278 AE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[May 1. 
at it least ten years old, and very strong and flourishing ; 
mong the early forced Potatoes in this garden 
venient of transit, and free f m the casual e casualties, male 
processes of growth and preparatio es, m allig 
the stems, close to the ground, of a (Casi Semple) 5 I send you a small affected 2 he 
— bed of spring Cab — We at inst turned him | of this aig tubers, de Kias à e yow to see the kind of | are oe to, and where the risk and earl other eye 
out with a ferret, and shot him ; he was a big fellow, aspec uming. Those . are tion re — so much — — lice of our bulky 
the old black species, id you ever hear of . ye ee 5 ghia’ I ‘began to force about the | crops, e paper was illustrated by a pales, Fen 
troying fruit trees in a similar way before? Clericus, latter end of January; each r was cut in — with | mens, sh e Chicory in its various mi Spesi. 
April 20. {No} but we have known water-rats-commtit a knife, and appeared quite 3 eee disease at setting- | ration, as a substitute for Coffee; also, ale ki 
great havoc among other trees, by devouring their roots time. They were placed for three wee ne- | Chico Analysis of the Sabal y 
j stove, in orde ake them vious to planting | grown in the Botanic Gar ‘Mr, D ora, 
| „ Tau the Pus ; d. Th anure of any Plants found in the neighbourhood 7 Ring, e208 
How to Test — Purity of Sulphate of Ammonia.—aAt | them ona slight hotbed, ey got no — p; ewhbourhood of Fi A 
season when that valuable manure, sulphate of kind except leaf- mould; the temperature they h im March, By Pa en 
ammonia, is in demand, you will, perliaps, deem the | been growing in has never been above 68°, nor below state 10 vegetati n the Edinburgh Botunic 
following simple rule for testing its purity not unworthy 45%, and I was rather sp m. gs 10th weak till 8th dent E Nias — dinin 
of insertion in your peri I may mention, as a 9 Castle * Tau yy 26 the years 1850-51. By Mr. M‘Nab 
of its importance, that on examining a sample of [T re cases in England rd ; as about Ware; but 
which was advertised as nee sulphate of ammonia, | we — togini to be rid of .it-so 1 — as late spring Name of Phau ate of Flowering, 
I discovered that it was adulte to the extent of 80 | planting is persevered in : 1877 W. ae 
ce ith common salt, — —— oent Soe: — — ee edie = 
or one-fifth of the whole being pure sulphate. The are — cordifolia „March 1 Feb. 20 Beh 27 
hate onia, as mantifacttired by Messrs. George Sorieltes. onium Dens Canis 3 = March 1 March 4 
: wn and Co., and Messrs. Miles, both of Bow Com- — — grandiflora , * 18 “2 » 4 
mon, ean I believe, be de upon: but in every case Linnean, April 20.— R. Brown, Esq., in the chair. Acacia affinis (open wall) M * b 
let the test be applied, and the adulteration, if any, will | A collection of dried — — of plants made by Mr. r » 9 ob ALD ie 
be detected. Nule.— Expose an ounce or so of the sul- T. Drummond, in Aust W. resen to the aiba E a Pii 
“phate to a red heat, upon à shovel or other plate of iron; | museum by = — Saun ae Esq.—J.D. Salmon, Esq., | Ribessanguineum (first. ‘flower Mea es 
if the salt be pure, the whole will shortly volatilize, if } exhibited a en of — it of a species of Attale Ta ened 5 „ An bl ow a 
“impure, the impurities will remain behind. A. Angus | (coquilla nut) Nethish containett in ene the cally ail 8 oopelia . é Ea AP $ 
Oroll, F.C. &., & b. grown larva of a species of coleopte i ich {anemone hortensis |. f „ 27 „ 0 Apne 
The G Coffee Plan. — I have now in my possession a was. pro: ced by Mr. Westwo a species of | Saxifraga iger mean „ rig „ oki 
remarkably specimen of the Coffee-plant, con Calandra, a genus found Im 0 S * a „ | et 1 „ 
which I — — a few pros Ten berries external perforation, and the ovum from which the | Puschkinia e „ 36% N ae 
were brought m rom Ceylon, and all planted at the | larva had been hatched must have been deposited very ory dalis a Lit Shee oe 
same time — tours it was not till on Pe ear had early in the growth of the fruit. Mr. Adam White 3 ” 5 - Ha ¢ 
oe measina Hoare gene aa the other | exhibited a collection of insects) made ‘onthebanks uf Auen nemorosa . , „ e 
berries h having ried wey. My Coffee. y and read’ an Gor:dalts nobis. „% M p 8| nE 
reached the height of 54 —— and the = has twice been | extract of a letter coy ae that menas —The nne Urobusvernus e seo -of %% 91 Feb. U Feb. 3. 
taken off, as it grew too tall; the branches extend about | exhibited polished specimens of fossil Palms from the |Seil'a sibirica xe April : Hanh? ak 
——— animi ther, F of ee ot „ 2 Af „ D 
was one single berry, which I planted, and it is now a t Palms belonging to the — umbraculifera | Hyoscyamus physaloides „ 2 Mareh s „ & 
` thriving Plant; this year my . in} frost Osloatt „and Copernicia cerifera from the Brazi phalodes verna „% 2 „ 10. — S 
— s at th time. P. M. G, -A continnation-6f Dr. — Buchanan's com- i illarie imperialis ... gripi 2 5 ” a avin 
th part of the Hortus Malabaricus 4 — 
— 2 per Three phien, were ‘elected Fellows. 
April 26 
Metallic Thread for Tying Plants==I have sent for 
your inspection four samples of metallic thread for this 
m 
of Rheede 
BOTANICAL OF ee April 8.—The ara 
purpose, Having been on a visit in Chester, a lady who in the chair. Mr. Anderso: 5 a a 
takes much interest i en first di my | Rhododendron elæagnoides a flow a Sikk mine 
attention to it. I have since tried it, and I it | alayan species raise seeds “A y 
rs expectation. It flexible that a lady | Ho 
Books, Kr., Keceibed. 
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Icones Planiarum ; or, Figures &. of Plants in the 
Author's 'e Herbarium. By Sir W. Jackson Hooker. do. 
Reeve and Benham.— We 2 am to state that this im- 
portant — unrivalled in 
a that the re ly cheap. If| curious specimens of Extract of Tea, d in the 
i Jon approve of it, p sake every in — 1 by the Chinese. Though it was 40 —— of its its figures, has srachod 68 oie nih 
r to make it publie through si Y been brought from China, they — Iti y to ‘his 
— ing columns. It is much more t still retained a very perceptible flavour of tea mong ment, since — publisher does not think it worth 
the old system of I have received from | oth nations to the museum, Mr. Owen, of 28, While to do so; and many may, be 
i 5 ng others, some Vi Howard-place, sent a bottle of acid from the Gram of | entirely: < asang that it has been carried beyond the 
be ‘a Grape like a horn, and vulgarly called “ Cor- | India (Cicer arietinum) collected b by putting a cloth | eighth volum 
niola.“ It is à most exquisite Grape, as I have eaten it over the slate and then pionie out the acid fluid Loss of the. Amazons an Appeal w te Prop 
many times when T was in that country. Have you any | absorbed by it, Dr. Balfour announced that Mrs. Haig touching the First Cause. By a Clergyman, Letts and 
‘dike it in England? I have also ived several tri d presented to t oyal Bota nie Garden the magnifi- —A religi m 
and ieh Vears in ‘Australia, By the Rev. D. Mackenzie. 
The is a most delicious fruit. n I propagate inii — 
them k J. W. Hopkins, Woodfield. Named specimen — E eee 
on-Mersey, April 27 [The wire is 3 — specimens —— * vee 40 
G Cornichon, well-known but not esteemed in h r 
this country. We may say the same of the other fruits 329 
which are 2 yan hardy, and ripen fruit and seeds with | The following papers were read :—1 e the Economie | 
us without difficulty. ] bo es of Chicory (Cichorium * . L.). By Mr Ful- 
Trish Horticultural Shows, I find the following adver- ton. The author, after givi a genera ral account of the 
tisement in Saunders News 1 —— 28 h -— history of the "Chicory 555 » and alluding th 
“ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOUIETY.—Notice ro rue | 22tiquity of its cultivation, preceeded to point out the p. 
eonse he disa — — which must wide range of Economie Uses which it might be ad 
postponement |- ce of e 
sided it may be found ‘ul to emigrants. 
The Botan fa the Voyage f H. I. A Herald. By 
| Berthold Seemann. Part T. dto, Reeve and Gus 
ee. published under the -a of get . 
to be of importance. The first part cont 
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peen aphic descriptions of the 2 x 
— ten lithographic ‘plates from the skil 
er. 1 — we are ‘has bern 
—— that * — the specres A i 
i that excellent and his father, 
| tly assisted 
n — we ap find it so sinted by M. Sori, 
Traveller? Library. African. 4 
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. in all 8 . <a 
: : arrangements | likewise extensive. Since 1835, large quanti 
had ar to the infinite inconvenience of the root have been impo! ain from — aai = oad Garden meniad l 
i „thought would | it is no aa in several 8 for he Horriovnronat Soctzrr's Guan, Tuani d 
the postponement i | as Owing to the long - continued | 
... .. of heating all the varieties of elimatein Europe, | nortirensterly minda, which have pr 
to be pulled down again. O Oh and chen had | being successfully ated from Italy to St. Peters- late, out-door vegetation has madedi 
Formation of Dew-drops on Vines.—On barg, Mr. Fulton could see no jec ‘the last month; but rain: caving ee polis 
late Vinery this i Saat the extension of its vation hout Britain, in now hoped it will advance more favourably: i Bis 
ry this morning (April 17),in pow enero a order to supply our own markets. Hes = * es y — 
appearance some time greatest ag the article being 8 light eng 
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sown among Conifers. on e =e 
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