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88 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. [N° g; 
weil dean 
history of the Bermudas—a period from which to date an pastees a a Morinda « of the same age. The tree in the Hor- | trous in 1837-8. We hear that near Camberwel ll the stem 
foretiaas oigen"y and many emg ede enn Se rig rf Pde na has bed given in the | of the common broom are split, and that in some places 
vation of the S oil 5 for such 1 practical Aap are found, | “as this purser cotiteins sortie rathet important errors, it is | the thermometer fell to 14° Jelow zero; indeed, a corpas 
even in to ha influe uence necessary that they should be rectified. In the first ato ‘the oe from Stowe aere us that it sank to 4° below 
i hi } th 
in the Re soke nt of apa meet Pt al that can be 
te) uda Gazette. 
0. Our correspondent says— 
“‘ The ploughs are ve proved of; and I in 
hopes more will be @ with the land another year 
The ploughing-match - a * deal of good ; many 
ne i 
of i ‘or “cultivating the 
Thos wan pa land her 
labourers at the time they want them. 
. thea inde) ata lh 
“ Darkee” 
and they have, with one or two 
plant ealled Abies ana, is figured by Dr. Wallich in his 
Plantee Asiatice rariores, t. 246, and the name can belong no sd eve a mr i heheek ua - eager of January the be 
other. Now that p! has the broad leaves of a Picea or Silver | 2”! awtegatal veo gi - on the 
Fir, and the erect cones of the same tion. Most assuredly are local cas' not general, rae 
the tree in the Horticultural Society’s Garden agrees with it in the ‘Garden oft the degocmapece a pide the thermometer 
neither the one nor the ay of those circumstances. If it is | gig not sink nd in that place little d 
Prey ie that the cones of A. Smithiana are represented as erect ¥ ae is 
y some mistake on the peat of Dr. Wallich, the peculiarity at present on : among ‘the out-door plants. 
tena ill remains as a sufficient mark of distinction from | lowest point at which the Y thésmemeter was noticed at 
e plant in the Horticult Garden. Bat sueh an assertion is Rolleston — = eye r Burton-on-Trent, where the the: 
destitute of all proof; and Dr. Royl no means supports it t h hi 5° ab: 
he who cele pl s of studying Indian firs in their | MCter is 0 d with much care, was ve zero,— 
nativ anne, merely says that the opinions of Mr. Lambert | At Wel borage he thermometer fell to 2° below zero, og 
and Professor Don lead hi suppose there may be some am- Thursday night ; and in _the Bury Post we are told — 
biguity on in subject. Certainly then the re Morinda o 7 
the Hortic es Garden is not A. Smithiana, yeti that m 
or 39° below the freezin ng-point, e bota nic garden 4 of 
tha pater We have srs = nothing ike this elsewhere, 
Best Dahlias.—We hav ived from a correspondent 
the following | list of Dahlias as tong the bes t fe 
eptions, been i in the habit ‘ove to be. Mr. Gordon rs that - as of A — mp rare 
their digging-hoes, a tee pin and tedious process, which half the ‘ia sof those of A. Khutr ties e cones of the 
leaves the ig bets ngh will be o' great service latter are figured by Dr. Royle, and ape ly aon ay 
ere, n only eultiv 6 inch n le ; the cones of the former, as figured by Dr. 
7 allich, are 5 inches 6-10ths and a half long; a difference which 
but fan a more og sre pee of cnitiwatio ion ; = also ren- | in such mat b nothing. It is clear, therefore, that 
dering the proprietor or upier independent of the | the cones Mr. Gordon has examired are not cones of A. Smith- 
eaprice of the labourers. People re are surprised at na atall, which is pm poncnr med by his statement that the 
e well. A crop of arrow: 
was putin under my dir ection ; itis aon —_ an 
EL Sothce agoaoe OF: societies 
AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF 
Tue first presentation - the eer was a specimen of over- 
dried jlastien is from Dacca, which — te abe that oe dried 
bananas of India might vacbey gene the 
Levant. A sample of hemp grown and Ser yrcthr ee ay Bengal, 
pt ree aha ge manner, was acco: a letter Eien the 
i ey te ent, | who st 
large 
to learn 
reg ct Na = quality of the fibre. 
vn & 
he pe hyrett ee, sorghum, Indian 
O Bengal in 
malayas. He ther pas- 
jar to the table land of } Mjsere, aa 10 the 
plains of India and the Himalayas, at the same time stating that 
was both advisable = [teagan in’ uce some * om 
pen pasture-grasses razil gal, a t . 
pees the north of India. The Himalayas, he said, possessed 
ses that it was probable. a 
A reso 
the culture of the ar-cane, Two letters were then 
the cultivation cotton by the instrum: entality of 
Te viack Americans are advised co go up to the north- 
ces of Bengal, and not to grow the western cottons 
on soll formed = the eo of trap gee we 
, mets, coarse and perhaps fine cloths, and if more 
carefully prepared, wo would become an article of a export. A 
note from the Saugor district mentio: med that the Georgian plants 
gtowing there were “ beautiful.” 
ROYAL BOTANICAL SOCIETY. 
A mgeEtING of this Bopre took place on the evening of Tues- 
jo Aino but no business having been transacted we have nothing 
report, 
ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
January 4th, 1841.—The Rev. F. W. Hope, F.R.S., President, 
inthechair. Donations of Entomological ‘Works from Professor 
eggs 
) d the small parasites found on 
vaba@us), ani Flies; their 
identity having been questionedjin the volume upon Insects re- 
cently published, forming part of the “ Cabinet C:  acrritetena® A 
was also read by on the Nomenclature of 
the Genus Cholorion Latr. (Amputes J urine), which 1 eX~ 
tended sion amongst the members present, on the employ- 
Mitchell, Esquires, 
T. Tatum i 
rs a, and J. R, Young, Esquires, 
ten OF a PLANTS WHICH LE 
AR 
THER USEFUL OR peeing 
Forest Tree. )— 
posed by som 
Royie, but they ee ane ap _ the 
A. Smithiana having been oO the Soci 
of A. Morinda (Khutrow), br: or Royle. 
jana are n ot half ed re ie oo: of A. Morinda, 
cal, with ape uch 
margins; while 7 of re Morinda ‘(Bhatrow) are gre 
po with the scales rounded, nearly entire (mostly bilobed), 
uch thicker and larger in a [ saad not been able to 
detect ant difference in the nme of the , but the 
es of A. are enh 23 
bare seedlings of hg he calls A. Smithiana are much slen- 
derer maller than those 
ns. W however, M = 
ition that the Abies M of the Horticultural Garden is 
Smithiana, he is certain ight in saying that he has two 
A. pe 
pony ar: ag bg of cones of the ‘Abies genus from British India. 
Ther joubtless two area nan Spruces, of bm one may 
pi ptr Khe itrow, while the other bears the name of A. Mo- 
rinda; but: to whieh the old plant in the Hotticultural Garden 
belongs cannot be determined for the present.—Botanical Reg. 
_MISCELLANEOUS. 
ts 2aee. 
Z, 
The following 
of Heartsease as an amateur would wish to possess. foes 
of the varieties are old, but as they have not been sur- 
passed i we unwilling to omit them 
On another. occasion we shall give the names 0! best 
of the new kinds: pi oe _ 
Jehu ; Robespierre ; Queen Dowager ; Olympia 3 
Christo oe Flora; Prince Albert ; Tambarin ini ; 
Grand ‘ark ; Optima ; Grace Darling ; Yer t mM 5 
bom as the Tenth Imogene ; 3. Lady Glenallan ; Colonel 
Dundas; Prin e Charles Aurora ; By WESS ; Miranda ; 
Rival Duke ; Durham ; Flora 
= of Clarendon ; 
M ir Jo! fo Sobre 5 To 
¢ Marquess of North rtham mpto 
issued. cards - invitation to the Fellows of the Sri, 
following Saturdays, viz. :—Feb. 
ie =. 4 d. 
—Cut f the following varieties 
were a> season prises “tistsibated by the Lauded 
cultural Society, on account o ir p' 
Ap PLES.— Summer Golden By an. exce 
ms v's Boerne a han 
PEARS.— 
ise. 
this is not so gritty as the Old pS abancas “~ it o 
ey that os ies tea but sparingly on 
Winter Crassane how wiper ps ~ 
of 
th 
» but is ‘meling and buttery ; 
in pra Piu —Coe's Fine La 
if 
Royale Hitive oa 
—_ the Green Gage in 
purple plums ‘ef their 
7 aso) R i} ot 
as the oe 
considered the very st = plum. 
Claude Violette ; 
nearly a fortnight earlier hay 
Rei Cuerries.—The Late Talore ; 
not so sweet as the _—. Duke, but much larger, and very 
of abbreviations. 
Best 50 yal in 6, 9,12, 19, 24, —_ 36. 
Springfield ae % g- 8 
-g Amator, 
poked se. 
Sir W. Middleton, g. v. ugly 
Sprit ngtield eto g. un. 
¥> &- 
I, g- Y. 
ing, v +8 
Seonta of of oe Plain, v.g. 
eg # Salis yg 
Rouge et Noi 
President of the West, v. g. un. 
Maria (Wheeler's), Lc 
Nicholas Nickleby, g. un. 
Penelope, v. g. un, 
Rival Saskex ,g. 
Bowling-green Rival, vy. g. 
v.&- 
si Sv. un. 
Hope, v. g. Andrew i a 
Ne plus ulfra, v. g. 
¥ellow Defiance, v. g. Advancer, g. 
pe 5 me co ising, v. g. un, 
nservative. Anno ot Lisle, 
Climax, v. g. 
Duchess of Ri chmond, 
Francis (Jones’s), v. & 
Lord Dudley Stua: 
Blodmabary 
Windmill Hill aires ¥. 
t 36 ‘Dablias sent out i in 1840, in 12 and 24. 
Felitaope+ ; as un, 
Metella, v. g. 
Yellow Defiance, v. g. 
President 2 West, v.g. 
Pickwi 
Nicholas Nickleby, v. g. on. 
v. & 
rs 
v. & r Ri »&- un. 
noe of #f Nottingham, & 
Rienzi, v. g. 
9 &. 
Bedford Rival ahareny first rate 
Grenadier, 
ishop of chester 2d rate ; 
Charles xi, (Pamplis), g- an, ' 
Maresfield Rival, g. 
Defender, g. un, 
armen (Foster’s), g. un. 
Phenome 
Regina, ¥ 
Maria, v. g- 
a. “Grand Baudin, v. g. 
servative, Vv. g.un. 
of the 
va yg 's), §. ¥. un. 
set 
ury (Pamplin), ¢ 
eden Sub es — 
Bishop of Salisbury, g. un. 
ones, 
uth Hants, g. Vv. un. 
. small 
. un. 
g&- good—v ood—g. un. good, but uncertain—g. V. Un. 
do. very good, but small. 
Ra ‘ae ee, EMORA 
Hon. and Very Rev. 
Last night wet one of "he | 
20 years; the therm 
— it only fell to 10°, 
us plant i is in flower, from th 
Palle it Eustephia a ane 
ng, red below, with all the Sesaments green upwards. It 
—— ieaves, which ape! at the approach of winter, 
ht gree the ends hanging down 
leaves of the coi 
and it is Santee teh, glint: wilh ctiet aint as much asi 
1838. Magnolia grandijtora has been more affected by 
than it wasin thatyear. Berberis Aquifolium 1s 1s also i ‘jured.— 
January 12. 
Mount Edgcumbe.— This truly beantiful place © 
had heard o: climate and extent, for poe valiat 
undant . | be a fine place any ithout the sea, or its o 
a s oy gan Inte: on hag mate = — . Be advantages. Itis now,I am happy to say, in the hands of pos- 
—— os pees well deserving of cultivation ; oo gestions hase efijoy, and consequently to preserve 
t bearer than the Common Bigarrea’ and improve it; and from having been rather neglected for some 
> the & fruit is larger and darker col years it wants a little judicious ment for a time. br 
trees of all sorts, native and foreizn, are noble specimens, 
wn in High Lat Latitudes. —The observations Ae Mr. eile of 18 ere aac tholigtt’ GF ¢ aee and size, require 
¢Pherson cutting and pruning msi f —— mastery 
Ne hak i —_ are woods, are breakin ei ee age, thous! 
of Fort Simpson i in North Aerie in Lat. ‘oe Ty x. are 
dingly interesting in 
excee with the fac t that ; 
bar ley t th 
form an advan ntageous p- te n temperat of 
January 1838, the caliiet ee mas nearly 20° mae 
| below zero. The aay temperature of June at 2 Pp. wt. 
was 73°, of July 70°, of August "65°, of >a x 60°, 
of — ober 28°, excluding decimals. 
e late Frost.—The injury done by the late cold w 
Foe eannot be at ates — mage We, pes ae 
not a. sot seri ) 
well ripened, and the ke mis pie 
ceded _the severe weather of last week had 
they are erfully Hetmeeuse in all stages a growth aod asd 
decay, The e: “ashe se are filled with a profusion of the broad-lea) 
—_—* which I think the handsomest sort; 
cent bays i ex, por dena the agen 009 
boa Seotc! ant ¢ edar: 
and fine s: be ae of grow 6 
prised me in the “south of Europe, eats and oa 
eal 
gait mae 
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