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is totally unworthy of adoption, ; wanted for exhibition about pe end of August or says it is sown when the mean temperature in the shade 
spa tat th state wie that it re Ape ismade up from | beginning of September. To grow Phloxes in perfec- | is above 544°, and when no more frosts are. 
two plants, both miserable specimens without flowers, | tion they should be renew wad oi rst cuttings at least east | Maize et a dae plant necessarily requires heat for 
oné from Sylhet, in the Wallichian go an m, the | every three years, and, if wanted for exhibition, two or | | its vegetati when sown at the end of summer, or 
other from Mergui (Griffith), in our own herbarium ; {three stems may be left on an old, and one only on a | too early, mh es fit for fodder only, and shows no 
and it would appear that they are referred to Hexa- serv plant. “ote them well secnred to stakes and | inflorescen I shall assume 55}° and 59° as the 
centris, from a resemblance in the foliage to that of H. diee from rain, and, if possible, from sco; conchae! | rr gre initial temperatures. I have also tried bog 
(or Thunbergia) coccinea. Indeed, Dr. Wallich himself see | 544°, but that gives less antisfact eae 
called it ‘Th. “pas yo Assuredly too our plant is a ‘About. the middle of March a selection should be | followi 
true Thunbergi me no Hexacentris, if ene genus be a | made from plants struck the previous season, taking | these degrees. it Tambow, because the result — 
sound one. Und these circumstances we feel quite | care to choose those that are throwing up be asst us | be below mag of ¢ Cracow and prove nothing. I 
justified in dedicating it to the pete men ‘wlio has first | shoots. Put one plant in each pot, Sherine not more omit Lugan and Buda, where they are pe Ahehe in 
introduced it to Europe, and who has so much served | than two stems to each, ba at 8 tol 2 inches | excess :— 
the cause of science both in the West and East Indies. | in diameter, say MaA the s ee. k ear pea 
Jts close affinity with Th. laurifolia (and besides the | avoiding too h drainage. Pot with rich fibry loam, Place | 
distinctions indicated in the above specific character, ream d a little al and well decomposed manure. “The : 
the colour of the flower is different, much more rich and | dwarf r growing sorts r be placed under glass at; =m | 
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varied and beautiful) would lead us to suspect its native | once, either 1 in a cold frame or greenhouse, and kept as | 1- gn sede the limit. 
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of going to press, a letter from ay excellent friend, Dr. | grown the better. a air on all possible opportunities. 
Cleghorn o i that he detected this | A tittle weak liquid manure may be given with advan-| 2 sp or a little 
plant and conveyed the seeds g“ Madras while accom tigi atalani . The tall growing varieties may be la Rochelle | 
payne >s Szalom Sir P. Grant to the Tenasserim lunged out of doors in any sheltered situation, and Frankfort-on-the- Maine. ered aad | 
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í amon n and Moulmein. tory 
since, in foliage, it corresponds with Mr. Griffith’s plant, | have long naked stems the pots can placed out of) g pithin the limit. 
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he Rev. C. S. P. Parish, at Moulmein, | selves above other plants. By a careful selection, and Eo? ; 
on the same coast, to make oe Bo such a plant were | only bringing the plants in-doors as they show flower, a oo P, spony me ae Fa! io] Ragland, 
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y may be kept up from June till] than for La Rochelle we-ean hence 
or pone Sng near sliz -la RAL granar NE aen quantities of them are grown as | stand why Maize er kard sily ripen in bwe 
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‘Certainly we have a very splendid Thun nbergia in| In repotting the Phlox care must be taken not to regard racow ° 
Moulmein. It is a common plant here, and the egies break or reduce the ball, although shifting from a wana best nfo Ca ore rt yg Aranea at Atom 
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an plants long ago, otherwise I | t will then d in- 
should certainly have called your attention to it. If it osuin tee bestowed npon Maize is not cultivated generally in that part of Ger- 
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splendid on hold it. It is indeed a fine thing; | dwarf and bushy in habit :— been good 
but I have never seen seed. It is in my a run- Abdul Msc Khan may not tgs from the minimum of 554° accord 
all over a Jack-tree, and in a nei arts. et Adioimi Linh Fenu best with known facts, 
my plant, when young, from the jungle? For Antagonist Masterpiece | a imate requirement for Maize above 554° 
selves we hig not find . difficult to keep this plant Colonel Dundas Monsieur Fontain imila n 
man a) in our s Coun v 
e different form of the leaves and petioles, the Dr. Lero Victoria 
t and more compound inflorescence, the shorter General Brea Rabra res, 
whorled pedicels, larger and differently coloured| It may es added that a collection of Phloxes, kindly with all or M. Boussin uii 
will dist Th. laurifolia. Its} presented to the Horticaltn ral nym s by Messrs. | M, De Candolle’s industry and deli , we must confess 
season hitherto been the winter or early | Downie & Laird, may now be found in the Gardens at that, as a means of explaining or accounting 
Spring, the same season indeed as the Amherstia bears | Chiswick. Many of the same varieties are also at in the limits of Se, we do not perceive that it 
its rich scarlet and yellow flowers.” present beantifully in bloom in private is, per se 
and for the decoration of mixed borders nothing could monthly. temperatures, eit ither of them being very far 
possibly be handsomer. M. indeed from satisfactory. In saying this we by no 
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in ae engia these have been making rapid progress | ON THE TEMPERATURE OF THE NORTHERN cannot pretend to understand the rationale of limita- 
mioak y oe and a ial ob p LIMITS OF | MAIZE ti non N tion by temperature without a full appreciation both of 
varieti beau (From tanique. mean peratures ; 
wg hn ae still are seldom found in} myg following table exhibits the mona monthly tem- | we think that neither method indicates, ey ~ 
aneri a stal not only in aising | PAUE near the limits of Maize cultivation :— » the limits requi and that as i 
fne varieties of this flower trom seod | Mean Ti E A Be O ge, S n the other 
raire but also in} i, jnen Tenpenny Do aa ys, that Maize 
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pa ag Aa fey te onr the fact that the sums of the temperatures above 
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the first place they select a sheltered, but at the TEKEE 
open situation for them, having a rich Py monthly 
loam not over sandy, at least 1} to 2 feet deep. This ñ | Rochelle, and their summer means, those of May 
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same time heavy manuri more , Beyond the Lin ite, é i seems 
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steep or or decile piece of ground, as few plants | months nor of the seasons sufficiently explain the posi- | siye from a more complicated — which solves no 
want of water as the Phlox. In dry | tion of the limits. ma would appear that a summer- Beall that the method of mean temperatures leaves 
beds recei teri heat of 645° was sufficient;.had not Tambow and | Wooly We again repeat that we do not oe 
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and prematurely | cultiva the i acts it evolves; but 
sy a very unsightly appear, We. rs now inquire whether the sums of tempera- ne te i ob the, Sack vabos-ia hg in this : e cannot 
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Ped stools, when they are abont 3 inches long; use different there i is sown only when the gist ne forming the vt eer we At of notice. But 
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Place ther gentle hotbed, and when well) This takes place at Alsace on June Ist, according to |in the class of sweet-kernelled Apricots t 
Rete and hardened oi they may either be planted out ewes a anpe briana Mush, originally from the oases of Upper Egypt, the 
X repotted in inch pots, plunged ou y sheltered | is 604°. It is sown at Alais about Ist, when the | Syrian Apricot Ki a 
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