1842:] THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
425 
A report was read from 
Papers. Mr. et 
in the: Agricultural Pap The Duke of Rich. 
m the eres of the works at Bristol. 
mond  radsinkt tted a 
on Wool; Col.” W. ‘aughan his work on the Agriculture of 
Sicily ; Mr. S. Taylor, copies of the first and second Annual Re- 
rts. of the Stoke Ferry F. 2 ? Club Communications were 
received from Mr. Grey, res ng the lecture to be giyen at 
Bristol; fro r. Lance Peaantien] alecture-room at the meet 
ing; from . Drake, on the standard points by which the 
judges al are to decide on the merits of prize priest from The 
Hon. pane ae C improvem ent quality of his 
r. Turner’s Report oe Furro raining to the Rugeley 
ers’ Club ; an Marmont tranamitted from. Bristol.a 
form of agreement from "the Committee of the As dealin nay to 
be executed by the eh inate pledge that no damage would be 
done fo that building duri eti 
LINNE 
June 21 st, 2 842.—Edward Forster, a 
t, Esq,, was elected a fellow. 
n the John 
Brig} Mr. Yarrell “eehibited a 
specimen of the Auguilla acutirostris, $e nosed 
eel, of ayellow 
lour, which was nnett, and sent him by 
ge Ba ade A ‘paper r was read ms A. H. Hassell, Esq., on 
the wth oduction of Enteromoryin intestinalis. The 
pro 
author a anerae’ this plant during its rowth, it co! olsisted of 
ents Ca 
eg = it in 
Ulv H 
4 between the two genera. The athor obj ected t nasm 
be pregnant to 
call ‘t ‘E. lacustris. eae paper on the 
‘ The remainder of Mr. Clar 
| ‘Ledoicea sechellarum was rea The flowers are seated on lon 
seers or aecenes and are je “slow i in developing, so that it is 
E not u n to see fully ripened fruit, with all Leys degrees of 
— ripenin; aientre 
ud, upon the same spike. The 
fruit is ‘also along time in coming” to gectectiigy a female flower 
society are adjourned till the ak yor Nov ember: nye were 
cers to find a see list of defaulters in payment for above three 
e.room. We hope, in many. instances, 
that tet this has rt cham thonghtlesmness, ad that these : names 
will yet be retained. on a list of fellow: 
FLORICULTURAL SOCIE’ scape 
June 21,—The third exhibition of the Fiorinciaral ociety of 
London was held ss oe and _ hor Tavern, Strand. 
The Pink, of which 
ipal_ attract ng florists was the : 
there was an xcetient t display. The evcdlies from Mr. Brown, 
of Slough, were very fine, = oe is an evident mer tee 
going on; th 
warded to Mr. » of 
Atateurs, 12 wiuleticls nae niostaés I, Mr. Selden, 4 Brixton ; 
2, Mr. Bridges. Professional Feces cok 24 eo Messrs. 
Ama teurs ; “and of 1s? 
‘arshalton ; 3, Mr. Brage. vo a vete ose Biiher 
sional Florists: 1, Mr. Norman, of Woolwich. Open to all classes : 
ore ee laee, Mr. Norman » for Creed’s Peeokacnit best purple 
do., or Keyne’s Ne Plus. se PELanconroms. —Amateurs 
suliconeated 6: Mr. Edmon RANu USE ti Amuatewr: 
stand of 12: Mr. Do roi eae bectae rag collec- 
_ of 24,1, Mr. Edmonds; 2a Mir, ger "Profesional Flo 
; 36 Beer aa Mr. Brown ; 2, Mr. ick 
voral Seedling P inks, Pansies, and ‘Getnceioiand® were exblbites, 
the result of which willa appear fromthe followingacc 
Line P Heap ‘was no Seedling cuficienti din v= e 40 
merit being placed as ~a first-class flo ower. 2nd C Omega, 
(Catleugt, a bri right, clean; Seas, Ponte with a i intense 
y defined in 
fo 
LING pag 1842, 1st Class 8 Kelipse, a fme full- 
ed, dark-laced pink, with sondeeieres rose peal, and 
perfect lnc ; Brown’s Modet, naee flower, good petal, ani 
oe Oe st Class, 1, six blooms: Brown’s Gavidad, rose’ 
pean with delicate ee the white of a very superior quality. 
Class; 1842; Willmer’s Black hang Maid of rose em oe and 
. a 1841, six bloo al tng 
owt eon 
best red lace, Cre one an), 
be ge edges very even, bet the Saved! rather 
aaron lace, Ne Plus Ultra (N: 
EEDLI 
zk, with pertct 
so 
“Alicia (Cook), t thisis.@ 
pr erg sper 1st Class, 
; goodese, se oeaioten ‘relarge,finely-pro 
finely- me white, with 
and of good sub- 
s H ase 
peing of a bright pure bias, res slightest tinge of purple ;. 
it is finely.f = 
eer » and perfectly distinct Batam en from 
seen, fampstead), a large 
flower, of considerable substance, inside yello 
bable er urrounded with a bri band of an indescri- 
~ present a —— of purple and Se the ‘upper petals 
colour, goat one a yel- 
e, with “com purple upper petals 
NOTICES A i kak PLANTS ttt CARE rit 
EFUL OR.ORNAM 
y white Picha eee a eat 
dria Monogynia.—Thi 
r Variety, and flowers very freely. 
it was raised’; but it is believ 
se 
at es 
h i 
reas its lovely dowers 7 i stan es of cight Se fen on 
flower-spike then n 
befor. 
neither of 
Teltow 
freely, and the colours of the flowers will be d 
grown ‘in pots in the conservatory or greenhouse. 
in the latter situations, however, the plants et 
eeper than oe 
nin tree 
Hel 
and 
bloom more profu = aly cultiv ated in sa 
treatment to the sam, rich soil ae po BP potting 
amply repaying for every attention. It blooms from Ma 
vember, én properly cul ed.— Flor. Cad. 
Fou’cHsSIA INTEGRIFOLIA. Entire-leaved Fichsia. (Greenhouse 
a, ctandria Monogynia 
a.—Mr. Miers — the 
achs' n 
by the sides ve’. streams, where it climbs van ee 
Manes it 40 Grd toe et up the ms of large trees, and 
among the branches, giving the: trees, to which it re attached 
preitell the ppueatys nce 0 ele- 
bs of 5 ae vd fect, Ry loses its climbing Rabie: shew? be- 
a bu Pat o to four feet high, in w hich 
Hate it Naas a shod Tie al of. Fie appearance of F. ae en 
whi - the flowers considerably resemble. The leaves ar ne- 
rally opposite; frequently ternate, from 3 to 5 inch 
tical, riehc timbre at the base, toothed towards the ¢ 
brous, except in the nascent foliage, deeply ting le 
beneath a: nd o oe the mid-rib and ‘petiole, which Ta atter is half. an- 
inch long, grooved above. The fiowers oe of a beautiful crim- 
deni colour, with the stamens much here oon ee s Bot.Ma ag. 
PIDENDRUM PHGNI'CEUM. rple-fiow: 
(toes Epiphyte.)—Orchidacee. ionieacie Monandri —M 
diges, who have introduced so Basch noble Epiphytes into 
ths country, and in whose magnificent collection severa 
ones develope their flowers every month, lepers this ws howd 
Epidendrum from Cuba some eae, in 1840, and it moe ed en 
nm in th 841. Its o-bulbs 
large, nearly round, and have} an Ghiuseatis clear hee agreeable 
A h three feet in 
with minute 
f a consider- 
La two or Me striae oer 
es Jot ellip- 
xtremity, Ht i 
ed with p 
Das 
ne ol 
with pale green, while the 
tled 
e lip is oe a rate pinkish or Yilac Te, 
and has crimson veins, Its appearance alto — pom a 
ches ie and broad in proportion, and coarsely 
e four times as large, much like those of 
aries ellow, and with t which are 
at, not crumpled, considerably larger oan, oe calyx. Moreover 
the st stamens are regularly arranged in bun — of four each, in- 
stead of six to nine, as in C. cuneiformis.— Bot. Reg 
GesNneERA Surtont (with white flowers). 
namia nen et che F a Stove papmes 
and Os sborn of the F 
Gesnerécen. 
1 rye flow: 
leat po are i Shona a in size and form precisely like those of the 
“ne. It was imported from Brazil.— 
CaM thant: Granpis. Large Bell 
Pentane 
nine ere 
from St. Petersburg, and very like a & reameritienert 
Campanula persicifolia, with the flowers of C. pyramidalis 
Natolia is said by Steudel to be its nt — The flow 
are deep blue, idalis, an d betw: 
two pe three inches in. diameter, “There 4h. haw peer Dechiecess 
plants o handsome. —Bot. Reg. 
MISCELLANEO 
gs Organic Chemistry (Contin from page 
jew ar ne (p. 
eens recei ived 
ariety 0} | 
amy A the river Elbe, in a © marshy ground, which con- 
clay and a grea umus. Bu 
_ 
B 
and cultivation 
- ebig, in peaking of thie _- ratatp, should have bee 
ware that there ciples shred peepee nt which 
nowled 
he cannot cumpreend all his jem 
P 
tion of excrementitious matter i 
i 
a secretion of 
rements, more especially if the secretion of gases and 
pee or vapor is not pet st ed ofthatnature. Botin 
reating every problem, not merely chemical, Dr. Liebig 
oebiiee penetrate beyond the surface. What follows con- 
tains nothing but wea with bo r,t “araE 
0 do. ch are the 
not what t Su solutio albumen in an 
infusion n (on decoction, as ts Dr Liebig s phot of he ‘acid of 
the ach of a calf, the transformation of starch into 
4s “by ns f a Seeteces of malt barley, as Dr. 
Liebig says). But who is it that putsa decoction of malt 
ng grain of rice hould 
+ 
5% 
ery or or wo 
i meme re 
portant. 
power, and a mostimportant one 
has no connexion with chemist stry. Eve 
thor treats of mere chemical roludibeen, theet i is still s some- 
hich shows th 
thing in his reasoning w t he tries to con- 
ceal his superficial propositions behin ph . He as- 
serts that plants secrete what is not assimilable; but why 
just what is not assimilable ? y not what is assimi 
lated? In what way does the plant distinguish one from 
the other? . Why does it not secrete hits 
leaves, and aeriform fluids ugh i a: y, be- 
use of their peculiar nature ; and itis en this peculiar 
call until we 
powe 
acquire more just ideas, and be able to express such ope- 
a be 
ions by a Both in organic changes and in 
the chemical p _of assimilation e 
pre themselves, when they fancy they have a8 8 
in in their Bis 
mitating 
aeipipotl that starch is converted into sugar in a germina- 
ing, pla pee in the same way 23 in a mash-tub ; Fag tego 
D you 
know anything about the transforming powe me moat or 
sulphuric acid? Call ‘such phenomena, state vital force,” 
sp 4 c 3 and be content with terms which you 
reject with such chemical tendignations Wepl hysiologi 
employ these terms to express phenomena which we can- 
not explain ; and we do not attempt to pass off i 
rance for as the — ‘does with his ——— 
contra-actio: But 
vity. enough. Par- 
suing the ; prop A subject of this chapter, we find the old 
to which it tends, and an examination of the experiments 
just as much valu any other sci- | observation, cae to e nourishment of 
entific’ investigation. It is not an examination of the | the plants ‘by form ‘ite peativeh 
of these people, which hav n supported ce of th forinan Brow with which Dr. Liebig has 
=| proofs,’ Dr. Liebig expresses himself very incorrec form He says, cha can be asa 
but an examination of ¢ tended proo themselves. complete substitute for mould, for it never forms 
itcan be shown tha si ey cannot relied on, the | cid. TI have little doubt that Dr. Liebig, when he was 
views which have been founded on them fall to the ground | writing this, had in his head the idea that humus con- 
ves, without ssity for another view of | denses carbonic acid from the atmosphere, and thus intro- 
the matter in their Piece. But enough of this: it is not | duces it into plants, an —_ da n this important quality, 
h while examining s ill-considered matters in all | which, cn Abe © he en » humus and Se 
rp ints. t us og on to the following havi, of agree, This fact, h posh we ic not learn fro r. Lie- 
which I shall have the less to say, seeing t Leger the previ- aie but from Lucas, Be and Mitse 
ions appl 
a compared. with 
en Neerlande, 1840, 5 et , etc.). He then 
view of the darslonment os a ee as he oppose 
P introduces a 
ae 
much nourishment as it can. 
s case, become of Dr. Liebig’s carb st and. am- 
monia, sat De exist everywhere in and | 
tes in the 
sromsanr i igh ay shay 
the sere heheh fu . treating of “ the assimila- 
tion of hydrogen,” _ ig so hy mue! _ _ 
pro d, 
ble that mposed, 
wrerg revowly (p ts: ®, had desteatd that the latter 
was doubt. In the absence of anything 
new; Im well notice the following sentence :—*‘ 
o not know,”’ says Liebig, ‘‘ in what f the consti- 
uent parts of organic matter ai oduced.” This kno 
ledge is properly ultimate object of physiology, but 
0 aad ren 
o other 
ose processes Sialetchenitita ;” and 
ng thos 
ome em wherefore Dr. Liebig, 
re such a testimonium paupertaiis, should _ 
his calumnie Fas ie and. pir 
hysiologists ow such disinclination 
| nothing mate is found, “This is a = pabjeck of 
which physiology haa not yet made use. Before Boussin- 
t’s researches, both ag angie rg pe 
iebig included, were "Nguprent of the true origin of nitro~ 
