4 TH F G A R D E NJ E R g". 
ürs; but 1 do not think it tells | be kept between the T 
what one wishes to know, Aa the temperature 0: 
i side door of the passage, f being that of the inside, 
firmly packed ng sae Seay the Rene alae an | Make the Smet walls very close, so on w pe wall — 
open drain of a foo t deep should be made all round | cut across as at n n in section B, the of the 
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max. is that of the day reported on, the min. that of the | the i to urface wast, E. C. | would jëdia nt a compact face. ae oof (C) i is covered 
ing night. Therefore, on Dec. 25 the max. 34° | [The drawing furnished by our correspondent very | with clean well prepared Whe Hye d straw, 4 feet 
refers to daylight on the 25th, and the min. 18° to the | closely resembled the following, which wereproduce from | thick.—Fig. 3 is . section of "anita jodiedoaial for 
is i our volume for 1844, p. 853, a isa well 8 or 10 feet preserving ice. In this A is the ice, B a wall of Fern 
fr e 
night between 25th and 26th, This is, we believe, the 
rule pang meteorologists m 3 to 4 feet in thickness, and C thatch. Th 
Oak Roots.— Possibly the following fact (by no means walls are built u the first i , and 
an uncommon one) may help “Sigma” in his search after | h herent oa By hurdles. A little clean 
the way in which the tap-root f Oaks penetrates hard straw is firs the top ; 18 inches in 
soil. At Hertford station some y c - thickness iari; “ad amet that it is made waterproof 
way by the station was laid down with concrete by means of straw thatch, This kind of house is found 
es, &e., in the = a ou or to ndiii perfectly 
-excellent and hard way. ks afterwards sma id and New Roses.—The discussion in your columns 
arose, which ea enlarged, until at length lately respecting the merits of old and new Roses is 
‘the tender top of the common Thistle made its appear- most interesting to every amateur. Without wishing to 
ance through the concrete. A se unlikely looking Be sa e the merits of old favourites, I will e 
p aema to force its way through such an impediment deep, by a e side of six of the newer varieties which I think may challenge 
. If such a amg pog could mechanically | & ditch : eeper than any six of the older sorts, and as ions— 
aver ae veoh upwards, the root of the Oak may rg! the well ; ik are fag- $ 1 Jacqueminot, Jules rome or 
do the same downwards, made ig [A Mushroom, a| gots at t Ss bottom Raglan, Mrs, Rivers, Prince Leon, Sou 
still more r thing, so e years ago upturned the | Of well; c is Gower. There are many others, such as Barron Lari 
hardest part of a eat turnpike i in Herefordshire—and curved lead pipe 5 or Louise Peyronny, Madame Hector Jacquin, Madame 
in doing so pisss 6 feet long a Domage, that cannot be aie d old sorts, and that are 
Rhizom paga a a late number of the Botanische | inch in di r ’ lovely Amon he still aa varieties I h 
g tse is a notice by Bail respecting the identity the well to make it higher. A par- good accounts of Souvenir de’ ers ’ Angleterre and 
of Sphæria Hypoxylon with Rhizom alis, | ticular point in the construction of Triomphe de I’ Exposition, but hey have not yet bloomed 
ith the promise of a complete figure in this house is th with Any infor <a respecting them will be 
volume of the Bonn Transactions, The matter is brought ways gh eresting The brilliant descriptions in the 
the well should be lined with arley straw, catalogu s ofte orrect, and lead to sad dis- 
arl 
ithering, and other and the ice firmly packed. Other s d of ice-houses, appointments, My advice to all young amateurs is— 
will be found in the English of which the following are representations, have also | « Go and see the flowers yourself, taking with you some 
h eones a 
information e AT 
Flora (published in o) under Sph been published in our columns, chiefly in those of our a arated cate ” Alpha.—— 
The truth is that all the species of this supposed geous . s D con- | word o; about Roses, or your readers may be 
urious, is the creeping stem of Marasmius | venience w In Fig. 1, RAS. The General ri aH "alluded to by 
thers tates of a Pi y “A. R., Bromley,” isa hybrid China 
Palisot de Beauvois in the 8th volume of the Annales Rose, entirely distinct from the 
Muséum. . Montagne in his w n Cuba; brilliant — os Rose with 
e the er of Pheenogams, as of Willows the same name, may add that 
under i stances, si i k 
are true erm of Thamnomyces, which pr s when “inom m Da 
perfect abundant perithecia with fruit like other Spheric, it is always most ful ; its con- 
and would be taken for speciesof Rhizomorpha. The genus gener Louise Peyronny, which is not 
othe dy indeed, been long since expunged by quite so full, is better ted 
all good bo In most cases such growths are pro- cool moist situations. Madame Laffay 
duced in a aeeai of light, as in mines and cellars, or small and tran- 
the decay s. In mines they ex- sitory,” but on the contrary alwa: 
hibit i splendid luminosity, ragran rap Sare 
observed xd Humboldt, Nees Esen , and others, ee re one veer of the ie a 
indications of this ye ate snd z 
it RGU aikiha” DOA bhiapasan have Wen amaes Ae ae 
observed in wood and on fallen hao, but +e and others se y in a pen 
. 3 
re * Lam i irand iad Merete I fancy, a little fervi ion- 
Jisne wiak is A yo Y alagi mes aliy, but who can help a little fire 
t ý lly new and fi 
trary, Pen signal the mirip geta moe | is in fall bloom and to be described 4 
often kan nas us concerning these a, and a anA vns ame 
because eag kass is every "i 0 observe: nae ae 
mot at once that e eniin $ is new oo rid 
pesado aig hh Eii Boat Cacia beteiathars td ges en eee 
ok Sell aa biada, ena or the sake of being first in the field 
Heating.—In your last Number there i > an interest- | O aen ea 5 — = 
articl P: heating, and ; ereinen 
aana aA madeapey perea eea Sae Mena eee 
E: i yout pages aoma youts not ne: his catalogue =a 
since, I adopted of ga nie - — 
a moderately early Vinery (say June) ; for the former Fia, 1. ee ns eee his 
Lf fnd it apawers well, but its rapid k hens iF ù +2. on Same in paee ppr 
the fire gets low or goes out renders it, in my experien ole in the ground, c Bare stones or rubble 18 inch eni 
e gt pupa raga pate AR n a deep to act asa drain ; A D are slabs 4 feet high above the |. trary, he should adhere to old favourites a at ls. 6d. cad 
“he has used it for a stove, eet aoak feel much shig surface ; Eis the door ; F is a trap door to answer a a a osr Pe immers in Rose 
46 Figs 40. inform me bow oinin sights with 10° af similar one on the opposite side, to be saad tyr rather than the new kinds at high prices, about the’ 
kok ta P x wae cand Sey’ thes rir ai T y E air, and carefully closed when the circumambient character of which he is not certain. There are by far 
Sense & aae Gt Whiteheod’s bow and the atmosphere i is damp, This plan i is stated to be at ones DT TS hybrid perpetual Roses described in catalogues, 
£ as now found the most effective. My cheap and efficacious.—Fi ig. 2 is a house of another in some upwards of 200 ; this should not be, the grower 
Bact Fanhion whines should use great discretion, and insert a few of the best 
tile Hackney T tink); und brought acho ny : a es of e preset shade o — such as he can 
willl ‘saga aor y recommen oust from his collection (giving ' 
pp “construction ; nae Renee ewes ani Pye s3 - friends h or de ne them) all a 
à mes and nothing else” to eria ish them. Itisa 
‘the old work ; it carried me well through the question of interest if Roses degenera 
and oti a careful inspection seems perfectly -= Keii some varieties are improved by arean and by being 
present p I Koëter fo be “gs budded on vigorous stocks ; but I cannot see that any 
ak down, and from any information your Pol varieties degenerate. ‘The Crimson Perpe Row 
correspondent may have the g give, T should du Roi, is as beau l as ever, and yet it is one of 
be able to decide on continuing or the contrary a mode most ancient autumnal ing till, and it- 
of heating which is delightful Pou en feelings, and throws some dcubt on the question, I saw in the 
Rose growers last autumn a number 
certainly most admirable for a church ‘ad school, or a : Se of one of our large 
>| BE e plants of that fine old Rose the Duchess of Sutherland, 
pence act ak al occas definits aaa eevee hich had entirely lost their tendeney to bloom in 
mation oa te subject of boilers, their best shape inven or had given only small and imperfect flowers. 
(tubular or conical), size, &e., Tene th gest: whether n ec — a an 
a a R? sal and never was 
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Kew Garden or Messrs. Wee t | 
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etter ae answer to the inquiry of “An Old 
Su in your Number of 13th December last, I 
bu co, an we wo Heo 
hock? 1 get over “ A. R.’s” rejoinder in the Gardeners’ 
ond you ^ rough plan and section of an easily made 
of the 20th ult. remain paart be seen. Those two columns ' 
eaha ak = es works ae poen far y in in rtainly rather feta {startling ; and = 
ning, which cost a 7 SA; In va opinion EA 
spb The excavation should be made in a dry get hi into what our cousins across the Atentie 
m iee a e ian | deurg m own past, I know. to well what ie is to pince. implicit 
$ , i 
mony td alien io a ai miina 10 for yay TA ren a is the centre of a circle | faith inthe catalogues of dealers, saevae ae oe 
and a little more than e then the ordin aty.-thicknets used: wliich stehda 35 Soot aiken: bP ap is a up, | extensive collection of Roses for some 12 years past, 
‘ ; taken o wherropening | are fiftee ; e ground. b 4 | and dear ht experience has, I h de me & 
and shutting a tad 3 and plenty of stelle tomas Sak HP pms feet high and about 2 feet apart ; | little bit Sageer S buy a ns oa vith a high 
RETR RENIN Sperry eee posts, 5 feet high. The space between | sounding name and a still more grandiloquent deserip- — 
* See Nees v. ato long treatise in the Boun Tr these ae r 
onn Transac- di aita -> of posts is about 4 feet, and forms a wall tion, simply use itis mew. If denlers would nly 
i E a daai. it would give 
18 & passage through this wall, d is the out- | “ weed” their catalogues a little more 
