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32-l«49.] 



THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



^J, of exotic Coleoptera, 



ibited minute but that its beauty can be perfectly seen by t 

 fine J naked eye ; and yet e ''"' 



V^, rf Paumda,, and numerous Bolbocerata, to these things that have no great magnitude to recom- 



Tmf, and M^chidii, from the collection of the Mar- mend them, that, were we to take at random ten thou- 



JfrTlt. F«t£ A paper was read by Mr. F. Smith, sand persons from either town or country, and march 

 the genus Paragi 



! A GEMENT~OF FlX) 



second general i 

 esday, July 31, at 

 Palmer, Esq., ol 



r for the Encouragement of Floriculture 



ie second general meeting of 



xj was held on Tuesday, July 31, at Watson's 



H**,, Lorina and Lady H. Moore, which every col- 



fc*<UM certificate on that occasion. Mr. Bragg ex- 

 W*d half a dozen seedling yellow Picotees, quite as 



als ; and though not in good trim. 

 w l.k.-U I take the lead in the class. Mr. Robinsou 

 txhibited a seedling Dahlia, quite a gem in its way, 

 «1W the Thames Bank Hero, a deep crimson, of ex- 



■tjudiction'could take place. Mr. Wynness showed a 

 ' fully shaded Verbena, which will 



■ form. Although nearly 200 nove'lties* ha^e beTn 



Am at the meetings of this Society, the cerl.lict, 



The majority would also see 



>, or say, 'Is not that < 



■y of British Se 

 Fructification, Specific ( 



S ., ,n:h nr.tice of some of the Freshwater Alyce. 

 By the Rev. D. Landsborough, A. L. S. London : 

 Rjeve^Benham, and Reeve, 1849, pp. xx. and 3G8, 



It would, perhaps, be too much in a work proft 

 popular to require a great deal of novelty ; we c 

 towever, that we were rather disappointed in not 



■w laroured haunts. The plates, which in point c 

 Jjwon are worthy of all praise, vying even wit 

 -» « toe most beautiful of books, Greville's « Algi 



Ct ° f }}*' Fitch ' for even in Catenella 

 J"". * h t ? nt wm <* (and indeed about the plates 

 JJJ'y), there is a mystification which we cannot 

 J« understand, though there is a sort of impl 



*UgauTt an figU - Fe ° f * he Ph y colo 8' a - We 1 



look ^Lui^ keeping with the general tenor of the 



**,*h«h B really excellent and does credit to the 



JJVj* *J»ch so unaffectedly exhibits the genuine 

 **TSilv a™ reli § ious 8 P irit » fl ° wiD g naturally 

 Stfrji- nund > apart from everything like effort or 



whaJ w,! wing L the , ha PP v resu,te of the stlid y of 



SSdvfry' he adds, "The greatest advantage of 

 *>3?iin!iM n S ht,y P rosecu ted, that it keeps us con- 

 SjSSii 6 £«*»«» of God. Were we to 

 *"«• Me^f Creator ' the wor ^» 8ays°Paley, would* 

 » "Mf Go4'g° D DatUral sci f nc . e * The 6 b ™k o?Nature 



*t aaj. l ^ ctI y •■ it should be. It is difficult, as the 

 J*"*- »Ppe1r7* WeU ° n con,mo ° sub J ecta - Th «>, 

 ^tS U ot en tr t U u k W ," h ^"t'ceVf his e ob 9 U erva r : 

 n h» »T. 0Hen told ta e of Munon Park. Th« -ff«.t 



ether.-, to the Lamarkian doctrir 



! happy to be able to speak most i 



the introductory analysis, and the si 





n the greater part of tl 



graphic passages i 



Algte. The author ( 



have spoken frankly where we thought it right to 

 Garden Memoranda. 



Roym NruM.nv, m. h. — Nearly a ceiitin 



elapsed since this Nursery was established. I 

 proprietor was Mr. Brown, and it continued in the 



of .Mr. Turn r, the well known grower and exhik 

 florists' flowers, whose good taste has greatly im 

 the general aspect of the place, which, previous 

 possession of it, had been much neglected. The 

 Nursery itself is excellently well situated by the side 

 of the London and Bath mad, directly facing \\ indsor 

 Castle. It is 20 miles from London by the road, and 

 18 by the Great Western Railway, to whose station at 

 Slough it is contiguous. The soil of the Nursery ia a 



wl by very la?ge and* fine °Holly7 Yew, a*nd Box 

 hedges. 



Mr. Turner's excellent collections of Carnations and 



r, contained 600 pots of these flowers arranged 

 with the greatest care, both with regard to the colours 

 of the blooms and the size of the plants, forming 

 altogether one of the beet displays of the kind ever 

 produced. The soil which Mr. Turner has used for 





i, short, and strong ; they 



H short and healthy, though the Is 



appeared to be ( 



Miscellaneous. 





with the exception of two 



lenthes Hookeriana, one ol 



the other 4/. These wet 



plants of the kind in Europe. 



Senna, Suna Mukki of 



t6,and frequently turned, in order I bu7& faTI 



rms ; it is by no means heavy soil ; tiie only addition I . wkh the whok) ntit¥ of ^ other ge^ 



~"-£S* ^5* -ported, as given by Dr. Pereira. 



:- ; M 



by Dr. Malcolmson ; a good deal of it in Arabia, 



Duchess of Sutherland, red-edged ; do. Lorina, purple 

 Holliday's Queen of Roses, rose ; Turner's Lady H 

 Moore, heavy purple ; May's Ann Page, light purple 

 "L"S» ParTW how *ver ,» says our author, "that Marris's Prince Albert, heavy purr'- " J 

 fc^thfntJ* 1 , DOt been an acute ob8e ™"> the Wales, ^heavy red; the above are 

 *"*. wen »hV • P nt would have been nn9een b y I flowers. We also noticed the foil 

 &^» ^jj ? to his eyes. The eye re- tions : May's Owen Glendower, cri 



r*» trtunin,, J* 8 cl08e to his eyes. The eye re- tions : Mi 

 "?»thev haf» Dy have eves aDd y^ no eyes, be- Falconbri. 



?i£ ttn - ThTife 11 a a cc ? 8t T ed t0 raake h arigh iTm™ 1 fil 



l?^ll Qb '* tv ™ "avSr« h is^ot uncommoS "The' fol 

 ***<**SZ:>? d a ^ covered with it in a but first. 



purple ; do. Prince of 

 are all decidedly fine 

 following new Carna- 



by M^pSey but " t 



