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the general characters of these -— species from the | 
Sortettes, | fewness and — й the со The following New Plants. E 
— papers were rea dies Bu 3 erta tanieal Tri rip to | 33. - ELLINGTONIA GIGANTEA. i 
Carevontan Horticurturat, Рес. 1. — On this the мест чре Moonta i in * 1853; by Prof. Сех. снав. Strobilus oblongus, ligneus ; "squamis 
occasion office-bearers for 1854 were re elected, For the Balfo our, Notes of a Tour on M Hartz e numerosis m" truncatis, per apopbysin trans- 
prize offered for the * four sorts of Dessert Pears, Part II.; fo Dr. Lindsay. 3. Note on a Vegetable Sub- versé (ob bracteam sequilo 1— omninó adnatam) 
ae were по fewer than 14 competitors. The prize stance formed in a vul pipe at Hafton, Argyleshire ; | suleatis, mucrone іп medio. Semina 7 — squamæ, 
i he Mr. Lockhart, with Brown Beurré, Bezi by J. Hunter, Esq. Communicated by Н. Paul, Esq.) SUPT medium pendula, —— , utrinque alata, 
de Fr am Beurré d'Aremberg, and Marie Louise; About 12 months ago, having occasion to bring in an| — , juniperi 
2d, Mr. Catder, with Marie Louise,Glout Morceau, Winter additional supply of water for the use of Hafton — In another column will i». foun а ап — | of. 
and Hacon's Incomparable; 3d, Mr. Addison, with I had formed a small reservoir, or — tain — as it | — —— — tree, divested of m botanical 
Winter үз Beurré d'Aremberg, Bezi de Quesnois, is called, from which to lead — e water to С us now ане — з upor 
and Beurré Diel. Dessert Apples: Ist, Mr. Calder, with — fountain head, erease the — in — * grounds we conceive that the genus 
= ENS Blenheim, Ross's Nonpareil „Royal Pear e latter. The —— — the tw by W 
. эд” ellingtonia i Н spear established. 
d King of Pippin Morriso n, with | — ans of a burnt clay pipe, 2 — in in diameter, and in| Wellin gtonia isa tree with the imbricated xn Ж 
Bienen, 1 — ч ною, Ci, кай Rn M Xp — ч 36 inches, — fastened at the joinings with like 1 eaves 2 ma Tod nipers, attached to the branch 
>= ‘oad base, pue „as happens in the more 
an cement or ie, the total length of vd piping, b 
Crocket, with Muscat of Alexandria; 2d, Mr. , | — 320 yards, secured at each end 
e агу. ysanthemums : a Mr. 4 inches in diameter, in order to prevent any — vigorous shoots, the the leaves acquire m develop- 
n the w i ment, the 
the su ғ 
Triumphans, Warden’ Dupont de lEure, Defiance, until б fortnight ago, when the runnin water amina. But they are alternate, not opposite. In 
Plutus, and Vesta; 2d, Mr. Laing, with Queen of through the tile piping gradually diminished, — at last Sequoia and Sciadopitys, genera also havin — 
England, Nonpareil, Vesta, Leon Laquay, Campestroni, almost entirely ceased, a mere driblet, i indeed , finding | leaves, the leaves acquire the expansion of a Tax 
lter’s ie. its way into the old fountain head. Upon examination, ог = 
sailles Defiance, and rr de Marie. Finest Chrysanthe- as to the eause of this change, by raising a considerable The cones are like those of Sciadopitys in size 
2 › | 
mums in pots: lst, Mr. Laing, with Queen of England; on of the piping, there was found, about 
2 K Rad, with Salas Antje. Bampouatn pots Ist | between the too foustain hewda, the vegetale substance | sre form, but the неч ant uo a 
Mr. Laing, with Sacramento ; 2d, Mr: Reid, with Madame herewith sent, It was firmly lodged in one length of scales, ast "or but e body, the double nature of 
; 3d, Mr. Young, with Solfaterre. Leeks: Ist, | the Mim am projected an inch or so into —— — hi hi rs di abl М ye ren far 
Mr. Pousty, with Pomir ` Ts weighing (four heads) is very curious to observe that the — of the which is only discoveraeie Oy а * tens : 
in all 93 Ibs, One oft ks weighed upwards of | pewasod eave? ib substance w n firs tehen onf of . along the middle of the truncated terminations, by 
2% lbs., was 7 inches in circumference and 8 to pipe and saturated as it was, was — whereas à mucro Mie. v ging to a bract, situate 
the extent of 11 in r. Henry, wi — — itself flowing through — um to the very last in the centre e furrow, and by the double 
Lc "-— all 11 [71 Celery, two red —1 as pure as crystal. [It does not appear that any = of woody — of which euch scale is 
| white: Ist, Mr, Thompson, with Dwarf Red, and 2 was given of the nature of this vegetable found to consist when divided longitudinally. ; 
Godall’s Flat White ; 2d, Mr. Godall, with Godall’s substance. | In this respect indeed, We ingtonia cor- E: 
Broad White, and, Cole's в Red. Onions: the best responds with Sequoia; but the strobilar scales | 
disqualified ; the Ist prize; was therefore awarded to Mr. 3 in the latter are few, unguiculate, almost peltate, — : | 
Vair, who orm — A Red, New 3 E : Motitces of Sooks. and attached slightly to a weak axis ies wh in a 
4 3 > 1 3 ч я 
рон, James Kecting, Den, and Бовар = Ist et ale ei a ma 
The prize (Silver Medal) offered by the Society for the | Flora of New Zealand. Part 4. Reeve & Co. 4to,|°° d A Ls t that a harp AL А fociis | 
t Herbarium of British Plants, collected from native | THis new number of Dr. Hooker's completes — —— т ae ыд эла 
stations, between Ist January 1852, and 10th November, volume of his excellent “ Flora of New m. 
1853, by a journeyman — apprentice gardener, was brings the flowering plants to a conclusion, As usual, — ‚ seeds o clinton . with 
gained by Mr. William Dow, journeyman, Royal Botanic the plates are among the happiest specimens of modern Zucearini’s figure and desc 
Garden, — h, with a collection — үрөт. 622 art, and make us look back with shame upon English Sciadopitys, both in form, num 
species, which were generally well n „ and the | illustrations not yet 20 years old. On this occasion the | Se rtion upon the scales. Sequo 
specimens sert selected and ni neatly pre repared, A whole of the plates consist of Glumaceous plants, of | seeds far less thin, with a corky rather - à mem- 
second premium illiam Collie, | which the Grasses have been учи четсе — the assist-| branous wing, fewer in number, and o P 
mM—— РР 
IE pc eee oe dS. 
; 
— Experim rien „ whose collectio; ын ance of Lieut.-Col. Munro, of the ie — just within the edge of the unguieulate e 1 
gr vigi nage ү — general «ин, | Vic ew intance with that order I^ we believe, These considerations seem to leave no room for 1 
andthe се “aa MAUS UR, M MY | unite " doubt that Wellingtonia is an omm new coniferous. 
thi — —— — — — i Av 1 mportant feature in the present part is ап form; and possibly, when its male flowers shall have | 
—— e ттн: бе divisions n iue die the [phar site sd. been seen, still further distingui shed by the s j tructure — | 
eansin acquiring a knowledge o 
of the vegetable kingdom, &c., being given. Mr. Tho A land v MM 2 apa the ` ge of of those parts. In a horticultural Aja a о А. | 
| 
"WU pepe 
limits, affinities, ie impossible to over-estimate the value 
tai 
neth growing no doubt Mines n young, evergreen, an 
equal. From Mr. Thomson, Woodburn, there were fora. A philosophical ise of this kind— and а most imperial aspect 
А phical treatise of this kin and a 1 
GU REOS TU YEAST SA MES — | 
р 0 years ; an : gr. cannot be dealt with by a cursory notice. It demands i 
— Rosebery, heads of a new w. Салада — — —ê — * * FLORI e vk LTURE. 1 
: crossed | receive, from i tters : | 
— == Early Dwarf 88 which Was б а мерт * t delibe- Tux С Снатаахтиямм п — propagated either by 1 
stated to be very hardy, resisting severe ‘winters ae rte attention wy — m high de d v» fail dividing the roots, by suckers, or b , cuttings ; for 
— injory, and — asan атик —— — entities For ourselves, we hope to have many future —— Ге es d p 
e winter and spring exander, hi the to hich it em- taken 
2 Register Street, exhibited Parkes’ Steel Di gging — — 4 apt. the 8 : The upper parts of the shoots of last year's 8 ; - 
or — of ooker's ps upon one of the many Ag а 
CAL or EDINBURGH, soa a The eI 4 points ad е in his zu be in the meanwhile ra a joint, and trimming the —— — а 
in the chair. А new part (conel — Volume 1 A Jadged of of -— e following paragraph, in every word à E. 
iety" i tings they should be planted in small thumb-pots, in & 
the Society’s — was placed on the table. of which we most heartily coneur:—* In working up аа 4 — n ei ball ичине: ii 
M 
^ secti nge 
a Sy tree with a horse-shoe imbedded in its and of weighing characters not only per se, but with refer- |Р : : 
tissue—the shoe had been hung over a young branch ence to "omm em prevail in the order to which the | Watering with a м reece, e the e 
about 11 or 12 Laert афс — — species under consideration belong), and to resist Settle the about th grag . cpm — 
anomalous Pear, with a thickened Pear-like е | steadily the temptation to multiply names; for it is ^ heat; 3 UL dew iene 
ed i i a species founded | Close — and 1 little erts Т кы 
һе 
mass in w earpels were embedded. Dr. on an error of judgment or observation, The state of tak : 
rend anote from Professor Gregory, in which | the British "fore ivres not only 2 “but further, that and shaded from bright — et have reached 
he stated that he 2 ued the examination of the one such error leads to many m re of the same kind: have become М be repotind imme 
Mull deposit of Diatomaceous loricæ, which he mper students are led to over-estimate inconstant characters, е: аа if UTE ий in the small pots, 
las ter, as containing 60 species of Diato and to take.a narrow view of the importa ag vain of | ciately 5 : future prosperi 
win 
that he had 140 s i 
which beats all the richest deposits known. Even at 60 | about the difference between infinitely variable forms of í recommended f. 
it was far the richest. Besides the new species doubt- planin y vt vlr id identity унд botanists Non no ee Cua beret being —— — 
fully indicated in his former paper, which Smith had doyb er, ih врт let it consist of — ch turfy loam, 
ere queer cete k AE rot and d vet 
utiful species, new not only to him but to all those z mone the Almanacs on our table, are the Angler’ S, this they will grow strong aud bloom well When 
he yet seen it or а figure of it. It isa Pinnularia, | especially devoted to the Rod and the Net; Harrison’s plants get established they — be in ап ореп 
which jon he had named P. hebridensis. It Gardener's, with illustrations. o£ the seasons taken from situation on a bed of grave — where they 
is but scarce in the deposit, a large ten populous een the Anglo-Saxon Calendar, and some woodeuts of sig tty ers 5 may remain until the cold —— d heavy rains of 
rarely yielding more than one specimen, and often and the Family Friend, which. professes to be ah autumn setin. About the middle of July they should 
p das yet he has qae find trace keeper’s € be finally shifted into the oats in which they are in- 
° Ч іп ing X other deposit within his perg c is 9 Sir Philip Sidney and the Arcadia. para an and | tended to bloom, observing that the size of the pot cor- 
ke it in any w ete had es As Hall's Reading for Travellers.— This is a less happy nds with the size of the plant and the habit of the 
tha „ "тара, subject than those which have been hitherto selected by | variety about to be potted, · At every potting. stop all 
t from Luneberg, and in one e J : ; the shoots, to сапа m side 
mu v the Spey, and it seems remarkable that it^ ^ of travellera. All we сап say about it is that branches, and to form dwarf compact bushes at all 
rossley has made the most — his matter. times. During the season of growth they will wee 
— {. good supply of water, and in dry weather they will be 
di 
1 п rlooked. P. hebrid 
SS from .00125 to .0026 inch, and it has, like P. Ms. Crow Pes ta? MI PURI — eB 
1 d P. di ly 9 or 10 costee in .001 s for Li cop verhead 
| ineh, ‘poe ait these are trema de, mets fnis; and|Dean and ее 2 8 story dra matised and A prm y bein „Р watered 0 = m 
are widest in the middle, whereas | illustrated by clever на It is well suited far hey shou hould х 
| all on the side strong, d to 
| P. hebridensis is slightly contracted there, But it has , Christmas presents for children. eek, in hee: to have the plant - 
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