THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONI 
CLE. 451 
29—1 852. | 
OYAL SOUTH LONDON FLORICULTURAL | 
R SOCIETY. Under + 2 —.— — 
— a — Royal SURR REY f ZOOLOGTOAL í sarees 
21 n 2 
See . et following. —— — me ie — 
men Heaths T Fuonsias, 
Roses, 0 — Picotees, — — Cut F lowers, Frait, 
ont Honi The prang extra praa offered by Manes 
so be rded, 
W ESSRS. 
collection of Roses all bloo The Nurser 
comprising many acres, -s N half. a- mile of the — a 
hampstead- station, on the London and North-western Railway. 
OSES! ROSES !—Any person having P ROVINS 
on CABBAGE ROSE BLOOM, may find a Saje by applying | 
= Tatton a nd Sox, Perfume Distillers, King's-road, Chelsea, 
enyer, of Bristol, t 
b b 
— , two — (eut 4 
Turner, to Amateurs, for 6 Carnations, varieties sent out by 
ictoria m r 6 
ondon, 
ROS t 
LANE * SONS splendid and extensive 
ies, | g 
of. Blé du the plant which 
ced we was ere called by — Triticum 
ertheless natu 
Rivers LARGE EROR- 2 tg ere NIP 
SEED (the praan of the presen on). per ib. 
ts origin in 1842 —— the Nene —— 
About the year a the la M. Reqvien, a 
zealous. Frenen botan residing at Avigno pe, 
observed in the . of that city a, to 
he 
S Q ' 
i ; d This Turnip had i 
iver Linnean medal; by ubseripth , to amateurs forl nee. other kinds of f Yellow him, ad “0 38 of 2 ilons, which 
es rben angle: on a p, e five Turnip, in pees its bo ang rity was — as — 2 oo its | tréticoides,. because of i 
and by W. T. Ilitk, Esq as an open for 30 cu . of flav: Ee of growth e last and Si * 0 os — to Wheat , 
b British Kipata 17 mer, with name “pm plaee of three — „. yielded — ad er tons Sign LONI, Who in u it into his 
f etap — 1 H. 5 edal. = pon — r acre; when onn in the early part of, e. and it h Italian Flora, state: t it has also been found i in 
——— on the following days, for | the advantage of kee ing in clamps quite late in the n 
2 first-class —— for g Florists’ Flowers, Rivers’ St wees de, vrice ts 7 per Ib. Orders 5 the also ly by a ofessors GO and Tx 1 $ h 
for such as are des e same, viz., Thursday, July 15, anatia of 10s. — to — Outer dguwer tie Herts; also in the South of France another /Egilops called 
August 19, Septenber 2, October 14, 2 ll, and De- riaristata, supposed to be a distinct species. Thus 
cember 9, in addition to the exhibitions, List of Prizes, and Aine ti botanist tt h ? 
3 The Gardeners’ Chronicle. d, of this genus in the South of Bare et 
OHN- TAYLOR NEVILLE; Secretary. kinds adh s genus in the South of 1 
— eee ee SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1852. these 
EXHIBITION OF ROSES. 
PAUL anp oe respectfully invite 
y 
elty — — has. — added, the collection 
— 
— d interesting this season, 
Trains of the Eas — Railway leave Shoreditch for 
W. — ‘ollows : oe 10.40, 12.30, — 
2.80, 8.20, 4, 4.20, 5, 5:20, 42077 20, 9, returning 
‘hourly till dark.—Nurseries, Ch eshunt, R July 17. 
ES. alluded 
2 — DENYER, Suess de Loughborough- 
Brixton, three miles from Lo 
Patrons in general, that his unrivalled — — of ROS 
is now in blo free to the inspecti visi 
{Sundays excepted), Orders taken at this time, execut 
in 3 next. Fruit and Ornam „ e. &e., 
also m ous seen _ great varieties; a select a of 
Geranium Fuchsias „e. e,, are now in bloom 
E. D London. 
NuRsERYMAN 
sisting of above 1400 varieties, comprisi e 
from Belgium, France, &c., extending over 10 a groun 
will be in full bl Kë the 14th of July, free to visitors 
Orde T for — — in b wn — in 
Evergreens, 
EW CATALOGUE OF PLANTS. 
VAN GEERT, Nu se arg Ghen 
begs to inform the Trade 
Belgium, 
d Amateurs that 
3 OF PLANTS is — published, and 
application to his 
had o — ny * R. SEE R RAD, 5, 
lane, “Great Tower. street, Lon me's AARP 
CHOICE CINERARIA AND CALCEOLARIA SEED. 
HENCHM gs — inform his friends that 
re hi ie wae 4 — Packets choi or mp — berai . — 
sw nown 
on Calceolarias, at 2s, 6d. each. a ee Taly 11 * 
ou 
KE, Streatham - place, | 
n-hill (34 miles from London), informs his patrons |. 
that bis unrivalled | 
MEETINGS, FOR THE ENSUING VIRS 
Tomspay, July 2°—Horticnitural “8 p.w 
— — 21—Royal South London iba a — M: 
Sar — 24 -Royal nn “m. 
Coonrsr. 1 
Jr. 
— Tuesday, July 20: Bath. SAN nay 22; Ayles- 
bury and Newbury. —Friday, Jul 
y 23: Wallingford aud Banbury. 
— 
the 
In 1844 the question of the Transmotation or a forms 
555 of t 
it ‘was pane yai 
many communica- 
and from time to 
y 
rned. has prime be ed itself to unbe 
credulity w. — and 3 to counter- 
fi 
assertion of ence derived from well- 
. experiments, we have had nothing. For 
rsel ves, without eans encouraging the a 
belief in the change of Oa Rye, or any 
ts into in 
we have also asserted, fro 
facts which hav. late years could 
ı venture r to duty the possibility of such 
Azaleas, c 
sald con in Orchid- 
as Wheat, 
pr we sa 
Writing in rer fe 
as differe 
aceous plants fokis jus 
arley, Rye, and Oats, * been sve by the 
— rigorous evidence to be accidental varia 
i de tions of one commo apn brought about no 
larp. one knows h „but r eyes, and rendered 
permanent by equally 5 2 agency.“ Then 
says Reason, “if these hee pape ec changes hee ve 
been d to occu Orchidaceous plants, 
why should they not sss: a among corn-plants ? 
for it is not likely that such vagaries will be 
confined to one little group in the vegetable 
w 
the first, that no naturalist . gs with Setai 
e become known 
- | ripen — om 
rapt each the subject of M. Espn 
Fapre’s ‘ache riments, 
The first dein * by = observer was 
that both gilops ovata and triaristata would 
produce what Reqtten called iriticoides It would 
refore seem that the three supposed species were 
the same species. In ja the very 
e ear which * * er ovata 
so yie erthe * M. Fare 
calls rg eth distinct : kom each other, and is 
o! opinion that when 
when Æ. triaristata 
ico ves birth to the. coarser 
| with downy „ 4 es known in Lower Languedoc under 
the name of Fou nia Pétanielle 1 which 
Egyptian Wheat is i is 2 Be that 1 
nd M. the statement e 
Sane ee it is certain that Ægilops tritieoides, 
aving witnessed as occurring to the 
E tritici, derived from ovata 
Firs r of cultivation ; 1839. w grain 
and there among the spikelets, which 
still 2 the brittle "characte 0 gilops. 
The return pie! Die five-fold of close- Pki 
co as very velvety at pe 8 
end. The . of “the glumes, which a 125 
abundant and remarkable in jildt had N 
alter and disappear, The plants looked exactly like 
Touzelle Wheat. 
Second year ; 1840. The spikelets of this sowing 
d become more numerous, and each co: 
GONIUMS. ki 1 ; it is far rine: “orem < believe them to ntained two 
cmg TURNER begs to Topics voan —— — —— bea of the general syste e — ee 4 | grains the ears were 2 varosa A ‘the i was less 
sa 8 
Un `y 1844, p. 555.) An 8 ie reply t ve and vel and muc ury 
ling, PE 3 8 om 1 — 105 it was added, as we ha previous year. The toads of the glumes 
. S TRR o stated, we think that — man should undertake to were further dim : 
CARCE AND BEAUTIFUL SLOWER SEEDS, | to is possible or Third so waar ne, 
8 EMPEROR s TOCK, a perennial species, and hardy; impossible in nature.” (184 5, p. 401.) described became mo eat 
CINERARTA and. CALCEOLARIA, selected from collections |, Some hove thought t these views objec ene i ins appeared in some of the he spikelets; "aig Died 
of Plants that were — — persons who saw them to believing that we already possess that amount of me more and more 155 eat. 
. 1 250 seeds" of the former, and knowledge of natural phenom sAN a which justi iges ourth sowing; nee Much injured by 
10 ha 0 4 bed of this on an eastern or our deciding, dogmatically upo such general | rust ; the beards had so much disappeared that the 
a — s, 15. questions as the change of one plant into another, | ears mia quite the ee cles of beardless Touzelle 
e wering of e 150 eed, a * n held that scepticism. in such | Wheat. 
SWEET WILLIAM, in 100 3 * seeds, 1. matters tends to unsettle men's mi and to Fifth sowing; 1843. The gw were now a yard 
srg . Mad ia po P tim. open induce — in all by which seience holds fast. high, 23% exactly like Wheat ; of the glumes 
e orthampton, We do neur in wens pinion o harm 0 an one beard, with, erhaps, the 
NEW PLANTS. INTRODUCED BY MR. FORTUNE. in —— even eee ale belie — human rudiments of an F pikelets contained 
TANDISH Ap NOBLE beg to announce that tails: The ears had become 
they possess all the ined interesting plants e 
by Mr. Fortune, me * — — in his rece 9 
work on China. Many now on — e. Ok t 
dus notice will be e 1 are Hedy to send om 
Every particular may de obtained by applying to the 
Advertisers, * July 17. 
Te h oe wr aro iy wari — anD SON 
3 St. Wood, London, are 
ow prepared to forward, by post, G — saved 
ormed flowers, such N Lady Hume 
i David 
orp 2 an 5 
rlotta Gri wf Pane Donna, &c. 
to say, 8 pn varieties of 
me 8 N w be seen in 
acta T OF CABBAGE, SAVOY, KALE, 
BROCCOLI, ho AND CELERY. 
— N 2 
m, Kent 
Wes 
822 Pl sats of his 7 superio 4 true — 40 inform the public, 
n 
tam 
Baye of the above are now 
er, on receipt of 
— ore er, made para here, at the 
y 1000 4 ards 
0 an N e 
bridge Station of the South-E =e = 
d. 
len = ea 
wa 
dof —— Dwarf Bar 
nee Cabbage, may ba h 
er packet, the fo 
atter nalf an ounce, ing 1 ource, as usu 
his superior Dw: 
pe m 13 penny 
p 
la 
Omer EAT, 
oma Wei justifies. the views we- 
the adva 
ensily ao Wey a “idle “hypothesis 125 e disposed 
slof; nal discussion can do no har g men 
of intelligence e—on the contrary, it is i ó énis that 
truth is to be finally elicited. 
A most curious and able dissertation upon the 
which we . ae ma 
— : does not show that Oats Change into 
ye, any believe, and offers no support tos 
other — ns of the same kind, n 
eee beyond a 
at is itse 
e corn was so large that it protruded 
eyond the chaff; the oe was 180-fold in one case, 
and 450-fold in gi ther 
Sixth sowing ; 1 844. Cha anges still went on, but 
slowly. The ears continued brittle, one of the 
8 i of Agilops. 
sowing; 1845. The plan 
wel Tike Whe g Beards were ae diminished. 1 
e Each spikelet contained from four to five flowers, of 7 
which three were ae as in pn These 
were really Whea 
* 
oO 
#55 
k~] 
FE 
5 
1 
eo 
ucted i 
was permitted t 10 grow 
The co 
NAL of Montpellier, in a 
— condense the following statement. 
The ancients imagi native country of 
Wheat was the valley of Enna in pe where it is 
n said that the a of CERES TRIPTOLEMUS 
t 
In fact 
e, a wild 9 y 
9 0 grain o 5 is 35 75 like that of 
floral organs are of 
8 
* 
rop. 
a N — ee above 
—.— e 
ists Ægilops that o 
sowing fi ge 
near th 
= — j nded by Vines, and z from any 
2 i For four 1 rs he perse- 
ba in his very year ar Whest like 
bynes ouring f farms, and six-fold or eight- 
fold pehea to the 
In1850 the straw st stiff and fall; the ears s nearly 
5 from z 
EE 
sm 
each containing t r th 
‘consequently yielding rinas two to three grains — 
