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Baroness 
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Rutland; Chipping "N Neiti * Mar, ry Jane, 
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The Mr. Ambrose for a fancy Pelargonium Garland, 
e 2 To Mr. Ivery, for — of Peet Peckham; and 
Beauty. 
of A descri 
of Astronomy and Physical Geography, illustrated b 
useful illus e elev: 
neat an maps ting evations of | S” 
land, the distribution of lines o ＋ — &e., 
— of wild Roses. Plan of the — — 
dens, Calcutta, and a ee of the contents of a po 
tion of Wee issued from the Bishop's College — 
(price 4 annas). An — of the plan certainly 
students who frequent it. The number of Ginger worts 
is aer of Palms 14, of Arads 21, of Cinchonads 34, and 
o on. 
Garden Memoran 
The Botanic lioan Calcutta.— It — we doubt 
„not, be equally as gratifying to such of our readers as 
2 es lately visited the Botanic Garden, as it was to | 
— ished during the present year in various parts, but 
mor ially on the — side. This — 
especiatiy o 
Mr. | fo —— a waste — in has been completely opened out an 
by walks, flower beds and shrubs, the latter — the 
whole area, na | giving it an appearance pleasant to the 
ch 
n eye. We unders tand that in many of these alterations 
nan 
down for the guidance of our judgment, and tl 
| we cannot wonder eve form of the 
Mr. Kendall, for Newington no poi In the hich have 
been given . it, we have only another illus- 
n n sometimes commit, in 
Rebiews, to support peculiar notions of their own, 
Minor Works.—We have but few minor novelties | | ey r subject the operations of Nature 
to announce to our gardening friends. Messrs. — wag of ries bfal 1 PEEN am N cc 
| mans have published a little Ca ps i Plants found on eS eee ee 1 = d p ff 
wild round Tenby, which will be use visitors in | teachen vain E hei — ree yeh oaa 
that locality. Messrs. Orr and Co. poems ommenced n od. fo d . ? 
2 in shilling numbers criptive Atlas ant to, exam omy of a Talip 
which, whether feather æ flame, are found to pea r of 
so many colo es dis in curves, which bear a 
proportionate relation to each other and to the form of 
the flower i i intelligi 
absence, a good common aie bool glass. The a 5 
ance presented is extreme! ul, and will 
amply 
repay the trouble. 2 — ar. or skin, of 
roceeding upwards from the heel or point of attach- 
microscope the 
ment to the stem. In the ve, for 
the most part, a rich silvery or 3 appear 
ance ; but, as viewed through a magnifying glass, they 
are more opagun, and much duller and 1 in colour. 
ter the 
as been merely carry ying out the elaborate plan draw. 
up by the late Mr. Griffith — the short time he was | distance 
in mege of the institution, and which met the approval | 
f Government. These impro 
ils rn unfortunately 
for — cause of botanical science, his premature death 
ing prevented his accomplishing. It must be a source of | m 
ratifi to h e as — Freg * — 
had an sarani afforded him of carrying 
tions into effect, Nor pes we — that that — 
Dr. ner, who wi w so soon have the superin- 
aces of this noble institution, will make a point of | wo 
fully completing 2 his predecessor had designed. 
It would be un ard losin 
this 
tio: week, the an 
neat Cenotaph to the E — Seog matter 
4 
on oor me the following inscriptio 
ac M GR RIFFITH, distinguished iy the ne zeal and activity | y 
G On 
Great 
i * ellen eni, 9 Tryfosa, Climax’ tions of a similar nature. 
Lord 
he 
1 Kyd, its liberal . another to Roxburgh, — 
p equired 
ai th 
itian; by ‘personal $ igation in e different provinces of British 
and T 
snes and Bright, 3 jor Perseus, 
India, 
d at the margin may frequently count 100, 
or 120, besides some 20 more which pass 
each of the lateral ed few of those in the 
centre run a to up i 
but all the rest g y diverge from the centre in 
re curves of variable length, ing to their 
from it ; but all ne relation to 
t S 5 
sides, although t they arrive there in a slanting direction, 
uld also join at right an 2 * e a circle 
me curve as the upper in of the 
petal, if pul were only sufficiently elongated | to reach 
Between the vessels are spaces containing number- 
ces assume exactly the sa . 
pagers In feathered Tulips the deposit of 
He Im! und and Oxus to —— Straits of Malacca , where, in the 
3 ‘ei: a es poe Surgeon, he died 9th February, 
1845, in the 34th year of his age, and the 13th year of his public 
ser vice in 4 ia. ‘His early loss was deeply deplored by the | Som 
of In 
ndia, and by the leading natural 
historians ime. His yg collections of plants and 
8S. ware 8 to the Honourable the Court of 
1 of the 3 India 3 
on 
i Erected by ete brother a * F. 2 private, friends, with the 
ion of Government.“ 
th Latin and 
Persian inserip- 
Garden now possesses four monuments— ne to| gon 
talented superintendent for many years 
Jack, a zealous contributor to botanical sie — : —— a 
f — 1 to Griffith, —— to use the words of one who | arran 
sl 
in consequence of the greater 
the vessels in the middle and ia parts of the 2 
the colouring is more apt to show itself there in 
| masses; but as the renon proceed upwards, the — 
ly an ines of colour beco 
* mont 3 roi ag ge * spaces — 4 
could eee his is merits, and has well remarked that our 
thou was short he has left a name and This i petals 
fame 3 him 2 but few can attain to, even — a that ws of Nature are 
with years.” A fifth monument was sug- | to the existence of straight or level in 
gested not long since to the memory of Buchanan arrangement of single di curves, eq 
8 trust = ma » erected, for a in their radius, could the vessels be made to reach 
valuable richly deserve record at | the margin at right and produce also the 
4 ga of Government, presh faithfal servant he was, — a — ie 
2 
if 
cular eco 
ents above | 
par not be found, ee Star, Dec. 22, 1847. 
L We f the arrangem 
with a list 0 f the plants 
referred to. in the Natural | 
Medicinal Gardens, dated Dec. 1 1847, and we — ng: 
laneous. 
De cas onde Plunts.— We understand that among 
the many fine plants which will be sold by Mr. Stevens, 
— of M. d e Jonghe, of of Brussels, 
y, on account 
there are several not — At e, par- 
cularly a Cattleya tuberculata, and some other curious | i 
The Tulip.—“ We have now to 
ider the form 
of the rim or margin of the cup or flower, and of | « 
th course the form of the petals composing it. When 
; | viewed N 
. | circular in II. en 
horizontally, however, we have great diversity of form 
5 in i 
| curve which the upper m ‘margins of the petals assume. | Cup p and the 
| It is therefore requisite to determine what is the most 
| correct outline, Hitherto no principles 
have been laid cup. is invariably preferred to the long one. Here, 
