2—1853. | 
THE GARDENERS’ 
Bi ah hth hod teed hae 
Frowers or 1852.—It may be interesting to know 
that the Polyanthus has at last found a home in the 
south; one or two of our principal metropolitan qoem 
ed it to their collectio ons, = that the 
oon becoming as 
ere 
nee gre Fo ourite 
= + as it — = borse nor x Our wish expres sed last 
EP be — for 
eek is ther in 
— ny will the perineal 
flower be well grown, 
created. Se edling raisers will 1 
novelties, and in fact the Polyanthu 
one step X aim M Tub n 
ye Be = т 
ЫЕ 
шау 
zm 2 2 = cie n), Bang 
4 (M aud), 
uro 
hie 
(Ni 
de Exile Ой), ын of Lincoln i Hufton), „ 
Fo on), King 
George the Fourth (Buch), 
Fisher om). dn J. Russ 
(Colliers), a. 
now turn to t 
million, 
ing (Nicho 
ell (C legs), Princes Roy. 
yal Sovereign aa et 
Cineraria which is 
e least 
тай 
not oint of бере about it bei 
its 3 for blooming from the a re a it 
days o 
a 
prolific than its p 
progres the flowers submitte 
not only numerous but 
me posse 
otice. Th 
n 
We admit, howeve 
ssing much: merit Norm also submi ей to 
f thi charming spring 
but t further interest will soon b 
ket for their 
is | POLYANTHU SES: 
As gui $63 dh we mention 
that the flowing are e: names of a few of t best 
den 
a 
al 
us 
raly a a “flower for 
Ing 
of 
le 
cessors, but T was certain 10 lb les 
us for inspection 
(Dobson „a white self; куе (Lochner), white, very 
faintly etg with light 
nderson 
le ; 
He urp 
Rosalind (E. 
We wish w 
subjects, many of сий 
ме really get — ear after 
мю this Š 
C 
к pem tted ; 
trusses of first-rate бай dy th 
ecessary." Its hab 
and SUN colours also 9 erable to 
t in plant- 
water mater Wil bo required 
is spring or ‘rain, let it be well e 
atmosphere 
shead 
as the house care to have 
for 
protect ion 
it of 3 blooming 
exposed to 
it of the same tempe- 
s soon as th 
g of the 
— — Сайыы colours 
rite d Anjou (d itto), crimson ; 
x: 
NA. mode of|ex 
wer m € so inch "followed 
of 
many | an 
h 
Rain-water is orefersble, but 
of 
m. side of the Cordilleras, been repeatedly quoted as 
| undoubted fact, which it cannot be, unless = nt 
y the firs 
annually for a number of y back, from which we 
have cut a great supply of але Powers, from July to the 
end of October.” 
MIDLAND HORTICULTURAL So „ Dersy. The sixth annual 
report lies before us, in w mie eh * — glad to find that the 
Society has no liabilities. 
about by offering limited prizes, for we read that these have been 
increased 33 per cent. as compared arg I vious years. We 
find im 1400 admissions have be sued to 
during the past s season, but that 24 were not used. 
that ы Society is anxious to Mog its sho 
Derby Arbor pun. and that 
the authorities about the matt 
"E ALOGUES received from Mr. Keynes, of Salisbury, and from 
Mr. Bragg, of the tar Mies op ae 
rer. Don in bloom 
stem; rather let the few bl » f the ten ta 
strong, in due season it will again thraw up inte truss, or 
what is perhaps likely, many trusses. 
We le: 
hows next season in n the 
Miscellaneous, 
SS чесе A Roots for Seed—The natives prepare all 
s, Radishes, Carrots, &e.) for seed as fol- 
0 
ur best 
modern horticultural works; 
according to to Lindley’s e 
au of 
g th 
E uring thoit atent 
бебо 
t Po — 8 
up, and so much " of де ing about one-third 
its own natural proportio the wo 
re-produ uction ; eset fibres are row 
juices whi ch would 
the 
instead 
dissipated below in a multitude of offsets. 
n descriptions in thi them 
e 
a 
for the sake of comparison, and the 
485 Kel ribed. The Koormees (or field cultivators 
x our p say that it prevents degeneracy,—that 
t is — ab tr - choice с -— 80 
80 
оп alternately. Lieut. Lowther, in P —Ó 2 the 
Apri-Hortioulura Societ y of the Punjab. 
Coccidee of t ive, "€ — Lemon, and Rose-ba 
uthor proceeded to 
er 
g been pm 
ntral 
n the 
The disease called ere 
by the Italians, fumagine i in the n 
CHRONICLE. 
This result has not been brought i 
due 
nu 
subseri ber 8 
e Committee is in treaty with | i 
e 
my | Q. Jal 
r, m its usefulness. I have always prepared seeds of 
23 
and Loranthi. Among the first we may name 
splendid Schomburgkia E many fine 
Oncidia, Max ; while t 
bear P. Til — pev hangs de 
branches and wafts its delicate fibres to tl 
ri 
0 
eet, an increased 
т Me п forests on the low 
tions, fertilised by the soil wł h. ias been was 
Mn n, and also in thé barraukas or ravines, where, wi 
want of light, there . — likewise too great moisture. 
elt ris, 
As cha bab. rm this 
tomentosa, and affinis, 
3000 feet сап loftie 
i 
e (17 
is great; the аке is is the fln t one ean ddr It i 
concerning thi i i 
opinion prevails , on 
against the e yellow fever, blac 
— ail on the e T 
ads d on expe нез се 
. — than c^ eee suppos 
or it applies also 
to thos 
here К а аге occupied by 
above-mentione: Low sped of Oaks ; the: wei tas only in 
localities whe rethere isa brisk change of air, a free ee 
of moisture, and viis re no accumulation of putrescent 
vegetable ee can к place. The heat here, бё 
very exercises no deleterious es nce on the 
—— e never heard the tme who consti- 
ue the scanty population of the nnas, — phs the e 
ast Oaks are pae d; 8 garo 
m nowhere b 
prinei 
[ those c 
lapensis, one of the largest i Mexi 
smooth, toothed leaves ; Q. Ala 
with large, coriaceous leaves, v volly a 
neath ; Q. po пүре „ a small er 
woolly, grey leaves ; Mex 
willow-like le 
Aroidez embrace sera soci ly con- 
ing 
duet: dendra han 
NE ssa, 
and m bp: 
office "Mon osses and 
Sede the Эн» of the Oaks 
grow Chamtedorete; and on their roots remarkable 
arasites — n Жа аз the scarlet Mono coc- 
inea, aud Conopholis sylvatica, whi — to our 
)robanche. riety of woody t conneet 
he stems and Sis the forests impen ы; such аз 
Janisteria, Paullinia, бат НЩ thorny Sarsaparillas, and 
limbing Rubi. d Vine surmounts ie 
es, 
ae 
as 
be a special malady, or m ely the result of the attacks 
of the Coccidee. The без бива the latter рк іоп, 
stating that the 3 never occurs except upon 
atta those insects. Of these he says that the 
occus adonidum, a — of Senegal, attac — 
0 he 
occus s native 
"o 
they commit the greatest ебек Comptes Rendus, 
2 T а р. 183 in the Annals of Natural History. 
Mex s. Alexander von Humboldt has ee 
e lower limits of the Oaks on 
at 400 toises, or 2400 
enm db 
"^ 
with t 
of the e Cordilleras, ы 
to Vera Cruz), hi 
statement should, in ptt be ein exolnsively to 
. | that line, fe not be extended beyond ; for then it will 
be | be foun And yet has ‘is: En oldtian view 
of the lowest limit Mexican on the 
an 
eau 
both north and south pe “that = Oak-forests i me 
with, down to the very coast in the department 
f Vera Cru It is Q. o pie бча; — — аа 
t very 
A 
to coast ; * handsome, large tree, 
, growing in clumps, and fining. s — groves on the 
alfested | parts with flowers of 8 hur i moment je» savannas, rarely small forests. These savauna-groves 
least speck is observed. The si used for Verbenas is 8 much pieturesque beauty, by breaking the 
те of turfy loam, leaf-mould, and cow dung (the | mono tony of the extensive Grass plains. The tree has 
re, оны tos black 7 wit a a small portion on of|shining leathery leaves ; the stem and branches are 
fine river sand, used as rough as the potting 7 it. | mostly covered by masses of parasites with ipasa ена | 
By the above mode I have ve grown about 150 pots such as Orchidez, Tillandsize, Pipera, 
. 2. 8 Р 
er ч o 
Nees, PEPPE 
e chemi nis 
trees | observed, that a 
Rose-bay, and Peach trees; th 
of the Indian Archipelago, iiia d the Lauraceous trees; It 1 
| ts the greatest 
avoura 
and Itin these tha t 
of glaucous-blue grapes with the acorns.“ 
tebmann, in Hooker 's Journal. 
-Preparation of Liquid Glue. By М. S. Dumoulin.—All 
last ` 
is heated and cooled several times in contact Em the 
air, it loses the property о dede ing a jelly. M. Gmelin 
ution of isinglass, enclosed in in a seal 
me phenomenon, 
e glue eee fluid, num did not form 
a jelly. 
rod 
blems most diie ult of solution in organi 
ient for rS, joiners, 
pasteboard- workers, Ra and ers, as it is 
applied eold, I ке, b. тыд ec order to increase = 
e pro It consis 
manufacture 
tate | at a 
dissolving it in 1 litre of 
When all the glue is 
(spec. grav. 
time, 
‚= 
ing an two years, 
without its undergoing any change. It is very conve- 
Visea, — — 
* On felling a large Oak, which was to an E extent 
overwhelmed by a wild Vine, sixteen large baskets of Grapes 
were gath elding 180 bottles of juice, which was into 
