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862 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. bac. 20 
en “ought to be able to produce at least two orf owing to the imperfect combustion 3 * t con- | appears he never saw) 
gand —.— different sorts of — en on ae dinner table | siderable expense, t be remedied, to mention proof of it; it is quite possible ——— 
very day throughout ear; and for the lovers of the nuisance of the smoke itse lf; in the age of labour | questio ws little of the cultivati . 
Artichokes, the Cardoon suppli ilarly flavo arising pagpa the e which, under the present them from degenerating ; that he hada good @ 
t a season wh — — i any cases exists, f emplo ing a man for rô s tain, for Lha — 
The medicinal powers, too, of both plants ought to be the sole — of aitending to the laying, ge a and | but if he still retains th that he 
mbered, an d, time 
up flower-atems:i in the au 
useless ; but the great diffionlty i in this — na is 
the b lanching process. The — of w 
2 po — is apt to 
is bet teas apt to 
without — — Dear ; ee 
then the Cynara flavour is a S lade too — and m 
reminds on the aio 8 
shop. O. as 
Half: hardy Piants—“ W. C.“ would be glad to be 
informed where Quercus insignis comes from. 
canno ascertain its — country, — wishes to know 
a so ; also Lept 
troduce 
hope that may a 
kuow of f no „ Quercus cai called by botanists Q. insignis. ] 
lase $ $ 
nt. | found o 
a 
m | will, if — carried out, 
e it will —— — cheaper. 
gins ‘or its n mahos, for itis 4 excess of light and 
ye tan the coo the night, and the 
ation — — all pa ing at defiance, 
wich i in my opinion will give health and vigour to the 
and — to the fruit. 
ed with it each 60 feet by 12, all of 
entilated, front and in the sam 
agonal currents of air, and it 
always appears to — in hot weather as if all the air of 
the house was in ra will not 3 to 
d motion. I 
reason upon this, I only give you facts which I have founded under the 
long to the 
thought due much abused British sheet 
far 
ot * 
enough to be acted upon.] Since this was 
oured us with th i 
in oe vers has 
— aaa 
y 
a convenient cody of “Heat one bears 2 
contri 
sheet glass, for I have | man 
; | involving much pamo 
| stirring, and feeding the fur 
available w 
- | the pipes, — — chambers i 
the atmosphere m 
=| of w 
es 
| general cloudless at all periods.of 
ason (De 
attention 
2 ese eV 
day tor notes a the heat r 
“er houses. Then 
generality, where this agent is not employed 
02 
ere 
at all Baron in general more 
It — evils, or any of them could be 
a — oe angga 
ay to great impae eres in 
horticultural er The suggestion I have 
— is, that in all cases where gas can be readily and 
ply obtained it sho 
t open the w 
very reason to — ee a light 
me to — ia it for ne ie poses, 
Nay, e —— there is 
no gas to be t, I make no doubt — that from the 
— with which i is made, and the 2 - the re- 
any extensive nurse seryma 
out of sight be — the A 
considerable size, Maks a orn: 
mental poet would produce cane efleet, the columns 
of the 
way, an 
and having a r (which is one of the b 
| forms of — ý ide 8 of them. gone 
aged, there 
necessity for that constant attention to the fires, whic! 
to obtain a due 
of — 
be superseded. By us inge gas ag a 
may at once be gained, and afterwards sustained 
length of time e i attention. Lastly, e 
portion of the heat generate i 
out pa was 
eat of flame required 
cases, the h 
hort, nr be employ 
universal enen heating agen e dry ness 
asily be — by the presence 
ater. The details of oe required any one 
er contrive for himself. „ Nov. 30. 
Melloca. — The Ullu extensively cultivated 
throughout the elevated region of Peru and * 
where it is known en uina, an 
same pan 4 on ns the two 
varieties of — (Oea). eee 5 ll the 
En v s between ple river ane d P tosi, 
een [3° and 19° 30’ South aer, and at an 
| —— of from 11,000 to 13,000 feet above the level 
of the sea. It is no ot im 
of La Paz 
8, coal re are still * e 
ired in cul 
for . Me wie bet heat 
aps still more clumsy a and eumbrous, * 0 
e unsightly, in the shape of 
ng POT 
to hi an Man 
uld be used as the heating nje 
ould fing | within 
i might be all — . ate a. by Sea made vaa sometime 
Sou Oca 
sale cultivated in the vicinity ¢ of the care Bolivian | 
i b 
m too much wood 
suecession of beau n 
gonium a — in this country be 
1 
co 
— — 
Seedlings, such as 
find the ants arise to the surface 
—— burrows un under ground, and pac 
or four divisions 
a AN EE A EREE 
part ath to envelope 
g | pangga made, and so —— from — internal 
heap, ap are engulfed i in “the outer circle. Of comme, 
: onan s I scarcely need 2 
necessary for each separate detachment. Nevertheless, 
it will be found that, — two or three 
en will procee 
this will co 
t | application has en * — roy 
solitary lump 
ed 
careful exam 
r 
n 
eriod in the spring. 
alluded to be left until the sun p% gained much 
the ants discontinue their packing system; they 
are in a cad it beeomes too late for the operation. 
— Builer, Shorneli’s wood, Plumstead, Kent, 
Solieties. 
BoranicaL OF EDINBURGH, Dee. 14.— 
tuberosa 8 Oca Augris and Oca ame al it is —— 
sed em ton 25th of July and the 10th o 
seed employed being generally 
r food, and i 
. 
= 
7 
a tee frozen over, the 
8 
Gas 
dia: 
mind the and varions ivance from the difficulty of boiling t 
notice within Sampo few years for Psa heating a at an elevation e Sy wik be — the 
22 e cannot but feel a little surprised w lition — water is seareely high enough > ry raw 
s how comparatively cumbrous, clumsy, and costly | ve les, 192° to 195° of Faht.’s scale. nt- 
is the apparatus even ticultural heat» | land, Lind ndon. 
purp No Men evils s sopua ; Pelargoniums at Gibraltar (see p. 830).— Donn a 
by the in his letter on the flowers of Gi x es 
es, Hane, snd fre eee and i feag ea pos 
tance, | there, and fren slates (uisk byte i 
nfit | tion 
— by 8 containing 
f | ma 
by drawings. 
in the Epidermis * peran by C. 
Mr. Murchison stated that the bodies u 
consist of nucleated. cells of 
nueleu 
r 
of a tran ene 
ody about ~~ of an inch in diameter, 
into four by a crucial. septum, 
divided farther, $0 as to give 12 
centre, and 8 in the cire rence, 
li ia 8 e 
