m 
“AND ON THE NATURAL PROVISIONS FOR EXTENDI 
THEIR DURATION. 
OcronER 8, 1864.] 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
963 
not lost to them by the accident of its not being now 
a "oi It is our wish to give the five annual prizes 
each, as originally announced, provided that 
lh of suficient. merit to satisfy the Floral Com- 
mittee are forthcoming. 
e of Torge - HILLE 
a correc ti 
with respect to the b habitat of es fine 
record. that work ort 
In the "ed which accompanies the beautiful 
in Vax | 5 * 
|these salutary though minute variations from the 
| original type: 
That the organs in question are in some cases 
tal to the perpetuation of the species cannot 
ind cer be disputed. 
ipn I as Annuals, of which the roots, as well 
and branches, die at the expiration of a 
ing exterminat they 
4 did — "prod seed. 
in WARNER'S w di 
as bearing — on the restment of the pl ant, i it 
m „useful 
_And even Perennials could 
similar to the original type; and if the type was 
allo ed to reproduce itself, who can proteng to say 
| how much Almighty allowed 
id " Who can say, that His glorious s scheme oe r peopling 
warnen of original animals and vegetables, bep m 
by Him in their reproduction "to exhibit 
variations, which should hereafter bec wong 
cham eters , as well as those iati re which even now 
M^ , and are nearly pia rerom but 
hardl 
ey ‘capable o of oeste themselves by suckers 
or Jashoote; ; whereas through the pagonoy y of the ns 
of insects, and the like, their Be eeds carried to 
but, observes M. VAN HOUTTE, this con ntradicts 
evidence of M. oue himself the discoverer of » 
not- ron den and those which a variable, 
and very subject to relapse in MLSS, ctio ion." 
But I am tempted to. believe de baci idi on 
ecies may have 
"m dou 
further hey in view. For we have 
ARNER must be indebted 
E expresses himself thus :— 
The Pha alenopsis nalis A 1 Philippine Islands 
nd larg 
an vue ari rete se ther 
a by possessing s operor vigour - constitution, or | 
oet fitness for the soil and clima 
B 
inhabits small a 
season of or ^us iniit but one never 
which are sombre an 
hillerian: 
ryness is 
meets with it in the 
fou! h 
fores aud consequently i is even less exposed than that the p 
| found that the two processes go 
to stagnant moisture. 
DR. DAUBENY ON THE DECAY OF SPECIES, 
ENDING 
TIO 
ory Section of the British | 
a when 
reason to peor the external conditions to remain 
unc chang ed, a radual de Lage nny of the race would 
out of its own orga- 
arising 
— fees es ined ean bed 
f pro m 
ut it is p ven imei: hanerogamous | nisation, are gerit would appear to be more 
plap thore, are many, such as that American pest, | or less rapid, accor the d e of variation 
he Anachar A ai of zw ur efforts invade | incident to p iren Neb place soonest in plants 
le A est e Te re division of their parts; | propaga "Ime A and more slowly in those 
whilst Mene: like t the We epik Willow, d o the same "Dr Lin My os 
thro "—- assistance, although only one of the | r. Lindley indeed lays. it down as an axiom, that 
es aeg e been brought over from its original | 
b enn 
d amon sense, or as implying more than that bead will p 
so ong as the external an cia 1 remain unalter 
it were, hand 
and, and seem to be equally intended for bringing 
seems hardly resueilabl 
ith the facts which he ordk as to t LM 2x 
Apple trees and other vegetables from some internal 
pee of dec 
all deference therefore to this and other great 
t but think the question still open 
out othe 
Hence we may be aae to to 5 r 
that of t 
eek 
for rom sexual lants pestle’ 
to discusion an eri to 
e, that the bli 
the Vi 
municated b o the Nat tural H 
E 5 
Dine] O T 9 
In the original paper I had stated rather too 
migh 
La plants alluded to are prop ga ated 
REM ea aes 
nning o Time an 
viable tersunation of 
all 
even ron it assumed to be protected from all 
cept by sexual reproduction—a | P 
two cases, no Tesi 
y 
pat one I Inodified in 
nication afterwards, by admitting the existence of a 
cativ aw o 
forbids the “iong Aontinuniós of a 
ruin be renewed by frequent variations from the 
val type. 
uses of injury, and from d 
few rage to the ped in allusion. to the cases of 
whi ch 
rnal ca g 
etion incident upon errors of diet, or excesse 
every kind, wo — má through the mere | 
decay of their essentia onani. 
Nor would plants, regarded as'individuals, be rec 
The well-Enown vee + ofthe occurrence pih isolated 
blue banclilo of Grapes on stocks of was T of 
isolate d bunches of red Cu rrants mingled with the 
from the same fate, although their existen 
pi vul capable of indefinite ex den nsion, owing “to the 
p! of from. 
Pieces NER ‘ 
But it eoma W Be eo Ra NUMEN 
no organism. „can repeat it self indefinitely without 
Thus cuttings from a plant are so to degenerate | cas 
m stock, Mt — 
when grated upon a es 
n 
yellow Hoses oom J vari ega 
te Pew A pio 
we £a red 
kg eng: 
t Gi bowen, 
as illustrative of this ore mi 
is, however, one poe Bay iei the two 
“Phere is 
(To be Continued). 
ORNAMENTAL PLANTING No. IV. 
IT may in carte 
some of my Senders hon 
: E 
"of rene wh 
corpore sano wei, bhe si 1T 
pleasure rather fort. To an individual 
thus soundly. constituted, the balmy breezes of e 
that — ina deviation fr 
Mgmt nm are arising pr probably | & 
es, namely, 
the 1 prim 
from some 
moval” type 
from Some morbid condition. of growth, or 
d the snows of winter, with their prow gt | prelimi 
ae accompaniments, and sequences, are only = 
ny fresh sources of knowledge, gratification, ai 
all trees belonging 
a seed it is 0! E 
were ps is worn mark the t 
in 
occurrence, alee bal in various degrees 
rand an authority, will probably meet with n 
rin the Pond i a Me ce M. Decaisne, | 
d des mies: crm 
many cert f Pear trees 
igi riw animal or tbe dae 
one 
egg 
It may be stated as a general la Py ok 
delight. 
Ire ae a E 
a bleak plain one December day - 
in i face of a big tbh ea wind 
r 20° belo w the freezing point. 
A 
h the | then’ 
"Shortly after- 
m a seed, was iu BiR ero kg like ctr of its 
retain | parents 5 in all vergence from the 
Lo: 
with a change of climate—a change of whic à ag 
gave no om nye indication, and which 
r demde properties after à 
hanged. S s. instances the aree t t 
the male organ “upon a I of the female. Hence 
deeply à 
e value of 
itel, and oth: 
r. Lindley, also, i * Theory and Practice of 
tieulture," Ch. ir, has given the weight of em 
hority to i ich plants ome conte anny re fan 
by 
tti 
distinction of sexes in animals o de T 
which nevertheless aan their kind ut any 
sexual union having occu urred, may be = ee as a 
shelter to 
young ner delice ae ne a of vegetable life. 
ought then, and have thought since, that the 
horticulturist who measures the probable influences of 
the weather by the thermometer alone, does not rise 
the 
I t 
nstances, in which 
Mv continued for a long time unc 
practical putem | 
t 
| Nature, and may be e recognised, ev 
totis Sr D o bind themselves to the: sepe, in its 
correct estimate of the powers he has to contend 
Lek while I regard with no antipathy the bi iting 
asing t r E 
be: 
orgia aid Leni hm n of es version à 
this introduced. 
Aud a anb the ends aimed at by this arrangement, 
may be that of a provision fora longer continuation of 
One obvious effect of this introduction of varieti 
dive n the 
ex 
terations, sO Ney o may gakoa that the 
ves placed u pira their sareni 
Aul se well, Dean Herbert i in 
p tod by v cuttings, ete te int to such a law 
of Nature as chat which I ete meing ; and, 
if this be the case, any cause which b 
certain degree of variation from P 
Der 
Tam the think that o subsidi “We. p say, that the. order to n ply r 
end aimed at in the reproduction of ii se Bone) their kind meant that the p ld be precisely | A group 
aa trai AN. of UEM anal Tes sexual in winter ; c cem 
premis type his Paper on rip beidisation,” * had expressed himself as 
foll: 
ril bo e Bmt is one Rinait «at tes He 
| era and. S een wind, mM that these things 
e of vi ast importa: anc n the o of Nature's laws, it 
is my p ose objects and 
agencies which art om science Javé laced at our 
disposal to modify and pe — Moe gre un- 
aglis 
The real eso erg jatha TY v 
delicate t 
S ho ied iss 
4 | new gardens is strongly advocated ; 
are invaluable for they and the idea 
of warmth which they convey. But a garden or 
wholly with evergreens, 
P 
would be bold 
heavy in summer, & tonous winter. 
[ped iiy abound, "but Phe ey must ot 4 supera 
To ire to be judiciously ree 
s should be mingled with 
properly arrang 
or; the dk green, the glaucous and the variegated, 
t be rep presented i in varying proportions to suit the 
surrounding scenery. 
Yel 
ms a glowing picture 
green or the 
* Journal of the Horticultural Society, vol. ii., 1847. 
DA 
| red berries is no less pleasing ; 
Holly for 
Holly with its iris ot brig rht 
the yellov 
