-1849.] 



THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



^jj^^Twould have thought them wonderful vious to I 

 ""^Vhich Mr. Watkin turned upon his heel, and off some 



forced to admit that : 



fe pl»c« to find them, clustering in broad rings, 



"jjh jitered features and throwing their arms round their 



Jjdpeen, sanguine and party-coloured, wearing collars 

 j which a knight might be proud, furred, crestr J — ' 

 Aprons looking as a man in point-armour, 

 knnlws as his under-jerkin. 



Behold them as they grow in Mr. Veitch's Ni 

 ti Exeter ; or look at them as they are sketched on 

 4» paper, where colour, texture, and all, save form, is 

 hi Can any one see such marvellous things, knowi 

 than to be only plants, and feel no wonder ? To 

 they seem prodigious. First there is the Rafflesian, 

 Jf green or marbled sort, with a lid like a trowel 

 collar of spines rolled inwards, and a crest that stan 

 Sercely op, as if to guard the entrance to the fountai, 



the -bit, with a wider mouth, and without the en 



Mj observe the white edged, narrow, slender, and f 



i hroad collar of silvery wool. Is there nothing he 



Botanists call these plants Nepenthes : 



No, not that, which was only vulgar Hemp disguii 

 l poet's masquerade ; but a far more striking race, 

 refusing all near alliance* with the vulgar inhabitants 

 d earth, and seeming to be the relic of some order of 

 things that has passed away. No sensual delights are 

 to be derived from them ; the " huge pleasaunce," and 

 •gUdsome thoughts," and "joyous dreams," are 

 merely intellectual. Would they be greater if they 



MANNA.-MIRACULOUS FALL OF FOOD 

 FROM HEAVEN ! 1 



Two months ago a report was current in Erzeroom 



W • ?! ^ eport ' however > »»*«"* of being soon 

 "gotten, gamed daily more ground, specimens of the 

 "Wwee were brought hither, and travellers from 

 «* uenens having taken place. Finding that there 

 Ka^was^d ° n f °- th!S phenoi ? enon > I bought that 

 to n d ku|tere8ted in knowing it. I therefore applied 

 » Ur. Hewig, the sanitary physician at Byazid (the 

 W. European residing there), to furnish me with 

 Jjnahon which I elicited by means of a series of 

 foTTV 11 ? the result of these inquiries which I 



AiTAk^o t ftSUre of 8ub mi"ing to your notice. 



*^Uh e 18th or 20th April last, at a period when 

 ^J»d been, for a whole fortnight, very rainy weather, 

 *i& 5 T mda from the S ' E - and E.S.E., the 

 fteeZL? shepherds and villagers frequenting 



•»t7Z ry ° ear B ? azid was attracted by* the sudden 

 ™»«, in several localities, of a species of lichen 

 ^Sg fromfi Crable VMrtMes over certain tracts, 

 ^.Hemig describes two of these spots as follows :' 

 - suuated three miles "east of Byazid, behind a 

 Mvan. . y ""M" 1 **™ stretching from the north, 

 gjg 'towards the south-east. The other is five 

 3**«.«outh of Byazid, near a similar range of 

 Ti ST S the above-named direction. * 



"^ JieW? • abl ^ that no one bad ever before observed 

 *«*.-£ ^ 8 ,! n ^ neighbourhood, not even the sbep- 

 ^t ina^i e ° L pasturetheir flocks on the crags and in 

 ^ <>nJW ,b i e P laces ! and Dr. Heinig, who has 

 * »PPea« ♦ ^ m{ ( whi °b is close to Byazid), and 

 SSS? We a taste for rambling over moun- 

 ^o Se , ** - never met with an y- Wh at seems to 

 fcrjoa, to uV tl0n that these P roducts were not know n 

 >*tbSl*, ere greatl * in j ured by locusts, and a 

 h ««ist » a f 1 ; and b^ the substance been known 



**% Sr ere in the viciDit y> il wonld mo8t 



Sto.h l eagerl 3 r sought after and collected last 

 ?*** its IT i price of Whea t had risen to more than 

 ?k*, op „::rV alue - A similar phenomenon is said 



curl attacks weak individuals, especially towards 



of autumn. The leaves, previously green and healthy, 

 * ' ly curl up, acquire a livid hue, and by degrees, 

 a very short space of time, pass to a dark rusty 

 Their size increases, and very soon the buds 

 ung branches become deformed. In the mean- 



■'""ti,,",' 



ettle on vigorous and healthy branches. I have ah 

 Ithough often very slight. The curling up takes p 



ed colleague o 



badly kept Peach 



-Byazid some years ago, when it is 



5?*n to t ! at tne edible quality of these lichens became the idea of a point of analogy bet* 



^^^l^sjnnless showers took place pre- vegetable life. And although I myself, in my Nosology, 



^ ^^tt^Yiieta bie Kingdom," P . 287. bad been incautiously led into adopting it, I now think 



OFF POTATOES. 



Tombelle Lomba's plan, I r 



On' the 14 th of July, t 

 I cut off the 

 and earthed t 



the Queen's Noble. I cut d" 



which fell about the 

 ?rame had then as- 

 eay. I cut them all 

 down. They were taken up on the 21st August all 



down July 14th, produced — 



tubers small, the largest size weighed 3 oz. 



tubers generally of good average size, the largest 

 1 8 and 9oz. 1 was, I must confess, disap- 



to take up two rows of the white Potato, cut 

 uowu on the 14th July, and two rows which had been 

 left untouched. Those cut down on the 14th Julj 

 id ~ inlenth 41 lbs tubers all sound 

 tubers generally of a good size ; what would, in 

 fact, be called a fair sample, some of J^ 1 ^^* |™gbed 

 uched produced— 



The tubers generally much larger, and many weighed 

 ounces. The result in this instance is more favour- 

 bink it may be accounted for 

 The white Potato is an earlier sort than the Queen's 

 >ble, and, although both planted at the same time and 



came into flower earlier, and I had, as is' my 'usual 

 actice, picked off the first flowers a week or 1 days 



erefore, were, in all probability, in a 



eir own vitality, from the soil. 



There is here, I opine, strong presun 



at the tubers do, as aflSrmed by Mr 



