172 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. [Marcon 14, 1857. 
quence of having crossed some frozen water into a | desert, be 8 — country never trodden by the foot eas mere look at the plants, but alas ! how 
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antation uk of Yew tre cn which they |of man, w our English shows, especially Indien @ that 
rant the Yew pthc bas of Birling c vated in snow and fann’d by Arctic air es nthe yoy of age ge who only see a bat wil 
Hil, tro miles north of Town Malling in Kent,| Eun pez a, oe ee ie cee oe 
cattle, sheep, and horses kept t never ex- A oo round pete ron = set flexile neck she bends; hand you ean make a mark opposite the piss 1 Your 
Pe yeaa ng gente Summ. “ening green ngak yp plas with sony tongue the melting rime; Sgt hae for you, aa, proceed onwards incon veel 
but we a large ee down one Eyes with mnte tenderness her distant dam, no o E 
wi Ga the shoots left on the oat to pom er, And kaip het des , a Vegetable Lamb. Soke ‘i now proceed to the system à parsed k 
several bullocks and horses died, upon opening| To the announcement should be added a list of the | awards. At 10 o’clock precisely o umi 
whose Sanas the bark and leaves of the|invaluable natural ae brought to London the jury assem bie ed at the end of the Casino, when the 
were f the former corre-| Herr Cuerauisky, and offered to the British public | names of all those invited were called over, 
spondents baatirins that fresh leaves are harmless, | at fro e to five dallas each, The list will of | present answered. This done, the next step was ty | 
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but the withered ones deadly. 7. A Wels corre- course include Apples weighing six pounds each; divide those present into two sections p previously 
os ee says that in his neighbou urhood where it is | Pears as large as your head ; Strawberries weighing ac ace px by we ey OP ’ is S trite babe Person jn 
the Yew is poisonous, people believe |a couple of pounds and growing on trees whose | "°$ ‘i vegeta mista e is best acqua 
that it is s only so when cut Dy an n edged tool, which im- | branches weep beneath the burthen, a great con- | Strap ge in this cnoe toiki ld seem 
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the poisonous qualities ! ; he inclines to believe | venience to invalids who cannot stoop; Cherries | counts judges at a flowe Dhow. but so it huod 
that it is because branches so removed are allowed | bearing ripe fruit every month in the year; Aspa- | co ar = in the section in which the eral ot. he 
to wither, while the others are torn = fresh by the | ragus, such as is served up at the table of the Great | was, ther e the Prince Troubetskoy, of ain 
als. Vhite, of Selborne, mentions | Mogul, having the valuable property of growing two | Count de ns cv r, of Amiens, and Count de Limminghe 
et in ay, and requiring neither water nor | of Namur. Thee are pue men sere alike fop 
fresh as well as withered Yew having proved fatal | manure ; Roses of ae size, blue nee with | their immense wealth anà for their patronage of hort. 
to cattle A clergyman in Lincolnshire could yellow, black barred with crimson; Tulips the size | culture. 
never learn that the Yew trees in his churchyard s punch-bowls; Potatoes strolling of eau de Calogtie: The jury then ibe: to elect a president ang 
did harm to the sheep that nibbled them. 10. Atja mos e wonderful property never before heard of, secretary for each section. This is done by writing ty 
p. 268 of our vol. for 1848 will be found a very fall la an To this must be added B name of the candidate you mean to vote for on a aipgt 
and good account of the matter, the result of which | of pieturer, said to sapitient faithfully t 
is a confirmation s Cpe pe renege qualities of fresh | novelties in question, — d after pho A rE 
as well re obtained by an entirely n rocess, discovered i : ; 
The few opinions here ai ia as to the non- ithe Maciein of the i cae this prepared sid Drabi oF DASA Secretar), ASLA 
poisonous quality of the Yew would no doubt be well advertised the shop will soon fill with eager | of Paris; President of the 2d ‘section, Mr. Monl 
altered with more experience. is however | buyers, among whom of course figure the ge of Paris; Secretary, Mr. Edward Morren, of Liège 
curious to observe that even Orrita, in his eecfells and highly educated youth who - our a se I may add that “nearly all the jury were nom 
conducted experiments, obtained conflicting results, examinations infor e admiring Commissioners | residents ; they were invited from all parts of Ba 
which led him to conclude that the poisonous | that the Spanish Kona was destroyed bř son rope—there were four from London. In the fint 
nature of the Yew asi be modified by age and the = that the Rom -e n England were | Section there were 40 judges, in the second 4l. T 
situation in which it ted in order to restra athe EHATE, “that imagine that I hear some one crying out, “ They must be 
From ar we Bach A that i in Hampshire people Marseilles i ison the Rhin twa eais at Norwich, | S¥>divided.” Not so, how it he pe kes whole of ae 
believe pa the male Yew, which of course bears no | and that WARREN n Haris was tried by ordeal. a aa fa all oa meng he seer ong'ot Asiana 
ies, one poisonous, the female or berry-| To simple a rh oe this must seem an absur isthe anes ane $ i tate te Sree pene 
bearin Saas ts being harmless. Something of this | exaggeration ; but they are quite mistaken; an- ites saccées ful erheen are then de dare according i 
we “oie before seen recorded, et gin we ohm lay nouncem eye uite as remarkable are coolly made priority.* When this is done the next eion Ga 
our hand upon the passage. But are quite | in the city of London in this present month of March, | jury-room and goes through the same ceremony, and s 
unable to pe that the opinion ban pie founda- | a.D. 1857, and find plenty ot believers sr joyfully on alternately until the whole is completed. The awards 
tion in ssibly some coincidence may have | pay their money and go their way rejoicin were certainly given without prejudice or favo. 
led to the Bien? Foeniiy it is merely a piece of This ostentatious ceremony of judging consumels ' 
superstition ; possibly it may be a rustic hay A CORRESPONDENT ae a iat we pa whole day from 10 o’clock in the morning till dath 
invented to explain the conflicting evidence RSweoD, mentioned in our last,’ sales: “i 
the action of the Yew. For that it is confictng i is|in Covent Garden, as the dai aily 4 eee reported, number of sections could have performed the task quite f 
indisputable, as indeed W ust been shown ; the | but what is called a “ Haggler,” whatever that m -i e 
Yew sometimes producing D apparent atlas, be. A “Scottish Gardener,” while sinderiiting l the ore the proper inspection of the 
generally causing rapid and sudden death. | maipractices to which we drew ae is Of | Thor’ cai sve 
In order to reconcile the opposite oes that | opinion that they are caused in a great measure by | iderable amount of haphazard poi fed on thepat | 
ve been made on the subject, Mr. Gyne, of Pains- | the low wages paid by Gentlemen to their Gardeners, | of many of them. On application to the 
wick, ri. on that withered louvers were nant m mna ea re eeen A s 3 ed i 
‘ fres! ones in consequence of so EXHIBITION OF T the Casino early in the morning. This afforded me m 
new chemical action bei setu ge the seler èt ROYAL SOCIETY OF AGRICULTURE AND | opportunity of thoroughly inspecting the subjects et- 
their drying (see our vol. for 1844, p. 395). But BOTANY A NT. | hibited, and placed me in a better position than the ollie 
th ionally| Tr is now five years ra ry ast held its last | jurors, One word more on judging before I proceed 
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n my tr rele: t — hav eaten the leaves Mediterrane seg e most complete. pa may | decisions ; but on the continent, from the number #f 
Pty be said to have attended tbo pol arrangements. jurors employed, this amounts to an impossibility ony 
hursday and Fri raya ae 27th and 28th February, were | In giving an outline of p. exhibition, I hich 
Porte love to soll cheated. There is no doubt/ allowed for the exhibitors to bring their plants and | mention particular groups and individual ares tort 
pate it. Lies geam: T and the greater their | arrange them in pretation poet to their own tastes ; | struck me as bein ing Shales and which I 
a re easily are they swallowed. | Of course, as in this country, the worst plants are not | without regard to arrangement. ball begin 
The wo wonderful, althongh impossible, carries with it put in the front rank, Great artistic skili was exhibited | Camellias, Shih formed a grand feature of 
a fascination which aries can resist. Jonn Burn |" this matter, and the effect, as we shall show here-| tion. In a collection of 15 sent by Mr. show fire 
under the eye of a mounte , especially if he — a whole was magni nificent, Some collections Papelen were some noble plants. Since OE altro 
comes from a far land, ii Lilie: bile mdti A y nine EN not to be disturbed, others were grouped | years ago great progress has been made in ection it 
a serpent nai thie aac i a ird in various places on the floors and s stages, in order that | of this plant. This collection was as near P& ss sl 
iios down the ventilek throat, pir oe mounte: pa jurors = ae with angel e is co respect as possible ; the mode os hingers we koom, 
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Such bein BOSE: ie constitution of | Collections are written off they are dispatched to the Oe pissi is a perfect cone. ret 3 "3 feet in @ u 4 
our worthy fellow countrymen, and the disease in v0 age together with the result of the adjudications | at the bottom, with intense green fount pe 
question being eaaet icien as the learned | op eyi roceed, so that when the doors were|loaded with flowers from the bottom 7 aike 
would say, it seems useless to put men on their rag eg T corn png b one entitled to admis- top, not on one side only, but all 
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tions ; as alas! we know oe be. So far indeed is | attached to every individual plant ; besides this, the | master! 
: naming these gentry from teaching people what to | names of the jurors are also given and the awards they | stick nor a contorted branch. 
: X avoid, [pe thatthey only rush to them the more. „Nowhere ai eaa made. In this bo book are also given the names of | was richly deserv 
pais corresponding mem a 
very man who grumbles at pa ing an honest of those who are foreign and resident ; thus a complete | of Camellias, 40 spe 
man shilling for a red Mos ove age a e- | guide is at once presented ; for, with book in hand and | cultivated and bloomed ; 
it his two guineas ne | the before you have only to look and there is i i 
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ho o professes to sell ring a ibe gresy = pr tagmata the plant and the owner. This I consider | Camellia sey @’Orl 
is only ~ oem to — shop in some a good improvement on our system, and for this | very fine gros of Camellia 
ad i andbills 1050: optie peninsanasnten inaaya beenii oh drons 
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ping “public x i the celebrated | miang down the namesof the oa. eee on ~ pce 
Tartarian z m DaT i blocking up the maga * This is announced to the multitude 
a preventing those from m passing i otek to kanes canon atte oacasion 0f each decision dur 
