268 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[APRIL 18, 1 18, 1857, 
ee 
is indeed something important—we may even say, of 
the highest aL lacey anes eatable fruits pro- 
curable in veral occasions it has 
been already perei in our columns ; particu- 
larly in 1854, when Messrs, Verrcn re eceived n om 
et Horticultural Society a Banksian Medal 
of its value. 
Ta ax t ein ies . a native of Chili, where 
it was first noticed i e beginning of the last 
delicacy by Ta salobifoted pet Father FEILL E, 
who published a description and figure of it under 
lant i ie our own poss n having lived 
last winters aiik. the least injury 
damp unheated pit facing the north. The 
do not militate apor the probable a which 
we have proposed of pia its prog 
fortunately wA 
ev’ e repeat our 
osal, that peee ai sulphur should ~ “tg ont dina 
eaves » aS 
a the Grape and Hop m 
where the enemy is com nipletely exposed ; 
are sanguine $ iat some good will be Ae an 
therefore look with much interest to the res 
the necessary experiments. M. J. B. 
ancii be 
aE 
flowers, which are white sa a tinge s iph Ea 
ape roond | r- 
rants, an resembles in taote nothing so 
much as a action of g pis awberry, Pine Apple, 
and Purple G In opinion it is ‘ia of the 
most A ai ian fruits that iav yet been introduced 
tere and although the smallness of the 
berri em am Tis their quantity 
compensates for their want of si 
One important Sere belonging to the Ugni 
et Un-yee pis pa with which it 
is cultivated. indee 
ʻO 
B 
When producing its 
RE 
so 
fruit, however: egies “all Fh heat that can be | Im 
t if grown 
given it should be 
in t 
KO- 
r, hays mere sniiidtit by another 
e will have b 
Nea 
| much ue spur, Mr. ‘T. "Lobb kak: it in Daea. 
New ants. 
195. EPIDENDRUM DECIPIENS. Tola Orchi- 
dacea. No. 221. 
A brilliant species, re conibitdg E. Schomburgkii ; 
apricot colour, with two crimson eyes a 
the e lip. Mr. _Loddiges, who obtained it Ben 
r for months. 
skilful hands, we — think ; at present only tw 
specimens are know exist, The habit is that of Ep. 
ê, 
erassifoli ium, 
spats nek 
196. DENDROBIUM SEEP 
. (Eudendrobium) « eaule elongato sulcato _pareé nigro-pilos 
Me liis angustis oblique bilobis, floribus geminis, sepalis Dai 
que acutissimis, labello basi villogo trilobo: laciniis lateralibus 
dimidiato-cuneatis intermedio subrotundo a; apiculato axi sulcato 
elevato utringu nde od venis Tabas asperis et ER RNT 
mento labelli longitudine. 
mported from the East Indièsby Messrs. Veitch. Flowers 
rather small, whitish, sd she ti veins o the 
lip. r D. longicorn a 
S. 
? 
19%, PR RUN US TRILOB 
. ramis levissimé pubescentibus arieni foliis ( Jemo hei 
cuneato- rae oblongisque basi acutis pilosis duplica 
serratis, stipulis subulatis glandulosis bipartitis, floribus soli. 
8) 
beat pedunculis uncialibus glabris, yo tubo ee | 
ov. 
soe laciniis tubo pannis reflex: obtusissim 
argine levi Villoso, 
3 most bea: 
range tah semi-double, light rose- aiden 
flowers ness an inch and a half i in ishyfike Pt “2 — 
of th he 
pat hope that it will 
esult of 
w 
A good exhibition a in 
in power or 
h- Pai subje 
an isa Diiw t 
or 
which they 
me. 
is vari ang 
contine tal. 
or 
if we imagin 
wn to botanists 
ens hick contains an 
made with a view to 
otato murrain. The 
has arrived is that which 
to rie nks o e parasitic 
under the name of apa for which without any 
cient reason the of Peron s igs was 
18 | ture, d uring whic 
rien the sum of temperatures which the th 
e sa 
the colour and texture of the petals. The plan 
been already noticed at p. 216 of the present coat 
ON LOW TEMPERATURES WHICH DO NOT 
m M. De phie Botanique.” 
THE necessity of rejecting those degrees of tempera- 
& plant’s functions are tog habs from 
substituted s — sad is eet adopted in 
e donot, howeve 
that Be as aay established the’ order i in “which 
the disease occurs upon the different a of the plant. 
tack and there- 
which appears 
svat esting entra, which — lately 
gem amongst Algæ, is little 
pagation of the 
Somethi 
A Soa 
difficulty in 
. 
many > fungi where the 
r too large to traverse the intercellular | 
where there is no pretence that the 
s think lá mp. 
asce: 
ns 
e phenomena of Wi poetai 
loying S usual means and ex 
rtain for eac 
necessary to show'by actual observation whether the 
same degree of heat produces the 
as by day, which is not very likely ; and whether 
constant eironi rod 
intermittent one, whic 
are insu 
rs e prevahe 
h dò Seta uire 
ae cae: to be ANENE a ei 
of 1 the clima ng a period extending o' 
years, and Be this view the phenomena irs ally a 
ture, &c., oem a definite form, irrespec: f acci- 
dental variati ons, 
certainly on, unfor- 
tunately rem It in all our pAlb merce Pee taken 
se months in tem 
gives 
vital fune- 
rieien 
e^ 
effect b; h 
ec y nig 5% 
ver many | market 
a 
sagged the paren Pets pes they si 
vegetati unfi 
Mean temper 
perature Flt 
and m nimum 
more effect than 
which the plant is after-vards Pron. is not 
EXE the cold to’ which the man: 
the 
| seeds never are), its effe Sol are negative; theyars aa 
of The 
effec 
essential to regard all those ‘ela’ the freezj 
ply this 
ans is por a 
e b 
caution is necessary, the mor 
or as it 
instance, we shou 
t 
into ihe calculation of figures 
folate ces rots 
goek 32° 
2 ace 
erapr to published the 
pros deduced 
Id 
t vegetation would be in the 
ont. 
means of several mont! 
e at Geneva of the months of 1845 i in which the ten- 
; calculated 
cording to the ordinary method, and after elimi- 
sätin the temperatures of negative value. 
are of no 
zero 
heat to 
lant. 
ahe fen teans it ig 
INE point ag 
cept we ha re: 
e the climate of the al 
is sometimes called exc cessive op 
commit a great ane | 
t 
to 59°; in the Orkneys the temperature vari 
little 74, hat i first case the 
effective heat is grear than at first ap And, 
in » the is resemblance between the two 
months in the two foaltties. At Kazan vegetation com- 
mences vigorously after the middle of April, after 
hav been dormant thro A winter, In the 
Fasti eee the month of January vegetation 
a state o ee if not absolute at least very 
Pam ait; “and continuously so. 
The followi ng table s fe ho > of 
s below 32° as negatives 
hs. 
na: 
Month. 
Mean 
eliminating | H 
Mean 
according to 
prt bg er fa Difference. 
ae gna 
Bartonia 
October 
November 
Deceinber 
z 
co 
9 
& 
surpr ~ if even in the 
SHE 
again in 
winter the 
same 
f| room. I then put them maorit i 
"* There is an error in the text of 
—where 11.°48 Cent, should be 16.17 
sun, to revive their veg ale» one 
which are fe anda i i s by the sligh y ar 
(To be 
Snowflake m(Leteojum) an mi oo com 
d cal 
w, 
— ior 
cially when 
nerves 
se| 
AR i e a a 
Boe 
