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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
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which were very pat and scarcely at all 
cave. The * was however very short this 
i cessive e dryness, which greatly 
ve years,“ remarks 
1 have pase the caltvation 
found = gra 
me ‘jaa Wheat; but I 1 5 
its ranning back to the 
= 
as 
aring upon 
natural 
N weather of 1 last enabled 
* to bring to a brilliant 
long career, have * beg equ 
of visitors was 8820, it was long before they 
and massive 3 of | pe 
8 
llow 
1 . C. 
* produced the beautiful Jezoe Spruce, with 
— Tight green foliage, an one very distinct forms 
of Fo haha ephalotax A little Medinilla 
from * Corven 's garden, attracted 
o did some collections — 
variegated p i Mdiri Ler and Rou 
Fruit vido are evidently behind plant 8 
as each year. For 
although some of the exhibitors aye stand on the 
highest point to ae 8 can reach, yet it 
eluster helplessly sete “the low 
horticultural ladder. As for ipai “that — 
not seem to enter into consideration at all, at leas 
which, in many cases 
St. George — se unfavourable, as indeed y 
are from all part: 
Few thi 
p a thio " 2 Encyclopædia,” though it does not * 
. 
MONSTROUS FLOWERS. 
ings in botany 
known under the 
It is by the nper 
ints of structure 
ch 
are more instructiveʻthan those 
strange anomalies which occur in almost every natura 
order of plants, and a a 
te 
me of monsters. study of surface of the san 
accommodation it is easy to mo them in dia 
during nine months por — f — Bose 
ept in 
means of a few small ap es Ps 
course of a mon r six weeks, if kept 
— 2 and placed in * bottom 
ings formed of the leaf s 
the lenf attached, with or without a 
rfectly identical. The principal figure 
cade a single spray 1 from a 8 Drop Plum 
tree on t the 24 th o è: rs are anged in 
f Jun The flow 
natu re 
of Rosac 
among Grapes, 
were shown for the express 
teeth on edge. In oe Yar e whites we could find 
Verde seen, Grass eee 
; green, an Tagus-green. 
ntrast was presented between the verjuice 
n of 3 „ St, Davis, 
UMMERRY, wel as they were and the 
admirable Chasselas a Lord Sovrnaurrox's 
gar 
Let us add, while our 1 humour lasts, that 
among flowers it would a great improvement 
if nurserymen would Te the trouble to 
nts 
at regar 
the leas ey ed a 
„the — round an im aginary axis, Ks the aijaa 
similarly 
collateral dependent ovules. The position of the ovaries 
was in every ease v 
in the figure, one or two of them being gently twi 
Here, then, is an 
the parties con- 
Committee will — immediately, to 
eee ary’ eme for 
the Society’s Exhibition eee 
the “magnified rs t 
belong oO an sty mo, calling to mind the double enn 
them seg 
changed tite a sas 
reference to 
position of the axis, it will — A 
sepal opposite to it. 
each flow 
ards Lo to the divisions of the calyx, 
of a raceme er ee ien the calyx are — six or 
i seven, except i nal there 
’ p 
five. These 
the term 
55 e sometim ‘ 
t sometimes one a 
8 nothing regular 
ngle sora is partially 
h epals, wit 
the axis, was foes 
SF 
8 8 
ai 
8 8 
e petals are P 
e same 
number as the divisions of the calyx, but occasionally 
om 
there is a supernumerary petal, from the conversion of 
some stamen. 
three in 
The ee yon and ovaries are r two or 
definite relation: as 
but not in * 
bearing n 
adnate w e arrange 
directed, and bearing towards the apex two 
ery slightly irregular, as repre — 
evident te 
10 on; for it is clear th wi if pots 
. tubs of unlimited magnitude are all ae new 
ae ae constructed, and ne w tents made t 
eee ha — nly t k furth 
e ve ofly to remar urther, that th 
exhibition in all fatu remain petmanenty | pa 
ron ed for the second Saturdays 3 in May, June, and |; 
“he 
We — oe toa re for the follow- | i 
ing from a | 
ette wine-grower at 
5 proprietor of inte 2 of the best St. eh 
becoming general h- 
Nim a the Vines are 
anes: nel t ns be - 
e bee 
nt finding “i that 
— 
o | Stamen, and the com 3 be the | 
8 = 5 — 0 and 
inverted 
instances = — e under our 
present w 
p” ebay wn productive of such 3 
er, the 
nve 
istils are 
mber, the stamen and 
into petals with a long 2 claw, and in one instance 
le, fro 
A are appears probable, from other u 
our notice, that the 
war may 
M. we B. 
er, following so long a 
«iy THE GLOXINIA. 
varieties of this interesting genus are —— 
of the stems taken off when pr have — mod z 
firm, root freely, and form owering plants the 
second season. The cuttings e be ele yin 
ave com- 
re they 
them 
keep 
e active 
n before 
lepasi, it will be better to let 
remain over winter in the cutting Pot. a Baton. 
arm moist situati lon, an 
ia any ti 
n 
specimens the wing yea 
blooming k is gina this will 
by startin ng | a 1 at intervals of six 
August, Care must 
b 
mp 
leaf soil, adone art light turfy san sandy loam, freel 
a ais iver sand, will a — e are) 
ö is not of” the e 
cow-dung. 
pa 
rough 
tum of 
quantity of thoroughly 
potting | be careful to “have the 1 properly 
Trac 
ite sr hn bat con 
ants, su 
Oel 
pieces of peat. Alpha. 
Home Correspondence. 
and smelling as oes boiled. 3d. 
mee wall, the whole of 
an 
fuchsioi 3 
—— h ps shrivelling ani “and ila 
Cucum 
tireo yen 
in great quant 
nly 9) y 91° in the 
0 e intervening 
* et apparent? 
Teln Rogers, Seven Oaks. 
Willmore’s Surprise Pelargon 
oe us — — Beaton 
e last 
belli. 
r et. but aui E> ar an oppo es been 
io ed from 
tt 
iaa a ry of N i h anapa tal 
flowers throughout the year, N 8 proper 
g 
you . 
ful trick that has 
5 —.— tel trick nt Lights ot = ee 
— in “which the —— Surprise nich we have 
re pushed aside and five plan te stolons active Bey 
been un 
bey yet 
employ 
acy a 
has been em 
and if any of — Ae 
