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perspici icua nana, and E. vasiflora. , science the value of the labours of » deceased, in their | all. In a few ays this speck enlarges an s and el longates 
$ : Mr. Blair, wi wea rie aa |e relation to geo Ogy, as well as general egal is well | vertically, and shoots rad filaments of a whitish wavy 
| dum ; trained in form of a vase known. Pee the young student they are now | appearance, an ane easily seen through a lens of Kp low 
 Dockhart with a plant of the same species, nails y bro ought dly by one who had the best means of} power. Then commences ye first a pearance 
trained in a balloon form. ‘Indian Azaleas: Ist, Mr. | relating tiisa faithfully. Among aa sults at which | life. If afine point be made to approach th ese fila- 
Henderson, gr- to C. K. Sivewright, Esq., with Egertoni | Mr. Crosse arrived was the convi viction that the VEN ments, they aggin yee up and collapse like 
and a neat plant of Iveryana, covere ed with bloom. | of the Vegetable Kingdom was de ae it péh or at least | zooph; upon m but rigs again some time 
in 8-inch pots: 1 r. Henderson, e eren most intimately associated with electrical a after the removal wy the point. Some days afterwards 
Stanleyana, and purpurea superba, Cin :| “He invari “sed found that ae el C city was | these filaments become legs pe bristles, and a perfect 
Jst, Mr. W. M‘Farlane, gr. to C. W. R. inken i. injurious to all vegetation, except the development of | acarus is the result, which finally detaches itself from 
with well-grown plants of True-love, Lady Paxton, fungi. Positive electricity, on the other hand, hejits birth-place, and if under a fluid, climbs up the 
and Scottish Chieftain. Pansy blooms: lst, found most favourable to all vegetation, except all | electrified wire, and escapes from the vessel, and 
MFarlane, with Sir Colin Campbell, Mrs. — E. | fungoid Spaan, which it gks paps Pe. wh the | wards feeds either on the moisture or the outside of the 
, N i c x Napier, Louise, | course of his experim s he co fungi | vessel, or on paper or card, or — substance in its 
Climax, Mary Taylor, Sir J. Cathcart, Cyrus, | growing in ee and o sies act pew fe ns. On one | Vicinity. If one of them be afterw ards thrown into the 
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the Day, Minerva, Mr. Dodwell, Jeanie, Lord | electrified i erk a of potash; and frequent 1 dro 
Raglan, Royal Standard, Monarch, ice, | have myself seen the surface of an electrified fluid} For much more my) follows on pak a subject we 
Mesmerist, Earl oF Seer ay and Nonpareil. Hardy | covered, or nearly so, by a thick "fle sh-like fungus that refer to the volume itself, which will well repay a 
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with Begonia hybrida, Aspidistra japonica variegata, plants, or at least an arrangement that might prove | long been working to discover. There are few such 
Coleus- Blumei (variegated), Maranta bicolor, Agave | that electricity was present. I remember his descrip- | men as ze was, 
americana: variegata, and Cissus discolor. Ferns: Ist, | tion of a very elegant experiment on some Roses. He 
Mr. Blair, with. Polypodium angustifolium, Pteris | had two branches cu t from the same tree; they were as Parts 13 to 16 of the 2nd volume of Blume’s Akeem 
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podium crassifolium, Lomaria attenuata, Allantodea | buds, and both equally blown. An aaie A was s | They are almost wholly occupied with nirape and 
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Di a ye hours the “negative Rose drooped and | be more consistent with the interests of historical 
n d othe ing species. ; but the p ts freshness for nearly | science 3 "is riage would date the sheets of his 
prize of Two Sovereigns, offered jn: the ype a iy Heet the egim isa became full blown, and the | work as they appear, so that no difficulty might arise as 
hearers for the best collection of Stove or Greenhouse | buds expanded and survived an Ea ngth h of time. regards bahe of Aa For ourselves we can 
ants, was a to Mr. y Sia gr. to en Mr. Crosse ip desi ver nabil nguine about artificial electro- | only regard these parts as appearing about the time 
Syme, for excellent specimens of the following :—Boronia | vegetation, from the great and almost insuperable a en o reach us, and not as dating from any 
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rior variety; Erica Cavendishi, E. perspicua nana, and sales "and > ye no eee hear of Potatoes being saved | of the 2nd series of Van Houtte’s Flore 
E. propendens, also a fine plant; Azaleas vesta, op-| from t t by positive, or hurried to ppsa A by | It contains excellent original . 
tima, lacteola, Duke of Devonshire, aurantiaca and late- gate dlestricity. grandiflora, a very fine mule between G. 
ritia alba; Deutzia gracilis, Pultenza stricta, Pimelea ccount given by Mrs. Crosse e real facts, | Drummondi and G. aristata; Delphinium formosum, a 
spectabilis, the gem of the collection; Eriostemon cus- Bee kere connected with the Balas, appear- | very showy deep indigo blue flower; Aquilegia eximia, 
para age tricolorum, and Rhododendron | ance of animal life, as we haye above remarked, cannot the A. californica of English gardan ja beauti 
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Mr. Reid, gr. to W. Wilson, Esq., whose stand si « Insects, in fact, were found to have been developed | Tanacetum elegans, a hardy Californian herbaceous 
ea of the following Si sabes Ch Mrs. Dodwell, Miss | under conditions usually fatal to animal life, namely, plant with bipinnate and pinnatifid leaves. 
Mary Taylor, Alice, Bie C. Campbell, |in highly caustic solutions and out of contact of 
= So ery Sir J. Cathar, Nonpareil, Duchess of | atmospheric air. The. circumstance c€ tainly was å 
Wellington, Louise, Lord Dunfermline, Sir C. Napier, | extracrdinary, and deserved, as it still does. deserve, Garden Memoranda. 
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tetranda, Epacris Christisoni, with | observe the just, medium. Mr. Crosse was no ento lawn well furnished with specimen Maem and magni- 
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collection of rare Conifer, including Pinus Pattoniana to know whether these little animals, which had so|are of great age and s and are now covered with 
and Hook ookerlana, Thuja a Cra es age Cupressus peat iana, | strangely presented quate Barreak the poles of the | undev: eloped bloom buds, others again, ra Blandfordiannm. 
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pimmingham, Fraser, & Co. Sone ete eee unless these conditions were observed they did not|are associa John Waterer, one of the very Anons 
ogether with Azalea Duke of Puahi, pas | appear. He form sM ne Aon i ii, pes to their | of the Seine Hybrid Rhododendrons, of which w 
7 ilis, &c. from Mr. R. M. Stark Illicium religiosum | developm ment, and h ‘ar too to attempt an | have now so many, has not yet expanded a pert ee 
i explanation of an oe gf a ee he did not com- big is a point so much in its favour as to be worthy of 
prehend.” 
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rug boar mites first appeared is thus i articu- | frosts, which so frequently impair the beau y of more 
Mr, |larly described in a letter from Mr. Cro: k to Miss early sorts. Between the lawn ri an adjacent field is 
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c; from C. “As to the appearance of the acari under long-con- | one side a noble bank of Azaleas separates it from other 
well-bloomed | tinued eaei action, I have never in thought, word, | portions of the grounds, and on another, looking to 
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laria- violacea and | som Both of these, of course, can | distance have a s king and excellent effect. ' 1 
Mr. Gavin "Pine Apples, viz., a Queen, oniy, fbe the att nitritos of the Almighty. In fact, I can | in the flower garden are already all filled with their 
and two smooth Antiguas; from Mr. Be- e you most sacredly that I have never dreamed of summer occupants; one we observed planted with the 
Bhrobby eye E> = reat oy y theory s auficie nt to account for their appearance. wanine. scarlety-crimson. Rose Ge Jacqueminot. 
of a Seedling Azalea, I confess that I was not a little surprised, and am so | This pegge egy close to the 
e DANI, market girder 1 Taverleith, still and ot as much as I was when the acari made and tinei rather t hin of petals, which pi the 
: and M‘Ewen Cabbages Mr. ir first appearance. Again, I have fe claimed | fault this variety has, its glowing colour when in X 
oi sent a oo (25 heads) of "Giant any ‘eek as attached to me experiments, It was a| blossom cannot fail to render it highly ge vasa 
r. G. Bessent, Barnes, Surrey, | matter of chance. I was lookin g for dbs forma- | long border outside the flower garden is plan 
3 Ibs. Zon. The exhibition was ow Bee p and animal matter ai instead. In a great | follows Tiai the back is a row of Hollyhocks, in front 
from the iety’s Garden, uding number of my experiments, made by passing 2 - Jong of that is one of Dahlias, then comes a row of standard 
j Xe, and a fine plant of FT eg panna’ of elec tricity through various fluids (and some Roses terrea with Larkspurs, and in front of „these 
flowers, eworthi bearing trusses of unusually large |of them were con sidered to be destructive to poea are the taller varieties of Phlox, supported bya 
tl being four or five in each truss; also fruit | life), acari have ‘eae their appearance; but never | of Stocks and other dwarf growing plants as & - 
Maa Me from the orchard house, covered with sejfie on an electrified surface kept constantly | These when in bloom will doubtless have a fine effect. 
ia ed, or beneath the surface of an electrified | On the north side of the lawn k a glass covered pro- 
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pina ar a menanam re Nn S0 instan been | (3 3 3 $ 
Watiree produced two inches below the surface of a poisonous the middle, and borders on each side. These Inet are 
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Scientific and Lit. Literary, of Andrew Crosse, or inches deep into a glass vessel of fiuo-silica acid, or, | and in summer with tall standard Fuchsias. 
8vo., 360. ‘ino her words, into fluoric acid holding silica in solution. or & 
ag than 20 rere ago the world was A pir of electricity was passed through this fluid for | garden 
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before us. is the life of sphere; í famed sete the surface of the electrified body, | Geranium Brilliant, already covered wich Davies or 
an affectionate tribute offered to his so at the perin end, and sometimes at e pae pr crimson blossoms. This had been furnished 
widow; and an ext y interesting aioe sll occasionally between the two, or in the | with old plants that had been wintered under cover. 
it is. To men of middle of the electrified current; and sometimes upon | The conservatory, which is divided in the middle inte 
