650 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [Suey 9, 1864. 
hile ire riodical pant of rest and ja more genial country they may have retained | only. = diseased Pears on the tree, but: these 
dryness, others. wer a high and even tem pera- much of their hardy —— which enables | were even more strongly affected than those fi 
ture, with much moisture, al the bL roun them to withsta nd our severe En nglish winters. Besborongh. It LE to be , hoped th that the m Tom 
: I: RAPI ED e cause is | not now spread any further, as the | 
all general rales however, we believe i fruit must be quite valueless, Af, J. 23 dise 
ons, and this applies to the 
ave d in th 
remarks we have just made. nt to one 
country at least which has winters apparently 
much milder than yet vegetable pro- 
ductions, when introduced into England, appear to 
w 
they are called upon to endure. The country we 
allude to is the one we have already named, which 
has lately opened its ports to figs commerce, 
All t 
a mystery, but the effects are plain and of great | 
value 
It will be observed that the Table pen yr TN ast week (p. 625) we stated that t 
€ Tight | wor TREE had been induced to produce a 
ary | Syon ede the skilful management of M 
It should have been adde d that a considerable shar 
ed to Mr. 
he Cocoa. 
tal mon 
M She fe nt r3 "Syon 
SMITR’S foreman. 
às now 
ardens, was, we ‘Wis we 
2 ears. Fro e ur learn, the = E as ours at pa ee p were} . — The arriva] in London of Mr. Rremamp. 
winters of Japan are not nearly so cold as our own, | not felt iul registered, we may haye some idea of | after 15 years ny staal in South Ameri, dig whe 
yet the trees and shrubs imported fi volcanos wi this extraordinary he has been engage ed in shee era E 
that Anay appear to be nearly, if not quite country. Ye Emay be arde Rer valuable 
ha rdy p he clima e of the cou pi collections he has made p flow wering plants and Ferns 
the climate of Japan, | at the pre y; winters less| have been for the most part nied but the 
although Eas not full as we might | cold than they have been at an earlier period of | arrangement of the extensive Cryptogamic collection 
h it to be, i eui e e enable us to draw | the world’s history. There can be no doubt, how- | is not yet complete 
- clone: we me to. E. ollowing | ever, that one of the principal causes of the tem- | — Another tr selle botanist has lately r 
ble kept by Dr. Here , an Ar n Medical hid climate is to be found in the rapid currents | from South America, namely Dr. Sermax, who has 
Missionary at Kanagawa, will giv Yt idea of| which flow in a pner direction from th RP. we in the exploration of i 
the inii ipM of the central “portion of the aolo Ocean, ET. mix with the waters which | River Tocuyo. He has found extensive coal beds, th 
Japanese Empi surround and run betw x Mov various islands of wa resembling Welsh denm coal in appearance, ul | 
Japan. These islands occupy a position on the | valued in London at 30s. per ton, 
eastern side of Asia, not antes that of the British 
lands on the west of Europe, and are subject t way node Set a A 
islands on the wes rope, and are subjeos to | Srg vu A A Microscope has ka, 
influences of a like kind. structed by Mr. MATTHEWS, of Portugal Stree 
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ctl, and its assumption of an entirely n 
for We do not, however, remember to have|,,— — We o have to AE the DzaTE or 
seen m any - e we eurioug as one which occurs E E = : rie Belt nd by oe do 
Pears jus from. Besborough. 5th inst. Mr. Fara lis 
d r some es fane t 
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submitting £ bastion to the eo mpou microscope, 
we found t white bodies ta jus. entirely of 
cells E MR irregulariy, € scarcely adhering 
ther. wer 
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lin, has b appointed € Fi ud 
to eagh o Bom me mple cells with a 
roa border ; E others of various Garden 2 V Tema the shanti - -— € 
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sizes, but ge nerally larger and an An the 1 aa of Direc im - ji v i 
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compact mass of aciopien m ithin a a thiok ail en resign 
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SES SOR ee en M ee ierced every where xr le or b eceived of 
Tt will be seen by oo table that during th e were evidently modifoations of the ordinary Eu i Bet ape nile Trev Mm TEE “the 
months of January and February—the coldest of grit-cells. Whal dem ced we been We | oldest Tu of botany” in Germ ny; of M. TCR. 
tha yelin Japan—the temperature ranged between | know not, nor je sat an oppor f nu numerous botanic : 
p.d m r a en these etae: examining the éondilim of the cells Before e papers in the Transactions of the Moscow Academy; 
made. In some seasons it mI swelling mass had ruptured the Suns. hey ar of M. C. F. Lene, the writer of som: e excellent 
dak a a Tittle pr o it did at that period, but | now perfectly Mete ng but they may diy Kesah he Compositæ 
we feel 1 assured ti at, = he exoept extreme haye been blesehe d since they were exposed to the y wen 
6 em osphere. d cas, however, ht im dat at the Hie Psion p Shor 
are much milder te n our English ones. In the |is extre wb d , and we are much obliged to | peld at Nottin ham on May 25, which may | 
island of Yesso, which i is the most northern of the | our correspondent for its communication, though | «sx erat e. great show of the hough as 
p, the winters are said to be of long | we can give e him "X g^ s to OT | it turned ont, too late for the south of England. i 
‘extremely cold; in that d, | probable duration, as it is entirely without pre- following Seedlings obtained Certifi rs 
is not improbable the thérmometer | cedent. mely :—A lico, from Mr. BARB 'STOREBS 
pu is atta as it does in| Since ve was Linn we have seen an Seedlings a famed biz bizarre bearing mu un 
bed we | instance of the same Eu y. the fruit RH rinthe dae o Beatrice, from 
an Easter i he 
rj garden in Northam The ida MN NS UNE prc RR & 
lere r ions were ance is still more striking in the fresh than rH the E 
recorded. This Puce" i example, "us the white tufts being. very e imd xpo feathered tome poe 1s 
race of plants swivel an are capable of enduring the distinet from the bro tum from which tl up ut E Eid ridens i n 
a winter much more severe than that t The = ease eave a striking resemblance | tra fine a i^e D». Magers, a very ño 
which Bar are pvas in ‘the country to|to that known by ib pa f Lichen in man. | famed by aiu » bright I and of fine f 
which he are indigenous—an exception to a very | The oat bo cells under the microscope, when | 7, efferson Davis, Park e of STO! 
gen e i the angularo utlin e is sot very det termine ed, ete Seedlings, à fido pied fered biza 
The ent of natural history or vegetable | one forcibly ot nother and fine in fi a Ms, 
physiology 1 is na atarally ir ine » ined to inquire into the | form of the diseate ocurre ed on the s ame [^ in m clas bizare b reeder. qam 
ause wl ces su exception | which the spots were very diffuse, and instead of|L o dark at "pev ^ xd form, stouf dd 
toa very general natural late That the exception | bearing tufts, the brown stratum was tudded with anthers, : 
exists, as have stated it does, cat be|little white an , as if it were 
doubted ; how itis w, or it the cause is ‘whieh s appearan der the microscope | 
i | of cells of which these spots were com- 
[neo vas ie the same as in the og _ 
ra-|A very Jar affection occurred Batra 
garden, qu. a x ace Apple, but in Pi advanced 
nit Ed E close The 
Aak iis ipo up. 
