we 
THE Reba Dik. RS’ saSeaaees coerce 
‘toes, Mr. Dickenson; best 18 stalks of Rhubarb, Mr, Rumsey ; | 
pest Sea-kale, Mr. Daniels; 2d do., Mr. Adams, gr.'to Mr. Bell, 
5 ancl hester Cucumber pron. ae ong tate was hel 
oe oe ate. toasts were given. The allows ng is a a escrip- 
tion of the fruit: —Premier ri ob td the best Brace, Prise cd com- 
petitors : hie Mr, er we D, gr. ig 
flower on. erley, gr. to A. “Orr ell, Es. sort, 
Windsor Beze, slender, rather Bes necked, 19 inches in len ngth. 
Single Fruit, Hot-wa geag he ulture: 1st, Mr. J. Hamilton, gr. to 
A. Philli t, Hamilton’ s White I ee inches This, 
short ners mee pT Egy ood colour r. J. Walker, gr. to 
R. W. , Esq.; ‘sort, infant, ‘s aches long, short neck, 
prettily ri ribb A "flower on. 3rd, . W. Adderley, am to A. yer oe 
Esq.; sort, Windsor Prize, 19 hg jong, slender, 4th, Mr. P. 
M attershead, . to J. Barnes, Esq.; sort, Roman 
: Ist, to J. Worth, gr. 
me sort, Walker’s Improv fc So inche s long, 
hort n eck. Carr, es? EB B . Esq. pa 
Allen’ 8 Pia > he 15¢ inches long, the Gai black spine 
exhibi 
NOTICES “i ame PLANTS a oo EITHER 
L OR ORNAM 
hie SOIDES. ‘Bugiose: te th ao 
tary ethene th ee nace. Pentardria 
Ce of t 
appearance of an Anchusa; but fete fruit 
with numerous stiff barbed ce ~ i erely 70 roti 
ad points on ‘the bo ‘In thi pee tere 
‘however, variable, some of the ‘ing tnerely 
e this ete as ‘a very Ornamental plant ; 
ng to those who cultivate rare hardy herbaceous 
— eg. 
AUSSU wi PULCHELLA, 
nial.) Cot mpositee-Cynar § Carlin esia 
. —To those who calito hardy) ion cian plants this is 
‘anne et some interest, ree Ou! general 
It forms p A ietisths ‘atsotendieie' in Species of a 
oat habit, and with Shivers of oe on shades of purple, séldom 
‘exeeetting’'y foot or two in he and blossoming “WitAirig the 
Mountainous pastisres, Beyona * Take Baikal, atid mbist 
Ineutewe in Davuria, near the town sd Nertschinsk, are the 
tions in which i t has been foynd. 7 
bay sa ~ 
er to keep up a pticdeaiton of 
plants. It was raised from Suet "récaived from Dr. Fischer, of 
. id argh, at the garden of the Horticultural S ociety.— 
‘0 
m. Beardéd Ladies’ Slipper. (Stove 
andria Diandria, — 
tes’ Slippers so 
ate them they would vt foun 
UM BARBATU 
Epip phyte,) ” Orchid acer, § Cypripedete. 
There is pene \ ea tet the a tae of the Indien Lad 
culiar, that it 
flium 
- ine brane he present iés is ‘a ‘Strait: 
of Malacca, where Cuming qin it dh Mount ope The purple 
shinin c of its petals 
ants. yo 
sen pan an 
that his is species s 
C. ver Or tiiate 
, GopE TIA ALBESCENS. Whitish ( 
A i.) dria Monog¢nia.—A new Hi nn 
v handsome, but ming eeable variety, when 
. Like all 
Movin ag "pnidth some circum 
x euindh flowers, a yl. ae 
than mens, and’ er ules ~ . 
over said to be as lar; cae , gr a i 
a e 0 ers gS ar hera 
owever, it is very different in other respects. The ¢ ; 
gs to that’ seetion in re and Trorre ve Pith of North 
rica, which comprehends & 
ces heir G. 
if! 
eh: 
saee 
8 
5 
35 
Twersi NIA CAMPHOROSM®. ‘Camphorwort Babin 
er renous IF rus) Myrtacete, § ot Amp 
extensive Variations, seeds, 
So seamens sete corollatid bemets ; ¢ even ta fo. 
saat before ‘us, eye oF th of com 
‘th 
ive" organtaat ae a he ane er ‘the wre0t the 
ing our Spirze 
open B. ny pericBidies). that | it # tems seven or eight feet tiet. 
d in summer he qc rcey shade to the traveller wecnged 
the swamps. It w t flowered by Mrs, Wray of Cheltenham. 
7) 
Cre eae 'TALUM MEDUS®. The ag ean head Orchis. (Stove 
Epiph oe ) Ore nara pms —This most sin- 
is'a na of Sinc monty fm nce “t was obtained ry 
Somes. x coldieene. itr yan en C. vaginatum, but i e emu larger 
plant, and'very different in be a form ofits flowers. ly 
there was’a Medusa this m e the pr 
gonship’ s beautiful tresses peng 
wanting the scales with which her form “on safely guarded. To 
grow it well the temperature and. moisture of the Grehidaceous 
ales is required. It may be fixed to a wood tm ~ mt us. 
d from aia but if’ oe in this 
aaa gnum. peat, ought pebeenive ah rr md ee stem wd 
retain mapereecen ‘It ought never ap be kept too dry, but of c 
it peamires more water when growing than when resting. Bot. 
R 
He 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
On Pre eserving Timber from the White Ant.—The 
well-known ‘effects of corrosive ‘sublimate, in eee 
objects of natural history from a aes of in 
duced me to make a trial of its 
ber, carpets, &c., from t 
corrosive ‘sublimate to oné gallon of water, having pre 
Tubbed the mineral up wi with a little al in- 
‘crease its solubility ; woo 
to 
in every ‘possible wa 
result, viz., that the white ant will but Reif hiney is 
bstarice of 2 
tofter r and cheaper Varieties of pre tea and renderin, ny ein 
immediately fit for tse, if cut tate of “ac- 
tive Vegetation, are circtim statics ds we worthy of i 
atten ition. The me thos 
= 4. 
» 
tmuriate o ies, no re 
pany met 8 mre to 
in its s a so n of the 
petition at ‘the ills 
guard against t the destructive effects of time, or the more 
sudden and injurious inroads of the white Stine elirbe 
ogee 
’ ergre eenis:—" T differ with = ed a Prag 
ing Ryearomn in 's oy ; if it happen 
ther, it may be h ‘exposing t ae a a first 
| the Thya of Theophras 
ae de de- 
inter ; but the cold ary Wirids that 
eg ten times more pernicious, In my own 
‘the of September is the best es. for ibn they 
pee Tylore ‘the 5 ag weather comes.” orace Walpole, 
el7 76, vol. 3, 
Thya or ‘Fhijon of Kirastus and Citrius of 
Pliny, In a ate ie artes st pon 
Académie de iences there a a mm 
the " eophrastus, by M, Jaume St. Hilaire, in 
vite, ‘after quoting passage "th the works Of ancient 
authors, he rejécts the present application of the word, 
and adopts the opinion of t 
(amongst others of M 
feveral Pre prevail in 
8 
t prove ni only of scientific, but commer- 
_ Subsegs to this there appeared in the 
7M. Thies ut de Bern nf who, 
eover that it was not (as supposed by M. Jaume St. 
Hilaire ie — writers) the Bah aiee phoenicea, but 
the Pi nsis of Brouss 
t of Ric 
Wail 
to the agriculturists of other countries. 
hitherto wey a aa a eat soil and irri 
n d itiés, and is cultiva 
he northern and more of Chin in those 
parts ype 3 supply of water is more plenti In ge- 
neral, it is and cultivated exactly in t an- 
ner as W at. en he dara is 4s pared, the seed is 
e F Ric 
STR een previously mixed. Iti is then ‘hbed at 
three “Tiferent times, and is each time watered with liquid 
a Oni Tie | is a small white Italian Onion, 
Which cones in Wy eal 3 when sown side by side with 
the earl On nion, 4 wa t 
ie 
It is probably | identical with the 
orence Onion ; it 
excellent for - ckling an t 
keep true. is much used at Naples, and grown at 
Nocera, near Veen as, whence seeds were brought by M. 
Audot. pase 
The A uce.—This variety is related 
and Oak. ratte Lettuces, but it differs 
deeply tinted with 
ng 
e 
ark green, ein and'’s itter ; bu 
blanched BA tying g BP, Aimy: lose their Le: ads on 
der, € agree: ur than thos rod 
of ther Toes: = vaiatie proper which 
this variety Seas a summer and a i Tete 
sbi hy ope of its: running to seed. ‘When ‘the seed i is 
in ae #7 in large tufts, not displ _ in rosettes like En- 
dive, but in bundles, in consequence of 
u 
cely ripe 
nterior leaves blanch 
ants If seed 
e preserved in a cellar for a month or more.— Bon 
ier. 
CARE: M EMORAN DA. 
P 
rated, se. Dee p 
which they succeed tol 
bos er, are ow in 
uit 
po aga he 
t 
0 =} are a sm at sweet-scented Rodrignuézia (ohh loses 
ts perfume 4 as the day advances), Maxillaria Harriséniz, um 
‘Saccolabium micran’ ! 
owers. One y of notice in this house, and which 
shows the strength of the vital prin "hie, when in some plants, is part of 
a branch of the Calabash tree, whic 
nidad, With an Oncidiam n Erowhig: por fh, was to a ce 
dead; but alt months had being 
covered with moss, it \ ‘ y made shoots two 
feet long. The pits a y filled with Heaths and Cinerdrias, 
: which are many excellent ings, light blue 
‘a white centre,’ other similar to C. grandis, but of a 
‘brighter colour. Th is also a very p Epa 
‘with pink and white flowers, in habit eimaeiaahe E. grandifjora ; 
we understand it to be named Atleeana 
Rebieos. 
The Year o* tof Ayenshe History rid Young Persons. 
Booxs on es His 
you 
writings w se thee infant mind is jst ana, 
xpand, is sure 4 cause them to trong 
d so to fix themselves on the memory that the 
mong the most difficult of all thi 
Tt i tis faerskn’ of the first import- 
rrect informa- 
espects such as a paren 
hands of a child. The facts pete to are nur 
well elucidated, and told in the plain language tha’ 
~~ viene the young. They are selected, moreover, from 
g the most common occurrences that meet the € 
- childhood. We this as the best book on. ‘ 
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