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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[Suny 2, 1864, 
— gr. to Sir Charles Wood, Bart, the 2d prizes 
problems and theorems ; next a description of the 
| contend for degeneration may be €—— in various 
and the right method of 
. We noticed mp s St. Alban's, very fine 
in ben but rather small in the bunch. 
Mr. Thomson, gr. to his Grace the Duke of 
me, Dalkeith, sent, not for competition, two 
bunches, from lant e 
Gra 
12 a Brame 
not quite ripe, but evide wily borra 
it and are of 
pa 
We sa tn de pel it grows much [iem ien planted | 
s ve ry fr rdy. 
out, and is and ha It looks 
| main 
. | not true that the seeds of good varieties of fruit, when 
likea va lu. | w 
them ; ; then we ‘are ada through a thoro ugh course 5 
with the mapping of ame e es 
rd tue for the. construction of sea embank m: : a 
The d by fi 
several red maps; and about 80 pages are €— 
ay Engineering. 
pia ancient tn so meten piene, for a century 
or two, are still the same as i 2 were ab. first. The 
Crassane, Saint Germain, Doy Chaumontel, Bon 
Chrétien, &c., Pa oni none oft their qualities ber 
5 
tains s that it is 
t of Railw 
after novelties, M. p; deren also 
eemann's Journal of Botany, for the month of 
Me Live: were exhibited, and Trentham | 
. Kirk, ent to Sir 
deserving of notice, but we able space, 
x FRN 
flowers Y hed 
to deceive many, were paper tow 
X A 
ge Dale of York 
m,|and us in the 
th 
sid erable size. 
j ions 
sown in ordinary soil, tails a P to go back to 
wild — —— produc ab ee br of ys ‘Balfour May (No. XVIL), "d illustrated zs plate of a new 
also callec tion gus paper ah [. uereux | British Fern, Aspleniw Adi: iantum-nigrum 
and Professor y roms on 1m fossil fis = the coal E isa , of which the loving — is given by 
| formation, and the Dev onian epoch of North Am erica, | Mr. Moore :—“ Sin of Willdenow, , the 
, | M 
1 existence in Eur rope “of 
mro €: 
1 ir y^ remarks 
P the mme d Museum. The 
consider ELA MM 
Areca Catechu, a Palm Ad 
e produce of 
Corallorhiza innata has of 
1T: 
fesso. 
late years disappear ed tl 
ripi 
Thomas, of Cheltenham, and a. Geor, 
also contributed a good collee 
BOTANICAL or EDINBURGH : May 12.— Prof. Balfour 
a ori T aedi 
eof a variety of Ath; 
Filim on ys Lon - ohn Sadler r, who also e 
a living plant. This ae Se beautiful variety of 
e wx pedem tees: ael ted by Mr. 
rium | 
ten to sore inches i in length, and 
apex. The re also crested, but i ns ead of being 
single, as in desk be varieties, they ve the rachis 
pairs, and at such an angle tes each sitermte = they a etic set of people that 
overlap each other, so as to gi beautifi MNA. i ing nd readily they take native of Croatia, Dalmati: ongary, Da homin and 
to the whole frond, The A was in no trouble in gathering i E vene e a few| Saxony, extending to Ita pus di lapse y also to l 
to Mr. John Dawson and Mr: Paterson for hi s of a and of a leria. The | Africa and Abyssinia, oe was en A 
specimens. of n ur, cl to it dene its being found wins eru rocks, hen, — 
June 9.— alfour in the chair. The follow- | grained, hard, and very h e le of the | therefore, some two years si r A e 
ing donations to the Museum at the — Garden | Barleria are held in high repute amongst the native | ‘Tom the serpentine range dividing the counties of 
were noticed:—From Mr. J. Thomson, specimens! doctors for their efficacy ntermittent fever, | Aberdeen and Banff, a small-pinnuled form 1 
of the Jew’s-Ear Fungus (Exidia pentradi green They have a bitter taste. The cr pega flora of | common black Maidens M was aite cu vhs 
P. White, a., Midealder, dissections  of|this district is very sc about half a dozen | expect that thi 
five genera of plants (framed) ; 3; from Dr. M ‘Rae, erns, the same number of M. 8, two Miana our Flora. And t abre. Sho s Solia te 
s oduce of trees grafted | one Parmelia, and two Lecideas.——A letter was read kis shortly after, Mr. 
should like to hear m nham, Agri-Horticultural i sent me specim oa Of e oen plant e 
avi recently it has been discovered by Mr. E. is rather small 
V. Sandilands in cerium yc in boggy | imr d in ost marked ot. ronid eristic states, 
gro i. on the north- dde of the west Dal. | Tt has the inne s straight and spreading, as com red 
Specimens were shown in a livin 
MNA the — om which mahoy 3 
xhibited pla 
| 17th March, 
i ng |w 
Professor Balfour also remarked that not- | e ven 
e num bot who collected | forms of Adiantum-nigrum, which have the base of the 
w if any instances | s es uM it di t fler, i 
t 
nd obtuse, thus acquiring a woaing outline, are 
often acutely toothed at "ei apex. In outline, ei 
y from ovate-obtuse to ovate 
ni 
e pateris ne the yop remarks made 
to the — — perpensis of Scotch hokai 
and must have been written by pinnul 
some one Who knew nothing of the facts of the case, | &im' 
o W. 1, 8 
n the latter approach 
but virout any of the phis fetuses of acutum, in 
which the segments are more strictly linear. The 
id, asi — 
64. ed by . Bal 
I erii answering your last pe until’ pe seed 
h ills, 
surface i is of a dull opaque green, not lue 
colle returned from h pecting 
that yd would bring some of 
ims Caia and 
other ome which I had previously observed, but 
enr à apath 
b 
confluent. M recently, this lag ces was po oed asa 
tinguishable from authentic 5 examples pu which TM 
Braun and Dr. 
tates that there. 
bing 
Garden, Madras, i in which he sta 
presen 
ouf. and the latter A bat ie in their paie state the 
M. - and M. 
es a notable n of nitrogen. M. Cloez 
——— 
South the flora of t 
enumerates 168 p f Astr = f w 
than nine-tenths ‘al "biete or nearly so 
six species of Pha Dr. Gray rec 
4 ican Acad 
Astragalus proper. 
of latter are completely "celi by a 
d at half | zen of dif- 
d | cotton, and that he is hybrid 
tic | which had e 
e 
the — Hai r 
t | Ga sentdri M of las 
r | P. Robertson exhibited a a pla 
es aoe drotioe Land-Surveying. 
^ Co, 
native ES fact of the Sent of Asplenium Serpentini pa a 
variety. plant was recorded in the earl t of last 
of Erica vagans scarp ultiflora ~ 
Ardris PATRY 1861. Es J. | of 1862. 
Sadler exhibi bited specimens of Glyphomitrium Daviesii. | 
by Mr. D. Black at Ardtun, | 
Mul. Mr. m. y Ashburton, sent fresh | Wit 
euttings of an upright form —à niied to the 
t 1 
Swedish, which grows — à on e mo Pers Med am 
izing them w 
R. Trail, E Ame e specimens | 
xe gathered 
ilis, a Ne 
s rks : 
rdens, sen 
fruit. Mr. M^ 
pee ch had been 
days, and still prs in| was establish 
. B. W. White exhibited | Boussingaultia 
ng at same time 
R. Hay Mexico. AIL the plants of this fam 
i producing | six genera, New 
rare four flowers on the same axis, ayasa ane a ot To hich is Asiatic. 
regu o of internodes, so gaultia ET y 
| to appear ~ coloured verticillate leaves at | | foro interesting, for s M "Ts above. man iE 
different heights on yap piena western side of the ei 
p n 
Eleventh Edition. 
gine by W. Burness, F.R,H.S, Long- lo ver slender, and densel y -flowered racemes, 
E ng, y P n 
confined to the 
It is true that Tweedi 
man gat! Mr. Weir in th d "ai 
tise on Practical Land Survey- | The same number the conclusion Malmgren’ 
TE om Professor of the art. of a of Spitzbergen; and a very inte 
Nesbit considered a standard work, and | resting list of plants I flowers 
eom y or. is 
T fact aa a d 5 reached its women Se, sents I the numbers of the Wet pe " 
| thing el e of the improvements of the red eap Prema ace Us pa tar 
i some ul r LI " 
age, and methods for attaining greater y uem ione uited for e xposed situation’ 
74 eue dine 
