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1842. ] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONI 
CLE. 
adapted for purposes of this kind. Hyacinths — other 
bulbs for flowering in glasses in rooms, or for the ers 
them, c 
care that both bottom and top are perfect.—R. F, 
OME CORRESPONDENCE 
Transformation of Flowers and Behe —Havin seen 
i Py the trans- 
b 
as become the basis of the doctrine chbee comeiets 
who consid e flower, and the different organs that 
compo te omitting the result of their func- 
tions—the fructification), to be of an assemblage 
of leaves that have undergone certain modifications. The 
majority of French botanists have now adopted this 
opinion, which at aa gained ground very slowly ood 
, as there was of conclusive pro 
an 
a theor ry subversive of all 
diver organisation of a 
we a. one stra ay this subject | 
ov 
h ma 
Metamorphosis of Plants,” oe in 
is nothing more than the transformation of a bud (says 
Du Pe vd seg 3 88 € of whic 
veral 
i three, when herm 
,» with a single calyx; of two whorls of leaves 
when hermaphrodite and deprived of a calyx; and 
lastly, of one circle of leaves, when merely male or female, 
without a calyx. a enumerated four kinds 
of comp and incomplete flowers, I von now examine 
the nature of their different parts. The leafy vagy re of 
er is easily seen in the 
the cin gow parts of a flow 
calyx, whose sepals have  erathoy the appearance 2 and 
_bei monl 
ves, which —_ ett undergone important 
“7 look a, it as ageces a ° 
8 rni uisite 
ornamé: at adorn our gardens apart: As 
another i ce 0 tendency of the floral organs to 
o the two c 
ds? he 
worthy of a place in your journal, ~~ 
may, perhaps, still a ‘stimulate your —* 
look for cine — those ced ; 
to explain them, if they c a rinciple 
than that of wan. sx a fruit as a composition of lee.” 
—Charles Anson a Versailles 
Singular Gro a Cucumber.—Last S aturday I cut 
a Cucumber aks a eerton — and stalk growing from 
the m 
tha 
nm an hour after the fruit ‘had been cut, although k 
oofs in tree 
their ideas previously 
flow I was |.th 
in per the same temperature, the leaf began to droop 
and wither. - I imagin 
ortion of the 
ive 
whole fruit or a 
stem is left in connexion ‘with vere -y 
sre This » probably, of g 
king place naturally, ap the fruit ‘and pores of “w 
hating come closely in early s 
gore é fae 
as — s if a portion of the stem only was left sheds 
h.—In Nos. 15 
esting observations 
and female 
t.J 
Sithigts s on the Male and = ber 
and 16 of the Chronicle are 
stronger—another says the fe 
= on —_ interrogation none could tell whiehws was the 
ich bo 
re the seeds while growing, without whichno 
drawn. 
the male moving a of 
neous hes e whi wood. This str sa is sted ly 
om its quicker growth ; but from the conflicting opinions 
of my in ants nothing of certain nte d 
until th s demonstrated from experimen 
acts. Fro rous observations I have recently made, 
I do not find one tree in fifty which can be called the true 
male Ash; that is, one ae seeds. But as some trees 
cote dicecious, it appears that 
iefly diemaioen flowers are of the 
ian but few seeds, —— is no doubt the 
ter an ter bulk; having 
es in iccabeiee o one 2 
seeds. I uspect they produce the toughest and most 
elastic ‘iondien, for ther a difference ser respect 
to the latter quality. ing monceci r 
ing bo 
leaks near my resi- 
any about es 
yea - One 
as I can eect me i upon it, I oo to . the dice, 
cious or male As nd it is not only one third more 
girth than the female, much more handsome and 
orous ingrowth. Therefore, I am inclined to term ail 
ch trees, with but few seeds u them, males, as we 
wever, 
not perceive. I wi next seaso 
y means of the a eelwrights, and further C2 atenppeary 9 
come to some ee — on e points, 
being fully sinha of th e of the Ash as a timber- 
tree. I perfectly coincide with M r. Townley that it oe 
be of great advantage to know which is, properly speaki 
the = and which the female, and by well-conducted 
timber; ai as well as the effect which perfecting the seeds pro- 
seek on ot — of the timber. e trees are earlier 
than other: 
ier a dieu mstance e 
and other trees, and aia rs suppose to arise from some 
—— — nce in the ——~ orfrom the soil. Sixteen 
ears ago I measured the girth of two very large old Ash- 
tr tay J Preston-Gubball pra near Shrewsbury ; 
this ave measured them and find one of 
e As 
sat Ababa but the I langest 
nd all 
tend to confirm me in this belief. A friend of mine in- 
forms me that there are no hermaphro: 
Ash; but that on some tree 
—- rea n 
the latter is called the 
_— 
dis- 
— W. Billi Sesion “Underhill, 
tend to confi 
y caved male and 
TY 
Tah ausirelis.—Dr. Li iebig’s sesenee. seems to be 
somewhat sceptical made many years 
i Nab, the curator 
ce Garden, in dee 22 to the 
though tied to the rafters of the conservatory, with its 
roots — ngin as air; in which condition it had already 
existed for 
al root, or tentaculam ; still it 
s plant.—J. Mu 
at Hp answer to P. Mackenzie’ $ query, 
show ; but they oo 
hitherto —— ap before they edhe maturity.— 
Solly, Heathside, near Poole. 
The Natural Instinct t of Birds.—I was greatly amused 
in the early part o ipesterdny, by observing a flock of 
pasar ral hundred s and m 
gether, in three tes ini 
ee oe 
ing still Hy sient, with the sun ig — oe ae 
n gyrations, trying, I suppose, their power flying. 
Searstiones mF would alight upon the trees, ‘ad ‘chon n fly 
off = ape repeating the same 
rue is in sete —_ ot direct them in a straight 
line to the narrowest part of the sea, and to their winter 
oat a mo r first day’ ‘fight would probably be to the 
sa — sight, an = pass 
Semecigaion to > behold th , in 
turne rent roma bi a n 
tars glimmering in the sky. This day is wet and 
dull; sound they foretel the weather? One might fancy they 
had some notion of religion, as they did not ch 
travel on the Sabbath. Has any one else obs: a 
a 
perhaps some of your correspo 
lettin irae will communicate to the public through <8 
‘aper. . Billington, Underhill, near Oswestry, Salop 
r 20. 
Remedy for the Sting of a Wasp.—In addition to 
many recipes already given to allay the pain occasioned 
by the sting of a wasp, I beg to o inform eg 2 that 
upon 
g-leaf, 
its being broken, is a a reme edy. sas 
‘o destroy ave peer with little benefit all 
“ 
garden, ms “5 ruinously infested with them, 
d I have tried lime, salt, soot, saw-dust, n 
nothing so effectual as nid followin ng traps, viz. +) Savoy 
eaves, the rougher the better, placed about the borders, 
with a laid on them to prevent the wind from - 
ng them. These my amines daily, knocking the 
slugs off into a pan of salt or brine. In manne 
destroyed b n Oct. 184 fay 20, 1842, 
eee. besides 2000 more killed incidentally. —Estus. 
water Tanks —In the discussions which have Te- 
tly +. 
Sake these useful resevoirs, there has been, I believe, 
no allusion made to two circumstances which I have rea- 
. 
of the former fro m light and air. So 
=. - gages rain-water for domestic purposes is 
when kept in perfect darkness, | below ground, 
pipes themselves. Water thus preserved a pureness 
of colour and even of flavour gow seem sce Aged 
expected from the ings of roofs and 
hich )E 
and Gigenble venting, * both dead po tring, which must 
growth of the Ficus earrali pmpemas from aaa 
ber t yale 
of the soil, I remem 
of necessity be carried into into such a receptacle, I endea- 
