' 910 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND i ld GAZEITE. [Avevsr 13, 1864, 
of an interwoven mass of the stems of herbaceous | purple trees shrubs and p lants | 
| aa hagy travel hundreds of miles over the say nothing of the varied tints of spring, 
„are in fact quite as marvellous as these | changing fas of autumn, When 
ae e or garden, these okseta or the best of them, 
There is the slightest reason for thinking tene be so chosen and a red as to hei ghten |, 
that this. pus fd has anything to do with the beauty of each PTS i harmon 
Manna of the Ier leue; it scare ely a answers any ^ sae ert the parann” unmean ele int into 
injurious than those in which the stamens ang 
2 | pistil are pra. . M. J. B. g 
—— In eopscqdunan of the representations of some 
“the Boss growe S Pu the month of Aug ust wonld 
; ifon too early for the erita of : 
SEEDL LING ENGLISH Ross for which our 
506), 1 prize is 
one of its character ta, however, of beautiful pictures, qerfeo in the 
more eid d often been so regarded, rather selves, 7 yet sufficiently c mplete 
from its supposed miraeulous origin than from a any | whole. 
sound reason, Among other instances it may be| Are we met by the perce that there is not 
of their perpetu tual- "flowering qualities, “we wish it to be 
understood that we are quite content that the con. 
sideration of the award should stand over, as su, 
till the 27th of „Se epte mber, the day on which UT 
l Co 
mentioned that specimens which were supposed to|even yet ialficiout variety to mplish all this ? 
have fallen from the clouds exist in the Museum | We join issue with the obje Loved It is true that 
of Natural History in the Armenian Convent of| we cannot find among trees and shrubs the bright 
S. Lazzaro, in an island of that name near Venice. colours and strong contrasts met wit in flowers 
Its obvious differences from the true Manna may But we do not want them. 
have induced the writer of the article in the whole country a flower garden, We 
Smirn’s Dictionary to omit any mention of it | repetition or rgpleBon, but would rather avoid 
y 
though, indeed, Dryptorstle plants, as, for|both. Quite a: as. Po iem in their del re the | fne A 
ugh, 
instance, vegetable Rust and Mildew, do not find a|more sober hues e remedy we se o be 
lace in the work, though something might have | found in breadth than in intensity of colour. 
n fi 
inei lent Lecanoræ, a species which forms | a E a nt, 
is, 
E —— Abt p. 460 
e rhe fromthe pers’ kilki " dins uis De 
mitte ee in hat month will be 
held. LE 
we invited attention to & hybrid 
posed the name of BERBE 
mens we had then ‘Seen prova ld "ch ont - h L 
hrub i y dE which were of 
been anid about them with advantage. urther Sda on of these views we are | asile jns jueten of sins d. : M in. B. empotritijii A 
may be remarked, that besides the three | pro mised a series of pape E from a well-known | it i 
bee 
r number for June 18, d we pero ve a | in 
pricot colour o and prod ; 
racemes of from thr hie s ince Ao the leaf - 
irub has something the charaeter, on 
must add Exo to ‘their beauty, as well as 
indefinitely. the per "-—: - “er effectiveness. 
t The By bag! flowers, hang i 
eaf-axily and 
t | are e as large as Dorie in the sa 
u 
e 
They are ve more cana ty ground up 
with Wheat, than used s y. The sheep tha 
feed on vd pg exist, but do not thrive. 
h r 
v ho sd lately laid another paper before the ; Acade emy 
seen men of bon dr rop from trees, especially the RESPIRATION OF FLOWERS, wl is no 
from the Elm, and have swept them up like sugar beet importance, ev a practical point of 
plums from the smooth to JI. wall. ^ SP The f 
byious, homers j Het pd : number of pers ed i 
i of Exypt c Dou dt and whieh we copy from the er for J uly 16, 
have been. ed wy: at a precarious supply. 1864, of that eran scientific roo; * The 
Such a aren umstanee would be A miraculous | È ader 
LEA racle itself, kA hall never account | RAT Every flower IR in a limited atmosphere o of| 
for satistactorily by any ordinary: solution. M. J. B. al air consumes oxygen 
E adl in Me topos ios, whether the flower 
as smell o 
Somz one has noted as a characteristic of the 
: 2. The cir dE under which the phe-| 
present age its tendency to diffusion, expansion, | romena are accom 
į : plished being identical, this 
and universality. — Hortioulture sud Lendwapà proportion of shape acid increases in propo ortion 
Gardening, quiet professions as hey are, are never- 
` theless pm e infine Pu a this onward | ^? the z ‘empora : Esc uantity of | red pts Hw 
Mavo -— yim em ming = a oneal rule flo e dk, uto us 
science built on the solid and fe xim foundatio rovided thei weight i is the same, | the safest and ea of the many plans he hs « 
the physiologist’s Dei in the field of v sort [produce a a yos larger quantity ‘of carbonic acid Lid to Me: their yonim A small piece of 
anatomy. sea rdening, rous when ratus in which the experiment is ould be trodden into the hole after the tse is 
excited by the progress of the sister arts and d performed i is. v exposed to the light, than when place up that were: 
: in to but nevertheless in some cases A *t Jast night, dá d observes, and in every o 
, | this proportion is sensibly the same under both 
a 53 tha | circumstances 
most industrious and inea te y find ample scope | 4. Whe u is substituted for normal air, 
for the g Y und eph. | the diferid eed € e less marked. 
Time was when Lawn E GARD € had| 5. The flower while developing emits a little 
ow would Brown and Repron, Price and|vitala 
d 
have rejoiced over the TREES, SiRUBS, a xt ower left in an inert gas emits small m 
poa 
GILPIN 6. vd very 
Prants which sally i osessiblo b have at their quantities of carbonic acid. 
only imagine wha 
the en of of Lo d'a JaxAacnpon now had these due a 
ccessible in their day. ape n kno tibl th 
But Mile modern landseape gardeners revel influent uf light Wende the aren ont of plants 
amids sath and variety of these later times, | give out oxygen, fixin oñ, the flowers or 
org ic 
t that the happier days in |other coloured p cons) be P to form carbon 
sed | acid, thus establishing a sort of equilibrium, s 
e remindi f | that not materially altered as reg 
| fact, we cannot but record here our conviction | its constituents. Several of the points however 
eg re, not PM sufficiently availed | noticed -— had not been € ascertained, 
Eid e treasures recently brought within | and on reviewing the whol re may see that the | Pax 
their each. i they are “aoquainted with them, prejudiciat "eflct of flowers at night in heated 
not an old wives’ fable. For though the 
branches by art in availing themselves of their quantity of (t eatin acid formed under the in- 
aid, If they are not, it is surely an important | fluence of light is in many — rei ben 
part of their business to study ane en. them, | than that which is formed in a dar th 
We ict that he who shall first do this, and | _— rence is not great, and therefore, "^ addition 
ood taste the almost infinite variety in | to the evil en nee of flowers at nig well as 
tint now existing among trees and |in € we have to add that of the leaves, “which 
Horticulturist to secure er crop. AHOURS |t 
and produces carbonic 
Senis DS 
SCAP. 
but im pope he ma Marii with hi ch | more carbonic acid than when it is in full bloom— | Amer 
rs, and. the 
to work were limited in the extreme. |a fact Mis si can be explained by a more powerful i 
ea 
e with e certainty to in 
‘the patrio 
ybrid ery 
shoots four feet long in a season, that it is clothed 4 
neat narrow — foliage, and Lab, with 
profas of ange- m — — s 
summer, we shall yes = enough to w that itis 
ukele DE a red cided. dip: Suh only for. 
sure groun - hrubberies, but also 
Vat and 2 preserves. 
e learn from the gens of B. 
Acad 
th 
wipe ehe ot his eminent services 
KAROR and traveller, 
— Mr. Bert, of Bretton Hall, mentious, in 
West oj of Scotland Horticultural Mag azine, pus 
T sps were dead, We have seen the same plan 
y Mr, RIVERS, ded ied testimony to its effi 
— Some few months ago the newspapers ann 
that the Tra- br had been found in the g 
a d 
he urna 
th Te pnt refecti to to is the well-known C 
s, th oe ered Jersey Tea, the leaves 
some ma: so long ago as the perit 
Aunan Tavola: Dr. Gray "a tates that he 
amined a specimen of this por. en E pi 
ndicate its o 
remarks, BM S n the beverage | "aui = Ma 
report ed Q4 of its qualities. 
Royal Horticultural Societ ty, seems to open 
tions : — importance, and will dou 
with 
“Pall 1 Mall SAJ Jetoi jay eh 
ad 
ing sciences, 1 have dra 
rm ng among 
shrubs, will not only obtain for his profession a 
Eos inh n t win for himself the best position | by “the flowers. It ‘appears, moreover 
in tis a matter of indifference, and A. pé 
Familiar acquaintance with many of the leading | it proves injurious, as = sometimes the case in 
and estates in England — "t A2] peculiarly susceptible agr gent whieh are 
great want in the landsoape is alja eot t» ‘die of a ond aromatic pains, 
ae yg and colour that should a depressed G raia of ital energy, its effee 
Why indeed should it | must be estimated independently of any er 
als, As to form, n lt 
3 
— ar to be less injurious tien ose which are 
source of mischief, Full-blown flowers, moreover, | n 
i th hich 
Jaege- 
d = ust expanding, contrary to commonl: eived 
e and ' prts and double flowers it should seem Er m 
They ha: 
ariücial condition of ena so x 
! objected to ài 
a. No rede «d mavit ye the 
n espec! ects, been very ad 
cause of Horticulture, particular 
They ni “encourage great i 
culture t of p 
such planta Pw can be pre ed y s 
been product 
be- called the Big a0 fashional 
a ome into existence an 
