596 “THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. [Avcu fea 
roach their irae on Pollards at aj rotted ‘from an old pasture, one- -third peat or heath soil, | was because the oe t 
ire y > and one-third leaf-mould, all well mixed together with pr ie simultan ka wr ae those 
iu been used in | a quantity of silver sand. Letthe drainage be efficient, | the basis of the practical taws of ept ef 
er the lono 
to Rer 
the Douro an the res sult will be that this ear or even und best treatment pei yr be the of Guar: discovery is 1s due t 
there will not a so much wine as was pro ode ed | result. If new Sentai are required them be | why a surface appears white or Chere 
t obtained as early as you autumn portion of the light which falls on j 
in that country last year.’ i h 
ture RA d the foll ing winter the tht aed bat ut little water; but | on the retina, 
Along with this we have received the to owing fs iat 6 BB ept from flagging; all decayed le leaves | surface a brillian ro 
a observations for July made in Mr. | should be picked off, and the ts should be pro- |the rays of light being diffused in all 
forresrer’s garden. It shows how far our heats | tected at night by covering with mats. Of course a small portion ivi 
have pe from those of Portugal, excessive as We | hot-water pipe run round the pit will be required in | not appear brilliant. Th 
thought our own. severe weather. If by accident the plants should, how- | two kinds of surface 
State of the Th r f July 1857, in the District | ever, happen to get frosted, keep them covered up for | perceived b th 
of Covas, in the “Alto -Dow a few days and rapae isn cautiously to sah i i | E te : differen’ 
AE PERERA OL not too much injured they may recover. ut the | rays of light, instead of be 
- Diro inesi se pona last week in February ‘they in general begin “al a surface or subst i te 
July € 7 € exhibit signs of growth; then repot them into one- | and black are n 
” . ‘ c fourth leaf-mould, and one-fourth good rotten cow or tion or abso 
i : § orse-d ith loam and sand as before. ing the | understand 
et £ two succeeding months, March and April, c e to | property which the s 
» re cee to thei or until they are in ee so 
- the pots in which they are intended to bloom. About ion 
es a month before they come bite lower a little clear pas prira rays it 
t will decrease its i 
water may be given them, say twice a week ; this rays with white ones produce pink. On the 
be found to improve the bloom. In May and June they | a quantity of undecomposed light is absort 
ought to be in full beauty. produced, which by di arnis 
After they have done blooming cut them down, top | appear darker, generates dark reds, bl 
ove them to i urs are pr 
pod fred pod feed face rel feed 
reflected 
es long for cuttings. In September orci a yellow reflected, the 
cuttings may also be obtained Ci oe in the easo 
pd bet ped oe 
if a be 
sooner. After the cuttings are well roo place them | of one min immediately its 
© |in 4-inch pots, as already ded, and by nerated ; thus, if a pee direlé i 
treatment “ag will make fine blooming plants the grey surface, an orange hue will be 
range Tra round it v 
tint f a red c rcle, a green if 
circle, a Mape”: 
so The 
COWL 
sprin: 
| As regards gos handsome though many of the her- 
EES baceous Calceolarias may be justly considered, they are | 
hws was doi that t during the ji on which | fast giving place to the shrubby kinds, which are i ifla 
the thermometer was so very high the sun destroyed pomire. more profuse flowerers, hardier, and therefore | ktiris nt § 
a great number of oe) even among those which pray sily m managed. Of the latter the “a rep are | fastly for a few 
had been cured by sulphur 2 of the best, viz. : white sheet of apes 
os iega bori e Genga Perfection. Ea another white sheet, t 
A very curious production has been lately sent King E of tarda, (Fh son) a Hanki Cerimon sealat » 12 soe but a gr 
tous by Mr. H. O. SrepHEns, which he found in | Gem (yellow with brown | Zellow awaa | yellows if bite, oranges 
the shape of an e gelatinous stratum on bones | yellow Prince of Oran eo 
. < i bro 
which had been just ded from a South American xallow of toe (ight | Aurea aids (yellow). 
vessel on the quay at Bristol. Mr. J. Lown has crimson). ing-co n a contrary m 
lately sho own in a memoir read before the Botanical Of these the last six are most suitable for pot |in ee al abash in either case as os 
Society of — urgh, that some of the moulds | culture. M. with hpr partion of complementa 
which occur on living animal structures, and aire in the eye 
which constitute n Panel, th new genera of authors THE HARMONY OF COLOURS. Bre paper, 
on eb versed in h skilful anatomists| WE borrow from the Literary Gazette the follow | Brilian , 
‘ i, ae eer forms va Aspergillus excellent report of an ot Lecture upon this | cloth, ae colours will 
convinced, su og which is to no class more interesting than to lo — ce 0 
Snaita lovers. The lecture was dleo d at the Royal If to the green of the j 
“Ses ie Gale F. Crace Calvert. easing its intensity, the per ini 
ye: ual ssp " i the a ia one Bak ‘stated that ea | Site objects i in the beani irs "e = mae of ie 
score aan malignant disease of the toma, the laws of ss i as discovered by his learned ne pla ak at m abel from the: 
and is remarkable for its quaternate spores. | master, M. Chevreul; secondly, to explain their import- | influenced ones, as below :— . 
Hitherto, however, no such spores have occurred | ance in a scientific point of view ; and, thirdly, their = A 
in the coloured gelatinous masses so common on | value to arts and manufactures. To understand the 1 Ü Jace ¢ 
decayed food, and which are undoubtedly the | law of syn it is necessary to know the — Te, a no sufficient potet p pe 
infant state of our common moulds of the genera | of light; Newton was the first person who gave to colons sida Des st one 
Aspergillus and Penicillium. The Orange matter world any piate relative to the oe of light, Ka rapari aA aten pi n agree, Te ‘red and 
of Mr. STEPHENS now supplies the desideratum, which he said consisted of seven co colours—red, orange, be tag 5 t isht ja ge i dark . 
and we have spores in fours, either in de ichat yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet Ri is K distinctly 45 ty m gene í obtain 
Late. or formi ti “| proved that four of chews È even colours 0 De 
packets, rming a continuous stratum, con ia eh ósátt of the perfec 
sisting of several m S four, exactly as in saiora e oane EE thre colours 
: side by side, t 
Sco, 8 Mear etidi rebby Ga be pitniltive co = , blue, and | hade an j A 
is paying ; ue and red combined produce le s urs. 
tion aet oat mnd wl wil egeyts raar an ido; blue and i green ; while red aid yellow biia Gei Ta panka, Ce 7 
! uce o e; these facts bei no i to : A 
ring a the necessary details. pe content ourselves | prove that the not seven, but t s peiniitive; and erie v g 
y calling a attention to the very curious | four secondary, called complementary colours. Several Red mp Fed 
oh 3 oofs can be given that light is com of three ; ( Red 
aiina colours rony or of be bat simple consists in placing | Blue Orange tg 
pieces e, red, and yellow papers on a circular disc; 
ES agar d rotating it rapidly ; the effect to the eye being to | orango } Indigo fe 
ITHIN w years arogi have improved | produce a disc of white light. If th oe eye can yellow? 
‘greatly h in form, size, and colour of marking. We bong lata fi while na vaginas so slow a ish ee ; 
P sekanca een an endless variety of them. Many | rate, what must n arily the tir dait it i NeT Tos Yellow 
C O n cultivating. People must remembered that light p wa hy at the rate of 190,000 Yellow 
adici use RR care eara ; re rows Mathes “ nt e rapidity with which light| Black White {pie 
us se ravels is at the eye is not able to perceive either | 
me difficult to cultivate ; this is, lawworer, & MAS the god ten yi yellow, the nerves of the Sew _ If attention is not : w to the 
pi with ape a — is cg poeta any florist flower | being sensitive mough to receive and convey su thea 
e grand secret growing it is to | sively to "the misd the three or seven colours of whic Š improving each 
keep oep the p gyae tolerably dry in winter, and era pro- | the light is grisei Before entering into the 1 ait ol bent 5 thus if blue and purple wm 
on st with as little pker as possible, and | colour, Mr. Crace Calvert stated that "t might be | the a= — its COE te 
Sig summer months to supply them liberally interesting to know what scientific minds had devoted | upon purple, e, will give ais 
water, and keep them wol shaded from the} attention to the laws of colours. Buffon meee the bine recsiting a baba 
scorching rays of thesun. The plants may be Newton, ina his researches had ial reference e a greon 
= ye —_ against a wall with a south- | what M. Chevreul had called the “successive meer yellow 
| a t and being glass if possible, as | of colours. Father payee Se monk, also wrote on the | throwing 
Wou. as. top. Let the roof lights lift up instead of | laws of colour. Goethe, the poet, also ties ie his mind | communicates to 16 a 8: 
sliding, so as to admit air in wet foggy weather, and at the | to bear upon the subject, and studied it to a great throwing its purple _ 
rain. The frames, if possible, should | extent. Rumford, about ‘the end of the 18th | able. 
brick work about 2 feet or so in century, published memoirs on the laws of | these princi 
r in bloom to greater advan- | colours. He explained very satisfactorily the “ succes- | arrange 
‘a more convenient eet p prora | sive” contrasts, and arriv ved a insight into the | shown by Mr. 
; | “simultaneous” one; still he id's not ay down its its real | embroidered — ool 
possible | laws. Prieur, orth), calicos, 
Be ee ts writers of most pree wank orks on on be The. that if these so laws i 
5 arse bs we é i e. ws 4 
loam well ‘enti te aidata t the definitelawsof colour and talent expended 
