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members. Mr. Tuppin West r ad a paper from the in question proves that it will succeed — — in of the сут and strewing a little clean sand ш thew bed. 
Rev. W. Smith on the stellate Боаза called sporangia the properly made bed of a cold conserv: Let corner be selected, where no water cam 
found in the interior of many ir fresh-water Alge. T Riceana, in the shape of a graceful tree, is BEP in дой, эй 2 place them on the ground level, on a 
author doubted if t ese bodies ont › regarded ав blossom m here, and others of the fine leguminous plants substrate of ashes six inches deep, Cover them over 
sporangia, aterm which had been applied to them by s this house contains will also soon be in bloom. | with fine old vegetable matter or tan, or even ashes six 
Mr. Shadbolt, who had first — them. He about a month, too, oe Camellias promise to be in| inches deep, and place some board or screen over them, 
entered at length into the reasons which led him to fine condition, the flow Meo bei ws! m =ч and | to ward off all rains. They may remain in this position 
doubt their being true sporangia, — un —— prominent. Cestrüm aurantiacum finished | without a drop of water for about six weeks when it 
of conjugation, and the absorption of endoc hro which oM the trees vp beon praned « chard he А зщ will be well to I them a little tepid liquid manure, 
ani m is way, bot i \ 
е imes 28 r many of them E 
were produced m abundantly in confinement 8 fara ht be expected, there is Tittle yet ew and several of those whose fibres n through the 
than in th : ro f ers t 
ed with. 
e same as those which he had see e bodies Per in American garden that a piece of a dung b Wie ere there is sure to be a continuous 
he had seen were produced under the same circum- | Portland cement edg ging for walks had just been laid bottom-heat of from 65? to 70^. Here make an exea- 
stances as the ordinary zoospores.—A paper was read дин: Tt is made in foot lege the, r^ holes and other | vation in the warm material and place a board as & 
by Professor Quekett'on the presence of a fungus and | openings in the portion inserted in the ground for|base to prevent the fibres coming through; on thi 
crystals in the heart of an Oak tree. The author stated | allowing the water to escape Roth, “the walk into the | place the pots, v cover again with only 3 inches of old 
tat ve E "A а pic-nic pao эп der the cele- | borders, and it has an ornamental top, standing about| and fine tan. Now they may be kept close and dark. 
the King O n Marlborough | four inehes above the walk, and inclined slightly outwards My — is to nail doth double mats over that 
Fara rgb suddenly fello " Atfirst sight there | to the borders. When neatly laid, as these were, a|portion of the frame or pit; these are fast day and 
ing. unt for it, but on examining t the wood good substantial edging is formed, which costs 8d. a night. By the end of —— they will be rising 
н red damp,a ind on bringing it home and фіны yard above and 9d. below 100 yards. There can be no through the tan, and the thing now is — remove 
it v me ages it was found to eh a fungus | doubt of its standing the weather, Portland cement being | the old tan — А with um hand from those ripe for 
lodged in little gaps of the woody tissue. harder than Bath stone. It is patented, we believe, by | development ; from some wholly—others partially; with 
Upon й fibres of ie en, — — them to a Thomas Adamson, jun., of Turnham Green. An example | a nice discrimination, = retaining a shade, meh te 
extent were er of erystals of of another kind of edging, laid down in the Orchard | air freely. In a week or во a rem moval may e ence 
prismatie and tabular (orm The woody tissue around N appears to possess considerable merit. 14 | thos cet à expanding first, and so on т Аре attention 
the fungus was softer and more easily separable —— : hard, of a good colour; cheap, and being hollow, beg frequently given. And now beware of the sudden 
thi er pa Mr. Shadbolt mentioned, in con- | enables е walks to be relieved в spe edily of water. It | effects of | light ; this transit requires much — they 
nection with this subject that when iron was used pen is 15 44 inches broad at the о, 68 inches Jess meh about | have to be inured gradually to lights and a comp 
fastening mahogany it Wee thee by fungus, but when |а foot long. In for ming ves, as in e of | absence of bottom-heat. My practice is to né them 
copper was used no MN effect followe Adamson's tile, very ime lengths are aeta i a "Mr. under the stage of any intermediate — for à few days; 
Hogg, the inventor Ports tates tha t 5 ea are chere they become gradually reconeiled to their changed 
ligo r ee сее of the sam Boss nd the condition. From hence, of course, — 2 ass to a front rad 
1 e works, as the Ratan hollow bricks; and from 8 in any „and henceforw: 
3. otites of t Books, &t. : T have seen of them pari pappe t я ecome е 2 on their management ‘is so simple 6 need no advi 
Ай Caroliniani Base. We о] ee, — to the we Алло 5 win can М be pet is — 2 the fret st à e in tho bulbs 
м supplied in any; uam rat 3, e or about is а on, to up the vaeuities in their in 
dae by Natural. Spe степа of. the Species. By supplied LN Y p а аны Meer pens 
H.W. Rave asc. I. J. Russ Russell, Charleston, 1852. With respect to wall trees, we may mention that the | previous summer ; and that until this is complete, 
CRYPTOGAMIC flint okie so ex xtremely variable, and in | Stanwick Nectarine, against a south — — made | hurrying: processes are vain. The n next stage appears 
con fice so difficult to determine from any specific | shoots from 4 to 5 feet i in length; and, as a proof that | to be the conditioning of a free development, based 
phrase or descriptio n, however carefully drawn up, that | they are well matured, it may be stated Жозе ie) are on the well-known habits of the bulb in a state of 
typical specimens are Almost indispensable to those who furnished with blossom-buds from the base to Be РЫ nature. During the last stage, of course, ee yum 
wish to attain anything like aceuracy. Numerous | extremity. Thi form, and all t 
works containing dried spe ee have gra ll. to 2 "yt 
facilitated the — ve these curious and b beantifu As regards the айе чы which are being made — enfant 50 e in requisition. N. E., January 31. 
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age gl est kind З 
appeared in — which is extremely r that the Doulton drain pipes | Өм: (J АГ ont 19, aane ee men 5 n 
rarest European forms, and swarms with нечени w { апа ground d; that before us hag but thre:jrows of petals, with a 
eeuli 1 E pex = the centre ; color carmine, or deep pink ; foliage 
peculiar to itself. It is with great pleasure therefore that | which can only be remedied by attaching them to а dark green 
we аш the das e of the beautiful p before us, | brick flue 4 or 5 feet from the fire, and then it would S iui attention. — 3t Ea 
v" ining admiral in : : INERARIAS be necessary to have two sets 
. the w. e 9 rel = == & | be unsafe to employ them except for houses i whic for our two large exhibitions, as one s осот demands pm 
WDR IE gener all the moderate amount of heat is required. Six-inch, iron pots, \ while t the other requires ii-inch p 
— айша" зч бици of ae} — but ed bipes have also been tried, but in their case the fire | рални о . Your request nnt be 8 
iiu (——O . no means e n herbaria, | s to burn, “although they have been laid with a Nannen engine artus 3 
lut y ‘ena - ongiose, N e my 2 e to the chimney. For the benefit of | pecerven a schedule of prizes of the Royal Botanic 
di — а "eraterium, &c. Out of 100 species | those ish to try Doulton for greenhouses, &c.,| London. We have previously announced when the 
P sedi à Con of the species е of Pith — ih and 11 of|we „бы mention that they may be jointed securely in rt f Brees cie te Lo ee. 9 
there eo a чеч o Pa B5 o dia peinain ba CAMP UY fles 7 АБЕ бен its equally good jo oint may shedule of prizes oftered iy y the Midland Ho "Horticultural Soe 
oe made of lime and cow-dung. b v 
9 a very © ee Owing © the violence of the 2 * of wind of the 26th] expectations we held. of the society бани the Derby 
to every Он who is an der of Fi AB It is of last December, assisted no doubt by the wetness of | Arboretum for. “л exhibitions are fu fully realised. The days 
that ere long the aaa enin of materials Seeed the ground, many of the large ehe 1 “үч, pete ec unies T ad a 2 у: 
by Curtis, Ravenel, an hers, will be pu — іп а | other Co nifers, were blown о prevent as they, in n proportion \ — Dunt we shall have a won etr d 
— available for the pa Sais student, both in E ok, n hi is 
an erica, Hr ME : is: Exhibitor. The National Tulip Exhibition this year 1s, 
shrubs likely {о be injured by wind, hay T believe, to be held at Nottingham on Ma 25, w hich so far 
concern i rtu 
a. fair flo wer of the kind, but um 
hi 
Garden Memoranda in the garden in future, instead of upright stakes Park, is to take place; if е,26 had heen selected Ew 
HoRTICULTURAL Soci dioere TURNHAM GREEN. | Speaking of trees, reminds us s of what many will be ee preva har. teehee oer mE s dent mu crat fd 
—Two pie of by far the greatest interest here at interested in know se viz., — Mr. Stewart M*Glashan| Park show was concluded; as it is, either the one or the 
re the —.— Е 2 in eee i-|has received permission from the Council to test = must be lost sight of. 
fm an € mple of t e Showy efficiency of his trans lantin a — in the 
Dendrobe D. osum), in due nod se which was onc Some time during the p k nting | ani ш 40 
а Pine · stove, but which is now converted into an Orchid-| We observed a notice in — — Room that Dr. А Miscellaneous. 
house. The —— is in on the end of si its noble — — intended to neta — the — on the rela- seeds 
Bue; it was lrg wien ае! — — | FLORICULTURE. 
: ccnl specimen. bis epeciea| | Fonomo: zami Hracnvru.-— The. i 
t is, a truly sple men. T es o: tae Hy — 
— bloomer ' : 
but it has not proved so annually this charming flower soon after Christmas, is a pretty will soon be as mixed а tew. 
lishes a display — whieh, E ^ the why good proof. that the constitution of the bulb is very Just look at the tons of Horse.radish that c rer 4 
Orchids сап can compare! Less showy perhaps, Dit | imperfeedy understood by common cultivators, who | every winter from the continent ; age may just as well A 
effective, is the fine emm iae above че often contravene its —À - nne into; and | try to scrape а коке. Their Asparagus is is all 
alluded to, It has 20 spikes of pale yellow blos- | endeavour to co ntrol instead of natural efforts. | white, and as hard as their Horse-radish. The worst 
soms, which a few days m more will b bri Fink. nts such ра юл м аге maxims for puras "Testing, which, if of it is that the English 8 don't know what it is; 
who hav ttended i a ticket 
g it ought to now, wi 
the good fortune see them. This too ie one of the | first-rate — early in January, as has bee п | on it, the stuff would very soon find its level—let any 
finest plants in ve бае. It was long before it could | the сазе with me this season; S the one . — to eat a Dutch Melon or a French 8 
— — a flowering g state, but ever since that | oie are good. As to the quality of hem with our grow this 
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t one 2 possessing а kind M protuberant ri xim at root ee o mro bli een 
wable in leirele, Pot them immediately, in a rich pre Now, one thing is oertain, чег ay wel 
leis [sei Keeping. ihe bulb. base level with the rim vim | foi thi got 
