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“HORTICULTURAL GARDENS, ESTABLISHED IN 1818, 
LACE, KENSINGTON. ee , 
N KEANE, LANDSCAPE Gar 
SERYMA 
2 — Plans, Estimates, and Speci- 
e for the improve- 
ny of P Park Sce: 
in on — 17 dson 
he of Middlesex,” 7s, seule - 
— — Beseripton of the principal seals — => — obility and 
try mhe ae — ae gh: — 5. that is interesting in 
1 — 1 of the man- 
sions,» “villa e — in t Ta — re = peters pleasure 
grou 
* e wr, Keane has given an immense num 
of noti 
— — 
em — — of poetic feeling is — much of 
— cg is — — = eloquently expressed, The Zork el * 
exceeding wa —— who — Fo 
in 
— Plane, fe, Pl Plante, or other select 
rit’ is also 
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k, will receive 
Author, 
ade 
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necessary to * hat — ‘the works are p 
they are to be h m alone, b 
one 
attention, 
ted 
SUPERB | DOUBLE HOLLYHOCKS. 
SAFFRON WALDEN 
WIHLIAM CHATER 2 informs the 
services — fattened (fasciated) stalk, and they 
k 
ch 1 in hi ks. 15 became 
arming vari s wor 
— bat th hout all o 
ee sa the roys and its footstalk which z | 
call m * the first Moss Rose w 
born. that a again w "e ort. 
Whe e Celosia uddenly formed its flowers 
me more crowde an usual, we h à a 
hat again 
comb; and was a sport. The plant thus 
hanged, by whatever cause, . ined a con- 
stitutional 8 to .. _cockscomb or 
asciated manner; by r 1 * saving seed fro 
the most fascinted: and the —— seedlings, that 
which was at first a mer ney or 9 
* 
re ten 
“Axed a —— char 
if left to itself it disappears. Not that (as in ey cas e 
f many abnormal ne of plants) it does n 
"z fertile seeds, nor does it (as 
ret ts o original aes: 
cultivation which has b 
assailing wild plants 
that 
diate ers 
1 4 
existence a Peloria in Linaria invalidates the 
character derived from the distinction tw 
regular and irregular flowers. The articulation or 
dehiscence of a in uminos is often 
important character. But place the pod er 
ci nces it n underground, and it 
loses its articulation 8 1 1 inyali- 
;| dating the general c r yet removing the 
plant into genera r annia or r eae 
pods, 
ar y „wh 4}, ted or ot, 
is but a modification 11 one — so different, 
ante terbury Bell, whose flowering s 
ILLIAM JACKSON begs to return his respectful 
and —e 4 on the Subscribers to the — 
W 
‘Gardeners’ Benevolent Tas tution, by whose kind assis 
ue obtained his elec 
9 AL = 0 . ies Edge End, 
„Marsden, near — —— — —— > aes to offer choice 
preted — 2 1 nd 
— Sg d 2s. 6d, 
= $ ate p 15 0 p blooming, plante, ki 1 feat reg 18 inches 
— of all the year, at 9s. and 103. 
nd ewa * pare m «Se Post-office O 
peera a. at Marsden, — 
CALCEOLARIA, — — 5s, * per sagen 
6 
: 
CINERAI ” 
BEARD GEORGE HENDERSON anp SON, 
lington N ry, St. John’s Wood, London, are now 
r to — post 1 of the above choice Flowers, 
‘saved from first-rate va 
fasciated, and the flowers run ae into a 
- UCOMBE, PING Sean inform 
the Public that their 4 * 2 extensive iy inform of 
HOLLY — is now 21 * 
— — Exe 
ee 
TRADE. 
AJALLA S STOCKS, 1 25 strong plants, ready “ho 
„ per 100, or 151. for 500, 
Also all the “fending O Ca paian * set sen n Howi bads, 
foot to 4 feet, 18s. to 60s, per A few 
g of large 
oo — with th buda, from lon Bd. to 22 25 iss * on 
‘apressus funebris, plants (own roots per 
doz, ; Caprag essus ericoides, 18s, per doz, ; : O. japonicus, 
3 
: also begs to offer his 
1 a splendid dark flower, and the most profuse bloomer 
2 0s. 6d. each; ‘or, where three are taken, one 
faded First e 
Jonn Soorr, erriott Nurseries, Cre 
secure Ae easil ya as the ‘niga 
ortes gignuntur in like mann 
ftl come from the feeble ‘wit 2 from che 
hangi ch would see 
We see it 3 
The Gardeners’ cnr 
SATURDAY, JULY 31, — 
popp i FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 
ae Ang. een . . 
BIDAT — 2 0742600 099050 see gene 8 PM, 
Country Suows.—Wednesday, Aug. 4: Derby, and Hull.—Wednesday, 
e Re 
WE are not a * Pre a to find so many of 
our correspondents uainted 
of what is techni ‘cally 
„Called a Sport in natural history, and by 
which Whea un bred from Ægil 
Perhaps the best definition a sport 
mutatio per sa or, in plai an English, a mdden 
change of z= thing into — different in some 
very when a Peac 
uces fruit Necta mong its 
. — irs i it (a 5 ong 
ch there 
— pu ulchelia bears naturally a 
many purple and m 
emovel, and seed which 
n the a 
Whe 
which the 4 
onicle, 
re om 
quality, — o van venture to declare that a eee 
other hall not arise aroun 
with | habits to rac ANIAR as unchangeable as theirs i 
eit us not be mgs nde * 1 ing t 
e by no the ae of $ 
85 True vimilay 
mutation of me ee of that kah — 
never found favour in All we have con- 
tended for, all that we still, — for, "i we will 
onstrate 
add what has now been cone sively dem d, 
is, that the organs of plants are naturally subject to 
ormations, for which neither pseudo-botanists 
nor botanists themselves are pre pared; that we may 
t to find what are called species and pun 
pa see to be mere 7 of what Pave maa 
ously su 
state of some plant t till now ip identified might b be 
as 
er species 
a although there is p probability that 82 
me from the seeds of the pe yA that it is in the 
highest degree probable that R is an uns 
form of some other Gras 
that we had placed it in a distinct genus, we show 
not that we can turn enus into another, 
that we were wrong in distinguishing two p 
— 
we can apply to the 
/ specifie identity of two indi- 
ho — 
e cannot trace to 
but 
tage w 
— ma vee 
evidence more or less convincing, and which indi- 
vidual botanists have more or less capacity for 
duly mepi ai appreciating, 
The is another instance cultivated 
ri plant unknown i in 17 wild state 2 (for 1 1 — it has 
neve the Almond is the Peach 
vob to the endete, —_ aes it germinates 
d free) tivated s 
lus Persica or the genus 5 
species Amy, 
* i as hypothetical.” 
consi 
Ir can be matter o 
e the effect of mar 
s | that the ear 
rise to no one who has 
is a * 
e tissues, ates more 
a curious 
N 
of fungi more than — 
which consist in decay es 
less ial 
ch has 
rved in e pa ngland, in neither of 
which the "slightest trace ‘of f fingas except occa- 
sionally as an after- -grow visible. There can 
be no doubt i ultivation 
w ich we close our remarks fi 
| a What M. Fapre’s most interdeting’ experi- 
| p 
t 
— l old varieties are — 
tha — | Aa ae * 
pereeived from the — that it does not becom 
* This was in 1820. zr this specimen hangs in 
he great ect is now to improve our varieties 
5 1 Red i 
the library of the H . rd The manner > whieh 
b * is described in the Hort. 
| the experiment w 
war l iv. p. 321, 
Trane man 
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