342 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. Mar 29, 
rain them, &c., during the growing m ds: ‘T rranged mme 
ba = 1 o 2 be avoided by adopting the system at any iin exceed ten. . the other from Pera bens of 2 
ed r. Kent, of Chichester; for then — —— — — Tat 
1 gia ee any time be removed to allow of CarRbox ta Honricurrun al, Ma a 8.— 3 — TA also e hibited Si — 
tree, or portion of a 3 that was desired. occasion the display of productions was varie rious interesting — dages, 
xtensive. Prizes were awarded as follows: — Two | tera, brought from the Hima malayas” b y Dr: Coleop. 
plan makes the most of the room. mi" think a larger | finest. shrubby Greenhouse Plants: Ist, Mr. Reid, gr. including new species ved a and 3 
crop of fruit could be obtained from plants in pots. In to Professor Syme, with Leschenaultia — and ister of a es of Poduridee, ` 
y own case I- have my orchard house ya only well | Pimelea Hendersoni; 2d, Mr. Ritchie, gr. to G. nnes; | f om A e rr ie e regions: 1 * Dr. Suther erland, = 
filled with fruit trees, but the — spaces are Esq., with Aphelexis — and Pimelea Hendersoni. present; stated that it was found ifn : 
occupied: with Roses and Pinks, acs Kalmias, | There was no proper wy any pe the prize offered = in the ne eae of Wellington Channel, in 
Dielytra spectabilis, &e., &c., and the effect is very | for the finest Rhodod ides an honorary — eee tet e . and was also fre 
pleasing, whilst the slight —— which the Peaches, was voted to Mr. Crocket, a to P Colonel Sh who 8 ice a an erable distances from the land. ‘ 
Vines, &c., afford is rather favourable than otherwise to | produced a fine specimen of R. form Jape t — — out its'close'relation to Desoria glavialg 
the preservation of the flowers, which are brought into Easit lst, Mr. = vit ventricosa "ovens — on the ice in the glaciers of Switzerland.— A u 
the orchard house from a forcing — wisp vet in l. and spuria; 2d, Reid, with Linnæoides | by Mr. Ainger was read on a successful mods op 
My Vines have suffered in the same way as “ Dodman’s” aren and odorata ; 3d, Mr Veiteh, ‘with elegans and destroying cockroaches by sinking a» basin into the, 
from the frost, but all my other — are looking po ov es Finest specimen of a trained perennial —— hearth-stone at the side of the fre-place, which wap, 
luxuriant, some of them loaded with fruit. Moreover, Plan t: Ist, Mr. _ Thomso on, gr. to Mrs Balfour with Bening — day covered with an iron ron piate.— 
he number of Senih members shall not, scale-like seeds of Pali 8, arrange 
my root-pruned Pears in pots have also a good show t vens e ted some splendid specimens’ of — 
of fruit; 2 — I hope Mr. Rivers was not dreaming | form; a Mr. Bed, with anten polymorphum, Polyphemus — Cape Palmas, and Callithes 
when he encouraged the N of success which I have trained in an el ongated e al for : Ist, and sapphirina from South Amerzen—- Mr. D 
realised, 0. Ji, Farnham Mr. Ritchie, with Prince Albert; 24 1 eid, with read a note from Mr, Fortune's new work on 
. PODET hi tn Gledstan tanesii. Auriculas: Ist, 6 varieties, ue Hen der- on the employment of fumigation with the saw-du 
er gr. to C. K. Sivewright, "Esq: with Waterhouse’s Juniper or other resinous woods, .as an effeetual mode 
Sotieties. Conqueror of Eun rope, Wilm — "Sq uire Chilman, of getting rid of musquitoes. Mr. Douglas also end 
inigo enyon’s amaa Lightbody’ 8 Star of * note by H. eaten on the specific identity of Dithosig, 
— — a, Mu 25. — Sir PIIIr DR Maras 2 — Impera: and Smith's Britannia; — —— a 1 vola.—A paper by Mr. Hewiten oq: 
Grey Ecerron, Bart,, M. P., in ee chair. Viscount eo il, Falkirk, with Fletcher's Ne Lultr otie — cies of Papilio: was — Also: 
——— — “Shelley, A. Hambro, Esq., H. — Booth's Freedom, Ashton’s Prince of Wales, — s | —— of the entomological productions’ of China, vin 
„C. Leach, Esq., G. Miller, Esg., J. Murray, Esq, Countess of Wilton, Campbells Diana, and Sykes’s| descriptions of some new species 
J. Bradbury, Esq., J. Berners, Esq., Sir T. oe Complete, Best two pots of Forced Strawberries: Ist, by Mr. Fortune from Shanghai, by Mr. W. W. Saundem 
B Mri A. lern pm and Mr. J. Fairbairn 2 Mr. — 9 Keens’ Seedling ; 2d, Mr. p —— Mx. Smith also read deseriptions of a number of new 
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Heli — Von Thun —— Prof. sho se — was gain y Mr. Slei eigh r e a ton Castle, Dinidor from Brazil, 
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ess rs. Loddi ut, grown in 8-inch 
were three species of Odontoglossum, two kinds of | pots, was awarded to Mr, 5 Cargilfield, who | Handbuch der alljemelions ite yoologie als Anleitung au 
rassia, Acineta Humboldti, witha long pendulous spike | produced well Scena plants of Amy Robsart, and} Studium derselben, nebot speciellens Beiträgen a 
of brown-spotted flowers; asmall example of the some: | five seedlings of 185). In addition to articles sent in ‘or Vervollkommnung dieses Zweiges der Naturkunde. 
what searce Dalhousie Dendrobe (D. Dalhousieanum), competition, there was a good display of productions Von Dr. II. F. — Stuttgart, 166“. ug 
Aerides 8 the purple variety of A. odoratum, the sent for exhibition only, Messrs. Dickson and Co, pp. xii. and 336, tab. l 
singular looking j um Lobbii, whose sliglitiy- contributed greenhouse and Alpine plants. Messrs. Ir the German eee of Hee present day were to 
hinged lip — continually moving with every breath Dickson and Sons Exotics, including Deutzia gracilis, any great extent taken as thie — Ware 
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which a and greenhouse plants. From Messrs. Downie | while in a erica, Curtis is co g the thousandand- 
was and Laird stands of Cinerarias and Pansies, and the a hew s ies of tae Meer no e nd i 
art an ooms, 
te Reith, gr. garden of I. Anderson Esq., were Azaleas; for which | not onl : wi owe 
je Mrs. y imen — “noe near Bristol, for a dish an honorary award was voted. From the garden of C. memo ies many of — — 1 
ne — ove see 1 aches Bove urray Nee K. Sivewright, Esq., rr Cinerarias, and several | or even of their contemporaries, The inace nar ne 
th highly coloured, from Mr. Fleming, — ngs, ‘for one of which a Certificate of Merit was instance; of the voluminous collection of Raben 
gr. to the Duke of rs eran ‘at Trentham, were granted. From the garden of John Hende on, Esq. all ‘th mone" iring h 
similarly re The same establishment also Eri ca Cavendishii, E. igang ventricosa alba and rrecte time, 
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— 3 ev —.— 7 Shnrdeloes Ga abe Ibs. ix pe ary arer m 4 Inn rox a kie n Azalea’; and less numerous fasciculi ; and, if we turn to illus 
T : ý S ens, — r. Anderson, St. por ews a — of superior we fin mischief which was com : 
— —— oe the variety from seed upwards Asparagus. Mr. Sleigh, . Castle, Er ste notin ng y all his 5 continued in a a 
finely ! et 22 stated by Mr. Bailey to be a Rose Comtesse Mole, and Azaleas. Mr. Baxter, gr. to | separ. and more espeeially in the 
| flavoured variety; as the fruit was not nati Gibson. Craig, eee 3 Wee for which before us, — well- known species are 
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line, in Ayrshire, exhibited spesimens-of what he called — 5 T Stair, Strawberries. ` Mr. Forrester; a darke out — maa are still continued. if, — eee 
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better than flower-pots for sheltering. eee TO „ Pansies, and six stage Aurieulas. Mr. — which certainly — 
it ets | ae = 3 bedded Grieve, two stands of Pansies, Mr. Stirling, three 8 botanist, it it will be seen at once that 
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in flower-pot set on feet, which enable the treated with liquor from the Dalkeith Gas-w . Mi — — 2 — 2 — a l conte, 
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to be that it permitted radiation e first was ee by a number of fine — — the Society’ s collection. i e iinan aai AA rosetum, — 
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dark as under a: common fi " Was an’ extensive’ series of the insects of Ce 1 ; French 41 
lower-pot. In — of a by G. H. K. Thwaites, Esq. 
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