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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
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abundant crop. It is stated that tough meat hun 
branches of this — is rendered tender inafew 
this singular S prod 
upon the 
Achimene: 
und tosucceed Destine mceeneias warmand pares 
atmosphere ; Aakimenss — closely allied to the well- known 
Trevirana coc — ea, ogee i — 
pzolum Mori zianum whic 
mall incon 
Sotauined aoe ies, po roducin 
1 ard Solly, and his Bxeellency — sh 
H. ‘Everett, poral been seca ear ti members. 
cation was "received fr m the Rev Sgt . Fi 
Dyock Oat; who saten the t, having seen, 
= Redeye ural Society of Scotland, a report of a series of trials 
m: ith J. Wats bs wis ind aoea to apply for 
a <miadl quantity of the seed ; pes that © far as the return of one 
year and the appearance of his c rops con be co 
ing testimony to the value and probable utili 
poor r red soil, she Pe upon a claye 
. abo vi 
dra other eaten off with 
e alleged qu — of the Oati in nauestion which induce 
and 
, the 
ttle longer. salen on the 
of ‘Sept. ; the Dyock Oats having than: yay on the 31st of Aug. 
returns were, from t the ied oats 6 9.2 es the seed; 
The form net 36 3-5 lbs. 
th 
e 
per bushel, and yielded of Oat eal 17 3-20lbs. per bushel; the 
latter weighe: Ibs. per bushel, and — of Oa’ 217-9 
Tbs. per bushel. T: is 0: — ty, well og 
om a Mr. ei ck, who firs 
ariety in Aberdeenshire. Tf, afte 
lands of the hern f the kingdom. Mr. Wai tates 
that it usually arrives at maturity from 12 to 16 ore 
Potato-oats ; and the e higher the altitude, the greater is the dis- 
parity in this respect. It i: i 
Ss e grain, but is 
distinguished from other early varieties of Oat = the thinness of 
“ER See SOCIETY 
ie sf a 
m M 
izarre Carnat: i i j 
mall flower, with the white ery pure, and colour gdod; bu 
generally deficient in crimson.”? Mr, Oakley sent six blooms of a 
Dahlia, raised in 3 colour, crimson tipped with white: ‘“ the 
best ti ped Dahlia seen by the Society, and in shape nd-rate, 
but not quite perfect in the centre.” From Mr. Mountjoy, were 
six blooms crimson Dahlia, d Virgil, of 1841: “a firs 
class flower.” From Mr. W. Pipe, of Hampstead, a Dahlia, of 
1842, named Firebrand, crim arlet: “a ory ee: 
ceous 0 
small; t 
bacrnysn ir R. Sale, ou 
7 Mir. 5. Atdridiee. fave b ve blooms of his Hoxto 
Riv: d Mr “Whale of Elcot, a bl of a dark Dahlia. 
y the Society, an 
to-day; i were, rb 
3 
a ys 
Seni oe 
Horticultural ciety, 
porta pa pt c 
oe Are ; ta bee ees Ns Lady Bitiges and 
y ges 
mmelina czeles- 
denne Siuiane Mr, Sankey. 
Drummond,  Spiglosss $a and Clematis 
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ematis 
Sieboldi, ‘Miss hdcaitreecs oe 
Stindishi, D. Denne, Esq. ; 
BNNIAL 
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Best 3 a, Siphocamplus bicolor, Bze’ ckia 
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Robin ’ and Comentaineren 
e urham, 
a; Cook’s Perfection, 
hnson, ia te Stubbs” ae Ags erfection, 
Seti, Victory, 
He. ay G. Ho gson. 
- P. Plumptre, Esq.; 2, Mr. ‘Dadds.. 
ey. ia 12 ANNUALS 
sie min ‘Haxoy Bovaus?’ 
e, Best Proms Dx 1, ‘umptre 
Pu 
Wuirte Do. 1 and 2, Muscat o Alexandri J. P. Plum S 
APRICOTS: Brusseis, J : Esq. Paw ums: Early — ~4 
Mr. Cozens. WALL Gaennies White stag Heart, Mir Cozen 
STANDARD Do. : , Mr. J.E) 
D. 
ndsor, Me. Cau LIFLOW ER 
L 
ae - 
curiou: 
arly tory riba 
the re protrudin, 
ant ; Gacilien api, _— flowers oe a 
butterfly ; Oncidium flexuosum 
urious; with P. 
potent other rar 
SEERIES § id NEW PLANTS trices Sam EITHER 
FUL O NAME 
“ans ems Perennial.) 
a Dinan mee ae of a Stylewort 
ipally raised Riv 
2, basket, Mrs, ke: Pua. Mancowsk Cote’ ; 
BW. > pie E ao 2 genio Se 
+’ Venda, ‘Black Hamburch, 3. Fe 
wan 
It has 
al 
they are when ' e ar 
been done with om lore ane 3 and we do not des of seeing 
the very species now before us wit large panicle of flowers 
It is a neat little iesahtines perennial, requiring a soil composed 
of sandy peat, mixed with a small on of loam. It uld be 
kept in small pots, and treated asa subaquatic during grow- 
in summer, oer — ve kept rather uring the 
ted- leaved fo am gore 
“cyan 
in 
flower any species yet ‘oduced into our 
greenho . The lea anven are rosulate, densely imbricated, and 
springing pi the top of the root; the stem, as well as the calyx 
and outs: mh of the corolla (which is om being clothed with 
pe sprea hairs, tipped with a viscid gland.—Curtis’s Bot. 
ag. 
ty sms MEXICA Mexican Syringa. (Half eet 4 
andria Monogsnia. er a nee aa new h 
har y, i pi hardy shru been introduced by the Horti- 
cultural Societyfrom Mexico, i ae Fs r. Hartweg. 
It forms a small bush, with w sale ge anches, and has the merit of 
being an excellent wre for gt en — a ee at Jalapa, 
and grows es gerne de Ss there ; 
city of Mexico, accord: gto Sch wat e 
at the Hacienda del Cares hich is mentioned in the Linnea 
as the locality of Philadelphas affinis, a species with 5-flowered 
racemes, a >. prego very different from this.— Bot. 
EpipE AHA — i 
Mpiphyte.- hidaes Gyn sandria Mondndri a.—This pretty 
species of Spaleuarden,- Delonstnes to the Es patente 
received cai ~g Edinburgh Botanic mesure Zh from co, and 
well deserv: lace in every collection. do-bulbs are 
coi ofa ile green, about the size of a bigeon's egg, bearin, 
‘0 somewhat obtuse coriaceous leaves. 
‘om eight to ten verter: lar; 
eeuletens 
wi wo whi' i 
lobes yellow, almost convolute, so as to embrace the co mn; 
the middle one large, orbicular, waved at the margin, white 
beautifully streaked with red. —Curtis’s Bot. Mag. 
et ese 
pr again to eppl ¥ general directions to their own parti- 
cular case. ae clecing the aapceds for a i ng. 
They should be sae when in flower, or when 
n both those se state and they anda be reduced, 
rit stinces to such a size, that they may be convenien 
ween t 
been properly ——— the second hn: 
them betw sheets of paper, under a gen aia 1 
and, hireametin ey hiftng them the paper wl 
becomes damp to dry paper, to extract from 
their apt till they become in a fit state for a by 
e herbarium. For this purpose common brown 
becom 
and too peri ishable. 
sing troublesome a method of d 
which Tak 
a strong cor ter specim ve bee 
pressed for a few hours, till ‘the paper i be sup to 
have absorbed a considerable portion of humidity from 
he plants, uncord the package, and e sheets over 
the floor of a room till the paper _— to become dried 
then tie them together again as first directed, and re repeat 
he operation of unpacking an repackin ng till the speci- 
mens are perfectly deprived of their moisture, when n they 
may be p infr h paper, and laid by. It will be found, 
that in the process of drying, as thus di ected, some kinds 
of plants will be fit f ying by h sooner than 
hers ; the parcels should therefore be examined from 
time to time, and the specimens selected as they become 
ready. Jf, as upon journeys in country, 
hould be no convenience for ing the ts of 
upon a fil the specimens should be packed 
as closely as possible in a bundle, h may ied 
the back, t ay be laid not only een 
the leaves of single sheets of paper, but the 
sheets themselves. y fires which ma 
upon such a journey will for drying the sheets of 
paper, in which the s ens may ediately re- 
ced. By transferring into a single spare sheet of dry 
paper the plants in the first sheet of d per, and 
then drying the damp sheet, and so on, a large collection 
f fresh specimens may Be quickly shifted, and daily re- 
ceive all requisite attentién without ulty or inconve- 
nce. Specimens, whe pre P ally of 
a uniform, more or ark brown, colour; they should 
be quite flat, and will often become bri e, and to th 
€ of inexperienced persons very unlike what they 
when fresh. I mention this in order to rd against the 
ery common m of supposing that unless speci- 
in 
en the spoons have 
is to place 
tha °P 
be not ae dry, but either new, or at least 
not peat ds a eit: re by previous use. 
sh ill i 
osel casks, 
ry material being rammed 
case. 
lye —We rere : a another large 
e fashionable flowe: announced for 
h : 
nn e them in small pots 
ure v ef: less tha 
