Novemper 19, 1864,j 
THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE MIRRARRIODARIMA, GAZETTE. 
1111 
ELS = Books. 
Goethe’s 
the 
Tressdied, T Emily x Cox; with den. 
Notes by Maxwell T. Masters, M.D., F.L.S. - 
. 34. Pac wre from the Journal of Botan 
December, 1863. 
So much has been said about Goethe’s merits as 
iscoverer of the doctrine « of the conversion of leaves 
lants. | 
kingdom so so far as the higher Cryptogams bj nd 
ed, but his Taf. es do not seem to ire been | the o toge beds n in fall meh Arme out p 
ai inte no fewer than 12,000 gallons of water. 
rance to the flo 
wo! 
nier into any ils 
as nee 
their developmen nt We must b content ourselves | servatory, whic! 
with giving a portion of the results at which the| mansion without going out of doors. In a warm corner 
author has arrived. t one end of the conserva Series of 
tospids are formed within mother me from | flower beds, which are kept gay in summer with 
Spermatozoi 
which ot at Mm become free, and consist of two | nary p 
body, there i js in this spot alway: 
80 few we ever met with his treatise, | 
of it, ^r mem when accom- 
ied by expo notes an d illustrations, of which 
it stands so m uch 
pete a soft sly-shaped furnished. with. two 
means 
or mo! as indages, by of 
move p "with greater or (de rapidity in water, 
They have 
m i ^ 
perfect development. Two colossal 
out of huge blocks ") white marble, m the 
: Tittle the surface. It 
unfortunate that the essay was original! bli t 
without illustrations, and that tup Git 
the nature of — but are not fosa 
by a cover p oF aerate nor in general do they 
possess 
any n 
In Alge the bod; ly is subglobose or subelliptic, ben ring | 
steps by by which the o rná mental groun d properly so 
stands, and on od fe get hod dedii geome this 
and the foun s of 
> 
use of ae word transformation DV of | modification, 
there is so much of fanciful the p 
two or í. In Ferns and 
pseudo- Ferns, the body fores. ü fiat spiral ribhnd, ind cure to 
oe yep eR e: p x ar d this 
the AK psi pesci on 
on and legitimate Epema a fom 
indisputable as these circumstances 
vented in ali probability the general acceptance of the the | 
e 
poi. af alia.. In € ind, ti and Mosses the 
elongated, a wrapped up 
| oe eg the Ns 
| body t fitst 
within "Y XT. cell, and bearing ht mise extremity | from the’ win 
ru 
pana science. “ An edition,” says Dr 
ne of his instructive notes, “of Goethe’s papers on 
Natural History was published 
r. C. F. M 
be author's origina al 
2 
rawings, as well as three 
. Ma asters, in|. 
pleasing appear walk 
of AN n, within a wd fet of the 
course thro 
roy - the grounds, d 
p thr ough amber-coloured glass 
jest. by means oi 
kpaa 
Spermato: n in 
tmp that x Pam an 
that Charads; and there exists, moreover, w 
tre 
P 
ying out acelin 
reget to the e germination and growth of the se 
gar i intim grass walk, along the sides of whieh is a va 
an ate relation between the famil ilies 
ethe 
e entitled * Wirkung dies: d welieier 
Entfaltung der darin vorgetragenen n Ideo, "1330, (The 
small bede, surrounded by Box and gravel, is dins 
elegant, in n de sigh. Irish Ye ews, pyramidal Box trees, 
in the alge - m the simplest sexual organs, and | 
a direct ger ion. With the ry ia of Ferns 
of its leading idea.) Dr. Masters has elf accom- 
udo-F. ap * e contrary, w e the jr tion ne here and there in suitable positions, fo orm 
hime ment of complicated sexual organs an ‘o-embryo, | appropriate ornaments in highly kept geometrically 
d nd S plate containing a few well | or, if CET. pods a d Rhi ia pro-embryo appropriate or of this kind. 
ae Goeth n of the female apparatus on the pro-einbryo, Finally, other division o g ve napi 
Aa e doos not prole to to be the prime móverin|with the type of Charads (includi and | that just alluded to by a noble 
pn ory us, and more especially Wolf in M we have similarly-constructed sexual organs on | an elaborate laid down in Box pe different 
of Generation, anticipated in some | the fully gy reser plants; no direct ee ah ge coloured grav e wl sunken panel and 
i Sy Miara Ak aa lassan Bansal many | however, follows, but rather the formation of a substantially edged with mong the em- 
pres 2 riri sagacious they embry = the spore, on which a knot dara pid, | broidery work in Box are introduced bulbs in spring 
won pe ren 2 with the teac ^ of modern physiolo- |f from Phiob. the > young plant springs. The Charad type | and bedding plants in summer. Choice Conifers are 
des v of Linus were impeded by his dotted about in the — of this garden, as 
Cory of the p “pat which k wood and bun: 'Spermatozoids closely resemble the zoospores of some | masses of Rhodode and hardy Azaleas, 
d lopment of leaves, flo and æ and Fungi, but exact as the resemblance some- tho latter surrounded by bel A quifolium 
Owers, an 
Goethe had the merit of working out fat cea 
perhaps was possible in 
c he is rie aget eom ay ire 
wrong, where science itself was 
. 1 In such cases Dr, Masters has not failed to 
ugh ly 
of eru 
which, when in diver look ata dreman not unlike 
ge 
times is, they differ in functio! ibility 
of an mayne? of gold, and its „glossy evergreen leaves also 
and in the imposs 
their being developed by — 7 into new | 
individuals never 
They are essen ntially short-lived organ 
ip tud ext of ta at length acquire a an coriis 
ich m akes them "ur 
sS transito 
uring winter. rend 
oceupy prominent 
of the aetion of spiral vessels in the formation of 
hl + dw 
| and tazzas, “pliant with | flowers, 
on v S me) vá 
+) f I: ish. 4 ho ich 
ES 
3 
organs, and the effect of pure faide Md gases fall to 
the ground, as bei e creatures merely of his own 
imagination, a 
ES 
materials fo t of this doctrine than 
our own, as we have never lost a fitting o 
of giving ions of such anomalous opments 
in flowers as serve to illustrate the doctrine 
sepals, petals, pistils, ovules are all, in 
whole or in part, modifications of lea In 
clear that ust take the axis 
the main Me: e^ me mansion passes. v. y weli 
3 ked with fish, p. important in t| 
W: a i p SEAT oF Cork MM dd yaad also all song tbat side of tho 
ITLEY ( THE F, rk n carriage wi a 
Rıcar HON. THE or ; (4 Dun of lakes, 4 a a Sie: ofi, dupécinlly 4 
class garden establishments, this stands in the first | viewed from the upper windows of the house. 
rank. It is situate within nine miles of Wor-| Among Conifers planted as specimens w. 
cester, The mansion, a uilding, apparently | à Wellingtonia, some 12 feet in height, with 
of Bath stone, with noble porticos and flights|a wonderfully ne-lik ; fine 
tone stairs ku deer Danai nob ý 
m 
count, as also perhaps in the case of ovules. | w, and enri with inequality | was also growing here but its indi- 
Though it is quite clear fro! h examples as the} of surface which might be looked m ia a repe cated that it w t à frost 
— one of the White Clover, that the outer coat | within sight of the Malvera Hills, under mong bedding plants Mrs. ag geen isa — 
ki east is foliaceous in its origin, it is very the porticos just alluded ists of polished seis Pelargonium, here ns elsewhere, on ite 
t the central part, which the embryo sac is | of different and flights of me | handsome foliage, as are also Golden Chain, d; Kj d 
TI: m the axis of the 30 yards in wid: i beautiful turf. n enox; among other Pelargoniums we n 
bres however, ovules be regarded as or not, | terrace, sup by a stone-faced wall 44 feet in Stella, a nosegay rude which stands the weather well 
this may ly ood. The exact relations, | height, and traversed by a gravel walk 16 feet in width. | both in beds an tham Rose, hires 
E saf dho which le Attached to the jon rvatory | and Cerise vean i Y olov Galeeoladisa wete 
com in t plants are not at present cleurly | 90 feet in length and 60 feet in width, with upright | as was also Lo belia speciosa, ' which forms a fine edging 
ablished. At any rate the embryo itself sides some 20 feet in y | by 
-— new growth, wi of its axis p ted b thheld by it. Gazania s splendens makes a showy a 
—— contrary to those of the p ut, | i d glass. T cos against the M wall of ps Pisilient late bed. vd Dahlias were gren 
id oh Die duse Ju the higher Coy E pp | pano anfante & trees, an er attractive | Palac e Scar! let, Golden Ball, d Alba Fioribunda, e 
sem ped po te hr A Ora n of those who | vegetation, from AME il rise t te erns,| The kitchen gardens are worn out, and n nes, 
herede ascertain w^ he E Xp. by 3 which Araucarias Camellias, set off at the pon e mi- jin a style com te with the icit e» d fac 
took it w E e a - » the tm " p cl halt, establis’ furit; us iod & to be form sed es, 
$ orb terial r i liri tifoli equally | some of the T meno connec’ td vi ith n of 
T n an article d * Vegeta nd. Celer aa tn id which ready up. ung Let tinea planted 
bl 
Morphology, its History and Present Condition,” in | 
the cea] aan mina Medico-Chirurgical Review for | 
January, 1 
l ki are | glass houses You 
edged ith dressed stone, are marble-payed pathways | out in borders here are i greatly from t 
and in the centr sinall surface caterpillar of a moth ca 
has 
& ds width, reisas onvol- | attacks of the 
us yen d rne y whioh when playing ax Agrotis' segetum, which 
bocubifl e it is by a M ene ingly destructive to Tu 
o£ tothe raga At aen the | Paced the te i wall 22 ughout the try. 
Jepetabie Kingdom, Kap Schacht. flower Pav stret in front of two] no 1 
RUE Hy pal (Fab Ii sides of the pie Eel s Shen Eo pe cng at z like “ 
Tt is scarcely preme portance o by means of a neat balust wall | ] door when ie real 
C TP comp dieses crim | some 8 acres of dress ground, circ in outline, ‘an guide the wherabouts oF Ws poii the decay oF 
tis discovery Pat i organisms in the vegetable laid out with pan taste and skill for which its designer, | the plant. 
Kingdom s Ra rgi mii abi mys. Mr, Nesfield, is ished. ies T the park and pleasure eye are many noble 
minute which impregnation is ered ore in | two = ofa valley, at the lowest level of which is an | specimens of which, broken and 
animals, was e first 80 80 startling that t their hiogy was | irregular piece water, furnished with | time- have a highly Mes ap ce. On 
rema. allowed, much less their identity ore a sort of | magnificent fountain, t the main jot of which when in] a few, unfortunately bm d we observe cot! 
mpromise was made by ma stable full ope a heiglit of 145 feet. The| production, usually referred to ungi, d sometimes 
onganiams — while. those of att ere | central d éniiinla sot Perseus and Andó eda, the | called Psilonia nis nivea. Eo is, however, undoubtediy th 
called s atozoa. — back destroying some sea monster, Wale ave seen it on healthy trees ; 
i them sooner or later. The 
for the yt ence, an PEN ha uh i in the | f 
present day believes that they are really fom fore iied 
to infos 
cht has with great expense of ti 
-— investigated these bodies p the kamaa a 
'atozoid. Pil: 
ps eam "E Manian d Schacht. " m 
pp butit pro sobaby d roys 
sive otdanger. Cupids seated on dolphins at either | only r eager A with pr) w we are sh 
end of the basin, throwing water towards t substance off and rubbing the pn ts 
mix! 
group, together with m aquatic contrivances, all 1 | affected whe EE grease. This, 
make up a series of water works unequalled of their nd tedious matter with 
kind. Another fountain, equally classic in design and | ti 
effective in action, is placed so as to form a striking 
