GARDENERS’ 
THE 
This hen seen in 
1 is often overlooked ; but 
te, has a ver 
“tt is found i in its immature 
month of Novem- 
baricus w 
remarks were made W the author belonged to 
were the sjene of eriticism.—Mr. Chambers exhibited 
a specimen of the descending trunksof the Banyan tree, 
MICROSCOPICAL : ANNIVERSARY MEETING, Feb. 16. 
J. S. BOWERDANK, resident, in the 
Cow 
Med J 
daring the pas 
usk, 
t yea 
n the — 558 the 
on the increase, the President stuted that during the 
re were n out from the establish 
ments of Messrs, Pow and James 
110 mr a 07 — + hore than had been sent out 
revio At the close of the address 
— 
the evening a large par 
“ Mr. 
the eee 
r which the 
age — be obser mw 
— voisi essels of the pig's 
delicate — — of t 
of e copes w 
— tus for v loving ng objects 
arley exhibited vd 
the n without oceupying much space, 
Dr. Hermann exhibited one of Gruby’s miniature mi- 
croseopes, ugh packed in a box which might 
be carried in the waistcoat pocket, co 
used with glasses of a pate ros. power of 5 
Soctery or or Feb. a are Hunt, keeper of 
Records — seum of Economic Geolo 
ri — dition of Sir 
— Rina i Dr. Lindley, the point was sub- 
e reason 
dto Mr. Hunt for consideration. l for 
for 
hese 
b che optie —.— vision ; ; he 
| the present 
definite | W 
read. The plants on ‘which 8 
o the 
| for 
chair. 
nted the funds of the : 
yy Mesers. esers. Chance, hance, of 
Birmingham. i 
Mr. u . deseribe his e ae * 
bene that the solar beam arp beno well kn pi. 28 0. — | 
lasses 0 nomena 
to three ‘be due potasa Ae * — — incipies. 
producing esloun, a 
upon 
olidit or otherwise, 
ition, as 3 5 y me : 
mvs 
e inorganic world. 
every sunbea 
er = ordinary prisn ctrum a 
8 second diagram showed the effect 
upon 
of their ——— 
that e chan produced by t 
—— the least igh and by some that ea absolutely 
k. These fac ing from the t degrees 
of refrangibility in 3 subtle principles, provet, that | u 
light, — t, eras actinism h associ 
ident pow 
that although. Ji lig ght was y penetas 
seed, and actinism a most 
that t process, when ex first — were dev 
the actinic — light became — 
stimulating, and that the luminous ae — then 
demande a to effect in the plant the decomposition of the 
earbonic acid inhaled by the leaves and — by the 
bark, and the secretion o deere to form w 
ture. The influence of heat and its necessity to vege- 
table life were well known, s1 it h ad ees pook aaa neen 
CHRONICLE. 
important | P 
neil of light en a prism, | 
t 
erful acceler: 3 
“eases the ce a a 
by se Sag 5 with such blue glass ~ was use 
——— nger glasses; aa since the st — 
of f anam 
is 
excitement of that ae 
e. e had bee e nd the root 
formed 8 d, and an independent — was bim teg 
lan 
a Wh en there was any tendency in plants 
much stalk or leaves, and it was d 
Mr. Hunts) 
| experiments proved that the calorifie radiations were 
the most — during g np 2 0 in which the 
The — 
S rays in considerable “quantities, and a a 
baled “quan paths the chem 
might bes 
=; 
asses 
so as e the perfect — of the f. flower, Such 
were shee 3 1 — sge results of experiments 
which had extended the 
he ss of his seo 
imated discussion 
u the interesting subject it embraced, 
150 GHLAND.— Feb. 2.— Prof. Batro id that 
Macpherson Grant had forwarded to ae ‘Society 
| and interesting nee of the Pinetum at Balli 
Castle, accompanied 
an 
ered to 
> expressed juice of Palm 
sed | posing it to the of th 
— eet 
aS 
7 | an 
been 
been |= — from 3 9 the e . green glasse 
rly would com pletely prevent — 
| season, the luminous and actinic relatively Sine 
The scorching effects to be prevented were of cou 
= result of some of the eat rays, sil as ad dis. 
which. class they —— — eee ~ 
_ r pape 
action 
sy! had oa power of ac 
adopting 
light — be in cov i i 
ea 
ner, the seers 
every variet 1 
da) onies widhott thic — are clustered | 
to the former nuu the 
a — a a tha 85 
Castle stands about 470 feet above the level of 
ced in a sheltered _ a gece ble for the grows 
e Pinetum ne 
oe plants and ; 
are — three British species er eee ' 
the mon Scotch Fir, Yew, and Juniper ; 
rest hones in cultivation pen air have been i 
ned 
but no open 
see — It would ap 12 
when young sometimes bear cones without poii 
male caikins: the formation of pollen seeming tote 
quire 
apex of scales, w 
(i.e. fall off raat x Feen leaves solitary, four- corn 
ae montis of se which ar e pere 
hed); E ch) PF Cedrus 
remain long 5 
5 
rays, which were to have 80 
ing property. In — manufacture of — lass 
entire absence of ma: i 
‘this selection was, that Mr. Hant — — 
woe of ex n the effeets | 
transparent aie en — growth 
ir, Hunt further stated, 
‘omntniesioners of 
kn submitted to 
ts, his re- 
Palm 
that having fur- 1 
oods and | to 
- | Mr. Hunt, to re 
t 
t after having 
of glass, 
that mineral, when used in the sli 
the us 8 “a = influence of light, | 
am slightest approach 
ae ass — fe mer of tliose rays it 
From the facility wi said 
d, 
ia the 
the actinic A 4 
. act ot oe 
— manufactured 
wa 
| by the use of glasses stained se by. cobalt, i all 
on, because 
ightest exe cork bad Pr 
ef called the attention of the m 
ticular the statem te in the re 
; ponderosa 
frost, but subject to the attack of a bee le in 
ters the Young shoot and eats the pith ; Ser 
