794 THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [Avavsr 20, 1864, 
strong. It was determined to leave these ‘tubers in | Mr, J. C. Man: LVILL, while the notices x the birds of a holds the advantage in respect to variety of 
the bed all the winter, and to protect them| the — have been T dcn e Hon our, 
Eod vdet if they RIDÓEMAN and the Y. M. B RIDGE- oad ler these — i ib will be evident that the 
would survive under such treatment. The leaves MAN, we on e of the butterflies and moths by | *duisition o of new colours amongst Bedding Pelar. 
and stems remained uninjured until the beginning Mr. C. C. Pas and Mr. E. HEATHFIELD. cer hoi : be an im foll : te p 
of November, when they were destroyed by frost,| We ourselves rit Mer gr ne! a ure a Fasa E. con Ahan i medi yah IEEE 
and removed. e bed was then covered with | our ra sible es some n the OE | ya acdáte is hed in this wa ve dai saf apa : 
dry litter a foot thick, which was changed once | a publie school, atti fant, fossils, and antiq ities; Ll cle sly conga 
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: wii the winter after it had become thoroughly | and it has always appeared to g hich has been already ms vs 
t; and during the m frost another Me that our pursuits even in ae remote days were | well known amongst fhos e who have kept themselves 2 
a foot thiek of dry litter was — an 8 i th 
with og to prevent ite bei g blown about ‘by recollection of the p shed we éxporíonéod in|way of late years in the tie reto of London, 
the wi reading XENoPHOX's history of the retreat of the | that the late Mr. DONALD BEATON, with much zeal and 
‘About the end of March the young cU began | Ten eM with an illustrated copy cess, occupied himself with the 
to make their appearance; the litter was then|'' Tournefort’s Voyage to the Levant, i with its ot : object 
rémov. ^ and a thinner dry coating of similar beautiful gues of plants, kindl : = iti norena € exe pes available „hy 
material was placed lightly over the surface, and | m w however is not, we believe, the 
allowed to soleat until the shoots had grown a MT Mu "i whioh Natural History is encou- fates pss prope -— 
L4 hi " : hi$ was me ut the end of|raged. Rugby atleast treads in the same steph success in his earlier abouts in this direction. _ 
rig? on — ae mess and even before. re ARNOLD'S ays, we reme g d, with incre: 
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m from ne fü; the Plaats were ele rstanted | pinata noh must Sate left a sain impres- pee she had raised a large quantity of seedling 
from the late spring frosts, and from the cutting | sion on more minds tha the whole of which d shortly after his death into 
erly winds. It i isi indeed greatly t to be wished. that in every the hands of Mr. W. Pav, of Waltham Cross, by whom 
This bed anna limbata is n a few o! have been exhibited during the present 
h the majority aré as yet unbloomed, 
récent v to Waltham, EN tpe us the opportunity 
of Canna li now in | i 
health, with stems above 5 feet high, fortes a | be teught, t, though it would be impossible to ente 
dense mass, there being no blank spaces, which is | into the ‘det ails of every individual — of 
a proof that the roots wete in no way injured by science, We sh uld not then wi itness s h com- | v Dea M bef M B aie 
- x ted MN = which the bh plete ignorance of t ts of science | Pan for. era die ore bs t —— M-€— 
uced. The be rie as assail us in every quarter amonga publie men, that amongst scorlets passing off in. one dinis 
on: for the. reception oft these plants las Y5 | towards ms e and yellow, and in the other toward 
in the o rdin ary way, äs for beddin g plitits, and the claims of science would not then be so pue rple-rose or magenta, the bedder-dult will have acquired 
horoughly i igno red as they afe at present, while amongst; Pelargon niums a variety of tints which must be 
ment of the beds prepared for the growth of such we should a oid m t 
plants in the sub-tropica ition, which now at rise from ignorance and a ue flowers, moreover, having in many cases a ‘play ot 
of opinion that in beds similar to those last quent inability to detect fraud. w of colouring 
referred to, the roots of Cannas would survive} To return , however, for a moment to the ge nes and br illian T ` Besides, , however, the adva vantages 
uninjured through à much more severe winter rem 2 may Mire that the depen edd a 
than that of 1863-64 with a sufficient E to is not o ieh is encouraging to t the : ore M nosog: ^ 
éxelude frost, as from their being so well | naturalists Tho ‘plants and inseets, it m ight be | creased brethot petal, os o ta an inpr 
the roots would be less lik baby to suffer from exces- | expected, those which are | Pre PY oft The ta Moers Bee toreh x aiia 
sive moisture in the groun | most wider r distributed through the more highly "c dus iip d th fasi j blossofá 
k gay race, an e profusion of blo: 
e are ready to admit ihat various objections | vendu: "districts. The birds present more | which they yield, have always kept them in high favour 
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ga s prove ed that the roots OF} Vibes ae E ing gen bh ion | better-shape , ‘ 
Cannas may t There is of As itte t that ogl ‘be eteta | called semi-nosegays, in which 2a is so much 
country un injuri ; and we record the fact in the ner work wi ich professes rather e correct 
interest of hovialtre, leaving the question of| names and localities than detail "We may rw the nosegay face an nd those with cir 
appearance to be uged by those ooncerned in romiark, “how wever r, that some j displayed Sates si | apparent 
Em sje nd aquatic serene agh few it i vet a i “ onm wa Indien T. pera 
AFTER all that has been said about ati e Ms fiis uei dwarf hab and free, with — 
ScHoors in partial or total ignorance on to the red-backed grin E a E ate leaves, and producing. 1 truss ie 60 or or more 
hand, and more or less wilful indisposition fr. VER. byn mmon at Harrow, flowers forming masses meas 
improvement oi on the other, with a Ger ertai n adm mix- seg rate visitor in the midla nd counties, and The colour of these flowers y^ ft orange-searl with | 
in n in the north of Englan nd. It|astrong glow or suffusion of yellow, which becomes 
iformed and less prejudic ced, fi remarkable when the flower is placed in cl : 
meet the requirements of the péliott age, ind is of — or meee of May, and leaves it again Curiae mas 
in so many respects different from that of our | in September. The food of this bird consists of | Clour. It is a most une 
spese it is im refreshing to be ble to tien ierit beetles, grasshoppers, and such like Anoth lowworm, & 
thing w n itself is calculated to give |i o occasionally makes a meal of a Tae pa -nosegay variety, of good habit, and produ 
sat pleasu and W ich shows that in one imal bird ; its food is impaled o n. Tho orns pre- well farnished ps Ap prine ers, whieh are especi 
qux? d at leat there i is just that v of encou- = usly to being eaten. Ihave found an unfledged | remarkable for the glow of colour they presen 
ragement for g bey ird impale d in thi is manner — devoured, which | upper part of each flower being a fiery scarlet, an 
ments which 1 twith tk lof e from the depre- | lower magenta with a dash of scarlet towards the € 
education. No ies could be worse than ie dations of these litat. Butoher-birds." | of the petals, presenting also, as do most of the va 
ner esie a S bei Lidwledge {| M. J. B. ies ig win At te Qvi gra 
er . A sound foundation | ohin e of hue during the opening stages -— 
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builders QR "y dung rcs s on thissubject by Mr. Hoc Dr. SEEMANN. rd variety, 6d great b enh Oe ob i 
fter. But TAM tiis foundation ea learn from the formu, that "GronstUs SvxcELLUS be a most nseful one for the Pee, ar aon ai 
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“tse a| written, two letters have ippennd in the Reader lov of c colour 
_ be firmly establish will | of Byzantium, some 11 centurie aks in his ^ eid of s 
not object to m to many an Seiatacnt, which will wad" * Chronographia"of what is diudiy reri M diee trong free growing va and very large 
2 a if not solidity to the building. | as having been brought fro iai d f 1 by |flower-trusses abundantly produced and standing UP 
ature vean often point out the direction ın which | himself. Dr. SEEMANN reminds a owers of | boldly above the leaves, the colour of the flowers being - 
taste andtale Gm andit ERE m Semen and S. variu m 182, 2, in|a bright purple rose, very distinct and attractive, S0 — 
is a great point gained if useful or desirable propen- Rhen ir Pyoul. Both the Tethers e drè "wal worth that the variety altogether stands in the front 
sities receive a helping hand |, —propens sities which renting, and indicate several sources A fourth ing of prominent m m 
may lay up an dwarf dense free habit, and its bold full trasses, 
hereafter, especially for those whose fot has been| We dag de so take th -— ty of remarking | named Án i Thin too, is pe "e o fT 
cast among the rich; and may at the same time|that we knew an rhet milar to one E zd ^1 ai the a du inu eria yit m extra 
check a course of extravagance and Deeg shantiomsd, of Raspberry ‘hod bei 1^ rre queen kararda tin Gire. i 
i n from the mere want of|t the arce er, and supposed to be rA oo oud alas ‘va 
ample trusses, the peculiar play p 
[A M. J. B here as in others, the Wurde 4 
[eeply aut on our in tint without fading, will ronder this & Ve — — 
pleasure that we t hot dry season as been pd for the flo 
A day or M: since a little work on " shige ooo which domi pes CUIU Another very effective well-marked 
e Fauna of Harro oth ey named after the raiser, Donald Be — 
T oe iret oys, of whom four un for ng-out afd og “The ane is | petaled flowers of a clear orange scarlet, 
members of x Sil oe one i recently left | «most the only one which compton with i russes, — pcs e Pl et 
exertions P^ | make head ag: the excessive heat and sca we|green being contrasted with a slightly titei g É 
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: forthe van a JE limits have proved rather favourable to it than toraing 0 sare which are more distine 
otherwise, The Verbena, however, it must beadmitted,|nosegay race, t is one called Orange 
otices | have sapiens: while these in nfluences have had | centre. , There is ri ver, though m much q! 
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