1—1852. | 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
und compacted bulbs, was r 
Jeaves [crowning 
Ferag ; m 
the 
full flower at oa Rar part of this 
was in March of the following year, a 
arid than the aur = — 
of the lovel urp e Bletia, growing on a precipitous 
— on the banks. of the Rio Cobre. na 1 0e eys 
Ep. o 
in the be beautifal arte 
of December, when 
around Blucfields, while the latte en- 
ing 5 the W was flower- 
were out of bloom 
moun ou 
mong the roots about the end ai 
arch, — continued flowering through April. A — 
Oncidium ginense wer 
the high wende chat 
Epid. fragrans and of 
d, of Ma — 4 ut the mid- 
in the mi pen — i 
woods o rewsbury, about half w 
tains of St. Elizab th’s, I saw veral racemes of a ga 
The b 
rains were at that 
e descending copi g to iE continued to fali until 
tho middle of -a — which ae I met wit 
Epid. fuscatum in blossom in the 
an 3 itl e lovati Per Bluefields Moun- 
t this tim 
5 
oO 
, that I met with t the profane ie i 
string passed several times round the trunk and the 
Orchid. In all these cases the specimens grew healthily. 
The roots, which had been torn from their attachments 
d 
— of the bulbs s, which clung rab the support by their 
flattened under sides with the e tenacity as if they 
had been on the igi: sak af onths 
eeded — — 8 er =i or weights to enable 
them to m Som 
laying of a foam of bulbs i in nthe fork of an Cues See? 
was fo und suffici ent. I do no think the parasite is de- 
ts do 
n | fer 
vicinity ct Blue 
3 
oods of Basin | ple” 
ther 
not penetrate the bark i in the least degree, bat tae all 
their 3 t from the . wi e air is 
5 in the of rain or ok trickles 
— —.— rom abov 
is an unaccountable pre- 
others. Thus 
elds in land, and of greanna 
ben including. “both — . and m 
—— r district an indivi- 
jase a hile. tho latter, —.— ed in Pall} humid woods 
— pristine forest extending from the level of the sea 
mmit of the first range of the Luana Mountains), 
ly a 
that are — — this 2 like tree.” 
This giv 
expect in 5 he —— of Mr. Gosse 
venture to add the 
Phaius that -= mgp of? is it i Phi 
that gen a wild sta 
: What t is the 
t all? Is 
ew world ? 
A 
in 
h Has the « noble” r and the “rich parle?” or“ lovely re | 
Are ihe Cocoes Arums ? and ae botanists — 
they call them Colocasi e think such 
e stakes, man 
e | are e best — for the trial 
In s 
of the it must be the 
mention a few favourable items, viz., space, good soil 
(if the latter is not so naturally i 1 t will be made 80) ; 
ures, ans ay ret a 
ey elling apparatus, and show boards ; and to these 
a 
J 
nt growers 
peak ing of the Queen of 
With reference to the committees o the various societies, 
bition where 
t. si 
I 
e reader an — of what he i vob to 
whom we will n 
be as alike as possible. I thin ink by this 
ra- | ment ac en would experience the benefit, from. the 
fact that the same prod ould do for each exhi- 
ire i t 
ould be ee dene few 
ace for such collections as would 
t soci 
the arrangement of gx schedules, I think 
much good might be effected. W. Holmes, Hackney.. 
IcoT£E: An 
n unnamed and apparently — * variety. J. E. 
: Miscellaneous. 
— aaea which had hitherto | expressions as — — — the lan 
displayed only its long ‘spindle-shaped b f et An 3, final , are the points to which iui die dot Ohaunt ‘sang; at a lato mone of 
crowned with its pair of leathery eaves. Soon after- 3 oe are addressed considered by him un- e w 
dro ut I have no st, of elucidation te any except those “necrologists” pe nta = 
further record of of the flowerin of hom he tr ects so cavalierly ? * —.— 
irre of Towa or rather a arent | ` 4 
independence of seasonal ra overig or onfined to th FLORICULTURE — — 
recess the mountain she it — —— have = 3 ee —We have heard it * that * een a t pace. 
surprising, since thei actual ness seems unknown. ney annually changes 8 by the sale and Sulphur et n — 
On the summits of Bluefields Peak, and especially in exibition of Dahlias than b er florist's A E conitum, Phos — 
ow intervening valley . lose- | flower ; but out e cy of Floreat in gests 
ness of the woods preventing the escape of vapours, or aty a statement, it is pretty clear that the trade in Homceopathia !” 
the i the rank vegetation, the air is at all| regard to Dahlias i t Oe por eign but that their Pois gi 
times sure ed with moisture n durin: e dry Cha amass is e by immense and widely-distri- th serine 4 are a "i poeg eee, most ea ot 
seasons, In the ight this moisture is eee ted number Of this our paaa of e durin f i P 1 cay (The tia nerii- 
very copiously; so that in the e f large leaves, the fant senso 3 given indisputable evi We Mateus m — 9 Ge del 4 hie (There nitida, De Car d.), 
imes as a wine-glass f clear water not ae. desire to go * ee details FI laya (Hippoman ne — ella, Lir n.), 
may be seen collected, especially on such leaves as those with respect to — King, > f th * n of —— in (Datura sanguinea, Ruiz et Pav.), and 
of the Heliconia, iid Piinia — the eect Hive eee e te WE ore | Bala Laie maculata, Kun th). Tt t is said of f the 
lent. Arums, called oes, of the Negroes’ grounds. I intimately associa Vet our e King and Queen? —— anillo 
have many a time been refreshed by drinking from these or, dropping the metaphor, is it not practicable to pn eneath its shade ; and that its milky juice raises 
leaves. The Fe other herbaceous plants -that | Roses for exhibitio in the same piece yt land or A blisters on the skin, which are difficult to heal. “The 
fringe the. ‘narrow paths, and ‘the > Lycop and with the Da e proceed, then, iira first of th statements must be regarded as lo 
mosses that form thick cushions s of the to the “tho a oe Dalia grow eee ‘3 received witha degree of modifica- 
trees, are always found heavy a aes it were, | theplant,notasan pe aoe Doge Be ell-tilled tion. will bear the juice upon the surf 
saturated, ‘when one visits this locality in the early arog but as a thor sind E exhibition ; those | Of the body without being in the least affected by it; 
who by their skill hold their way by ‘cultivation proper,” while! oth o experience the utmost 3 the 
_ In the rather than by chance, those who are to be seen with difference seeming to depend rarity on the state of a 
tall woods on Bluefields eg . 
tree, from the thickness of 
horizontal — are 
arasites, Til- 
s, and others long 
th r and 
trunk of an enormo 
that had ben recently felled on the top of 25 
more inds, erowded the 
-tree 
Hea ds ridge. The massive, 
70 feet long without a branch, 
f its 
also 
dron) ; 
em wells 1 . OF terrestrial species, both the 
growing on on the bare rocks, exposed 
to the unmiti tod g . 
with a p ‘glare of e aun. The e tuberous kin d 
hand, occurred 
oe o nly jp the deepest 
ard 
us | of the plan, but of m 
enaudg, 
their blooms in August, and who 351 88005 troublesome | 
customers in early October ; rast they are N 
o uld like to. find w ith a 5 
bas 
heir fingers. No gro and exhib 
Dahlia can be Aedeagal of the 5 nile init 
raced 15 fifty plants’ man requires much — 1 nie 
ing six feet between the plants and also fro 
the Dahlias. e, 
an opinion, not saN of Jha practicability | ¢ 
uch su Ground for Dahlias 
crop, and | it is Kept in 
pomp + receives no opie 
ings of manure, 
nnual heavy dress 
ite 
If the oft-repeated 
open weather aimee October and Feb: 
vaja then we say, put Let eal 
en take up the sine, let wijstien for 
ag held out by those whose interest it is to 
fi We would here sug- 
the Dahlias will be 
man’s 
in 3 the eyes, fi — hs the Teast — ai enters —— 
and t 
truction, Plant in Sause 
er as has 
s constitution n, however, is required 
lossof sight cute smarting for several 
days are the consoquenee, “The sm i 
wood produces a similar 
while surveying on the Pino D: 
ow | crew of H. M. S. Herald wasblinded f fro 
a 
natives are affected by the poison they a at once ro wadh the 
oa reat salt water. medy is — 
„ and, as the Manzgnillo i is: ways . 
roe oui of the ocean, of easy application. It has eke. 
tated that the Indians of the Isthmus dip sep? arrows 
he Manzanillo. There 
An 
owev 
Feet hen 
men „ an 
a 
