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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[DECEMBER 17, 1964, ° 
— — 
that the draft of the Bye-laws now furnished to the 
At this stage of the proceedings 
| remarks appear to be eye! just, and fully borne out by | 
| the stateme: nisi in the t 
under the — of 
| eminently 
no leader of any note, were 
sful, while all the military prowess of 
me chiefly relative to the Mr.S Stabbs pe out Pd as the es p = Richard I. Christendom effected absolutely nothing in the Holy 
election ot M rs of Cou ei ded the ja carcer | did not fa ìl ina iod of transition, but in the luli | Land. 
of power invested in the latt ared with t enry IL. and King Jo n, when 
the Fellows, and one or two amendments were cem men's minds were dd with foreign rather than] The Botanical Magazine for E ove — 5 
and lost, jy the | domestic affairs, period will be found barren of| portraits of the following plants:— 
Chairman and adopte ] by the meeting, v «hat incidents for the constitutional historian. The list of| folding eni showing the very singular imei 
the existing By "Dem be repealed, and ‘he: new ones | Richard’s politicians is confined = very few names, | alluded to at p. 914, which occu 
adopted, sg - amendments n there wi Mr. | and his bes Py men were used up in thej plant, better known as Vanda Lowii. "rhe figu ee 
Chester also moved and Sir A. Waugh s oly Land and in his French vam; yet the history | taken from Mr. Rucker’s plant, which is stated to he 
ond 
- ane the E i a the Council p abs 
qim get anew Charter.” 
HI t 
Ho 
Le Ms short reign bring v us in contact with a variety of 
9 feet high, and to SAL produced six flower 
ded o 50 bl 
e important reigns. The 
n of the new ads had been en des y 
the 
MUR 
and another vote of thanks to the Chairman, 
Wésiihg separated. 
ENTOoMOLOGICAL: Dec. 4.—F. uns Esq., n LS, 
President, in the chair. ` 1 ber of e apo 
logical publications presented to cat ecole by th 
Society, were placed i the table. Mr. Jenner Weir 
exhibited a series o! 
consisting of the spiral tongues differen 
tterflies, which e exhibited great t diversity of st UE 
especially in the minute — at [the apex, even in 
M € allied species. F. Bond exhibited a draw. | 
of | collision with 
by of longer and m 
Ld Meh - pma and West together, and. the 
Powers of Euro elos 
perfection for a The spikes attained to such 
an rigs td iength "that they had to s su 
o basal 
Moreover, the Kin miis i ections involved ie 
in the conflicting interest of Ttaly, France, Germany, 
upported 
dissimilar flowers of each 
spike ‘are aa it “yellow w dotted with eir rimson, the 
remainder much EN pe green, almost 
and Spain. ee Mae aret lord of Ireland 
Seotland, and Wal ales; 5 du uke of No mandy, Aquitaine, 
njou and 
wh 
ge irregular botela 
Pe | 
reddish b oath civilis, a Peruvian Orchid, 
Sapatos lord of Britan. Auvergne, and 
use 5 
king of Arles; conqueror of AIRS I ahir Arai and for & diem the | curio! 
ruler of the | 
at every potentate in Tin Christendom, 
with ail” his faul 
Richard, cellent 
pm E ye affairs, gained him many and ardent 
He the Cr 
J 
e 
life and soul of the 
ey I Clark ethibited a Paian g pr 
made by the Rev. P. Cambridge above 
m 
reing his m 
een i 
Bis: wy pisaa struck ta into the enemy and 
termed defeat into bag His exploits, as here 
vd 
many ex 
qualities. His matehless bravery, and his ata nin e t 
rusade, | but 
with tufted Out vaginate stema, bearing one lineat - 
oblong leaf, and short radical peduncles d ua Hi 
us dull bro wajah ellow le-stain i 
re ial "toa 
andsome hardy 
Rocky Mou nktan; the flowere féiserbiblo for 
recorded, y), fabulous, and. elicited the 
admiratio: ds. 
all; he D the power of winning the love of 
better men, had a wonderful facility in pardoning 
pers vends — showed a rare tact in th 
nisters, Strangely —— 
certa 
ne C aoro ehe 
the most beautiful of all herbaceous plan Si 
leptoceras is rega as am ochroleucous variety — 
Mimulus luteus cupreus, the Mimu cupre of 
gardens, which Sir W. Hooker is “satisfied is only — 
e of the many varieties of the Linnean Mimulus — 
luteus," of which guttatus, variegatus, rivulusis a d 
Smithii are gi as synonyms.— Vitis opis, — 
t of the upper nest "few low, 
he nest, and entered - eic at Ps ier 
r. Stone ade obse m on the | 
in des nature which made him slow to suspect evil 
in - worst - men. His vices were those of the camp, 
ng indeed, but without the smallest suspicion of 
inything worse behind. 
It was not y iy that such a king should want an 
historian, Nor did he, Many have given the hist ory 
of his reign, Pet. the writer of the Itinerarium 
species p 
The thick 
sou) byl Dr, We Jwitsch i in n South i Ma 
y the December Number we have Sue of:— 
mena flori ribu nda, a New Holl 
e rms 
gt NIS over all the others, in that he was 
acuminate yh y thyrsoid pais of s 
nt for exhibi- nifestly present at the siege of ED and an eye-| unattractive flowers, succeeded $ bright Hi | 
Mn num of Mim ness of "t on of the scenes which he describes. For large as peas, which are represented as very hand- 
tc had | this au n internal evitae. itis manifest | some. The old Engenia elliptica is a i berried 
exhi Some | also that conversant with the best classical | variety. The flowe ar in winter, “A 
spiders nests from South Australia, | authors, Pd that he was pm of writing Latin | succeed them in early spring, causing the été 3 
whilst the as well as prose. ate some of the | of the slender branches to bend do dodo Se E 
e derby | aportant which serve to identify the writer. — |— 4r. i 3 
CR org Ree n the chapters pem the relief of Joppa, the bastate" "p.n in the forests. of Uruguay. 3 
t.'S. Stevens | r r. Du pepe da ated | exploits of Richard appea hed tl with a white bar down their centre, and, 4 
P and. Var River Aug Z ^u in whic yk the H be nating point, and certainly t the reader’s interest i (1 E 
e despateh o er of ins raised to a very high pitch - king is the first t the throat with le, It is a graceful bu : 
England, as well as a living gorilla, which had unfor- | leap from -— tale a md R^ to the ái MÀ i not & uide —D drobium Eo o 
tuna 'dn d S: a ia it to the | lined wi Bat en ofa to call it, Di castum, an tie 
vessel, ied. n sent a memoir, | are at length put = Aight, thak king ic ne first to sitter | from Japon and the Island of Tsu-Sima, with s ; 
consisting of dapi of | the o Satgrideous genus | the town, where he ys his banner upon the wall, | stem moderaic-sized pure white flowers, not 
emper be and two new allied gen Mr. Kirby read emet Ch T , thus encouraged, sall from | of a: showy character, bat goin : bee frá- 
es on the eynonyuical. nelature of the castle, and make a terrible slaughter of the Parks, , "ato $ 
various British species of butterflies; and the s d ths caught v Alig res, cultivation, ag Ors 
a^ of Captain e 8 fee ts ext day the Mamelukes and (Missouri) biennial, with pinnatifidly-toothed 1 
vou especially wit eve to rat Richard at stone as he lies too securely in| and large sprea eenish-yellow flowe 
e Bombyx Mori, was also Camp; and very nearly s their attempt. | Thompson, by whom it was introduced, observes 
alarm is — ; the king, suddenl _ from | “it can hardly be looked u amen! 
sleep, puts on his coat of mail, and searcely gets together | plant ; the flowering the 
JArotices v. Books. 10 horsemen, and those "almost all that fhe possessed, | ing, and at a ^. ober, when - is - 
"m L the ripening of the seeds,”— 
wi ye oL t. kr he by Willie Willen 86 Siehe MA. Longa Longman X ‘ra ^ pd "I of tidie inen. king however slender ,Shru bby | grasihotm plant, « quite dire 
cr ax Scammer 1864. Pp. : » car atre : ^ ew Zealand origin, and is of erect PC 
rage oh War rier ven — mi 
tion of the Master of the os which pe alread dy |g d, cem annes iom e — "eet " « orae ila aiias oU det r pw lila 
information beforetime locked fet 1 te is ,bent well forward, and the lances are held in | me has flowered at Kew in a cool | 
n reach of the st udent, I but from its elevation (15-2000 feet) in tle Middie 
— e. ds firmly dug i into the Soil. The | Island of New w Zealand, it is expected to prove hardy: 
n | ranged behind. climate.— Epistephium Williamsii, a beautiful te 
he | Takes po a a whirlwind and charge in sere band but|restrial Orchid, related to Sobralia, introduced from 
p — — f shields, — each troop ieu oe — mor : at p. A: e 
: recoi cross bowmen shoot down as many the two — lorist a 
Me eere qe mtu are of the Vi Winkfteld Pear, sh 
Mu Then King Rie slic forth with his 10 horse- pas relies iro Me kem d 
Y the sor k neas oe phe hybrids. EM 
nd slashing ofthe head, shoulder, an e Floral aks contains, amongst one $ 
on|arm of a potable Emir at a singl le blow. He reseu = tuper subjects :—Achimenes  Rollissoni, K 
he m of. Leicester a a knight who had ern] kam hybrid abel at br and the rope $i i 
flor: fim 
and were being dragged on as captives. 
ray, 
"Ap into the midst of the and anon 
] 
oss between A. gloxiniflo 2 (Pl ^ 
an "3 A. spe (Scheeria pes . It is of 
stling, man and horse, with deste " arrows | 
like a "nt 
The whole a rte i. splendidly told, and gives a 
vivid notion of thos ot Richard’s last and greatest 
it | exploit in the pred 
But all was of no avail. Ri the hopeless- 
of contest, and in the wit. of Mr. Stubbs. 
Sus ccce = years (pu nem rt mes Se 
he lame and im t conclusion of this 
ee amd tes Fenty undertaking. 
< ahera s history of the Siege of Lisbon iefly 
Verschaff. introduced the 
| | plant, and published it ander the brews of — à 
habit, a free bloomer, the flowe larg viha 1 
| pale t de yellow at vage 9 epeckied with 
erimson round the throat, the limb of a jer) 
purple; the flowers are as being 
across.—ZJresine Herbstii, one of the with dar. 
brown-red leaves, 1 jy its introduc’ 
Messrs, Herbst and Stenger for summer bedding. 
lt is said to branch freely, and to be much hard 
than the Coleus, which is a strong reeom! ‘ 
the slight frosts to which are liable as 3 
approaches, often do irreparable injury to the 
Jong before the e ar ep bas — 
Verschaffeltii, v as M. 
ion was not published till x end 
and Sir W, Hooker’s name of Iresine 
em 
