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tables ; than at ; the — ~ “does mot give the time of | j although ripened in August, with the colour of the] it knows the e literal meaning of Seolopendriam. The 
wing. seh t deal o NE and | berries of a deeper amber aa m of any White | friend unt E — vis s while I write had no notion 
amusing ma i n “The Compleat Sard'ner f M. | Grape I have yet seen. I hav asured the ste el k it sali mome! could not - TH drift of 
T cum. ms telling f e a young Vine of this vari ety plant en Ma is a - ord, but it 
a a at gardener,” ee says, «Is shall begin es the | out six months , and I ur d bs be 63 “aches i in takes * ps scholar to know the m wm of Seólo- 
good qu ualifications of the outside, of whi ich the eyes circumference, Pg more than ches in ms pen oer Hart’s-tongue, moreover, i is tle sole and 
t judges; for o William Tillery. [Is excessiv P AY in stock precise e for TE - cm) ern. It — no 
ourselves all of a sudden inclined. either to a good advantageous either gene merally or specially ? That seems | confusion er} idea: ee = -— aaron 
liking and esteem f the questions that require farther —— -— and it is à likely th to 
that eh himself? Wm. Robinso ion; and upon which comparative experiments abolished, or ai that Centipede p 
ee pido Mm pe can faily corroborate the desirable — possibly apply t r be — € it. A 
statem last week's impres XY" S Es 4)| Autumn-flowe: rchids (see p. 989).—With a|good and inia Foy er one 
crm * Orchids not sameestty growi dense | little forcing or racing the following may be had i in|plant is no reason w rem » g ig Nhe on 
places” in — — home. A: iem ence of | bl g the same idea, should not be giv irem ‘another. If 
some det or five in Jamaica enabled me to|They a all good, and moderate in price, viz Centipede be objectionable, Mun we have already 
investigate to a consid wk t extent thé habits of that Phalænopsis eem ora, Aérides suav vissimum, | Saccola- got | — gm rem her about Epidendrum and Den- 
remarkable and Mice family. In very few |biu Lc majus, Vanda cera ulea, for the Ceterach being a Spleenwort, 
instances did I discover Orchids growing in “dense vitellin majus, Miltonia spectabilis, > Odontoglossum how i is it that Deia and Babington agree in keep- 
shady for almost invariably they were to be|grande, "Phaius albus, Zygopet er maxillare, e, Cattl a genus, and that Moore and other 
found i in places exposed to the light oe heat of the|crispa superba, C. Har d C. hybrida. G. Toll, | Fern authorities do fine same? Would you recommend 
Iallude in only to — s, for?I have | Pendlebury, near Man us to follow the one author or the many ? Mr. Grindo: 
found terrestrial Orchids growing re wasa| Scale on Plants. pa borax and water ever | does well in reverting to the good old West of England 
considerable amount " shade. Trees at t the margins of | eradicate this? It rather recalls babies and Sea name of — eri - — - gratitude for his 
woods were evidently their favourite habitats. I did| 4.C. | attempt mpro ent nomenclature. may 
not observe the epiphytes to affect particular trees.| Edible Snails.—Having sape in your last Number | add that is Syn of the "British F eni is the easiest 
The larger number were possibly to be found on species | a paper on this town Og i that t I ever met, with. J. L. (Our 
of Bombax, whose nearly horizontal branches afforded | pomatia has exist any y at Melchbourne, C p look tk that 
a ready location, not only for Orchids, but also for | Bedfordshire, m teadiüon beng t tha llor most of the genera of mo — Aspesica have 
ect Filice s, Ke. _ The ‘absence of large trees from from Nice an fa nember of the St. John family, penes been cut out of grt amen gad and a y no means 
ts of also accou eh for its bei oin g found at Woodford, | universally adopted, the old n mes being still employed 
paucity “of Orchids in those districts. Amongst the | Northamptonshire at that time part of the family | by distinguished scientific men. Hence these plants 
Coa however, of the lowlands of the Wes t India ession Can any of your correspondents trace a an all fairly viis as they do with y who hold 
ts being found at Stonesfield, near | such views, the pop ular name of Spleenwort. There 
sanguine the location of which—with my preconceived Wovdsto tock. S. ould be nothing m startling in their doing so, even 
notions of how Orchids grew—struck me as bein Potatos from t" J.C. n ax different scientific names are adop ted, for the 
remarkably strange, being ` ^ae other than the nearly ane carefully. ve ha Potato be erries, spread t e | thing is of via occurrence thr jagkónt our popular 
perpendicular scarped face of a limestone rock, facing | si in them oui to dry, and ice mus in uthat siais tin nomenclature. Probably some halt vam totally ar 
es ina no ly district wl example. 
rain very seldom fell. The pm (for there ick t till Late Peas.—As a proof of the aa ‘of the season 
possibly 50 within a of feet by 50), were enough to plant abt in the end. of pat The first year in this part of Ireland, I hei you the names sns " 
wing most luxuriantly and flowering abundantly, t arbles; they m ai “oring of two Peas which are yieldiug u 
re Tg bein i take 
upply now. r 
precisely the s fhat seen in a glass of claret p in the next spring E planted o out. ‘thie is the way I conn Mammoth; both were sown on th June. 
when T bel wen: the eye and the sun. a has y g the area of an older | Of the two, Lord ‘Rag lan is the best late Pea. I have 
y retur n from Jamaica, always struck m „that the | head tl , and the result wi supply o of Cherries from trees on a north 
Pot ould have ag gro if your | wa without any other protection o a y Imay 
is decidedly faulty, for with on e solitary per zt mere bea carefully hybridised the sorts while vu mopman that there is a fine bloo f Tea, and 
e never seen the colour of the flower in an Orchid | in pcm J. Rust, Fulha oisette, aud Hybrid Perpetual Ros "ee ere pe the 
house in Engla nd other than a dull coppery hue. mula sinensis fimbriata. —I have — ean time. I have a young ine tree named 
The exception to which I et alluded was in the|! ie | Wa rner's s King, planted in, 1859, which. fruited "tis 
Orchid rude of the late Mr, George Loddiges, t «x ce of which has been most uncertain. I} » 
whom E — the man -— r in which I e pini om saved seed from the best flowe ers. with similar the oe weighing llb. lloz. James doll 
the plan ing in Jam Mr. Loddi - cm a sults. To be certain of g Gardener to Col. ie MP., Glass ima, co. 
placed the men does. to de after of the hou s absolutely necessary to have three or four times the | Monaghan, Ireland, Nov. 1. 
sequently in a situation where it did not get a - | number ie ung plants one wishes to keep. I sow the 
heat, and t wers certainly nearly a pproach wo rough In about | Slet € rennen ii 
colou our he Ha po - have in Jamaica. E. Thé o hs the $n — when I pec "Soorgrt. ! 
other ember as growing in i | discard wr that do not come up to what I am content 
inmediate vicinity "of the lowlands of the island, <The ASEPE EE x then picked off such as E CE - eme informed, making considerable p 
-— small species Oncidinm, with T dede to retain, — 4 continue to do this until the matising in rn bers 
wis. 
as 
leaves into a 60-sized 
mi 
o 
T pe * pre on to 
rear pallida. These I have frequently found In this way I get a good collection of fimbriated- | More y, which may, with so 
on railings or on the barkless bran ches of dead trees, flowered pont that. remain in bloom during the| pe made a LI eli ale. Spot pe 
but I never saw either of t The young plants seem to | of ud. "d 
—indicating thus an objection to a humid atmosphere. | grow na th th A y of g 
I often took plants of Bro egre sanguinea to my | and with qma lance t air at all times when the immediate vicinity of iW 
mitai residence, which was surrounded by dense | weather is not frosty. JN. granted to the Society, and has fi 
woods, and at an elevation of ym mee feet | Woollen Refuse. — —I directed attention your | cnclosed. It is to be called 
t t 
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R, 
above the sea level ; — cds never — tain- | columns to Shis material as asa fertiliser some F ago | out of the groun iin 
ing flowers of i richn lour they 1 nd 1181, 1863). I now send you a small | nM «rae of a sub-committee, who will secure 
the low lan ds, for whi y p the same | bunch i [^ cede tron i m Vines Pia ul border | the assistance of Mr. W. Hill. the director of the 
coppery tI! ft thi try, | composed of light garden oam mixed with this refuse ; : 
The leaves of the plants soon became Ee oured uu |to the extent of one- -third of the whole. I may add Botanical Garden irdens. eh nns Pi ier me 
blotched with yellow patches, and in the cai of two | that little o: tifici have been required to r for the use to rem the Society has applied it, There 
or three months the Brou. ene sere d € R. 7. ripen the fruit further than gt protection of glass. is a good deal of water, and it will s sii 
, y to form 
eit ndi.— inquire | My epe € in sending the b nch in question is to | | pi ede ponds, where various kinds of water fowl 
andi iu columns something about Ore Suther r- | draw attention _to one quality which the berries | | and aquatic plants can be reared. 
i hear isa y Grapes me | 
: erara natural tt it eer "Linden a in ric ‘uy manured p namely, ^ their M 
this sunlit’ ones seen it in mrp i on o! inden at | saccharine juice. J. x ortley, near Lee The | 
Brussels, I can only liken it to a rigid Pelarg: n | Grapes r Ys though rae d otherwise injured srotices of 35ooks. 
growth. Its flowers, I am told, are sek bet, E ear rringe, were sw reek and well coloured, but hr Flora Australiensis, say tod of the Plants of the 
an fruit. we have tast ed fro m border: Aus rigger Territor By George Bentham. R.S., 
of recent introduction. Of what 8 it a native ? | wh P.L.S., assisted by Ferd inand Muelle er, M.D., F.R.S., 
A Devonian. [Greyia Sutherlandi is, anias De i ieee Names of Ferns (p. 103) ).—I have no| F.L L.S., Government Botanist t, Melbourne, Victoria. 
Harvey, if t bt that “M. A. E." of Penzance, is able to answer| VOo Published 
stalked roundish-cordate multilobulate and crenate| your question. as to the propriety of the Ceterach under the authority of the several Governments of the 
leaves, and dense racemes of piti denne iquat: being enijod a Bilan SEES D Hooker. Perhaps| Australian Colonies. London: Bes. & Co. 1864. 
 erimson flowers; it grows in roc m exposed moun- | I may be allo in aremark| Pp. 521. 
tainous places, near Port Natal, from 9000. to | or two, havin E ed ah Mio Fev tok Dei | Tio unl AAE oT dito ask angie iei 
6000 feet elevation. We presume ie — in cultiva- | frequently anan sg in contact with Fern lovers, who issued within the last week or two, and, like its 
tion want age before they can be expected to produce | have made me keenly conscious of the misunders cessor, may be E i ee 
their flowers. ] and disappointments that arise from mixing up generic model of what such a work execated in English should 
1 gor na ano Grape as a Stock.—Xt struck me last | names after the fashion of f * Maidenhair pleenwort.” | be—accurate, conci: se, clear, with the genera and species 
year, reading the jap of Mr. Shion It is time such mis names were abolished. Centi- | judiciously limited, t their descriptions conscientiously 
and in m on th e best stocks for Grapes, that Gr pede Spleenwort for the Asplenum Trichomanes, | elaborated, their eg den ect ex oor cous 
; Trebbiano would answer well for shy rooting White | though the novelty makes it sound at first a little rem their habitats and disco’ 
“intend this spring to inarch Chasselas | is i 
ty 
pes. nly an improvement. If 2 are to retai properly grouped by districts, ^A ali en the are 
Musqué, Muscat, White Frontignan, some of the | certain two-century-old names, were ae of th volume > informs the reader that i it i less 
Sweetwaters, on strong young cae of this variety. | by Gerarde, and have been general si since | his time, how 60 
As, the Trebbiano belongs to the Syrian ion of | ever ill o. aca it migl lif — pages; but that as this would m necessitated tl 
Grapes, it is one of the cios gn rooting and vigorous | giveus back Cat’ A placeat Long rooted ype hære; | partition of the great and sn sae orn family 
n am à mene and it | Forget-me- ne for Water Myosote, &c. (We Ma Myrtacee in two uet it was judged expedient to 
easily known by ite i = ng s and large|agree.] As for the idea of likeness to a — ipede | close this second volume and e the third 
d downy nn. ui in m winter | being re expressed in the scientific name of the | proportionally. 
ths is ro dm reer in = - have kept yes nches | Hart's-tongue, a and confusion being likely to happen i in| The à pr Lever in the work was detailed i A 
on ^ quite plump and good till the beginning of April, ' consequence, there is’ not one 
