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THE cisci CHRONICLE AND cll E GAZETTE, 
[May ín : 
ich is undeniable when dis features have been € carefu ly 
nned. So that, with attention, it is barely possible to mis- 
ie a Fern for any other plant. There is, Lape wever, to be 
found amongst the species of which t t family is com 
Be ; March t 9. Beurré Bachelier, posed, besides the family likeness, a distinct fed throu a a 
Veri x hard Valet of in; December. 3. Boavé character, which is rape bom w mitted through m 
y y , p gus indefinite succession of generatio It i wm means 
d'Aremberg, Decembe eurré Diel, | individuality that we are abled to oe "i Worst ant it comes 
lac we void = ems of classification whic: 
Aa oy dt to enable n to speak on the subject 
of the south wall, E | they » will require ‘more sun to 
ripen them. The Sent were:—1l. Bergamotte 
gE. 
nies dchaatbed a as ae superior to Knight’s — his greo 
o May. 
of Dick: abru rupta, eed 
isolated 1 spot e^ os earth's s surfaco, v 
very T aa be t co an 
pen uly. In dee ed, ; io e the dis ersion oe a well-known Fern over the 
é surfaco of pais r globe, o dise to er- 
enn goes it s from one clim 
Sedas an n unmistakeable identity, Observing a at "e 
ansel’s time the reasons whic y be dis e for the 
Oct tobe h " that occur, E pote E and intellect 
Bergamot ; ctober. employment for those kd might have leisure and inclin 
rally ins sipid from a wall ; N nha to enter upon 
a ; I might ten up the subject in a purely botanical point of 
view, P -— show LI each genus differs from the allied genera, 
ibs flavour of 
a: 
and each species from its kindred species ander even this, boss 
M re 14, P. Colmar ; sometimes voted pet work by EA Tho o ditue beauty in 
December to January. Ten days later these came Natu produetions—dry, I sup use it is often 
reled 6 on by the aid of a Hort i Rleckec sia uot after all so dry 
n occupation but that it may rivet the attention ot call into 
pleasurable a ed the observing faculties of those who may 
have the co to take it up. 
might treat o ort the Fern tribe from a horticultural point 
m x: 5 this room seem to suggest that 
this be "he. roper course to take. But vat “i 
varied i the habits p eqoirnieute of Ferns, so nu 
the Ferns themselves, that any attempt to explain n the 
ould be cultivated would I fear become 
i eat measure 
15. Comte de fered one of our most delicious Pears ; i 
i rré me (ig rh 17. Beurré 
Mauzion pem r. 18. Marie Louise (D'Ueele) ; 
October. wae at ; y éd of September. 20.| Im 
Duplicate y d "i? Malines. nom er nd the 
these were planted according to the following 
ions :— hese areall on the Quince stock, and 
owing to the peculiarity of my soil are of buds. An 
od ith this sto the tre 
xem 
le th e plentiful exceptions. Some Ferns, the Osmundas 
Stuff, and w e hole is re arts full, : e n e aquatics, and delight i QN s atid ve 
i lon: in | places, where moisture is ever present. To these, “on 
iu in rd 2 or 3 ralio 8 of water, and then fill in the T ie à n Me of Rus Perna, d 
ently of li mportance. Others, like the spei a re 
Cheilanthes mi pee mma, are so impatient of water 
la 
just to steady the tree, Mer gra 
with either their roots or their yer that the leas 
week a 
youmay do do gendi x with the ne 
- €— — 
becomes divided by cross partitions, new cells are thus ormed, 
and these Xm become multiplied, so that the mod or 
earlier stages, is con nverted into a row of cells, 
The cells at the apex. 
i Transverse aj 
gort mD qeu 
hinder 
cuia A ed there will 
tore of re dist ‘inet 
TM M = 
and m npn ii d! 
ontains a fla! irally 
sed ina minute, bladder- like € cald or vesicle, 
re the sntheridin approach m urity, the inner cells become 
dissolved, hen they [owe MS fully mE the vesicles 
and their Pee vires swell until thoy burst ites X: the apex, 
and ther ee x ir nd n . protru ing thro salve rupture of its 
containin g vesicle coming free, dats out with a rapid 
motion "The rita, whioh are mostly placed in the front 
part of the m-frond, fewer in nv mue than the 
antheridia, ee 1 Mid more elongated tham they, 
being composed of several layers of cells so placed as to 
surroun ular cavity or canal, cl at, first, but 
, and ai i 
cell. uad bett ren one of the Voie spermatozoa 
way. we nal closes, and a bud is ic 
up the g plan i. 
Peg fet fron that arises from the bud o ing point is 
and very As ais those produ on fe the plant 
ct and per like, and altogether 
h hi 
ion 5 but still it is ere 
different “rom the ‘at horizontal scale which has been spoken 
of as the germ-frond othallus. Each succeeding frond is 
lever r than ng planet 9 an ssumes more and more the 
ne | Variat character "d tho species, m t length al a 
riable lapse of time, a few bth in the case of one or two 
a ie und "e 
aim me years in that of Mrd ost per- 
fect form appears. New T Sirok - then borne upon these 
mat n 
ery | Now, in a perfectly develop ich as 
through i its various logon eres there Pha pet per 
ecially distinguishab These parts are—the root, 
the ans the fronds, and the frocifiestiat. 
rous, the older parts becoming 
They will scarcely | in contact 
wiry in ture, t| ounger 
feel renova. im pota the samo way | seen ria roten, wil thor bo seen da no general | doth wih oz of rri te d oom Pe mt 
did er was ve them half vs M might prove PI. merece T ment | like our teda uis eet and tie — e m Y 
of new rich Sii cart nd black manure in I must scarcely venture to hint at one other aspect of the | A79 ^ aide oF pa ies, Aa fm PAEA of this habit they not 
Lr and ended with the. € d be planted E ne tio des might pg tilly out Mas in the bir of sundry only act as feeders to th ‘plant, but also as hi ldfast to retain 
in such a situation , the t must b Di d i oir OH. antey hana. fake bt dre WM ih Su the pottinn ta KUUN oi ier eins bei Y marpendicular 
TOME ey Peres corer | «d Bodl at at pc" with gne of varieties, as an unusual twisting of a stalk here, or e N or mee ores ben im Mn. pr erect caudex. like 
cloths, an: ive saved a glorious of fasi i the shallowe: per cutting of a frond t the abn al Ferns 
no fom. bade 5 No. “Lips h of an ear, ora tooth, or even , on.some part of | © ees. etetea 1 i Fat Moe prs erin the 
En ^ the frond, odify its usual aspect. must be content d d (eene g f their develop- 
e ol 
in.bloom; but the set fruiti is eit now t6 lavó faachiatitic D f bject, with the | 2ature of their growth but only in th E 
y fo Na. 2 had but f US ta ee t un e , the roots are protruded equally on all sides of the stem, 
at; No. bloom buds ; and I think | remark, that the changes which some of our common species | ang at length strike down into the soil, overlying and c 
will fail ; but, all the Renee m a glori undergo molar kag e oo E not less marvellous is the | upon each ‘othe an the plants acqui "age and the stems gain 
far. ore than 2 feet, or éviations e thé Rona form. co In Ferns of this character, sez iy nm EP 
feet high ; and yet I ha ere iion off from ¢ rotruded from i amongst the bases of th re fronds 
g y pes full| Seein hen. t that there are difficulties in the V | the conditi rabia thee att ch PRTA cover 
: hundred ed Pears, leaving on;four times as many as profitably eed Mire ra adl purely geographical, or the those which were riya penal : esie den e» od of the growth of 
must remain. The crops of all the 17 are go ood, and subject to which I [iem ied I proposo to ext tho knot the aiio. Tali 06 o AE ni E re fot over: 
more than the trees can bear; but the crops of these | first of all tracing the development of a Fern from th 7 | state is thus coated with young roots in the proceni © 
Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 15, e there is so much uncertainty and confusion | VINE and intertwining with those which have bec Or 
; e 
are oo namely, € then, sinc 
16, 17, an ongst am ier. respeoting t the application of the names of 
Fern 
No. a mt p? Pears : - plant is 37 inches high. rerit theirapi s. to "UM TNR oe 
Seventeen of the trees are disfruited down to 173 
P Now rp s though to irea d as being strictly the 
ears, or rather over per tree. I find an alnis r present Purpose be considered 
Mr. Rivers’ letter t| morning that “Pears should |as its ecuiivalents, It is the separable a m which a 
6 be till J r July. He says "e young nues V P dave . An = toties dg d » to 
be is developm: o! e spor e mo! t 
have this season set rous crop, |but in ag experiment which can be indulged in without cos! , dd is one 
cluster are soi are much more advan » y ing scarcely any — aw ula is this. Take a 
growth others; and these are often full of | co ner plate and pour some water into it; place this 
mm Davi tied atik b plat i in a window ; set in ite a pot filled with earth which hag 
maggots, y some n baked, be t subseque ently moisten e cus over the po 
insect in the centre of the S In a few weeks "s shade its edge resting in r, and the ue 
these x e off" The il have a full — » comple » after waiting hee or two for th 
crop. ivers pitas ‘biennial removal and A uei lcs uela tag 
A them thinly over the su of the earth int repl 
Ps etes of thi ll dwarf Pears on the the glass re = and await — — Take care, plat zen 
it is spores are sown, and not t empt rs, for t. 
w seen these plants here have pro- Eres € adu oung Fern. And ye ey Viro 
j ose a e measure aware of the 
Low o ene eo in bloom or wonderful in crop. | dust-like and almost invisible c act ber of the spores may well 
lo ME s nnnc KA gine 80 kin Pages for mi memos ye ie for the other. » best wa: 
5 Mi to 
aee e de ern wen er di ote wn fond in als, let us mu OF tho eranen els Pee 
} HeT n deed GE $0: Mii Rivera just ar t the ti time the membrane that ovation the little heaps of 
is is ch 1 
for these “ pet” plants, er E m do my best to bring | approaching 7 ripeness: tÈ then vay this etie dn) POUR 
perfection. W. F. Radeluffe, Rushton, paner beg 
the fruit to some sheets of odors oko m ieee 
May 22. [SEP EI 
S. Or sheets put on Peaches at l,read 4 o'clock somit To return te 
wall ion Ma hobs gules e | Window in w the spperatus ia pleoed bem MINT cane, the 
wall cools and heats gradually. dE c EPI DE pe oe t case a 
bad for them. CEMUR IA rdg yeu: Ss it red Tipe glass. 
n will a 
. Thes ese are the seedling Dn 
little flat scale: ke 
MR. MOORE’S | LECTURE on YEENS The cales will ebrio. various (eme oftiege TIE VS 
IVERED A ras ^, place, and anon a Tittle i frond ‘will épeing up, then ano! tbe and 
— will follow, tili at length S porfect cds is formed. To 
E observations which, n your perm n, I si iem these dust- hike at oms, so. small to be reputedly 
dim the sorte to make, ‘bear nog on m qe of plants invisible, — into life, to tend th Ari they 
which d T ony becoine popular arkable degree. | day by day gain size, re step by step assumo their s 
Ead orm mon every ad Ferns, È pres them at vhi T hes bed fre ho TI pation f of abecet — M. Asa It hor 
y y ofthe which has thou n of al in, t. And has 
them; and I claim this ox the that the: p en in a 
quality, w hich should bea a special recommendation in the eyes 
ee mbled here—that it is pure experimen 
as an alm 
The spore of a Fern has been already described as 
however, containin, Xm 
germ of life. fw regard to its form, which is variable, it is 
commonly either roundish or an 1 r kidney-shapod. In 
regard tele composition it is made up of a minute t; 
of cellular ter by a double membrane, the inner 
delicate, the outer brittl ; the outer one being 
sometimes smooth, sometimes diversified by markings con- 
sisting of prominent li: f wi vnm e 
When brr spore is exposed to moisi Mies mpanied by a 
n 
infinite | the outer shell, and is protruded in 
ntsacquireagreen 
likenes | pouch, whose contents Lael our. ‘This ta 
* 
tubular | that the caudex may be cut in mall 
will generate a soup into small fag 
rm 
fibres form a thick buttress around the base o the trunk 
The tad of Ferns are of ti inds. One form, eae 
M. is very commonly erect ; the ‘othe er, called à follow that 
+ therefore 
i nearly always oro lisi oo Da Z2 wo lk 8 no ato seh fo i in Les 
4. re tru ter upon à 
Tene I will 
ous differences 
h 
ructure. It steuiibi que iet of place bere. to 
En gesciipnon, PA the anatomy of bh 
words the 
escribe in 
observable betw cinta dide h 
In the form of st stem tb: which the term 
m doge ara" rd rolled up etela 
wards the centre. s e 
n thos ich 
of years, PY the. ‘formation of Te overlyin 
M may be readil; Ate almost ai diens caudi alk 
lih Moa Mirine Som © Part the bassof 
on 
tion of the fallen fron , are in so some cas 
pesto rn that they appear like a 
no inconsiderable de; 
ich are It 
oe man “other Fern eral 
al rather, ne tifa 
the greater MAT of ul 
but little elongated, and Pers ae dente 
becomes a tuft 
ve already 
ha alluded T drca paketas increasi 
ciform Ferns by dividing the separa i 
i natural branching; but it is in W artificial 
ery recourse ma; 1do 
2l Ii 
process pro on of the plant 
not now allude to the mode of inducing offshoots b: destroying 
gro 
ust surely apply to man; » 
of ihe evergreen ptm which don A 
