Jaxvany 6, 1854.] 
THE. GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
51 
then, 
China, where 
are ai 
peratur 
knows E 
will onl 
fruits morro 
und. 
heat above 
is the character of the sues of Sout 
we have me 
already much more successful in its saltivation 
than we we 
t 
very paman B uatinos, na 
sol. Every 
aed 
? Weans 
$ 
e these fruits are at hom 
m 
tad the atmosphere is clear and UR 
rom December to 
Dictamnus albus, while the white-flowered state 
plant from Tun apparently the name is nly is 
mere ely a ana Fs 
ds +h 
tt L 
alignant fever, and does not ; wholly 
| inc its apetece type in the more northern latitudes. 
e also states his belief that mean p influ- 
unds on 
remarkably fine NE w Prars have been ra the 
Rev. J. Ries of Cullompton, t “he o ilr of 
which led e Leur à m 
To these, as np te 
YSHE’S Princess of Wales, 
Y a 
that = its sister seedlings. 
During uit Committee of the 
á A Abo 
. 8), has to e adde da dre —L mea oF ae 
t 
he kep up an active corre doce e 
the past season 
Ro oyal Horticultural $ Society very pr 
Ice A snow are rarely seen, 
The rpk as already oe 
ig May an and he summer and 
and the ther portions a the year 
sa ble for any ex of hy cold, or 
hi is, then, is t re 
which the fr 
x hia we 
a 
the 
hands of ines ini and some 
mot, ge ich the ape X 
e to be call 
ergamot sha 
pees is in wes Hv 
pa ¢ 
ed HuYsHES PRINCE | 
change. of name of which, as the varieties | 
t i 
1 
Me 
p hould take note 
ntioned, an at we 
re a few years ago. 
ription of aan e and temperature 
i e, We have omitte i E 
mely, 
f the Eve intelligent ak 
ya eye of this therefore his 
Z 
E 
anm E, of ACORUS CanAMUS in the pen 
\ 
2 
? ps that he has * 
2 place of res "it ‘for many of 
is coun who were not ony introduced by him 
to the men n bost worth knowing in England, but were 
also provided with letters of introduction ri "his conti- 
nenta I frienc 
ears Dr. Boott carried on a very success- 
a contributor who adopts s |8 stitutionaliy w 
arefull 
| duties 
the s natur yos e 
that quinine has it cacy in ague and neu uralgia quin- 
pias by being rri in à 
= E Journal of Botany fires shaik its | 8 
BOTANICAL NEWS the following items — Dr. Scu 
FURTH, of Berlin with t 
m of exploring Dye cont ie Sinai peninsula, and 
astern shores of the Red Sea.—The Historic 
Soc oci bu or Lower Saxony—Niedersachsen, as nearly 
| the whole of northern Germany was deer called— 
has offered a prize for the be st e ihe nat iv 
he reda 
e | he prepared i the mono 
extensive and 
e 
T^ 
grap 
in Ho oke rs À * Flora Bor eali ‘America ana,” ' and a 
e Regs of Lower Sax xony, in their 
à ld eg 
that in the eutivati on of exot ie 
is oftentim 
THE opin of the Gardeners’? Chronicle 
Twent: 
have offere 
P 
-— «a 
d an: 
idum 
uon for two s the sum of 
r fo 
in 
ERA MOS BOOTT, M.D., V.P.L.S. 
we have had to announ " 
r, Francis Boott, F Ls 8, .R.C. Pa a 
AT 1S 
Vis i 
in prizes -— 
Ladies, and sh 
by th t the 
Royal Hortienltra Dodo. 
SJ: 
The 
dolla are om be settled immedi: 
—— nlt C. J. PERR 
PEGGED-pown Roszs for the Wo garden; and states | * 
their RR to be: — hat a 
quantity of good 
period á is sousideiably prolonged 3, m 
p rwise too much 
and 
nd these hind} bo. carefully down 
strongly recommends 
uch 
ms are s uced ; » the 
reater 
looming 
which 
bloo 
+} 
tleman wil eren amongst a large circle of frie 
le ess. for his love of science, and cupecally of "bus 
enial dipniilion, we 
e affectionate Ep p tok ini the careers of you 
on 
hi we understand 
JL 
eoesa 
D 
Ant T 
IA 
rk in two volumes, intende d to 
wi fe} 
family co: onnected wi 
ends of t the Aes ones; 
to the 
fasten them wit pegs strong Faris t 2 
E e result is a erop of fine bloom 
ms indeed as enabled Mr. 
owers' in 
ESI 
w 
roduce ‘noble 
stam, Ts bn are n: shoots for pegging n ihe 
Wing seaso; 
- Course of the winter 
Supply of strong E 
as then resem 
g pd Roses becomes gen 
s Tobust show varieties 
Sall oce 
uus i uns flower gardens, to w. 
m the LUMINOSITY of FRAXINEL 
The late Prof. 
a somewhat si Sose w explanation. “The 
a volatile c ol T This 
1 its su 
old ones are cut awa 
tti | in-law, from 
cast tle. } 
and for ee renin that. 4 bet in nature and 
refined in literature and ar t about this time he 
- became acquainted wu six Jonni Banks, and 
rmed life xc m with the late — 
own, liam (then Mr.) Hooker, Sir 
Aes of the eminent botanists of os day 
amic Siti p then — known in this country. 
these he after s gave ir William m 
whose Herbarium t ww ey aro jet ed at Kew. On his 
a 
d his taste for cad i 
xponent of the structure 
ination of every aible Specimen, 
elfish ambition. The work falh 
of assiduous la 
k (nor to listen to any pra 
of them the title page “of 
the perc pest ‘explain his own estimate of his 
feelings regardin, 
“The man who eae and digests things most, 
Will be much apter to despair than boast.”—Roscommon. 
g Raspberry bushes. 
ee Les tied toa stake to prevent 
ind, and at e latter end of 
Le Mr. Perry observi ves, tha’ 
or Ee the prominent | ; 
ich their merits 
to follow the medical profession, for nap purpose he 
placed ree vasi the direction of the late Dr. J. 
Armstrong, for 
| A double allusion is hero intended, to his own 
r 
TO aeaa 
Again, in no part e: the volumes is en 
Pe t he erdt pitas 
rom London he — to the tate t Einburh, 
im he studied er Hope, Munro, Alison, 
| Christison 
allusion whatever to the duration or extent of is 
ans, | labours, or the manifold cares that m RR) 
duetion ei v considerable 
latter only survives him. Aion 
Hydrocephalus, 
€— of M.D 
n 1825 eg 
LA botany i ae the Webb ities. school of medicine, 6 
his friend | Dr. Ar mstrong was pro ofessor of Materia 
esr, his 
he received his | tas 
— ga finally ettled i in raaa i 
or! indeed, 
only men of himself as eoahested with the 
had set yer is the une which occurs 
j mory L Esq., 
sa 
ies of my undertaking, und 
my treat su 
o 
th 
increase inadequacy to them 
cessf: 
both in matter and style, and to have excited much 
untiring efforts to pro: 
| enthusiasm ; 
| welfare of his pupils in other ways s were so deeply | 
Of the many kind offices he undertook on behalf of 
wea tasai - —— and -— diffident, this is no time 
to ro ra od usion to them duri 
an characteris 
modesty y consideration, was declined as soon as 
heard of; he was howev afterwards persuaded to 
H Ire inat 
is the normal state of 
H 
their poil feelings and | good will. 
ac aiU some ra e alla pe nr 
be permi 
mentioning, 
at whose dying request he undertook to > publish his Tife 
eb nd peared in 2 vols. 8vo. in 1834. 
ture received by ! the N ational Portrait Gallery was his 
f this medallion, 
" rai aga of the +> and Medical paot. of John | | 
Arms , M.D.; to which is eg 
| the Facts D enel with those 
uted to Malaria and Marsh Effluvium. 
. | Boott entered largely M the e subject of the Plague in 
Egypt, Syria, Holland, Fran | oque ea 
that the Plague obeys the ott Ier wach 1 govern 
wever, in “in conection D 
to Sos tat Dr. Boott was bes 
ociety in 1819, a ied 1 for some time 
ita een, 
onger perio 
wh 
into its working, to which the Society is so 
"largely ind indebted for its present unexampled pros — 
