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March 20.] 
THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
183 
SoBRALIA sesstLis. (Store Epiphyte.)—Some of the finest 
Orchidacee known are species of greg on inhabit Peru, 
interm: 
Brazil, Mexico, Demerara, and n ediate dis- 
tricts. They are like Evelynas in f£ growth, or to 
use a more familiar comparison, phan resemble loaded 
large red or white, and often fragrant flowers, which al 
from the extremity of the reed among the large plaited grassy 
TeaKes € species, ramen is figured in the Sert ce) 
chidact from ps ie by Mr. Schomburgk, and has 
most ore white ssoms, but it does not exist in our 
oO 20 ft. high, 
win; 
rosy blossoi 
gardens. sneha, species, with stems from ‘aa 2ft. t 
Ww 
i stiff-ribbe he 
summit of the stem there appears a single rose-coloured tag on 
b ogee La very fugacious. The lip is gen degrees darker than 
—Bot. Reg. 
the other parts. 
ie ah great 
_ Manure. —Mr. in a communication to _the 
th 
w | anteting 
| derstand that the collections made by Mr. Griffith 
j veral —_ of the north-east frontier of India are 
bree seem m the Indi se. e 
accompanied them, some misun 
eas 4 Sinai as to Mr. Griffith’s wishes regarding 
E- publication of the undescribed materials they 
der- | 
t 
purple, etn e. 
by | able ona 
spond ent 
| a little farther consideration will convince your corre- 
earth ret 
bac ous Plants.~ 
from the No f Indi: 
struck, “gives back a hollow 
sound.” —P. 
a oe ee ceous 
rable 
ris fragrans, with blue flowers, is valu- 
count of a fine odour. Cyn 
oglossum ongiflorum iy 
of the common practice | of nfixing lime with nightsoil i in 
He states 
ms 
the following pro: ry 1001bs. of: night, “add 
Tbs. of sulphate | of I Send (sypRum) fn in powder. A = uble 
result wi 
tbe 
oF sulphate of lime and car 
of dime and sulphate ate “) 
volatilized. ight now be mixed 
with other compost, or eres in pos a thought proper, 
and Bape to the roo vegetable. would also 
oe that the fioo 
omhe 
with a “tittle pat of —_ whereby y they will lose 
all their offensive. sme! eae and n which 
can be eable 
= 
very little doubt that this plan’ i 
ficiently kno own, , become a s peneral crater not fore * on 
rr 
g 
they would not eg 2 fish to get 
better 
blind as 
Med foal ‘Propertios of the Bedstraw.—M. ae 
pape gig 5 cage that he has cured ep 
the e of Ga _ 
of a. gramm 
young, the me = nt ha aving flowered when a three 
years old. Reg a: Sardealtg world are much indebted to 
Mr. "Ri ket r his vario periments on Aloes, and 
before ioogh he wil without doubt, exhibit man utifal 
made ein North America from 
* 
Potato-water as a Manure. —At the 
Mollugo has been pet with success in the s 
village of Trap; 
in 
Mn Eangorty the “ing ey baie pn 3 be fi 
e Rhe cane 
it ar peel mss that foul potato-water, which becomes a 
if allowed t t! furnish: was a high aracter 
=— axcalle a mae zt ee. eaiaga om tho potatoes = are : ~ i Tighe and “ary. * He tends making this 
d tow ortn a tank, where they are filtered by some different kinds of wines, 
ple means not de scribed. All the solid parts are thus some red, some white, some sweet, and some dry. he 
separated, and ish the manure in question inds been almost exclu- 
ewly-introduced Chinese Vegetables. ii Cut-ieaved sively ative, though many foreign varieties pop been 
Mustard (Moutarde laciniée).—This is is a true Mus tard cg ae hed poe 90 boca ; Cantigs a ere last obtained 
ith small and sm > al 3c some = ee ee 
rib ; it grows quickly, its - ig resembles com- eae ee > m the 
mon Mustard; it is f tute for Cresses, but hard a mmon fit for the 
whether it is ea or raw in Chi anknown.— } table. They stand og am weather, and would, <= 
Large-leaved M: (Moutarde & trés-grande feuille). pom: do well for open culture in England The 
iD Cabbage, but En was of "the ~~ of 1837, sand hese bot 
i m ha appens Ww 
tled in May 1838.—[As 0 
publication by others of mate flowers, 
colle cted | exclusively by pow. we have to announ adapted for rockwor Salvia hians, bears pretty 
Mr. elaborating the whole of his — ae blossoms i in ‘July and August. Phlomis cash- 
saga collections, and of publishing from them “ Contribu a handsome species, has heads of bright 
tions to the Botany of India,” the Prospectus of which otentilla leucochroa, not unlike 
2 fe nea, bears large golden yellow bli 8, in 
We have no doubt that all botanists he perce oe rei Codonopsis lurida, a curious 
| — of Mr. ae claims to or pss Smo blica one Campanulaceo nt, produces dull lish 
of his own m rials ; partic _ a as Mr. Griffith, in | flow wn i ‘satu, Aconitum ovatum, a sin- 
fe il rel coy tobe ie hd re leaves, bears dull brownish 
has not in these collections availed “himself of an easy helmet-rhaped Blossoms in August. Geranium rubifo- 
attachment of MSS, | lium, andsome plant, resembles. iosum, but 
lescribed : adie: mae ear however that | duces on paral flowers, ofa bright purple colour, in 
| this is waved | in cael of a few of this enterprising bota- ma Polygonum amplexicaule, bears pretty spikes of 
| nist’s scien 0 _ _ mall ruby-coloured or white flowers, in the autumn. He- 
New oe.—This beautiful hybrid, raised b tropa les, produces large dull brown 
Mr. Ricketts, igen to W. H. nates Esq., Peth resembling a pouch or inflated bag, in April or May. Se- 
may be popularly described as exactly interm ediate be- | dum Sieboldi, pretty rock plant, has Saas heads of 
tween the Partridge-breast Aloe (Aloe variegata, Willd. ), a flowers. Hoteia japonica, close panicles of 
and the intermediate Tongue Aloe (Gasteria verrucosa, ite flowers in June. Funkia Sieboldi, a handsome 
w.) It partakes ly of the character of the male plant, produces aan ad oa in July and August ; 
parent, A. variegata, havin, three-cornered channelled and Epimediu m vi olaceum, th purple, and macranthum 
os that are disposed in about six whorls; but es he | pos esesieon ac and June. 
wers are more inflated wh about half as long — These are all natives of t i 
ose of the | Pa eee breast Aloe. The hybri rid h ates large ¢ crimson flowers, rar Potentilla hematochras with 
d blossoms, from Mexico, should be in 
tered indi he leave every wit Pentstemon crassifolius an and Murrayanus, 
" f tk ki scarlet,—Helleborus orien- 
on ree leaves of A. valine white ‘aie gir and Clematis age 
callous and riggs more Sissies herp r bith of oa male | Hfola, "producing b chapel 
parent, which it resembles in aoe of growth. I have | gust, are well deserving of no’ 
ig “gy at vei PORARIS. 
road was turn 
a 
e 
neti byteat' rally cd 
epth of 
read into jocose earth, 
ering freely these last three years. 
foun 
the halk may probably have — oe 
of the the earth 
flowering in the chalk-pits 
has produced th: 
stalks ar h: d tender. h sty fa sue and a double covered with 
it resembles the Pé-tsai, ery phaiuaie § it pak ~ torn deceived potent about the quality of hie wine. bute, = i a expand. The of the 
dif ated When u ncooked — ges tastes like Mustard, pees: wade seme “ ged put ng gek a Povabe a —_ * xy taenital. vin the "ne neighbourhood of of Some frames of weill- 
pa A Neapolitan 'y fragrant.— 
oeMicat and so amity | arg that ae as easily to be Senkopewre @ Gardener.— with many other | Sy. K., March7. Z 
mistaken for it: The foo cooked priory ere readers of the Gardeners’ Chvontats, =r am ye pleased | Bui ; Fagen Ki “ zema om aoe en 
tolerable, but not so good as the waves: The seeds of the ith i ‘Telation ipa We cloves several bik ugly plants of Camellias 
-leaved in June or July to | 0 one of the excellences of the many- vais bard of | with wet moss tied at parts of the stem: the object of 
ed Mustard must = sown 
arant. 
ft ings, which were well fur- 
nished with d branc As Spinach is not a 
vege , any plant that will take its place d 
that ‘season is not without interest ; the Chin make 
ranth seems one of the best for that purpose, at least for 
the sonth of France, where, without doubt, it will pro- 
duce seed. The ths all who 
are in China and India, as in Fran 
Blitum—Bon Jardinier. 
Bassano Beet. MN esremg sn de ). —This ni 
the form of its root, which is p thane 
ety is remarkable 
= turnip. The skin is red, the flesh white 
rose, ems good. M. Andot fi 
all. the 
was young, tender, very 
oa 
veined e 
found i 
markets from Vi Venice to Genoa in ane I 
At Venice it is is called Betterave 
d was from 2 i Png to Qhin. in. 
—BonJardinier. 
and the cir- 
e, 
14 fi 
ros > the tree, 89 ft. ; 
‘“ covered by branches, 
Avon. ” As much as he has _said of the sed parse 
or rather, as a faith- 
ful observer of nature i in all its ruralities, 
relations of “aes in all the walks “of art “and of exte 
in all 
what not. yp 
from ing sie Juliet; twice deseanted im rare ‘Your cor- 
respondent. His ion ious, 
y 
reading is ingeni 
and perhaps well fouisded. But I rg it unnecessary, 
believe that the author di d really mean what he 
- 
1a wt oO ein ¢ 
of strangers case on the pasipls that so- 
argues the 
lids are totic poe x of sound than matters ae aoa 
i Colcions of Tallon Plante-=We ws theron the promator saree} 
S tabular form of the blossoms 
Henderson's Natit, ry, F Place—We o 
‘texture. Of his knowledge of this reed T dare ) ex- | fine plant of the rare Jas iar iaeunane ty Mag ores Se 
P = —— ate er saeco here made to meine te great 
ough I | fingers’ | Picartanpe, merely by giving the bulbs a strong summer growth 
ends to rae Batt in this case, cainpses had no view | outta g them to rest. The Orchidaceous-house also is 
to the hollownes owness of the ground a8 4 conductor of sound, | Reptats mach higher ten werner conomaonmeiie 
matey cared power What keeps up | aeene pies tic menaay ots places "A fine variety of Indian 
the eternal din of the streets of reverbera- large salmon blossoms, i is in fall flower, and is, 
— the elastic fluids of its sewers, alleys of the best yet raised : it is called splendens. 
surts, and ig comparing PAE A ea nae ree 
the rattle ofa couch or the over th Ucbielws. 
of Somerset House, or place about ree Lectures on Agriculture, delivered oss : 
po geet rt n Sauna nd C. Dause &ec., Sibth hoe 
in the <a i : Raral Economy in the University of 
347 feet— es ie along the Tae Setegen = Professo Rural 
sloctSs ac a ere er established n eRe tbody « : 
that given out by the | Sibthorp, vino Bogetiied tan’ ‘io 
