798 
hi. GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
{Aveusr 20, 1864, 
857, sanctioned by the Treasury, “ for spiel 
to whic 
istinetion were also pend on two kin es 
the 
good 
ieg ants. 
useful yellow pce ang from 
wich, received a First-clas s Certificate, 
same source, with silvery. striped the invasion of ti 
ym ight 
ord $ kern evil leechcraft, I = a turneth 
| aw: 2 evil men." The is good for 
sore 
Sore "p milt (spleen) seems to have been a a very 
complaint, which we seldom hear of now 
except from old East Indians ; bites of snakes 
mmon, 
kee of materials for tors history of this country fro 
he Rom vs i: pope Vil.” > 
ven 
to bo giv icio ioe valuable. 
2 edited after the manner of an Titi 
| Princeps without mutilation or abridgment, 
AM to the lem of the 
givin 
Preference was to 
ns " as we 
pee Zon xy Pelargonium an 
variety of the Nosegay kind came ; hon Mr. poen ^ 
Folkestone. Mr. Perry, The Cedars, West Le. 
furnished cut blooms of Dahlias” and Verben 
among, the last, for which he received a special Certif- 
te, 
a A preface 
he 
lva ays enjoy Mi a 
ight Noo like a om 
s head, then in 
it iar from thee; its virtue is 
text. 
o be allowed, a brief account of | 
k^ life wh en of the autho 
The result is the extr sorta "boul k before us, with 
a learned Bend of 100 pages by 1 Mr. rares, telling 
f He S vo in dcs gery, a y lit i 
pink kind with a ux 
g 
Turner, a delicate 
From 
rles 
crimson wai a d son diem Certificate. 
that it will jipeuMuly flee u 
h ; hence, as we befor 
oz 
s preciot is Herbarium, 
Ke eynes, 
Dahlia as, am 
rd wi ry "First. class NP iun to the 
P seat were awarded, viz 
» Edw vard Spa and Lady 
earnestly with an ivory staff Mr a the cant and pia 
thou seest jte ha nds aud i t, then ns 
sentence of the preface, Mr. 
a toa 
d an 
Cockay 
S “It w ill be > di UN for the kindliest temper to poe a 
th 
Whee 
E 
bena Annie, the Les mine- striped 
Denk Hamlet, John Salter, and Striped Perfection, e 
Mr. er rec «ax a | nation 
d 
e medical phi 
t the h d be hungry ; 
Dov 
t} 
y 
XRIEN 
1 
reach [it J 
with h y 
muria of the mes of jus Mandrake basics 
there s added with much % Toeté, “thou wondrest 
the more — 
dicine must have 
leait in n the "application of the qualities of 
pov vis 
practieal 
| consisted, 
pro’ ur rad We ortas ue g, a similar binh 
how qun ly the "patient i is heale 
Of Apuleius, who has the credit of these leechdoms, 
nothing whatever is known for certain. About 
these 
was of no real utility : ST " and he defends the use of 
Aug. 16 (Pra Commit x —A promising violet. 
coloured Plum wa 
a Examples of a 
nes were also shown, but this we hope to 
. bas tended to quiet and reassure the 
white Grape 
them. 
these t 70 
atie ent; “to pages ‘of the book before us, Quad k^ E. taken 
mper, and soothe his nerves; objects which, | from Dioscorides, and about 59 m m Sextus 
e not misinformed, the best Practitioners of | Placitus s ge 
h m are left | to 
a a tem 
en 
p of upon a the ant and 
superstitious is all illustrated d a bot of ‘Hawke 
by 
the pos who, ed E ; MS an Indian to give 
en ced of 
e it that Idpar er king of 
Egypt, a contemporary of Say vow, must be a creature 
of reat a Certain it is, be ee r, that the 
Me dici a de uadru, more oss 
" ENTOMOLOGICAL: August 1—The Rev. H 
pedibus is 
1 1 
Clark, Meia in, Ho pon» give Se d 
heet Dt irel „The 
signs, and words 
small species of m 
adr 
a| 
he onda iom pie and d ed. Hearne resolved 
make no more ma agic papers. ‘id ,, After DONIS ng | he ma; 
yn 
5 
t 1 
ul Xn 1 
on the genus Hydaticus of Leec| 
belonging to the family of t he watar Doetlon with 
descriptions MEM new species = ‘om Australia, China, 
f West Afric b 
us of ema 
A ary of th le, by variou. ers. Edited 
by William Smith, aL D. John à ohn Sors Albemarle | | 
parts, 
readers a iidem o 
| not fit to be quoted, even in a dea E a 
ladly pass over? all that th | bo gays 
a love charms,” “and “knots,” which is, indecl, 
BA ge. It is 
only at page 75 of the praragan jas glimmer- 
ing of information respecting the MS. Shieh his been 
ought so precious, and of which a fac-simi le page is | 
ven. “A 
tre that it dates as a copy from about 1050 A.D." 
t believes that it was written out not earlier than 
A.D. 
THE oe = the gd of plants — in th 
Botanical Magazine for — Cory lops: 
mentioned last emt a Pis. pitt flowering 'shrab, 
ar Long specimens were shown 
t South Kensington. It is deciduou 
and [^ rudi, appear very early before. the leave 
like our own Nut bushes, which this plant, resembles i 
o 
Den adrob 
nor later than the onquest. 
from the fire at Ashburnham House in 1731, and was | 
c9 ei of the T m po Med bla ckened N of | 
leav only after test pains was got into 
its eens peta eld perve by ligaments of gold- 
eater 
As to its he botanist: “The drawings may 
once odes ae Achat: of the pnis; ; is some cases 
^ see ve the pencils employed w pable of the |s 
ut it often happened that pro a pattern L4 
bef sly Deme. - placed in the hands o 
arded ith too ic 
m, a fine Moulmein | ppnta, 
o Pru ts or unequal-pointed Tw 
of from two to five bates rs, hav vire: 
the appearauce of portae ed i nam EX is gp 
lines of dark Roman red e: ccnp e e 
t stonk Tndian Crase 
rara stated ia hem 
to succulent 
mad teni 
sj cul r 
large. dog cym 
m Brunonianum, t 
SS (oie pony adhering roots, many small 
ulbs of the T€ and colour of TA but not bigger 
heads of ] 
Nobod > he al ihe por in Y d will pe er] 
that it Pha beacon d nobody who carefully ex: om i 
it can doubt that it deserves, E highest commend 
pr 
bei smell of potus 
wrinkled navn 
than the arge Pom The artist seeing n 
leaves, rounded pa! made ranules, so as to 
S j do the duty of leaves.” We are told that in many 
on. The task that lay before Dr. Smith was on né of nó 
ti 
small er ei "s any sink: a: there are circum- 
= that e rendered his task one „of great | H; 
elicacy, 
Dr. $ Smith is admitted on all hands t O possess, 
Mtm 
in an | 
the harmonio 
any itin 
To Dr. Smith belongs the merit of 
of the Bible 
to each; 
ercourse with scholars and i ntlemen ena 
scare the ad of n most fitm ent body of 
es th ters of 
him to} p 
iere or the |fe ttl, “ «a T The Herbarium of Apuleius, w 
elon po to ro lip. 
ants, as e Butt 
Mato, alg poled, [Od Ron gon 
mp, and —“ C. odoratissima grows 
80 on. 
K^ assist in determining the names of plants a Latin 
Eas ted MS. w: M une The editor says, “The 
terpretation of ti he E glish names of plants rests on | 
the same bases pol i the dnd of any other 
obsolete words;? and presently we learn that it was |s 
found impossible e i to fallow pus. author, who had 
managed to the 
of de with do “haat "a pe: which | 
an 
or aqu Deed MS, upon id so much labour 
[onera Plato, Pe aed dent a reat, ey ep 
hich“ ‘he à received 
s; 
he lookin cem. hà my collec 
ie him. ts 5 nd other Ca: al ysl frd in 
est Nei 
but s bad on the north side, 
among stones and wet mos: 
one of the showy sto 
to | ovate- a 
let bracts, and yellow 
‘omolag : 
f Mr. W. 
—Aphela 
ve Acanthads, wi 
‘our. 
OR 
imbrieated orange-scar 
and Pi 
of y akita. labours 
book of reference for the ye Bog 
wishes to be au iid "in vais 
without his capital book. 
orteunning, and Starcra 
oh P the mage x Ord duse |È 
either 4 hee » Tt hegi 
with a table bog and 
which there are a y names of 185 P po the | 
supp ned name in the margin, and Pa ri each 
v Lh a list of the aints for which i used. | 
ions cue ing which Z2 in is yh 
CENE * f Pres DN None n uc and ema 
ts and ” but is en 
e| head”? and a “sor o belly.” ^ a » margins of the petals of a 8 glowing expuso 
and m, andthe. gout; it is used either | any of which conditions ih io a Ranier Se 
orna ‘oF extemaly a en samen! E d wet Among some notes on novelties b 
nov 
les himself “a Country Bumpkin,” we 
(pend) us os. old Pari md Lei it on the stead (place); di 
pas By S LUE 
ctl (Bena) Vs soro ofthe CM ER 
a.d very Va (quickly). 
Of Mugwort, (Artemisia v vulgaris) we read that | 
on a u.s. emer “it also puts to ^ but o 
is | Habt deri sickness (demoniac possession) ; in tbe| more about i rd 
which he, the master of the house, hath it Charlotte Rothschild Pine, and 
most 
uniform deep cr 
Gi 
LI 
NE iin inm 
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