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bright chestnut coloured where well se reg much 
long, brighi whitish dots. Leav 
ose 
rra 
Stipules linear, rat rather more than half tthe lengik ot of the ti 
Thi ety cannot fail to be very acce le, 
unt of its n abundant, and highly ee. 
1 
Shanghae Peuch.— This variety was sent to the Society | 
“is ry large 
n 
very unpromising Appears r fru 
i . and 4 tlie that * 
me Mi 
the London an 
jungle, and of a headache in Egypt. But seriously 
there is reason to believe that by the expansive power 
of natural laws, it is possible tha tions may 
tic. | be effected by change of climate, soil, and long lapse ai m 
ime, as rmonise the characteristics of a strange 
to those of his new tes, Tind 
exter 
Mount Lebanon may 
east he 
ta Leaman rs 
I act you to my Pin 
ve you to 
sunny inference. 
Gloucesterensis. 
Home Correspondenc 
mulus. — have for years 
p 
idly. ci 
JJ... TTT 
perature in July. The flowe large, the leaves of oF Mimul P n og 
the petals deeply Seale Lea nated, r 8 4 f 
f ink ry largo, 8 nn beautiful flower into notice! At present it appears 
— — ik ina dsome ; pale almost neglected ; for one scarcely ever plant 
yellow where sl and delicate crimson red next the | Worth, looking af. I think if a prigp were offered af 
sun. The flesh is pale yellow next the skin, but hiswick we should soon see this we become TI 
deep red at the stone, to which it is attached by strong | POP lar and in the highest N or . d hät 
fibres ; yet it is not eve — erent, like the po er it would be en i 1150 n 
of the el weer Peaches. juicy and rich, but it I se sorters bt geet f rY ah dh id h 
uires to be gathered a aay o or | nh or before it is used. ave always bean very fond i and have’ paid ‘mus 
tn this erias pel 23 — ttention to its culture. It is easily propaga 
Sorte 5 cuttings, layers, or seed. e soil best adapted for it is 
It ripens about — same time as the Bellegarde. 
b — 
associa anid ee the as t 
al features without violating the sacred laws of | i 
e | have no difficulty in 
1 at ap ag and I have found — 1 to be v 
1 blished charac T 
and 
Pinus 
care 
been an ae at purata (Sm 
no stress whatever upon the more or less uniformly 
It is not my rar Bee — oe 
valis 
: la toll, bat 
media 
k “that — 
very 
ne latter is 
rable 1 5 Kesi extent, and thus rendered difficult to 
lants of co ntinental b 
more than ever probable n 
media of 3 which i is perhaps more saari allied 
B w 0 i 
* it 
lump the F. media with E. latifolia, shall 
probably have to adopt Ho 's name for 
examination e description of E. phyllanthes of Mr. 
G. E. Smith (p. 660) does not supply with an 
point by which to distin it from E. media (Bab.) 
sal „the +03 ilar texture to the 
and “un er ” is to be considered as one. 
de of. thi bhis b sand, leaf-mould, loam, and cow- | s -or pe t —.— 
distributed ‘6 . —— ‘ n oF other Fellows dung. I have also found them to be particularly ara words is rendered obscure by his statement that the 
of the Society who applied ‘for — It m wever | Of a Shady situation. Those who manage the Calceo E. phyllanthes “is evidently the same as that fi 2 
ä it req a go well will find no be in cultivating the Minus. (at p. 332), where the lip is certainly not “ undivided ;” 
situation. It would probably answer for forcing, with |“ Bennett, Perdiswe and his quotati J. E. Smith’s remark concern- 
plenty of heat. of it Pot-bound Roots. 1 is now 10 or 12 * since a ing a “specimen in which the rahe is n ere” 
and there its fruit issaid to be splendid. Like all large i here ines, most of which were | for the word “entire” estly p 
fruited — it be 1 | Young enough to allow their roots to be spread out per- | contrast with the “ crenate”’ ay the aaee Ái senten ms 
of the H. . rs, however, that irge were either too EROS O Babington. 
muc 
VARIATIONS AMONG CONIFERS. 
this kin 
eat excellence of botanical rules is, that they 
do — at - require the exception to prove them. The 
themselves, and beautifully 
ich once were pronounced 
ar variety of Pinus austriaca 
e l raised i 
Pinetum, and of which I sent you several 
three i two y 
7 brethren i is most 3 
artwegii sti ting between two opinions 
between a three-leaved è - us 
mitis, P. variabilis, P. muricata, and o 
My 
Pinus insignis has many a group group of scm leaves, — 
of its ibed three. But I inclose ens more 
vemar 
and i 
5 e 5 man 
s — — 549), or the i 
. 
und, or plante ted at t 
admit ot this operation, In destro oying a Serie lately 
I mg able to examine — eae roots, a result was, 
those which had got or * planted 
had re ne it, and would to the pin e had 
become hard and figures 
2 3 The accompanying 
3 —I observed in your “Calendar of 
ublished on ‘the 9th inst., that you 
bout seven years old, gro 
ear nearly 8 pao high, and is the largest 1 
in the a air i pre 
this storm on the foliage of vari 
th am a wi leis 4 same 
effects as there described, viz., * , the leaves of 
the trees either 4 Éx or . lakie one side of a. 
leaving the That the 
effects of this storm 8 e ee to 
Dorchester I can testify by my own observation, so that 
n your pages a short time 
of on l 
— of 16 10 feet Ng 
a sucker — one one which flowered here in 1829. 
Of all 
represent respectively the natural and unnatural posi- 
in tions of the roots at mra end of 10 years. W. Brown, now 
to M 
were the Hollies, which abound in the New Forest. 
Oak and Beech suffered as much as other trees ; 
young leaves succeeded those that fell off in ‘most 
ins 
able, as it was produced mk By à dey, bat a pa 
rain — torrents the whole time. D. S. 
Bases tag, A 
ur Leading Article of the 4th 
September 0. 563) — a very general opinion 
vitiated state o rought some 
e be it by too high feeding the plant, 
or be it by injudicious trea of the seed tubers 
— attri prevalence of the epi- 
v e t been 5 8 
tutional debility seems best with the facts we 
kno nne with this ques aving 
y o have seen — lant that 
it is the largest — in the kingdom; it is still 
gon as — as when it was TP years n 
of readers kno eee a larger uG. 
Biodan, Walls A Nursery, Somer 
The New E pipactis.— As — subject of — new 
i| Epipactis has been again brought forward in 
prominent seco in the ciple va Dee, 1 "think it 
right to — few remarks. concerning 
far from being — — 
paper by the Rev. 
th. I continue of opinion that Mr. Hareourt's 
— my E. media. Although the ovary is 
y in that plant, I have dried specimens 
2 
. 
manures are e, and where. 
t devoid ; 
entering into a = limited cultivation, a large amount 
= ee is applied, concentrated 
afforded for = en a that pesca may have : 
— ught on tational ‘tg But how stands 
a the cor | 
starving 
days pastures, and life 
k ein them by a litle hay or straw at night a little 
as Fe 3 tato skins and refuse being 
Apari ake. 
ve never | 
ving milk; where the manure was 
Sate aF up of the dung of these wretchedly- fed cattle, whose 
f lip is th — — f 
| shape of the is vive of my 
—— slight; these crena- 
loner ork rotted on bye-roads an d in yards, and of bog 
d; such manure as this was spread on wi 
ont stubbles, i in lazy-beds, | ign two layers x clay in 
to have its 
of my E. media. Ilay 
rats 
ae 
Is very 
or quite te wanting in the E. purpurata | the most favourable posi 
4 fas are aig — 
| absorbed by the soil, — ta slight e > sehen 
