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131852. 
Seedling Rhododendrons ; fro 
11 varieties of double . 
from 
flower; from M 
Apples in pos preservation, for which an hono 
award was voted ; and from Mr. Shearer, gr. to the 
Marquess o of. Tweeddale, four Seedling Azaleas. 
this oecasion 12 new members were added to the list. 
Mreroscorrcat, March 17. 5 er stay the chair. 
Dr. . n, L. S. Beale 
mieroscopi c investigation. H 
7 to the —— — — fresh-water Alge, 
and Desmidese, in the neighbourhood of 
- | the one de in the — wer 
[or attention wisely its — demand; when w 
on 
Oceasionally we find special — offered by members 
of existing societies; for tance, Carnations and 
icotees were —— in this manner at the Royal South 
London Floricultural Society, — without lag: 
anything like — etition. For he 
— by the Hammersmi ith — Society : at he frst 
r 
övet vit 
award 
, flowers not considered good pel — 
— ybe of tel sixes, — 
and we feel e 
With these 
onvinced that —..— 
collections are Fele class showing will only be 
state 
carries out 
w that the 
plan, although Bigy Ahonen iy is far from — g general. 
brought indoo oo, I S 
while in the pit as dry as was consistent with health 
during — north-east winds. George Jeans, Tené, 
s | Lincolnshir 
NATIONAL — 4 —— Socrety.— Mr. Locuner in the 
chair. Cinerarias were cont ibuted by Mr. Gaines, Mr. Dobson, 
Mr. Busby, ams Arthur Henderson, — 
m, son, and Mr. Lochner. Labels of commendation were awarded 
> to Puri ity (D (Loe 
er). 36 varieties of ua 
sorts of Pansies were sent by — Tender, and a Seeing #0 
bin aad fir . 9 an 23 rded ; s is called Sir J. 
mand great merit. 
rome y very pretty foreign Canvas were forwarded by Messrs. 
Ei G. con A few be e also contributed 
m... The two last families were to be found in the 
ae and di The 
211 4} 1 gas of 
— 
— Bale atari 
the E Salt Marshes — Nortiet, — 
od of Esh affording a la 
= . 
— ta to be o 
docks ; Sinks and I Nitelle 2 at ‘Epping, and several inter- 
esting species o of Alge, Desmidese, and Diatomacese in 
the —ͤ— and the water of St. James's 
Delarue gave a dese piris 8 an appara 
which lines of excessive delicacy co 
of g ted of a 
the i invention of Mr. Peters, and fi ae of the work 
. — mone —— 
very distinet 
> magnifying. — p ae Mr. Delaru 
out the value i 
books, Xc., Recette, 
= Political Experience of the Ancients, in its saw priz 
Modern Ti B 
W. S. Tremenheere, 12m 
essay bgp the state of 
pp. pb. 136. Murray, An ‘able 
cal and other literature, 
and Abuses. 
worthy. Peirce. (A oom sana 
upon 0 d on espe- 
cially the present Board ot, Orne, w “x 
the author upon we em “a etna = 
— ert left the: Board no 
0 marked by either wa or — Ae 
e Press, € defend your rights ;” 
tion. The pro- 
London as it is, and to 
‘round it other corporations. 
Lugduno-Batavum. Nos. 21—24, 
uthor by fairly tested, in con onjunetion with stand — A 
arue poses ten 
ent in constructing | b 
mierometers of — — 4 e for the use of the | i 
icroscopist. 
y F. Cox- 
A farrago, —— tak 
* 
fi e 
Wilh never 
take it that class s 
—— ag yellows against ee 5, 
agai purples, 
ugh not — similar colours, but also wer 
— feathers inst 
ot submitted to itsinspection. But it is not by bring- 
ing like flowers into — 9 — that the object is to 
be attained; for a series of prizes is — orden in rene 
places first, second, and third, in others, they t 
six, and proba 
calculated to advance“ rea 
attained by a multiplicity of prizes —— 
to a multiplieity of varieties! The 
men 
pri 
— — g — — 12 blooms to be all 
way, © 
each yw 
flowers 55 below the third 
of eit 3 yet even this course 
at Norwich — at the Torbia 1 Florictltaral 
Societies wing is permitted. The following 
notice should premet in every schedule to be — 
for class showing: N: B. Prizes will be awarded to 
concluding Vol. I. 
arden Memoranda. 
my catty a varie 
specimens of os tees 
taken a place, is to — 
inferior grad 
doubtful matter; with me half. 
vite ia 
long as it can. After so many money pr es, ee to 
fant let the numbers ade up to oe thirds by hono- 
rds; 0 this means, first-class quality alone wil 
o far until it merge = that of the 
~} CINERARTAS 
ir spec 
Ze, ee —— obtaining the first | next seaso 
objects w interest: 
> Teea 
CaTatocur received from Mr. H. Groom, er Rise, 
J. 
Surrey. E, 
: JH. 1, purple * white disk; 2, deep crimson 
self, black disk’; 8, —— — tip with Y, — 
4, white Sende t blue upe and disk; 5, 
1 * 6, dee oa o Naar 
light bronz 
disk k; ar rer pAr Ar ple zelt Ar fer disk; . similar o. 5y 
aeo f the 9 ois —_ Cra: 
—.— be most 400 omit to to its 
“iy teh wide, and 
bit nes 
rough a — neu, pa pert ~ ory flowers to be 
i 2 J. E:—W P. Not good 
nough for our present wants. 
Ain ern 8 Mrs. Norman can nowhere be —— for 
58. La — at we know. of; in truth. the flower wa was grown 
— tl — last 
i ae ’ pretty, — 
cies You 
Barna 
rd in light-edged roses; 
— the e price of Mrs. N. 
J. 
—itisa larger flower, much in the 
Sean received from the Great National Tulip Exhibition, 
e 
Birmingham, J. £. 
N Miscellaneous. 
Glasnevin Botanic Garden. — The 1 is an 
extract from the Curator's Annua Report: —“ With 
the view of introduc 
cumstances 
bri sirare . — k 
the of one of the 
it is expected the plant may be grown, on 
in order to cultivate it to perfection, 
p Such 
hee — opponent * the vital | assigned 
principles —ͤ which class showing is blishe de 
tolerated. ; 
ould 
components; the 
gentleman alluded to makes his — I shall only at 
present observe that the and weight of 
produce were 
rom 
d degree; this again —— displaced by sp 
of of the third and fo de But t e aiao 
i — Ja ve a 
in” others of an 
e, and to encourage thei . 
HARDINESS oF — CW Ana. — This it seems is a 
a-dozen h 
ate covered red with bloom, as are also some ex 
the white Azalea indica; ric ay 
vigour of nl the plants in this 
Ga substance of their folinge, 
my 
most Femara 
— e, looking — the — of — oft 
one very well in a cold frame duripg the 
— were put into the frame in Octo! 
three of them showed for bloom, and were 
the 2 and the rest are still i iti — winter 
They were covere mats a 
tl were al 
was unexpected ; and it 
y the contribution of such facts and discuss 
— knowledge is made. 
oof March 20, he will discover pone tens hg 
ish he — 
of them were exposed to to to 12° oi of frost last N. November, as 
| their ancestors on the preceding November, 
acknow — € 
— 
winter. | 14 ewt. 2 st. 6 Ibs. 
ary | farm- 
quarters, | 
night, but otherwise 
t 
deen erke reportedon, Portions of theseed 
ions sò 
I think, 
i igently consider your —— — 
m 
yan promising eoten — 
are the respective weights of 
> 
E 
growth of 
mixtures containing portions of 
3 he 8 i 4 
„ 
y | grown on equal spaces of — 
ommended by Professor 
of leaf-mould, 1 ewt. 7 lbs. 
— barrow- load of leaf. mould — nicht- soil, — 
one 
that companied the plant 
wh in n three different ways, viz., ona ee 
g to 
injury follow —.— no no donb first to the —— is 
Srowing state nor their tissues distended Ne 
care 
