ü Froevary 6, 1864.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
127 
"endation. From Mr. d p ' between the | that perpetual incubus, that Old Man of the Sea, th 
P Bee " ehich has n grown at Cobham Hall for plants, vets the: fruit, is so great that it sup. an|income-tax. People said it was unequal in its iden 
IL £ wards of 40 years, an which never shows any dispo- «e gend bryologist to distinguish them from each and peculiarly i ea to professional men, a and a eat 
tion to degenerate or “sport.” The Committee The author ther efore conclu de d that | l lp 
ronsidered it to be the same, or nearly so, as the Bk "e! of Mos hr y n Sir Robert Peel first revived 
telna the aes in the highest dices the shui inr n only asked for its c continnanee 
s found; habit, ramifeation, ae of the fruit, and for thre ars, In the financial statemen 853, 
LINNEAN: Jan. 21.—G. Bentham, Esq, President, in finn and substance of leave s, in the case of species i Didius set ager] to show how much m country 
the chair. The following resolution, Eur sed by| which present a i develo f peristome, being | owed to M Pit pri income- -tax ; im ow, ; JM 
J. Bennett, Esq., and secon ed by D ooker, was | considered only as negative differences and of ays el 1793 to 1798, 1 before the 
: :—“ hah thi is meeting i is desirous specific There would app e sai tl into d 
arge O 
ed in this her 
eed 
Esq 
erdon, Esq Ober Si 
V. J. Hawke 8 ink, Esq., 
swan was 
legs and feet black, an a litt amon co! 
on the plumage of the ed an pee parts 
. the neck, but considerably less in bulk, and ha 
» — Ü Sd the s 
ptm "by A. 
| wit 
sung is especi 
gratefu 
e duties 
a new 
| —3. * "On Die allira; a new gen cts 
| Mice lo the ape 5h, ihi in the db Neu- 
aliday, ** Description of 
d fr 
rive 
t 
1 recognition of = 
s de rom 
A 
prog t The 
ally desirous of 
Į m this conclusion among the.  acrocarpous 
genera; and as there z no 
Ap 
every year. , Again, when the tax w was ieri Pere 
of the peristome in the Meer NE. it must be 
applicable to the tde group of geris Mosses, 
bulk of the paper. consisted enumera ion of 
n 
their pie p accompanied. ty pent of new|a y 
bo k 
£4} 
d of |i 
took place, though stupendous exertions were bei eing 
M 
hi 
ra n Pasi A jc Me bom zeal in the 
f th several offices of 
of ihe 
venia loss." 
that this resolution should be entered on the 
g, and o Mrs 
communicated t 
ulger, Julius Haast ” i.i 
Jameson, M.D. ; C. 
in, Esq.; J. Smith, Esq. ; an nd 
"were elected Fellows. The 
:—1. “On Cygnus Passmori, 
ie ev. dodi Pap cat This 
the peter, 
our | JO 
Tabtestiug among them. 
FAotices of Books. 
The Philosophy of Geol: E. | 
ogy. By David Page, 
London, 1863. Crown 8vo, pp. 1 
mere 5e that ees ar on eroe d i 
Book of Geology," ced Text-B f 
Geology,” bet aneval attained to their fit th and 
third edition, abundantly proves that they are appre- 
ciated by the 
of a large cias of readers. ‘ Debarred,” as he says, 
“ from active B gsm er in the labours of the field," 
Mr. Page hai loyed his leisure cv in a little 
— on t " "ai, scope, and char: f geological 
inquiry." i den stellen. » grea px ped 
of th 
This work is 
of view, and is unene intended for the u 
ung student. 
F.R.S. 
.S. W. Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh and | e t 
160. 
public, and adapted to the rognirdkents ad 
f read 
made to carry on the war; and once more, when we 
had the tax in fall force, from 1806 to 1815, the 
increase of the debt was only about two millions 
ear, pU par Bish all our difficulties, and the 
ur national debt. Such was the 
power of the deii: he Chancellor of tke 
| i ended 
| for the gos gel of the income-tax in all its integrity, 
s To 
so long necessary to keep it at a 
relinquish it, ^ m said, “ is pot. safe, and when 
magm cies arise, you may do as your fathers did— 
ake down the weapon from the shelf, ; and make i 
erve S again for the ends of pens and of E ;" but 
ls objected most strenuously to nibbling a which, 
he said, would only destroy tbe e mi ultimately 
break it up. e na Hp that He 
of one man taane y v 
Ml» tally xdi ing the injustice of 
and 
the tax, maintained that a far higher injustice would be 
inflicted b 
t conclusive 
incomes ped. 1007. 
e provision for its 
The e plea: asing pec 
upon the faces of several h onoura able 
. Gladsto e'gave, moreover, the mo 
reasons for extendin ng the tax to 
and 
- 
& 
et 
extinction altogether in 
raised a smile 
+] 
‘The writer treats i ^ eloquent terms of nc Es. en of! g 
th 60 
e 
natural sciences, attractive „as an intellectual pursuit, 
de liIT 8 
of the Russian war. 
whole Ker is adm 
The year Sh witnessed nere falli ing. in of the lon 
annuities, but t coming," so long looke 
i inse 
new Rese of Een deonging. to the family 
Amp pth 
"y 
ps Br 
yologia 
of every-day life. Yet noiwittitanding this Progress 
it behoves us now and then to pause, to see tha t we 
d exactly fag eee and limits our 
inquiry. we discrim 
ween the plausibilities n 
“go 
for, brought disappointment in in ‘its strain, for the eoa 
of our milita: 
e 
nate 
of the positio ps p falter of the philo M ly 
attainable. some spirits, impatient of| 
ectur 
r. Pa M thinks that eri are a multitude of pone | 
Fi p y! ema » aneh on the limitless sea of thing. 
onjo ? &c. 
dia 
ese gentleman" 8 sentimen ts when he remarked, “ if, ai 
ations nih zi oh, ae gist has nothing what 
s he rias MS of| 
with universal sl this 
pi rene cannot bear a revolution once a year, I will 
venture to say in like manner that it cannot cds once 
evi 
violent cataclysms. to ‘account for unusual phenomena, | 
so far as known, having few peculiar species. It was, 
however, remarked that in herbe a great gap 
sts in the almost entire absence of — € 
from the extensive xm of EET between Davis 
Straits, Hudson's Bay, and Nova Scotia, fod as this 
includes a A es extent ot tor subject to marine 
"reor die ust; be e ted to produce a ve 
ay 
e, or even 
arrangeme 
or curvature of the capsule has b 
red sufficient nstitute a distinct genus 1 of Mr. Gladst ri 
iu A seed become remove m the proximity deeply impressed vi with tha adata power which that | a 
o inti to which in Ry ery other particular zs pA n posse of k 
Sus fe allied as to be in sev pl ot iene Bescon to his. a ione and as it wi 
Rid to Prominent examples f this wd enchanted, while th tor tir forth his hundred 
ser in the Tri n which th (for th at is the exact length of the financial 
E» into Deana 
eam 
Species, it was was argued 
lent]. 
the 
that the conclusio 
ptothecium, 
» 
e rooting is whole length, or get and 
subdendroid, and as all 
ly fertile Va one — be said to 
mo an n the other. the 
hese are 
ess 
15 the peristome has been taken |” 
(ms si ieingeidihg character, and genera have 
tained 
chost e occurs | pages 
ev soa from "Pottia through Anaca- pee for 
e 
med | 
that the definition of a single grim ‘howl | 
all. It 
for on of him as a eg The financial statemen! bed 4 fee 
called genera | is a wonderful Hie esae and deserves es any ps of wall, heated by pipes Sidera exi; 
praise, ct Orchids, 
| ind us in the 
ar laws. and argue "from what is taking place 
e present day 
E While poa v doctrine vw unifor- 
will bear i ind bis at weare deal- 
of to e 
ee TORQUE ef ata uniform ate ‘ot they advance 
me time, and every advance carries 
new c conditions H 
ing o ontology, Mr. Page ajiste |P 
T that Mec fte = species whi ch has become the 
e science,” and says | that “no 
er who knows the inherent 
Gar Memoranda. 
Basin PARK i Continued ea p. 104) — 
kitchen garden the west side of the arra 
close to the pleasure ground. Iti is surrounded byg 
- covered with 
y productive. In the borders, espalier a and 
over ase principal walk in the centre of the gard 
an arc che d tr ellis covered with App les "a Jem aa 
usefu 
his subject, will unnecessarily increase them by con- 
tinuing this practice.” There is also a disposition in 
the preien day to push some sciences into an attitude 
of defiance and ‘of per Wi a is haga "pni 
ti iry, and what is is ré limit bond which e must 
t 
ers 
A xac Statements. 
ne. ay. 
| iue riogan atéentlon of the House, till at leng 
arks : 
njecture and speculatio 
Om ^ urr: London, 1863. e wan? 
By the Right Hon. W. E' |t 
as it is ornamental. Against the ram wl 
pom — of forcing houses, It is 212 feet in length, 
vided i seven compartments,—one of which is a 
Peach ion and the rest are Vineries for forcing - 
succession, They à heated zd hot water in 
most efficient mann i 
ptible d in "T part; t 
iile, 
ined pedir 
Ggcther, desci 
as | he still holds 
he figures he deals with 
e time so "e that only the 
din take! n their meaning; while at 
ending to pen "i and Tésto of a farthin 
his brilliant course, amid the sì 
per 
m 
—T scarcely dare to look a 
I hav 
Nobod, 
power as 
tever may have been 
g the attention of his | house, -— sheds for holding pots, and porting, ke. 
e inm es and Mel und 
®© 
rooms, 
The Pin of a 
led enclosure at 
of rece 
y are ranges 
1853), so Mein that there is ~ of i and inspa-rooed pite, “of the most approved 
ect command of heat 
mstruction as regards 
on Hot-water 
and — and m viera dor ventilation. 
the entire 
the a is a 
for the mam - 
Ferns, Lycopods, an 
