4 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
greatest eee took him across the whole continent 
of oe 
the 
Atlantic to 
an; and th ly 
European who ever sebmngialisd this perilous 
on | other poi 
e 
nished rana a spreading calyculus—not to insist upon 
Mr. Glendinning informs us that he ~~ it from 
Mr. Fortune, without any account of its history. 
CULTUNS ned angst TREES. 
undertakin A ple O pass so i rompiien hey ry 
AM honour. to him, the fearless and skilful ! remarks on the Or: yang with which I e first 
midst the vast regions he traversed what countless | Prize at the Horticultural are s meeting of Nov. 25th, 
multitudes of rare and useful plants he must have | I he ee n 7 Bh ae kyat set ee i Ehte a ite 
seas What additions ne eg? = ade ri t indioa. | in y eultivatin ng the Citron family. [See Gardeners’ Chro- 
ledge of the Flora of C rica; what indica 2, suprà, p. 791, 1856.] 
tions he could have furnished of the vegetable pro- 
ducts valuable in commerce! Here however he 
failed. 
He speaks indeed of Cotton, of awh fibres of weg be 
textile plants, of Cinchona or Jesuit’s Bark, 
illa, and of fields o pi digo in the Teree. 
neighbourhood of the Portuguese settlement of Tate, 
eems to be all n has received 
no elucidation from the great traveller’s labours ; it 
has rather psi than the contrary, for assuredly 
no Cinchona grows in Afri 
<: While we heartily j join in 1 the regret which every 
_ one feels that so remarkable a journey should have 
us wholly ames vs 
, We cannot concur wit 
Examiner in its rejection of mee ee. kir a 
Dr, Livinestonr of the drugs of the country. “eo 
contemporary is quite wrong in nyi i h 
ind of true Indigo is found in Africa; he and 
have So that Indigofera argentea is a com- | 9f t 
mon cr pt and Ab oe and that the 
ndi igo is moreover applied to i 
‘plants that yield a blue dye, as 
inea in Nubia, a i anks 
No doubt then — of “ Indigo” 
New Holland, abounding in India, and existing in 
the Manrii = will furnis 
we 
heart ien frica. What w 
that pienesa He 
s0 little knowledge of Natural gg gd as to have 
laced Peruvian Cinchona trees an African 
and therefore to prem no eredarice when he 
asserts that falndico an are erp 
i the visited.. This fact shows what 
the state of erap Jia was, and ou 
understood to be a medical man, KES years ago 
«when he started Lon his marvellous pilgrimage. Is 
gaa 8 meai w? 
New TAER. 
190. FARFUGIUM GRAND 
cu- 
us pluri- 
ea 
serialis, scaber.—Herba, Asiæ horealf-orientaits, folis maximis 
floribus luteis, {a 
angulatis, : 
Under the name of wg Tussilago Mr, Glen- 
Nursery, exhibited this 
ast London. meetin ag of the 
jrs that time it had not 
thay shali comune to be ter, they 
uring win in 
form an object in the flower garden a al ks 
at that dreary season, Mixed with Christmas 
T The conservatory in which my trees are grown is 
attached t = ie as It cs nds ese and north 
with sou oth aspect, being span-r » 20 feet 
high, ar supported by 18 iy in pillar s situated 
nence, overlooki vod ie honetifal valley of 
is ventilated by m 
uth and west ‘agpecta, and is heat 
with a conical baie and 4-inch pipes 
Being rather elevated it is naturally oo drained, 
ZS ex = provision was ma ure perfec 
nage from the of eb ode ‘The interior 
is divided fato four compartments (or beds), and in the 
= i a the encouragement o 
order runs all round the house 
peat poy a 45 inch ‘priel ‘val, the hot-water pipes are 
laid pya = the brick-work ; the ’ whole i is neatly covered 
er, do we discredit y 
with a portable trellis- “se the top being 2 feet wide is 
used | for 
ead hitherto to be the easiest 
ict in the 
. After being tr 
efi t of ed edi &e., was put 
make the 
t the = hae required to give 
loa "Wh hen all ha sa been thorougbly 
it was s then ready for u 
umber, were im ported from po 
next spring si they w 
ripened te 
; the whole, as we keep cuttin 
their 
or 
at t night; : all times when the weather permits we 
| uniseptate spores, 
in the form of little Saka hija 
very adhesive yellow clay, which aan 
made me wish that a stronger soil for the main body 
had been selected, 
Iam nei ‘that I i cannot ad nt ioforusiion as to 
of the varieties 
vari y were so muti- 
lated that à Seri we ae 
appe: Orange, 
oelidtaz ace myrile-leaved variety, Tote with = 
Lemon, ede 
When bomló had mra down pretty w 
trees wer x planted and well w. akat he 
Banger mias that tday til now they have 
ow nothin > pe ut pure 
r three 
p ers, never at any 
time = pris them a light, watering. I may as we ell s say 
| the water ae eae — (or beds) 
wn hands to 
S 
a 
Bo 
wal 
no pains or 
into the rahi method of 
teenie I leave them in 
se poasitie, om A stopping rampant ciel 
taking o leave the small and well- 
for flowering. “they will soon monopolise 
ting in everything that comes 
amount of ventilation is given 
day that eree and a ar is im on 
atioots, al 
a 
[S 
reely, We never fire unless the dheviaiehietad falls 
ae 40°, and there is a likelihood of frost or damp 
ea 
_ Insects w e are not troubled with, beyond an occa- A 
the onth: 
destro yed by paraka pepon baceo. J. 
to Sir Wm. Smith, Bart., Eardston. Wor cest 
Å 
VEGETABLE PATHOLOGY.—No. CXLVII. 
606 rX Parasita (P 
re 
uced si 
upon the fertile dn 
y vary considerab ms —— hae an almost pure 
z a A ray first applied 
y Mic! n honour of Pe an = Teak pirer 
ferred to these plants by more modern lian phy ysisian, ry 
of perpe are go ; 
n the j 
ver, are 
do in immediately ere pre plant. 
: | require 
; | Present uncertai in. Sperm 
ae not, sg probable th 
t to 
rain-water, with two | ¢ 
surface reg of old Melon mould from off 
=r the dung. beds, ys 
uccinia,* Wheat Mildew, de 
the several genera which, with greater or P 
e separated f i 
and Ceratium | 
white to aa purple me brown. ‘I'he dark- “coloured 
a excluding the allies of Ustilago, which ha 
en treated gia tread very closely on the h 
of Puccinia, and in some cases seem to b 
gr 
ws ogous to the pes es of Spheric, unless indeed 
he Puccinice which attend or follow the nceived 
a be ondary nn a notion which has some 
an one oe of true 
Pucci ta so es i same sorus. Ma aking 
owever much allowance oo this fact as it deserves, 
when tt to is oe of the brown 
Uredines, as U. Mentha, U. Finds, &c., have > 
analogous Pucciniæ, as P. Menthe, P.- Vie Œ, &e, 
which cannot be ee from aai. except 
after RM ARE Es nation, and tha 
wes en Se th nes other, it requires byè 
4 ee ejudiced perso; 
low, may be traced with the greatest s passing 
into inia graminis, S not to leave tie slightest 
doubt as to their id ntity. t 
607. The genus Puccinia, ue is praise by 
the same habit as Uredo, t the spor ing produced in 
ga cushion-like heaps beneath the ‘taste of the plants 
hich they are parasitic. 
ided, The su 
nd in some exotic species the outer 
shells off from ba e inner, 
gro ws on A 
ise ik rom a äistinet kge 
Whet 
impregnation for their further derclopma i at” 
ogonia have been found at pre- 
38 in 
P, Ane 
of the inn 
extension of the har and give rise to a 
third order. 
of Bun 
the m anarai | 
arboured a paraggi aog p ieith which he belie 
with s i be the same species with 
of Whe ones Pae undoubtedly good, but 
stolicy the spores of 
rated are 
oova average ann 
at least will not be oe sufferer. M. J. B, 
MUSHROOMS, 
Havine cultivated Mushrooms successfally for some l 
be regarded by i 
"a of which others, if necessary, can feroni 
was erin = d 15th November fom 
which a quantity of bu ered on 
of the present fmd 
hus prepared it was sown may use the term) 
over the surface of the bed, Sua ‘an then immedi 
t Tulasne believes that almost all the Uredines, exclusive of 
Ustilagines, are mere stylospores: 
1 
spore 
mode and time of eisien of the © 
[January 3, 1857, 7 
a 
resof Puccinia and other allied gener 
