774 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE, 
tinued until the Grapes were, fit for table, which | garment was taken away the Mallow was found to have | distance in tubs. filled with water. 
was about the 18th of June; the firs 275 was lighted been . by contact with so sacred an object, | occasionally renewed, and having resi 
on the Ist January, beginning nary gra ind lly, and neve into a magnificent Geranium, a plant which had never | holes. On the subject of the distributio 
forcing hard ; the Vines broke v ary well 77 showing | previously existed!” C. P., Nov. 30. [of chia shes, Mr. Hogg refers to 
plenty rof fruit. I took off upwards of 50 bunches before Hau de lessive.—In a recent Number you mention | of trout and other fishes s.in mountain st 
they were in bloo leaving from 15 to 20 on each | this as probably useful in clearing Vines of vermin, but | lakes, for which it seems mith 
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colour, water was not used quite So freely; they w. and clothes, and cleansed the latter partially, escapes by distant localities by means of water-birds, 4 
prune: the spur asam alis one Vine amar train 605 15 the vent, and is what the French term Haw de lessive. Magazine of Natural History, 
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each rafter, and Strawberries, Beans, &c., grown in the The clothes are afterwards pa F sap. anA 2 — eet te 
house. In Vinery No. 2, the Grapes were ripe in the | but soapsuds form no ingredient in the Eau de lessive, 
beginning of September, therefore of course they did which is a highly acrid fluid. Z. M., Edi inburgh. fLotires of k Books, wd : 
not receive much firing, the border had no warmth from | — — i oe 
dung or weg a ga — ng merely put on for pro- 3 que cla e indica 
— e pruned in the same way as Sokieties. 1 contains plates and descripti 
No. 1, plantaa at ho'a same time, and the border com- ater Indian plants, many of which are from 
of the same materials, but in this case the Grapes} Boraxical oF Lonpon, Nov. 29. — Anniversary H. G. Reichenbach, in Hollinis Orebidenrum 
beautifully coloured, being as black as I could wish | meeting. The President in the chai Air. The Secre etary structurd et de Orchide tem ae . 
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fruited in tubs, and on trees planted out; this house embers ring the year, ure of 0 
heated with a flue, the other with gin ka ——— Now and that the Society eonsisted of 302 members. The dis- upon some other peculiarities in them, intermixed 
can any of your Grape gro wing morta pe ents explain | tribution of British and foreign specimens had been | good critical observations. We are tan 
the cause of this difference in colour, one house pro- carried on a. success; and thousands of specimens | among our German friends so acute an observer 
ducing black Grapes, the other nearly le ones! W.-H. received for distribution in January next; the appoint- | Reichenbach giving his attention to this difficult ona, 
r ler, Gardener, Aldershot, pe Farnham, Surrey. ment of a curator had greatly facilitated these important Two anatomical plates illustrate the author's views, 
Storing Roots (see p.'740).—I am glad Mr. ‘Cuthill bas objects ; many valuable works had been presented 0 Wight, Icones ogee 1 i ientali 
attention to this 3 eh, for the usual method the library. The Report was unanimously adopted; Part 2, 4to; Madras.—This part of Dr. Wig 
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stored on the following plan, which has succeeded w tary and librarian were re-elected and the pre- much he be regret a“ = editing 
with me. A piece of ground should be set apart in some . — 21 Miers, Esq., F. R. S., and A. Henfrey, 2 papers was not in 
secluded part of the garden, choosing a north aspect for | Esq., F. R. S., vice presidents. nstead of Nene. intrasted to . bee genen, in 
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the purpose. As the roots are taken up Co 
the ground closely packed together, but not more than LINNEAN : Meeting which our own reporter has iea to repose hate . 
two layers ante . — the soil between them, where omitted to notice. Ma 4.— The President in the chair. John Waterer’s Catalogue of American Plants 
they are to r in store for very late use; cover Mr. Hogg, F. L.S., communicated a letter “On the in his nursery at Bagshot, contains all the best varie 
them with 10 — "of soil or “ and on this spread | artificial — of a breed of Salmon into the 1 4 some instances, a considerable reduetion 
some non-conducting material, such as ashes or le river Swale, and a tributary stream in Yorkshire,” Edward Seaward’s Narrative ; 
litter. Roots thus preserved will be as fresh ee well- | which appeared in the Durham Advertiser for April 16th (Longman? s Travellers’ Library, Parts 34 
flavoured in February as in November. A late sown in the present year, under the signature of Isaac Fisher, | abridgment of a very interesti 
erop of Early Horn Carrots: —— in shin 8 together with an unpublished letter from the —.— most a . of t 
forms a good substitute for forced Carrots in spring. I gentleman in answer to a request from Mr. Hogg fo: Hallam’s Literary Essays an 
have never wintered Beet and Salsify buried in the open | further information; and added some 1 of porate Reading.)—A small volume 
groun: part — 5 stock this year is on trial. I his own upon the same subject. From the letter 1 and full of learning in its most d 
am ei doubtfal out wintering Beet in the open| published in the Durham Advertiser, it appeared that It is "skilful mene from the author's 
I have — found it to rs whenever wet Mr. Ri i on d procure 
—— it. The best Parsnips Lev were left the river Tees a brood of spawn, taken and milted from Life and ra! of the Duke 
in the ground where they grew with a — of soil the living fish, which he deposited on the 29th of Lord Ellesmere. (Murray’s Railway B 
on them, to keep the sun from acting on them after December last in a small tribu of the river Swale. is the substance of a discourse delivere 
Carrots will succeed equally well in this way. On the 21st of March two of the ova were brought to the institution by the noble author, who pain 
My old era Mr. Pa dne of — f for years | house of Mr. Fisher and placed in a vessel of water, the | of the great warrior, not only with che ha 
1 ground, e clearly distinguished, and in two ie but of one ectly familiar with his 
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> rr more they beeame living fish ; e is consequen Ellesmere's personal intimacy: 
Tt f Potatoes Í in * ground would be sadana vet I d to th hip to produce a brilliant and most in 
think the same result might be obtained. In digging | from which it has of late years been ban = respects worthy of the Lager E 
over a border last week which last year was planted answer to Mr. Ho ogg's ere ries Mr. Hee sek era einrich Maurer, Ve 
‘Ash-leaved Kidney Potatoes, I found a quantity of that the ova and milt were obtained in the Tees, accord- | 1 8vo., J 
3 reer e tubers, that were buried deeply in ing to the directions 5 by — Shaw, and Gooseberries filling 
near the is “ 5: iti 4 — th 
C., Thorp to a hortieul 
i rve in Dr. Thomson’s N. W. | the night of the 27th of December, and not deposited in | The materials 11 bai by the late Dr. 
Himalaya and pom where he treats of the vegetation of | the gravel of a small rivulet until the 29th of the same | Pansner, Staatsrath I * 
Simla, that the Melastomaceæ are said to be Ne d month. Part of the ova were also placed in a gravel bed | Emperor of all the Russias, Ritter, and 
This is not quite exact, as Osbeckia stellata occurs | in the river Swale ; but of the result of this part of the have been put in by Mr. 
Iuxuriantly, though er in the warmer * — to the we Mr. Fis sher has no 3 information. In at Jena; we have no doubt 
pense the station. E. M., Edinburgh. $ ne pot . ‘ova were placed too deep in the gravel, and the work accordingly. is an ad 
aste. — Can any e favour me and} the public with an tion were found:to be addled ; while there is a e re . an introduction ; after w! 
Wen for making a kind of paste which is cheap, aig Wo reason to believe that those which were placed | tre i netri i 
strong, sets quickly, keeps well, and is oo liable to about 3 inches in the gravel have all been hatched. A 3 
become stic sticky in damp weather, as is the with all li fro ) call aticall 
p taakin. u _ well | the vessel in which it was kept and perapi died, and | Venus, Jolly Co 
. he published let in | Sparkler, the 
pint W. Dy. 
made, and mixed while hot with a — 
of corrosive sublimate is strong, and keeps well; but it 
sets slowly. 
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| Fresh-water Fish. — There is a shilling pamphlet een, pe an he baie to see N and Pi vers more volumes of this 
lished by Reeve and Co, Coven: , Haan called the | desirous of observing the extreme velocity with which | lished sinee « 
© Artificial Production of Fish,” b 
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8 a they moved round the vessel, even while the vitelline 
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wg their waters ee N ea aid at each end of a space of about completed with a 
7 previously. | t gm ards, whins were placed of a ae height, keptdown | Jones’s clever etchings, 
ode ern other fish. useful map of the country 
scarce ; and in very fi stones, to prevent the entrance into it of 
the opportunity most favourable for introducing the | After some eee Mr. Fisher 
2 8 ice into the rivers of the United Kingdom; adds: “ We have proved the fact that the river Swale 
y not ‘hesita tate in ealling your attention to may be again stocked with salmon, provided we ean arde ; 
and soliciting your aid to its adoption, through e arrangements with the proprietor of a mill-wear p apika gir Soctzry’s Wr eee 
um of les from e fish, on coming up — We ha visited this git pe 
ntended trate another branch of natural from pecan ai free · gap from 1 On 3 the white hte Butterfiy-plant ( 
histo g ge rs Mr. observes that i oom, and the — £ 
N. Whateley, Cork. [We have already mentioned this there can Da little ah), doubt that, wich the ee. for for — oa ah this dull season it is 
: t, at p. 502 of the present volume. As we then tions 8 a vast increase of salmon might be height of summer. By means 
obtai 
‘id, it contains g e instructions how to re- ned, and a sure and pe source of wealth be the charming Calanthe vestita, 
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takes no notice of d his apean in a f are at present found; and the same artificial process of e might be rendered exe 
spoe which it ought to to have done.] N might likewise be applied to trout with an | during the whole pyr po when o 
pilian anceof the Geranium and Hollyhock not d Modern | equally antageous result. He suggests that the are comparatively flowerless. w, 10 0 fas 
aay A 15 wing article from Haydn’s I e- | bo dg might also be carried on in large wooden boxes adjoining, the most 3 y 
ary, little as it may affect wicked infidels (like nine- ae cases, having a layer of gravel at the bottom 4 or | Anderson Speedwell, Veron! 
readers), tless, comfort the | 5 inches deep, in which the 2 mlt or impregnated been in flower for the — 
agen. —4 It is an ag might be buried, and the cases filled with pure of two-voloured 
havi one | water, water, which 5 be kept constantly fresh by by allowing | desi 
ired, 
aer. i to them. had | plant at this season, asi 
‘Grying ; and when the 1 strong, they might he conveyed fo any — right yellow d 
