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tie deal unprepared Joe longer than the best oak of 
Kran’. 
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gims armed with small spines; slightly recurved, and covered 
with a fime white scurf. The bracts are bright red, p es re- 
curved. The flowers area bright sulphur colour.— Link, Klotzsch, 
of the wood. We "have tried "Krenised timber in the and Otio. 
elves Bras WusmT Onley - have tenner be —This dare: pelf-shay bby 
th 3. climber, from Ceylon, tely flowered in garden o! 
Seeker ie xe ie y 37 i tried i ” Predera Grace the Duke ee Northumberland at Syon. b.. has leaves much 
like those of the Lime Tree in form, but thinn Its flowers are 
a the aff, 
in copperas and toy t Pp 
the timber for ages n the same p age cn sa- 
turated, it ake rested Monger than one. Haying seen the 
mber Ky anised in a large stove at 
Gardener’s eneeee by Earl org 
vers, I am fully aparinees it must horti 
erections great caution. Otpatier preparation, 
hich is, I believe of zinc, has been peered by Sir Wm 
gurnett and tried here, the partic’ ob ke a a ill 
timber, four prepared and four unpr 
lunged in the bark bed “3 New Cale stove ; likewise 
veces of canvas, clo th, an cordage, pared and unpre- 
. hol fs st deca: sa ite 
vate oy 1840 
rebar quite ‘ecayeds 
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Received from Sir Wm. Burnett, from the Admiral 
pieces 
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decayed ; ; aes or 1a 
ber | d.and un oes is 
ginning to decay alike, a me Fy hare ave hohe oui i wi otis 
o an’s under th 
a great kept dry, 
when laid up for the season ; iden, “t Phas not ius ake 
sonous qualities of Kyan’s solution.— William Tillery, 
Welbeok. 
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PRNRETR SS 98 OF SOCIETIES. 
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collection. Erysimum Perofskianum has deeper ec coloured 
orange flowers + i an y other plant as and an 
it in a garden form striking object, 
of t Cc 
yi. Bartonia 
larg rge Pane yellow Rowers, is one fe! 
mest annuals in our gar 
por a Mexican species with psrplish ses 0 of blos- 
a desirab’ ble accession to this 
e ,OSS0) 
e cool season, when its extended branches and numer 
ink-coloured flowers are highly ornamental.— Bota- 
arge 
Register. 
sO stack BIFLORA. (Greenhouse _Shrub.)—A pretty little green- 
house shrub, with small ax: axillary heads of sales Bove ere smelling 
It was raised by Messrs. Low Co. from 
+ orm ; 
nd 
a i Se five these 
a beantifi 
pant with bright — owers, having ¢ a black mark in nti 
entre. Cal oe — and speciosa have har 
wunda flowers. Cen a pulehr 
pve: — North of "0 
ondi, a fine 
2 Tessas iS 
a tall sic et 
=-ZTOW- 
ing ves from California, sebhears yellow big pr 
July to O: 
e them look 
NHOPEA AUREA. rainet Orchidaceous Plant.) —Imagine a 
plant whose dowers have the size of S. insignis, the form - 
to aakies oe 
tg from the North of Tada, has red and wh 
» Seeds of the abov e-mentioned kinds os alvay 
fi will fi 
8. venusta, the smell of S. oculata, the colour of 
matica, and are anged in a spike two feet long, and the 
reader will a a  tolerably ey conception of thig beautiful 
rs. Loddiges ived from Mr. Bateman, who 
obtained it from Guatemala. it has ae te two me spots of Stanhopea 
oculata, but they are in some manner lost in the flood of yellow 
WUITO! —Botanical Register 
(Hardy Herbaceous 
and from different Lio yoo of India, 
nothera, with perennial roots, dwarf 
peal Tather or oui and leaves, and very handsome bright 
yellow flowers, which approaches very near to the CE. fruticosa 
of the United States, but is nevertheless disti the va- 
eties of sat a ceed Seen 
one 
ush about a foot an @ half hi igh. 
ment as . 
freely in good common garden soil, and is easily increased 
by dividing the old plants either in the autumn or it 
bar apt from June to ee — Botanical —— 
jOLANUM MACRAW’ + (Greenhouse Shrub.)— A fine plant, 
with large clusters of deo deep ener ace Mad whose centre is occu- 
ee ee, It is nearly allied 
a enim et our hedgerows, tits lowers are very 
uch larger, and handsomer, murs: South- 
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sonia received the seeds in July 1838, from Mexico; they 
were sown oak: in the autumn, and many of the ts dampet 
That which flowered is now poy ice with 
wie ngewe fe large eaves, Teves — and 
Ul produce undan eticienae OWw- 
ing shoots.—Botanical Register. ye 
ISMENE VIRESCENS. (Greenhouse Buib.)—This plant flowered last 
July in et the Hi Society, having been 
rn asa was found by 
appears to be asd nena wed 00. Mex, Herbert’s 
I. pedunculata, but the is longer, there are no green stripes 
soms. 
Lupinus nanus, with bright bee flow wers, is in Reser 
from May to October. aiomaria has white 
flowers spotted with aeaes * phacelsides, with 
blossoms, gel aa with ae bright blue flowers, 
should bein every ‘oca viscida, with ke 
ling blue flowers, — ate with the yellowof Ozyura 
chrysant. es. Pay Aaecciagy neces age 
pink blosso: 
Px 
ms fro! p insia bic 
bears a profssion af flvaly pas and [- flowers dusisg 
ramer Phacelia 
all the s mo: tanacelifolia has as light 
P ie Giana oer oe not so ornamental as some in 
the list, y ‘vill be found. valuable large garden, 
i A gi 
Callichroa platyglossa, and Limnanthes 
yellow flowe! exs—Platy'sh age ‘californicum, w with delicate 
P 
= +h 4 lah 
per se suitable for a ited 
Pee mae Black Frontignan, White Frontignan, hd 
White Sweetwater. 2. Summ 
Tr 
iggy 3 of eee 
eer S ae a 2 od 
nate pieces and mixed 
pera: 80 eg aie a hes at the end of four weeks 
not the: smallest trace of them can 1 be found. A poor man 
= Se Shits oars Pingo proven gf mngnangrg 74 
into the soil, fi 
if vine branches can make grass large, 
Kennedya, apparenti cos the coronet, and the leaves a oe appear less sheathing at 
Marryatte, from the Rev. Mr. Rash! good specimens of Ca- Sanne e's. SEES » although eemes 
mellia japonica Meanccientl sacl Abales phoornicen from J. Alinut?, yute haye an agreeable lemon-like fragrance. — 
Ieee ee a 
whi as 42°, wii e flowers more 
finely developed, from Messrs. Lee and Co., of Hammersmith ; ISCELLANEOUS. 
_ of a net oes of Columnea with scarlet _ White €arrots. be C. Burrell describes his crop of 
flowers fr ico, from J. Rogers, +» Were 
also . Mr. Mills sent excellent brace ba cucum- $: yeas ia. Bepees, as Bering Bowe 
peeps ac ncapiigg. tapo coeratnnaenaee on 1300 bushels per acre after tailing ard topping. 
in his Treatise on their culture, to show that even in adv — 2. the pret pen netrated ‘the earth to the depth of 
seasons fruit may be obtained with certainty. Mr. Lowndes | 3 feet 5 inches. Sir Charles does not consider this a 
pps a seedling ee ee a Sees S " 
ti — of sane ; sag sae Cf anit ora, of nutritious winter fodder, with consequent economy of 
brought from the Society’s garden at Chiswick; the severity of a for both fatting and lean — and pe ges 
the weather had ted them from usual in the , their and as 
= : Only: traits Beant end m any ill flavour, as when on ede on the © pas astures 5 po 
likewise, | 
resulting from its consu: umption, to.which may be justly 
added the clean, friable, and apna: =pulverised state in 
pe 
grow better, sony sean strong and green. In a year he 
had the satisfaction to see his inch vineyard become 
——— his vines grew splendidly, and remained ‘the 
hole summer green, even in the grea’ casapt heat 
ea Tate eeetiened 0A salen tec: simaitnedeial 
not expensive, and which contains some of the best aad 
tho f& 
Pee Mek | 1 * 
dging 2 
sowing ae 
Charles rowed his pat eiacieaes at about six ibs. per 
acre, costing 1s per Ib. , The best soils for seo 
ee 
Damasks, Mosses, Gaillicas (or French), 
Hybe Ch Chinas, C — 
and | aateoiled—seekdsons “Gazet 
has frequently 
n the Botanic Gard len at Lege where it has 
been uated ad = weakest yokes have produced the 
most brilliant flow: The involucrum preserves its red 
d wh t , the 
cone Songs decay : 7 eau nesite toile, tal and 
magne eee in fresh earth im @ een 
Mer ccccsasmated' by division of the roots, 
Kilatzsch, and Otto. 
Bgconra puNCTATA. (Stove Herbaceous Plant. | ees 
tothe division of Beconia, known by the ee 
ST. and having paca creeping 
oo 
peo nes od 
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leans of its Seater Gua Soudan. It 
apa ers am He fo Stee 
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red ovaries again to the plant a 
Artificial aan has produced 
ovaries og origin 
ek as the 
e stigmata, 
Gooseberries,—Among 
of | are red, six yellow, five Sen iad five white. 
Tants Ses a A J, < 2a 
Fane September, i iti is an excellent plant to oecupy a ort 
in a parterre. ‘onia pulchelja, from North- = 
en Gh lores tae aad chine bowers should be 
erimson 
rose Perpetual White, white. 
ge area oe Sight tone, ph aa reer 6 Queen of 
Gullica, or French Roses.—Village Maid, purplish red, and 
a crimson; Fanny Bias, crimson; 
Dbatches, —Triomphe de Laffay, white; Triomphe de 
pale rose Mordaant de Lanny, it rose ee ot aoe 
ps cto re wy feu, bright crimson ; Bizarre de Ja: Chine, daxk 
th sorts of 1840-two 
© prize The fo 
lowing is a list of the four heaviest in each class s 
last year, ef te 
5 es 
rey 
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Thumper 
London. 
Companion 
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