THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
Best Pansies, Mr. Girling ; 2d do., Mr. Urpeth: — —_ 
Lovely; best ‘Amatenr Pansies, Mr. W 
a do., Mr. R. Smith. Four Cottagers’ ow Ling Bim 
Cabbages, Peas, and Potatoes.—Suffolk Chronicle. 
Ps 
“ph and Floral wesc —The 
pore 
u8,) Mrs. G 
ate, ata,) Mr. Keeler 
Acaiess (Sinensis,) D. pm best Ss creer plants 
(Melaleuca fulgens, Pimelea decussata, Diosma odoratiss' 
Godfrey, Esq. ; 2d do. (Boronia serrulata, Helichrysum specta- 
, Sollya heterophylla) Mr. Sankey ; best 1 do. (Hoya carnosa, ) 
Best 6 Roses (Queen 
Dam ‘ 
do. (Victory, 
Sylphy Carlo Dolci, Duchess Richmond, Sago, Cre: 
, Lane’s han Sg Miss Sebright,) do. ; 
Alexandrina, Joan of 
Jullion ; 
best 8 dessert 
Eréaghemum r Jus es readily Scone mrenttings; 8 and 
like some of the Justicias 
it is ante shy in producing an abundance of flowers. This may 
e overcome in two ways, either by planting it in the border of 
the stove and all it to become a larg: or by sow ine 
i er, aly 
mall 
bringing it back to thi 
the hottest part: rica. The present kind was collected in 
he mountain forests o: pe d ws hetiger ue ar Cumana, 
whe it was se yei ago. ant ci 
ticks, the worst of all, you go 
among bushes, and sti ick ts you in crowds, filling your 
skin with pi imples and sores. _ Spiders, gallineps, horse- 
flies, , will often beset you, or 
or “sorely hurt you. Hateful snakes ar ly 4 if 
poisonous are very dangerous ; some do not you of 
| like the rattle-snakes 4 et dy roads 
to vex you, and blind paths to perplex you, rocks, moun- 
tains, andsteep ascents. You mayo 7 r way, and 
must i alw ays havea oar. with you d. You may be 
sent to Europe 
is not uncommon, but to see it one flower i is arare Prreedaseanit 
arch last, in the ho’ t 
carta “They are produced in 
every day witnessed the cee 
own in the 
e oo raised if 
Ari 
agers tein or © bildak your limbs 
bya fall. an must cross and wade through brooks 
creeks, rivers, and swamps. In deep a or in swift 
streams you may lose et regs _ be dro ned. You 
e 
to the grass or forest, igs ny be surrounded 
by it unless you for life.’’ ow for 
other side of the taxes: « The ures of a bo- 
tanical exploration fully compensate fo’ ese miseries 
d dangers, else no o ld be a travelling botanist, 
nor spen nd his time and money in vain. Many fair days 
you 
oney i 
and fair roads are met with, a clear sky ora bracing breeze 
ght breathe the pure air of the 
any length of ti 
is rete outi in ‘the border, oe ina tere tub with s' uicient room 
ount ry, every rill and bro ok 
fluid. What delight to meet 
walk, or a bowl of cool milk ou 
offers a draught of limpid 
with a spring, after a on 
t of the dairy! 
all round for its leaves, it forms really a magnificent object.— sound sleep at night after a long ‘tay s walk; what s ooth 
Bot. pond 
Hispe’RTIA PERFOLIA’TA. rfoliate Hibbertia. (Greenhouse 
Shrub.)—A very handsome an hig 24 greenhouse shrub, with Every step taken into the fields, groves, and hills "ape ars 
firm glaucous oblong leaves, stem. clasping, a by a free Bre omnes apes and plants sass 
ee ee The flow are single, ur sigh m old acquaintance seen 
and pot as large a: 
Lrg oe Beers fal are free ytd all mae 
= 
reghong 
those os the old H 
smell. This flowered in the garden of the 
se 
me is a q 
again ; eae a nov i, a specs plant, perhaps a new a 
—_ your view ; you hasten a # pero it, examine it, ad 
book. 
rticultural 8 jociety.—. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Plants of i the | Philippine Islands. —In these i islands are 
w at it ight t be, or ma y bem 1“ you hereafter. cid 
feelan xittatien, you are a sth you have made a 
conques st over ‘Nature, are going to add a new object 
French Crab,) Mr. ker ; 
of = (Lemon Ar Apple, F Five-crown Pippi 
two 
sons ‘visiting them. 
nts which y per 
They are thus described by a zealous 
added the — of rie future names, places, 
For the 
hist ory, 
Lettuce aL Bee 
wed Cos,) G.C. 
Sores 
also commended a plate of brown. Ischia Figs, | 
ih may Weer a uae ee | 
were awarded to Cottagers fora variety of productions. 
NOTICES OF NEW PLANTS WHICH ARE 
EITHER USEFUL — ORNAMENTAL. 
Ao’rus LaANI’cERA. Woolly Ao! ae )—This 
tap th egret shrub, with’ narrow, deep are , Sharp- 
k racemes of be beets, var 
—One is a Raspberry w which is found upon the summit 
the schist mountain in these geet 7,117 feet hie | 
its la ellow fine-taste 
economy of this eet which has 
itical on the roots of trees. He 
had grown out of 
sea son rest, are reserved the sedenta tary pleasures of 
j or 
bey err vstudying, naming, describing, and publishing.” 
n Cell: Is of a Particular Structure in the Ara acer, by 
Dre ‘Sohleidots:—Th the Meletemata Botanica of Schott and 
y a (D 
Endlicher, they attribute to Monstera of Adanson (Dra- 
contium ator Mill.) raphidophorous ovaries. Not 
ing acquai ith any of the Aracez in which the 
ovaries offered a quantity of vessels of raphides, 
curious to ascertain whether the plant in question exhi- 
ited anythin kal nm this that migh' 
mentioned i generic character. On examining atten- 
aes I — = the so-called 
ea the ovary of the 
rpellary Jeaf « of 
several r-stalks, 
dles of fleshy fibres, diverging 
_ 
ban 
were falling apart, and the plant ap 
an rg lowering, stirring the ground fur- 
ther, rt distance, he discovered alive bundle of 
pee ts a wie a aa ‘strong white shoot or eye, 
very Stee structure. Thee com are in erin nearly 
0.1 to 0.13 ae inches, and their a from 0.004 
e formed 
yellow pe: 
peer tg with ic akiece. Mr. Cunningham cent it - _— 
flowered in the 
like | to 0. pr ona “ne Their sides a of a num- 
the dormant shoot of a perennial herbaceous s plant, which | ber net layers, perfo' ted ith pores, the 
ifi attened on the sides. In the inte- 
mer. Pursuing his researches, he soon disco vered similar | rior of a ‘ells of the — which are d with 
bundles - different sizes, which toblast: I 
— nev tn Mr. Knight, of fone nto rl Sores, toast Son and not r 0 sprout i spring. On ex- | and on these cytoblas ts very aie cells are formed. These 
bush, with axillary clear orange-yellow pea-flowers, — val the smallest, he found thal it ~ from the | here and — _— through the pores raps -y in 
relieved by a dull red keel and streaks on the base of th d_ | en ere — fibre, a nd r recurring to the dead plant | cells have 1 bran ches, varying in ‘size ; 7 
ard. It is v related to Podolobium trilobatum.—Bota- | whi t taken up able th few av foiael 
cvenstnanaith naiideias Spear- . (Sltve fibres, or rate set many of them, though dead ls of the cells, the cavities of which are placed 
£ .)—A very fragrant —— by ico th end, ee aia or in communication with Ho of = parent cell, he x bees, 
. Loddiges. There appears 3 one with | protrude young fibres near the ex aouine. Ry further | quence of the absorption of the diaphragm. It a 
Sut the catasan dali deep parpie. "Ie wotces w tit we lace cant he clearly ascertained that the plant dies after | however, impossible for me t letely the 
flowers about a foot long.— Bot. Rez. ing, but t is as 297 of roducing anew r plant fro: rom tory of their development. ae “a r formations are oat 
Geaa'nivm hesrtcpears _Woolly-fiowered Geranium. (Hardy t fibres after the bark and pith of Rhizo ra Mangle. — Micro- 
a )—A handsome hard: ao — the rs scrtint fangs reese the eye or shoot, which in- scopic Journal. [Cells of this dad vesioes in other plants. 
eee ee bas apecetom Dyes, Esq. It has pr creases till its maturity, and the lateral bristles They are abundant t in the fr ruit of Gne tam Cet which 
reg purple flowers. It is one of our herbaceous | Pe is li 
—. sean ee agree ewan : ii fF atlecwerde esenccry The young ro Truffie. ere — oo ma ny atte emp ts to pro- 
Shrub.)—A trp orn Sue, wei under ground till ene err “ee ia e the Truffle, but all have weit ahs the 
has the habit of Spirze’a bélla, and others of the same section of | = flowering age, when they pus ush Up Spcicatonia die and Bulletin de la Société tahoe ulture du ent de 
the genus Spire‘a, from which it is known by its lanceolate, | SPaW2 —_ in Hérault several ex ents in plantin pomenis are men- 
lobed, and se: leaves, h are quite kde | fon” Shr : eral experiments in p gz ere 
the under than'the upper side. In the gardens Pen 8 Flora of Shropshire. war which promise a se cessful result. The r 
the e of S. Reeresiina.— Bout. Reg. Es ‘harm of the Life of a Travelling Naturalist.— prepared in the following manner : take out the = = 
‘@LO'GYNE FLA‘cciDA. Drooping Celogyne. ( Epi ine! i ift it, fill up the trench wi 
PoE ct ‘olen oe aes naan rap ma tt I ha — of aoe all kinds of adventures, fare: aacara ee ae t rd ,on it the 
Ww found if m trees. Its long md ea treatm I have been welcomed under the hori small Truffles, and cover tk bout 6 inches of ba 
leaves, anit a — 3 f surround the base of the roof of fede of Knowledge and e neal oan a oteas earth ; the rest of the soil is an mixed with eee i 
wi itch brown; i 
panned, readily point out this eden whielris oe the I i its aad ed to ~— ace = aan oi coheed in 
attractive of its genus. fi i i 160 s 
cemes, and are alates ahiciiagett in: bemewh, wie a scans euens and reine joys mi ro with mage trials, Nove suber. The Truffles which furnish the seed or truflets 
Soon thrownoff and isave the flowers naked. They havea peculiar peeeigomon and troubles 1 gin ; they must ers of 
sepals are white, linear-oblong, scarcely | than myself, who has experienced them all. _ the d out b: them bet the fin renee 
acute. The petals , i€ prac sprea ow Dy pressing them etween ¢ ngers 
third the breadth, and are Parsing oer sa igge aap ng ape — o— erage » who wishe: es like mysel a pioneer of ee matter which contains the reproductive sub- 
nelied, ovate, threelobed, with the middle lobe ovate, acute, | 5° he knowledge of ager de - nce, or the seed, must be taken out. It is quite ricer 
Peto svertsry base, a k atthe point. Near meet Jangers of all sorts in the ese tat there are germs in Truffles, and M. Turpin has fo 
4n the centre; slone the middie: frcongeshor ee = is — and m mountains of America. The mere fatigue o aa me developed in ripe Truffles: bh calls them —- 
[rpich terminate-abruptiy alittle within the base of the middle li and thinks them spores which answer to he organs t 
ran The species requires avery moist stove, and the pots well forests, when not nore a heiag is met for r many miles, ible flowers. 0" 
Water we te then ensenum isthe — for pot! and if met he may be m ted; when the food and col comes i these spores, which a) cov ree 
must not be allowed te ioaee agen Season, pocket or knapsack from | the Truffles a are e enla in; — om and remov 
when they are tender. as.it is sure'to rot them. rm tdbarned rome y to day; when the fare is not only se: eanty, but i aS ? For Trafiies, although 
ause = os than allowing their hoot wa sometimes worse; t d ways separa ted froin ‘wack other, and they do 
pospaenigatant Sart! before they form another, and then it | salt pork, be burned and steamed b cae it f those which have tained 
ge iy er former one.— Hot. ¥ e an exact -place o is 
STROBILANT SCABRA. Capeeend ee | dren ae in, even with an mile in costa as or oo foetceed and have afterwards rotted : aud we ie 5 . 
ton of his Grace the Del CSOGaRER ee ame [were bad. Musquitoes aad i pect a blunh yy ae supposed by some) of plaing & Pat 
with/a- dark-green foliage, ple ey ones trae cma ts me nelt-shrabby, | © | suck your blood if you sap lacigie a — step. “Gnats here wi ich we are unacquainted ?—or think ee" - 
flowers. It appears to grow wild in Various parts of pA eg e y n fall rs $8 —— a — spring, which panes the fly, spreads the a es a 
Prome and Silhet. - It is remarkable for beg covered over with | * 3 P on mg oe into ears, Ants Trufiles in the neighbourhood ? “Do the filament re 
short h = he mea meal = the leaves and poor you —— you ge on the porta wasps | by Marsili in the generation of Mas s exist in Trufl ¥ 
Sane GRDRCT os like furies if you their But | If this 2 gin Truties, 
