Avavsr 16, -a THE GARDENERS CHRON IOLE. 563 
E E o ; But the flower had certainly been seli-fertilised, 
. HENDERS SON AN D SON S and therefore the experiment went for nothing. 
(LOGUE & REVISED HERBACEOUS LIST locui wer attempted, out of witch oem 
BULB CATA Gourd) were attempted, out of which two ey 
NOW READY, and presents an excellent Sppervanitp to Amateurs of making a selection from the choicest took, and in these although the fruit swelled 
Tooren be me sagt egin ofide"! Bulbs. Great bias Sees exercised in the compilation of the Lists for the present | Tipened it contained no perfect seed. 
boon ineariadl athens could after repeated trials with confidence recommend. Three trials were made of C. moschata by 
are TREATISE ‘ON “THE, ‘CULTURE AND agra oy THE HYACINTH has been also added, | varieties of C. Pepo ; all failed. 
ed post free on application. won em = ” ky! grer y rma, with ris 13 
` _CALCEOLARIA, CINERARLA, and PRINDA. hia of the above, saved from the best varieties, | atte made, in two of them the fruit 
in 2s. 6d. and 5s. Pac \s ART aii producing perfect seed ; the others 
ree NEW dicasi HAMBURGH and BOWOOD MUSCAT GRAPES are now ready, price 21s. each. mney y failed. ai 
“« RATED BOW! » published in September. me result with C. perennis cros Cc 
ee ee ri S Th a mazima; 13 lms were operated on, but in none 
WELLINGTON NURSERY, ST. JOHN’S WOOD, .N.W., LONDON. would the fruit, form, 
We give M. Navpin’s s conclusions in his own 
GPIREA CALI QPIRÆA CALLOSA, fine “Plants, 2s. Gd. each; DUTCH . FLOWER ROO words. ‘It will be seen,” he says, “ that 
e 
of the Seed, HARLES TURNER’S DESCRIPTIVE CATA- | experiments do not favour ‘the hypothesis that in 
bramado lai. LOGUE of HYACINTHS and other pria S ROOTS's | the genus Gourd hybrids can be produced b; 
pont manai] ars ves m eeina an Sba anione ts and mtn en j the ot everthel 
suites oon SRE aT ABD POPULAR zoman variety, also Brief Hints for the proper Cult y , although ere is a great probability that the 
one ri penne bei hese seine th Breas T wy JATALOGUE o < CuanLES wil bo found a great a reduction gots ‘ge is erroneous, I affirm nothing tively ; 
KITLE C A E a a |A TrA Aaa A aaa Arey peepee) as an ar rye 
goga Bogs e public can be fin settled. e same time this 
i ROLNA gy) RBA. 10s. pe 100: The AUTUMN CATALOGUE of ea act Eerie ae &c., is is established that, under the in ce of the 
aud GOLIATH, Be. ôd. perd or per dozen, $0 | now ready, and contains descriptions of sow le’ Turner's , x j 
deans” and Foster’s new varieties. Bent pos: free o epplicatio pollen of another species fruits will sometimes 
LB. may communicate by: letter. Royal N » Blo ough. > orm as well as if they had been faninsa giti- 
Emam Vao Bath. OBERT: PARKER begs to inform his friends a and mately, but will have no power to co 
TEE een > INGRAM beg to ote ag RAR establis 1 | KY patrons that his NEW PRICED and DESCR E | taining an embryo. This looks as if, k the rapa of 
Worn Runners of "the ie following kinds at prices ann 
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Mpe eena d. A Per weer: eet d. | Roses, Show, Fancy, Variegated, and ing Geraniums, | to the vivification of the ovary. This aha G ex- 
Underhill’s Sir Harry . Sari s Prolific n- 
Rivers’s Eliza will be 
Trollope’s Victoria 
‘Black Prince 
Brincgct Wales Ingress s) 
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Kiley aah INDI And if this be so there must bea sort.of double 
RSLS CIRCLE (iv D- BEE CH this very fine | fertilisation, firstly that of 2e Tay, pins A 
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pet EARLY STRAWBERRIES. Certifi the. National Floricult cys mocking te io iE - ` ? p ; 
YA ELAM JAMES NICHOLSON has much plea- | gn May 7th, 1805, tho only time Te has beon e ‘As to the notion of gardeners that Melons 
sure in offering — of the following, as being eau to re ge seo Catalogue, whi ro ‘also contains á Deseriptive degenerate and beeome urds when they are 
‘the earliest of the older wherries in time of ripening, an 
ap sent a i 
lication. J. Tven & So fo feel aer ones in recommend- wn near the latter, it is to be re that 
muth superior in aaa, arr ze:—Princesse Ro -m P ' 
E denah fires rega y gralo, tha cola chad the: ege pgreen Meg nota growers of this popular classof| the d neracy is said to occur, not the 
a f „not among 
good bearer, flavour rather acid, fruit ripe June 13, 1857, 10s. —— ching Nony. Ane fruit of a second generation, that is to say 
frui 
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Latour-Maubo: 
opinion, and impro- 
ATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1857. babi i we are not. authorised to give it a pe 
——— denial, What is certain, in my mind at least,.is 
there is any one thing concerning the truth that in the family in question, ovaries will s 
of. which garden ers have a most entire conviction into fruits under the influence of foreign pollen, 
it isthe pe ie ney of Mztons and Cucumpgrs to | although they will not form good Nor is 
mule with Go It w sald 1 _ difficult indeed to | there any proof that this may not happen with the 
find a man disposed to Ciota fra AAA ood pyesi apte h by the pollen of a Gourd. What 
fpe | be genuine if saved in a place where the pollen of a is really more doubtful is whether the quality of 
iy | Gourd can find a ecess, For our own bert we con- the fruit would be view’ se ected. ‘This is a subject 
ea Rg eae 
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in 
ess to having entertained a belief of the kind; | for future digi imen 
rs.. § fe we could almost say “that cases. of Melons Upon this we would remark that as far as we 
bly more t muled ned BY, Saget hara come pales, ops own o r- | know English, garde spri do not 
pwi yation, „That Melons eian a paoa deer- immediate evil from the ot of aare. ol 
P. s spoiled. is. ‘madenisbles ap 4 er rigu hot only that kind of 
aid-natu- | after contaet with another kind of pollen ; but that 
a pron dy - E Ai s e 
VINES FROM IN POTS. This ge entleman, 7 who is one of the 
-~ JE UCOMBE, PINCE, axp CO. beg to. call the rate ithe Cation of Puts at Pay a some of the alleged cases are apocryphal and th 
awd attention of the Publio tot their large Stoc tock of fine oe botanist of great repu piama has occupied himself | others are s tible of a ‘different explanation we 
rtin, ableding. all the Siete teen, | Of ate oft with an experimental stamina ton of | think must be admitted, BRADLEY, a horticultural 
dig ce largo Vinery, which win or cultiyated , mainly with a gic to | dreamer, ery implicit fai ese i 
fruit, they have had the opportunity of proving the different E their irs an a 5th vol. of the Horticultural 
sgn tem to cee | ? some cases 
true to name. mongs others L., P., & C es the numerous bali raged inds tetesa hie. ad 
recommend the following, especially the.‘ Bidwell the ‘year 1856 alone he and Prof. Decir netted { REREH Rent is reported to have been 
ies ee Pen eee infu beatieg | ataliad above twelve hundred live specimens, col- ee bya worthless ey cae a Ri 
Alicant Gromier du Cancal lected from France, Spain, Italy, the North of kappin b y.a Codlin, a Rand: ippin by a Winter 
Buck Hamburg be es : Africa, Egypt, the Levant, the West Indies, and |C ville . French “Crab b ston ta 
iyn’s St. Alban’s 2 P 
Wisata uth America; so t means of forming a y x apotion, a biue Lea 
West's St. Peter's Mill Hill Hamburgh solid conclusion have been more considerable than ral a hite one, But surely such changes, if they 
ox. Now ‘nite Dutch Sweet- | any former observer has enjoyed. The classification | really took place, must be of daily z 
„Richmond Villa Hamburgh | of species and varieties thus arrived at is in itself | a o ek famed which at all Brasco is not 
extremely interesting, but for the present we con- | the gre mT knew 
fine ourselves to the nysiologival results. crs Berg about them ; on the prik am he e held an 
ne h respect the great Gourds or Pumpkins, |€ ane epposite ol a sigpeey remarking t much 
ita maxima, M. Navprn says that they all |as “the seed coats and fruit of iia species o of 
cross "with each other and with such astonishing | P ots acgiaire, en ly if no if not Paid their perfec 
that t if means are not taken to keep them poria when the polle: 
soon sone anaes ld, or when from other causes it has 
He thinks moreover that their | —it has ae ones iat neither the ext 
tion, | races were in the first instance produced by mere | cover of the seeds nor the form, ee a 
and that they may in many cases | fruits are affected by the influence of 
mars | Bat ho remarks that tus peauiirities of fhe apesie | thi seeme to be confirmed by AL. Nat 
t e remarks nat ne i ities 0 e species i as set ed ty iG a hag Fe ee i 
ee That admitted s but when we) ie ae 
to study the effect of one Species upon| ~ 
Sepa ltl srt sprit altogether -ehange : e wili | ; 
“Bache “Bight e ctgmpts wero made to cron he Pump jas oat i or varts of lime 
th Cucurbita perennis, melanosperma or | sulphur in. hot aait esih constituting an impure 
i igo | in one case a yd the fruit swell, sulphuret of lime, or rather, according to GREGORY 
| and that was under the influence of C, perennis. |a mixture containing hyposulphite of lime. and 
