not mentioned by 
name in ‘‘ Clemente’s Essay on the Vines of Spain.’’ 
I, however, believe it to o. 45, Beba, which is 
the ‘White Raisin Gr Lan ngley,” and the White 
Raisyn of “ ce’s Teeatis n the Vine 
y e 0 
Victoria —Seeds of this, the queen of hothouse aqua- 
tic pune? have at ~~ been procured i ina fresh state ag 
Mr 
S 
frien a left i 
Queen- —_ Soho. _ These seeds # were procure eons the 
e colo oured dur g Mr. Schom 
My 
did not faa it in ro “but he seta down some Hp 
ich, at their arrival in George-town, were neeeed 
ue cA se ed. On his return from the 
eond t trip, he 
d them a pond in 
a that we may succeed in get ting th 
to England ; but some fear is entertained that it: is, like 
Euryale, an anaual. 
Aptarie®: t+hatD 
th lehrated 
writer upon pint affairs 
of e experiments _coneerning the aphthaske roy en- 
y be removed fro: 
e least Prcnerine to told will prevent the 
expa nsion both of the 1 aay és and phen —Dec. 13. 
Thomas Brocklehurst, Esq., the Fence, Macclesfield_—Ther 
yeinafnauls collection of orchidaceous i Petes at this place. ‘Above 
1000 plants are cultivated im three houses, nearly 100 feet in 
length, and bw een is in the highest ponith, hear aye joes sell 
ve. 
ful managem of Mr. A pole eby, who, ee 
co pond it hens is Ti eaent in fi aye ‘ario: 
epiphyte from Brazil, arith bri t brown flowers ‘richly spotted 
h the same colour, very Bt new to this country, 
d Lage a Janus genus.—J 
Jan, 
Park, aie the Or 
d large berries, 
*: Bi pentiitn: —This watlety is usually known as the Weeping 
Birch, and attains a much larger — cone the common form. 
Its branches are also stra ighter and more erect, and the Jateral 
become very much elongated, a and elegantiy pena 
lous at the extremities, Mend op like a fountain shower,” o 
Wordswo' i 
5 rch, the horizon’s edge, 
oat ad sehen framiog in the east 
A veil of glory for ben — ng Moon.’ 
upper ft surface of the a aise re or less marked with 
2 7 § 2.—In this era “profuse of nursing —— both 
ie i upper one, abun 
id the eranebée with 
persed with innumerable pale, 
fragra , bighly inflammable elon ous globules, whence it has 
athe name of the Salty Birch. 
A Catalogue of the Plants pl in Bombay and tis 
vicinity, By John Graham. Bombay: yee. 
Tus isa mph wa catalogue, in English, of 
known to the author his friends as inhabiting the 
bay Presi sR it contains a considerable number 
species, and some genera supposed to be new. To re- 
» Ealing chidaceous House | sidents at Bombay it must 
ie ‘Dendrobium nobile i is in eo be tt the plant has sane a ¥ : a - hi 
of 40 blossoms on of good size colour. A fine plant of D. absence of one e extel nef 3 — to p sons ee 
Pierardi is also Stogeniing 4 in gi y a ; forte nine flower. | countries it is an acquisition, from its poin' ut wha’ 
ing stems, each bearing about ten flowers, and is ing in a|the plants are which may be procured from Bombay ; 
basket suspended from the roof of the house. A plant of Astrapza | of which we reall w very little in this country. 
Mes gore ma shen % row sae et queers ig | The author unfortunately died le his k was passing 
flowering freely nere, hind the Gelicate ‘pink colour of its tit through the press, and it was completed by Nimmo. 
oe with — green of its foliage, renders this one of b a book affords but little matter far ex! 
e st ornamental species of the teats 28. 
Mr. Penn's, Lewisha In the stove there are three fine speci- followings = enoweren interesting fac a nal 
mens of E rbia fulgens, bloom in great luxurian The Cra ieva Roxburghii, a eas dle-siz 
towers Son ip alte af fowering magnificently, with about 170 ifoliate 1 3 
Ow ers ot nae all o ich are very fine. Although this is an | that is pe to be met with about les 
old a f plant, it ought not to despised on that 8 ¥ 
power ‘for ieee: peng of its tribe tha ass it in point | Mussulman tombs, is also a native of the ociety Is- 
beauty, when flowering as it does here. A plant of Musa | lands, where 7 is i planted th odes of the dead, the 
coccinea is just throwing up its beautiful scarlet s — ha ry same as in Ind This argues strongly for all ‘‘ nations 
form a striking contras' tl e deep green m ts foliage. ” 
lumbago rosea ring during the last two months, of men bei nade of tee blood. yiass xXx. a 
The calebes Plassey’’ in Beng: 
Lord Clive defeated i Surajah Dowlah in Vist, 
Palasi tree, buten ea 4 ‘on- 
Fas eich grew oy it. This i isa geen 
sue’ \< ent tree, whose 
Sage be melt e . hyacinths, narcissus, tulips, | flowers are of , and closely 
go Note ich are looking exceedingly well.—Jan. te: mas in lar; has nehes 
Arau ucaria imbrica ta.—A fine crop of this rare plant | “ physi is Celis ='Phere is an old plabe of Yucca gio. | 4s ge acia rabica, c 
+ aan been raised by Mr. Pontey, Nureryian, of pS ret riosa in flow mg which is about fo sarteen feet high, inciading The errs end Be “Ac ae alled the Ba- 
‘ the lar, pee -like seedg | the Bower site bat the ne are He. ell &. — ded, rt a see vi a black. in ‘ree iL sins” here pa 
wete pricked into the ground for only third of thei oom sgrie re titdes Drees ¥.8e on f ‘hen eae ed wi round kei rh g toa «tags 
fensth. Gin sacieee year in which they are developing iemselven noon quires no water, is of 
to a brisk bottom heat. He agg ioe the daily progres At i yellow flowers, it is-v happily 
of the young seedlings, under these circumstances, Rebiewws. | introd: om 2 cnaemne. 
something quite beautiful; every = in development | A Flora ae ee By W. A. ——- B.A. * rocks ore.relagh. bat isniing there 
in e within sight of the observer. Very lit sae Voo eats 1841. Loney mad sect, nor nae sree the tea 
water has yet been given them, an ill in a short ere written — nit in erness.” a Rookh. 
time be t ooler situation deed id Bot: There is riety or disti peciés in Kandeish, 
a ed Wheat.—It gives us sincere ‘pleasure observ the branches of Nomen =. Ram Ka seta —a tall erect- rma ook tike 1 tree; an 
t Col. is ‘Cotten has reed elected a Vice- President's tof Although —— systematical, and filling ground occupied prec in ng soe lana pinoy which abounds Be 
the “ Institut d’ Afrique” of Paris, and that his work atk by the reaper undred seasons, Mr. Leigh- | moré in gum he ¢ n B pin and bh ffers iter | 
on whea uch appreciated in France as to h n’s boo ey ha 4 : freshness of novelty—not for its | it in t of ta Tei 
procured for the author a silver medal, from the Academy c * the manner in which it is treated. pods of these trees aré of great valtte to 5 the shepherd in ‘the 
of Agricultural, Manufacturing, and Commercial Industry. as food for his flock, when A ger s Scarce. 
e do not know a2) persan more worthy of such dis- | in the wild flowers of Be ngland so exhausted, that ¢ Argyreia cuneata, a plan ant not unknown in this kg 
tinctions, or one w as laboured more faithfully and | turn from the simple faces of their ap herland to the pyent bred name of Ipomea atrosanguinea, is spoken 
earnestly for Siosb reminds than our gallant friend, who is | flaunting strangers in Our gar all such we re- of grea reat Lae bi accou aie 3 hr? Bar ‘gt 
ne of the few agriculturists that have atte ed systema- | commend this book as will atthy the their perusal. We purple stole f its flow It is phd 
tically to improve the races of wheat. Attention to this | literally mean their perusal; for ant will find in it | districts, ative the Ghauts, and in : Bom! ty an nd 
ject was strongly recommended the — r evenii am f and variety r a wy for the table | gardens. This species is entitled ‘to the first plaes 
essor Henslow in h han befo gricu g pa ten has been among the convolvulaceous order.”’ cen ot 
Society ; and we are glad of an opportunity of adding our by the author; the contrary, we have rare species, viz. Jj it jh sw and I, putchella, are 
own testimony to the paramount importance of doing so, | work on genera “ait pecies more full of good, sound, | mentioned as handsome species. 
with a view to increase the Bn y and quantity of the | original information. We shall from time to time fi In addition to the Banya an trees po ahcaans enor- 
wheat crop. avacant corner of our columns with ex from hi ¥ on record e aoe the 
work. For the present we insert his account of the a, of Col. Sykes, wig i ntions at the village 
GARDEN MEMORANDA. Birch Tree ‘ood specimen of his y Bags a . Fr Poo! dia Colidbtotite, with 68 stems, 
“3 ilton Nesbitt Fergusot, Biel, Busi. Lothian, lat. 55° nk is subject to the occasional éscending from the Wasi ches, > ieee of affording 
& : At | parade at gerbe station, conn th cliniate i is so variabl at eee = rt 2. —— se" anda moc somghe she, wail m vertical igre 20,0 rate erm mt 
at in 182 vest was almost finished by the end of July, andi ; sceina -E LS Maiesiedlorre 
1896 was not gathered in by the end of the year, Mr. Street has | STS ina boggy soil). to larger masses of intertwin » | the hs mt of hte mutt bi as vl aad yh f Superstition ue 
Succeeded in beara a tee 2 sw In the Spring of 1930, caused possibly by the extravasation of sap incident on the | asi a oe a ts oy = 
heplantedon sn Sper hear #south-wail Afichnea Capensis a oie 1e insect, which, as Withering very aptly the inform of our scientifie ee 
wered and ripene eds f y. The lowing Spring | * ance similar to rooks’ a “yeharl peioreng in Mr. Graham’s work, €! 
several seedling plants border, which b is a tough, white, “shaded with “or witha prdin iulecthomere : A 
flower in August, and continued till late fi Detem F These bet fine ; of moderate durability, but very subject called ee ate is the same as Tetrameles Eurychiton 
plant ned their se some of which were | the « cs worms: chiefly e loved ‘ed in coo , turnery. pecies of Statice, and Lepurandra is identical wi 
eaten with avidity by mice; During the early part of last sum. | 224 lighter kinds of work, iailly pattensand heels of women’s ris. i 
mer, Mr. Stre oh planted out under a south wall, trellised, Lopho- yen — en Sauce is —— al for durability and as n case this work should re dition, we trust 
spérmum erabescens ; it da a defence n amidity, a used ncients fo: whieh 
end of July, and mandation ee henge Ape arrears soph en me their previous to the of - The oil dis. ts “editor will give a Fone, inde of Lees Bogs 3 
being of amuch 4 nd richer colour than when grown u tilled from the bark imparts that powerful fragtatice peculiar to add much to it: : 
bes ig has Proruce me pede, though it is unce: ri serra Thi rec — in we ha a ae os is 
er they w: pen. A small bulb of Pancratium illyti , | form in apnea yore wine. wi tree diffuses hie ti i tion 
ee d_out on an open border in 1829, fivé inches deep, predaces an agreeable as the ‘‘fragrant bet pri etme 4 agate “ae 0 Ag 
v0 b of flowers in 1632: the flower-stems were 7 inches | birk- Physiology. By Justus a 
igh, each 12 . In Angust 45 is were ripened, This “< most beautiful of forest trees—the Lady of the Woods,” 
pedis Daruge in each pod. In 1833 and 1834, this | iptimately connected as it is with the literary history and cere- 
e od three flower-stems, each b 13 flowers, and | Monials, civil and religious, of earlier times, is Still more forcibly Ww i ihiat @ 
7 pened its seed freely both . In 1835 it sent up fine flower. | £S0ciated in our memories with the briglit, happy, and buoyant how proceed to voter er sn 
ng stems, each having 15 flowers ; and in July its foliage and | 4895 we a seenes of exquisite but evanescent mingled | going propositions =F ae 
flower. stems two feet ig, the former being two inches | P2i™S and pleasures, when to minds “life and its gyre l. The constituent elements 6 
wide. In 1 produced 11 flower. stalks, h bearing 17 | joys scomed but as one long summer’s day,”—that we bon with Mire 
flowers : 8 Sear it ripened hai as-ounce of seed.” Ta | Indeed exclaim with the writer in the.“ Nouvead du Hamel, % | carbon with oxygen a 
1837 and 1838, 12 stems ete produced, each having 1 flowers, | © Tications one Oilers avast subject of im " ne Seg em bined op merge 
and a great i be seed was tipened. phe each 2 tation; and 9. Car is obtained the form 
lowers On i n November sje 4 " 
aad alter u few Gaye wit Gl of this vide ait ane ‘ é, 0? pret: in soil by 
Weight; one balb, with 7 
th @ 
ij -; and a third, f 
in is rather light, with a coot clayey i 
1840, some of the seeds, old and new 
ace wa pe ples Sep for tear 
covering of snow. 
flower early in stim 
of seed. 
19837- Dy 
Ne dt in rather 
mer, lasts a long time, 
Some seed was so’ 
clei felted ate | 
ted by the author that the air, 
bonic acid from | whi - Apree ob 
of @ 
this position by a bet pate con 
oe at periods long anterior to the i 
e of thin 
In former - periods (he says) of the earth’ 3 omen 
cé was covered with plants, Bir remains 
‘These pe 
i in thé coal 1 for : te—the 
gigantic monocotyledons, sedge 28 s, and reeds—be 
to a class to which nat mae ope by 
of an immense extension rt dpe 
nourishment from the ‘o 
