DECEMBER 24, 1864.) 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
1229 
dozen had joined the queen, when they seized and | killed, while the Fearnought feared nothin sisted chiefly of — 
attacked her, and I could not separate th Pia nd it Nid heey to cn rg it ‘fon besides his dice gave me entes toe pt 
with taking her up in my fingers and actually | pheasa’ wood-pig table it is a dint in the garden. In Leica in the 
pulling tlie bees from her. This took place four times, | tender p notwithstanding its rough sportive | Royal College of Surgeons, Suth: bn, 
when, seeing that the bees would not accept her, I put appearance in the pie n; and, in a cold damp Diode — of the garden, and intimates his willingness to 
her over another st and when I ad i ve in und it a great acquisition. | give instructions in medicinal plants to the a i 
his instance they received her joyfully. n offered | J. L., Balgowan, Perthshi f Fellows of the College, and to others who are study-. 
the stock that had rejected the queen in question ing the articles of the materia medica from the 
another of the imported Ligurian Queens, and in this v ble kingdom. The science of botany was then 
case the bees received her in a dly way, and con- morte in its ml and little was „kno "n of structure 
ducted her in triumph into the hive. If some of your BOTANICAL OF EDINB No vember 10.—Prof, | and physi to study the 
Correspondents could throw any light on this, to me | Balfour, Le ee the tai: = John S. Mu uir, external Mond of plants, and to vo their uses in 
apparent mys yr I shonld be e iged. William Carr, | Le ith, w ted a member. Am qos sts ie professori who succeeded Suther- 
uton Bridge Apiary, Newton to the Museum were: f tol d eston, exercised his calling also as 
., Depredations uf Mice e in covered. Vine Borders. — As by the — of the East African coast; Tobacco cul. | a rede, in P Ediabargh. Dr. Hope ce er impetas 
it is the practi manufactured by the people of Lake|to the -— of botany when he succeeded to chair, 
to cover their Vine borders with dry AN and these | Nyassa ; "recien of native Cotton; cloth ; | and he seems to have encouraged 1 kmr by 
contrivance to throw = ofa mall Eup eg tree, call kunite | offering a prize for the best herbarium of plan 
om „heavy rains, I st it d to record an atives; and several other valuable from m a limited district round Edinburgh, the Gold 
of my Vinery | the pot districts Zam i, all from Dr. Kirk; anda al foe which was gained in 1782, by his pupil Si 
last winter. Out of eight Vine - ere entirely ls fs honour of Prof. Philip von TX, Smith Little, however, a to have 
killed, vere so h injured that a! Martius presen ated by th ua err match Ue m des ue. 
produced late in the season only. Po slender shoots. The President, in his [eos address, congratula' prendre raham Professor of 
ing the Vines did not freak the members on the continued prosperity of the | In 182t LX E his v excursion to the Highlands, 
at the usual ‘season, fever ted as they had been for Society. et as it per adv — botanists a" -— de ab. Ae — "then 
many yes rs to the same treatment) and covering in all junior students des! cted most beneficially in| nded ex 
res fal i of bola, d E. in diffusing a taste | the he Profesors « of ota ahir in Edinburgh» with their ir papile 
mico a s ME UR themselves in the bed of leaves|for it. He poe that during the past session, | from 182 the prese d 
for winter quarters, and had barked the| papers had been read on structural, physiologid sions to Clora mens "Braem be 
Vines rhs ‘abe the earth, five of them of nearly 20 | systematic, economical and fossil botany ; nad | Galloway, Hebrides, S oss-shi e, Ben Nevi 
years' growth, As resp cts the two Vines which | been given of botanical excursions wo ot additions to Ben Lomond, Ben Lodi, " Cam Northu 
showed some signs of vitality, the stems , were not | the p of ag el and records Ireland, Isle of Wight and pee Switzerland, 
; ll st s left | the vege etation in the Botanie Add &e, Atter alluding Non of the emcee Gaede in 
untouched. As the destruction of Vines in fall Extracts ] ie een read from correspondence in physiology, and d on certain strange material- 
bearin a very serious loss, and the okida of | various ts of the world—more especially India, | is 
similar Path: Fes is most commendable, I would recom- | Africa, Canada, Demerara, and Columbia; and some of luded th pt to enter on a 
mend in such cases, that the surtace ot the soil should | the junior members had given abstracts of valuable review of all that ‘st oud done | in pot during the _ 
be drawn away from the stems of the Vines fo tanica ublished in foreign emi ournals, last, raves ~ — —— — w— —ÀÓ the 
couple of inches in depth, the stem s coated with | adverted to the E sn by Dr. Alexander | sessi resumés of what is 
p inst under the surface, and for a space of an inch | Dickson on diploste Phu which the mode being. done i dirent” departs and plan 
two above „the covering, pe the. weil returned of “development of “the. "ataminal whorls in Seve eral Ih pe still to continue. No mee better fitted to 
mixed round t of n young v- and 
r Peach, Apricot, unt other ~ mhe in ` pots also to a practical paper on the fertilisation of Orchids, to ps them habits of Bad éodé ll powers of deseri. 
d she rest aere a shed during the winter, into an by ] Dr. Ru therford, who had recen recently g with accu of definition. Hence ite value to 
orchard house in March, we found they had all b li da o the community, and especially to those 
attacked by mice in the same way | to a considerable | filicoid plants: by Dr. G. . Lawson, now jr ceni t who are about to enter upon the study of medicine. 
exten y y ge, Halifax, Nova Scotia ut to enter on that stady, because I believe 
killed. C. Lawrence, who was lon ith tl istant- that the stady of the natural hs ought to e 
may describe a —Á n who, peeve yet by the rife o manage purely professional st that e is generally 
very su ode which Tt dopto this season for | ment on the part A e Soe | Z f Queen's | adopted, cannot expec p^ proficiency will be 
protecting Gripes under glass from i bey by wasps and | College, Kingston, Can esign ip | attained. The institution of degrees in scie —€— calcu- 
flies, which were so numerous last autumn, a hich | there, had, he D, cm Saito in Nova | lat dt nd all we 
are generally so destructive to ripe Grapes. My o Ey Scotia ; and to the pes xual changes : he | war 
house is one of Paxton's, with ventilators at intervals, infloresce ys, and on the sexuality of 
folding back from top to botto ps with a division in Ye jhi highe ey [net em [ur M. Sot "Scoth la ately ton to 
at intervals „experiments were 
brickwork on which the glass roof roof is te rhea | eor oe great ote x sad ability, and "who had 
per sheet galvanised iron, very thin, fitted into| now gone to India under the auspices of Mr. Darwin. 
each of the u ventilators, aud over the | It i A ai: T he aie à - : P thus € 
openings under the wooden shutters, and t d bine n science, an. eee ion for 
er sections of the glass ventilators always cl rdir ecd uei à ess of detail, His 
when the Grapes began to ripen. The openings left for| papers on the fertilisation of Ore ids attracted the 
the rack " 0 E and close the upper ventilators were | notice of Mr. Dervis, win, who was thus led to encourage and 
stopped w This being the third winter since | him v "er m veris to npe his | crea 
this bu was y ptáte; we fortanatel yy had a very fine | prospec life. he lies the 
erop of Gra et iia the failure of the old Vinery, Ryoridity of ge wr, Naudin had been given in 
since the firs rapes were 1 ripe. Charles Lawrence. 
od report of the Royal Hortioultural 
while uM. "ideis, "Me." R Bell, hag 
Broccoli. Dr. Law son at Kin gston. The are po om 
ty's Inte tional Show of Fruits a 
aaa uK Censingt ion 1, and the reports which had) been received mot ees 
and Ihave no doubt that many garden lf » Me. W i 
who had nét an ype nity of seein g "the show in 
d Dr. Alexander Hunter or (all pim 
Alexander Dickson, M. D. The author. finds that the 
question, had mu mn in zu ng the report, 
jo me at least, oT satis- 
roceoli. 
beg E sedenti] s been most ped ining From 
the Botanic Gard ~~ been se — — within e 
of the staminal lobes, is vari 
genera. The andrceci 
t Any is the B . Your | last few years five six garden ught up chiefly | even rim-like cushion, pent ternally, sur- 
rn oria that ne lis “appear to be one sort, | under 3 diro "of d Mr. M-Nab, "n > “ale superin; pereng the flattened — of —Ó 
" 3 these men were doin ae pde rden as| which appears as a n n 
du t Pe Paonia M "be irem e - -- — le f botany. EWe have external angles of staminal cushion in both 
= and all planted on the same day, ius ier iria s,|had the Fontes of welco ck our friend. Dr. genera alternate with the se The essential 
nd Ba enre oim igne , and they are | Kirk, who — Livin in his explorations, | difference between the arrangements in the two 
distinct i in appearance from another as Sangste! M and who has given us an cli account of the | gen consists in this—that in Malope the five 
No. 1 Pea is from the lue Pride or Ne Plus products of Zambesi and of Southern Africa. As regards angles GA the central de ression sup 
It would therefore be eoifierióg a favour on ‘ine the localities of plants, we may record the addition to the rnal angles of the cushion: that is to say. 
inquiring gardeners | if th 1e exhibi who carried off | made to our flora in the finding of Goodyera repens at | the sides oe b a depcuniti are parallel to the outer 
for Broccoli, would give the | Dalmeny by M. Claudio L. Serra. 1 zm remarkable : meg x p land r "in cus d quede KR in graecis 
correct AS the sorts in per respective lots, I|thata Kiiticcen student se thus vise Rao e other han ngles 
may pes onem that the e centre leaves of|plant ina a district which had been so well examined by | alternate with the external emn 
äro damping. of aha poder Thes said of tho ‘the d 
This year two 
es qu eer rere dius 
samples shows: ae 
nae that the varieties 
so.] 
Fearnought Bites on (see “6 1156).—This variety of | year 13 ordinary me 
ast 
Cieero eg sre for bees that any ot 
to be more te 
kiren even the Conse Tronshods 
which it was planted s fo „for while the former 
ter suffered but little. 
y 
prov 
” by the 
‘gr 
It eur 
Cab! Brussel 
were were the only varieties of the Cabbage tribe that stood 
í and the other by Mr. 
them | 
Sandilands. the past 
mbers had been added to the liat 
and one foreign ers song sie mber of ordinary 
acts. 
gous case occurs in the Tiliacem, where 
e | groups are oppositipetalous i in Titia and — 
which 
In 1 16 Professorshi 
the severity of the winters here in 1862 n sa 
All Broccoli, Savdys, and ev se Get Greens 
76 a p of 
“4 Pres institu! and James “Satherland was 
ere ' appointed professor. At that time the collection con- 
of | radicans in By Walter Ga Vig penc 
cated by Mr. en alice. The eu leat furem that 
this Fern is native in Arran, and tries to show that in 
