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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[JANUARY 31, 1857 
n a peculiar position, Whatever a rector is 
bound to leave to his successor, that successor isin 
bound to transmit in 
at AMPBELL in giving ju udgment declared 
that an incumbent n only is n not bound, but tha t 
e ought n 
ved T 
obvious, er no application t to a nary persons. 
we the f which were fixed by mortar 
in a ner re sere ribed, i it was truly re- 
marked that | which is attached t to anything | | 
without some damage appre- 
In the words of a 
strictne 
ithont 6 some attr itio 
is so trifling 
which is reasonable, will par it as none. Upo 
any other principle the criterion of injury to the 
freehold would be idle.’ 
We have quoted this areka because although 
it must be taken as having been used with reference 
f 
reed, sereg inc 
settled. — though part of 
being i 
ge ae = fixed as e pa 
and to pas Hm ds with it p os successor of the 
builder of the house 
Havine in our last number stated at length the 
evidence relied upon by those who disbelieve in the 
_ doctrine of degeneracy among ligneous or perennial 
plants, T an it is more commonly called, the 
WEARING F RACES, we may now examine the 
n the 
arguments ae the Scottish Gardener 
opposite si ns 
r| quarian naturalist e 
eee has never boen applied, sagen: > ever | < 
is brieda s de 18 a 
have believed that some of the ENA Pears and 
Apples still remain in cultiva This 
Scottish friend wholly pE aei 
| | says, “i in seclusion, we have as access to 
| DERSON’S volume ; but knowi 
miracle. No one 
to the Roman ‘Seri 
We soak advisedly ahi we ie that phies on 
the Commentators on COLUMELLA and PrIny 
Arn in this respec p tru 
we are ready to admit that the identification 
of ancient and modern varieties has often bee 
1| fanciful, or even granaty But if any one case can 
be reduced to a certainty, we conceive that the 
m | doctrine of degeneracy n races receives a fatal 
n instance, 
pemlete skin . Riney does), and a cluster 
extremely small. Surely this was the meen 
a we or noe re se eo tbe: mone gh we 
es de: still e 
which our 
officers found the other day in the Valley of Baidar, 
it is Rani nt to name the examples recorded b 
Tar Sann in the Journal of = cyt 
taral Society (ix. 156). IOVANNI TarcIoni 
Tozzetti, our author’s endli in ‘his travels in 
Tuscany, quotes one in the woods near Monteb 
oli, the trunk of which two men peg not embrace. 
logy’ in the Dictionary of Natural History, printed | s 
at F joii bB Barm LLI, two Vines near Figlini, in 
the upper Val d’A 
with trunks 5 feet in circum- 
rar the edral o 
by stating “that the| ference. The abe t Ravenna 
question is m one of oopan but of evidence, and | are made of nis ete ”” Specimens of this magni- 
that it is ed not by subtle and question- tude must hay n of great antiquity, might have 
able arguments derived from Vegetable Physiology, | been planted by Pli y himse d w 
but by the statistics of facts and observatio Mr, | preserved to the last the inherent qualities of their 
tie a ty th a physiologist of the highest class, | race. Cuttings, however, no een taken 
eded by the paii of experiment and induc- from these plants we have no proof that their pecu- 
£ „and w rence, we must contend that a ode Na = susceptible of farther extension; 
he can be cme d iterate only in the sa y. s that they would have been found 
evidence exists upon acne ma: 
raised. But the facts themselves are thought to be 
susceptible of more explanat an one, and in 
short there is penoa which Sisera to be produced 
under so high-sounding a name beige ges While 
eh the few facts or supposed fa at really 
must receive proper cheatin’ oh question 
mus meg all be 
"i is Mind on all hands that the species of 
poe undergo no percerrt tible change in the course 
That being so, and species being multi- 
plied th through a = Na either by seeds or subdivision, 
more than a kind of sub- 
division, the can ‘edlingy o or he ofpring should | 
unde e what 
aE same 
hat they should be baa to 
ef time while other seedlings, no 
e name cann 
supposed high antiquity of certain existing 
valian af fruits er been relied on in support “ 
yer me kinds ®f 
ples, Pears, "a now in enltivation have tot at 
vt to be identical with those of the ancients. 
his learned histo of ere and mode ar 
„b being 
i ut as ex- 
hr  GALLÉSIO, and others 
e n 
Kesip enou 
d 
decided very much by reason and | å 
akah ed; the iar 
— the other way. 
nother case, of less antiquity prey but 
on of our Scottish friend i is, we 
or 
eneracy is we thi 
ha cia Cosro oe of 
knowin, as we 
Italy f t is unascertainable, yet we 
may fairly suppose that by a time it is si years 
old; but we iape find that it has rated 
ext week we endeavour to pursue, this i in- 
quiry with irent to modern domestic varieties. 
aeni 
192. TAINIA BARBA 
T. barbata; foliis longo-lanceolatis 
tomentosa pauciflord, pedicellis ovario dupld ro gar 0 Fyre 
plavis barbatis, sepalis labelloque acuminatis, (Eri 
Gri itin, notes, p. 83. ic. 302.) 
The ori species of Tainia isunknown to us except 
from Blume’s reah but we this must 
belong to the gen (Tijsman and parii Tainia | ¢o 
fimbriata seems to be an Ania.) In Griffi works 
above quoied it is well described, with a asmak c 
racteristic fi n some r ts however both 
On the flower stalks, mixed with 
t down, are ery remarkable flat brown 
bodies which Griffith calls ramenta ; they really 
simple cells, fil with whe 
fresh, and with the form of fe blad 
on pa 
is much pone aes in Griffith’s 
from 
een a 
me of Pero cento hae) by which it is still 
Il as by thai uke’s For 
5-costatis, paniculA laxå = 
Bletia, The flowers are distant, on a long 
a 
— lateral 
ee sh streaked 
eauty ; their stalks including the 
n e 
gland of the stigma (one of the — lips), whieh 
figu 
curious thing 
h oddiges last October. It is native of the 
“hasia hills, soi Griffith found it growing on - 
f Gordonia, the descent- of the Suniassee 
We also nodi it, through the kindness of Mr, Vei 
from Mr. Thomas Lobb, who met with it in the sam 
region, 
We received a live specimen of thi 
LAW OF HOTHOUSES—IMPORTANT 
ENT. 
In the Queen's Bench: Martin and another, Ezors, Exora l 
John pin Matthew (Clk.) v. Robert Roe (Cik). The 
, | judgment of the es ‘Geliveres by Lord Campbell was 
e |in? the wath Pit 
Ashes Paty team Matthew Raye rt Ro 
Ere Donun of Mel Osmond, 
a'i garden, on = por entirely “aster i ey. 
nage-house othouses respectively 22 feet 
0: TAa and 47 feet i in length, by 14 feet 9 inchen il 
17 es, 6 inches i in Senih, oopsishog, of low brick walk 
ich m edded into this 
gl piace Bis 
© 
358 
snl 
ay 
4 slidiag if and down on pullies and not fixed 
een 
ese 
the grange of the plaintiffs, claiming them as 
ng tp uch rector, an > called on pe 
mply and withona any ques to the 
he first removal DA the pai i in which 
wre Áa of t 
the two parties wa materials 
ved 
having 
without i op a nd the freehold. In all cases of this 
injury to t old must be spoken of with 
pei: sen s nail can scarcely be 
d without some attrition, an 
pig is that which is Easing to the mortar Jaid 
a > walls, this is so trifling that the law, which is 
e, wi ea it as none. Upon any 
principle the criterion of injury to the freehold T wl 
“= 
book | feud perenne. this case, and we che i a 
erefore on principle 
a In the first place, it seems clear that P [ 
in his lifetime done what the plaintiffs have done since 
a 
his death, the defendant could not have sued for 
dilapidations. aracter of the ee would hae 
justified the incumbent in the rem the of fhe 
a 
a succeeding incumbent as 
matters of needless ees expense, o or kapei 
ug the present incumbent. gratify his 
dulged himself memme, or not is imate 
he is at only not hae but he i sith 
se. ceonuten, Cosas and co 
not in thie resp Jago vato ee ji 
or avia are equally what in a provinci! j 
nstitution of 1236 2 H. «Mee called m i 
volup tuosæ,” as di “i T 
«The 
common paper- 
somewhere near the middle is a distinct eytoblast with 
fine grumous matter oe a The pollen masses 
x connected i 
d 
of | equidistant narrow lips, the gland being one of them. 
This is a terrestrial plant Pens 
bulb of Ania latifolia, and the plaited leaves 
kaare ty ba repaired, or even rebuilt, if 
ours | neglect thi ; er in 
a | extent to rag in 
venience 
repair ial onde with its buildings and fences. fenes, 
receive ws 
he is entitled to 
any ariero cos 
right and duty will go must be ikate ol bys 
£. a | precise rule, Therefore 
