3J — 1S4-7.] 



THE GARDENERS' CHR0NICL1 



^.ntrr totally alters, and the change is perceptible the 

 ZZit the frontier is crossed, especiai.y in no i'.::, 

 Stable land, a great many of which are lying waste 

 JhUow, wd the crops, in general, are much inferior to 

 fjTtSdtfais is owing to the system of very large farms 

 held by the tenant at half produce,— he cultivates, the 

 xridfd between them, and thus no expense is incurred 



the fiwt year. From the same cause, in those parts of 

 .'■^country where, as in the Pontine Marches, great 

 ».rks have been undertaken to bring the land into cul- 

 tivation, much is running to waste again, or nearly so, 

 r°»ks,orin partial draining* unl mil mkm ut , and 

 little is wanting to justify the adding to the pompous 



itemm palus." The country is, perhaps, this year rather 

 an usual, as they say there has been a very wet 



general poverty of the crops, and the yellow 







as. But a new era appears now to be opening 



. 

 ; live long enough to give permanency to the 

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Canada, July 22.— Our letters from Coburgsl 

 the Potatoes are again rotting there, and that tl 



; ■ 



affected, are going fast this year. 



Country Shows. 



'.'S:.rtnt:- 



Flora of Ceylon, by Mr 



geaeraof Cinchonads ; a new Thead^cahed^arrTa; and 

 ■a account of the discovery in the Neilgherry mountains 

 "^^iern, unquestionably belonging to the South 

 *«*■*« genus Anemia. In another paper we find 

 detailed account of Indian Podostemads, to which 



P.CiV.'. 



Science and Art?, and deserve! 





Tf ™ e « duriI1 g daylight. 

 " ' .* it £ 0rostt y oi tlle entire plant is fully esta- 



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opment of Cytoblas 



* added others regarding J 



the gardens. 



llv' II. 'l>, 



Dublin: J i 

 street. London : W. S. Orr and Co. 

 Having few books on Natural History from Irelan 

 opened this one with pleasure, expecting to learn i 

 thing concerning the state of bee kee; i g in that 

 try, but were disappointed, for the author i,:.. .liy a 



to he very sreat, for thev ire inintlv 



miss or fly to one side < 



' 



inttissav* 



truly observes, "when the queen is so occupied, t 

 bees that happen to be near her take no notice, b 



author says, " if a young queen be not impregnal 



the afternoon is a more advantageous period for their 

 operations," cannot possibly be correct ; for, in genera', 

 bees collect most in the fore-part of the day while the 



er pound," but perhapsV/. or 10./. N.-ither is our 

 ottnger's plan of managing bees so unprofitable ; in good 

 easons a stock will produce three swarms, whose produce 



IN lbs, which, at 8,1, 



me set of Nnt^boxes, 

 B so simple that a child 



il "apiarian in this coun- 

 lem. This is altogether 



New Garden Plants. ; 



%. Dendrobium ciirysotoxum. The Golden-arched 

 Dendrobe. Sieve Epiphyte. (Orchids*) East Indies. 

 This species, imported by Messrs. Henderson, is ex- 

 tremely handsome. It differs from D. densinorum, in 

 its many-angled pseudo bulbs, small bracts, and 

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from D. aggregatum in the sain •" n -, ects. as v. . 11 as in 

 its great club. shaped, many-leaved pseudo-bulbs.— 



Bulb. (Ainaryllids.*) Huallav, near Pasco, in Peru. 



This rare plant" flowered with the late Dean of Man- 

 chester, in August, 1846. " I have little to add to what 



who well understand the j 



appreciate them. Autumn possesses a less capricious 

 atmosphere than spring, and there is a much greater 



anticipation in preparing large trees for removal ; 

 id the course we have to recommend is, to perform 



ill, in the case of Evergreens, at about 6 inches far- 



dl intended to be removed. Those who have leisure 

 ay perform the operation at twice, doing om -had 

 e circle now, and the other half a fortnight hence. 

 ■lis will be found to have checked ail proj.cn. 

 :y to late and immature growths, and to have 



ball, which will act imim .: : ,.i. iy 



the last week of October ; whereas the Evergreens i 



them safely by the phial mode, which is perhaps 

 with full-grown and perfect ie •. 



'"^ean^Esq.^from Lima. I nn f 

 irance of the sweet pulp, ^ » 



was quite absorbed, 



kept in the greenhouse nearly dry after its stalks dec 

 shoots again in April, and, alter standing out of do 

 plunged iu a sand bed during the summer, flower. 





manure. All 



in give way! orchil*. - 1 -■ 

 arly growths. To carry out tb< 



« indispensable. 



