THE GARDENERS’ CHRONI 
‘ 18) NICAL SOCIETY OF LON 
BOTA DON. mirable, Rufus, Grand Auk. Azurea, Bathonia, Warrior, Flora 
May 20th.—J. E. Gray, Ady every oa ‘es eige The fol- eae Brown’s s Croesus, Standard, Delicata, Dr. Lindle ey, 
wing donations were ann : A-speci Sugar-cane | Superb White, Brown’s hy Ruby, Eclipse, Jehu u, id of 
from sore in BEERED Ed by Mri. Hauer a erecta hee Bupleu- | Honour, Miss § orth, Brown's Countess of Orkney, Brown’s 
rum. tenui um, found at Highgate, ad Mr. Mitten ; British | Cremona, Miss Nugent, Triumph, Launcelot, Ultra Flora, Duchess 
ho area fr rom Mr. 2 Lees a hwaites, and Mr. Richmond, Cor Brown's Jewess, Cook’s Perfection 
Ellis; m the P as paper was Be ye from E Silverlock’s Prince Albert, Desirable, Brilliant, Vivid, A inaiee 
Lees, Esdey On the Flora of the ‘Malvern Hills, Part 3 ; rown’s 
Sketch ation indigenous to the chain.” | Cu: — SEEDLINGS. reat, ¢ Fw ooms: 2nd cla ass, Mr. Bridges 
This was a by ee S, many of which w x- | of Corea: for Comm mer; 1842, 1 Bloom, 2nd class. 
hibited; the author. considered that n arly one of the | Mr. Bridges o' Hampton Vea Marks: and Mr. King of Iver, for 
E plants occupying the Malvern Hills were Cryptogamic ; and th incess Royal. AS ding of 1841 was also ex ibited by Mr. 
: following synopsis bas show this to not an unr bl King, called pipes ; and sree of 1842, by Mr. honey 
e position, especially as the census which the author had taken is called Sedigy Heat tw dwards, named Freak & M endham 
é ot. to. be considered a perfect one; embracing, however, all the | one by Mr. Gain es, th 
species en enabled to siete after an attentive | Hardy, of Cambridge, sent a box of See edlings, several of ‘which 
ee oation of upwards of five year were very Bape, but they did not arrive in time for the , Jaden, 
Species. ons ey done so, they could not, _ acco rdin ‘o the 
jae and PME RPE > : . +85 ciety 1 g potas 
Mos . . - 121 ry the names intended to be given ' ft 
Taheerdion . ‘ oi 28 
Othe r Hepatice, Characee, ke, ‘a Fj pct | ISCELLANEO 
. . «223 
EE Snel TE ee eo angos.—One of the most valuable Donree of 
ar fodder of “Ladak » or perhaps of any other country, i 
Total , lant known by the name of Prangos, rice | grows only 
TANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBUR in the western of the country, at Imbal or Dra 
May 12. ore scventh meeting for the season was held at the . s 
ee Peckeenet! Chriatibom: aaithe chair. Miss J. | This occurs of various sizes, from a single leaf, covering 
Farquharson was morta life ego ate —The following com not more than a oe of surface, to a Bee of leaves 
tions ~ nae ee ee ahs uma vate abdiighiajda setae ra and flowers spreading to a circumference of 12 ft. or 18 ft. 
land, by Mr. 
= nd, by Me. a vy him, that this speech cies was a This bush sis Waiae of lo ong feathering shes of a dar 
very doubtful native of mewand, not having then seen any speci wned, when in blo som, profusion of 
mens agreeing with the true characters of it, now states that he large tufts of yellow dowers ; the leaves, when full-grown, 
has ee satisfactory proofs of its being a native; 
a ts pa in the habit of calli 
that “om 
“ of the ee 
of an apiculus; also, that in French specime ns of F, 
ar. pane 
i Mr. Babington then gaye a 
tion ff mae principal characters oes SS pdaryuceip this 
of the urrence 
e. 
um, Mr. "Dickie. states adi ee 
or 
8 
5 
° 
Br 
4 
_ 
ves 2 
q seeds, how: 
oval, in the ph bes et ad Pag 80: 
form in Scolopendrium are. ale Die kson, 
exhibited presented every yoni variety of shape, fr 
to reniform, and Re a 0° lo 
‘more usual ‘form certain! 
d it is difficult to auanin for the Eroaks of form whic 
ently occur in this species of Fe 
ICULTURAL 
ERE ee 
wen pace at the 
and to ae lovers v5 of these 1 flowers a grea 
display was beautiful ; 
looms, 
cen in 
- Class-sh 
Fora ees 
Ts 
the prea penenood a Lond 
€ growers of 
display of new wetiaien was num 
show of Heartseas 
favourite we. have. ever 
shi shy een n of flowers ; 
us and encoura 
was the beat stewie of this 
seen. ig es 
i fin 
colour, 
satisfaction. 
idham, Islington, 1st riz 
emus, Shakspeare, Coron 
18th, Sets he Royal, hese 
al Floris 
Aare, Shieh Be 
und is. a brig 
ens, with 
Ss, 
dark feather; the stem is strong, and. 
se 
sap g that in coms 5 8 
t he earcines traces 
F, Vail aillantii, but.the 
minute 
h Dr. Arnott ane ae 
Obed, or rather digitate. 
entire and oblongo- lannainte, 
h not un 
‘SOcT ETY. 
_ THE second show for the Ie grok a hg: of Tulips “<9 Heartse: 
some 
Ss, and were ‘filled with the « choicest ie sep 
owers were in the greatest 
The exhibition ors 
wi 
‘ht unstained yello 
endid Tulip excited general 
; but that 
parvifiora 
descrip- 
and other 
ie 
ba! 
re- 
In 
ity for the 
‘he 
universal 
The. 
ze for the 
Parre- 
Brilante Ww. 
Mr. upply of innu- 
the 
erable fi ’s Travels, vol. i., p. 288. [It 
aS OL this 
a live state, Many ie have been made, but 
without ny success. ] 
us Plants. —The followi 
rnal of 
tumps of trees, and pos- 
arkable in Fr ir appearance by my, but 
h as I never 
whi 
ters o mp of a 
jetty, 3 a Western A Australia. 
was at the ti unded wi 
to 
or seven years since this circumstance occu 
late Dr. Collie, then oie Colonial 
tanical books, 
the laid on papet, . 
emitted by night a phosphorescent —_ enabling us to 
nd 
e words around it; and it co 
— 
faite of the ; ‘wis col- 
looting sadees on an ironstone hill in far the Tocdjay district, 
when I struck 
s 
2 
ith the beauty of a a large a he = 
tin sam fe 
bout a a foot from the — to the teadiey 
the pi ileus. “The are en which I c 
about oun very sm ooth, 
ahore ay! Sapatie ai upon the ville: j 
nner to owards t 
0 
tried home weighed 
n 
River Fungi 
quire an entire season, and the skill Lot a 
make Sranings or models 
acti as hung up "inside the 
80 W h ever 
peg age peoperty sigan tig oe nba Gn diminish- 
g, for four or five t ceas mn the plant 
ei ng dry. We called ae of the natives, a showed 
them this Fungus, when a light ; 
the fire was ver 
raid of it; and I 
ly must own it is a very we il ae Will-o’the- 
m d Method of Managing Pigs.—In Hampshire, 
the ree’ of pigs has been much i improved by cleanli- 
© custom there frequen tl 
hard bru Iti 
certain} 
Wisp.” 
skin with a 
“ 
d feed wu upon , fish, 
b “ati towns, is unknown in 
d Han 
rephets—The rollas of the 
re all securely ohed at the 
and they as sorely open again when the 
s is the case 
the counties of Wilts an 
BS 
th Bis 
The Pim dour yg vealled most commonly “the Poor 
Man’s Weather-glass,” rilliant flowers 
- ve, and 
he morning. Thus, by this 
simple monitor, ascerttin both the hour and also 
foretel the weath betas 
“Of humble growth, though bri a 
. But not by pepe cians fess p aoe ve, 
Of Pimpernel ; hoes bs 
rillian t flow 
Closes against the approaching xan fost, 
Warning the swain to sheltering bower, 
From humid air secure.” 
The common and despised ap a word omenily 8 a 
corrup of the French. translat n-of t the word, Dent 
de Lion, in German Pfaff. affenkohrleia ag Nd 
is one of the most correct manenle perhaps, 
*‘ dial flowers ;.” .closing at five 
° g n inthe oath: 
he 
fi P. M. may be expected. | 
the Trefoil Caaae its J Pf igs ary jel es A hoary rain 
may be ex —Mete 
orological J 
Sugar.—A letter fro n Athens, peytry the ‘28th 
that. i of the Royal Sugar 
tory at ae » Where, for some time past, beet- 
the root Be kha» 
saa tr the. mat of Greece 
only is the e sugar of admirable 
ae Se 
on its 
gives rise to deste. of whi 
vegetation wigae 
ummer 
g 
@ converted pares nite an mertenson 
be occupied as. lgarden. 
sant 
