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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
139 
and unpromising; Abies Douglasii, ae Lore ie flesh and to ieces, 
Fee i Ae kin dsome tree, has t * ing his head, ee — 31 e ee Ga rde en Memoranda. 
1 cones; — 1832, has failed; 2 imes pushing with his leg. As the man approsched e ee Loddiges’ Nursery, Hackney.—Act e pre- 
3 5 feet, mere shrubs, unadapted to cli- one of them, which appeared gorged, rose up, and rations are now being made here for the 2 of 
Menziesii, 1836, 8 feet, hardy and ornamental ; | flew about 50 yards off, when it alighte sti a —— Camellias, whic * is announced ednesday and 
mate; onica, 3 feet, numerous specimens, kase up to it, and then Jumping down seized the bird by th A 3 2 peetion we 
Bias Cephalonia, uninjured by frost ; Pinsapo, | neck. The contest was sev d never probabl — most ite rey iat the plants to be sold'are of the 
1840, 2 apparently y and growing well; such a battle seen before as rnish miner and — con- able description, man of them being 1 
n 1836, 7 feet, handsome and healthy; Mtge ana, dor. The man declared he never had had such a tri : FFC ̃ — Of Hier: aa, taal 
og fro ; Cedrus Deodar 183 3 feet, of Persia 2 = life ; = he put his knee u — foe es 5 tr, and tolerably well set with flower 
heen slightly protected in win ibani, many | bird’s trie all his might. to o twit ts its ire the stock in the two large ellia- 
bes ‘promising well, but not above 5 feet high. — | neck, oe “ab nhs si aia fe tote rd 3 — „where ‘the sale will take place—plants many of 
esor Balfour stated, as the results of Mr. Mac- | most violently and he fully ste y a that Several 3 chem 30 years old, and than some of which finer speci 
gabs experience, hat Pinea be quite =n were flying over his ae TE take part against | tion į do not exist in the country, Though the collee- 
“tlt does not attain the size of a timber tree ty 2 id ass — thein compan ‘h, — ee tion includes many new varieties, yet upon the whole 
; P. halepensis is too 8 mi this climate. | he IPEN rs il e * Wiehe z it is not so remarkable for novelty as fine growth, con- 
. jana ap to quite hardy; P. excelsa pin — i in triumph left the pied for duke but so wih 8 chiefly of old and favourite sorts, whose err 
red in several places from atk but a tenacious are they of life, and so cult to kill, that — a Vs oo e pet Me e largest, 
well in the Botanic Garden; Abies Mo rinda is per- | another horseman who o passed the o spot some time after, Orie ee ee Pte eee 
yi densis does not grow to the size | found it still living and struggling.” Of the latter may © mentioned y rg iosa, a fine tree, 
a here; Picea a always ee by og Popular Fir eld Botany. By Agnes Catlow.-12mo 3 hex in diameter ; Rossii, 10 feet high 
. ; et throu 
—. x 5 Sang the i e. pp. 380: 20 —.— plates, ul speci i hera ge thigh ; 3 ee 
This is a co yuuug persons in wie country ee $ icarnata, ieh as much through; 
who — ata loss how to take the first steps in botany. |a magnificent can 1 rid — 1 
In as in other the earliest stage is earliest importations, high ; sei flora 
that pc it is most difficult as 0 get over; each succeed- | 10 feet high ; a ben formed i — the old 
ing advance be mor than its e Double White, 7 . h, together with various o 
e | One of ny impediments in the way of those who have | of the same variet as 9 and 10 feet in height, 
no om he a is the ens 2 in the teginning Other a of which les will be in all about $20, are 
attends a ser t maki posed of plants varying from 3 to 9 feet in heigh 
Graham se they o exam non nd this ee e. Besides Camell 7 Rhodode drons, Andro aes, 
n nly be removed by dra 2 and very familiar | &c., will also From these fac U be per- 
— ty were a 195 ao Morrison, ODE at ‘Miss Ca 3 in e ik befor us, has | ceived that this is a Camellia sale of no ordinar 27 
i, by whom above 4 seeds were imported | furnished a 2 of both ; — former neat and like, | e Orchid-house, though somewhat deficient in floral 
from India, and distributed in 1846. the latter clear and co We beauty, as might be expe i - 
e 
5 Bebiews. 
A Familiar History of Birds, their Nature, Habits, and 
` Instincts. By Edw 
ard 8 D. D., Lord Bishop 
_ of: Norwich. Parker pp · 460. Fourth 
. edition, with addi 
object of the right xeverend ae in publishing 
pee hus stated by him 
4 This work is intended fora class of oni to whom 
mere scientifi 
creation is enabled, in so 
urpass i. highest efforts of man’s 
e, or philosophy.” 
is lacs to require 
— — of the appearanee of the stows 
. It is prefaced by a succinct introduc- 
_ Won to ornithology, Which young students wi 
3 is 3 by wocdeuts, which 
i the pur of the noble prelate who has 
ed his leisure to 15 production, = bi 2 _of i 
e much mor 
S 
merica ava 
theg lions 8 = this bird to 
rease of a cow o 
: ss on which they gorge 8 to such a 
* 
catch it. A 
for 
rease os aspect of the ee Onctd, before 
e | expa We 
popular 8 — favourable — asi 
THE LONG-TAILED ONCID. 
ws ( 
Sp. CH An. — seu eaves sin, 
stiff, shorter chen the lax panicle, ‘santa all f 
acuminate, the anae much the longest. Pe 
acuminate, wavy, up at the points like t 
2 as the upper sepat, but much shorter than t! 
p hasta ate, with the side lobes short and rounded, th 
mediate eme acuminate; all wavy; th 
at the base forming a five-lobed excrescence, with 
two-lcbed ridge. 
ee, linear 
al 
middle 
Wings of the column half ovate, erect,* 
This Piati is commen in arene under the name w 
have adopted, but the origin of which 
discover 
— 
n, and 3 3 wit 
sick is 2 feet high, 1 aided. into slight arms, at 
- | each of which ich are branches 
are long a ow 
and barred with broil red. The lip i is much shorter, 
pure white, except , where ined 
clear yellow. Its —.— les 2 a little in form, as is 
aand 6, which represent 
ip. 
of 1 + 
d bas serene = 
es flowers in Apri 
commend. her 
thi 
th 
dle, oblong, 
e have 5 to i 
Is 
a, green 
with Heliotropes 
egro, in Brazil. 
adrobium Ma many a iaaa New 
with singular din ow-brown 
3 curled fone of little beauty ; Pile stately 
Phaius Wallichii, a useful plant; Epidendrum Stam. 
fordianum ; Eria paniculata, wit ith panicles of small 
greenish flowers slightly freckled — hd and 
as speciosa, a good spec 
nus, In a cooler 3 che 
eee Ore 
in flower, t e more striking a 
oom De 
and species, w 
filled with 
us, and 
eayi, a fain species, das pale yel 8 flowers 
apresa Pea with b Oneids, O. 
Cavendi was fine 55 in flower, i 
O. Jesoo ian and another species nearly related to 
it, but much handsomer, the flowers m — hue, 
larger, and with the markings more 
Calendar of a a 
(For the ensuin eek.) 
CONSERVATORY AND — 
We have pre 2 5 eee ended the removal of 
— from various hou aid in embelli the 
nservatory ; their bea auty past, they must no longer 
bé allowed to remain, but should be restored to 
eneo 
situation suitable to encourage a healthy growth, and 
consequently an assured provision of flower-buds for 
uture s It is a great ntage to possess 2 
pit which can hy de to this purpose. Where it 
is found mue austed by early 
oreing, they — be supplied with fresh and suitable 
soil. ow of no essential variati e tempera- 
tare, 60° should be the a é. e occupants of the 
eceived it from the collection -i the 
2 Mr. Clowes 
or the ere of these terms see Lindley’s Glossary. 
full development of blossom. Some j ent is re- 
quired in regulating stove plants, and distributing them 
with advantage; the nature and can the plant 
should always be consider Begonias and other free 
growin 
g stove ps aa ie be propagated successfully 
for autumn blooming. 
NEW “GARDEN PLANTS, PUBLISHED IN BOOKS. 
N.B.—* = — handsome. ¢ = Secon trate. Third rate. Į = Unimportant, 
i When first . 
= Where Published; | e Sena, Quatity, | Natural Order. | or Piowerss | of Flowering | Flowered . 
8 C. pl. rar. No. L ? H. X Mallowworts Rose August 1840 Foreign Gardens. 
ar +++ D. C. pl. rar. No. 2. Mexico? | S. % Orchids Yellow and ? 1847 Geneva. 
T (epiphyte) white. : on a 
Sti 6 . No. 3. H. Crucifers White ene va. 
en — S ne 1 E i | 
n tis „D. C. pl. rar. No. 4.] N. Holland | G. R Rueworts White April 1846 Geneva. 
pf ed. — — sisis D. C. pl. rar. No. 8.] Swan River | G. h Rhamnads Green April 1347 Geneva. 
R ; 1 à - | 
= . oly e 3 D. C. pl. rar. No. 8. Swan River G. h Rhamnads Green April 1847 Geneva. 
