822 THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Dre, 23, 
a free circulation n of air, „ and, above 
in * the 
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buta Fa 
Lindley” po Theor ry of Horticu 
òr gry to heat and light being ert ‘balanced 
each ed all other thin 
25 of fruit depends. But = othe — 
we apply hent i n the eo of "as gh, Aranka 
e | Som 
tation of 5 
It i 
fact that the eat of the the Grape È is a change from 
at extent; that heat 
on —— ste Gripes 
ring at the — — S De 13th), which were 
last. ave no — whatever of 
than Gra e 
ee in * NN 3 in May an 
— a lo 
and putts 8 in Nee e to light. I a 
afraid of the * 3 8 . 
falling even to the Pines are at rest; 
and from 60° to 70° ny ‘dun Tight, snd Arne eee i 
could not colour Grapes. at this 
admitted raa ya hay 
of no com 
re- 
heat while colouring. G Grey Watson, gardener to J. 
Dent, Esq. poetet A ine hire. 
Labourer’s O p. 805.)—Employ an honest 
0 und aed tome of two 
good kitchen, or livi » bac 
„fitted up with all requisites of 
2 pae * icholson’ 8 of ae ark), ov oiler, 
A fire * of in the 
Baa which is dhis kept cool for 'the fa 1 The 
d be 80 lead out of and 
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be overhan 8 of bie oe sere Fis eo back T 
arranged 
and front, door-ways 
ts in floors, roofs, — Meg and — 
brick-work without plaster, may be d made 
to look well, and sa nse. Let the p aee a 
be ged tastefully and convenient, and the 
—— — skill, labour, and materials are go god 
t well cc > you may perhaps keep within your 
2 more than double it, and be no better 
Cooking Poftiti Potatoes being very deficient in 
year, were DAE e “eae ag | 
befi e tubers were ri lains 
be Po 
t them in cold water, and boil mae gently until nearl 
one. The wate r sh ould then 
ut on t 
with a large two-tined fork instead of a spoon, The 
break to rough pieces, allows the water 
den 
Cucumber ; it 3 fine 
this season, al 
my employer, 250 is i particular 
pronounced it the bes 
s | hills surrounding th 
nly | borders 
not change colour at the heel ge the black spine, a 
point of considerable impo ortance o pri vat e — 
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ases | who ar * to supply the n, 
N T only one,or at the most, two paos 
W. D. &. 
Societies. 
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21 2 Brown, Esq., in the Chair. 
LINNEAN, Dec. 
by the eset $ on nae ege- 
21 
me remarks were rea 
strict ri i Lak 
— W chat by Dr. Ferd Anand Müller, of. Adelai de, 
to Richard Kippist, Esq, Libra 
district immedia ately surrounding the 
E e — era 1 Blitam, 
e genera were found. The 
e lake ‘presented neither — — et 
with Palms and Epi pos s, nor 
those of a northern v 1 with Pines. On the 
of the streams, wh — mes swollen 
with torrents, a varied id “interesting flora is found. 
The author gave the names of a large number o 
of a tro vegetation 
-| species of plants, intersting son their isolation or 
he f 
their connection of other parts of 
Australia, and — — of | the earth’s surface. He mention 
orthern district a 4 
W. 
concluded by stating that the 
Australia was not so . 2 f vegetation as had bee 
eee by Mr. Brown 
forms was made up for by the — 
The — said that mt rema 
vie 
s of 
— 
Müller quite confi 
plants in Australi vi as n nd — — ai a . 
e- bea or 
year were elected. Professor Christison sent specim 
of poison nuts from Calabar, appar the seeds es a 
leguminous plant Balfour mentoned that these 
seeds produce effects similar in man ects to poi- 
soning with aconite. He stated that Dr. ‘Christison had 
swallowed ' about a quarter of a seed, and it had pro- 
duced alarming symptoms, such a s depressi ion of the 
ai on action, and intermission of the pulse n 
use of 
Ee 
Pseudathyrium alpestre, 
pe, 8 æ èe ogeso 
e 
Aulder, on 
h = > primordial — to the seco — depos 
e agre 
nt (see p. 773) as to — ge of "this 
han which 
; | gated 
throughout” the te but 5 ether they are 
most 
White spins 
spine varieties it carries a © good bloom and 
n es Athyrium 
Filix-fſemina s — pase over b 
yet botanists, ad i t had been put by Mr. Watson 
g his spec of that species. It has been found 
ofl late by sevi tor dotanists s in the Highlands of Scotland, 
3 in the Clova and coh emar district. The follow 
ape —1 
iver, Esq., jun. 
an instance of an interesting form of 
also sent 
seem sre ofa 
en, a usefu 
osecuting such i — — ” 
tubular corolla of Pentas 
carnea is about 1 inch in — at the time of flowering. 
urrounding the —— of the tube, and to about one- 
Joe the distan wn it, — — t tach- 
ment of the steer: free fi fila with the tissue of the 
— is a dense collection of dieit hairs directed 
upwards, These 
middle of her length, ta m a rather 
undulating —.— to the distal e „and a little 
ards the base lower 
portion of the corolline tube are hairs of a different | 
9 isti a single series of severa 
si in form and structure to th 
— the ioles leaves, d in io- 
p ; ich I shall shortly notice. 
— he co e haire are ble from their fibro- 
cell e s 
ular character; the. 
deposit is, however: difficult to 
with a ‘magnifying power of perhaps 200 oF 
meters, discovers the appearance of a narrow fibre. 
winding, in a spiral direction, up the inner wall of the 
m its a 
cell, ascending to the right (as seen fro xis), an 
closely applied to the apparent outer cell membrane, 
i me in ca Numerous elon- 
and narrow slits, or line-like — occur 
openin, 
between the edges vidual thread, or series of | d 
fibres, or analogous to the dots and slits of broken 
vascular — 
examined in 
th 
trans- | yo 
rian to the the you 
h 
ell; do 
- — of the aer 
* —_ of in 
he m 
— of Dr. 
w of the distribution of rr 
eral law. The vegeta- 
C 
cou 
Newm that a eed perh 
T specimen of the plant is found in e and — 
It mi 
Ericht, 1 res also in ene à 
1 t r; markin nae in 
= se by their extremities being 
1 Acicular raphides of 
— 3 ed at - extremities 8 
n the direction of 
ese are probabi 
dition of the be e Ry — ara 2 ‘th lie om 
in the fresh s 
being 
The primordial utrice read 
separated from the cell w: = by the n 
agents. A 80 ride of calcium, 
ution 
0 
with in the corolla, — I do nae dsr ay 
eT pnan = 
ells, e not 
m 
— present more or 
or rather slits, generally in a direction 
with the axis of the hair, but sometimes also s 
ssoending to the right, as viewed from the centre. The 
of the lower portion of these 
re : 
e hair, i from an on 
e central j 
he ey w 1 vate not detected in yor hairs 
motion ol the cell sap, 
easily seen radiating 
2 re euch > circulation, 
the of the nue leus I cannot 
Satphesi i 
contract aa lie 
umerous stomata 
rap are 
abound also in the glan 
ee petioles of the opposite 
frequen 
dular stipules 
leaves. 
of very numerous 
ressure causes instance? 
— ee pane thick fluid. In somè 
out of the enclosing sao; owing to ite hating — 
E suppose, tough a small ore” , 
gave a description of the ers 
what has already been given by 
the case of the 
hee 
3 Erläuterungen zu zu Strabon’s 
nen Fragment des Dik käarchos ; 
E. 22 F. Meyer. Konigsb erg, I 
pp. viii. and 214. 5 
ortion of the deseribed s 
me tA by . and wan g gee gifted wid 
his remarks proves incontestibly peter 
1852. 
rs of str 
great powe inspection, 
could not speak f from personal ment and dec so 
— for instance, wi 
— is not very easy to ) pronounce. When | fro 
either of a ir oi i ular breadth, or of a plexus or 
rreg pl 
of fibre, between the threads of | he 
at — fees Ge Sova ie is perceptible; if a dried hair 
does | be placed under narrow 
the microscope, we see but slits, 
is information ¥ : 
moat of the fade thong — ST 
iain eee eee x A a A 
