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be separate. Prizes will be given to children for wild | hermetically sea It was then despatched to of cultivation - we can hardly have too much infor 
flowers and nosegays. IV. There s пај] be one show- | Australia, but owing to some accident p was not sent off mation sono ing the methods pursued by those mag 
in the a r som in uccessfu 
with red tickets. The competition of each class will grown was moistened with distilled Apu and then practical ААР, People во onen fail in this branck 
ealed, 
Biack’s Tabata Edition of Uncle Ton 
eautifully printed and p ov eng in 
8 gers), manage th ide an y АМА. дин ды һу йа rs nen 
ovi i les. V. Members onl shell 4 ee, nequal, it must be own 
Loir pin E О a i exhi t d fo Sor lefties. baude ‘critic that many are little gems of 2 Th 
тарт brilliantly got up, and will be very table 
it, on the ground in his own occupation. . Any sub- Linnean, April 5.—The sec. inthe chair. Mr. to the be. of this в-ро ун ава ay cree ^ E 
scriber attempting to gain a prize through dishonest | C. A. Law was elected a Fellow. The Rev . Profes sor Tell ngton — his chai — his — and. his 
means will not be allowed to continue a member. | W. Hincks read a paper on the tr true nature of 33 A writings, By Jules Maurel, „Gluer sa Balle ay Reading), 
VII. All subseriptions must be paid in on or —— the | stems. drew attention to the fact that those de- | —An admirabl pat ch, by the practised hand of an 
Ist dày of November. The e "s fv held in the | partures from ordinary growth called mo nstrosities | eminent et 
innin ugust.— Prizes will be given for Ves 'The | were to be accounted for on general nant holeaical laws. | 
best cultivated ые 's garden isi ca the members; He quoted the opinion of Moquia-Tandon on these 
2. Fruits, vegetables, and. flowers—the best of each ; | faseiated growths, in which that author had stated his 
3, The best collection of common sei ; 4. The opinion that they did not arise from a union of branches. OYAL GARD 
best collection of flowers; 5. Best specimen "of. corn The author 1 a number of specimens, and gave | gardens, of whicl eee, "PEN 
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of each show, and give due notice thereof. pm com- | destination, d delay of nine months, alive and in 
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for which it is proposed to give prizes :—Apples, Pears, separated by the usual internodes. He exhibit ci- | when. he various forcing houses are in full o Season, 
Plums, Cucumbers, Vegetable-marrow, Gourds, Beet- | mens of fasciated stems from the Linnean Museum, a f P apples: alone, the quantity grown -— 
root, Potatoes, Onions, Leeks, Turnips, Carrots, AH from his own collection. The most curious forms were | | enormo — and of the excellence of the fruit or the 
eas, Beans J Scarlet Runners, MN auli- 8 je of species of Coniferze, Fraxinus, Cotoneaster, | — ofthe plants it is impossible to > speak а too high 
— ee Celery, pot herbs (best collection of), C ranthus, Primula, and Ranunculus, A discussion t terms. The varieties are chiefly Cay d 
Rhubarb, and Mangold Twarzel William Urry, Cool, owed in which several Fellows took part. Dried and they are — the most part turned — of ‘ol теш 
Malvern, — ure of Eichhornia speciosa from the neighbour- | beds ef prepared s вой even r hotwate pipes; 
Application Liquid Manure.—Notwithstanding all need “of Santarem m, were рге ed by D. Hanbury, Esq., | suckers are, however, not’ ev — * all, but ан 
that has been oe iesus the use of manure-water, jun. А s wem of Polypodium Bilardieri, from | og ihe stools: and planted out at once. The pee 
there is still, I think, room for a few further remark “ Taranaki, Rew Zealand, was ? hin: ted М Ja p the A 
the subject. As — its profitableness generally, no doubt | Yates, Esq. Several pre рн so ring plants, from | «o « ery one of them promi 
aaa ; but this very fact may, perhaps, occasionally | the Chelsea Botanic Garden, were exhibited by Mr. Moore; I» ior; — every on понела — ves iuit Rhe Rie 
be the means of misdirecting its use. The method of | amongst others, two new species of Begonia, three | The remainder of last season's crop was only cut — the 
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guess, and a. hope that all will EIS well, more Whatby À Museum, was exhibited by James Yates, Esq. 2 — — p н —.— d ar ae ait vere 
by any fixed principle of action. I have 
proved, more dict qi ы as has a very  ENrowoLoaiAL, April 4— The Prestpenr in the кч p E — ts an aes il 
injurious, effect upon ‘the Ness. a quality of Chair. Amongst the do — announced were speci- a € 1 — 7 — 
guano- water ter that will make a Camellia grow well, mens of the larva of a Jam x 
ve flowers, has, | i infe with i 
at least eed a 1 owth, or a ou fron і 
state of tor idi in the атандан ; but the effect upon | Zealand caterpillar deseribed and fig 
the latter flower is is altogether change d, when common | Hooker), presented by Mr, Jones Stephens, of Bogota 
dunghill-water is employed, with which it will be found | The larva is found in decaying ti 
a difficult peur e over rdo it, provided perfect егег Mr. Desvignes — a bea 
is secured, and nothing sour permitted to stagnate about Sphinx Celerio from Eastern 
the roots. The 1 i I 
i ther plant with whit specimen Amthidium 
found guauo not to agree, when sere A " bee, new to the Eng 
about six inches eight ; Buxton had taken it either in Yorkshire or = 
per rs have become etd peo с al It is common in the S 
the appearance of 2 been g at too . Bond exhibited a ground b 
distance from the glass. I have found, however, that a | infested with a hair w 
d mixture of b the com of t length, another specime: 
as given it a robustness which it has not-attained with- | Spirits; taken from the same species 4 
out it 1 have also found its effects on Orchids to vary | than: 15 — long. Mr. — exhibited fe dh e. 3 w 
considerably, but syringing the basket, bloc c., with | Specimens of an apterous moth oria sp.), which : : 
a mixture of w 9 Б and soot irse c" clarified, had been меша qr ia the i amete inm = Мт. — stant nt ntervals, and mn ough to t the back of 
has proved of ad vantage ы all; when applying tise Wilkinson, and which had produced young without any = Попав: Ehe: spaese bones «a h. b ck mal 
same, however, in a mue — form over the foliage, | intereourse with the male, Mr. S. Stevens exhibited sides are pigeon-holed, are filled up with bm ole bottom 
Zygopetalum Mackayi- — its s have become a box of splendid insects recently collected in South the whole bos 
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ned in the leaves and. — so that the America by Mr. Bates. Mr. F. Smith exhibited of the border, and it ean be let up into the 
individual blossoms were placed at too great a distance | Specimens of a Bruchus, from the Cape of Good Hop 18 —— Node w an) anten * pet 
apart, causing it to lose much of на effect; Oncidium reared from the seeds of Sephora — rca Hat -—— — ter the drains 
mapinten © on the. contrary, was so. much improved together with a number of minute Chalcidide, — à withon t еа affording enient- way ( 
— m n ы first sight, to be which are —.— upon the Bruch hi 4 note е agitating sad changing the m of the house, 
or larger flowere viale by. good read from Rev. А. Wilson, of desid ne t fail to be productive n 
metropolitan judges. As a general rule I have found | t loy i d killing —— — "— 
insects. previous to pinning . bost neal, т е e, the Vines a 
in the le leaves, delighi-in Raia eyringing with Douglas stated that in his opinion bruised Laurel leaves | р? А — — lid id al IN the: front of. the 
Ww d clear liqu xem and in endeavouring | were a more efficacious and safe remedy. А note by очу чини руне animes ОБ used for ot 
to work ane * = Pieppo UM mae 8 the Rev. Joseph Greene was read, announcing the houses leaning tbe .igtesior im of | 
which, ous causes, had Meot 
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of — lineata at Youghal, im; the: Seni of | PERRO, AOS Ro; Па finds s this юр one ol 
a watering sat together > ^| Tre e pl llecting the salises : lanted i 
especially after a bright day, was doubtless the principal | of mo reu pu at the roots of trees, е hoxhad | 850: OB: of French Beans, whieh ало, punea 
means of restoring them to perfect health. I syringed found. an. extr y prolific mode of obtaining fine rows on the floor. К The Vines, which аге ae 
plant of Stephanotis floribunda in \ ben. 
3 он — Lists. —— A th and a little 
had its roots. erable quantity of from different trees, and it was stated that detached — passing b nas ir stems, 
fresh soil added, without the loss — a ra leaf. I mui trees, and trees at the borders of woods, were more in nude im: е» front wall: to-& pommodate e ae 
lengthen these remarks, but aha yori enough has been | prolifie than those in forests. A paper by Mr. G. R. oe 
said to direct the attention of others to ix subjeet. Waterhouse: was read, containing a revision of the м" 
ini уйан) Parham. Park, nean Staxvington, mager ies of а Hydrochus, which he | 
had been enabled to make, now that Mr. Stephens collec- 
8 * Seeds—Mr. Cole bas aecounted for а ‘tions have нн ee” qe d by British Mus Mr. | age 
y certain ag Westwood 
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Stephens to have correctly — to ote number of — 
species of these genera in several in r. 
e Westwood also read a memoir on some 2 зс des : 
exotie Coleoptera, бет in China and Ceylon wd 
ed | Major Champion and Dr. Templeton. js 
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Let Mr. Cole and. all. dealers in se see rc 
cme or va the Be By J. G. Hubbard, 
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lassi E ^ Bog. —In this, which i is chiefly a reprint 
Г 3 "te ‹ са the Times, the author - meets the 
Transmission of Steds. An inh —— been taken io the vie Rico io 
seeds of aqua rom 
bottle them in И water, ат А Pr Jor Geology By E P: H Умора: (Тиин! 
w E Lyeopods ; 
imp — i net 
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cæsium was grown until it got established in a shallow | Pots, (Hall & on the Cultivation качае а 211 
and afterwards the morsel of soil in — Pat ie Vitr) 
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