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630 THE 
GARDENERS’ CHRONIC 
LE. 
flowers on each; the smaller stem has 18 aan 
comprising from 11 to 61 flowers one ach branch. As, 
from the great rarity o a the flowering of the. plant i in 
this country, few n opportunity of comparing one | 
n with another, the following account, taken 
tany” (a book not accessible to 
an Aa the one from which the vet aT 
given was taken, flowered in yc nice 
at Smith’s Nomen a at Dalst ton, near Hac 
as then supposed to be al 
- | Greshna 
| similar 
mg be eaten with any kind of meat, or simply alone, 
requiring nothing e than the addition of a little salt 
~~ = tter ; or for th oa pes table, dripping 
may either be cooked in an oven or over the fire; 
if ir in a water 12 all pe 3 ie prevent the chance 
b ould be put into a. rather deep vessel 
h twice or thrice its bulk of w 
0 
prigen form, and n 
might be immediately impo 
n harico 
retain i: 
to the 
a 
Thornton, though nearly twice the 
ight of the one at Colebro — ray tg hy they ° 
is said to the red i 
Shropshire, has fewer ee ; at j the 
average ＋ of flowers on en anch is greater. 
the — on l the branches is —— less 
pant. a Galebrookdale “having on i ts main stem 24 
* —— comprising 639 flowers ; 3 42 
branch 4 flowers. It is a curious coin- | 
et 
70 
: of your readers h ar 
In th 
n | that end o 
e — 
ze 
e second o Sy pk of t 
aa 8 fasten d a gn 
exposed, owing to a gap 
endl p south-west wind which then s 
w were 80 2 extensively biighied, 
ase was s ated to 
1 then concluded 1 that the Batete blight ve 
much owin 
— 4 . Te both species of the genus Es 
n., 
and the . 
Societies, 
CALEDONIAN logen. Sept. EELE, 
— h in the chair. Pre s were 3 as Pe 
t two 
msa 
. 
uG 
Its 
; and pro pe 3 they will separ 
fibres which, manufactured, can supply tlie placo of 
The thorn with which 
ed m 
gallons may be extracted, which may be 
ted into eens or by simply boiling, reduced to a 
ulp, which serves all the p f soap: The 
us stem ismade use of by t e carpenter, or for 
fuel ; and the honey, * k eopiousiy distils from the | gr. 
flowers, when co 
rem 
asthma, and other lerslof ü the chest.“ — 
a — F 
b Ct, prd ey hg SEF: 7 
— 5 — 
® Fs 
r | tignan 
riory, whose 
dane weighed 4 Ibs. 2 oz. rocket. 
Mr. Croci mhe the grizzly 2 
Highest — bunch of G of any sort 
prize to Mr. Thompson, gr., Wishaw, for Golden Drop 
2d, Mus u 
to Mr. Lees, tor Cha sselas 
eg an — — to Mr. Ramsay; 
rs, Esq. Greengage Plum 
Lauder Seacliff $ ba, <I Dunlop, een, 
‘Lauchlan, Barnton ; i 
rpar 
3, Mr. Hardi, 
: Ist, Mr. 
gardener. 
with the permission of his employer; me have much 
three 
Mr — Purple 
= 3 the curiosity of an who 
pleased to visit this “wonder of natare,” in ithe 
course of the pce 5 mber 28, 
Gold Fi 
a quanti 
wh 
but they have not bred since. 
a few tench in the ra with the parent fish. 
the young ones have red, and the othe 
brownish tint. Will th the N fish t 
course of time ? Subscriber. 
Planting es, in Aulumn.— 
Nat 
ers are of a 
red in 
am e Potatoes nded 
for sets in the spring following ‘should aaea in the 
where they ar the winter, and 
ituatio 
would thro e 
on which the Potators, are lying. I am wai satisfied, 
that otato -disease 
This I attribute to 88 
Some of Du 
I think the nearer we | Jo 
otatoes the 
.— ——In. Getober, 1851, I set about half an 5 
of good rich soil, drained, with Regent ow 
— 10 — deep. They appeared 
rather ear the sprin 
Mp 
crop is 
; but: pata 8 are small, a ad th lere is — | 
among them a. * have hohe had i 
ts. E Gray, Willes pee 
cassia, it has reminded m 
: of 
2 0 of . en b 
‘be the be ofall su e ably it would 
g i: more iih Buckwheat heat freed 8 its 
= — Sat At St. — it the 
| 
assia. — A A present having been made m i 
t, for 
3onum ; 2d, Mr. a for Vict 
lagnum Bon 
um. 
inder Grieve 
Fron- warm 
inti 
lst 
; — 
e 
m it. is perfec tly hardy; and what 
m Sa effective at this seaso 
given by the Society, was vote 
for Triumphant, William, Susann 
C 
Sir Weddert 
Spectabilis, Lady í ote Miss Innes, Nagle Mag 
8. Dick: ksons and Co. con. 
e a „ of fice Fuchsias, and Achi 
with ae 3 and Chin ers — 7 
Di i ns - 
Ha 
© 
ction of iri 
Dalilins, Holly hocks, an 
showed a plant of Tum 3 album; 1 
blooms of Hollyhocks, e N and * 
including several seedlings. Se veral n 
were enrolled. 
Garden Memoranda. 
HORTICULTURAL grat GARDEN 
— When we visited t! tabli shment a month | ago, We 
ound the fine Pha derer, amabilis in the house 
of bloom ceurre 
ing at a: tae 
this ; Hed 
received f from: Dr. Siebold m 8 the ret of H. Rox. 
s also been in flower here; i 
a gay pi it ted 
m, to deserve a 
n? Among ann 
ta makes a good bed, which is at gay; au 
sewer sorts may be menti 2 
. | atro-purpurea, with purple fl rig 
mbling blooms of a single 
andasyde, for Nil = 
ess, Bee g, Marchioness, George 
R. Whittin aan Gen Mr. Seldon, 
Snowflake, Sir F. hu. d 
M 
and one light: Ist, Mr. Gourlay. | 
3 ag bi to Mr. ande Moredun. The 
prize wa one guinea, pear 
Messrs, Downie and Laird, 
gained by Mr. Veitch, Melv 
2 kinds: 2 5 _ 
olden 
y, Sir 
Sir Charles N Napier, res 
for 
e was e 
ie [sown in the end of 1848, It has been grown i 
t a 
whieh some mention n was 
sist of Pinuses and other things whi 
germin 
— „ 
Cinchona 2 y% Aarm bark p 
ed a month 
i Fro 
best co din W 
the hottest of ivia 
iety’s en 
le bottom-heat, and ee 
carefully tied down, to 
