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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Mar 16, 1857, 
of t seemed to have skei disappeared, 
atoae Mr. Baai Stevens had specimens sti sp the 
pupa state.. A paper was read Mr. Newina n the 
cause of the scutellar depression on elytra fs some 
of the individuals of certain nares of re eetles, 
s gen gonu . Douglas 
of the ae Buprestis aurt- 
a Mr. paean an alive in London. Mr. 
Syme exhibited specimens of Deilephila ea, reared at 
the end s March, the chrysalids having been plac 
daily n rhe ereby saar exclusion was accelerated 
several daran beforethe u time. Mr. Lubb 
explained. the ste ereoscopic ieia “of a 
aris. 
Mr. Wollaston read a notice of a peculiarity i in the eyes of 
the beetles of the genus Trixagus a Latr.). A 
paper by Mr. ipa was re and 
pa ‘ 
found in drawers and boxes; also on a black. species of 
i in the Barbadoes Nut—a n of 
specimens of the insect having completely devoured one 
Mr. F. Smith notes in reply 
hag exhibited 
long, m 
; also some rolls 
Like- 
4 
_. Borantcat oF gana April 9 Series Balfour 
in the chair. e following papers w 
1. “On the baad of a Solution of pcm aot of 
ing Vegetation.” B 
made o 
pty ae for the purpose | the 
expressively terms growing weather, when the ground | 
original. Iti is impossible toi improve onthe 
hte 
garde 
a « Does Magnetism Influence Vegetation?” By H. 
- Baxter, Es 
in two 
root and the stem), the question arose— 
irection be influ r counterac 
seeds whilst 
netic force. ingly, a series - experim 
undertaken by the erreia which a classed under tw 
ted w epar 
"ar 
he p 
ments, which were varied and multiplied. No definite 
Sak however, a be drawn from them relative 
of magnet 
Taenia 
represe aagi in 
y -C. J. Bur- 
the ag ty of 
the 
e 
solution of the common carbonate or perha 
attention rei te 
as | des 
iquor. The manufactur 
of manure, he w ould say a wi 
They msira wo ¢ lst, Manures 
which afforded i ingredients of plant food which could be 
soil alone. Manures which supplied 
ingredients which were pirang ie the air. As 
to the first "= nid Boa in the majority of instan- | 
en)a hole period of plant | 
word or two si he | 
ann) 
supplied w t food at every 
stage, yet, as twat amiy in the elles stages tha 
was their only souree, and, as it was m 
oye momy to pa money for what. you could have for 
ie: the use of manure of this class should be pri 
i to one Hees plant expeditiously out of 
hel infancy an Da endence on moth 
into comparative in Astia ce, drawing still tefully 
on earth for what she albiey could supply, but ene to 
_ forage for much in free air, would, at the seasons when 
arrived, be found to hav al 
tion to our crop than the same pound pro- 
i ly during 
decay of organic | 
applica- | 
iacal solution to the | 
y | plants; Dr. 
ee t 
by Mr. B. Reev its side o 
ments — alpestre a and Anian prer 
In connectio vice me tudy from nature, he called 
anstible source «ee novelty in 
esign which mts Vegetable kin pr an 
ch he hoped wi 
sition of our desi 
e author “sere that the results of | of drawi 
bjec 
bodyi 
4 &i 
of Mud which anas 
y Mr. 
s moist enough to ensure its immediate penetration, id flowers 
thené is sufficient warmth and geniality i in both air and fect and beautiful tl ma.” fan 
earth. The author aga that he had made numerous | same ewriterobserves, preria oa 
and varied experim = the bi-carbonate during | with all their rms and ideas 3 ethenetoni l 
the last fiv rt ch — q — source is open to us, and if w tothe et 
&e. y as Roses, neg ne y t Pea many | shall produce a xyes i v of beautifal deine ao 
other garden plants; and that an pico oe with | in the s piri the old, but new in ja 
the theoreti mineri ore rs Longer oe have the advantage of many imp: firen. 
recommending the bi-carbonate solution, as | coveri sega ere unkno 
dese serving of a thorcuzh trial both by ache and | sure ly it accordance dh n the true 
to avail meatal of ul th i 
hin inquiry into the su Hear ive, that is, no | ally produced from the judicious tr 
positive evidence to show that simplest materials, such’ as the trif 
etism either does s or et esn nett reese vegetation. | to a disc n of the origin of the trefoil ag an 
After noticing the opinions of Becq erel, Dutrochet, | tectural ornament, whic 
and Wartmann, ays—* con- | early period, although its extensiv 
sidered a law in vegetable physiology that all plants | € me was probably connected with 
have a tendency, germi wer f their seeds, | St. Patrick and the Irish Sh: 
to develop in t diametrically oppos ecto (the | opinion that revailed re 
not h i 
at Co 
Geo. Lawso 
on the 
to 
actually 
93,000 living plants nan to "es of 
maer mr how few have actual 
Mr. Law: 
or: 
T5; “ During the 
mat weeks every — in ad E 
in | tions, and 
Si oe 
raised beaches and old Pri mas of t 
to the 
deposi , 
with the help of museums and alos a 
1e 
last n 
nw pone ae ver, I 
e 
rganisms 
cla gaea 
its of the 
brick Clyde 
Pleistocene era 
mammaliferous crag of England, fos 
And the conidia 
The work itself takes its t ace 
ant of modern geo 
ne 
wn by 
This kn ee Joosens 
are 
the artist, who has high aims, 
him from 
tely pos 
piinied ws erpina rh sa tit 
goometriealiy didposed > that they must. all or new | 
Inspirations, “ copying (cays Pugin), the i 
By repeated co 
r eae éciigoal woth ia POMS „ 80 in| videnco; in 
the ¢ arrinin i arata irgiel bores 
| sire aaan a to a nano as a i 
e alere 
were composed, leads to debased forms ànd- 
ea e ndtoan A 
of poor 
will cubis any one to judge. 
loo 
be krea of a doct 
saree at m 
es | of relaxin ‘The 
mre have neW 
is to “natural mesi sal siti en for gu ce 
logical : 
eneral reader, the follow 
Mill iller’s geologico 
“In ing abroad o 
as told, » 
whatsoever 
still believe. Tho programan 
all its 
