THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



71 



' terior. The country 

 , £«1 "- ii}, ° • ]L soil, and subject to 



■ ~ as 



-^••S^aS--^-. - g e of 



We had scarcely 



when a storm co 



f «J this set the final sea 



S*^ q l;r^co,,t f .r the in It** wi 



- ,k Tf? « «ith .ood of great .prill. 



)(' 



al on the year's 

 n0 . md this set tue "--; - 

 sno ;: Sthw the coast for 



■„ now to to« " c 7'i .7e a very pernicious practice 



SS^**^ Ji: .« "7 a-.ro.ful sight to behold 

 iE***i tt ee thus t-rematurely and wantonly 

 lrfrte " - not a coumry where wood is super- 



*\ £ ".appear, wd the prevailing trees 

 ST £ twS- the south become gradually 



i 



are 



. AS. .ccount it will be at once perceived that Mr. 

 -KS w rthy the support which it receives I rem 

 Bj ^ > . u r ',• mment We trust that the same liberal 

 !^ w 'T^ed to Dr. Joseph Hooker and his 



^Vtir votmc of the Erebus. . 



"?£ VC ry laudable in this officer to take upon him- 



JaS-towbichheirssDOtliable, and the Botanical 



STwcihimadebtof praiitude for his meritorious 



lertiotn The public, however, has a right to expect 



tto those collections of plants which were formed at the 



Sit npense, and which are now supposed to oe buried 



!iAeBiiu«b Museum, should be also made use of. We 



trait that the Lords of the Admiralty will take measures 



to mcof to from their lurking-place, and cause them 



to be placed in the hands of Mr. Benfham, than whom 



it is impossible to find a Botanist better qualified for their 



exusli' . Tne collections to which we allude were 



formed by Mr. Barclay, and we believe Mr. Sinclair also, 



the former of whom was sent out at the public expense 



mi &c forming such collections was part of his duty. 



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NOTICES or NE W PLANTS WHICH ARE EITHER 



USEFUL Oil ORNAMENTAL. 

 in phvlla. Rasp-leaved Shrubby Sea Lavender. 



■'irij Grwfawe Plant. } Plumbnginerc. Pentandria Penta- 

 rrma.-Ttai5a very beautiful species of Ntatice, and easily cul- 

 I MM uahaidy greenhouse plant; but of its history I regret to 

 mt | :ct no satisfactory information. The Royal GardeuB 

 d lew ire i; c-d for the possession of i to Mr. Low, of Clap- 

 tt»*,tai it exists in several gardens under the name of S. Dick- 



"•rows abundantly in the woods in Jamaica. There was 

 also ill the same case a Podocarpus, a tree remarkable for 

 the beauty of its wood. This house is heated by hot 

 water in iron pipes. Near it were several ranges of pits ; 

 one of them, heated by hot waer, was filled with Green- 

 house plants, among which were good specimens of 

 Heaths and Epacrises. Passing through a second span- 

 roofed house, 64 feet long and 16 wide, which was filled 

 with halt-hardy plants for bedding out in spring, we 

 entered an old stove near it, which contained a few Cacti, 

 and a collection of other plants, along with two bulbs of 

 Ornitbogalum revolutum, being part of a large importa- 

 tion of Cape bulbs. In the American garden was a bed 

 of Andromeda floribunda, covered with flower-buds ; this 

 about April and May will be a sheet of white bloom. Heie 

 were also several plants of Rhododendron Russellianum ; 

 this scarlet variety is perfectly hardy ; but they had mats 

 thrown round them to preserve their foliage ; the Rho- 

 dodendrons are intermixed with Ledums, Vaccioiums, 

 Heaths, Andromedas, &c. Extensive additions, Mr. 

 Marnock informed us, are soon to be made to the general 

 collection, and also to the Medical garden. 



Mr.Mackay, of Dublin, informs me that he raised it 

 irayfrd sA'tican freed s, given him by Mr. Harvey, and that he 

 tasmtwHl it to have come from PortNaial. But! find nothing 

 «J tfce kbd imong my own specimens from that part of the 

 eatrrrr .sad although Mr. Harvey is aware that lie brought to 

 •.JUckayjeedfrom the Cape of Good Hope, he had no reason 

 ■JpOK that the collection contained any from so distant a 

 £S*nasPort Kata!> Respecting; its native country and miro- 

 w rnn.r still remain in doubt j but there c^n be no 



•swum 



as a stand- 



Tke Naturalist's Corner. 



Virf/il on Grafting. §c It seems impossible not to 



observe the beautiful manner in which Virgil has de- 

 scribed the ingrafting and inoculating of trees, in his 

 Second Georgic. The variety of expression which he has 

 used in speaking of the different sorts of ingrafted trees, 

 and the various epithets he bestows on them, render the 

 passage exceedingly delightful. The Arbute is distinguished 

 by its rugged ness ; the Plane by its barren shade; and 

 the Pear by its snowy blossoms. It would have become 

 a prose writer simply to haye said, that any scion may be 

 ingrafted on any stock; but a poet must aud beauty to his 

 instructions, and convey the plainest precepts in the most 

 agreeable manner. Thus, Virgil, after he has said that 

 Walnuts are ingrafted on Arbutes, Apples on Plaues, and 

 Beeches on Chesnuts, adorns the wild Ash with the fine 

 blossoms of the Pear; and, instead of b. rely telling us 

 that Oaks may be ingrafted on Elms, he represents the 

 swine crunching Acorns under Elms, than which nothing 

 can be more poetical. At the close of the passage, he 

 gives life and sense to his ingrafted trees, making them 

 wonder at the unknown leaver and fruits with which they 

 are loaded. — Professor Marlon. [All this maybe very 

 well for a poet, but it would have been none the worse if 

 there had been a little common sense it it.] 



Manckineel.— The fruit and the juice of this tree 

 (Hiffpoman* mancinella) are exceedingly acrid, and the 

 latter was at one time made use of by the French colonists 

 in America, for the purpose of indicting a most barbarous 

 torture upon their slaves. The scourges- with which they 

 lashed those unfortunate creatures were prepared by being 



. „.,.— < jUrils s j JU r llluclU magazine. 



■«ww jam-sis. Field Peruvian Lupine. [Hn'f-hnrd,, 

 — ») Lepimmosre. Diadelphia Occandna.-This is a g. v 

 J^^«.»0fm:ng one more addition to the larpe eeu. 



Stin 2m5T w .? a , re rich bri ^ ht lilac - e,,lix enC(i b >' a y« lu,w 



"amber the eaflets v»™ fr 0n , c *,. n m.'.J* .... 





steeped in the juice of Manehineel, and thus every blow ■ frosts, f. 

 inflicted Otuaed the same agony as if the scourge hau been q( -^ n 



red-hot iron. 



uiSm ll l* l eaflets var y fmm 5 tf ' 9- T,ie s^*- h r 



^^^^mav be dN-ingnished more accurately than bv the 

 ■«^TTrsi by ?" ta,,i8ts ' BrC "blong, smooth.' and 



rnwirpw ■ t, t erentt,nt - lc ls il half-hardy biennial, 

 «S^1ntaS T; hi ?S' aml fi^ringagreat part ol 



"•sBtmioti tSS a half - 8 bra»>by biennial, is best treat. 

 Jlaiefc.ia M n.U.! ee{1 . s . should b « sown about the berinninc of 

 rinsM 



"repotted """J own, u: 



to '^n ? e;Sebr^^:: iU ?_ iu ^ smaU » K,t ' »^rward 



I 



: 



Tin the cou 



moved to a cod ptacc. and kept dry, in order to prolong their 

 I flowering season, iltat iaaromatica ought to be grown largely 



j for forcing : it is on« of the easiest to cultivate. A few Stanho- 

 peas might also now be forced. All of these p'ants that have 

 been kept ihrtragh the winter should be plunged in tepid 



water, to sort tile nross or peat, 8:c. in which they are grown, 

 preparatory to regular watering. It is yet too soon to encourage 

 plants in iters! V -row ; many would be benefited by a layer 

 of fresh soi' or top- ssiiifr; give large portions of air on fine 



suntiv da v.- . 

 ComehHttortj.— Established plants here should about this time 



have the n I rell btiired on the top of the p->ts. The surface 

 of the border should i ■ be removed altogether, the soil stirred 

 with a fork few i-.c-he^ deep, and a layer of fresh earth laid on; 

 more air should b< given for the first week after this operation, 

 to sweeten the. house. Fast-growing climbers that exhaust the 

 soi! in a few years, an lecoese stunted, ooghtto be transplanted 

 now into ! so I. rpomtta Learii always flowers best when 



young In fn sli so 1^. 



Greenhoust . ■■ As large poi tions of air are admit ted, more atten- 

 tion to w. it a is- »ec o / ; many greenhouse plants would be 

 much bene. i*- they could now be turned out into cold pits 

 where frost could he kept from them ; our long nights are not 

 favourable to vcrv early spring growth; indeed, nothing can be 

 more Injorh us Hi many woody plants than to allow or 

 encourage them to grow early; sott-wooded plants that are 

 annually en* wri or ;i -,* -piuncd do not suffer so much from 

 growing odt of season. 



Forcm"--!'- > ■.-- ! hen la a good deal of room for speculating on 

 the causes which rCWlei r .,i,ts liable to the attacks of insects. In 

 the forcing-; .-".t* wt -c< ; ar y plants infested on which an insect 

 is never seen in theopenair. Moist heat being essential for 

 these pits : tterlng is nccr.ed ; over-watenng is a great 



cause offailnrt iu lauts, and a dry atmosphere and sadden 



changes an- neatly a« 1 - Primnlas, Auriculas, Anemones, 

 Paeonies, and almosi aH plants that flower in April, May, and 

 June out t ..'mm . will force and flower two months earlier if 

 not put into tt>» inncli heat at first. The whole race of papiliona- 

 ceous plants will lorce with less risk than other tribes. It ls a 

 good rule to submit aH =pare ornamental plants to winter oi 



s urine forcing. — /'./'. - 



H.^. FLOWER G vilDEN AND SHRUBBERIES. 



Out-door Department. 

 In gari when r< and was thrown up rough in the 



autumn, I will by this time be pretty well mellowed : and there- 

 tore as the weather i* dry, it would not be amiss to dig the beds 

 over again mi - &»iHg some more of the soil under the direct 

 action of -c . - : ,>o^ h< ;e. Where the ground is poor, enrich it 

 by addin ; m« lr crnnp «t, such as lea!- soil, pear, and loam, 

 mixed together, but ho irt fresh stimulating manures, or you 

 will have btiong rampant plants at the expense ot a fine show of 



Shruhh ries. -II other work has been got pretty forward for the 

 spring a lew it: • «r weeks might be advantageously spent in 

 reirulatinr the shrubs, such as tyeing misshapen plants into good 

 forms peg; »wn bi tubes to get the naked ground covereu, 



and planting a lew evergreen trailing plants where such are ne- 

 cessary. Ex me your landscape scenery, and see whether, by 



takim* down a tree here and there, or lopping a tew- branches, 

 von cannot let in a distant object or two that may be worth 



Se TT^'r/ rmnes.' -,-arlct and other Pelargoniums planted out 

 in pits tor ; « winter may be potted, and placed in a little heat. 

 The fir«t opportutritv, make up a gentle dung-bed for a pro- 

 pagating fi sine, s a to get to work in earnest, and without any 



tuicni.ru j ,,, .^..poRlSTS' FLOWERS. 



The weather is i stremely trying to Pansies, Auriculas Poly- 

 anthuses fee <v tirisseason they will m.t be so well able 

 towithstim even cold, not having been inured to it ^by «fMW 



Fioj •- " flowers grown on beds, such as Pinks, Fansies, 

 be mi antageouely sheltered, by the insertion 



„, »„,«,. v ..uehes ol Spruce Fir, aoout nine or ten inches in 

 teoKth, whh ow a tree circulation of air so essen- 



ially necessary to the well-being of these plants but at the 

 8am J tin ; them from cutting frosty winds, which all 



florists know to Ui u r».-,t) are so highly rietnme.tal. 



jViipa - Mtend to the directions previously given ; wnilst this 

 weather continues, they are going on as well as they can do. 



p olU ant ism ' fe we observed that these plants do 



best on » d*. W e bi re also bloomed them exeeedmgly hue, by 



K rowingtl . m it. qu pots, which were place 1 within others of 

 double siJte.thi ii act veen the two pots being filled «itn 





o — ^%. i-L.iuo iii (X siuai 



Mantrt ouMn*thp U «, > e . s l'' ri,! s- frosts is over, they mar be 

 m me open bord 



j^u" ab " ut ,le ' 



««• lt*25£TL!' € ne vcr so fil1 ^ as w hen t reated as ab >v e 

 Mr -»«rtwee a J "° ln c<,ru fiel(ts ,u ' Hr a-oxa, In P. .... 



fc»,r 



er. liie seeds may also he s^ .i in 

 e middle of Aplil, but tin n the plants 



Miscellaneous. 



J\'cte Foreign Works on Botany, $c— Link : Jah- 



re« rich! Tiber life Atbeiten lOr Thysiologische Botanik 

 imj«hrel84l, 8vo, pp. 78. Link: Vorlesiwgen fiber 



die Krauterkumle, liir F.( unde der Wiesenschaft, der 



Nahtr nndder Gilren, vol i. 8vo. p,.. 1 1 I , with 2 corner- „ ouvl „ ,,. , . Jie - ro ot« secure Iro.n timae occasional 



pUte8 . Link: Anatomia Plantarnm, Iconibus illus- ^^' ■ to the red suider. which may Uroly be 



trata fase. 1, 4to,pp.ll, »ith 12 lkhograwhic plates. 



c:.i 



•"'"ineovarr. n • i ""'""' i'«\m£- irom ti n ro 



■^^ooTui^in -' u wever « hM moBt certaiirli only 

 wales m each.- Botanical lUgtUer. 



'^■'WforpW , rrf ^' Agent's Park. 



+*"*>H hou Z X LaVe ,afel ? »'em erected 

 r^otl, ^ iboattt feet long and 16 



- S< vi ral 



hi'i-e. A 



Un . tk . . . -» — ■• *« wide has 



P» tnis is in two divisions, one of 



ith Pa!~.-~ "* cultu,e of Orchidacese, the 





'? 



etta Terecuuda ; Sobralta sessilts 

 bloom, being the fourth ti of 



Verbandlungen des vereins sor Bef»rderung des Garten- 

 baues in <len KdnigYich Preussischen Staaten, vol. xvii. 



part 1, 4to, p]>. 168, with a coloured plate. Link: 



Ausgewfthlte anatomisch-botanische abbi:dunj:en. part 4, 



folic, up. 10, with B lithographic plate*. Trinius und 



Ru)»precbt: Species Graummm stipaceorum, 4to. pp.189. 



i :„„</■, ,satio>< of Carbonic Add by Charcoal.— The cells 



of wood-charcoal have a diameter of about g fe s of an 

 inch, and if a cubic inch consisted entirely of Cells, their 

 united surface would amount to 100 square feet. By 

 experiment it can be shown that the cells constitute ftb* 

 of the whole cubic contents of the Charcoal ; and allowing 

 lor tlie i] » occupied by the charcoal, the actual surface 

 of the cells will be about 73 square feer. When charcoal 



is plunged into carbonic acid gas, it absorbs into its cells 



no less than 56 f-.toes their cubic oontents at the ordinary 



tcm- ature and pressure, and consequently the gas is 

 condensed to mospheres. But according to the 



experiments of Addami, carbotlie acid liquefies under a 

 pressure of 36.7 atmospheres, snd we are hence compelled 

 to conclude that above one-third of the carbonic acid 

 which is condensed on the wails of the cells is in the 

 liquid state.— MUschrrlir/,, inPohjtechnU Mayazhw. 



Elm-tree* upon th§ Boulevard* of Paris.— For mariy 

 years these beautiful trees bare been anffertn?. end it was 

 supposed that this was owing to the attacks of the Sco- 



lvtus destrocror. There IS, however, now some reason to 

 Mi]. pose that it has arisen from the too great proximity of 

 gas-pipes. On opening one of these, it gave out an 



Q ;;;;- t . to the red spider, which mo truly be 



va ; d to b he g« - these plants have to contend with. 



^ Cam, -A* :i; time is tepidly drawii* on tor potting 



u , ( , wcll r ■■ j - compost heaps j turn then. « iten and 



uarticilarly in frosts fcxamine your turfy loam, break ad the 



lumps w t el ack oi the spade, and ithough not made in vara), 



Uestroy w >t m< rcj every wireworm you iee. It m hadeco- 



nolnv J :,, P „t iii paj in- tentiou to your soil, as a single 



lliSCCt ,-• . ion will ofun destroy Camations to a 



ked. Should a iroat tuine, gather 

 cow.ma. ue ii , tares, pile \i In heaps, to ^compose; 



andt Ul | table retnse ought to be collected whenever 



° P S3w w being forced, to obtain early cutttnga where 



J. F t " '• 

 IV. PINBM I ES, VINERIES, &c. 



Pi -The temp i ire ot thefrnitfeflfP" should from tnls 



, „c i • week tillit i«70° mght 



: iui -- , ,,, « humidity of the atmi liere pro- 



!Srtloni 'P ilartohavethebottom.il ■ tween 



1 ';/.;,! . . t are now nhuwiag truit, and that areto 



ir:li ; ( . M .. - t !fl€ fited by teeing some > pieces of flbry 



1^ ! tlie irm on the surface within the 



a large stcc ed 



sapZ**' Hon "^ wt * ,, "e ng th< 



■a^l^'' SproclnJ 1 ti,ishoilse ^astheold Stan- 



' ^^esl'h 1 ^^^-^omahin^!^ 1 ^ ! '*£*\l oflV-n'sivc "smell I and plan's of Wheat, Barley 

 *£ rOQl '^col^ !{eN a " ««tie of pieccaof Hazel ^ r*-ted in the s, il surrounding the pipe, soon ceased 

 •bib? t0,rards t^e t Cntreat ^«e bottom, and radiate i ^ g™w. The rooteot tbet,« in the soil were blackened, 

 iaanA ~- e t0lv ^ • • - - and re out the odour of the gas, which was very 



offensive. 



«*, 



•e 





ton r bottom, and radial 



*» a principal ad van t sees of 



tlower- 



ni 



-iii -mim*— stenis °f Stanhoneas and 



: ^X d *«? urip b d e T n e ^ rea,li 'y p-« u»w*» ^ 



**£ ' e&8il y Prevent T; Uva y s from tl * Point ol 

 ofthew dfromfa11 ' 



the 

 ing on other plants. 



.„, , l, «c ia r „ e -— —""i^ on uuicr pianu 



C ' :arl yremark ah i? ne ^ 0t ' Msxillaria aromatic 



o:e 5 on account of its bright orang 



a 



-Pot. Zcit. 



CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS 



For the eu^iong Week. 



[.—HOTHOUSE*. CONSERVATORIES. Jtc. 

 Any new plant that flowers in winter is uoublv^valuahle. ue- 



•odendron splcnde denia n i, and Manettia oieoicr | 



.v.: '■ ihecollarofl plants tir>t removing 



| (I Vi ' r , . .hat may be fadmjr, and a little ot the 



old soil l« repottii any of the socxressuu* plante thax nave inw 

 rtjelrmota i nch moisture, or other cause, use the soil 



; u B 1(n , v . :,. ••! as free from sourness as possible, rhe 



lining - l.eatedby menus of fermenting material will 



requ f re *tt< «ow. Keep them dry, and be prepared 



always witu plcntj o« reringrorthe roof of ynnr pits, to ob- 

 viatetln in iry Iron Midden decn ot temperature. 



vjn , | „i ■: the time the Vii es *re in bloom, avoid 



gyr i nj ■ ,,- ... • e stem, which should be kepi moist. Tye 



"j,, tiil . . ts as thei advance, allowing room for them to swell, 

 Mu l Bt( e l -- Endeavour to keep the covcr-ng upon 



tne boiv . nf < . an nothing can be more injur-. us nan to 

 havettn roc c tiled by drenching cold rains. It is now time to 

 5 hut U] ' « secow bouse j see that the rights are in a clean 



tate, and thi hom-e, geaeially, in perfect der. Ihe Vlnesn in 



the lal u ae-ahm be pruned, it" not already done ; any truit 



tbatveti iii^ tmuld be hung np Ina dry coo* room. 



p tac u Dtu ---the mild weath-r we have h.rhertohad, 



thetrecs hi r lon-hoosa wUl have been advancing 



without f is v time to make ^..tfi^r when 



I5», syringe freauentl*. p "^""^® 

 J, th< ,,. , • in the flrsthonsei aud now u hen 



the fru » *et, use the syringe freely. ^^^ tmrb 



Fll h - ■« • ep a t, genial atmosphere, and syn ngc w . h 



soap week, to destroy any insectsthat may be about 



th ^ K* t aw many amateurs and gardeners who have 



