AUGUST 27, 1864.] 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 
821 
ilit has | lowers on it; the sin ular Cypripedium Hookeræ ; a| which w was reduc iced to “a light buff colour, mottled 
I Abs red bas ebria x1 Bs eR pum ^ dir orangered m € ely s EUN — ulus named | with brown stains.” Some hatchets, found in the same 
"e. — The following plan will effectually destroy Conquest ; ymus radicans ; - Te no - igus of being Sams ea — 
supe. Aucuba and ri an ar, When sawn across was fou 
— pis : = = i wd rag (woollen is best) i in the new Japanese mail|“ nite recent ;” “ the section was white, siting fal nii 
stick and t 25 cove Pap aca ey The spirits t thel | f gelatine, and freih. — ois the Fre 
urpentine stupifies and the air P d cmn clara, Retinospora pr and us | an in "y^ io eR congress d. sa 
uded b the clay the m^ 2 — ——I rns and nspicuous Argen. t the former | was sum * On the 3d day the jaw - exam rain 
e a mel ectual thin for the desi tion of iip M araia mma Ia e m a whitish-colo ure ed | the Week. matrix rie D — : e "y called 
A small puns — into their hole at night, and i: selled sort; decoris gore carüionblem, a barca ——2A en dp -— - bowig ced ^ resp ccn 
a " erwards to keep in the fumes, | with ebony-coloure = éei, th E 
geue ly £ atum ps ; b^ is much TO er zo» the Maiden- hair Fern; um flabellul cen ; Ciboti um | no infiltration ‘of mineral proper rties = bras su appena 
rally 
old squib. ola E m 
itu 
Asplen 
peso š S psr Fedistorkyllajá 
f G. di 
t p. 770, and that ectually bat it is not the easiest bali. pars the Tree Pun Cyathea Smithii. 
pad Sky All wasps - not 3^ ild their nests i » a hole in| Palms we remarked examples of Euterpe pd d 
the ground ; on the co m E att ttach t hem to the Silve er Pa lm from New Gre nada, and ot! — of imas sal 
of nag refore, can tar 
icarpa; Lastrea 
ie wever cautious they may | M 
use a das "ef tar without having 
Mr. Short came examples of the Tom. Ti o or Gold. en 
can 
La and often their clothes besmeared with it; and, 
that ie is both unplea sant and = aron few wili 
and fruit of —— 
nopsis erythrocarpa ; the last Sites ripe 
— n with i 
& bea 
Standishii, meum € fici 
was 
red under. the saw, 
bone, 
ial erosion » SU uch as is common in old bones, even uiam agi 
not buried in a stormy bed, "sd that of Moulin- 
ne 
"e 
blocked up ev orifice, its s 
white and brilliant, phe ring pa , where exposed by 
the section, white, and the. jaw itself was fim 
the di 
and bad stinct odour of sa 
he champions of the jaw, 
be to I have tried this meth nden, of Brussels, buted among other| The case looked ugly for t p 
or many P rpm which have been declared in- ey specimens of Doryo ber Aleyonis, a P obra | and the c — —, TS RR 
fallible, but I have found spirits of turpentine pr ply gp leaved Fern; Trichocentrum albo. Abbeville. a ere, rae coer te we — -— 
immeasurably superior to anything I have yet used’ | coccineum, Orchid now little seen, with | threw doubts upon ar i H. Kee a 
J. M., Bothwell. heh es sepals and petals and white lip, | satisfa torily dice , ti r epi ng, 
stained on both sides next the ba ith purple; | ge tleman much 7 
Eo a Cyanophyllum cinnamomeum, wit ferrugi nous explanations, and whose integri ty aud intellige ae: 
[-4 ieties stems and ample leaves; Maranta picturata, with | could b — for by Dr. Falconer vi aa pers y» 
eot * shining deep-gr eaves ornamented with a pretty |t took pic ickat hand, in the pe er o an "This 
Hor UR August 24 hibition | silver variegation above pur v underneath ; is an extrac t from his journal : —“ Jun i No. 5. 
9 yas " Plants LO This was | nob so well supported as| Mappa fastuosa, a  green-leaved Philippine Island 
V rg have pt). wished, — oe four of our greatest | Eu phorbia iceous p lant t; Maranta orbifolia; and last, but | morning. I found the specimen 9 feet 4 inches i in S eu 
metropolitan firms being unrepresented. not ] and 3 feet 6 inches his 
Mr. McArthur, Maida Hill, eht karai of a variety pilat e "when Wet known will — become dicte would have been the most likely apoioa to 
of Bonapartea juncea a favour ite, its numerous hea ds. of de lic cate r , on account of the distance from 
called filamentosa, which differed 
from the common kind i n foliage 
mented 
g plants, 
re which the, most arable e Ret um 
pisifera, its charming «xy inged ribs eee 
R. jeg and obtusa, all extremely beautiful hardy 
Conife sio; A qium Standis ain a , the lat 
of a louie d f green than the for mer, and ane 
robust ; Dx pido well furnished with Nn 
deep palmate-shaped 1 ariega! 
leaved ques of Eurya japonica latifolia, the gree 
Japanese cuba, Osmanthus ilicifolius, the — 
To Tr all the plans seated in this s report either 
First, Second, o were awarded. 
The - of awards will be found in our advertising 
colum 
The Abbevil J. L. Rowe 
the outside of the cli; and had I not been me 
— the da ay — E which ets oia "n to discover a 
rack in a were king, I sho ould 
| probably have dram ot 
kI have just i referred to was 
| 
d sep of sif 
Jaw. r 
.G.S. Longmans. 18 
The finding of the Abbeville jaw took the world 
scientific and theological by sur prise, ee might: 
tricolor, 
Sedum Biebeldii medio- 
chee the centres of the 
pe ide ves - bi > e 
striped with yellow ; the silver- 
uonymus radicans ; a 
were reasons for this. 
"Ther 8. 
covery followed iud upon the heels of Professor | R 
an n to be 
rresponding with the ama E Sena. showing 
shia to me that the crack had b made good from 
the piaco where I had left off working UM so far 
oisi where I found the fi 
M This urely i is evidence enough. or anybody ; ; and Mr. 
Huxley's : and Sir Charles Lye ell's works, and thes e had 
* The result of the whole i is, I grep doubt, that 
ged v: 
s puri r rdi plant, called Iresine Herbstii, 
engem be found gets in beds out-of- 
doors in ‘sum and plant 
with long polsiqiveii toothed | leaves, and 
cung white blossoms, The same exhibitors also 
furnished a collection of tropical fruits, among "which | 
were ac ipd Brazilian Eugenias, the Vanilla, and the 
Custard Apple. 
From the pm. Du A xd at Chiswick cam 
Mr. Weir's Peperom d at p. 797 ; also the 
handsome Silegipm- MR. pis leaved Anthurium, 
likewise gener. noticed ; AM auratum, the fine- 
foliaged Lom: gibba, various Ferms, Selagine as, 
and hee z interesting plan 
Fro! rs, Jackman, of Woking, came plants and | d 
ngs of their fine new Clematises, 
Henderson & Co. buted v: 
Par vindi n Macer. ame variety of drin Sieboldii; ; 
Gardenia flo ariegata, with foliag 
mottled Hey oda with white ; Orsogna 
bai e iced domly oer planta palmate-s Mai 
bed 
mall pot, and furnished 
amount of its cup EON pale mauve- 
floral leaves, was — by Mr. Ingram, of the 
Gardens, cit 
nmt 
The same — — 
fi 
ment, scarcely ome what to think about the 
winian theories, and the Essays and Reviews 
ie jar must follow the flints and the ar to the 
y 
ed to 
| peace.” — 
limbo o scientific hoaxes, where we ins piede 
p son} ib magiasshim 
Mr. Rowe, w & person ly qualifi 
judge of Ce ibaa , assures though there mue 
be an ig cime lightness of pong: ina piane lec! 
— “the tude of fact has in 
id rot our readers wish te kiok the 
this CR 9 
us that, atis mutandis, we have 
Me oi rof the ned W Antiqa” m beautifully repeated, for 
workmen at Abbeville knew what the gentlemen 
id nd, an eui bh ngly. He refers to 
the second Number of the Anthropological 
ournal, for a Guicisingly French view of ie — 
i pm mg vis, Um 
according 
HA 
p state 3 the case, we recommend them to procure | in 
to | Physical Geography Sehools and General Readers 
By M. F. P Les eyes in the Novy Navy 
of the Confederate merica. Pp, 141. 
with the “ Physica 
fie gi esearches, extending 
over many —- Capt. Minby's explanation of the 
nie winds, and the important duties they per 
fan e rem; mains of m 
— but the. stains a his 
n’s | fk s | flora and fa 
h 
una ; the e " tain 
des, in collecti: 
Pathe has the play 
Gin 
the happy cheery M. B. de 
g finish of which he had laid the 
rien e 
firs! ha 
so L. aur 
ants, 
Chelsea, prar ed a large 
bg which were a semi-double 
ndi tty eerie iur 
variegata; 
Vallota eximia, "Anel yl 
[believe I am only stating a simple fact, when 
J 
as ex example, o t And 
an abun dance of rain, on one a for 
of are "Azo, a 
that 
Mr. Row says, gon are 
1. The genuineness of the ja 
question, as 
tents of the beds in which it was alleged to 
found. As to the first, there can be no g 
| the savans were 
confidence is in the. 
uineness of the jaw, as a eg XA 
ignon beds, by English 
ha ces ag ba a tbe quida de. S Ia ct 
Le of 2 a workm 
ss. sighted. 
erthes something was und, | s 
pejati fie the face o of the excavation, — — 
o e 
; 2. A far ore ed performs, i is a subject not xem Fai known. 
he rw nip age, and puis fossil con- | been found to possess the marvelious 
to have been Dee. the 
that | sun' 
“I | portion 
I say, | serves as a thick 
Moulin | moisture the 
fact, the 
on the | the freezing point. 
came to inform M, B. de — the icing MEE 
He fou 
the invisible va atmosphere 
lt has 
s power, first of 
earth from the fierce intensit ty of the 
the earth has i mbibed a 
rays, and then, when 
of solar heat, this is vi 
er there at 104" below 
tells us: ^ The cool 
werten tren 
ppes 
the hot 
tral Asia, were 
of the gem um. ste] of Cei 
| formerly a puzzle to travellers. who ventured there. 
the dickens any workmen could recognise ‘so van 
E 
7. 511 
ophy 
n flower; the pink variegated-leaved 
3 p rage 
^ move; the creamy-edged ‘evel variety of 
eat ead ponca macrophylla, Eurya latifolia variegata; | body, 
eaf covered with conspicu oni 
nge-coloured hairs; 
his last was carefully guarded with a eh as, The | 11 tk 
ame exhibitor likewise furnished Pelarg. nd the 
is was the famous jaw. Some 
| struck ang “its Ane black colour, its solidity, and it its | 
‘The air oft the oue icis vapour “enough: to 
| intercept the heat of the sun by day, 
radiation. from the yalleys by night, 
Also travellers i in 
whic 
Sao Paian tiful variet 
Saccolabium 
Um tm namely, metallic infiltration.” 
There reg pore suspici circumstances, for 
handsome spike of 
and 
now well Pat po dm 
i, with a 
ous 
| washing subsequently deprived it of its dark colour | 
n Africa, 
id 1), ar 
under e 
feriropicn, h day the sant l there 
is as fire, and the wind like ati ; "yet in this land of 
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