244 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[Maron 12, 1864. 
there t being n no o anther-bearing plants within reach | 
there couid b 
pagated indefinitely, and thus give rise toa distinct | 
of even iso lated fruits, much less of a ero po f full- 
grown perfect brightly-coloured ones, eng 
up the whole bus h. When wandering i in the Eas 
x has at present, met is that | 
id between 
with which M. NAUDIN 
of 
ybrid 
r 
emale flowers ; 
mall specimen A the pole pisci antherifer- 
ous idm was also got to England alive, and last 
spring this blossomed, for the first time, we belie 
in Europe, with Mr. STANDIS he materials being | 
thus at hand, the mother plant was fertilized, and 
the result was the very beautiful an ant 
exhibition to which w ibi 
he male plan 
may fluid look forward | 
a 
iin of this 
The hd apparent exception to this tendency out 
from the outside, occupies the centre of the ha: boiler 
from the dome-like top of which v fine pi Pipe €. 
w = b p i o boler a 
at one end 
be oreo 
manner 
a whick 
i 
supposing the servatis ur s A the gradua 1| 
Pino Mee et, |t 
he 
poi nt the er pasi wall, and 
the ise of Whe 
u 
communica e vit pe 
ihe usual character, the ho Sivalerpipe b being T 
we 
| minus the flue, within t the hi 
e is nor 
There i ason to doubt the > practicability of thi 
ery general ru 
of thus utili 
, or to g 
third question, it appea 
N'S observation ns that though ‘species 
tà 
E 
ich rese 
to seein y ucubas common 
our choicer Ue those with plain green aspetto | 
m 
which resembie 
more apt to internis ose which are 
A 
n 
still there 
coral berries. 
on which voucher ers m: 
e two istinot i species 
e fe A es any mem relating to the of, ge 
m each 
refuse to 
€ 
i=] 
ct 
e 
~- 
t character 
fertile hybrids. 
As regards T T of the male and female 
ach other closely, are in general dics 
iffer are perder in| he 
| which species x serol differ from 
RT n the PEU sore | 
will sometimes | dec 
o Mr. 
lon pre $s absorbed by 
eki n contact with ibe Aa pipe. | 
is in fact an E 
T | be both rapid and EG in its action. 
i s it a n 
eovil, where it may be seen at work. "The d objection 
might perhaps be put forward that a flue pipe, 
organs i s former obs 
as to the comparative importen ofthe pollen, S 
able to de 
choked with soot, and vu in the centre of the water 
and now it appears fit the essay which Persa | 
wack sent in for the prize proposed u^ €: 
ench Academy, to determine some import 
at a conviction that self- fertilized etes cannot 
arise from two dist ma 
be e with the] 
cademy was 
ps hybrids wi bi res, roposed, to — ertt and hy 
NMUncy or inconstancy of thei 
hich 
ai e equa. x mire y in 
general, and the iunii dod o! or ve M 
ipee tognet with the extent of the 
what cases are hybrids scire ? 
Is hail “fertility proportional to extern: rnal r 
or does it indicate a speeial affinity i in tpe of 
genera ti 
facility a the hybrids which of hybrids the 
msely ves. 
co 
: e ributel the 
in parts 
z, 
I] 
AS 
ret 
o 
Iz] 
presence of two spec 
which tend to se 
ee en ot; ds chong 1 
iction ae it, especially w. 
rev 
nar 
= snowy whiteness, with a p 
Lr 
New Plants. 
ay 
270. PHALXNOPSIS INTERMEDIA, var. PORTEL Rehb, 
f 
ls; i, eit Ss, 1M 
The flower of this variety resembles a small flowerof 
Phalenopsis Aphrodite (amabilis, Lindl); it is of a 
urple lip, the centre of which 
v d bero ig marked by 
pals and petals 
but one single specim 
stay at the “Philippines. to 
| have found than one a ant of Phalemnopea inter 
| modin, Lindl. (Lobb Hort.), 
h M. Reichenbach’s 
“hybrid, the issue of Phalaenopsis Ap hro eques- 
n ) It onght, tht 
brids, to be called 
psis Aphroditi-equestris. e E^ plant that 
: eons o of this remarkable betes A or hybrid belongs 
o Mr. Robert Warner, of Broom 
of Pha 
was not a hybrid, but a variety arising from some | 
admixture of Cy om se Laburnum and Cytisus | 
ya in gra 
An important poit still remains to be noticed, 
ry to received notionson the subject, 
Soils which has lately T: 80 flowers, 
Journal de la Société Imp. et Centr. d Horticulture. 
ard to strange pollen than that con rece 
RD 
8 nt properly chosen an 
appreciable state of imperfection in the pistil and |? 
ur 3. Do en de we pen waona retain 
their characters with oy 
. constant races—or do 
3 Eee podre ec 
to indicate 
experiments of which we gav | 
ill mS the nnmermus 
"ds AUDIN 
ge Ey acide from two 
as not | he Same In every 
it app 
b rer meri gar siii. | 
, as ARWIN 
a seed which Meca: a double 
Arat 
sudan two distinct v: 
sepa- 
We 
viz., that the same stigma is cap able of being ch 
| fertilized fb kinds f of | drains s in orchards, by securing them as mis 
— : n do m of a stranger, so that the | possible against being obstructed by the roots vià 
ain pure a and h bybri id seeds trees (see p. 125), is to cover the drain pipes 
"|Blackthorn bushes, trimmed up and laid in vey 
Still w eA "bat this is of rare occu straight, so that they may be ressed down into che 
ys E gh the stigma of many aplent i is more "fertile pue > Pp. y eii h drains are wet 
much used in some parts, pueri te 
rrying 
bush drains — and eiii t 
us are very vas x e 
aere of e aen med "jp either direi 
the fact was Woordid | by |! 
uite certain of 1t 
e 
nt fo 
o pollen from 
embryo sao. 
A portion o: 
cwn published an m we shall look = a qr 
form, aecompau 
anérons illustrations, with great med A. J. B. 
hat tw tubes 
grains jat diferent o rh must have penetrated the | over th 
P 
. NAUDIN'S memoir is at | th 
— Wr have received from Mr. G. H. . PEARCE, s 
mmend for very strong 
o n Willow hs a u ve 
e dep 
ressed 
pa 
| Horwaten rete the Me pen of M 
AETrullZe 
tead of 
e| porous and dry, and 24 “feet may IM o safely taken 
alll wer inde dome m ipu 
80 that it is in fact a combination of flue an 
| as water is Lope in greater or ner quoti ts 
5 of two species, may be pro- 
dur dm m 
surface.” Tho fre, which is fed by a shamtimg opening 
of water. 
The seek to Pe oh ha emer 
will mostly depend on the inclination 
whether level or sloping, and ato haf 
haps I should sa a 
should pe be dug 
yit 
