246 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. Arni. 17, 
assisted in the destruction of insect life. After reading , of the same pitch but about 15 inches loftier than he was as large as the second erop. of the common brom 
ccount, however, about what he had accom- | recommends. This would have kept the plants too far ‘Fig, capt whole osis rene, dnd fell 
i ee rom the same ee 
} . a dd off, four trees 
plished with so small a quantity of tobacco and. c from the glass, and made them liable to draw, in a yes t The trees were healthy, 
(6 oz. of tobacco: and 2 oz. of cayenne), I r ved to real hs 3 much of the afternoon sun, the whole ae we 8 7 5 was pa HEA and I could discover — 
give his plan a trial, and also to test the Nene front being usually boarded and no light admitted | insects, therefore I am obliged to suppose that it į 
power of Chillies unconnected with tobacco. For this . thr aut: ‘the roof. The disadvantage has been | something constitutional in that sort of Fig, which was 
pose I selected two * es, each 30 feet by 12 wet obvi by ing a row o 5 introduced into the colony (New South Wales) by me 
the inmates of w e considerably infested with | between the studs or posts the whole length of the front, | ir 550 i I beli has no fie 
aphides. I placed a 9 with fire, &c., in the passage immediately under the spouting and abovet oveable | It v s given to 0 by the name of “ Verte très bonne 
of each house, precisely as described by Mr. a ventilating boards, which bas a very pretty effect. The Bia nalité: along with 15 other sorts, by the secretary of 
Over the fire, in one of the houses, I put 5 intention being to do the work, not cheaply but sub- | the Hortie 1 Society, but they unfortunately. 
2. 0 j ' 
tobacco, mixed with 3 oz. of wets Chiliies, “th the | stantially and well, our first operation was to dig out the died on the pene e but this one. Will somebody be so. 
pers at burned 2 a pound of Chillies, without any | whole area of the floor to a depth of 2 feet 6 inches— ind as to tell me if “ Figue verte tres bonne quale 
tobac The eco and the Chillies were duly con- | a suitable depth for a Vine border to concrete the bot- | of the Horticoltural Society eh bear n 
23 and 1 Deas were tolerably well filled with | tom, form a drain, and set all the posts (Oak at the | England, an and l it is-really a y good sort? Itis 1 
smoke, in which state they were left for Ma eiio On | corner points, the remainder Larch) in solid concrete. |ra mapant g grower, and I should like to know if it isworth 
examining them next morning, I found that the experi- The pathw walls were then built of brick to the | keeping any 5 i in our gardens? Figs 1 
; 101 ne seas 
e two bot cour à oe Ge south lat, 5s 
destruction of the insects, a simil operation had to be | being toppies] after we the borders were filled in | East coast, New South Wales. ; [Where the Fig-tree ig 
ormed the fo a evening; hat in the house in with a proper compost ; so that now by means of the | not injured by cold, the casting of its unripe fruit is — 
which ee Sey ies had been used alone, I cou uld not oer she whick the bi mon will find e 8 either by a de ciency of moisture ſor the 
; voli, or bx : 
: eding 0 1 in h i 
more decisive trial, I placed seyeral infested plants in a foreign Grobe? ie 2 1 of the door is glazed of the Horticultural Society; but it has not fruited in 
ils one-light footie: in which I placed the head of an with sheet glass, admitting both light and sight; the | the open ground, for w ich it appears not at all 
: oof and front wi rough plate, | except in such climates as that of Italy, 
old spade heated int > i lowing sur- f th Hart a hence it was. 
fisa T ph, ý 1 Gute he frame was (chan which I have found no glass more excel- obtained with a good character, As it Was or 14 
instantly filled w ith a dense white smoke, and in this/lent, as it is glazing and shading in one, whilst | first year of its fruiting with you, it will certainly be 
te it was left for the night. On a careful exmination | it thoroughly admits and disseminates the rays! advisable to give it a geg in another season.] 
the ollowing morning, I found the insects all i e| of light) and arrangements are m for the convey- 
enjoyment of excellent health, not apparently the least ance 8 at tank near the door. May I digress penye aer 
disturbed by the dense fumigation to which they had | so far to pee yg kan my brother gardeners = grow ortett(es A ; | 
been subjected. Now, how to reconcile Mr. Ayres’ thei eir Mel s and Cucumbers under Hartley’s glass, ; 
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successful operations with my failures, I am at a loss to sowing a Tittle extra strength to to the eh for 1 BOTANICAL, OF EDINBURGH, March. 13. — Profen 
C prineiple endered by the com- need not fear of a crop, a Baxrour in the chair, Mr. Bryson sent for exhibition 
bination of tobacco and adulterated cayenne, which is. os conditions being ‘daly fulfilled. It is very me under the microscope a section of the stem of Phyto- 
not to be produced by tobacco and Chillies? Perhaps a house of the kin e been describing, simple as it erene gigantea, a gigantic climbing shrub belonging to 
others of your readers may be induced to try similar is, will be found Ma both i in summer ai and winter, 5 the natural order Urticacese, found in India, and figured 
experiments, and report the results. A Re ader resent the surface of the border of Bers to the front in Wallich’s “Plants Asiaticee Rariores, vol. iii 
„ Pho Housind nae one kinds of labels one is occupied by a few rows of Strawberries in pots; the tab. 216. The section 1 ved a large cellular central 
meets with, wood, iran, tin, lea a, pa oreelain, &e., &c.,| back border has some dwarf bushes of stone fruits from pith surrounded by a vascular layer, proceeding from 
shew that it is quite an open question what description Sawbridgeworth and elsewhere, also in pots; an which were seen eight Fer composed chiefly of porous 
is the best. I have found oblong slips sof deal, covered | think that the on height of the house already | vessels, alternating with eight narrow U of pleu- | 
with 4 paint, cheaper t than and in other respects as | alluded to will e me conveniently to train three or yenchymatous vessels and cellular tissue. Thewoodis 
others; and whatever the label used may four hardy e —— are put in, over the back | sft and porous; and Dr. Wallich states that in dividing | 
be, I “think zine wire the best and most convenient boarding, and perhaps down each alternate rafter. the stem, which sometimes measures 18 inches indie 
mode of wap ds it to the plant. But can any of your Martin Huggins, Gateforth-house, Yorkshire. meter, a large quantity of a pure and tasteless fluid 
: ’ 1 est N better for wri age the | Mucor Curtisie— Until the 3 of the Rev. flows out, which is quite wholesome and is drunk by e 
5 a lead cage is very | M. J. Berkeley’s treatise on the “ Cause of the Potato | natives, Hence it has been called vegetable fountain 
ny ient, wih i isa is a great ae met th e a will Disease,“ in the “ Journal of the dea 9 he following papers were read I. Remarks on the 
Bar. oe jant Lami sfcaid, black | for 1846, Sow: general read £ rowth of the Jalap Plant (Exogonium purga) and 
paint would a re existence of parasitie plants on those of a — order; `| the Seammony Plant (Convolvulus scammons), in 
e 3 85 8 your report of t he and even then, many remained ineredulous that an in- open ground of the Botanie Garden, by Professor Balfour. 
pisa at p. 214, you a visible fungus could produce such extensive mischief— 2. On the rate of Growth of the Bamboo (Bambusa arm, 
er things in pen in . Adjomeng — it oly requires close observation to be oo cep dinacea) in the Botanic Garden, by Mr. 8 
sk ; $ 2 pe ear f r > 
to know that 1 gare i pianie b have been more of these noxious. pasias . That seasons håve | house of the Royal Botanic Garden, from the time it first 
standing here (through. the ter) on an exposed much influence in propagating parasitic cryptogams to showed itself above the eate (15th July, orl — the 
east border quite unprotected, a the tag of the an unusual extent, there is no doubt; yet it appears 3) 5+ of August, being a period of the year when 
two is as green as the Garrya ; the latter, however, has equally certain that countries 8 the finest hantares anos entirely withheld, Each day” obser 
its shoots nipped a little; but it is now making a fresh | climates are not exempt from thes tian was made 855 
t ssociated with them are the follow! ing, which | On the contrary, in all parts of the We they ser erve to . 
are a little brown on the south side; 5 viz., Abelia flori. complete a wonderful system, of infinite variety, of Increase in 24 Hours, en, 
bunda, Cupressus Gaveniana, C. ocarpa, and C. | created life; for as I have shown elsewhere, even the 15 * Aug 10 3 inches. 
Uhdeana. Wm. Cox, The p ieg Strensham Court, | small hairs on the Potato and Nettle produce crops. of Ki 1 8 5 „ SAY ae if „ 
Tewkesbury, April articulate fungi. That we are not more liable thee ag Saas ‘Sd 1 oe 4 : 
The Canna, or Tadian Shot is a plant no generally pometics than hg foreign neighbours may be se ” sevens n ” „ 
‘ e appreciated, for the assistance it is 3 rom the accounts published in your Paper = their 85 et 2 ne 8 „ 
of rendering those who have scattered beds to furnish, . on oa Orange, Lemon, and Vine; and 2 Gan > » ti 5 
situated near or surrounded by shrubs or trees. The in order to add to this list, I "have. sent you the} „ 26 „„ : „ 1% aay a 
large and noble leaves of this plant s serve to break the ; Ea aaa aa a l i x 
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= „ 75 227 | 
1 4 ears 
w W 4 i » » | 
99 4 2 ” n” 37 
z ” e 9 = 25 
E p 6 £ i a 3 f 
y ‘ f Py ee eee . ” | 
e Win- penetratmg power, 85 2 1 „ s í 
om the whole. plant is nearly transparent, with a smoky ” 4 — 
er En sists of simple stems ng from an en- Sg ER, AO of poisoning by one i 
will make | tangled mycelium, surmounted by peces ne Tridacee. By A. Dalyell, 
| from ovate to globular, at first — in a glossy . Communicated by Dr. Macl 
— — — eee which is at length appare — observes :—During 1841, I write from 
out ru 
7 and, owing to the. sticky 3 of the — as they tlie Orange River on one occasion, 
visitors | fall, they adhere in clusters seny y it, As it ey march, ing eE was made on the banks 
I believe, e L have vanes — tisiæ, in eom- River, near the village of Somerset. 
pliment to the nice observation of the young lady who the baggage and artillery oxen 
y, | discovered it. To what enient Figs are is next morning 40 more were f 
Alr. fungus, I have no means of en but nin ast inviting the flowers of a sma : 
megan PRS has 8 our abundance around the eneampment 
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knowledge may be increased. F, 8 ‘lowi ilst in command o 
8 Rain at Landue, near Launceston, Comal daring many opportunities of renewing a 
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