- THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [SEPTEMBER 3, 1864, 
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— n . - s prim di raft men in the simplest - kinds of dr 
persons would call mere ‘weeds. These Dr. Thomson Mr. Eit "pM with all ithe pre men j han icrafts cipe nig mith thelr pencil miee 
ie Mehr eulie 4 lante of th sses, able to draw to ey oud ae 
- a. ogether), contriving to choose plants of the E blan elevation: add section, 
same family, or e permet ated to one another. dered to the — ti be mein Their names we ie = » Ip them, but HR Sur tuns Fer bln 
By this means, and with the aid “of abou clearly li, but alas of a noi rs raf t o difficult. 
drawn wood-engravin » , be leads ue little — a "upon A "Mk "Knight s th five 
onward to the — of a chapter on. Fe rn when Re for era I have sat at the oti dinner v wil 
— ral —— : : f the Mem Memoranda. 
The a ritte en ina pleut, "e what mig D b ant which had conducted | them to a and mye Muses, Ivery & vant : NURS ERY, DORkImw... 
!d afford the best &e The tostee alk ht almost say the passion for Ferns; 
to Brougham Ek i ain | which is a ch atasteristic ot ee eee day, has not 
book the well-known title—« ies he Port of. Know: | been without its influence on com gardeni 
Initi ta, the elem * ‘of a subject, is à wea onl b dge under e ^ In 1830 came the death t pire 
ian epit ral. 2 à j eorge IV., and in a few ie ute that, the French | inatters, that for whatever bere i is a demand there 
—M Á'— | fe volution, an à Mr. Knight mpany with two | will arise a supply. The little world of pteridophilists 
Passages ? & Working Life. By Charles Knight. | Miete Ne Paris and gives tome accou ui bur what | has long been familiar with the pteridean stores tg be 
Vo ` a4 . 936. Bradbury & Evans, 11, Bouverie | he ard in Ey wy ^ at epoch. Before the | found at Foot’s Cray and Todmorden, and the names 
oe year d t Bre ugham bee ar ts Chancellor, and | Sim and Stansfield have brc as HMM Hd words 
A es first | ere he strides into the Hous f Lords de sires Mr. monet this Fern-loving class of garden 
us welcom Knigh Paley t vhi Now Mr. Ivery is Following i in theis w wake, eed 
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hogy tho greater part of wh which w d read with oe work accordingly came out, * with gr ta an Intro: closely up ction of varieties md 
diminished interest e is a slight falling Ned ductory Discourse by Henry Lord Brou ing in the trade ke ran to that of the growerg- 
lowards the end of the seeond nid: that pulo The Reform Bill a x the Cholera ^ were the chief | wo have mentioned in fulness, and his stock of most of 
fearon ted ra rd ircumstanees of th times topics of conversation, when on March 31, 1882 oat best sorts being at the same time very extensive, 
he writer; Ww s complete success ^ot the appeared. the first stipe of Mv Why qeu iw the happy facility vith which ae , Tering d 
Mer which he Tad in view, tio to its failure. a that by the end of the year a pe from the spores ried out. ind 
, | Sale of 200,000 in weekly nies ‘and monthly parts | most agreeably astonished, ee the thot period 
was mother « Tt 1 may be fairly calculated that the| which Mr. Ive s been before the publie in the 
Knight riisi m: dns Lo is nded in his às zh nA of readers of that single w ork amounts to a character of a Pe kroket «tà find on the occasion of a 
and saw sowe of the perils rcx. Lee his | Millio Dg er it that his stock had ecole sò tich and rare, 
country. He traced much of t mpant evil to|the ability to read be most satisfactory, it is still more hal so abundant, and — Ap 
brutal ignorance, and made hr jun ud of the satisfactory to consider the Species of reading which hs aly: and heal Ithy an appea 
masses the object and issi is life,| has had such an exten a ity. ee a passing from t the general py the particular, we may 
This at least forms the warp of the history be has|In this work there has never been a si glo sentence i e Mt. + at s Brit em as divi a Die 
A i up of the ts | that could influence a vicious appetite; not a Ther the specimen plants, examples of 
that were taking place around him dur riod of | paragraph that ge minister to prejudices and pes tl hich one Ì eae any become familiarised vin at out 
great political Pel orte eto with aie of a |stitions, which a few years since grea ould seem b er Fer 
number of b remarkable characters with whom „bo her gd been no excitement for the. lovers. Ci the | Mm: iors Me P taeae steels to me 
beca: a PN sd in the UN of business; and that | marve | range af eep pits, in which "they grow to perf i 
busin e have said, providing Brey ed aue "taste for personality, and, above all, no party l'Then there are what may be called “ half specim 
usef fal na or ‘the milion. 1824, which saw Mr, | politics.” | examples of the better class of varieties, shifted on 
ge of p ; 
earten when H, B. so mar holah usly hit off the able to eit with a Body, Men “he # believed with the object of giving “a helping hand” to those 
raits of Lords Eldon, Lyndhurst, and Brougham, | might, with God's blessing, do ood of all kinds, | who are desirous of setting up a Fernery without wait 
litical, intellectual, and spirit, “than any other | ing too long for results. And then follows the ordinary 
in ‘ihe realm came in for a large amount of free society in existence.” He wa voee he wrote, to | trade stock which, as we have just said, is nob only ex 
iE. one with “articles of the kind that tensive and in vigorous health, but includes fiat - 
of th es, and a prominent place was occupied by | I desire.” Mr. night however, vai istinetly states that | best and most thoroughly marked varieties in cul 
ie lbs ta rds of intellect,” no i wid of such a desire ever reached him, and | tion. ‘These latter are all grown in pits, many of thei - 
The funeral of ac Byron gives Mr. Knight an | much regrets it. »| rudely nic d s bai wan but none the le& 
tunity E recounting the inary of an injunction} The first number of the “ Penny Cyclo a | Tu 
m from publishing the corre: yrepongenee of | appeared January 2, 1833. It € a sale of 75,000 so 
that erratic nobleman, a a great disappointment to the | long as a amt number was every week, wat wi 
young publisher when ne and afterwards four ath bets oer and mm ded oe T the varieties whic ^: possess su 
e ubli „that 1 ilu 2 er them worth mentioning, but “we may namé $ 
drunkenness tha bai ts Ae in London, had been led to suppose, and the | ‘eer m the more rare and striking sung t them, and 
noi that there was nothing for the people to sale fell om cr when the work sra completed i in 1844, | some of these prove to be seedli ised by Mr - 
amuse themselves with, and that the British } ve the re 85L, a | very’ intelligent f "Mr. by, to wh "e 
was maid eM at such holiday seaso There was | loss which fell entirely. upon Mr. ES To Prof.| qst Ts P: "Fons o doubt Apples, to E 
ational Gallery, i reat o be 
Gar 1 er 
ner pope for the maliek. no ration al Gravitation, “a mas iterpiete: "e üci epo. of enti dy different fort | ee dat of large batches 
ent whatever, except perhaps a visit 2 M sitión witht ix employment of mathematical | o¢ the HM of Lady Fern sus pepe 
deplant at Exeter ead z i lions at the Tow formule, rnott. wrote the general articles on — Eo e they indicate stron he oot 
isit to Paris bring A description M. ti Physics, aie were other contributors of the highest s 
Preach t de Py and ¢ s ib was in 1825, mark. But the general application of the Electric 
how éverybody did a Title aM gt Qum lin e$ a NA Photography, Chloroform, and a variety o na cases uu seedlings from these spats rior ainat z 
matter E I s his r Englan ~¥ Bat M T, inventions j se aj ugh to rend ê| own particular parent forms in a grea or less ratio— - 
et uw y twn. “tre h translation Ad» Work an imperfec And night attributes | sometimes the et le of the vaut pee thé 
he a A of a " Nationa Library P its pecuniary failure t to the duty on paper, ery proves | greater part, and much more po a few at present: — 
a a the end of e his position in I: " the end Ee the boo | ing the tra e character of the , the r rre 
duced to Mr. Brougham, who pot isi M M Another work of importance which Me. ight tly the fi 
“Society for the Diffusion of Useful at a a » | published was «The “Pictorial Bible,” DN. the | partly elim "which run (m dis some normal condi tion. 
“Tha t first interview,” he drei “was an e ge cce of Dr. Kitto, a Very remark able person. f the species, The latter » however, are uM 
have, however, 
p "ihe reader's ite, and must close our notice of | te co 
The pring of 1827 saw Mr. ner in — diff. | these very interesting “ Passages of a Working Life.” | tet i Vise ie eme rodea thomarrs or 
ES 3 ree porate Diltesion his v vices Enom | further deviations, and seldom revert to a n AL 
dere ER ead Usefal Enowled: Magazine, edited | tion. ^ Of sports of the Lady Fern then, "derived from 
Society" ions, E had grec Ln Mr. -— Lx RA Jones, prre Ko ag eges Ñ. anim ward, | the varieties already mentioned, Mr. me has seven 
celebra: Bas a The first number of this ne and amongst them the following :— A, Ff. la the 
in July. - "The first PER folium, a DIN: form, 2 feet high, with 
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ü feel ; account of the idens Dat have tng 
acp I M e * prevailed on oof mn e aw gebe eee at the base an 
te seen west. —! wa hat ee fp m ey ppt nse se of TE reed the pinne Ee forked or Ei 
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Bodety hed valued bim e all tha sh i as e p. the contemporanei of str strata and the apex tapering away into arp slender 
uu dr MEME Company had a virt apart.” 
a part" The Editor desires so to ae om Fieldiæ. Another, | till, and bu 
nin ag deal : the almanacs, being rich and unscrupulous | | conduct k% Pel nd Magazin e that it may * be|removed from the en s ‘sl ‘albeit 2 
i 5 arose. These e | reg arded asan impartial tribunal, whose met " pato distinctness in the mass, is A. F.-f. com 
almanacs were filled with dm ege “trash, and eo | which has fro e 
^ lut of t 9d. to Government. Knight con | articles comprise among o r pa pers a > e| rt 6 or em b real iue the normal 
m, and by his inisehéd scientific assistance "iP ebble-bed at Budleigh Sarton in ire e some 30 | 
was proin and the * British Almanac ” ready detected ipm Seo 
aac the Society’s ie doe and was soon followed by | exe exception. ad to British ime wed and "rorked ada 
Th 1828, Br to ^ Almana s of Thecidi with two plates; aed i a re i ag by of Yicldia. T resembling wo iet ur that 
rehus à AG t at — Sion after in | Mr. _ Ramsay, ERS, of a very interestin, ng work on the the od "^ the frond and of the portion 
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rm d as engag ed € Toe x pepe in os Professor Desor, of Neufchatel ‘This is an article scales aci ri Then i F.-f. P 
, - e “aed of Entertaining Know that will well repay perusal.——7— 4» Abridgment vt the | quite another character, the whole frond bei ineat 
vod uin ee ge made up of 
coach to Liverpool, | Practical English Grammar, by Roscoe Mon A.B, | and aig Fi D the short forked or 
so totale on the busi- | a very shabby unattractive little school book, x, very badly | ramose pin uch. as are found in the contracted 
y and noli icing | printed on very inf erior paper.—— Ortho, Pro- | portion of e "fronds of Fieldia, A. yt Fe 
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| jection and awing, by W, S. Binns, This Dive m is another well-marked sport, having e lower 
m 8 sub.cofn.| is one of Mr, om A eme tur of the Forces) | pinnz from an inch and a-half to two inches long 
ie brought’ school series, It is intended to help mechanics and =: ES and the upper ones an an inch or less an 
