THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[N° 19. 
head of the stove. Mr. Shepherd of le 
Pa gnel hes constructed a stove encased in brickwo! I 
and it appears to magne: stem 
dient will ‘ 
well. The “to how ng simple expedi ” the 
eee at such times and seasons as a ~e id atmo- 
sphere may be required, and is free from the objection 
alinded to 3; for unquestionably 
a 
PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES, 
HOBTICUIS TAS SOCIETY. 
March 16.—G. didiges, Esq., V.P., in the Chair.—j. py, 
Esq., R. Hodgson, "Bsa. , Mrs. Br) Mrs. Fe ‘erguson, and Mfs, 
es, Esq., sent tye of 
Dowdeswell, were elected. Own 3 
magnifiec “tie specimen of Chiontheas puniceus Fon ag ty On a wall in 
Devons It was raised from a small cut ring of 
the 
ule ie paced in the dha ngt | till the following 2b) when 
d against er Doe, bu wd rapid was the ee 
eater + s — pecam a 
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get killed. —J. Hutt “esa crake 2 ail. 
Birds and a (vide G. C., No.6, page 86.)—If | h 
H. K. will do me the favour perusing my 
icle on thi Pec Horticultural nets (G. €., No. 5, | 
p- 70) 1 think he will agr me that our inquiry 
should be—‘ Do the Germans ever, not always, use bl 
worsted 2’” a nets to which I referred are 
ended to be understood when I — 4 
poses it. 
paren 3 but stoves or bricks thrown | into water will ierlp 
the ¢ for the b blue ne! 
i used La d tefine as as especial y opposed ‘to wor. ie a4 
However, I fully concur with som i — = birds would 
soon find the worsted very their claws, 
aqueous vapo J, Murra: 
Winter Po stat ‘oes.—In the spring of last year; 1840, I 
selected some of the largest potatoes I had of the early 
kind, and r to keep them from 
so continued rubbing them off till nm 
ut. and 
worst 
though cre _ the cause of aes ints 
described b An ancient pillosopher lamented that 
month of August, w 
when 
dry arm shed, about six inches. thick, 
and [i imagine ne that the sparrows would likewise be much 
ae a 
want ofa 
ts made 3 worsted. Why hy 
peded in their 
nient standing-place, were the net 
aving covered my bed all over ith pote 
re a covered them — light nd 
e beda oderate watering, and so let it re- 
sate iy Reoretares and with a view of hav 
ag 
the other 
2 pues a these marauders, use worsted dyed lien, 0b tect ‘it from, ee When I examined the bed in Deter 
. K. supposed was the case? Weshould thus have the ber, I fow potatoes without 
German theory and H. K. gen ae mbined, and a bet 
ter protection from the frost to ha vles Bathurst. beet. Taplin, shy sen to Col. Wall, Worthy 
Pruning and Lopping Forest trees find by a cao. 
from Lord, Ate i that Iw t in nue ~ 
—C 
gall “egeta ables. —The e Ege- -plant and | Purslane are little cul- 
those gardeners who require 
rat of vegetables would do ee to grow yong Both, 
require a skilful cook.— &. 
Artificial iad Light see Horticultural oh —The few 
— which ve to make on mployment of 
apes for “horialtral potter may perhaps 
prove interes ‘0 those concerned - in eer 
tory 
Mr. Plumbly, gardener 
pray Lape a seeding Camellia; it is of a pure white 
colour. id petal. A good collecti Roses 
was ae hen ase aa Sons, 0 t Berkham; : 
finest sorts were Perpetual e, very double bright rose; 
new 
appear 
@ pr peal plant when its flowers are fi 
he when exposed to the influence o 
Messrs. Veitch and py of Pigew serit 
River, neither CE owhich 
is sail 
whi 
ening. 
lamp has led m me, for some time past, to s suppose 
might be rendered available for forcin pom. eine daring the 
to his woods i in ‘Berkshire, ot the sanju of branches 
dark days of winte ter. 
The fac’ 
Pare 
ders, and can now be remedied only by felling the 
the growth of plants, which it effec 
garbonic acid contained in their a. ed the eats pro- od aren If any buds should appear round the wou! or | Mr. L en, gardener to H. Bevan, Esq. ng the latter the 
= 7 in northern 1, woe been attri- | trunk, they may easily an’ antageously be rubbed off oe wel ram fine in i ery ee 
to Gicupwteotanes light du “grovtn eee ae oe] in the fo serine a —All fore- avtoiing can only } Sepp; ane bree. ee ee 
season of those regions. re are reduce { the bran — removed to the condition of a bron gardener tothe Duke of Devons cones dn aie ae be 
mentioned by De Candolle, which st cat ovis Ue tigha is far better, if it be necessary, to | Banksian medal. as Steele, of Richmond, sent a plant iaale 
an common lamps has the power of turning | etiolated plants prune close at once. * Lord Br aybrooke i is of opin ion t that | Philippe Camellia: itis a large, showy, ill-shaped, blotched flower, 
. Mr Henderson sont a variety of Indian Asalca called ‘spleateam 
mm aces inaccessible to the me of ae . If|‘*Pontey’s Forest Pruner,” which ‘set. many landed | it was covered wi Pi 1 otek pony onli! Hl 
ren one mage wore produced by the light propri t ‘k with d bills, wh putati rs, whee however, were rather faded. A Banksian 
lamps, how very much greater ny we expect “th e results | were unscrupulously made to a ruinous extent.—J. S. ion awarded to it, as well as to a Seedling eh ee ou 
to be, — the brilliant a) eee t they ed ae Henslow. in habit, her pretty parple flowers tipped with white. 
hydrogen, ineandescent lime on ete ee eee E. Jesse, Esq., sent a plant Ophrys lutea with pretty yellow 
understand has 4 gy power of « >the ni of FOREIGN Nie ewig songpie lossoms, and is foliosa not, yet . Mr. Jones, gar 
A the same manner as the light of the | Saharunpore, Jan. 11, —I have lately met with Serpent Mgt oe On as pany ee oe taper | 
gun And Vaan by Mr. Prideaux, the talented oon De, hick ig | ney: the plant was not so large as it is in its native country, but 
chemist of Plymouth, that the flame of the oxy-hydrogen | in your wspaper : it species grown, and a Knightian medal was awarded to it. Mr. 
lamp is quite equal to any chemical effect where light is Korantias, “which Dr. Falconer ge ie is 5 the Loranthus | Jones also sent rom the Society wer riled opted 5 
required. I am happy to state that an eminent physiologi . In this, as in the 1 previously examin flora. The plants from the Society were Pimelea spectabilis, 
7 aS species I pi y handsome species, said in its native country to have crimson 
sort ae I have on the subject, has ex- | the ov up to a period immediately antecedent to | fioral leaves, ‘at which in the mpeciantia ox anion wees only tinted 
aself favourable to my bon = says, - That that at which we may infer the pollen to be acted upon by fee the besa mee Pa eae capolieel, 
y-hy light will aff | the stigmatic surface, presents no s of an ovulum, | Gf — 3 2 natin. peng 
poole as a chat of the sun, pro B hat period th it dealin hivtahe, 0 Geb elopted for prowing i pare 
inhis a a ig Re-seal te ae what its ‘fect | several | membranous tubes, free ses upwards a nner ing Aare gee 
’ in prolonging daylight during the ble distance along the stigmatic ch 16.—Mr. Nu ad wing gentlemen 
wi en tropical plants suffer.”—J. M. n, M.D. I have traced them half up the style, epee nat | Soe pee ine C. Pumaae, Fos, Watere, Iver, Cateug 
——P, S.— ese remarks at  clanees on considorsbls len gth. The next step consists of the g wth ‘asters, jun., x * The secretary announced that the 
the 17th July, 1840. daly SOW boneited of were ¥ ue ers. z= Geos 
in ra mi to the meetin; ether it would no! visable 
Luminous Worms, — When the glow-worm is acci- confluence of these growths, a cellular mass is formed, have & I discussior an sothe gubject contented 
Li ah 
which 
= a luminous line somewhat permanen' 
. The luminous matter is composed of spherules, apex thi ror lecture . ones 
intone in a delicate membrane, which | mass the “ tae the base of po fenicle - the ing. The secretary then proposed that a cir 
being — 4 vanishes. The ova of the glow- | embryo soon make their appearance : this in folewed by ee ana cuviaate te We oaneneet Se. 
Worm are luminous are ina oi- | the a pearance of the embryo itself, and is iety should have shows, I to. ‘Thanks having been 
dal form. I find that when the ly sa agate te i pes rote oh chai then an ced ppt 
. of Apr 
of som tubes, ~~ ‘which mass cane becomes “the 
mer membrane of the pollen- 
ceded scarcely so successfu La result, as 
Hampshire Horticultural Society. —At the first meeting, March 
_ thefollowing es were awarded:— For a best orchidaceous 
plan idaceous, best 
prese’ 
vessel on the mantel-piece, supplied with 
Murray. 
pgs at 
rved Peceatt at Christmas, Po. ina zis 
, &e.—VJ, 
the subject in this particular a But I can speak wit! 
a ee of the appearance of the tubes 8 
the dehiscence of t e anthers ; 5 of ge traceable a 
0 
igre, 
the best six staiks of 
three dishes of d 
si 
perder and the facts and cir 
pod the ay in pg 
erous that confirm this view of the 
is derived. "The inferences en 
tubes are the ends 
po 
m of plants, to W. Wickham, Esq. ; 
ponte to the — the Warden; “for “gs best forced 
Asparagus, 
ces 
_. It is one ‘indeod apalagoen bo he that toT 
fr The 0 he Ornus rotundifolia and Tamarix manni- . of the cpanabee or boyaux, or, in other words, are pa aay agg Rawlins, Esq. ; and for the best 
fest peculi their } the former it upteunes neon gina geet ger ee y obvious bat inthe | NOTICES OF NEW PLANTS ae 
is sweet, » and i In ee latter acid. rein be remembered | present oo ‘= my knowledge, I d consider m myself} aposa a pg? beset OR fing ine 2 
that there is honey-dew where there no aphides, and | warranted in stating gd but the aa facts; neither | pant has been ae Te ess ae e years at the Botanic 
pk no honey questi f | shall p Garden, Edinburgh, a great quantity of high-flavoured hed 
the upper or lower surface of mre leaf is one connected i uced. It, with oe nt og _ i i, have m1 , 1S planted © 
with radiation, a influen i It is ipa intention to follow up the dcrapact of h her pant in Thdia. eiows alot 1.00 
which will materially modify the shamans The plant } the embryo i ea - ¢ ab wand rae Ga pr perce bE Ercos, only 5 fee 
is sickly, par ‘rapa 5 Aca of tlie si ye Sere aa 7 ek toe 7 SP ry inches Dread, toe or 
unfrequently the — cursor. Itis not doubted or denied | same_ body in certain other on in hich singular | Sowers are E ae 
Pee ee ‘Thé cireuliibtanedeare renatk = ate er, green without an wn with, ben solar basills 
apua 
ef i 3 att 2, g 
‘ “ah o g. Be apa i. Lt 42 Tr 3 “+4 me 
& 
and thus generate a cuticular disease; but honey-dew | and if the absolate continuity of the tubes nS ~~ ee about a fi —Bot. Mag. This 
certainly mente Be from the plant, and is a phenomenon eepuey ne (Hh iy sagen hed ys at 
independent of the aphis. Where there is  honey- dew, | flood of light on our knowledge of vegetable pre art ‘een ee ek purple colour 5 i aa native of snes woe 
‘eg thi bility of face hybrids, probe. 
ple Hab oman the carease is, there will the eagles be | growth of the new tissues constitutin the ovalam, from | bly cultivate g bes aagved en Bit ‘ and strossiy 
gathered together.”—J. Murray sig = f th € the tx & veined and retic it section T wapeltes, 8 
Stoves jor Greenhouses.— ~Armott’s stove, in its best 4 sore with the assumption of their being emb ryo- ae — A 
is decidedly obj s, and one which bas the strongest analo ogy Ww ith SreviA TRACHELLOTDES. (Hardy Herbaceous hinges 
= puton the top i not only charred, pretty plant, rained in: Gee garden of B Lael zeny of eis, 
but ignited, The Chunk stove is every way superior. gamous plants. Un cases the pollen-tube pene- te ee in ‘ ‘and. the open. Bor- 
Cast iron: atra high temperature d the ati trates into me 5 eiryonsry sac, I cannot reconcile the | der. It attains the height of 3 ft., and bears a profusion og4 
Page in relation to vegetable bemg-as to gene is Loranthus with the ordinary type.— corymbs of rici red purple Sowers, which Oe wire wit 
‘A ghalloh tray of water should be constantly kept | Er ound a desirable addition to the alas: 
