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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



-J or by the small barges from ( 

 maet u that these species, finding 

 5&#, have continued to gr< 

 at Severn Valley was an estuary < 



vsisr. 



The river, now eot 



f marine gravel and sand, sometimes 

 aneus of Cardium and Cyprina, Littorina, 

 Mi.t i, • >strea, and many other genera. But besides 

 tW tadoubted sea-beaches, and the two sea plants 



1st inch as are seldom found far from the sea, occur at 

 nnoos plices on the banks of the Severn, and also 

 Mm u traditions of the sea. The most conspicuous 



ism maritimum, Plantago maritima (Stourport),'Scir- 



Sr R. I. Mcrchiso.v read a statement from Dr. Gbp- 

 pag, that he had succeeded in converting vegetables, 

 ■ smoi>tstate,andata temperature of 140° to 210° 



jmt ;'and by the addition of ^ part of sulphate of iron, 

 ; .• : •. 

 be had produced the black colour of ordinary coal. 



The Rev. L. Jenyns exhibited some specimens of 

 w»d which had been attacked by the larva of an insect 

 *W Ctllidium Bojulus. The external part presented 



Jlpeat damage in'the nei 

 PW.Esiuk.n 8tated thatt] 



i Callidium Bajulus was i 



Mr. A Hlnfrey gave an account of his researches 

 •««^»o/fa ffl /jfe toM stems. Hitherto 

 "fiad not been enabled to follow out the structure in 

 •sfcLd ^ "? d the P resent P a P er waa alm »st wholly 

 -Moeato the description of the principal modifications 

 T™ w natives of this country. One result of his 

 Tl«™* » the confirmation of Schleiden's opinion that 

 ifBS^T** F thG mtUre ° f th « fi bro.vas- 

 J^ondles is the only universal mark of distinction 

 rw2w £!l 0f Dicot yledons and Monocotyledons. 



■ ■ ' . 

 ^P« or non-developed internodes, as established 

 *Tbcb] ei den, was substantiated. Among the second 

 5 r*° modific ations, the first when, as in the 

 S£^ &c ->t«e leaves pass off from the base of 

 ^rporti Be f cond w here, as in the Lily, &c, the 



*****?*! , ™ °J ly by « ivin S off tenches. In 

 *ker7r,fl„® ■fwn/kng stem is to be looked upon 

 *. mZ \~"?™S branch - The stems at the bases of 



^iJoff'J; J dng " 0lkL The P° ints where th « 



i*se***% "ftss Sir*: 



^^oST affo T ds an intermediate form, when 



57 ■« Ue aw! ^T* of «" vascular bundles, that 



was glad to find that Mr. Henfrey's more accurate n 

 searches had led him to the same view of the fonnatio 

 of wood which he (Dr. L.) had advocated in a pape 

 read at the Association in Birmingham. The views t 

 both Dutrochet and Gaudichaud - ' u: 

 entirely hypothetical.— Professor 



£' ' ' 



this sul-ot i 



i of Monocotyledons j 



idogens were used. Thus Mr. Babington, in 



bJi "Flora,'" • ■ 

 press sub-classes in the 



d Dicotyledons. 



PLUM OF CARTHAGENA. 



::»... Take up with the p 

 much of the ball or fibre, as possible, and trans 



It, however, often happens that notwithstanc 

 your care, winter will destroy some plants. A ] 



by always keeping some plants in reserve 

 nursery to replace the dead under the frames. 

 easy to preserve the plants in the nursery, b*cm 

 situated in the best place in t), 



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M.»"e Ml'l.Vr "'.:.'. 



■lurmg a clinical lecture in lus nursery. He i« cartful 

 to thin out the branches (I'eanO, :.■ 

 the tree goes on, leaves the leader, and in May or 

 y in .June pinches off all wood shoots, and the»e so 



*e make bloom buds the next jcar. hut th«.M , niched 

 which are not strong make bloom buds the sum 



r ; some, of course, shoot after lump pinched, th< no 



The leader is shortened 



Transmit,, of Gooscbrrrycuttino, to AmtricCL- 



lvi p g ' af6W i?IS"c2 



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,, whole should he «. II pack. 1 in a sea-chest.-/. F. 

 he lower end should then be lo-lt ll in a * und 



CULTURE OF THE 



Towards the end of August, or rather about the l.'ith < f 

 September, you should choose a damp time, still better a 

 gentle rain (for a true amateur ought never to mind bad 

 weather ; he should turn everything to advantage, and 

 put himself . n i i t o out of the question) having the borders 

 prepared beforehand to receive the Carnations. This 



forming it into beds only 3 feet wide, and sloping on both 

 sides, to facilitate the drainage. I strongly advise this 



inspect the plants better, and' there being only three 



if you happen to make choice of a plant in the centre, ll 

 is very difficult, if not impossible, to make layers from ii 

 if there are four or five rows of plants. In the nexl 

 place if the winter is severe or changeable, the enow 

 February and March, a very bad time for Carnations 

 wide beds expose you to the risk of seeing all yonr hopei 

 blighted ; but when the beds are but 3 feet wide 

 it is easy to guard the young plants from the incle 

 double, placed on each side of the beds, and fastenec 

 together at the top so as to form a roof. A pole sup 

 ported at each end of the beds by two stakes, and 



the places to receive the plants, at equal distance* o 

 8 inches one from another in three rows ia 9 nlB ^^ 



that'the Culver Key ^ 



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> not seen those garlands 



