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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
559 
- called the Pyramid coffer ; 
| mous with the D. Fytchianum described at p. p. 100.— 
copa, one of the curious species of cylin- 
and on measuring this very accurately, it was hw 
to contain 128 pecks or 32 bushels of Whea and 
— À—Á -— Cacti, cultivated years ago in our 
bi 
A ga o such a 
to it, for when we say eight —. one When make a 
firm 
Dendrobium infun ndibulum, a fine white- 
flowered "peclés from Moulmein, described 
Bateman at p. 1194 of our yolume fo 
nearly n to D. formosum, and has been partially 
s already mentioned, under the name of 
q r, we à it to be 
entire measure, which is CAT dd im eredi to 
the AM p -cofter.” 
But it is not upon such grounds as these that the 
question of QE our weights and measures ought 
D. "moulmeinense, 
igi. 
“| somes, with the Turkish ‘Empire, and Kingdom of 
Gre 
Booxs RECEIVED.—The new number of the Phar- 
— Mrs — Series m e 
among o ood m atter a pap by 
di- i 
s 
of the Jast peras of "the Sodaty,. which? we may ¢ jones 
The fir st t 
Bateman's fine work on Odontoglossums | ens also 
JEchmea distichantha, a South American pee 
with long z lin near-o oblong channelled spiny leaves, and 
istichous spikes of flowers, of which 
to be decided Times 
picture of the may and confusion s E Mead 
the Ed are rose- -coloured nl the petals purp! e, 
disma 
would bring into every British household. ery 
M epe familiar terms (yards, inches, pint s, Eb 6.), 
will be not EE ^om but me itfinod; as 
the" obstinate use -— involve fine and| 
oo rom nt. It ws rel io rge "id ther coun- 
one 
excep 
it | —Trichini 
m Ma a lesii, a Swan River herb, noticed in 
another aa ace, with oblong spathulate pane ‘leaves, and 
| spicate oblong heads of pretty purple flowers, whic! *h are 
| singularly nairy, * $e At present i it has been oniy treated as 
tin g 
just oe received. This will be fully noticed hereafter, 
Garden Me a 
Mr, JoHN WATERERS AMER 
Waterer’s magnificent exhibition. 
held as usual in the Gard 
’ The plants as a whol 
tries have undergone e röta: and survive. 
What are diris the Zollverein, and Tae jd to us? | 
"They are accustomed to revolutions, eps and 
e^ 
shat tha TP 
not be emplo, ye "s as a summer annual, as are many 
| Australian plants, eA the great advantage of our flower 
bor vd — Cattleya Lindleyana, a pale Lelia-like 
Again, 
of ano Jafa and measures is most inconvenient 
will be evident from 
wage an d French s 
In the - 
required, vi m Z., 500 gram 
each, + hec 
T ies, with loner terete — ^ or 8| 
cellent at conditi, and sb is tren that the "isplay 
will last equally good for k or 10 days 
yet to come. de 
now in full bea 
contrasted as they 
pads ons are 
well 
nai rs 
m: irked 1 in front with a few 
audia sarca 
ew aada, 
wo of 1 gramme each 
M p ee lofa vie we must take three of bs 
manson be eh 8 
differ in the more ane bou: and pedicels, as well 
bas rk what say our own scientific men? Prof. Playfair, | as in its erect not a habit, and its smooth 
in an article Mops in the Edinburgh Review nea "xm 
50 years ago, sa 
“Ten has indeed no advantage as the radix 
numerical computation, and has been raised to the 
dignity which it now holds, merely by the circum- 
not pubescent bra Here the” branches are | 
endulous, the mies “fleshy coriaceous, 
ay gth M. any i 
i holly. det to iie] gay i MO vei shu, some idea 
of the grandeur of the display may ceived. 
The w hole has Weili thrown into dt ani "beds of 
tasteful forms by suitable A av la 
with turf, and wherever 
gravel, turf mounds have ge raised, 
been placed no oble stan dard and othe: 
AR ndulous in terminal and lateral corym m they hav 
| thick clavate pedicels, and articulated therewith thick 
flesh 
and dis thus situated 
they break the sameness which would otherwise to 
some extent prevail, and 
| green i" ias oe sid urceolate 
awoll en hire md 
And he goes d - die that 
r the 
the = umfere of a rela and for all aes 
s, the dedina soale i is bh abhorrent. Mr. 
a commissioner appointed by the 
this very Sage says :— 
he decimal scale can ax ' applied only, with many 
alifigetion ms to any gen. 
natural application is du. > nu 
ts 
rs ; and ti ime, space, 
pace, or matter. Nature has no 
Ed fo ‘or por cy: m. and the attempt to shackle 
freedom with m ll for ever prove abortive. 
rineipally directed against the 
V Are. niri jndiviii 
tro MÓN as 
AA the ecessity of 
e i distin "alain ma ia aroi 
two th He was as much for 
= ‘Rivialon oa any person could be, but the 
re was le. It arose m a mere 
eiful connection c I er of the meridian, 
reed try to subdivide the distance from the earth to 
The seins Royal said that d anew 
nation to create, with a new tue 2; pei ma ud 
measures, = wo uld give them the binary 
througho ut." 
is e circumstance that the 
of fedivideal ine Mere him to the 
t, or inch measure | 
Wa La ee then, it seems to be 
in England that the inch, "y^ and dires are excellent | 
9 uge 
Our weig 
according to the bina: 
umbe 
ty, and extension, inflexibly reject its sway. Itis|g 
[mera 2 g Bed for computing numbers, and not 
goth i 2 De var. aureo. 
a Moulmein plant, ‘with "bright. yellow flowers dese 
orange pubescent s ith very brilliant asd] 
very “handsome, o Hooker remarks that 
it 
is 2 s the Contracts 
» | cen’ 
ind; this is gren! o! 
flowers, whose glowing colour renders them P mne 
perd all ae of the exhibitio on. Ni 1 
gard 
it was sent by the Rev th the f 
Mn —*" What if I "were to say 
meri and D. chrysotoxum were one and the same ? | 
1 ae both of them extremely. w 
rowing for three years. 
two nnl the mec 
own into my garden, I w o! 
ny ber eve my eyes at seeing a Panicle of the golden 
t Dendrobiüm | vt a good ki 
y 
e bet 
any 
with polished | co 
e fingers with great g 
ly agreed | num 
mares the 
ind F 
Farmeri labell 
ites is ho owever Minnie, S fine kind, MR ire 
ig here em poi al wer not so round as in D. ebry- 
ee rite 
Fein and the flowers a vid 
shape. 
sotoxum, Dr. Lin dley, too, has a remark, or rather » In vro of Surrey we SLE. useful addi 
offers a con ded somewhat to the effect, when | to bright orange crimson kinds; it has a black 
he says. in his Contributions to the Orchidology of|in the C ed setting off the truss, which is 
India eri is s — Bor a fi . | good, excellen vantage. ida is another 
eheysotorum, vens its flowers inged with pink, distinct Era sort, ‘with rosy salmon-spotted flowers 
ess abundantly fringed. ^ I fear both one|in the of u Of the 
bd the other of these enia H tin es Sir W.|erimson and white class Bylsianum and Alarm ured 
Hooker, MIR aced too much dence in|at the head; both kinds have Mm richly-colour 
lour in present case; S not only, $ the eret whit ed, with crimson in 
nature of ds 
qu in D. ch eeply quad rd in D. showy v will be Paus useful for the sake of variety, 
armeri), but m A PE py Play fringe of the lip | and Nero J Russell also good dark 
of D. chrysotoxum has nothing ling it in the | varieties, Of the roseum pe breed Onslowianum 
labellum of D. Farmeri, This I to be|is a valuable variety. ere i: n of further 
a yellow lowered va Ivwity of the litera and aite dnc examples of every tint and shade; the sorts 
from D. TE ga — Desmodiu at present in flower those just ey are the most 
| rens Kalbe inet Sa one p the bar introduced strikin, 
y Mr. 
ium to 
ala, 
ers it comes Sm Guatem 
n the Florist a id dom t for ident the same as |} 
ofa m — d multiflora, el — the same as 
Alstr ‘Om al 
our humble opinion that the man who would a 
à makes agni mistake. 
pacity are arran; ged a ary si 
[ the great convenience of buyers Ay sellers, 2 it 
Magazine for May contains portraits 
us a ver: ames species of us 
which am e of Bomar 
e Andes E Quito, Pew das it 
p i Veitch. Vt a sm — — ker 
a Swan River, i era ry: oan x 
in > RIS LS annual, Aue min 
ch bas been called Morna his looks 
2 i would be a useful garden plant aiio. X 
ml ai pretty round-petaled, white 
d Ere e of erect habit, said to be synony- | 
- Family “atlas (the 8th) has appear 
these pop 
me DS i n pa en by Fleming, of 
Cliveden, on house de icoranon E Lus j here, : by 
moans of plania and. do flow: 
in the 
Flor agazine are are Azalea 
pei ed with 
vite y group of, 4 
Die Conte de Gomera ae 
-| sort stri 2 with crimso: 
v | Rose Mi on ri Victor Ve 
f the production some day of an 
| of see with tricolor florets, 
w Part of the Useful Kn reyes Hd Societ; 
ed, and a s di 
number it is, containing part of Wales, and other English 
wie A Rose 
mall, purple, in | an 
esmodi 
8 Eaua on 
corresponding mt s, the 
in the 
th 
e gathering ias be a high], 
Scheds ce of * es cn 4 
Be, to 10, "ud be had of Mr. m atin 
p Orchids, — The ML informati n, 
founded upon e HG jars. anpor vum ly 
Mera A ri 
from we 
mn Ka gp d on cy hot of a ny season, as it is far 
er an the steam of any shi »' p. edi 
of Roy. Hort. Soc. ir y ship, roceedings 
