220 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [Manos 5, 1864, 
M pe cen T — gy — of ribs. | : Oranges growing upon Apple wa en varieties, which, as far as w 6 have seen, ap 
Though, how the anfav des rable d^ fuos; blu ue Dahlias, and 2 most rare an À = ; 
for the development ot fn nit, a singular fact} wonderfu 4 line Dab 9 Thos o are silly obtained — a mi i. rel p 
appeared in these plants ^ the third generation ewahi o purchase such “ovelties i usually E Mida. oi Camellias ipo which pe . 
In the first and second t had been uniformly | out, when too late, that they have paid away th RE ER display, we tros ‘ther will be ly sale an 
moneecious, like the two patent species, but in the money for what turns out to be p erfec wc ba worthless. tition re took place las ore compe, 
third, the male flowers in half the plants were} A v using instance a an attempt up 
transformed into female. The axillary bunches, | our credulity e exhibited i in London a he i burghs Ma t o Jarn fam Me 2 a 
r r J vied T s 
which in the normal plants are exclusively male,| ago, This e the empt was not made by a qim E in the Scottish Isle ^ e TRicmo. 
ore male and female flowers intermixed, while Ai * db or a German,  The|; 1863, 602), is due to a resident Arran (s, 
some wee were absolutely unisexual. Japanese—sly dogs as they are—have already Scans "Doveras, who is in the habit of collecti 
In the fourth generation, the fruit did not differat! found out some 2 our weak points, and it would | Ferns for sale. Mr. Simson states that Dow 
all riore cylindrica, except in the presence of|appear they intend to make a profit out of the who is very little acquainted with the names ate 
very slight traces of fribs, while the plants them- | discovery. A port gion of flower seeds had | Ferns he gathers, did = till he informed him 
selyes exhibited no difference, except that the = en sent fro rl P "t of the rising “sam i to practical the anand h Trichomanes, of the 
inflorescence was Se EVENS’S Fi tio hh med Mr, 
We pass over L., amaro-cylin ndrica and wre ec all that is rich E rare in nd pe 
not Stonda so far as in the case just onthel: - on n each acket there was a Pete rawing if so, the Fern was not p ied by the discoverer, "T; 
— wey uced ferti frai in a i 2n UU TT suggested may have! hap 
there was a tendency to revert to the parent. In| dra awing, ~ presumed, being designed}! While ref to this Tri h 
the first the pollen was defective in quantity and | to show ` ini the flowers of cach packet hat ite: pose dni ^ mes pen = may mention 
quality, but in the second it was abundant, and|of seeds were. like, and thus form guide | shire, in what he regards as “a t ray wil ne 
pe n 
0 he |t e p 
pure Coccinia indica, there m no hybrid plant u— to- be cheap in.that far o - try, 
to peer on, as all proved m in the paintings in debeo it bad “bine deni that ‘th I ale 
now come to Cueumis trigonus fecundated liberally applied. We cannot say much in praise of the fiori UN of Belgium, is announced 
with the Pt E ae varieties o of the common | of the talent exhibited in these drawings by the sels on the 24th, as, E 26th of 
Melon, ll the three fruit proved fertile. The ‘native artist," but we may fairly give him à| April next, E imde with the p g of 
plants to which t gave rise, approached in size| good deal of credit for drawing upon his Un iversal Horticultural "Exhibition, f which the 
those of their male parent, of which they p d |i ination for a number of his sketches, for | Royal Floral Botiety i is making preparations, under the 
the herbaceous stem without any tendency to} cer rtain nly m any of his flowers never had any | patronage of t 
become perennial; their leayes however were more | representatives on the hill sides or gardens of| The cde s l be opened precisely at 3 oclo, 
ose of tri The numi Já kow on the p of Anil at E Ducal Palace, be 
The Federation specially invite to the 
gates from horticultural societies, both Belgian mi 
foreign; members of academies, of botanic societies, 
toh h al t 
i reg l ur 0; 
was much smaller, and only twice or thrice | few other plants might be guessed at on others. | directors and editors of botanical and horticultural | 
: vs ve scio that of C. trigonus, In both the flesh | One | sketch in particular -—BÀ our attention, | reviews; members of the jury of the Universal Exhibi- 
very tra bilis | ti i i 
& 
© 
n ; and, w 
g ith blue flow “This we thee was knocked | botanists and horticulturists who wish to take part in 
"EA poltgel, fruit diri i «d Melo on very vina c ^ dad for a pound or 25 shillings. the discussions, and who give notice to that effect 
closely, a e flesh, though insipid, was free} A we have our donbts—like those gen-| before the 13th of. April to 
from bitte pes E few seeds mee were tye tlemen witb attended the sale and who would not | S¢crétaire-Général, à Liège. 
it. ‘the 
in each he. nde E i S | 
the was an M edd M EE i: e — oe that the | to submit to the deliberations of the Congress:— 
th Melon ile 
ey grow. turn as represented domestication 
e lle on the cover of the he packet, vet there is no 5 os bd pu Fere naturalization, and dom 
1 C. t have a blue! and it Y tificial fertilization 
tremely bitter, and as the seeds were abun- Modi certainly e a great E "n we had pics: erectos of brid pen their 
and per Fleck, ae cire an Bey perfect kei € shall therefore be g ps hear that the | pol 5 sm ti i ollen, &e. 
reversion to the female paren minates, and that when the flowers are bi j. Theo ek the variation o of species or of the origin 
I natural. hybrid Aes Cucumis igati puse they prove to be. a M as those which | of varieties, and of races. Theories of VAN Mons, of 
and C. myriocarpus, the former being the female | had been painted by the Spend artist. Amongst | VIzMORIN and others. Reform ie "id nomen enclature 
parent, was not examined early enough or carefully new sore of the present season—or xm 5 Ad of varieties. 
enough to yield any reliable results. The fruit of | the next one, to give more time—a Die - Dynamics of plants, Sees the periodic phenomens 
the hybrid which was at like that of C. pami —€ with She flowers would oily Be the dou g f vegetati p NM "i (aed 
serps though Va pparently ' "perfect, was most | at our flower shows P ation, leafing, ower Bs fruiting of p 
eases barren, but in a few instances afforded : orcing, retarding g, &e. 
a single ripe ie d iu» ether . the E. of sate d aot like to sees irs n pedo ex cite ee ib 
pele fot Dado. or of fertlization from the|was got up in the fellawittg Way ^ SAN drticb-tràs Ken dU ammon piaipliteds uncta 
po en f Cucumis Figarei, | made with an artist o sumi : A 
aj > garel, | made with upply some 600 e Floral zstheti ts of excellence in flowers 
eepe seii MU eh Two plants | flower bags, and then these were filled, mut = | single and xL does È ià EC as t of bokori rs. 
only came up ren e seed, and e of these was | random, with any seeds which c atióed to b 7 , Coloration of plants. Variegation, is it hereditary 
r perished | hand at the time. If this ey sage prove the by th by tbe graft - a 
g 
other 
qim so that no further idvmetidn could | it will probably be found that many of these seeds 8. Hist my d horticulture. Historien 
eo will tu t e th 
common grains of the wogeiphtac explorations, voyag tod 
, Oil = — 468 9 
‘Ast y Grain, Egg Apple, 9. Humidity, water: arè these absorbed directly by 
E 1 the leaves ? 
i-like plants There may be some grai ims rot | 10. Vegetable pathology: diseases of plants i 
rti 
gans, tough M je the sake of the purchasers, Meanwhile we: "T im Insects and other destructive animals: tht f 
t of all enterprising specu- | destruction. or 
ty, whether they be from the| 12. Garden architecture: characters of its actual 
ad Horne the far off lands of | present style. 
e not so ensiy lel —— Roni] the many flowers in ie Duas effectively: 
: ; | wiso. Ii deoo ; rvatory of the Roy 
could reasonably have been done before, and | are ing = ay: ve Soca, to which ich we Save arero nverted 1 pT 
to pa E ana will- d L- i 
te stably of hy bis fete by te own [a somely ; sg Pier attempt to Dada oa pet pA ii CouNTESS si cma 
observations, M, J. B. y upon us, h r nicely glosse and got up, | there by Mr. PARKER, - Tootin. n -Tain 
d o 
they will Ron eh find the aedis: a losing one. | with the Indian R. Dalhousie of te 
IUD UM CM ame * and is probably one of the most "useful hybrids m JA ve s 
ALL the lovers of ail in this country are resulting pat oaa iia 
— OUR readers may be remind dian species of this varied genus. e 1 
pposed, somehow or other, to have a decided | Sema Snow ef the oro ta ie E ‘ho pes of the plant, and those fa which it differs from other Bt 
i ls rence for sarge size and gorgeous colours, and Ken ep on Wedn pd nik j^ 9th inst. The|fowered hybrids which have appeared, are ^ and ig 
thé plants themselves are unnatural in form, or principal feature of the Show is to consist of forced | moderately vigorous branching habit of growth, of 
what are called monstrosities, they are all the bulbs, as D. PAN and s ber is | Prolificacy of bloom, every shoot producing ® of 
more attractive, and the more likely to sell, | to be the may prove bright, in order that four or five large whi geas These flow pout, 
y see, not unfrequently, the  most|the tie latter of as flowers may fairly develop | the pa character of those of all sg 
= representations of a and fruits| ‘their charms. We shall be curious to see what ig| With a prettily undulated border, ge se * 
is dieit while they themselv re very brought forward n the class of New Hyacinths -of their development have here and t 
ti a: rx genet perhaps Ma a cultivated ina our own views concerning which have beén | Pleasing flush of soft rose-colour. 
more attractive We are glad to see that the| —— Those who are interested in the subject i i 
of ‘rings which are forthe te represen t | bri illiant family of Hippeasters or Amaryllids, which is | COOL TREATMENT OF ORCHIDS will be puo 
ihe à to sell them, “Dates h hed fore | again engaging the attention it ree M from | Mr. P has just receiv: EJ 
from. Pee a visit aud pe. hel bala os sio thew nee bie dom T Psa cate d A Skinner» fresh 
i ee ee $ ese noble flowe: M AES e 
« bear frait o extra- | impetus will be given to the producti on of choice | glossum :; grande, Epidendrum vitellinum, : 
