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“ character ; but very little wa ing its period ; ; 
- torpidity. Ree te aig ate 8 aula ninp'be pecpematadl whic ee arose in changeable weather, the.sun dart- | was about two feet, and some of them were phot seven 
by taking off one or more of the pseudo-bulbs.—Pazton’s Maga- ing an ve rg ected,» All these maces are feet wide.——-Moorecroft’s Travels, vol. ii, p..137. 
aine of ‘Bota ny. avoided by the hot-water system... We have gained much aaa 
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er — —— - ni oma tee dma) thy very by this method of treatment ; and many eg Ase be cul- DEN MEMORANDA. 
Gistinct species was raisediat the nursery of Messrs. J. Dickso tivated which otherwise would never have succeeded, y |  Waterer’ sRsbibiftonal RAododendronsand Axsioas as, in the King’s 
and Sons, Edinburgh, in spring, 1841, from this arrangement, not only may the:interior of houses be | Road.—Welas gave some account of the magnificent display 
_ River seeds communicated the year Selene pa Mr. Murray, Lin- | heated, but also the beds. in which. seedli plants are | Of these plants | in ae hon ae Nursery, at ‘Kna Let us 
_  trose. It flowered abundantly in July.and August, but ripened grown, and where, by. careful cultivation, the be pill eapparrene mee, F trongly, our readers, who have not lel- 
_ _no seed; it has, however, been propagated by. cuttings. .The s d throuch ind mer z ‘Ae er | ee jqaeer ride, t to) Wisit the King’s Rosi. wheteine choicest 
Sowers « are bright yellow;.and borne. on close terminal a yore ane the winter without glass.—AZ, Otto, in the of an ee ete ee pre Seeered Roseine. pages CARY aE, 
a Bot. J arten- Zeitung. arran a ve manner. ere is nothing 
: London so beautiful as ‘this is just now although the 
: coe’ NDRUM CINNABARINUM, Cinnabar Epidendrum, Ore New Cactus.—A new seedling of most axienar naey near Lo ee ee 
¥ z rs 4 nearly gone: for th noble bushes 
» am ean arre pe: onan eine 12 es e Epiphyte. ie 5 beauty has just been sent us by. Mr. Conway, Nursery- | of ’ Rhododendrons of all ie ng and, 9 Kalmiee such a are 
prs bee with whom it flowered in May 1840. sad Tiahh? 6 Cer. , Old Brompton. It is.a cross coteree beat: a. reat 6 ery a or sale. Protected by a canvas screen, and kept 
_ man collector, originally met with it in sandy thickets near | mus and Ackeymanni,-having the large size of the former a by frequent watering, the plants retain their freshness 
4 ia ; and it is found esis Mexaeh Deity) from the rer pei an Scarlet colour of the latter, withonly artinge | afr, Gol Rome Islington is-one pry ee most distinguished 
4 ae Ville Rica, ei the province , sof Ming = prow Res fie ad violet inside. » Althou the’ plant has only now flow- | Tulip-growers of the present day; he has for many years been 
- four to five feet high.” It ought to own in the Orchidaceous ered for the first time and is quite small, the blossoms mea- contin E is callection QA such flowers as would not bear the 
house or moist stove. The pots should be well drained; thisis | sured eight inches in-diameter; The petals have a fi very sme ea me Bawed oral eritic—so'that 2° pou em greed 
i simply done by inverting a small pot in a larger one, which road ob} ‘ . rate ie 
4 cab en 2 Aa teat 0 rise rondily Wo tie'vodte® ar erows well in — rs POW te Ph and the stigma is a bright violet. It eesen, be oe , Aan self, “i on fen their slowness 
a brown turfy peat, and requires a liberal supply Of"erater'@ e somest sort yet raised b ll ids no Aes wd betas fe: a ° 7 er coll ms. The season has 
- s. growing eet ee ue ae eee en the | Conway’s a its name is no exaggeration. with h the others we have Visited, that its bal cheese ney ee 
4 as that of E. elongatum.— Bot. Reg. The siaiesiak ood many — ‘of. this new . rome 
. Nevertheless, in every bed many fiowers willbe found 
Ng ; iene haw e been brought from Leban n, by rene om a fos to repay a long journey. In the-class. of Bybloemens, 
MISCELLANEOUS. Colquhoun of the Artillery, and by him fond to his frie Pandora was finer than we had ever seen it; the flame small and 
AN ENGLISH COTTAGE. It is-a narrow bulb, rather wider at the upper end, and | Cle%; Napoleon is'a flower of the same é iewaars 
a : ‘Wider: upper endy 2 ane | broader flame. These have both short, fine cups, which, when 
Brsipe a lane, d diverging from a w about five inches long. © It is: sai ~ beiof excellent qua- | fully. oe ee display heal clear begga oud smarting jain 
4 Papa heating pa fudge 3 a the grassy war, | lity, and to propagate itself by cloves like Garlie, _ It was | greatest advantage. Parmegian C y fine; 
7 And, sloping down to face the southern aot — fromthe mountainous region inhabited by the Kemble, uchear of Sutheran Violet Quario,and Joh he Kenble, 
Before the door a well-stock’d garden ity : ruses. an old favourite we wish ieee to see; were both in a‘fine state. 
: re se savage: 8" phe Releiii Rele EB ite Rs ae, Mr. Hariweg.—Advices from _ collector ee ee Amon, the. Roses, the Gem, attractive from its high-coloured 
4 am . : °s Maria 
j pb blossom’d beans delicious a tee shed, i sane by the ‘ortiultaral Soe y down to the 2 — bed atifal | Rose) and his Queen anew: laowat, ith rb 
 . While fruit-trees bending low, arch’d closely overheag. anuary, at w ich period-he Was at Riobam a f the foot wera made: up f ath boing a little. out.of bhenietets 
. All round:the.place.g look He comfort beam'd, f Chimborazo, distant aboutisix leagues, with Tunguragua Flew des Dames pea ‘Geta ere both wna In the 
- True English gomfort ,homel calm, and sweet! and. Casquirazo, also snow- -capped poyntnat, in Pap view. S an - of Hizarees. Goldh: . ams Sultan an u ee tant 
The very. trees, amid their stillness, seem ter examining these points of ch flame and feather, and the latter for 
With quiet joy their leafy friends to me “ 4 t t oe points of the Andes he delicate ground—merited notice. § jus, Sur 
‘And.on the roses Emiled Heside Mitic teak 0 penetrate into Po payan, The diffi fieulty’ of travelling i in passe Pompe, and Apelles, with its bright ground and narrow 
The shaded lane, the soft and balmy ait, Guayaquil had proved serious, owing to the badness of the | feather; were. ex and marrow 
The breath of flowers new-waked the ae to agents roads intersected in all directions by mountain streams, of | ticed aie season among the offsets, we found d transferred to the 
; All seem’d ROT UPh, 99 TOROee hen ee which, near Loxa, he had had to cross sixty-five in one | D&4 and will in fu ve he a Goldham’s Perfection—a title 
4 That in such scenes as biti man never need despair, day! The road il ges tay which it appears 'to merit, from the exquisite Scr of the cup, its 
pea sare conmbidassaasn ier ay ! € roads were called good when the mud was only | clear bright» and -its te and. beantifully pen- 
a a Siietiet hereaaa on tear Ptalintanae ay up. to the mules fetlocks. At Loxa he had found a large | cilled feather... Mr. Goldham has been again successful this 
; And after rain the gentle breezes flun me nents of Epiphytes, quite new, and among them a new chelation saa breaking w Thy Ms Sone A sg adhd met were ek a high 
E Such. floating fragrance far across th attleya of great beauty, some magnificent twini g i ‘i 
4 , meare rose of thesamecharacter of 
i As lured anes og > hs nals are ne dies 44 iums, the t yrtc a of Humboldt, and the famous breaking as Holmes's King; a ce ed 
d , 2 . . le S ? 
: And blooming roses made the a Ay eae tae ERE AE RORPC MOD, AS ONES mate faloy | Ragen Sateled taney bate Rowde ahd 7 nave oeekty, 
k op inile ne near mtshand; the plum ree's wel come, aent. aad made A, Sa gaudien, His collections from this neigh- Westie eke Silicon qualitionsen recommend them: a Byble- 
a ee summers, undisturbed, a ad built her nest. ourhoo i €. several vaccinaceous plants, proba- | men called essin x 
W 4 pede: g afine ith. 
¥ i - aks ome ne Lom ing d round, bly Thiebandias, — possibly Macleania and Cavendishi delicate white; ihe autiful Rose, with the fae pertscts "ood 
— are healing plants and choicest po Tbs grew ; und; a Bizarre similar 
ae The garden-balm, ’mid village Md aa renown’d; © hee babe between 80 and 90 kinds of seed, and between Albert in nites style of cad breaking—the difference ce “consisting princi. 
- And fragrant thyme, = rich aroma threw ant ) species ,of dried plants, These had been des- athering, w in this is a rosy 
O’er mint and white-leaved sage, and bitter rue patched from Guayaquil to ra: ae the “a of January, | pur ies et er anton, alae a peciort, seen festive, good 
2 Not far from these the st ae thatch’d oe hives stood, In sixteen c ests, and -are.on t way hom At Cuenca | cup, and clear bright xelow ground, very fine. re. were 
= A acne ere in rand oaks all Beit public flew: ae he had fallen in with som ti ori nae raphe Berb eris, ch he others, of various degrees of merit. A purge R Ran with 
rr ela! ees, So bent on public goo : a deep unif feather in all the petals; and another witha 
That ‘ane none disgraced that 4 igh } with small leaves and rede flowers, a tall shrubby Lobelia, adeeamanaaion et with the rose aa the bottom of the flame, 
Belfast Chronicle. | a gigantic .Tropzolum,. with pale yellow. flowers and | These,we regarded asthe élite of the newly-broken flowers. Con. 
_ . Artificial. Climate.—As the. exertions of naturalists, | enormous seeds, ascending to the summit of the highest sidering the quantity of Tulips annually broken, with finely-formed 
botanists, “st gardeners to‘introduce new plants from fo- | trees, and a large-rooted Gurnee. pe Da gn veut eabipenaeebeandiananeeemaacel 
4 rei countries Tr own are continually on the increase, Botanical pes —We are glad .to announce the ap- consists principally in their colour and regularity Of sapeking. 
E- itis the duty of caine to study the nature of every | pointment of Gardner to the Chair of Botany in the | The aim of the present growers is to unite these qualities 
plan re minutely, in order to place it in a similar | Andersonian Tnatitution at. Glasgo fourth part of the | CUPsof.u nabie fotth, wad 
q situation to that to which it-wa: hints | Prince of Salm. Dyck’s Monograph .o €s Mesem- 
.* ch a peter give u . accurately attended to, anthemums a artof Otto end Bieiticn: o- 
| €cause they have acquired their ex m al | nog f Cartacee, are pu second part o 
4 vation. want of suecess with new plants in our | Vol. LI. of Torrey and ns Flora ap orth im ica ison 
4 ng 1s for the most part occasioned by our ignorance it continues Composite as yrachena, an 
4 of their natural soil, climate, and station ; and thus sue: | is entirely systematical. Schleiden a joeel haye pub- 
2 cess is oes a mere chance, instead of the consequence of | lished an important paper on ein — nce of 
° edge. Twenty years ago, we should scarcely have which we shall give very. shoes eat us memoir 
_ thought that our greenhouses could ae been filled with | on Myrtacex, by De Candolle, has eee ‘in the Me- 
Spiphytes, parasites, &c.; and alt ough their culture is | moirs of the Physical Sea. of Gene M. Alphonse 
yet in. many gardens, still aie ogress is very per- | De Candolle has inserted in the Bibl. U: vite de Genéve.a 
icati “pla Memoir 07 ‘orate sera ; the same 
pisiiaat has ‘co hed pide his valuable qeaeartines on the Myr- | m much improved. By. th their Fett tye nam ‘Walworth into a purer 
aceous order. We have also before us a ae iron & | #'t—in sisg.and co oming finely, and the tbs manearas last bro ats a 
; Anemones are bloom 
me interesting observations s by Fenzl, of Vienne apo wi Yo abd —— : 
tone genera, Bipuaninseons and otherwise; of doubtful af- suk Rebretys. ri 
finity ; and number of the Nov = hela asuppls 
2), qouipredeaiide: a paper on Lepidagathis, by Nees V b | Pra he Chemise for Farmers and Landowners. By 
: Trimmer. vo. Parker. 1842. 
Floating Gardens of Kashmir.—An. it iene use ste _Tuis.isa good practical book on the important subject 
made of the Semmes stares as ashmir, in the | of agricultural chemistry, well written, by a person familiar 
formation of floating gar Various: aquatic plants | with the details of husbandry and. the wants of farmers, 
ay th pring from the Botton 61 of ernie as’ Water Lilies, Con- | as well as with their ways of thinking. It professes to be 
pecially oR —— which lose. their. leaves #, Reeds, &c. By, cutting the roots of these ‘about a popular exposition of Liebig’s book, in order that the 
r, whic few exceptions, neither produce a the a of the water, they lose all con- | principles of that writer “may be brought home to those 
ae nor fruit if kept constantly wing in an unva- | ne Bet ay Rtipeot of fete lake, | but retain their for- | who are ignorant of even the rudiments of the science” of 
I ae t.at. all times to | mer co: to each | When thus | chemistry. It is, however, not a servile imitation; a 
detached f rin the « soil, ae at ‘pressed into abana popular yiew of chemistry is given in the first instance, 
oser contact into and it is only after leading the reader through the founda- 
ana 0 of an etme length. "The heads arches Sedges a and | tions of the subject, that, in a second part of his work, 
er plan float are now cut off and laid upon its | the practi application of chemical facts to the pur- 
ace vere a mud, which gra- | poses of the farmer is brought forward by Mr. Tri A 
a si mass of matted roots. Here it is that ssertions, facts, and theori e 
» but is retained in its tion by a stake driv, ree yed, intermingled, however, with valuable 
through at-each énd, which admits of. its rising and fall- | formation, d m the writi 
i the river. “A quantity of Conferve are torn.o , xplanation of the reasons why 
ti 
ng i ri ag 
from the bottom of the lake’ and are formed into conical important, with reference to that 
omnes Epon the floats, about. two feet i in. diameter at the par nt IL. others. 
he rat th 
hellow, which | is fill th fresh mud, to which. wood- 
ashes are sometimes a added, The Cucumber and Meélo 
plants, having each about four leaves, are Denies three 
| in each mound, of mm a double row r wom the 
edge of every bed, distant about two feet fro other. 
No further care is Late except that of. collecting the | tr 
fruit ; and a more eco peepee ars J 
are soon'ide- | can scarcely ‘be devised. I trav 
In like manner, | fifty acres of these floatin 
4n-contact, | dezen:u plants, 
