JAN. 30.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
71 
loured than the common rust; but when they are fully 
eal they become elliptical, ated and enclose 
herical nucleus, “compose sed, other, of co- 
bik be granules " loured 
pedice el three or four times loser than the greater dia- 
E meter *; bie globule. 
| 
pe he growth of Puccinia is _ different from that of 
the o kinds of ru: 
ust of w hi ch Lh 
ties which ieperite my bundles of fibres of the t! A 
at first oon only hese 
r from the an 
small shapeless m: 
lour passing through 
e that oh re it from the e idereni, raise and 
t till they appear on the outside in the form 
ve 
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ly com- 
oy 
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oa 
yi! 
a5 
of 
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a 
£ BS, 
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“p 
it aie exists, rs 
rowth uceinia ; 
and this accounts for I rofedsor Hensh slow’s von i a 
Leyden, Dec. 3, 184().—Great exertions are ‘making 
here by 
live plants from the Du'ch Colonies. Dr. Blume, who is 
charged with this 3 duty, has obtai ned specimens of Wa rd’s 
cases from your 
drawing ay instructions for the Dutch governors an. and 
Officers. The second ene of pe splendid Teme gale is 
. —- and a great aga! plates for the third yo- 
'- re already engraved mg them will bag sae a 
part of the Crohiaceoas plants of the Mo- 
Ince and New Guinea. 
Newburgh, near New York, Nov. 28th.—The _Ame- 
the vignettes sent will give you some idea of ‘our villa re- 
oe Mr. Downing, of the 
New York, has now in the 
and Nurseries, near pres: 
a ‘<iame on *“ American Landscape Gardening and R 1 
Architecture,” illustrated with engravings. I think it will 
surprise you, and some who still think we have nothing 
but ‘log cabins’”’ in this count ry. 
PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
ERAS. so Ag hE 
Jan. 19.—E Forster, Esq. V.P. in the chair.—J. Maclellan, Esq. 
was ae! = feiss of the Society, and Mr. F. Wecet ge ‘Asso- 
after 
thes a great resemblance; but upon at- 
La Llave, to which i an 
tentive patel roe must be different, for the latter is said to 
have snow-white aah and this is not a circumstance in which 
plants of Orchidaceze are likely to va ry. It was also found in the 
west of Mexico by Count Karwins' lontoglossum 
Bera HE ae aceous plan very 
cremains quasie elongiog to a ens Puya, and most re- 
t 
f).—A vi 
mechanical, complicated, or costly means to force the 
presereatve or colouring | substances into an en) 
f th 
as en tself, which t to carry a all dies 
ingredients, provided oe me 1 ria a 
an banat Gee a ieee cone e 
e leav Ifat 
zi 
ays 
arkable for bearing two kinds of lea Those at the base of vy 
paper ais iewe tough: mapidecs tee oan Jes; oii esse Pie mane with i exce epting the seotAatbe 
overlie each other, forming a kind of bulb, and are extended into ic its hardness and age always resists penetration. 
narrow, hari, serrated, spiny, brown proc about two inches | It is not necessary that ae e tree should retain all its 
long. The leaves, on the other nd) which s poke last formed, are | branches did “Teaves a tuft ec: at the top is sufficient to 
brio lan anges ay or green, and more -than eighteen inches excite absorption. A tree need t oe 
lon, e flowers are arranged in a close, oblong prety com- ption. ne upright, eye 
pased wen bcd ly cartilaginous pale green bracts, occu- would some times render the (operation impractica able 
pying the centre of a bulb of spiny leaves in the place of the thin felled ken off. 
leaves before menti>»ned. Mr. rs Says, “ I received the plan and then its b Fe ee td 
Mr. nson from Mexico, in 1838, an uck it i a po 
loosely filled with Tillandsia, in which this plant and the epiphytes | 2bsorbed, all its pti will be penetrate 1 e3~ 
which in wr ith packed. Itflonrished so well in | sary that se tree should be felled; for iff a hole is made at 
its pemnvern . rn me — clohiog th the pe oe pot, — the foot of runk, or if itis nearly sawn sD tiny: i 
never disturbe: me! plante: o i 
flowered for the first time. When growin it has received women is sufficient so = bs ge that has been ied niviptiod 
ance of water; indeed, I believe it st rome always full. jon 
When the leaves began to turn yellow, it was set on the floor of 0 take place. These mean s, “by which the liquid is is hed 
the house and kept dry anid cool for two — ane or more till it up in a few days, withos t difficulty, are mihee very dif- 
showed flower. It has been grown clos the light, in pe ove of t fro _ ethods former! voor When 
moderate tempera » Not very damp. i a ) ex- feren baad x + iad dee 
essively sharp and brittle, rendering it almost eneenyee us to > omen hn | pieces of cui vd lige e been a by others, 
the plant; and the] when full grown ey re inches to | the liqu rated si cept by the mi ot of 
osely than those 
two bi long, age ey bangi a about more loosel; 
rip 
bP yee — Botan gister. 
Z ‘Green house fo dtonby. —A be: —— Lge with 
iagie ilae fio owers, vobtaitied from Swan River f 
Cheltenham = It is ~ori e 
duce a succession of bloom throughout aa winter and spring. 
It is a propagated by either cuttings or layers.— Botanical 
Re, 
egist 
Ast! ICHION SIDOIDES (Half-h ardy shrub).—Nat. ord. 
jeodvueaib. From New Holland. Iti 4 a stenidae fe yr ‘plant. 
from r feet clothed with a furfuraceous covering 
rbteyay are waite, and 
ngth, from the 
The lea inn alternate, lanceo- 
is at Berlin i in March bivved sig ay 
La faénth Jancis ee ee 
New 
quid rat not pen 
powerful machines, or by the prolonged re of the liquid 
which they were immersed. The new ‘and ingenious 
ri 
substances into the most delicate tissue. Dr. 
Boucherie was not con ng pyrolignite of iron 
and many era cheap materials, used ‘salt water 
m salt marshes, which cost him nothing, and had the 
deatian effect, Wood prepared with these gue solutions 
Lene inet ad press aged expo! se 
oe rolled in thin 
rey to the air it vaill never eer ; it 
“Gad ife <e 
i aii ot ‘a ak and will not ag fire ; these proper- 
extremel useful f for 
het his & mn 
extremely use for ships, as well as 
8 ‘hines. By 
7 ‘ a 
ah 
he poe A 
Holland plants it will bear ex xpakare * the pe oy: in summer. It 
| Beaten ' vigorously in any kind of loose, light, rich soil_—Link, 
Ant § 
MISCELLANEOU be yrers 
fit for the cabinet-maker; the 
used in — 
that. the 
some a containing tannin 
Peet 
con on Bik of Wood, 
us plants are 
Growing wok sg ek: 
He crip manner as many orc 
ee 
Walia of Elahen-hall Epiphylium truncatum, in 
parila, A sgn as larpreregl and _— as a 
it doe: es m treat a the ual manner in 
bal i7 Le # ¥ . ia 
black o or ‘agrey ti ry if ae e of iron is absorbed d 
ita acetate pre of p 
| successively, a chrome yellow is the result. 
of iron os a, Pt ia acetate of lea d, a and bgt of po’ 
are f blu » green, Lee 
low. 
ciate. Exhib ted, Sedum me Zelep kim ina orp 
feink been two csr 
his and 
superior variety of E. truncatum, In eat ai habit : 
its singe are nearly of ¢ 
size and shape, but have that inim: 
the ii 
sot Corl Ss 
‘her 
kinds had axiaine within aati miles Sag 3065 200 yeas, bir 
speciosissimus. Iti “ipa be & usta treatment cate to 
th +h by 
| extracted and they are robten to pos pieces. T 
adapted to garden walks, giving them 
and of carpet 
rer é 
Roadmaking.—In = 
ing. mpeachy 
and Pernambuco w 
fete, gc , Cam 
oads after the dye is 
admirably 
eee 
» Ina note, Profes: 
in usual manner. It was migaaity sent to oo, "R 
baeting of Liverpool, 3 aa Lg os Tejuco, a place 
has since been 
eye 
oo 
i 2 32 
ge 
a 
| 
Ale 
he 
shape of hairs at the ends ort toni renee 
flowered | 
e gardens of G 
under bai care of Mr. J Judd. 
rus communis var. Ai char si 
bog soar igh of East Barnet, 
in the jurisdiction of Languais. ” Ther are 
enormous Fema the largest of which are 
from 12 hes cv feet in height, and judging from the size = 
their trunks, they must = — than a century o 
of smaller plants, « on the 
to be seen at an —_s period. He found these organs most dev. are growing, with a 
epee pate pn reanegpne monet pe eyo aerating | side of a hill, the gietiew part b —— of the — 
cera. in which, poser the flowers had dropyed, the ores assumed | Variety. In its manner of this Juniper pond 
every form between ovules and leaves, nce be i the in- | resembles the ore: Cyp' excepting that the 
se reliant epost Some | her more swelled and ‘fusiform. : do not ar ‘that 
YAL BOTANIC SUCI DON. | any pruning would force a young com ary : ne 0 be- 
-sday, Jun. 26:—The followitig persons were elected fellows: come of this form, and Ba. sure e yo gest of 
z Sg ns a of Eg 3 the eet 
SON, -; Henry A. Tho: " .;D. D. Davis, M.D. ; 
_ Miles, 'Bsq.; Job Ward, Exq., Arthur Wellesley "Ward, Eeq.; | 0 them during the 15 years that I was in the co a. 
Neville Ward, Esq. After the ballot Mr. aowete:: combate his We are tried transplant them, but without success. 
Paper upon the varieties of structure in wood w hn give riseto | I have crea examined eariics see if they differed from 
the appearance called Curl, and other ornamen “ figures... The | the species ci r manner wth, but the: 
> Dr. h, announced that the works now in pro- pting ia gro +f 
|‘ SF€ss_ upon the Society’s grounds, in the Regent's Park, are the | do not; it) F hase no saan 4 in saying that this little 
page of the principal walks, the lawn, and the medical gar- family of Sogn ole. is one of the botanical cu- 
—Des 
quantity of building 
Among the donations reported wasa 
is quarries at Calverly. 
stone, peseated bye Ward, from his 
ES OF NEW PLANTS WHICH 
ER ee hd Se oe 
riosities of the Moulins, Catalogue des 
Plantes de 
tian th 
h 
coi 
Ants removed by Cilephorsik 1 A 
kinds of ants ; most of Seen are 
mes ae 
a 
PSE se 
eso’ 
‘A Daxcit bined erbaceous plant},—A tor roo! 
al Six inches high. Leaves oblique, tran 
pert Ben ico-rhomboid, Ted on the lerside, covered wit! 
peat the upper side. Filo: white, about an inch 
the Be: ihe thie Te ae 
. (9) 
Edinburgh.—Jamieson’s Journal. tig 
Prtats HUS AURICOMUS (Sfare- 
Niebuhr’s Travels. 
‘New poe beautiful new species of this genus 
— + Mexico, the S. tubifera, oa —— pee 
rich purple slender flowers, has 
seit in a greenhouse in the gaen "of the Hortical:| 
tural Society. Auboors not the most brilliant, it is the 
oe a vant of the genus yet jnthodneta.. 
— of Preserving Wood.—Dr. — 
more 
aa pi Hitec it _ wi by deyness or bani 
eee warping 
Biackbaree of Hales, near rove dong where it extended 
the Fatters trom end te dot oe tae tove. The leaves are 
| pr oem hairy on both 2 flowers are white, 
j wiles » and about an inch and a quarter long. It is stated 
: be a “handsome climber.”"—Jamieson’s J 
4 Ovonrociossum mAcuLaTeM [(Sfore epiphyte).—This tare 
_  S$p@cies was imported from Mexico bs Be Barker. It is one of 
i ted 3s a ee flcingued ed nb a th q 
q Bey '6 have much the man- 
4 in ae and constitution of an Oncidium. When it was 
. 
; 
was thought to be the Odontogtossum Cervantesii of attention 
Aha. marerigens a io 
e has done oS at little . pi the 
which is en enough 
Dr. 
perature at first to 60°, risk. g grariually until the 
beeinning of May when fe it is from 75° to 30°, and the tnd begin 
to expand, and give out the delightful fragrance pecu! ‘o them, 
The coarpoet rin beer the plants are grown isa Ear va ret tee! 
soil, and the pots rather small than geet ge tert 
PPh sr. Some! Swansea. wes some weeks my 
frosted off, but the leaves 
E 
in care being taken that the oe ting 19. 
Rev. T. Williams’, Hendon.—A great numberof the rare and 
der species of Conifer are here cultivated in the 
The most specimens a spectabilis, 
grandis, amabilis, Altingia 
the The temperat 
kept peng sir 1, and the 
plants are arranged upon an st 
mental iron stage with shelves rising 0. e above aaother.— Juz. 20. 
Horticulterat followi ar be 
a 
en 
ALL 
eraasifliam aoe rakes sear 
oe pymertaeng form albens ; 
lia, most of the- leurs 
Acacia melanoxylon, Cytisus xolicus, Bucalyptus piperita, 
