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45—1852. | THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 711 
a nd two large examples of Cattleya Mossize Lightbody), Lovely Aun (Uliver), Mat Ida (Dicksou), Prin 
8 — — ~ ee mi —— - "Ae oviated with these were | — Epiden of Wales (Ashton), Sir John Moore (Lightbods). Grey 
a certain point e Set, rge plant sipi: namani (Hedge), Complete (Syke), Conqueror 97 
observations were necessarily imperfect, he had drawn | d pe (Morris), Conqueror of Europe ( Waterhouse), Duke 
ely on his imagination. He $ ut Suminski|a fine specimen 9 Teor ms freely every year; an nd of Cambridge (Dickson), Lady Jane Grey 1 
pa 4 l in supposing that the spe tozoids Oneidium papilio grandiflorum, which is always in —— e Hero —— —.— . plus — aot Phy pene > = 
ntered tos istillidia, and ame the young plants. ssom. The above are only a f i i pee mi py oe i rf Kenan), Š — 00, 0 gas (ie a 
The asin 4 the attention of the meeting to a| very unique collection in admirable health, evidently; White-edged: Catheri ie acy eg ere Countess of Wilto 
p alteration in habe eee was necessary, | showing that Mr. yer, th ene roug re — — 1 og e air Flora (Lightbody), 
in 2 = sive the Society ee from the pay- | stands their managem The house was enriched) True Briton W ay 2 
ment o the Vanilla covert - with “page Allamanda (Lightbody) Apollo (Dickson), Jupiter (Kaye), Lord Primate 
bp open e aah | ar Scholes), Nonsuch (a T 
x and a noble Citron, with immensely large giruit at on : — t Kothe . 
Books Receiver, end, —— altogether an interesting and pleasing 1 — bobs received from Mr. G. Rogers, Uttoxeter, Stsfford 
variety. lik last- nam k the sam bens: Tom Thumb. The air of your house, we suge 
Linnea, Vol. VIII., Part 6 6.—This part concludes 
It contains papers by Hampe on the 
3 . ae H 
Nilgherry Legumi Acanthac 
e e on the genden pans o cultivated at Halle, 
on the genus Anguri 
ustraliam Colonies (Teall s Library, 
ount of the 
eral inquirer 5 ; 
— of this singular 
count giv 
corner of the world, the deste of the author’s informa- no 
rom e that the 
rners is 
species of Fuchsia after the fall of t 
that the native Cherry has the s 
very credita ofessor of geo- 
graphy,” by which title Mr. Hu 22 5 neee to 
We presume that the au 
sonal a of . wo country h 
has pic p from books the farrago of scraps which are 
strung together in mals work before us. 
nae erley Novels, Vol. VI. (Black’s Library Edition) 
on 
m C 
next No., completing the work, and containing an — 
of the whole work, will puami 
ne. é 
# taken up, sak i desea obliged 
n the course of the yea 
MeIntosh’s Book o of the Garder, Sns VIII. (Black. 
a view o ervatory at on | 
House, and of a beautiful-looking rango constructed by | 
Parser, — 5 together with a 
jrofusion of recommendations and a clash of narra 
which Mr. va wt does not — to har 
— the ault of Loudon's En dia of — 
dening. i is also, we think, to- be —— that such 
desi 
cY 
. 578. Upon the gps however, the book, with 
Balls: and will become a standard 
Garden ed Pig 
ih 
esign for an archi- | 25 
number of 2 
ness which usually prevails*in an Orchid house, He 
give it a novel and more natural character than can be 
y Orchids alone. G: 
produced b 
FLORICULTURE. 
INESS PRINCE Artuur DaRLIA.—I ma haps 
mitted to add to Mr. e omens respecting 
thie Dahlia, that it is a red flowe rm, and — 
dwarf stiff compact habit, Geetha its bloo 
mia lov 
e 
te in the flowe: 
obtain 
to get the 8 out of the hole, — it wa 
hat it ee got up into the e 
ni, and is as etly har ay 
adjoining” 4 — T had this pin 
f the lar A oen 
p are planted i in the N. 
; the plant I — rought 
had 
niinno in Siei erm — — longer. A short 
83 pips on it at the same time. 
on of 12|; 
; they w 
sga pea lenders having „ an 
the ne pas shoots * own ok aes edge of the pots 
similar to th y in which o i 
grown for exhibition whieh: — 
best blossoms were likewi 
8 and double, ners led mayi to ask for a little 
2 ; os how 
vers ay this class of 
I exhibited, at the beco 
pect, ia the cause of the evil; 
but the leaves — no 
evidence upon the subject. 
SEEDLING FLOWERS 
NATIONS 2 8 4 T. No er is better th 
ave much of 8 ir 3 
n p We 
an the 
now 
merits of your fi 
a variety that, when in 
able. You ee therefore, 1 think it worth 
send us blooms again next year, The colour, a brilliant 
golden oh te is much wanted, 
Miscellaneo 
windows, there 
asi 
— bo half turned — oven ag: 
ppearance, and th 
resh air 
are not grown under a Wardian 1 
air always ae a ob — 
the air of ariably . — . is beneficial 
| 
sáros receives. peh 
tegés of ladies, who ss oana Pi- pee with 
ong as the novelty ane 3 
prompt to — — attention all goes well; 
plant ever existed, perhaps, which was 
port | Petiod of its life, left to the tender ö 
the 
owed 
is is applied to the plants, so 
an the soi 
Mi s, from M 
edule, of Jamaica, It is October 
— ebruary bears abundance of if its déticions culinary fruit. 
is esteemed by the Portu beyond their native 
Cabbage, and that speaks volumes in its favour. The 
before and when 
f coed ai of the Caiota is much firmer 
t 
cooked than that of the Vegetable Marrow ; its taste 
es of the flavour of Asparagus and wer. 
In my opinion ' it is the — delicate vegetable I have 
ever much is i e the Portuguese, 
that they Shin the Bnglish — fail to like it, and 
t for the London 
h es ` m its fruit at a cold s anti, ke ce n rely require pro- 
r, is to direct attention to th te f Jie a — 
s . thi eting from the frost. Yielding its fruit at a time 
here with 5 on in 1 The Orchid — . d ouble ü the —— 3 — — i Vegetables are usually scares? — — 
a . a 
t ne") THE ene ition to the 
— so nn — but a is Tar | sively sen Evehed 8 many years exten id uals | Ths Caiota attains the weight of 2 oes Ibs, delights i in 
Me. Dig Digby is himself ———— acquainted with this considered it a flower worthy of notice, I am gratifi aes psen iee ki ine v ö — ; — as 
— — to “in the he has paid much e . and ~ ere =. nena ee into f + a k in orde Ha — — way of cultivating it by the Portuguese is to 
ely in in — — ce poms o diffi- 8 at Chiswick f — th we Mimulus, I be, 3 pm FFF e 
; the honour Dighyana™ — bat 108 8 á t will bear pruning to sp Sages The fruit of the 
—— — i Die following are the names of a i 1 cian 2 J yee - each T 8 Caiota has a rugged, Y h s — a aes yas 
5 which struck us ing ber ag plage e * ject, will 22 nappy form | colour, and somewhat resembles the the 
large, healthy L wer. 3 ar omg T and first-ra ties to Frier who takes the 3 ‘the 4 Ape bees Wallac, STRONI of 
erf a 2 s, exceedingly Horticultural Society. 
afi A. affine, two glorious specimens, one with 13 e prize, wi with pa rdia piar anae srr ala be a Use of Tomatoes and El n reply to 
> re Dendrobium densiflorum, a large — A wis aia pa hy ge ae 8 ok inquiry green Tomatoes can ov applied to te 
nianum, with shoots 3 N er TA 1 [This could — be done by permission of the — ets pe gee. See state how ee 
very * * ; D. chrysanthum, E ae Societ Manh o k wa n my mother’s aes for several years past, and 
r 4 just coming into flower; D. for- 8 1 y 6 = ht al ‘Hough to be very good. As late in the ee 
San plant, in bloom; D. sanguino- re * al 0 n us can obtai wey oe sufficient bat of 5 7 matoes and 
os plant, c 5 a Somr 22 D, | being too apt to fall of in — SE es together, we th jam, by 
bit 5 three aad 1 P. The Toone . g ian using en 18 of atoes acta the —— have 
il Blumei, And guttatum), to together nih {e (Page) O i 91 il eran) AP elingtoa (Dickson Dickson), been taken off) to one part o 
grandiflora, a beautiful plant; anda teres | — (Booth), Imperator (Litton), Lord Lynedoch nedoch | and stewing them together er til — done to keep 
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