84 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. [FEBRUARY 7, 1857. 
deliv ery “of a ticket on which all sorts of flowers, stock or farming produce, to ‘a distance |r repsite siah nourishment. Prom > this it will be read 
a ti 
special conditions are printed, and the accept- | 
ance of this ticket e 
© 
on aoa only terms on which mpany rec 
, and is accordingly bound by the very ric t 
vehemently have 
ngs are sagai or damaged, 
ground of coiii 
As in point of fact there is no other mode of car- 
rail, it is obvious enough that the 
mpaniles. rue t 
companies have no right to ‘efor to carry goods 
unless upon their rm 
only remedy is an action for mi eatrying, and. om 
does not “Ary Ne means meet the mischief. 
ciate, than not to send them at all and then to sue 
pl RT ala ne ay haa’ ee ies k bla ah a without gas, were emphatically ne ced by a 
the Legis jicara ve was ately med to try and protect Lordship. The decision is a great triumph of righ 
the public by notices, conditions, and | °VeT might, and shows that justice may be obtained 
nl Tinting the liability of railway com- | by poor men alt etek denied by powerful incor- 
panies act of Parliament had | Porated companies 
stopped ‘thee emedy would bee i 
com mplete; but unfortunately the act continues, ai “i ° of Nor M Me pasa yucca a oid ie 
“unless such notice, &c., shall be deemed reasonable” EARP ponent 
f in 
matters that the subje at is one for the 
e|jhand. We 
z dive attention to it (see the Gordan? Chronicle 
if they ‘do, the |! 
from 
will even venture to add that it is their 
duty, as weil’ as immediate interest, to ensure the 
amendment of laws ars place us all at the mercy 
mit y 1a 
ride roughshod over the Kingdom and becom 
public nuis 
Ovr readers may perhaps recollect Base case of 
tanec . Toe Imprrtan Gas Company, Bese ch 
suit in Chancery instituted te: a market 
gardener at Fulham to ry the APAA tan ‘tron 
aking gas in such a w jure him. The 
case was heard befor the Vice Chancellor Woop, 
whe agi it in the plaintifs favo 
the time the judgm aa ced we 
bit: and we have ud much pleasure 
mpany against 
the Lord 
that the 
that eal by t 
the decision ty lately been diaii byt 
llor. It is gratifying to find 
No one indeed can doubt pre 
xi plants, pir æa ~ is 
e hav 
88, accord ing to the 
e tre ie 
ur 
brindle, * this organic life, manifests itself the 
of a fluid which cipoulates in all the 
the s in anothe 
mpared and A likened ¢hi sap to 
blood Which flows hr aa all the eae of pref 
s this well founded, directly follow 
that i “flow pathan ; for, like as 
the eireulation of the 
anima al, s 
F 
“opt is 
of | t re at certain 
pe soll according to kezei rer “of the 
er. 
ese p ictly — ites if the 
to admit of an excepti aa in nov tates of de ciduses Ga 
in which life seems entirely suspended a a stil] 
this ais ie is wi apparent ; to con e's self 
of this t is sufficient to bore, “in winter, the stem of cer- 
trees, and see the liqui 
proof that the flow of sap is never interr upted is 
by Evergr can, which, being a 
supply of nutritive m 
trated, that the 
r ceases in iiir that there is only 
certain pekde a period of torpor, which 
ai be compared to the sleep of certain animals, ia 
hich for several months life seems to be sus 
v the court or ju have to trya ne ag Y 
taming on it. e result is Pm what might 
been expected, and the act has little if any es. 
Jurym 
ing from suffocation, and four | lat 
ere grievously pag ar The learn 
wi held that the co 
or nn- 
ion or from being trampled on 
brui oY bre iho dh mec in S r 
fom des eer 
ver, instead of riding with’ the cattle and |$ 
looking after 
the cattle. 
Had this case been decided on 
we should not have in 
the third — 
it worthy of 
ed that eve 
he on that groun 
pie did not pasy to the tru A e company got | 
off. The company had received wise notice that cattle | 
trucks would be wanted, and they ought to bare 
rided them ; —- of that 
D e 
a 
begr from fire or ap 
3rd, 
of the Horticultural ral Society” s Garden at Chiswick. 
Plants. 
93. = NCIDIUM BIFRONS. 
oO. Seige ee micropetala) labelli pandurati lobis lateralibus | 
post medium constrictum er abd acutis intermedio latiore 
bilobo apiculato, cri ist& lin ari apice obtusè tridentata, _cli- 
essere paucifloro, bracteis pba ane hes edicellis (unciatibus) 
ribus, pseudobulbis ovalibus ancipitibus kip Se is, 
mul 
fae chartaceis oe basi canaliculatis racem 
longioribus. 
any | _ Flowe: ellow in a few-flowered raceme much inte 
Preire hie th the Tago which are like those of On- 
10 
cidium 
d pubes. 
and in front of the 
intra boasi is very remark- 
ge Loddiges, from whom 
we received it, reports that 
| it came from Mex We 
| Cannot say much of i its horticultural importance, 
“ON _GRAFTING 
bess 
though = the vital functions are carried on um 
“let u pal bring to mind a principle which must 
ever be lost sight of, that all living beings, whatever 
a 
hey may certain princi ot sae 
and assimilated a certain portion of them, rejecting that 
which is unfitted for their nouris hment—hence the two 
net functions of absorption and evapora 
e two nese which setae all the p 
ott ue visi 
sence and eva ue take place under the 
op 
reac ed, and the ait, 
continually carrying away from it fluids which are no 
restore 
the first condone oi of life iy also be the 
ane 
ten continuity of vessels is broken, 
n only 
beach we pemes to rae in this paragrap 
that the complex, and cannot be pap 
without entering into considerable detail. If, i 
nb age eral point of view, an wi 
modi 
seen ‘that to give a a reply, the various laws, 
ificati 
zp 
5 3. 
lil 
based upon one invariable principle, which, fron 
iven rise to 
In fact, erga to the conditions in which w 
they rom 
| placed, whether 
a fact, that eyen life | f 
each of 
whole picts 
ei 
having as yet been studied sufficiently deep, has 
h when 
ripened s boots, 
s | leaves should as cut off, lea 
; paut with: suing which must remain 
fi e time. 
asa period s ‘ 
ds to eva aporate with greater vay aL 
liquids with which it is in contact, This is n" 
why the Gyia up herbaceous parts sof plan 
80 rapid. 
alwa: 
vi been established, it # 
grafts 
some time, but a time 
masi arrive when it eR ag, annihilated if it does not 
We miy new resume our subject, saying : the fi 
ray which has elapsed since their separation froy 
it has been acknowledged, that this active | 
f by 
supplied 
alw rigs grows always 
r and aco 
partsof 
be, only exist on oe absolute condition o 
borated 
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