ac legs 
JanvaRY 3, 1857.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 7 
times more nen to purchasers ; for < ont 
any one who is not up to his ears in Roses toa 
8 
instance this— 
than 159 —— 
of 1856.7 
east of it, om wenn 
to phere rth of that 
of hybrid perpetuals ~ a their catalogue o 
Now is not this, to by 
If these were reduced 
say down to some 40 
growing. And in an rar oa let them see out a 
ping simply beca old. Let ave an 
every point that yar to Bieder gills 
nie oan free blooming, and above all aema ses 
and abundan t foliage, not for pen Dg hig h perfum 
new 
variety that has not all these qualities more or less in 
advance of its compeers has no business to pass muste 
Abov 5 however, let handsome foliage 8 a at, 
for n old one e 5r lovely Boe can 
tt me 
mned aise (in 
his meem te Madame Laffay a. Wiliam Jesse, and 
I will send him an order fi c 
ttin, m. 
s of Sutherland, 
iri No. 2 (Hyb. China), _ Auguste mes Prince Léon 
Géant des Batailles, Baro e Prévost, Pius IX. 
t being 
“he ‘ama- 
tied me much, 
the latter stating under the 
teur and — nal, has amused an 
and I am not surpri 
blow he restived fro 
It seem 
for sandr up for our old . t charming maya 
. Jesse, La Reine, Mrs. Elliott rg and Duchess 
Sutherland ; ; and I should be glad to know if any of 
the late gi excel that trio of summer beauties, 
Coupe d’Hébé, Blairi, and Magna Rosea? I do not 
e,| 50 years the 
ser ipne the acorns it is highly ne 
e 
| ship bu 
species struck in the same the reason the 
t 
before the publie as the trials pursued 
worth. The idea oe forwa 
rane from Southampton, o varieties 
are ree e is pavers: the only ayer: pe porate 8, 
oo ng i te and locali ty, Cee be pat 
rrect, and if 
falling, h 
istinction, prov 
quainted with ane Se i features ueg i he 
agine by w propounds he I 
orm te 
es sheave the grain closer, and in its co mpo osition con- 
r larger pr Shaadi ei iron (?) than Q. tama 
heuse" its ability to w d the variations of clim 
e wo Q. namai rae 
he seme aeons and pmt become decayed. I have 
riere fro g of high standing in the 
New Forest, hy well acquainted with the two eee 
that both in er ow there ut for the last 40 o 
acorns T Q. pedunculata have alon 
been se is ected for sowing. ge apts A the timber of 
Q. sessiliflora is vataable for many 
work easier and bend with less trouble than 
iedit; but for lasting will not yar 
a veg 
nly those rah footstalks, and wets 
set 
the Quercus sessiflora and the bod 
is f dorn ne divided. a think chemistry could do 
eal towards enablin 
the properties contained in n qu 
ica wood of the Queen alba, 
as N 
alone thought fit to be used for pu 
uilding, as piers fo for bridges, or sleepers, andit isa 
tree, bu ever observed the 
ner ; 
assigned is that Q. alba contains a much larger propor- 
an seque ore readily sannta 
The Quer | 
d thrive wal, mi 
pedun uires a dry situation, an 
land be i paa ia drained so much the better. * George | 
S. “ar s, Red _ wt — me 
a Boilers in Orchai rehard 
at 
rd by your cocina 
the tw 
purposes ; it will | Alm 
he of 
They say, pi oe ma ee = think, of ng publie, È Vali 
> deci d I do not know that I blame 
m; all fs ask i Hd aa in eae ase iety to “ge 
novelty they do not run down our proved nd 
d established favourites, and that in & trotting out” 
new an erabbing °’ = 7 p d they rali 
pn dies Mr. Paul for lert es 
to labour at so “ small a profit” for so “sa, a teful a public, 
riar-eus. t may not be uninteresting to mention 
a fact in support of old Pat 8 the early part of 
AA nahi I moved a number of my Kose trees 
one of my ens to seeder? (as I had an 
of the house and grounds attached 
very sh 
or Roses, but I think few having 
wn Rose with rich foliage the Tuesday 
ublin Subscriber. 
—This being the 
accompani 
mon } wi 
house slates to be placed slanting against the ge on | in 
the north side, but —_ sa the — cgi = esult 
ote t 
w grew a 
cept a 
winds a few p Ifin 
pie pret a adopting this plan till I ean find a better. 
British ge —I have been much interested by t the 
experiments made at Wentworth with the tw 
of native rah timber, Quercus ped 
sessilifi consi 
the Government of this e untry, and p 
generally, that Pee pvr perfectly ak hafa the 
relative value of both varieties of t the English Oak ; and 
I know no.caurse se likely t to bring them 
pare 
Mr. 
t —< volume, which no working 
en into on al 
throughout the ~_ ne a e 
gt dispersion we may probably find | d 
the . 
ian ‘60 feet mal 15, front pi oa 10 p I ton away 
seen e — plants duri 
o keep toh oa 
boiler ti D r cne double row of 
In a late — I ordered the — zas both 
ou and in xamined at in th: 
parat the siera indented 12 de ve ose fale ats 
while the inside was 14 degrees above, or 26 degree 
warmer inside than = “thie proves my former statemen 
to be correct as to the economical plan I advocated for 
keeping frost out of an orchard house. This house is 
oa of ventilators, but they shut so closely that —_ not 
nea‘ arly ery ; mde ver 
niin 
» 
Zo 
28 
sleagelien closed exce 
4 hours, I could not 
bear my hand on the hot-water pipes, and the fire I found 
d | in a glow. Sigma. 
Notices of of Books. 
Stainton’s Entomologist’s a Tae for 1857 is a very 
naturalist can dispense 
„and jrih generally a 
such for i as 
Dra 
e papers in it are goo 
ta practical application— 
i 8 oe of Britis 
erally} is however Mr. Lubbock’s dis- 
pwr on the he creat of inseets—from which the | oute 
fi 
0 rs ge are extra 
“ If we compare this type of the respiratory o 
which i is hei a w the samein 
far e kno aatia 
d | points in all perfect i except Pteronircye, which 
spiracles, and i most larvæ, 
or animals 
re not col- 
lungs, but ets scattered 
t ‘ion m of in the 
ood 
d with the remainder, which has not 
en so 
& But in insects th e organs for the circulation of the 
blood a much less developed, and though my 
likely Pa are anatomists may discover far more than 
are at present aware of, yet we may pakoa mia ude 
pting duri 
afternoon, jae found are maali toon Pa 
hed for 24 
he 
eatable part, and -its consisten 
that, if the blood was aërated in one part only of its 
course, & rind Appr would remain without this neces- 
sary purifica 
r breathe mieh pe mouth, they 
alled, and wher 
ey make a noise it is in some ae jer at manner, and is 
; usally caused, like the so- neg re a: = the cricket 
and grasshopper, by the ru of o of th 
aga lh another. The humming the fae bee, blue 
ottle, &c., forms howeve rtain extent, 
exeeption to this sree slough "the this sound three 
ig A been sugge 
e larvee of Buna and eas gel Kove, port 
ies, on nthe Parga? Me e respi ratory o 
ormed o which is without a fied, ry miä 
which ‘Ciao 50 familiar ged the fact, I mote’ contem- 
plate without a feeling of 
of which the trachee ram d 
extract the air from the water thus brought into contact: 
with them 
“ Truth is s indeed prime 3 than fiction. What man 
animals apparently so 
to the tern 
insignificant ? 
Why does not Mr. St aed premise his talent 
and energy upon the publ 
ssn a? Our Ento ayori] “friends say a no 
n do it. We say that he is the man who 
The Rev. T. ve e late of a John’s, Cam- 
t | bridge, has p — sat Geometrical Treatise om 
Conic Sections, for of manele, and Students: 
(Longmans, 8vo., pp- 
of a good Insecta 
was not a bad idea on the part of the compiler of 
that the piaja number of questions and an 
together is only 3050; this however is RAEN, ie the 
most tia Ba, r 
The well- en correspondent of the Times who writes: 
under the n of Jacob just 
Pore on the Purchase System (Brad 
which he endeavours to 
whi ch the T yal Commission o were- 
i al yg sae that those to be expected from the Com- 
tting are not Bear! to be patter. The 
ndvorte “of purchase » well as those of “no 
rehase ” shou af certainly pte what Jacob Omnium . 
ss 
ellaneous. 
n the Durian of Borneo.—“ The second of 
y especial admiration is the Durian, a fruit of which 
we hear little in England, where all praise is given te 
zE 
yu > 
is oui pes as superior to all other ruite. Aeara 
fores , something 
maap ae but vith amore smooth 
thick and 
taining about three seeds = “This pulp is the 
flavour are 
iodeseribable. A rich custard highly tive 
Almonds gives the best general idea of it, but there are 
o:casional wafts of flavour that call to mind cream- 
but w 
cacy. It sweet nor juicy; 
yet it wants neither of these qualities for t A x itself 
perfect a e 
a voyage to the to experien „of the 
ripe fruit is certainly at first disagreeable, pg e 
tree ; the 
moment it is ripe it falls of pope: the tay 
eat Durians in perfection is to get them as oe ; 
