278 THE GARDENERS ыы ёз ыы? [APRIL 30, 
aL M. x latito the splendid evergreen Myrica caliior has scribers to the institut urely there must be fg 
AS. А doe ee aid; sot T. “Magellanic "i 15 e Taxus adpressa, Т. elegantissima e as YT number of. noblemen in the coun = 
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aT ra have been much hurt ; I. nghamii | many others d; w T : arginata | m eep gardens and employ gardeners, besides a а large 
sh fol. | is killed. Tideo 4 noble арлана of the Pine family, | number of landed gentlemen. Are they ignorant. of 
Pinus Montezumze and macrophylla,are not in the least | the existence of the institution in question? Twen 
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fine evergreen, and hardy ; the Rhus, from Ше north | Mexican Pines have also s ered ; Abies Brunoniana election of pensioners, I trust that the cla wl 
ndia. is an uite hardy; t nds thou j e ' Araucaria | give their support an and — to those candidates 
Dorycnium sericeum is much injured ; the Coronilla | Braziliensis and A. unninghamii ; Cupressus Lamber- have at any time cont ributed to the anpati, of D 
auca and C. variegata have both been killed ; Spiræa | tiana is not injured. his is a magnificent specimen ; by. having been — bi B. C, Canha 
lančeolata, which in ordinary seasons’ remains quite it is about 8 years’ growth, and is 20 feet high, and 15 mA 
green, has lost its es - the plant is uninjured ; across, and the foliage, like a series of bright green | why gardeners are not greater ‘supporters of ti the charity, 
Spireea panitera a flore-pleno is not affected, and is now | feathers, extends from the very ground to the top. This | They see by жыласан баі iis us begging 
just coming into bloom ; the: Soles species from the tree is admired by all who see it. C. arcos, edge x di зе enable persons who н ontributed nothing to be 
Horticultural Society's Gardens are healthy and phylla, and funebris are not in the least injured ; while elected. — to t . a others who haye: 
hardy, coming now into full leaf; Rubus spectabilis, | the C. lusitanica is nearly dead ; the — ы Thuja subscribed to the — of ies ns.] 
and the sweet little teegus crenulata, are much | Doniana, intermedia, and pendula are not injured, after | Potato Disease.—I.am sorry to a you that ‘the J 
injured, while the C. pyraeantha qe -fruited) will standing out for many winters. Alex. Pontey. Potato Sen bas already made its appearance in, at | 
make a splendid evergreen ; C. Mexicana is stripped of | Cheap Seeds. — Having seen Salpiglossis coccinea | least, one place in this neighbourhood. Isa an unmig. 
its leaves, but it is full.of large cm fruit; Stranveesia | advertised by two different firms, for very unequal takeable ease a ‘fortnight ago in a frame of 
glauca, a splendid evergreen, is not in the least injured ; | prices, I was induced to purchase a packet of each (one Potatoes, the haulm of which was nearly all d 
the beautiful new — Photinia dentata, is not at at 28. 6d., the other at 18), in order to ascertain if they J. B. Whiting, the Deepdene, near. Dorking, uma 
all hurt, and it is now making young shoots several were the same variety; but t, unfortunately, I have not — — — 
inches long. This, 1 Think, will pee : very v 1 able had the chance, for not a single seed has vegetated of S oriett rs 
evergreen. The Р. в errulata i is not so hardy; Eriobo- | the? 18. Dn" , while the other at 2s. 6d, is ready for a 
trya — — is not injured 5 3 it is a — ba otting o I should a 3 males that both} BOTANICAL, or EDINBURGH, April 14. —The Parse 
bio. ersicolor in-most.seasons is ever- med were sown on e day both were |.pzwr in the chair. The following papers were read: 
— but aie — "it has lest-all is Ладо, while: the | subjected to the same inn m Gar тый) 1. On a new species of Caulerpa; by R. K. à 
8 species from China. has not — — Caly- Aphis-brush.— The 23 woodcut repre- LL.D. 2. Remarks on British Plants. Part III.; by 
canthus preecox, major, and m injured ; 8 an instrument which I met with last summer, and C. C. Babington, M. A., E. R. S. The author first 
while C. macrophyllus ‘is killed. К — the — s the mos ost useful thing for эрле паса from | noticed Myosotis alpestris of Schmidt, which he now en- 
All the v. arieti es of the Deutzia remain injure : Roses which I e used. It siders to be identical тей by him in his of Kitaibel and 
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e ety of М. sylvatica. M. alpestris is dis- 
most delicate shoot. It is. easy — Mus M. sylvatiea by “alee attenuated base of 
to clear many bushes of these the calyx, and by the: — - e. — He 
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injured ; as are also E. macrantha, ciosa, 
iflora, and-E. rubra; I think W таг the 
— uently it is elastic. The name sot — pyllum, one ide aia he 
nes to be in to be. 
are severely in ve now together, and in this position they determined. In T. Serpyllum there is a di 
take off every aphis without in- between the flowering shoot and that which is intended 
jury 2 the foliage. The steel is to extend the kunt. Quite prostrate and rooting shoots 
fc ound, changing to flat at are p year, which grow from the end of the 
it grows 40 feet in height. The evergreen, Viburnum the bottom, where it begins to curve, and it is secured shoots of the preceding year, and do not flower; 
es uninjured ; the species of Caprifolium from | to the brushes: byserews. I believe -the-.eontrivance there spring from the other axils of these old pr 
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and now in full bloom—the flowers are was invented by a 5 at Colchester, from which parts of the plant, short erect or ascending shots, 
deliciously fragrant ; Lonicera glauea and balearica are place I had it. The brush heads are 3} inches long, and it рее, — a linear series, and each of which terminates 
i osa is not hurt, the handles 1 foot. J. H. S,, Regent's Park. in te spike, consisting of a very few whorls, and 
yrsoides is much} Gas Heating.—Allow me to recommend an “ Old | vidi io. back to the base after the seed has fallen. 
and is covered | Subseriber" (see p. 261), not to bink of using gas in m mae shoot is perennial, but the flowering shoot 
a summer: y:small white flowers, which | his m he intends to make a“ show place” of is annual. In Труш hameedrys there i is no-such " 
ehay. The charming | it. e gas, if used much and continually, will make manifest. separation bet эч ee fovering aud grow- 
arborea and ustralis are not injured; nor һе show of his plants that he will quickly repent of | in bud often produces Ше 
the прита slide formosa. ‘This rare plant |his introducing it, rir he will, I — not be long in e ‘shoot, mim — — in flowers differing 
produces leaves six times as large as those of the | substituting some plan. Hot water circulating in | thus from t shoot of gr 
Andromeda floribunda, Arbutus procera is much pipes has always — to me to be the best mode bias ts —— sia flo —— shoot... It wants the 
injured, but it is recovering, and bursting into but gas he will find ee and highly i em. gular - of T. Serpyllum, and pu 2 
bloom; Arctostaphylos tomentosa is у=. ly | А Young Subscriber——I would advise your corre- gular m of leafy -shoots and Дори 
killed, and Pernettya pilosa м — me d, | Жнын on no — to have any — of gas . No — of a Tour in the Hartz 
while P. speciosa remains unhurt. Several of the in his greenhouse. Therefore the best way of applying А. І. ; by W. L. Lindsay, M. D. ee islong 
Nepaul | ms have sustained —— eat wil will — m water-pipes — by gas. I tried an n communication will be found in 
injury, while all the Sikkim specie ubburt. This | ordi without a flue, in.a e ae and |.to-day's paper. 
class in about twenty c sli 507 hybrid Rho- my — — —— much in consequence. J. H. C., 4. On the characters of the Natural Onder Solanacere- 
dodendrons raised by Mr. Cunningham, of Edinburgh, | Bath. By T. Anderson, Esq. 3 i Did 
I have now in full bloom R. vernum and Sir Walter Gardeners’ -Benevolent Institution— A Working 5. On the -effects of the past winter on plants 
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scott. The Nepaul Azaleas are not much injured, but | Bee "-asks, * How is it — urserymen and in the „ in Golden Acres Nursery; 
he pretty little Ardisia japonica iemuch hurt. The Olive | seedsmen. in the United Kingdom have been appealed by: Mr. P. S. Robertson. In the Pinetum there 
from Nikita is not in the least injured. The splendid | se in vain to support this institution (for the relief of | were по. coverings of any sort given to the plan 
Myrsine undulata has sustained far more injury than | aged and infirm gardeners and their viia ; are — in order to test how far they might be calculated to 
or many winters past ; this plant will form a beautiful | all so poor, or have they no sympathy with a elass of stand our climate, and these results now appear 
vergreen, * t uk E a sheltered situation ; men who have е helped, both renis and indirectly, to Juniperus drupacea, macrocarpa, rufescens, Ie 
^ грлу пе Fontan reeoid raise them to positions of of |} sa and fe excelsa, tetra * 
is very much injured, but Ligustrum japonicum and L. affluenes?“ Admitting this — to be correct, gona, dolabrata, sphæerica, are not the W 
sempervirens are both pe ie and beaütiful ndi ; | let me ask, Why the peo of em me exhibits such a ч flaccida, mexicana, 
L. laricifolium is nearly dead; I ch | paucity of gardeners’ names! Js it that they have no | killed. Widdringtonia juniperoides, cupressoides, much’ 
generally g 7 not deſend | injured but not killed, Libocedrus Doniana, one plant 
now died back 2 or 3 feet; the — asminum | the — * — — nited much injured, but another shaded eee, 
Wallichianum and the species | from the north of India Kingdom ne of them, but beg your by a bush, quite fresh. L. tetragona and ehi 4 
and J. nudiflorum are -perfectly hardy; Buddlea attention 85. ғ few facis which -your — quite fresh. Biota "Thuiopsis dolabrata, Cu- 
Lindleyana is much injured; B. salvifolia has been seems to be unaware of, namely, when the first meeti funebris, squamosa and ericoides, * i 
epa 3 pe — Retinospora. 
killed; ‚во also Veronica Andersonii, Lindleyana, was called by adv — sc in the autumn of 1033, te — heterophyllum and 3 Cryp 
and salicifolia are much ws The pretty dwarf | take place at the Turk’s Head I Hotel, in the Strand, for | japon macrocarpa, Sp я 
ia strie all Phlo- the purpose of — the necessity: of such an | from Simlah,- all quite. — and. hesch. — 
e a they h or less injured, most of institution as the опе we now have, the gardeners did glauca, ved but not | 
t past; to that ‘ll: The — met,and on | Lindleyi, thurifera, —— killed down to the тоо. 
in емма i is | completely evened ; Laurus that 1 thei — Pinus Brunoniana, nobilis, religiosa, N hy 
a beautiful ergreen, is greatly injured, to lay the be of the . etes loniea, amabilis, grandis, Pindrow,-W ebbiana, Pinssp» 
; the lovely evergreen etin Institution tution, hich last- — paid кари to aged | Menziesii, r e obovata, Khutrow, aro ай fresh 
E most.of tl red, to the hand amount of and health i 
ortuni- get into: ae aid нт ев sus ча the fst meeting — one gardener ene | 
macroph much supported t the institution. 1 do 
olf d winters; E. jeponieayrich! E — bh for i t they hi ^ raised повів, 
be y clothed men, but on the contra: ave m eful thanka | 
in amber tinged — wing fast, and does for what they have: = —— — — lace are 5-4 
Ч 4 ; men: although — ems is not во great, or so 
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| Who is there who will not blush at the gardeners’ want |. 
of se”, — — own poor or bro есми br — | 
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: iij жеймин); 2 shoul be put upon their trial, ‘and 1] ee Larix Griffithii (ocker) seems quis 
| ант, am much mistaken if abundant evidence cannot | excelsa, ~ .ayaenhuite, . 
Quercuses are much cut up, bet nid — died vom rd to s ала Оне. 1 
e а lien i not ij ile G. | setae v “convien em of want of s Delve tt | Maza eee Sabini 
macrophylla muricats. 
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