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THE GARDENERS' es eld AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[May 28 1864, 
vessels, in which a similar reaction takes place, 
contain a fluid which at all events closely 
pats that in the cellular tissue of the same 
plants 
e has found, moreover,’ that the spirals of the 
Surana annu ular, spiro-annnlar, and pns 
allied forms of vascu ular tissue, show in the 
interior a Siir reaction, a fact which confirm: 
Monsieur TnaEcuL's notion as to their fubalat 
structure. 
This tains 
in plants belonging 
to fi 
natural orders, and is erri very general, te 
d hat cells which occur y 
repeat the patron hich were laid down last | q 
autumn, after a careful comparison and digest of | 
h -growers were | is lik 
he does 
Re 
B 
ch 
face vity, th 
observations at present do Sid "^d s0 T on "a prove 
that they are not sometimes quite destitute of 
lhe 
k after Monsieur Gris’ first memoir was 
t À 
y mean 
fitted accurately near the base of t eons 
of certain plants, as the Vine, Maple, Acacia, 
Peach, and Lime, he was enabled with great ease 
from sels, whatever the 
length of the specimens might be. This was the 
ease in the mon h, but in MU. - ee 
no longer pass through them, appar nse- 
quence of their being filled at that € with sap. | 
At the end of May however the air passed through 
a 
n plants with evergreen leaves, as the 
be sent in on June i E 9, and to be ready for 
sjatetion T 100 
We may see a spirited competition ; | 
for the p Tet Ladies pA ns do grow plants in 
every way worthy of such —— as are offered, 
iod not — r any doubt "— er, 
t L5 es of bloom are throws 
stro ngly as was the cas this Seis the roma 
| having all bes aiaei of eing t 
ported bulbs. We m ay 
WU 1b 
0 
Ornithogalum, lest there putos be a fallin of mat i 
Y Ma. 
Iture of t 
ing bite attention ne the raisers of new bag ses to P 
5l 8 
the various enggeiiue vem ose 
ood as to offer. The conditions were :— 
The Rose may bi long h any class, but [preference 
will be given to Hybrid Perpetuals and Teas. It 
must be scented. 
| 2. The full rie globular or eupped form will be 
t flowers will then Ls care E ead pires 
leaves rowing 
vigour into his €— to a p 
i econd ee ar 4 m 
importation. And this is 
with success, namely, to 
A speci ylli m the Swan River, with a 
eat branchin ng s haih, ini blunt regular 
d nodding heads of flowers 
Acts o: a pin! nk colour, 
ake distinct core cal Ro 
pe luis less showy tian tulipifera, but i 
[Mm certainly erior. ES th 
Cy pripedi 
y to m 
NS 
" ing rüizome its 
iur pee recurved grassy ERT p. and 
its green-veined, spotted- -rimmed, tail-petale d flo lowers, 
require and form will take precedence of any vidently very 
„other free-flowering plant, for all its suckers were gl 
vigorous growth and abundant bloom will be | bloom-spikes,—though deficient in colour, be 
"indated on, regarded as a very in ^x ting species, doubtles 
4. Where merit is otherwise nearly equal, preference | adapted to cool treatment, remarkably distinct in 
will be given to a pure white or yellow, or an | bey and probably hereafter destined to take ahigh 
intensely dar js emm arity or intensity of | @ sap than in its pe me has been accorded to it, 
colour will be h We also mall-flowered Sollya, with 
eld essential. 
5. The Rose must be peels of English origin, and 
may also me 
ender hairy stink “ance mergi leaves, sometimes 
toothed, and abundan mall 
not let out, bluish-lilae flowers, 
6. Three trusses of each seedling, with buds and Cordyline Banksii too, viti i 
leaves, will be required at least once in the season. x abundance small whi ssile flowers ina a 
e summer trusses may be s at any of the | Scapeless twice branched panicle, a qud high "m 
meetings of the Floral Committee, but others wine MS ves to be r corded a as a good gree 
will be required later as evidence of the Peete! plan 
character. The award will be made a t ew oh use plants in flower were not plentiful, 
eeting of the Committee in the oak of | The most safn were the bright red Anthurium 
ugust. cherzerianum, a beautiful dwarf Orontiad recorded by 
8. If in any one year no prize can be awarded, the in former ye 5 A we js i Tor sent out; 
SE tabula xic lant, with a 
umi bs go in augmentation of that of the 
eeding year. 
9. The« En e. the Floral Committee is to be final. 
be gratified to see these prizes well- 
atai v ; and we hope that at least in ppt 
pa years, s, when the ere e shall have bee en time 
tree and Camellia, when mat aso i rm apparatus 
ifthe slightest puncture be of t 
most delieate nerves o y 
contain air alone, T 
«s ver does" not Y to vessels in their earliest 
h 
stage of growth, when, as said befor e, they are 
nothing more than =~, 
here is no doub e good faith of either 
ty. i 8 
surrounded by others filled with 
lutely void of — quantity, therefore, 
d m pe the reaction mentio - by 
GRI ds in 
may athe their wal without aalliteting gi atly |an 
t nth 
m in 
, 80 d hat the truth perm lies between th 
es | a definite object, : some pm good sorts, whi 
n 
work with 
eh may 
aA te, desiderata of Rosarians, may result 
timulus which this competition may 
r the " 
osulate tuft of vpethrahite Video p^. lying flat on 
the soil, aud a short M raceme o ight orange 
tubular blossoms ; and a huri 
obvi 
qa in be uty 
Richardia zethiopica. 
Plants not in flower were gory hs "e, 
and there .were some eed thing: m. “a 
Taking the Bag in g first, pi of mee the 
hardy ligneous class, we have how 
d 
| the stamp of complete hardin This plan 
vigorous growth, and is pa for the thie firm 
substance of its dark green, regie ovate, excessively 
blunt leaves, as well as for the profusion of it: ko hitge 
white, racemed, rosaceous, Api eiar flowers. Upon 
this ; Raphiolepis, as we osr the > past svi and ana 
wi 
two ert To which it inclines the most 
re x 4} bj 4 Cani z tig 42. M. J. B 
A, 
there was a now. t dnbie ly Mies. much 
iio for the Lane Puis offered. this year “by | ay 
will take place on 
st expibuian. As the ia 
to be beholden, 
S prietors of this Journ 
E Wiles net next at vua 2 
so, that we regar E the net v pend tly 
superior to tip ordinary double Hawthorns, with 
. 5 
r | doubtless the RM of all the om pee Aueu 
fi 
the stri ped-leaved G erium a n ae 
| E first of the Great Frower Suows, held | lineatu d ym xd tinctly marked 
in "m iin d Park last Sa poi m general | with white lines, and which when d comes to forma 
features of e ich are described elsew mt ast be a v ery 
the usual quota of NEW PLANTS, and eed we now | telling object. Then there was the m Sieboldii 
propose to pel briefly in review. Though none vd P ace ig ied yellow-centred leaves, which 
them stood o B Ra remarka ble prominence, ther M. Si siebo jd t the Congress at Brussels the 
S | was, as wi ill b he i ie “made” pretty little 
which m hardy sh — there rye 
lenges id — 
yellowish-green 
oe ost aide ; ud was indifferently pect d marginats 
ureo-mar Te the latter nene ME 
ye rhaps the K^ this country, AnS 
and its 
kish red ia ora, another hardy rie hil DUE with cerne leaves, pt 
Md which was shown, and one of Japanese origin, | Yew-lik And t 2. [x 
will doge be do koitoan 1t Say; 16s aite | the handaome eso si rms of I 
E small singlo Camellias ly May Acer 
j these ts roseo-marginati 
1. Two prizes of 107. each are offered. added a remarkably DECO Wei nial eg Ofg roe hod pla ts the most novel s oc 
2T - oémpetitins is to teke place amongst ladies | bearing the name o ea be x rie etia Hendersoni, This will | ios sieifed- -leaved New Zealand Flax, Phormium tenit 
only. one of the mos g E with A which has the leaves boldly and definitely 
3. ep oc are offered for the best single plants, | close tufts of greyish. Ankia aped tl ith em ped and the Gy fin 
mples of actual indoor- cultivation, and which leav ves, an d bearing a profusion of cei & down | Pea earcii, esctibed at p.340, There was also 9 Lew 
oliage, and of a deep violet- purple plant of Agarose schidi, has been noticed in om 
" the exhibitio: colour with a white eye, reminding one of the pips of A e of the Brussels exhibition, Coleus 
4, The in are to have been cultivated by ze the dbep-tolsered Verbenas in the style of Ma. M . | a form of e ‘Verschaffeltii with brigat ee 
exhi ibitors themselves, and to be suitable for|The cl habit, and the rounder and deeper its leaves, said to ardier than the 
coloured flowers of this Aubrietia, places it far in| it is a sport, but Bough. fhe [ue 
b. e e pau and foliage pin are to compete of an monl own in eultiva- | intermixture of green, it rich-looking as hice 
s n t the two prizes must io to the | tion. . Less novel Rie ag but sot rog rare, aud of|schaffeltii itself. Then a eid japonica, v 34 
subjects, it: to differe t p were | edged leaves, may be a ity i for co 
rtunately tt pi ek aco y as t 
I may have been grown in pots sof the morning A some acci cident of travel,| Palms were — by Stephenonia grin 
and eid or aquaria, or in any dioe pp em, a ed these from prpanding their blossoms of | and Ao oura xicanum, species ere 
trivance, so that they comply with | brilliant blue, so that by the visitors Severely this | character, ww, pem Min ve sme 
a OF tale hardy jx gen sp ted, aun thee | Plentiful -That whioh P. probably ` bo Ue ek 
hibit is O be sen 2 “Dar ts, there bedi rnit 10; Bp t ew 
tat Sonth K 80 4 oga A Freed the fine eo 
dh in a n effective mass, and a showy telling | and ankka at 
piee e he sort with 
the best forms of 
terminalis, 
