134 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. Fup. op ™ 
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a month, and the attendance it 2 is a very out against a south w hes arrived. ay _— is Spgs ee ~ ae st een ry or Tallow read 
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few minutes vg 12 ‘ho ae ve is larger and encouraged in every possi y one or two stems. | China, being the substance of a e — a Pg 
than every lateral removed as | the 3 ~~ eee Society of to 
ngs- i i Is is essential HE D. J. Macgowan, M.D. 2. On Victori : India ; 
i f coke in 24 hours. If I should soon as it appears. . the laterals is . 5 a regia, 
pire = het i 5 said by friends na inmates | to the early production of flowers and fruit; plants | By Mr. Ott o, Curator of the Hamburg Botanie Caney 
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cas, : is way will produce flowers in great — — y Mr.G. Lawson. This com 
about the pleasant, — „ uniform hea a ty it treated in 3 An ood time to ripen | consisted of an account of th 
would be thoug aneiful. ado 
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i i ; it. large ventilator in the | Peaches on the trellis in the garden at Chiswick have | k observations on the — 1 The he quiel i 
wal gives exit to the he 863 = from off the top and | failed to ripen ;this must, I think, be owing to its standing eee ao ee was in the case of the 15th leaf, 
sides of the 3 have made n munication with | in an exposed situation and to its being of small extent, from jes in 2 “ 20th K gust, which increased reased about 
the external ai ao hall is largo, 30 feet by 10 feet, so that the draughts at the back and at each end | 9 nami = 3 ne and fro 1 21st of the 
and for — = its — it is as muchas 20 fe et dissipate the heated air too rapidly ; my trellis is 60 feet gh 5 4 . b, X pe ’ od 1 1 inches in 24 hous, 
high, with many doors. By leaving open pai = of long and 7 feet wide. I had but few Peaches last year, | The leat s ree ks only y exten Ss ter the leaves are n neatly fal 
any room, especially if we close the register fla its | but they ripened well, and were some of the largest and | grow sfat : ng a full detail of the progress of the i 
chimney, the air becomes sensibly interchanged "with finest in flavour I an 3 To e sot ck the red spider ag and t ne deve opment of flowers and fruit, Mr. Otto 
|. My latest experiment bas been the lights were taken off three or four weeks in June vhich he had 
a. > varm hali. — — partition runs and Ju ly, but this did eet prevent their ripening at cessfully cultiv atedin thesame Aquarinm. 3. On thestrus 
across a high building, now to be used for schools. A | the yes period ; they are mid-season varieties, i. e., ture N reproduction of Vol vox Globator. By J. Sibbald, 
Phoenix stove is on the girls’ side ; ; its chimney panied from the 6th to the 10 of September, The trees Eng. 4 On the development 8 hig — and Spores. 
ys’ side. | made 3 shoots, and are now 0 3 C. Thomson, Esq. The 
In the one school I have Pol eat y the stove, in the | sta te; my trellis wa s open ‘ath k all the summer, the author gave a sketch of the ——— of Licheng in 
other, the first few feet of the corer yak rè inging 7 lights in front are about 9 ine aia paie the ground, Thos | genera and of their ie of nutrition and re 
= direct from the hollow floors, each of which has one | Rivers, Sawbridgeworth. ace He commenced by giving a definition of the terms- 
rnal ting, and external communica cation. The Orchids for the ae, t the most easy of | u He considered posit 2 being the ultimmte 
—.— fns cg potet and the rooms sweet. Sufficient entip bad the Erenpetale on Mackayii, a wa the dif- bee e cellules, the product of the division of the | 
has n show how easy is the practical | fere: species and varieties. It i vit free | compound granular cell v which is is fr result of the wnim 
. ‘of — mirn wherever there is “a will.“ I flo sid . ow! Hosea through the end of poy 3 of the conjugating cells in „„ plants; sporidia 
may add ant a gentleman, one o f Mr. Meek's — winter, and is very handsome. My gardener e tn as the compound granular cells, the product of theunion 
esteemed ndents, in wnt to me lately, that with a little = it might be so grown as to flower | of conjugating cells; protosporidia as the simple celsd 
these words, — has never with me.” I gather twice a year. Dodma Lichens in which the two conjugating cells are afterwards 
has b Osage Orange (Maclura aurantiaca).—I should be formed; gonidia as free cellules derived from and part 
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pa he an some —* have meek r. Meek’s — glad to know if this ~ is generally known and cul- of the cellular tissue of the parent plant, capable of em. 
at least his earlier ones. May In est that in | tivated in this” country. In 1849 I brought some seeds | tinuing to a certain extent their development when free 
nine cases out of ten, three cles of — ooded stove ace © Ohio ; they were planted and have gro vi 8 from the parent, without the intervention of the te 
might be built without inconvenience within the area o ing 3 plants. this country, a all generative act of conjugation (the analogues of free buds- 
the building, whether on or below "e floor line ; this | nee North of Ohio, I find they are — gta or bulbils in — mez). Mr. Thomson also em 
would give immense advantage, and if the fourth in Arkansas and the Southern States they e evergreen, eer - proembryo in Ferns and other eryptogams. 
(i.e. external) side, were in a — ng or working I may observe, that my plants have had es out-of- as the cellular 3 among by the development 
to — would be a nice arrangement. Iron conducts door treatment, and that they are olen healthy. In- the al, and containing the conjugating — 
hea we know, almost too rapidly, and eee paita Lee Place, Lewisham. 8 ant is not uncom- This pro-embryo, Bead correspon nds to the 
take it, however, that even n, and quite hardy; but it nev r kas fi ed. cellular expansion of 'Lichens.—Dr. Balfour sited 
deadens too much hask, pris at ikan Abbas See Winchester) Teee that Mr. Dick had aea — the leaf of Livistom 
i : day Wet daya. chinensis, Sabal umbraculifera, Chara humilis. 
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l4-inch stove (for the sake of a of | January 4 August 2 arborescens, grown in the Palm House of the 
ve s e Eres aac SRE S JA P * > Royal Botanic Garden, and had detected a very 
s, of Stamford-hill, has some very neat | A,ril 11 November. 0.48 10 table quantity mangan i 
ised) iron Arnotts; but May 882 5 He exhibited on a platina wire an opaque bluish green 
onate in size to = July as — wes — — — bead, the result of fusing the ashes with carbonate of 
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ated, if placed “ within the 
soda in the outer flame, so as to produce mang 
conduct, in all eases, ete | Areraging 2.04 83 to each ee or r me 8 pA to of soda (soda mineral chameleon); and a 
ith what may be obtained the each rainy day. W. W. Spicer h berni 
oo Siething is — an Removing Dead Dooni. — Forest Trees. vole eg pra — toann i 
nothing more simple, or more under the “ Expertus” asks (see p. 37) w hether I would suffer 5 amethyst by oxide of manganese.— Mr. red 
as to degree of hent), of a person with | dend and rotten boughs to remain on forest trees to the | the following report on the state of vegetation nthe 
ommon. inte 1 not, I fear, to be trusted | injury of t the timber? 1 answer- deci y not; nor Edinburgh Botanie Garden, from 8th Jan. en rel. 
female mi (in a village school, for instance). had I the opportunity would I suffer them to exist at all, 7 — 
Mr. Meek’s stove is quite on this principle. The iron | but off with them as closely as possible. Nevertheless Date of Zemin 
plate may be a course or two higher above the furnace is is an — onal case merely, and has nothing to do — OTT 
than in his plan, and therefore less liable to be cracked, with systems of 3 8 A late correspondent put the * P Peo 
am able to at identical plate described by question, in one of your Numbers—* What is Pruning?“ i Jan. 2 
Mr. Meek (28th August, 1847) is e after five sent and proceeded d to answer it ; but as ‘i 8 » aan Cooma n: 20 g 2 
rial, wo mee etly call, e ie point out that, lection serves entirely Rhododendron Noblesnum 5 a 23 | Feb, 2 
wherever var ds is atzictly copied, the four thin plates of to usar Aa eases, in most of which 1 Vat bers e Teur 
iron (H), must rest on the cast-iron plate (F), as will be | concur. e. it is easy to state cases in which pruning Gory nog -oina 
ro i 9 Avellana 25 „ 16 
evident À ; aes engraving they | 97 lopping may be quite necessary, in . — yes Azara dentata. , 26 A ad 
appear to bo ba hio.. Leta n be paid to Mr. myself a scien 3 the beginning of the ä Alnus giutinosa ow uf a 
nige een (E), aa is 3 and let a especially in giving a direetion to trees in their i faney. oo ” ga ” 45 
elink. not too small) be adopted, Afterwards to prun i 5 “Rio 
z | i i of | Eranthis hyemalis , 9 
ve | time, seems to me to be a piece of mistaken economy, | S% nus mascula 5 Ae 
Y- | Symphytum eauecasieum Jan. 
and | asits tendeney is obviously at once to injure the qualit ee + 
of ti ber and > retard its growth. Lallade of eo = 1 ves 
; xpertus” 
; Report of Temperatures observed at the 
from the 8th Jan ean the 11th February, *0™ 
: Day- | Lowest | D 
Psa | numerous wren Date. lo % lig Date. 9 pm, 
aro always to be had, and Stou {foliage is slightly. dried „ E. | Night 1. 
ree s ry size, so that the expense of a clever mason for | Smelling like new-mown iar or the T. 8 5 gr ing 
a few di ag pasos is needed, beyond some inexpensive | Small sprig kept in the mg or in Ap agesi TON * * . . 26 : Ed ; 
3 In conclusion, } ogise for the length robe, is sure to discover itself by its agreeable od 5 se — i Her 
my remarks, which I hope will be exeused, on Its seed should be sown in spring. Hardy and in “4 t 1 25 5 
account of the earnest interest I take in the promulga- | Maldon. / 4 on VI 
tion of this most planning subject. 0. W., Fb. 9 N 3 B | a „ 80 
n Houses.—If* A Hertsman” will to Mr. effi- 40 42 37 Feb. 
se, tule, dn e er kr gene b. s goun 233 
build him as many — met he win] Linn ax, Feb. een Brown, E 0 | 26) 38 2 
3 8 8 same The Secretary ‘am id uit A Sq., in the chair. 42 45 86 4 
diameter, once cut through for atnda; T have ect a eee 1 a complete 5 8 1 6 
ae The them at a considerably less cost than the esti TOn The narii e the Ray iety's — — — po s 
an no “spleen,” but | will confess to having been 20 — of Cirri was pre: 42 40 36 9 
at the first letter of 4 A Hertsman ;“ kis. last I FX author, C. Darw q- ronnie of 41 40 a6 10 
not see till yesterday. Thos. Rivers, Reb. 25. * e — botanieal t our in F 49 | 48 a5 11 
natoes.—The following is my plan o i 5 made a on the Mr. M‘Nab read the following 
mer's sun in thi rtet, from Dr. G. M‘Nab, Kingston, 
—.— * “ — 4$ 
. | regardi. e paper om t 
was, Plant, exhibited at the Botan ical Society bY 
not the 13th ovember last, I have to Ai 
