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THE GARDENER® CHRONICLE. 
311 
Hoffmann, 5: and others | Those, indeed, 
must peruse es 
old authors, which are now thrown aside. ase 
unscientific. ‘* 2 has been says Dr. ae an, 
“as an apology for the neglect int o which the works 
the older phartacoogit have favens ay their ty 
Manchester, Rev. Samuel Crowther—E. Sewell, coniem 
Broceal white, Imperial, R. L. Chance, Esq. ; aid — im 
rial, R. L. Chai ance. Esq. Best te Purple Jobn 
oral: Esq. ; 
Seine 
, Acanthophippium ‘cain 
oe T. Williams, pea a 3rd do., Cyrtochflum 
Kerwin George Barker, Esq. 3 4th do., ‘Oncfdium pe le a eel 
se h .e 2 sah t oe +7 12. 
a part of the moisture is condensed, and is so converted 
from a state of i invisi ible Yapour | into water. If, for ime 
sides of the glass become covered with dew, which is the 
water 
that existed in the air as vapour, and which, con- 
oad on the cold we is fou ea} into ale The 
effect, therefore, of brin ging w rinto contact 
£ 34, 
Thus, i ina cold night, the ss roof of a greenhouse may 
‘“ drip,’’ and in this often unsuspected manner air is ren- 
dered rath Piaget ac the any ane be syringing, 
steam s hygrom meter is tructed with 
tions on the employ of remedies are altogether em- | J, Willmore, Esq. ; best do., six oo George Barker, Esq. ; 
pirical.” This, Mares to some ve fa fen F lies n id ea "George 3 pee Best sche nogp hes — Lobelia, Sp. 
more to many of the writers of the two Jast centuries, | DOVa* ~- Ut imore, Esq néra Cog) on, 
4 ay Clift, ‘dene’ ard do E shia i par aa 
than to those of our own time. The suggestions even Se Ret Grodin ao., Bap aphir San the n St, WC. 
Idest writers on this b f medicine ue _ ton, Ea. 5 2d di "Boronia. ta, We C. Alston, as = 
tremely useful, and calculated to lead to many valua 0.5 el ussata, Thomas Small, Esq.—B. Underwood, 
renal These Iso much fuller and more diversified, [Aga a “> Mis vernetle: ATTEED andieray e, Alston, 
d_.often more judicious, than the lly empirical | Willmore, Esq. Best Amaryllidacee, Cobirghia, W. C. Alston, 
notions contained in man odern works ; in proof of | Esq.; 2d do., do., James Taylor, Esq.—W. Carpenter, gardener. 
which, let the reader tur the writings of M j cS ay ia A ne C. Alsto: a 32d do., tréssul: 
$1 
Ss n rfectly 
and whils he ge terror hy “oak tion of 
remedies is left obits unexplained haben. pha: rmacologists, 
the ey can, at least, lay ¢ claim to noh ae of merit 
h —. onto, I 
nepal = 8 You ote potas Kidderm 
Tanner? does not state whether $4 * 
the roaeet a Soveph 2 Pasion. 
hiick 
hollow wd ly containing ether, a ae communicating by 
the glass tube which rests jon the ee The ball whick 
* 
fi 
Best Caectuses in Rowers, Seedling variety, J. Willmore, Esq. ; i 
can do., spléndidum, Jas. Upfill, Esq. ; 3d do., Malliséni, D. Hough- 
, Esq. fT; Bartlett, inne 
ens, arker, Esq N sus, in pots, six spe~ 
cimens, John Pope and Sons; 2d do., do., Mr. John Moore. 
Best Alpine Plants, in pots; six ens, John Pope and 
Lanna 3 it Tiededee ¢ the bulb ne a Aer i he 
ter, ys ng in the ether, its scale being — a “ A 
tube a ag ball, and whatever nt 
c temperata ie of the ether is indi 
meter. The ex ball i is P coreg with muslin. oe mak- 
ecessary ta note down ‘the 
Moore; 3d do. do., John Pope and S 
£41 
By; L, Chance, Esq. 
> PATHE Taylor, ‘Esa, 
traveller is the following passage : vant te six Adee san 
Fargoo the traveller enters a forest of the A/bies Uesisse 
pe — hers! superb specimens of ey cnzees _— 
ost of them are 150 ft. high, as round and tape 
liard cue, pat ae 15ft. to 18ft. in ceeniteronce, “hone 
asingleside branch until within a few feet of the top. Th 
Esq; 3 2a ‘do., Brown Cabbage. 
es Tat 
Biren Cos, 
Che L, Chance, 
 Ticuvas 
attock, 
reget 
a & 
Aagtr st TEER natiks Ke four p 
prizes; Isaiah Davies, two prizes. 
aig CorracErs AND 
Charles Lees, four 
On an expedition to the summit of the Choor m mountain, 
“The 
day was through swamp. py ground 
tered of the largest and icent dra C neat CRISTA’TA. ( iphyte.)—A most beautiful 
I ever saw; their size was truly wonderful, and I am cer- | Shoo Eaerpnh Tree: Nowering. ant Beving lates plosecas ot 
te he st white, except the lip, in its centre is decorated 
the 200ft. high and 20ft. | with bright yellow fringes and It has Hams ‘flowered 
to 2 measured one that was 30ft., and I be- | with George Barker, Esq., of Birmingham, and was ited at 
a 1 Numbers had falle e merting OF re t Euoricuinre Rocistr in Regent: where it 
™ —BO e; 
wn, and t their bare trunks: as ‘they lay on the ground Pope a serrcts, ‘nis. Changeable 4 (Greenhouse Climber.) 
were as high as one’s spe 8 nie Bar cies considerable Fa Reo raat e her| Besperecns | 2 seb eiae from me Neve we bog 
exertion to get over them.’’ jociety. g foun! 
5 a I stat ® perv s bed wee old 4 yop ca pgs re re a hale 
s shrubby plant, but an enn so as 
PP A HICULAURAL 80 OF OCETIES. English gardens pte ons Mtg “The best. way to age it is 
Wednesday, May 5th.—Philip poe Esq. PB Brea P in to raise it annually from seeds sown ona hotbed in March. It 
the chair. Dr ny, F.R.S Beaker ps f Cheshis' try Botany rapidly scrambles on anything near it, and uces its curious 
Rural Economy, in the University of Oxford, addres to large sregnish-yellaw Sowers a She Lag end of the pegeon 
She President his plan for the rentlo of preliminary exper, acquire to eaioer ‘of jlo Ady Asa Courrrdtsry plant this 
ments in agricultural chemistry and vegetable physiology, on a | #4 re ‘ad es tf R: 
farm or other experi ial round to b cted in's sort of Cobe’a syreseis well, proyided it is not too m exposed | 
eitable Tecatity ne ee men # ‘aitle fee si ans fs bright light, which turns the foliage dull purple, ait “Giminishes 
fegic eau: pe ee oh ae 8 i be comparative tn Bu a beanty Very much, It will strike & tree reely from cuttings, if that 
fore being more extensively hud, o the test potty nama le gies Ss Ay ee (Stove 
tres farms, commiton was name io consider fs plan Mr” | sarub yma nanagame wate oe with long pendulous fragrant 
Stockbridge, in Hampshire, transmitted to the Council a fine spe- pores cenes ite & Bite At Rb, es dt 2 Be bate 
cimen of the Alo as | marcas. or Blackish Fox-tail Grass, a Fegarded gue = ¥e f Re SP “Sg plants 
ian perennial, grown on strong woodsour clay, over the Fegeising Dict ute el a i % ative of Pape, when 
» atan  Plevation of ave: or six hun feet above the level August 18 it igen od i a either éuttines ¢ oh wered d 
bly veil she itered situation, but witho nak 1830, 1¢ is propagated by either BS oF layers, a 
any extraor anges un Taunton called’ thi 
of the Council to the Tact fhat t oe the co of April 
which it was cut) some of the cu = Bic ad tothe 
ving attained th 
pees husbandry —statin ig t 
other Fox- tails, nam 
, = 
a ane o a 
an: E 3 & a 8 
BEART SABRES ge ng py me $s. =F mf Ok Bes ° 
nn a halk 
¥ Bes | FE ty to te te ag Fees: PTs i Bmp we 
& . Ee 
eae OF NEW PLANTS WHICH ARE 
he te muaiacorred Eni is held in a hand the ether may 
into Le embed and it sho ee 
tilt te jae! uded thermometer rises afew above 
temperature of the air, gp tong it should be replaced on the 
sip pour, a ite ether on the 
this extremely volatile 
ee 
hae te will appear at m — 
ickly ‘if the 
pe 
on deposited till “the therm 
20°, 
muslin requires 
till the blackened | ball co coninieg th 
likes such a soil as loam, peat, leaf-mould, and sand.— Bot. RB. 
Imea’Tiens Ro'sea. Small Pink Balsam. (Hi 
ry ‘beautiful ego's hardy annual from the 
grows to 
rare 
ia beste 
poate oP es ania’ % than to 4 a Bouse shi 
flowers appear in clusters, ape pie Bh of the ame al 
the ‘stem and branches. blood-red, ani 
about as long a 
mper- 
as indicated by “the patch ther- 
mometer, there are then said to be 15° of 
ature 
supposing the temperat is 859, and the dew-point 
found, as before, to be 70°, the es of dryness is 
expressed by 15°; but the € quantity of moisture di 
in th 
the air is, notwithstanding, moe greater in the 
lf 
latter case than in the former, 000 represent com- 
plete saturation, the quantit of Sadlieere when the tem- 
rature is 65%, and the dey-pais 50°, will be 609; but 
when the tempera' is 85°, and the dew-point 70°, the 
ahaa will be represented by 623; fon © um bers 
being ascertained by Sables pens ng purpose. 
difference. erence, ty 
not pert oy 
coun hot icnltaral 
post cee. ‘But as these 
umbers can only be - 
cetaine ed by pox Sacer 
is more convenient p33 
ia dl. by the Lig ge . 
i 
that the pad ah we! the air 
is indicated by differ- 
ence - 
COT 
dryness is 
vie 136 20° « of of ier 
drynent and beyond this 
Botania a Gardens at Merwieh end 
wel eae with much ar that it is in eine 
tanical and 
to establish Bo a Bactiontivrsl Gardens at both 
these places, and active measures have already 
been taken for the p' In Norwiel is to 
ay 
and to form a — 
ture, and Horticulture. The 
¥ k one being simple and produced abruptly into a 
bor Mite. ab F cutteenndl ta Y stadietiient of aod ton | Point, while the front one has a short green horn abruptly turned 
pecting the general charac t ies of Foxtail grass; | OP e ds. pe are much he: the sepals, 
anid called the attention of the Council to the curious fact, that pia Z. the two lobes of which they consist ne Swale are 
all t] *% s more or less subject to be infeste ed and erect, while the larger are half oblong, an heed 
ith a orange-c larva, or grub, which preyed upon dies like a double lip in front of the a The pods are 
the germ, and destroyed the vitality of th to such an extent long, and coyered with white wool.— Bot, 
ae most cases not tape than ake gp over vese- ——— 
on sowing. Mr. Gi mentio ani c Fox- MI CELLAN 
Pe orse rte Serre ' ot Hygrometer.—Gardeners are now so sensible o 
Birmingham Horticultural Society.—The first show was held | the importance of regulating isture as well as tem 
gp May Be. ae. were well i ae panes for ompeti- | perature of their hothouses, that w ve We 
inson, nurseryman, occu; a large ion 0! . . 
One of the eae with fine-grown specimens of Ericas ra other | Complying with the of many, besides those who have 
plants not for competition. The table across the hall by the | asked us todo so, if we in yin ort notice of the 
organ galery was occupied with plants from the artes he Gar- | hygrometer. . is impossible for any one to know what 
jee poe a ee, bite, eras emma art aera egree of moisture he really maintains in a : forcing- 
Best Herbaceous in » 
. Best Auriculas, Wood's Lord. Laseell , John and | is the hygrometer, which might as well be called th 
be 2d do., Kenyon’s gage =~ Pome nese Fog v water gone, st which i is what tl the first st — means. 
, Kenyon’s Ringleader, Mr. John M i -» Tay’ m- | OF th ¢ this end the best, for 
iparab! Sons. Best Polyant , A . 
Squire bi aae Pope "i Sons; 2d do., Hatton's | 1 * | all practical purposes, is Daniell’s hygrometer ; of which 
John Pope and Sons; 34 da., Jolly Dragoon, John Pope and tha nexed cut e ape he whgens lappearance. It mea- 
8 Hs fee, Eewion, dames Taylor, Pet ture ickly and precisely, and is 
tae ers and Amateurs, (24,) J, Willmore, sq; | ST moisture in the air quickly and precisety, an¢ 
2d do., do. rs) Josiah 3 Mason, Esq.—W. Mussell, paiienet ; Ret 2} not bie to get out 7 order. The air we breathe is a 
o., Nurser , (34,) Join Pope and Sama: ba fat Ge) os Feeanent| elastic fuid, contain ing watery vapour in 
; Lita Grsary @ } Re Yelle a berm oe (Me - . 
, eet peratures is high than when low. It t may be compared to 
ane ponge ; if this substance, wh is soaked in water, 
ea 1. = putin of ea Pia is gona bat if the sponge is 
again. di 
squeezing, and before it has- had 
of be tak 
able alg and a = se zal tend. valuable assistance 
ie r. » the tary, is likely ta 
as re 
Onion Cro ay correspondent informs us that a per- 
son in the ‘Beighbourh ood of Whitehaven, finding the 
Onion crop 1 much in nfested, and, i in fact *, aoe from the 
eae 
oisture 
like mann et said to be in a state of satu 
eH 
nd pre 
ie cere ensues. Whea air, on the contrary, is gy an 
undersaturated, or hang ge mth krona site eg from the 
if 
substances with w moist air 
urine. Thi: 
ean’, Eat 
this p 
neig Duowioed, or at Pieces one of the 
were not destroyed. 
Brazilian is@ Planis.—We learn from Mr. 
