THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



^STThe principal piece-a " ias ^ ve s J ^ ^ 

 ££Twith perspective y e . ws J^'J^^j inscrip . 

 Wmter G»^n Jjd eo ^ g ^ 



*■=-; P TsOO by the Caledonian Horticultural 

 *• wltte Mr jies M'Nab, Superintendent of the 

 Shirty to Mr. J» mark of their sense of hls 



Royal ^^ " the Society, while Superintendent 



t" 9 P* tit !! d i?jSlf D L t having merely done what was'his 

 •"^KemembeB for the uniform kindness 



^„, Jtfar^A^^w^Esq., V.P in the 

 Jf - Th ' e fellows assembled this evening, when the 

 SjLa announced the death of Edward Forster, Esq., 

 eta 7Je V.ce Presidents and Treasurer of the Society, 

 S propMed the adjournment of the meeting as a mark 

 / J3tto the memory of the deceased, who was so 



Ilknown for bis botanical knowledge, and his devotion 

 J*L interests of the Linnean Society. 



v ( ,rcfc°0.-The Lord Bishop of Noiuvinr. Presi- 

 w in the Chair. Mr. Solly exhibited flowering 

 pLnujof Anemone ranunculoides, from the neighbour- 

 hood of Abbot's ^[^'^n ^?he EhThoVc^ 

 •r«iiil»tus. — J. Gadesden, Esq., and H. F. Rich- 

 JdBon &q, were elected Fellows of the Society, 

 p H. Gosse, Esq., was elected an Associate. A 

 dnwuig of a new species of Passiflora was exhi- 

 bited.— Mr. Newport read the first portmu of a 

 with the special economy and instincts of certain 



new genus and two species o'f bee paraaites." The 

 object of the author was to show that a perfect ac- 

 cordance exists between the special anatomy of insects 

 and their economy. The parasitic Hymenoptera, in 



the food of the species they i 



is very similar. During the 

 gestive apparatus 



ie cells that compose the walls of the sac, becom 

 erforated in its longitudinal axis ; a correspond 

 pening being at the same time formed among the c 



except Oak, it becc 

 political lookers-on 





nymph. The reason 



tt^A^Te^r 10 chara t cter9 : " Fem 



pilose, with the second, third, fourth, and fifth jo ; 

 newly equal, the sixth long, oval ; thorax and at 

 a*n< >f equal length ; wings with a single median h 

 *mw; tarsi five jointed. Male: Antem^ four joint 

 Jwal-joint arched, greatly dilated and excavated on 

 rawer surface, second joint cylindrical, third large, 

 pooose, fourth elongated, oval ; eyn stemmatous - 

 Jbreviated; length one line." 1 



Sardinian Oak to be the best 



.Sundance for naval purposes. 



it dockyard abuses have brought dockyard 



i land many are earning 



i, and by applie 

 ?ed to get some 

 "J. Ti-at thev c 





hTve ed had 



$LT3£Zf& 



e destroyed 



-' i/:oh.mii. ! 

 oftheQuerc 

 1 of all the 



during his visit to ! 



Mr. Tyndale says 



I have addressed 1 

 . What a pity it i 



earning in the first instance how and 



Grundriss der Kryptogamen-Kunde, 

 Korber. Breslau, 1848. 8vo : pp 

 Theke has a 



egetable physiology is t 

 s mightiest _giants of th< 



of subsistence. 





of Cryptogams would be a most 

 case will not completely satisfy 



ure. The 





lowledge of Cryptogam 



-KiSS 



elf, a gre 



eptal'K.' to tin" general botanist, but 

 night. Still there is much met * f^j*^^ \ 

 acquainted with the language in which it is written. 



Miscellaneous. 



the elegant and' glist 

 tL^."*** The internal analou 



Darjeeling and Cherra I 



l'o...-,i 



" «"», with details o 



s. The skin of all d 

 • Potato free from 1 



n this grand and staple 

 . of one garden weighed 

 . Journal of the Agricul- 



Company their charges. ; 



.uld'beglad'iai.'t-.r.-ce 



irough can only be con 

 VorLter Herald, f Feb. 

 Climate of the Jnltuna 







. they can find a purchaser. 



