23—1848. ] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
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CHRONICLE, 
Rebiews, rt 
lant ; a Biography, in a Sories -A paea ar oA 
by Pe By M. J. Schleiden, M.D 
Botany in the University of Jena. piena a by 
Arthur Henfrey, Esq., F.L.S.,&e. Bailliere, Regent- 
street. , tab. v. 
to have noticed 
struct —— 
geogra e, 
tion, more utility, &., and — for the m 
written so easily as to 
of any moderate 
current 
are in a great measure devoid boo, which is a great 
point in 
of that superfluity of metaphysic al di 
transcendentalism which = completely o verrides the 
mak 
uiring a size, a a and ramification which is 
— marvellous. li 
rees around 
who nena wood, si 
rupt ‘the | sight, and — afford no trunk hich 
climbed. Beside the Thistle rises the Worm 
the gigantie Mullein or Hi 
sser Russia. 
might be 
feet high, and a tle pri 
the ini habitants, — from 
fully exam 
ts strength in 
we vary sender shoots, 3 
ed wi 
turf are often 3 feet 
high ; — sometimes 10 or 15 in cireumference, arched 
neked, delicate, thin em oe In the 
„the Cochineal of Algiers 
ey inter. 
— oy Pe 
Cochineal a t principles which would 
je] become 4 by slight modifications 
€ body of the animal. 
might not the dlference shown si exist between 
Cochineal, 
ing to a different proportion of tee two principles, 
the Zaccati ving been fed on the 
. r, could n 
e | furnis 
Even the little 3 Milfoil obtained, aceordin t 
ally does liv 
ee of the e Stump. When a tree is cut 
dow ar from the — the e occa- 
pen out k — of wi d bark, 
which foresters call “ overgrowth,” 2 Prot G Goeppert hi — 
observed the formation of t 
accura 
s up in all, light as — dae which 
winds | r00 
ne 
is then ob — the 
Ni 
air by the 
over the ste 
subjeet under hand, and sometimes 
Indeed, the con 
pleasing matter, though the opening porti 
make most readers 
in a similar strain, 
The translation forms a very nice volume, put vi 
neatly out of hand, and reproduces perfect; 
tables of engravi . nd the woodeuts, whic 
at the head of each lec 
origi 
be . and 2 given, me ory the style should at 
me be easy and natural, 
thaukfal that there prbis much | oye 
ery | on 
the five 
eas 
Mr, 
ot ¶ King 2 n 
Id oppor Ewi i to v 
0 | year, — 8 
h Waterer — eraren s temporary — — wang obli 
ud- | hollow in the centre, so 
more join company, and the whole | 
mass rolls away before the piping 
N rden Memoranda. 
Waterer’s peer wa merican Plants» 
3 2 all who 7 
ardy 
Rhododendrons, gp por a 4 Ka ew , to whi ah, 
ed a new — of 3 £ attraction, viz., 
a sma m. Under a large ace 
compartments, with turf-margined — 2 N 
ing amongst — Sa Rhododen 
th 
80 aa 
are willing, 
will do — any ot fotk 
caus 
rmous m 
which is here assembled, varying in the — 
from purple to , and 
flame-coloured tints of 
8 
in this direction year by year year 
plished. If the surface of the 
ag but now the new bark, 
which is — e somewhat 
fol ia e efter of r bends i and 
stretehes across; 
cavity and 
A 
common Pine (Pinus s — 
once in a variety (Pinus pumilio), 
4 under pr 
Bees ly € 
nearly 
This — shows 1 that wood and bark 
oper circumstances ca 
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plation of objects in their various 
. whe preg tn 
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to our — with — that to 
un 
11 
of them it be at 
Dr. Schleiden’s name stands * most why 
those of the deeper i 
d the work ) 
led M. Chevreuil to 
r, N have conduced to their 
with blossom. Althou 
conmpioues 0 
dense 
japonica, some of which 
of 2 feet in 
of — ae: 
te which we may add is 
well worthy of visit, ee. at the e time, 
when the Rhododendro flo 
Miscellaneous. 
The Cochineal Insect. “Pr — of Algerine | p 
les of 
he Zaceatilla of of Mexico has Bees 
— — the 
e possess less e parna ien power than the Mexican, 
but that the difference is less for searlets than for 
The supposed cause i is thus expla 
Z M. Chevreuil. “It has been believed by several 
rned men that the Cochineal assimilates the 
—.— siya og a by the — cochenil- 
lifer, and which a 3 both the flower and fruit. 
But it has been ob this that the Cochineal is 
| nourished by au the | le, s which is not red; and besides i 
that, th 
e 
pulp of its fruit red. 
ich has yel 
translation; | but also — “the Raquette 3 is 2 15 the flowers of 
e 
te or gree 
it is 8 that the Cochineal does not ities 
formed from 
seems to be, it may nevertheless happen that the 
te this subject an essa 
Pro 
ugh these are ‘Petapa the most | Since 
e | showy plants in the 2 there 
ci ces whieh | CaP 
diference, He finds the 
| — 
ant, as it 
tions. 
inexplicable power of rev 23 ay 
d causing it to ascend, wh 
bium upwards to the 
| leafless stem much more readily than the Spruce Fir.” — 
ay 
Dahiias.—Twelve of of the most suecessful Dahlias let 
out — the — sae A a 1847; * how many 
Number 
Colour of Flowers. | of times 
writ io N own 
ury ..../Sparry ~ 
1 ——— g Corn- 
Mrs. She 
ees see — 
[Keyn m 
e K ont, in The Florist 
pect: 
observed these nests, 
hillocks of about 6 inches high 
distances from each other, from 5 feet to 
These were composed of grai 
about the size of millet seeds, and were quite 
might be dluls. Inside each of these 
