noticing a most pe 
number of each clas 
inspectio had 
servants, or rs school hi ldre possibly. 
to-day is to ride forward some|induee a diseased condition in individuals whie hates 
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Our object 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, — — (ocrosm 15, ts, 
iu before us, 
m that the awards of the Committee will —— SCIENTIFIC HONOURS emanating faa the 
entually = published in ione “t Proceedings" ofthe Sovereign sometimes assume remarkable forms, ‘Th 
odloty; be but the m time e—the | F ellows of the as the Atheneum has lately told us, the King op 
^ mine | BAvaARrA has bestowed are RMAN NN VON Sony. 
s wet it would io alert chief of the scientific expedition to Indi 
] | the a at the gardens—we igh Asia, the surname *Sakünlünski r 
ave bee: « Naohi of the Kün nlün,” he bein - first Eu ‘aropean 
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LL mask Vbi ago, when | visitors * not to pluck ue a AWOR or the fruits." | nas been suggested by the Government of Russia, 
exhibition of plants| We trust it is simply an omission, which needs | this fashion becomes general, remarks our 
iut bondoh n by the worthy only to be pointed out to bs put right. porary, as it ha mx 
his n 
been written about Frsm-|appendage f unpronounceable names, ue er in 
i in | the mean LA might E et a list of them 
ore euriou 
he | point of stracture, or more instructive as regards become a ^ with 
jus 
ame placa ad|natural affinity, than the white floccose bodies et Ai pe itg on the WEARING OUT op 
info is the visitor that the ne Wider his | which so frequently infest dead animal substances | Races of fruit ae —a —— v has from time 
bee de certain poor and | of. various kinds immersed in water, and which |to time found = —— dvocates, In the 
sof a somewhat similar kind for 
e parish or by domestic | sometimes attack the animals themselves when in | nursery of Mr. 
a lo 
Riv P curs $i pt 
itali i i Pippin Apple, which i is some century ol 
w state of vitality, € ossibly on weis E isa be ay ahell sorubliy. fent, oE gun " 
, but scarcely bigger than a large Wallet, and 
J 
er exam : k t the “ de » 
little friendly erit , and w ever, been called lately to something very different, of tt be taken to represent the Mee picos 
est motives, an certain y th no spirit of | whi 18 d uctive to g fish. P fectly conditions. Thi: e Crab s bots Grafts 
ndin ur readers will ners erved the | healthy individuals en transferred to certain | taken from this very tree aid pu 
fau à 
articles published in our ally i c n orchard 
ery meritorious and successful efforts which have | rapidly increases in intensity, and in the course of D when lo! the fruit became at least trebled in 
a le sh. Sp acquiring the richest golden colour, and the 
of a diseased fish from the banks of the Conway choicest flavour. Verily, there was no trace of 
Battersea Park. There is no par round London m th 
which does more credit to its Superintendent show that the affection is undoubtedly due to ay is acy in thése. 
that at Battersea, and the efforts which have been | some vegetable poan. When examined ander | e can be no Eure that this result was caused in 
made, and successfully made, to grow a common lens the exposed part of each scale, and | grea e healthy root Wee 
pge and bea 
any 
utiful ~ ms of "tito ical tits in | Sometimes 2 potui s is found 
p p e|to be studded i little right ‘black spots, trees have eas WEA The trees were well fed by 
the open air during 
the highest praise, We took a u 
paying a visit to the sub-tropical garden a short | are " altogether oce om of the Asterinz, | influenced y the warm air of the house acting eee 
i i i ffect| which are so co eaves irom tro-/ through the sides of the pot, and were thus eio id 
and interesti 
—_ — 
the generous top-dressing which is. part of 
f| which exhibit fibrous structure, and which Rrvers’s system, and the roots were at the same m 
Dui. or subtropical “districts though much | their work thoroughly. Hence the well-swelled fi 
Ss 
inspecting the garden, and|smaller. This likeness how wever ceases when aj which under such circumstances was carried forwai 
" hig er power is employed. The spots then vox pet RAG and p surpassed the ch o: 
two forms, one which is more compact and which | speci of the olden 
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but few, if any, of these NE dius | resembles an imbrieated Lichen in miniature, an mes IONS and PrcormEs seem to be making 
ng ine were named. Now, in a 
Battersea, we 
do — very 
ame otra 
ki 
a|the other looser, which consists of very irregular | more way E tae north than the south, for while we 
— swollen here and there, and producing | hear and see little of them about the metr. 
es which might at first sight be taken | — no doubt em to their nas being invited to 
impor to a long Latin e bodie 
Paea i in font of a plait, especially ‘whan it has ir Sos einn. The threads do not resemble great summer —that again he mainly, as 
of no kno i 
no English on 
although ‘suk names would provo inte 
man 
and when it 
planis are $5 PM inte 
reial v. 
poorest v visi 
alue, g 
. We obs ovens for ex: pean speci- | with one which we have noticed in the Dülab, à 
any o of these 
show! 33 : 
wn use,| very olosely those of any Fungus with which we "x: iir hope, owing to ) their not ae etly synchronising 
resting to | are rn though they have the colour of “a them, rather than from a pepe et), 
dla rists 
e | tho se many species of Helminthosporium, and | one of the ‘Numbers of the Mi 
we are in inclined to refer the spots rather to some now be fore u M rro 
in ede n to the E aquatic Verrucaria, and the sam hibitions of the os summer sani, vw 
of the India-rubber tree, the Rice-paper 
er of China, the Castor-oil plant, — Shot; border oughin a a T M E es dings voted 
and many other thin Fi 
an amount of additional pleasure ut prt ce conjecture, for we have uj EM at this sition, being a fine purple flake pei with 
e plants have given | moment fi i ided in marki i 
would no 
to see thousands of visitors who — E possc notice will however call atte ntion to a curio $ colour; s Dr. Foster. Clara, a medium purp 
ily e na 
plied ! e hope - _— wall "be Le DN able. M. J. B. ard, altogether a very = flower ; Miss au 
be 
another year. 
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ngs of a simila 
mes have been sup- 
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e Horti eulental Society |pu 
A collection of half-hardy tre had 
es of the bro 
iron “gatibebvatory, 
ad walk dem 
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Fe of the Floral Committee, with the view of 
g their me ane Soe ld 
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we shou E have left the ground 
of ignora 
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o meet with a small placard at the end of 
which info med wh said 
one of ‘the beds, 
Nat l Society, whose exhibition "" v 4 Ma 
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stream which ru a down fro om the hills which "e" and that the Wes Ridia gonis ie. Js 
he Seedli 
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eres on which better information will be decree — VES ry Me with gu pcos beo and fi 
asa IN Iu). rondrké Un khe DM n ies | Purple Picotee, with beautiful petal, the ma 
ublished in our last Number (p. 963), Dr. " PE et 5» M. well laid on, and perfectly regular ; show 
refers to “the well-known examples of the ends h : pi 
of isolated blue bunches of Grapes on stocks of white elass Cortifücates ieee min ly marked, 
varieties, of isolated bunches of Red Currants M La carlet bizarre Carnation, boldly market, Me 
ith white on sa i r 
that which is referrible to the influence of pollen,—a | light purple- ire Picotee, with good petal, dag 67 
tendency to which indeed we are indebted for many of | Le bench ho dedi by Mr. SIMMONITE ec 
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our cultivated variis M for most, if not originall Je flake Caronte 
dje there- 
E ^x our variegated plants. We have just — thin, but EON and well-ma marked; produced 
Messrs, LEE, of Hammersmith, a most curious | C24 RM of these interesting flowers 
hja illustrati ion of this sportive tendency in the eise of fore, are E to be found. We should like to see : 
fruit 
It consists cf a cluster of,Frontignan Gra and such lies things, meet with better enco 
cut fi rom a vine of the Black Frontignan variety, in A abou t Lon Alas ! that la ponga nde etit ^" 
which more than half the berries are white, exactly as of our imei So ocieties so constantly somnolent. 
in the ite Frontignan, and the rest are in the} ——~ Of New nl etg have turned P 
normal black condition, The uppermost shoulder of|this season in the north, we find Mar's Porp 
the bun: chi is entirely black, and s0 is one of the lesser Emperor, and Downtz & Co:s Maece of T 
l prai Purple E "p 
hite and black berries intermixed, and the rest are | First-class Certificate at Bishop Auckland, and is " 
Wi 
nd- | entirely pode pe oueemonels. white ub a narrow | distinct shade of purple, one of the finest 
| streak or two of Ponie the white berries in the whole | produced ; and —— of Craven is also spoken of " 
w | cluster ee more numerous than ue pre ‘ones, 5 a first-class acquisito: 
Le DM and black kerries have the full Frontigns 
This curious bun had N 
T n m Clumber. A somewhat similar frei ve it ew Plants. : 
will perhaps | be remem occurred in the Italian —— DsneHINIUM BnvwowrasvM, Royle, E^ sears 
1862 at e Modem nn ns of Botany of the Himalaya, p. 56; 
to sr Show eo! Prai Kensington: One dene arieties | Maja azine, t. 5461. 
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Me ied the Switte, sie: Meng same | This very pretty Indian Larkspur, first made known 
buuch both M n amber-coloured pets ag each of | by Dr. Royle, igs lately pua m: ab "d 
rai ied from az 
d Í them otek othe p difference being as clearly | where it had been 
reel which gi iive ves him the ofensas that it is | ve Org AnS SE vide A S the Frontignan 
n À sera "vi the Committee shoal not be omitted. We are p 
ther 
