G10: 
_ T- Seopa ans 
1842.] 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
Mr. M‘ soa tan er. 
, 2d Stripe ed 
or. 
for at: Eames t of Har ay Oe 
. Russ ait, Esq., 8 ceagrad oie as best 
Grapes, Erotic Tree in bearin ng, Isams, 
ho 
SS 
alge Layed and Parsneps. 
* Lloyd, Esq., 5 prizes, for best agin of Pansi 
Dahlias, Light or Tipped Do., the Cucumbers. 
B.W 
best Summer C wliflower: 
Fitt, Esq., 8 prizes, for bes t 6 ‘Bandy 4 ‘Annuals, 2a Caiceolérias, the 
erbaceous Plants, 24 Ros 
best 6 Verbenas and Yegthoiie hm, 
South Essex Ladera Society, Sept. 8.—The third exhibition 
took place in Wanst d Park under inauspicious circumstan: 
mage in th en cieehods nd the rain whi 
contracted the canvas and st fay - -cords of the Society’s large 
quee, that notw ee all poem pare the immense 
strain on so la “ea Si surface the ridge, and ronaened 
exhibition. “th y of exhibition 
several 
F * 
BE oe t. J. Black, gr. to 
2, Mr.. J, Brock, »M 
G Hatcher, er. to R. F. Rey: 
Ss Gad; 2, Mr. 
do., Mr. T. Bail 
teurs, ae A 
, of 1842. Mr. P. set received the ist wig be seedlings “of 
ith, 2d sian prizes for 
623 
SCELLANEOUS. 
Vegetation of afin anistan and Western India.—We 
extract the following interesting facts from a valuable 
ppendix by Dr. ers ravels ;’’—“ T 
country round Rawil Pindee is open, scattered with single 
hills a tolerably cultivated, and here Dr. Falconer first 
ous Zuetoon o 
Mr. Elphins ia ob € 
ison! a the banks erys 
Iphinstone was 
was a sort of Willow, with yellow 5 sweet-sce 
like the Palm Willow in Grea 
nglish, becaus wither 
aes seen way = full, ‘soft, eid fre a sends of the 
Ww. year. also Cl over, o_ eed, Plantain, 
Rib renee, Dandelion, common » and many other 
English weeds. e plain i ph which ¢ the city of Peshawur 
tains, and water 
March the upper parts of ain ered 
with a while the plain was dlothed “with ‘oat riches 
rerdur and the s delici 
sca’ 
Cottagers’ allotments let 
ch Horticultural ‘exhibition was held on 
Wisbea Society.—This 
The following “i « list of the yee 
of Da 
¥ 
- 
uch of "Ric rola “Bri yal 
ndard, Sir Frederick Johnstone, -dndispensables Lady Cooper, 
idnall,.o 
Stella. The si as value 51. antchester. 
12 Blooms— rand Tourna amenty rider atten wuoune, 
Catleugh’s E oie spen Metella, ‘Grande rene 
Duchess of Richmond, oe ‘Springfield eras Stella, S$ 
ete Johnstone— Mr. W d been nec a 
sl] n 
menon, Pamplin’s Bloomsbury, Lady Cobper, 
Darling, Amato, and Beauty of Wakefield. 
an a ea 
evr icess oe Sarre Aesth lop ics ARE Bort 
AMEN 
ag (Hardy 
Monadélphia featpiine th robust 
owi feet 
high, in any It flowers freely gz 
oni of of June and as » and is easily i inerea: 
ant 
of the knife- soy leaf fe re te ‘of their ed 
@ graceful drooping panicle of clear i ee Howe Oe four: feet long, 
almost white at the back, and endcwith e ar the 
centre on the upper side, It was.im Mes 
flowered with them in Mareh 1841, It requires a 
damp stove in cultivation, and may be suspended from the 
wood, and ted in brown, t 
e greatest ¢ 
y 
either 
watering it it, ortienede a it commences. its growth, for the 
young shoots at this stage rotted.— Bot, Reg. 
Suthisuhaenaee SHEW-CEREUS. Garden. variety... ( 
house Sueculent,)—This is a garden variety of Cactus speciosis- 
simus, or the Shew-Cerens, with. er than ; 
is pretty, and well worth cultivation. It is a greenh plant, 
equiring the same tment, as the Shew-Cereus itself, For- 
merly such plants were. grown i ch as old 
and brick rubbish ; but-it is ig Wises patna gee Ma sg 
ves r much ane 
ha eas 
in drawings of thes fas apoma: is as cul 
an 
p the re must be a disappearance of 
ret ‘to the vegetation of more northern latitu: 
of the Persian and Mediterranean, with a few plan’ 
ly of the African region. The seeds of plants col- 
r. Griffith, and sent to ee India as ee be- 
y to suc —— une er, 
se ae spi, Cheiranthus, Cc mbrium, 
ene, Arendria, Ruta, Peganum, Ep pilcbium, Caan 
Heit répium, Onosma laris, Linéria, Verénica 
Iris, Tilipa, Tauschéria, a Siberian 
with a Rose rast _ Hamthorn, pee 28, seeds 
strigalus aragana, as well as Co 
site of the tribe Carduteee w, with ae of Onopordum, 
The Prangos Pabularia was 
pao i 
ona 
early spring. The cipa sey’ vt the 
Elm, the Ash, the Fir, the Plane the Sy anlar the Willow, 
and the Cypress. es aoe os the Pear 
Apple, Quince, Peach, oe “Plum herry (aout: 
maa pee and white Pomegranate, ‘Wala oe 
Bar id Fig; the Pistachio flouri 
farmeauteny north of the “alley: 
there are every variety in perfecti 
co ; ; er = 
(Egg-apple), Carrots, Turni 
except the three first named, « 
often te for the Crees : 
Among the flowers, the Rose, Jessamine, tes Talip, 
Navlacos, Tris, &c., are mentioned, te any of the 
most c ommon weeds rid ae age countri 
—Mit- 
er’s s For Tis 
pidechineys of the fag “Assocation 
Han nover, Winkelblech 
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bed ccarini. Ist Hundred. 
Leipzig, fol., with colonred ed plat es. 
E as-liguor on Grass. — The following are 
the results of experiments made 
’ 
(co. of Ayr), in to the 
Philosophical Society of pie three- 
ears-old ture, of uniform quality, was divided into 
ten lots of twenty perches each, old Scotch measure, 
i as follows, produced respectively 
the quantities of well-made hay marked op each. 
The value of each application the same, viz. 5s., or 
at the of 2/. per acre. All were menine, at the same 
hay viz. April re hoes the grass cut and made into 
in July follo 
Produce per pe Pet Increase per 
Lot, re, Acre. 
Lot. tong pounds: Pounds 
1. Left uched - 8360 . — 
2. 24 barrel of quicklime added 602 . 4816 1456 
3. 20 cwt, of lime from gas-works 651 5208 1848 
age . of woodcharcoalpowder665 . 320 =. 1960 
5, Two bushels of bone-dust 693 . 6544 . 2184 
6. 18 pounds of nitrateof potash 742 . 5036 . 2576 
Vs undsof nitrateofsoda . 784 . 6272 . 2012 
8. 24 bolls (10 bushels ofsoot. 819 . 6552 , 3192 
if: web be phate of ammonia ais . Oe: Soa 
00 gallon: t senentintaca 
from peaesgeoter ey at 5° of Twed 
del’s hydrometer . - 5°, 7o00, 4200 
—Bath Chronicle. 
M. Har cay — Letters dated pepo - yas agg = 
been received from this me oom 
cultural Soci He ha Aye We 
covered mountains a neighbourhod, ‘and | had formed a 
eds. His next object 
was to be the i nto ne ghrp om ae districts, from 
6,000 to 9,500 above the level o sea. In a month 
he intended to leave for Popayan, a erry country hardly 
known to botanists, and 108 leagues distant. 
baht errs CORNER. Fost . 
an idea up in his 
‘ Teich Melodies 
** As the la toma 2 ‘aed god, when he sets, 
2 rt 6 pa ce ies With its rain porolla isthe bagi of the 
by many w Moore 
The same look which she turn’d when he rose. 
5 me Kuala in his 
“ Fables of Flora,” entertain popular notion ; 
and Sir J, E. Smith states, ‘‘ Its stem is compressed in 
some degree. to facilitate the movement of the flower, 
whi Hap may Seep alunos’ ‘sineug hms 
t to natural icity, to meet his s. 
—Introduction to Botany, p. t the 
209. 
observation of this plant will show that it ones nc 
this brag citi property. detected 
so lon as 1597.—Herbal, p. 614. See Detieslings 
a to ae ch. 6. 
2. THE ie nag from the earliest times has been dedi- 
sg sadness : 
w-garland for his sake.’ ?— Henry 
Old Fuller cl ia sd ren where sch who hve 
their ae their m we know 
g up their harps upon suc 1 "lolefal ra up- 
in moist places, and is 
porte This 
eniindin’ in the Isle of Ely; it groweth incredibly fast, 
it sep ti a by-word in this on the profit of 
thei by other 
i ancy 5 
other forms and kinds, 
to hands aa for other work.’’—Grahame. 
Give bread t 
3. Borantsts | shou i be ‘particularly on their — 
Nim 
aeons as the maxim of Linneus; and in ju ‘ein dinat 
apie colou sal in which the esas prides himself, ought, 
to be disregarded. Were this and 
needless changes 
ei i = gaat as multiply synonyms, are always to 
be tee 
4. Tae ar al oncteari Reseda odorata, now naturalised 
to our climate, isanativeof Barbary. Many years since it 
se pes 
was introdu the South - kaart where it was 
comed by the name of Migno: . Ey 
favourite plant, ca England in 1742, inotlced ne 
by C hi 
Of Melons ae Sea ae 
The vegetables of | 
Lettuce, 
