644 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
incisi f the task had been d emg 
Fenn Sand | onneni: Sai A ee cae o 
* 8 the . where the buds and leaves tities of phosphates in their tissues, and hence whit were now a ert 
a they decay, the ground 2 has produced them is more than he had done at Pan: 
more fertile, and the Grass more green. As the . 
g th 
bud was saved on one side of the plant. The bud —the toad-stools—must grow WITSENIA CORYMBosa, 
grew ; the root increased in all 3 Below pe 2 beben eee in diameter. Autumn blooming plants with blue fio 
e protu 2 
ance itself. Right and left of the ee the | clear, and flounder so unmistakeably in the mazes o < 4 8 “3 3 managed, flowers fess 
t had the same number of layers of wood as it | electricity ? 4 ' in perfection man 
when the experiment eee which was U cannot forgive either the author of the “Chip ” om in a cool, dry, airy house. Good healthy, — K 
seven. Nevertheless the diameter of the Beet-root | supposing that imaginary things are in reality more 5-inch pots should be selected to commence with, 
. y i neath the | poetical than real ones. Poetry, whethe r that of f Na — weakly ill-propagated examples are difficult to ote 
: i or of painting, or of versification, is a conception of the | free growth, and in the hands of beginners only ocean, 
b ee oe — ba th it beautiful. Now, there is nothing in imagination, or in disappointment. Treated as a cool greenhouse use plant, jt 
experiment, bu e result was the same; it was dreamy visionary creations of the intellect, half so beau- | will grow and flower abundant tly, and form a lage 
clear-that bulk increased without the assistance of 7 as a knowledge of the laws of Nature. The sight | specimen ; but it delights in a moist gentle heat 
leaves, &c. f a fungus may, to some minds, be loathsome, but its growing season, and when n accommodated 
This class of facts a ae we to us Li 1 very look into its natural history — its reproduction — its | it makes wood very rapidly. 
important in practice that shall v ret o the | growth ; fancy that ‘all these are pro-| Where large specimens are desired without loss g 
subject, . at the same 8225 direct b to | duced „ not by the invisible agency of a poetical fairy, | time, the young plants should be placed in a close mois 
some other facts, of a different although “son but by the design and omnipotence of an all-wise Bein ng pit or house in 3 or early in March, where the 
nature, which M. Duranp has also made kno —and our conception of the beautiful will be great and — rature may average about 55° ; they should saad 
the meanwhile kod 341 be A obliged je complete. C. R. Bree, Stowmarket. near the glass, and be freely supplied with air on mild 
any physiologist who can furnish us with any days. Whilst growing, they should never be allowed 
evidence upon E thine e inquiry. 5 become pot bound; healthy plants may be expected t 
BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCE- | require a shift shortly after beiug placed in 
— MENT OF SCIENCE. such may be shifted into pots two sizes larger than than thoseiy 
which they have been growing, or from 5. inch to Sind 
FAIRY RINGS. On a Microscopic Alga as a Cause of the Phenome- pots. Sprinkle over-head with the s on the 
will deny the great abi e of of the Colouration of large Masses of Water, by morning and evening of b ys, and maintain 4 
“Pickwick,” and few people doubt the usefulness of Prof. ALLMan.—It in little conglomerated | mo atmosphere, but apply the 
s Household W be th tle of us, | gelatinous- „ when submitted the for a fortnight tt when the roots shall hare 
yings and doings of every-day life, the mysteries of | microscope, it was found to consist of a number of | s less danger of 
art, the hard dull things of utility, come out in a form fronds. The younger fronds were nearly spherical, and over-watering. It is of the utmost importance that ty 
at once refreshing and beneficial to the mind. Strange, | consisted essentially of a central mass of transparent plants be kept 3 steadily and not allowed b 
then, is it to see that when science, to which all art is gelatinous matter, surrounded by a crust composed of | sustain the slightest check after they have started inh 
subservient, and the triumphal progress of which will | minute -o containing a green colouring substance. | free growth, until it becomes necessary to prepare them 
mark the 19th century in all future time; strange is it, The crus t being much slower in its growth than the | for win ter, and this is easily Bees with ordinary 
F say, that science should not receive the honour which | internal nucleus, it soon bursts, and the nucleus then, attention. Whe n fairly established after shifting they 
is due to it at the hands of so excellent and useful a by an apparent ‘spontaneous action, assumed a regular vn spare 1 libera roaka g of water at the rot, 
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writer as Mr. ic 5 like se ministe 
Statement, to No. 131 of “ Household Words,” and at into two distinct fronds, Some of them being put into and sekara] moist eee spat 
page 34 of the said number for Sept. 25, 1852, you will | a glass tube, and placed in the window, were observed On the occurrence of bright days with cold 
i „Fairy Rings,” in whi th an 
find an article upon i y the author | to arran emselves in a on the side of the tube inds, whi y abundant in March and 
rejecting, or not alluding to, the only reall opposite to sed to th rays—that side of | it is better to allow the tem re sid 
ever offe. henomena | the mass towards the light being formed into a iful | above the maximu rmi # 
—those of the botanist and chemist—rushes bag the | concave curve, which might, he thought, when fully drying air to pass over tender-growing plants, by a frea 
wildness of imagination, “let loose,’ into a most | investigated, reveal some important facts as to the | admission of air at the back and front of the house, 
i and untenable revival of the old p Ferien nature and 88 of light. After the middle of April the temperature muy be 
theory of the origin of fairy rings. On the Distribution of the Marine Alge on the | allowed to range, as high as 65° by day, but it sl 
Nothing so useful to explain things ap y inex- | British and Irish coasts, with sy to the (probable) | not exceed 55° at night. The plants may in 
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as electricity. I truly believe panied po le | Influence of the Gulf Stream, by Professor Dickie.— | a cold frame during the summer manths, hut 
to be found who think e everything in the world Sa tse There were, he said, forms of Atie Algæ generally | should not be raaa before the middle ¢ 
to electricity ; 3 and papers like the & Chip,” in House- | admitted to be characteristic of our northern coasts, and May, as it would probably be difficult to maintain a 
hold Words,” will perpetuate the delusions of such | others of the southern. The remarks he was about to sufficiently high temperature at an earlier period 
people. make referred to those generally deemed of southern During bright hot weather a thin ~~ should be 
I do not find — with the author's opening invoca- type; ne is, those which usually are zai * less | thrown over the glass for a few hours 
to Poetry an d Fairies. If he will favour me with | abundant in low w latitudes, and, on the other are Sprinkle the plants over-head and shut then wp eu 
aad, I will take him to people living in a wild rural | absent feoti high latitudes. Such eine i, of our | on sunny evenings, but admit air for the night, 
ct who believe that the fungi on gate-posts are | coasts, may be classed under three heads: first, those| Such of the plants as received a large shift 
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by fairies as that are caused by 3 His | enumerated under these three classes, and amounting to exposed to li ht and air, with a view to ripen the 
friend who, in the fulness o of an, discovered that | more than 20, are, so far as we can ascertain up to She bol sewers to 15 approach of winter. They 
a ring on on his lawn y the outline of the tree | present time, absent from a certain part of the east coast wintered in a light airy of the greenhouse, ani 
under which he made “his observations, and hence | of Scotland. A considerable proportion of them reappear | rather sparingly supplied with water at the root du 
jumped at once to the conclusion that the phenomena in Shetland and Orkney. The marine vegetation in their season of rest. If good plants are en a 
was by electricity, Be ea to 8 known that riar 3 islands resembles that of the nortli of with, and these treated the second season as deen, 
rings i I s or and, though there is a difference between them of for the fir: t, dsome ene ae 
any other agent by which electricity — be influ- from 4° to 5° of latitude. The marine plants of some pots, and eir 2 — the second au: 
_eneed. While I write I see three on my own meadow, | of the north-eastern counties of Scotland, eee When the grower is satisfied with ee ory of one 
One is a ring round a tree; the other is a ring under | in latitude, are of more boreal character. The d ting of mens they should not be placed in hea ed 
a tree, certainly, but situated not north and south | tropical fruits, &¢., to the western and ee parts of | retained in a close part of ee une 
with regard to th _ Stem, but exactly the re- Ireland 7 — Britain, is a proof of the direction and exposed to light until they com * flower, In 
verse; and the a e an equally nim r circle, | presence of the gulf stream; the development of southern | a succession of flowering plants is an objects a 1 
Without a tree t to guide i ectrie fluid. fo esot aps, at the extreme northern parts, is a proof | be placed in a gentle warmi : 
What will men with oa es of of the same, an , Moreover, seems an indication of its removed to the mhouse, when they 
m Id be in flov 
e Wi 
ag À is | ture in localities where they exist? The portion | broken up moderately small with the hand, 
ting- | of the coast in question is precisely that which, fons the | but the best, and mixing with about one six 
ve heard of e aes course of the gulf stream may be silver sand. Use plenty of drainage, and 
1 y plenty of 
beam, to its influence, Investigations respecting | i ball, proper 
g | make the soil rather firm about the b 
1 Leere N to the temperature of our seas are, however, still ee careful to have both the and soil in a 
e conclusion 15 * e Beco E i fying lement has | as to moisture, as in using rough soil and g 
| ving cl of the | shift it is very difficult to e 
rather more forcibly, < ; ee e m de a that “i a 
arate oleate Al not difficult to propagate, 
an intermediate tree, at some | plants. Thes same Ee whieh Dr. Dicki i season’, about half ri in nn 
e time ; and when the out with regard to plants existed w i z had pointed 0 1 at ial 
t the tree was 3 attention boy been given to the distribution — 
marine Alge most any other organic existe th enient, so 12 
sad going back. The With the exce tion of the labours of D Ht 32 iy ties et pee as eo — winde ta 
at rest, as any one I or no R done e wan 3 pei éd ite 5 nen a ya 1 
paper, will admit. knowledge of the temperature of the si a different Che 
d spawn of fungi | depths.—[This hint resulted in a subsequent recom- e Correspondence. 
ry direction from 
er 3 the Section that the Government would British Mome hids.—Having ge my er 
i this inquiry. — Prof. Walker Arn rnott said cultivation of British Orchids in 
| he possessed waggon-loads of from all parts | tions, I am of opinion, owing to the u 
of the world, which were greatly at the service of any sults which attended my endea 
botanist who would work at them, The collecting part | ne be generall 
