Garde ” Ae — Two advertisements 
a late Chronicle have icularly Sacnetad my atte roe 
rs unfor- 
tunately are not those attributes the respect- 
ee eae. re eres : 
wt poo ab publish to agthry te chee t ae 
7 me = youn — van, ints 
commend the al agents ; 
eensorious, for they may manne have given ‘he pte 
ve oc 
n 
by seating: ( emarogers to infer tha 
mary thing among th: the mselves in 
upon their notice, rho ne 
who esteem themselves so 
Tt will be obvious to every reflecti 
with which they are porincons ao etteched to im Sheen wae: 
er a 
ing person, 
+ n 
equited, for too 
of my brother aaenees have it in hen. power to assert 
that they | work their hands and rac r brains almost 
unceasingly for a | Seanty pittance, rarely os fficient to aa 
of life, to ing of its comforts 
Sparrows:—At this season most gardeners are pee 
annoyed LL - ren ioneion their crops of Peas and 
Lavcnens I use the following simple plan with great 
pi white worsted along the top of 
the rows, about two or three inches crop, Lalso 
find that w the best é r preserving 
the buds of Gooseberries and Currants from sparrows 
those who d 
ita trial, they will find it answer.— 
ows.—Of all the feathered ‘denizens ad our gar- 
ns and ds, none are so pers so fre- 
quently falls a victim to the gardener’s oe alg th com- 
mon sparrow (Fringilla domestica); but if he were to 
divest himself of his deep-rooted prejudice against it, he 
upon investigation oe it was his friend rather 
than his foe. It cannot be denied that at times this bird 
commits great devastation Pai -beds, &c., but 
sidered, it would be found that its bad qualities are qui 
cast into the shade when compared with the good services 
it renders him. During months of the , its 
food ipally consists of caterpillars and other | 
tive insects ; young, indeed, subsist almost entirely 
e sparrow takes in the on of these pests of the 
gardener ; if 
yard dung. What 
will last much longer, for 
who, without the | of his manur 
heir readiness | anywhere in a cart; w 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
at he says is, that in light thin soils it 
where the soil is so slight and 
rocky beneath, as it generally is on ee nds, ae farm 
manure is soon way, but so adhesiv ve that 
nga 
expensive merely to convey his own manure upon the 
land. Most oA the farmers here are trying che portions 
of it. —W. 
Gladioli in a open 
p- 171, is 
he nd 
7? 
lay, Esq., at Bury Hill, som 
5 Colvli (and, I believe, 
n border withou' 
CG 
At 
areas | of A eee 
of a * feet + as eee —- 
agnifi 
very yea 
eve: beng 4 fae following extract sa me: ‘* Gardener’s 
wes of credit, 
they have attained a sufficient size, 
with safety, and will stand the winter. ” 
_ FOREIGN CORRESRONDEN CE, 
» Jan, 16, eee —The seeds 
a pt. 
and who retu 
collection in ae ist All the fruits 
of this expedition have been Ceeeet nt 
eds of A. Nectommniaies and 
ter their arrival, 
were 
dron caucasicum, and an Azalea, w 
something more than a variety of Azalea pontica; the 
leaves and shoots bei ing covered with a silky down. i 
mountains, in t 
vince of Fees. where Azalea 
ao g plant (gai 
ntica ceases a 
te a novelty in its 
enus) is a * polow-bonomed Peony, fo 
before a 
und in the locality 
ittmann rete brought a 
speci gins which are 
or su 
tifa! <poers rs, 
Ww a species or a a ?) of Hellebore, with 
ies of Daphne 
leaves exhale a age ——_ odour Sagres 
wit y more amongst those obtained by our 
zealous collector. "fa he Gard. Magazine for 1840 there 
when young, but at a later period 
the loftiest growth, forming ne (like the Picea of 
northern Europe) the largest forests on the western 
slopes of sou outhern Caucasus ; whilst Abies Nordman- 
niana only appears there in scattered groups, like the 
Taurico-cau 
ure to be considered preferable to 
Pithynen Gin Gin rene) a been likewi 
Strangways. them Basa the — of A Abghazie 
de san nm e was given 
to it by ar Stevens, who at first m belloved itt to “ye adistinct 
(Marcu 26, 
r A. letum, from the mountain of Tali- 
There still exists a decidedly 
eastern coast n 
Ww 
Acer — 
tad), of paring rn and pseudo-platanus. hi 
ariety, if it be one, appears to me to possess presen. 
rked characters for a species. The chains of moun- 
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black, and the marie in its native country 
attains the height of 12 or 15 fee 
PROCEEDINGS OF wae arn 
ANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBUR 
March 10.—Professor Christison in the rienils me fo 
: W. Borr. 
Cambridge ; ; R. “Taylor 
4, A.S., fe Ha: amilton, Esq., pyro ee panies 
Sica: 3 mae 4 Man ester. Numerous don © th 
brary and herbarium | were reported from different 
ain The sonowins papers, &c., were read :— 
ote 
. On four new species of British por -p 2g Dy Dr. Taylor, 
en Communicated by M urlay, jun., Glasgow. 
lay described oe species, sand illustrated them by 
Some of these w so minute 
ey, in 1 w 
rwrards extibited Baste ot the followme plants : Les 
Wa vor w to the fas ish flora, and discovered near 
ornschu chi — — 
1 
ork, 
discovered at ‘Cromagiown by ey Taylor. Junger a Bal- 
fouriana, a new end pighly curious species brought ne New 
Zealand by Dr. Sta r., Taylor in pe eee 
to SSOr Balfour nee Glasgow, bles Ww her' 
above cimens communicated, 
2. Notice ws the ¢ discovery of serie ria glabra in Berwickshire, 
and of Lin 2e’a borealis in the same ee 
fe) 
indigenous in the aboy: ved that 
Gorrie had found the phant abundantly in ‘Perthshire, where 
no doubt it mu: st have escaped fi ardens, though ne 
nos —- some places s,—The disco- 
bor Seent tiful plant to whic 
Linnseus gave his own name is ivalwavs a matter 4 interest, and 
—s jally in the south of Sco toes e it occurs very rarely. 
, On four new species 0} open By Mr. J. Ralfs,—Mr. 
ves, that ‘‘ this natural aa isnot well defined either 
in Agardh’s ‘ Conspectus Criticus Diatomacearum’ or in any of 
our British works. Its best distinctive character seems 2 con- 
sist in ,the semieted ee of its filaments, —e 
evitient <4 n: mucosum Saag filaments, ‘whith an 
regular m of a pale 
fake, short and straight. vrhe | species are Past a a great 
part of the ss - Peed shallow pools, or in old peat bogs—the 
pag s bei red in loose bundles in the water, OF form- 
ing a thin po See fleece at the bottom of the pool. The species 
pe semngyrisef Mr. Kale we g named by him D, eylindricum, mu- 
Swartzii, and B 
ive Drawi nae ae Australian Plants. By the Misses 
hesion of Lepas, or Barnacle, to F 
By Mr. Edmonston; with a res —e commanfeated by Mr. 
= d Gibson, accountant.—Some observation ade 
~ n and others with ape te to this parasite, which 
saat time was popularly regarded as the veritable origin of the 
Be is hs ‘oose. 
coer snack per whew Mr. P, J. Brown, of Thun, 
of Primrose usually considered to 
rc s— Against Sir J. Smith’s opinion 
Gin Rees’ Cyelop). pag ?. alii ik y be a mule between veris 
fetta ie I may observe ues ae e three are not often the in- 
of the same di on most universally diffused ; 
gener 
whet 
elétior, | accion 
ect, and ugh ascendi 
scends reluctantly below ie former ley di 
Professor ont nal — w) ere ‘observations on the dis- 
tinctions subsistin , Anémia, Mo- 
inom some. of which 
i 
:! 
4 efers an ciceution of from 1 
wines beyond the latter, 
ah. 
dner 
m the ae 
e ra, Mos 
by Mr. Gardner in the nee of 6 soyaz, ‘ 
professor next alluded to the various theories which have been 
accoun origin of wood and m 
t for the fibre, more 
especially to that of Du Petit Thouars. He showed, by sections 
of Palms, that the 
with Petit Thouars’s theo 
1 ancient t Colchis), and ss and as 
sn weg SER 1838, 
whether it isa re of 
velo’ 
fibres in Endogenous 
conatey | ts sopearen 
fe a Moos i F momen the 
hal ortare Pros woody matter in Tree vip tom ation of 
accounted for 
period of thelr ‘growth. 
