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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
247 
indieative of a more gee: death than 
w parade 
mt faithfal companions TE grt deserved. Sy 
ritis v heir previoas moan- 
appe domus of the Cape Medical. 
r. Pappe, (which 
to almost every chil in the ailing as the Cape 
Tulip), not for its therapeutical use for its noxious 
properties. The poisonous quality of its rhizomes 
ap have been k to so tent years ago, 
van h 
spectively of 5 ek of 12, 2 and 6, partook, on the 
18th of September S ofa i 
nd a with, this a 
each a 
supped between 7 ad 8, 21 1 
apparently in good health. About 1 in the morning the 
0 Eron man awoke with severe nausea followed by vomit- 
mila: 3 affected. She 
lisos, b t found herself too 
e 
a 
e symptoms of the gra 
similar, but 3 p degree, aceor mpan id tio 
efforts at vomiting. By using rary ge abiada. ae. 
and this child ‘eventually recovere ed.” 4. Notice of the 
ants ent epochs, and 
o which they — sere rred,. By 
z M‘Nab ara 8 ne Foetal v 
vegetation in burgh 
— trou s llth of F —— “til the 
11th of March, 1852 
er were t 
Date of — 
Names. 
is pirs gat of the faio al stratum 
nd 
r he fem 
f 7 gives off the Taaie 8 
0 The 
mayo e lly be deficient. 
fect spores (androspores) are produced, or barren 
preg de resembling apothecia. When, how ever, both 
exes united i n the e the aim A arises, 
whi ch paid a of Wo 5 neipal st : the male, which 
above it, the tips of w api pio penon the male 
rer nidia ; and t 2 E the gonimie, 
the cortical. 
sent only in the most perfec pst 
mic stratum is never absent ; any of the others 
In the her maphrodite |o 
an lese are pres 
ichens, the male gonidia are much larger n the 
female, and pees pr ; whereas in the Bka 
species, they are of the e size and 2 Threads 
from ae two 8 prose g in oppos 
pene each other. The 1 saa of two 
pr . parts, che one seated above the o 
lower wall gives off threads which our author calls 
prosphyses, the tips of wh ea 
i l or lateral. 
—_ ces the ‘tombe prosphyses directed 
» 8 
votik of prod 
qu ne of female gonidia, from whence eed the 
asci and paraphyses. In the diccious se N s the mala 
which pro 
y | apotbecia are distinct, and the individuals 
merit of originality. 
3 question. 
e have received another treatise on Lichens, en 
titled Zur eee von Borrera ciliaris, 
oo gural Dissertation.) V von Holle e, Göttingen, 
184 4to tab. 
and their re- 
is “nothing Be am to 
f the e ‘nid hag is apotheci 
ee organs 
g point of 5 
form of fr uetification contained i in nthe little black specks. 
that are scattered over the crust, nor is there any- 
thing to confirm the e der views as to the 
of the apothecia put forth by Bayrhoffer. 
FLORICULTU Re. 
-ansy.—We sta aah ie on a pa occasion, that 
ted in general 
the been sta 
1 3 -i 
Arabis albi PPE 
— hrlaag We » 16 8 
Crocus vernus and varieties. „ 18 ” „ 26 
Primula 3 culat 9m 19 ” * 
Syniploearpus ga- 2 „ 20 
2 pes 2 ie 
Anchusa sempervirens = » 
Tussilag epa nia — 55 
Polilonstis angustifolia . March 1 15 
inde watt pee a 5 — oe 5 
of 
plifie 60 by the m 
which annually gra ý 
i was first 
osition. Some even went so 
say that the thing could not possibly succeed ; e 
8 the result has be at eo desired. 
e institution required ejang Pinks, Carnations, 
and Picoteos in pots, and this innovation again called 
forth similar predictions of failure. Those, however, 
— preferred "o to empty 8 set heartily 
Dondia Epiv 
began to flower in 
actis me one yo 
ans stated that the Apricot 
the Experimental Garden on the Ist ete Sharp, 
Esq., was elected a Fellow, 
Reviews. 
— a 
iniges über Lichenen und deren Befruchtung. 
W he offer ean Bea, on Lichens 
1851. 
Von 
5 and their 
4to, pp. 48, 
Organs of f Fructifica tion.). Bern 
tab. lith. iv. 
Muca interest has been — by the observations 
of I spermatozoids of Lichens, 
~ 
Jec 
at 
of his i 
we 
the 
atte 
8 
hn on 755 supposed 
have 
G ue 
~- Are much confused gh i badly execu aeg 
| make nae be 3 erstand exact! 
urse 
positions he 
service to t 
in the igs of 33 
are eith 
T. D. 4 
2 have never Spe tivate 
His figures, a i 
as o show. 
at he 
experiment, and with what su 
N exhibitions at matat psk avourabie wit- 
n it is our 
direct attenti eee A to aie faa pat more par- 
ticularly to its geen i in pots ; not more i 
to the purposes of hibition than for pring deco- 
ills This was 
xamples in 
at the last meeting o al Society i 
Regent-street. They co d of Duke of 3 Sir | w 
Philip Sidney, Disraeli “Oph ir erer fine), Robert 
nd Euphem This e xhibition pr age a source of 
Ae interest to who were present, whether florists 
an daa the ee fir 
of the top 
e. aer covering, the bottom of 
me of the ix 
„ we 
ng shoots, or strong lea 
| chosen I gat 
m 
, | purpose of rando ing the main sho: 
the roni is asimple an 
t 
ws, W 
redecessors, and at least deserve the | con 
How far they may be correct is : 
a 
he 
nch regards the second | Cutt 
structure 
Blan 
a hardy plant that "ag gr ay and bloom almost eect where, 
yet, e ae thin -ee oduce fine flowers they 
mus permitted mi are ‘of eee 
the ee is open the las 3 in January, o 
st week in February, can to repot the plants gene- 
rally, u erga 2P similar to that in which they have been 
wintered, good dec samen osed t 
manure, a Tittle leaf-mould, a 
ti 
drain as 
the pot with erocks, — 
est soil m vith a 
the «dienes, and shake all down by striking the pot on 
pn nch. The soil should not be pressed hard with 
e hand ; no water s aes a — 0 
after pottin g. Before as Were as after this 
5 must be ke opt w 
ve b 
3 ee 
es 
These cuttings answer the double 
ots, and produci 
ung p which will supply — pu wa 
h 
to time be removed, 
a stock of yo 
a the old ones when 
m these —— le neha ad 
ttings, when 
or borders wall answ 
any bed 
growers, with large 
ada apte d for p The following are 
r that purpose: Ses of various shades? 
anche, —— Duke of 1 Perth, Ibrahim 
Lucy Neal, Ophir, MRY yi rek Pompey. y, Rainbow, 
Sambo. Va . 1 wi ney — te grounds; Aurora, Alman- 
zor, Caroline, Clim 
- ode sra = demas Supreme, 
ess last du 
t occasion to | abov 
will Gia through May or 
r good healthy 
e that 
Burns, | it perea will not fail 8 to ig gra 
ts lon 
Diadem, » Elegant Euphemia, France 
yeole, Iron Duke, 
J — Mr. 
Beck, Masterpiece, Ophelia, aan en 
and Zabdi, 
whe enever he e wea Mieri is favourable, puling 
intai e pla 
the same goo from the suecession 
uce, will answer the double purpose of exhibit 
r Jun 
ttings. By fling the simplo 
* treatmen . b aa 
ade a Tittle —— . 
ratified by a ion . ai of 
bloom, which, from its long co continuan wil m 
y affo rd m 
rat; : of cut bloom ms, although of equally 
5 es, e but limited attention Those who 
sy in this way have little 
idea w ion of really gay flowers is produced 
and 
light wooden fra A box 
will hold about 70 ‘plants in Chia pots, which size i 
5 e enough w pE ure for the prepona 8 ex- 
i arly all consist of d 
r there 
„ as we sha i beai 
February, and even 1 n Duke, 
Norfolk, Elegant, Euphemia, S 
8 i Aa ao nave fair 
uary. 
Eiana will flower in got charaete 
what a profusi 
by this plant during the ude of the early cena ht | 
that f 
the size just park tioned | 
whi 
gincd with bluish ‘pu, disk grey, 
e ma r named 
uch gratification. 
DAE — — Society, April 
Moore in the c es most * 
on this oce: 3 Countess 
Mesers. tien of Tae 15 has a fine globular r fo orm, 
with broad gracefully cupped stout petals. It is — poh 
are an —— y doub — its eee inkieh 
hite, faintly striped with pale Rose: a —— Ger lente 
was awarded i tributed b „ Lyery, 
— Messrs. E. "a. Henderson ; in Mr. Ivery's ne it v 
emarked that Star of Peckham was a — flower Sr 
per in colour than Hamme Beauty: 8 
Merit was e e sf Rosalind, 2 
petal, and good gen shape — 
—Mr. Thom 
— — 
- fine habii 
— colour, . — be a 
8 mpbeill; of 
Mrs, bens. Kean, Pauline, Pr 
rf Rhodi ododendron aria Hende ona 
k ir 4 - Hea eravring 
d, but bens of them 
dea wan. 
(first-class) cea 
H es a — 
EL 25 = 3 — no value. Auriculas cannot be 
all well-establi 2 florists” 
to beat existing varieties, J. E. 
xe 8 H H. They may still be potted “ 
2 — Camellia, from 
breaʻith of 
