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have done flowering they may be thrown; are not continually exposed to it, the membranes HELIOPHILA ARABOIDES.—AÀ prostrate spreading plant, with 
to the the rabbish-heap, merely preserving about two pots ately lose the power of absorption. The circum. | diverging shoots or stems, 4 pen re eee 
of each variety for stock; these eae be kept sparingly | stances in which these plants are found in their natural blossoms, — tack Dii 2 es 
supplied with water, and if the removed to a state are icularly favourable, not way for the growth BIFRONS.—An ornamental, erect-growing plant, 
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| than under other circumstances. Water | o rption. e meet with them chiefly in the so- = ye 2 7 inches wide picturesquely 
l must be altogether withheld as soon as the leaves assume | called aboriginal woods of Brazil, the northern parts of marked with bright ros y 
arsa appearance, and am the tops die down the | South America, India, &c. A high temperature, a 2 pai — patie ee 2 1983 
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y be removed to situation, where they | degree of moisture, a damp bottom of mould, continually | 2 vd 9 aLi 
will be f free fr from N — plies they may remain till | becoming thicker by the falling of leaves, and always in 10 white, Thi r Shee nt ee ee eee * 
tuber: or starting next spring. a state of decomposition, by which many gases, car-| GopeTia xosiconDa.—An ornamental species, 18 in ches to 
ie acid, and ammonia are e icat 2 feet high, of neat, erect, —— nching habit, with medium 
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and thoro 4 cow-dung, in about equal almost undisturbed atmosphere of those woods, con- pore aer petalled , ight pink, ae or » Suns“ blossoms, 
proportion, a fewe add as much sharp sand as will | stitute the condition that most conduces to the | deepening into a conspicuous light crim 
a free h i 
ators “of water through the — growth of the air-roots, which are thus exposed to all MALOPE nAN ITL AA.—A highly — — r 2 to 3 
: feet high, with 8 matlow-like ‘leaves, “asd. nu- 
and peat should used in a th z beautiful 
5 circumstances that are fa te kably 
rather rough — me dung should be broken up and sorption and changing of substances, which is the only | shaped flowers, 4 to 6 inches wide. 
ony Ee with the sand before it is added to the | object for the forming of new organs. we can closely 555 ome 1 * — nin — — 
com ll the Achimenes are very impatient of imitate this combination of circumstances in our hey de AiR Cs ty ba ene 
: A bly pi d beautiful pal A 
—.— scabs „ therefore secure ‘ect houses, we are certain of success in the cultivation of 11 hoor dbl hig 4510 5 inro a crimson phe 
drainage by using plenty of potsherds or lumps of char- these beautiful plants. Experience teaches us that low | BRANCHING r n ornamental late summer-flower- 
coal; indeed, when pots are used, — 7 be one- houses are the best. The presence of — in a | ing p nanoa), 2 to A ee . ones on 
third draini 242 tiak nu rous racemes ot v ured 
filled wi th ng A state of decomposition and ch amm is also blossoms, Admirably adapted for grouping in shrubberies 
a — 2 x last is necessary in every collection of | and plantations. REPERIT, 
ith a 66° to 75% LUPINUS CavicksHank tremely beaut a 
~ THE AERIAL ROOTS OF ORCHIDS OF THE Pa * —— . ve EG summer and autumn- flowering 4 — , 2 £0 8 feet high, of 
te branch th smoo nger-lo en 
| gen aa imitation of what Nature exhibits to us in her great and terminal spikes or racemes of richly blended blue, white 
j (From a Paper by Dr. W. H. pe Vriese, Reg. Bot. Prof., peas laboratories. | - | and yellow, Pea-sh: owers: 
Tue so-called Orchids do not, like true parasitic plan : ANGIER PEA (LaTAYRUS TINGITANUS).— A very male 
a ; twining, annual plant, 3 to 4 feet high, with 1 
foliage, and numerous clusters of remarkably rich v 
crimson blossoms. 
is 222 —.— CENTROSPERMUM.— A late summer and 
wering species, * to idee Bigh, of erect, bra 
habit, rp toothed or lobed and numerous golden. 
yello w Marigold. like blossoms, breve dapted for ‘or effect in large 
in — wil — e W t, a dark green willowe 
flowering plant, 2 to green willo 
ground. Such are to be found among the noir shaped IF co and nu — conspicuous clus 
Aérides, Vanda, Saccolabium, of the damp and hot 
of golden ellow ‘teverinetit 7 
parts of India; Schomburgkia, of the woods of — —— everlasting 1 —Similar in habit to rima pre- 
uras and Guiana ; the super lias of South ee ceding species, oka donee ret ae * nnd toe ye — 
— rum upper clusters of clear white ‘‘everlastin 7 elega 
1 Epi dend of the Sou th Ameri suffused with rose or pink. is interesting plan — well as 
s; the — the preceding, withstands the influence of autum 
Wiliam Wood. 
In the 3 of these plants, the e natural m 
wth tated as near as = If they — 
tere Orchids, a failure will be the re- 
These grow under quite diferent € circumstances 
1 is — of a ark, that a p 
quired e growth of 2 of these — “of 
RATEABILITY OF A ——— e 
IN TRAD 
Mr, Eprror,—In page 213 of your it Mr. Paine 9 
the correctness sof my — . (p. 165). I now re 
t affi w 
| the report a have been read (p aos — 
£ The air-roots of the parasitic Orchids of the tropics before the magis ates; and that a the. magiore gave 12 — 5 
t sion on the merits of the case aine now sta 
; ps cae FCC ‘the condition upon la the appeal was decided is, that T 
our to point out its chief characteristics. It may should meet the surveyor of the parish,” Be. 1 sow 
serve, if e i connection be- that the 3 2 granting permission ape remove .— 
3 Sory a and practice. The roots which penetrate WR e sted points from the rate-book, 
es WI The “re-valuation was part of the agreement between the 
= composed o of cells, The cells of those air-roots ANI Mr. Paine gives one, and surely sufficient, 
s a thin transparent membrane, and contain muci- | ry Vy yy reason why it goal not be «i effecte od imm mediately. I. FINCH, 
with all those p es, the presence of which in í 77 | Churchwarden, Berkhams d, April A 
the cavities ascertained by microscopic 4 OH Haresfoot, Great Berkhamstead, April 7. 
chemical observation. They are nitrogenous icles, Hi I was present in the court, and can aires that all the asser- 
dextrine, su issolved with mucilage i tions of our churchwarden (the Hon. General I. Finch) are 
T ETA z Te PS tie nr ber strictly correct on the subject in question. 
g outermost LGERNON SMITH DoRRIEN. 
tenderest cells. to th 
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water and divers particles, so far as they are Home Correspondence. 
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e ts usually 
house ones a to be exciting some 
as Wn plants of that deseription ha 
cabanas f vegetabl t This formati to the group | years ted out here with view 
t satisfactorily, that with | of Orehide + 1 3 ed in eon er groups — D following account of 
the water ro. in the ground, several — of — of plants, as Arads and Pandanem, wi whieh, however, in | interesting. It should — that this place, lying” 
and even salts of metals, as we is respect demand a careful investigation. T. P. on the shores of Morecombe „shares in the mild 
formed ex i 
which are called spongioles, in the cells of which are Teg aS „ FOR BEDDING, &e. e from the lake 
never found either incrustati ings ; ic ontinued from page 213.) grea than usually 
notwithstanding the ee eee eee — de eee ee e ee. eee — Fi 1 ne per oie south. * and New 
riectly pervious. The surface of the root branches | leaves, and numerou seca mone Rudbeckia-like flowers Zealand Plants. Leptospermum grandiflorum has been 
does not absorb any liquid, nor ay the surface of the 2 e ore of an ineh wide), richly ack | planted out many years, and always flowers ab y. 
of 
itself. It bs. 
å 8 Roci * woe E appears i nmon evergreens. 
of 3 4 ai wt aig case with the a alimentary parts | 9 to 12 ‘inches high, of neas Ap erect a Seni, r —.— Leptospermum ambiguum and L. lanigerum have also 
ed air-Orchids. r exterior is white as leaves, and laden with deeply-lobed, bright rosy coloured been out two winters a wall, and are quite 
snow, dry, gi surface smoo ooth, an for the most part not Clarkia-like 5 „ be 2 is very vigorous and 
divided or ranched ; . e eee e pe bi jOGLOSSUM eg een rem she ——9 ren good pl — if 8 y 7 — 
sappy only ae the point. They grow to a remarkabl: dded towards th Toe eee ears killed; Grevil 
great length, and rarely attain * of a quill. vt circular — Siren e ws we * hardy, and is now in flower. Callistemon 
these irecti ; BERIS UMBELLATA RUBRA (crimson Caudytuft) n erect | lanceolatus, P thus di T ia ay 
: ariety, 12 inches h. s, Plagian varicatus, Tasmannia aroma- 
Sogn ate dee ei raed „ ey, eng ee 
What should er, e . hite Candy- e eee, ee 3 
3 e called the bark of epee ru “i ch . . kaa 5 3 psa he 2% | dantly. Clian 9 puniceus against a wall is now coming 
covers the air-root externally oe n skt all beni with Amte foliage, and profuse terminal branchi g „ ower. eee Nes, Ps 2 a bere 
: < ; cell is literally | stem heads, n cove: wi 
filled with sp * r fibres of an extraordin inary 3 Levins wanos.—An extremely pretty species, with — planted out in a ‘sheltered situation. Other Plants of ; 
fineness, Whereas in the oa web of ane the greatest — e wait Ph sig titers iaig fora . gans, corymbosus, 
diameter is in the 8 of the cell; in this the bread SILENE RUBELLA.—A neat plant, — high, with broadly 2 fascicul against a wall, are uninjured. To- 
plants, a. 2e er dean pr cells of | ovate giossy leaves, e nu e terminal clusters of loose | chroma ree, under. precisely the se a 
% oon ight and air, we meet | Purp! aW er eiea was killed. The e plants appear also to 
with nany particles 3 to be considered as the —— stems —— — e . growing Tat ae Fak gpa cot 5 mee hardy. Quercus gla sath gg Sos bandeome) ; ; — 
arge, r a Igeana (a w é 
empty, except of the | Hollyhock-like flowers (4 to 6 inches wide), beautifully orna- | cana, M. Urvillit? Euonymus fimbriatus (against 
: i 1 quently cross | mented with a rich h and conspicuous dark velvet band towards | wall) ; Eriobotrya japonica (do.) B., Holkar Hall, 
More inwards 8 i the cent 1 
a ere web of Te eee. —A somewhat loose growing and slen- Milnthorpe, April T. 
i ts, in der branched plant, 12 to 16 inches high, ornamented wih a Brown's Fumigator v. other mage Le A eee 
n — ere pale. pien: 8 e-coloured | Fee sop e oe: sane for h with 
are singu- | reference to the “ cigarette” mode of — ; but 
larly diversified a vies dias . — — „ ha i adopted ibat plan ionally ting; 
y F ul a years, I had anticipated him with regard to 
