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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Jan. 5, 185 
6. 
nthe manufacture of furniture and 
Iti is hard, sakes aime 
sembles 
ee employed 
| wondered how ntinued to have su 
in the w 
her purposes to advantage. 
ightly t 
ts gro me is mei. as = 
ee is hardy and very o 
a 
as not, like your correspondent, an 
Ba Fa + certain a would plant it exten- 
siv ely with aview to ‘pro 
t Among hardy a 
one nee the prettiest. 
Good Hope it ar, gn no more tender treatment than a | a together 
57, Dey 
New Plants. 
NTA shine. De Cand. Prodr. vi. 
uals 
EET a native of the Cape 
h of C. it bears so 
which in foliage 
segmen It fo: rms Pa i, 
82. 
modern introduction this is | | Portug guese), 50: lanaceæ as ka 
f Cape of | some Grasses ana to the Pan 
me 
resemblance, me radii being very finely and AR ine | | fruita, and finally ee omit which atta 
div d into near nts. gre ross ght in five 
es a. 
bris 5 she a appears 
4 shen po - en ESEN st sagan they visited | ss Tek instead of ‘immediately “producing vise 
him 
hiami ble S 
| This medicinal sian is used 
P! 
for the 
the 
se but 
with the Liae pamen aina 
te spiny leaves, several plants A edi no 
reate 
gages attaine ears by 
Aa rm yie 
eaten, and so might Oak have been und 
circumstances, But we concur w ith ay eae L in 
hiah Pi a 
among pp 
ey 
pri de. ods. Th 
a plant is in direct saponins he 
rather 
s yet received, considering 
the va arkro kein whack it forms timber. 
Since frosts will soon be doing their work among 
those whom it concerns of the 
l 
e n 3 
this is insisted upon, and is well erstood by ex- 
perienced gardeners. But aeni e not 
the book in question, and as people nex: 
pe than the contrary n no apology is Byala 
N è 
ite y plants per igh of c ak much because 
of the cold itself as because they are S thawed rapidly. 
of frozen Peas facing the morni 
happen 
s Petersb in midwinter wi 
n 
e but you los ornament of the face 
But rub i ll with snow till it glows again and 
you are sa 
A couple » of examples of what happened in 
France last winter may assist in rousing the 
incredulous to an appreciation of such facts 
January a gardener had the ill oe to 
half into a greenhouse e 
first lost all their beh l hei second were com- 
- pletely saved. The n took up his fine 
solid Celery (céleri a ces, qu. jus cleri court hâtif ?), 
When the „Severe frost set in he had no time to 
take the 
ap; The tha ermo ate: however, fell t , and 
the plants were frozen. He then removed Ad to 
where the temperature was kept a few degrees 
above te, The next morning ra = i? Blan in 
the shed gery w 
rotting fas 
So dary for quick thawing ! 
consisting of a 
oo 
| the r of pith. which i it may possess, or 
of t 
crowd of ra wise omg 
r side. The olue two rings 
he wig of ato 
—. os o ap seems and both are covered with a 
fof ipt tooth- = hte on efh dull purple on a | 
of t of scales, | g 
op-shaped | © 
its t Several Campanulaceæ form an under 
rowth. Such i is (in the first sge the vegetable aspect 
second, third, and fourth 
final growth d dies. Then app 
under shr (Abutilon esculen 
tum, which is not found in any old 
wood), species of the genus Cassia, 
and other Leguminose, the - 
ch „pseudoquina, and others 
Di 
“the ese species, some of 
h 
Several species of Quercus appear, 
of sah few attain the height, sf 
oe pepe it will be un 
so ae groun: 
During my 20 years’ sojourn 
in the virgin forens Rak cag atte I 
have observed 
aspects ae - 
ceeded each other in the space of 
12 years, on the soil of old forests 
estroyed by fire. These ies 
are everywhere uniformly the 
same in the province of Rio 
J or Nith I ought to 
have included in umeration 
the chus ol This plant 
must belong to 
| the wood i 
One TE T not without 
the Orchids, which e o 
ment of pi hether 
regards variety of colours, per- 
fi h ties of form, this 
family excels a opts. Ba 
the vegetable peg ae 
ch an order ; 
inata, | W: 
“ We shall have Mate peri in February, and noes See eee robe pees ea el ed mare possess th i 
T sg be: onian: Pak or twice at ] "Another Cenia also in cultivation is— hate works. t 
ell the gardener to provide a supply of yomg 158. Canta To RBINATA, Persoon. De Cand. Prodr. vi. 83 aps family is found atten Ie on dicotyledons ; to 
Pe Such was the ord E one Chri Thin ih d Cotula turbinata of Linnæus, was grown t sof t 
day to the cook in a usehold, and duly at Orford în the days of Morison, but was nd os rein- | an an original forest, is purely ac f about 
-communicated by the ee Zn the horticultural | trod rom the Sg He few Eames Iti Mei 200 species which I have gry duri = oa years ars of 
- department. ie ike the last, but has ro ey an sharper | repeated researches, I o only met with the ee t 
“ Fresh Peas i in a month, in the middle of pointed leaves, ‘while ‘the seslliag Sed „top of the BESTER on the great Tree Fern, and on that alone 
winter! the thing’s i ied th glaucous. — anan ohana ‘Spplics to a s] 
gardener. “ My lord can’t have give In garden lists ya have three patendi a e h I nam 
turbi 
and C. turb. alba. They are much 
variety growing by the side of 
oo ata form 
_. that,” was the rool rejoinder ; and the gardener was 
~ left to diseover th sega” 
In his despair ethought him 
that young Pami y young | a Fee aias tasted much 
alike, and that perhap e might be as good for 
soup as the he other, 3e So tn hdl eee aes pans, 
THE VEGETATION OF BRAZIL. 
Tue illustrious author bel the “ Physiologie Végétale” 
(M. Mirbel) has stated th 
5 petal greier 
the Vellosi 
produced tropical 
Psidioma Guara) appear A aa ap a ik for the 
growth of certain mas of Orchids, for instance, the 
I candida, and 
o5 ae P Soeeeeres ie after the destruction of a forest 
picta. 
planted them pretty thicldy with South A , frequently s that have lately sprung up on soils cleared of 
P kodus tiesi ota a pie nt species from those which PP Lait appear to have pie ise to the follow- 
Tand es aee in his early vine on a a shelf beet Groin M Areaan by - Se or by fire—a pheno- | ing species : Ionopsis panicul : venusta, 
Nak sting kept up. The ae ase te menon which can easily xplained if we admit that | candida, picta, Com: i am pr arree fiexuo- 
had ait as mu uch as it aie osibe rs a a seeds buried i ‘om time immemorial can|sum pumilum, and odoratissimum. The fi 
t AFE of Fe gr there without germinating, and yet preserve estrial species, Neottia orchioides, Govenia Gardneri, — 
y th e beginning. ruary were | their vegetative powers till they are sub to the | Oncidium Pinelianum, belong exclusively to ker that 
inches high, bere furnished with weal althy tender | influence of the air. This is an indisputable fact. have been cleared as do likewise various en of E 
paee Se In Brazil, the soil ibe aene byfen di ardan | ben (Eulophia 
The supply thus caine was ont like M 
le. 
2 te =i sage bo itself Sas =A not 
sometimes with a saa different from that which 
previously existed upon Nature differently | result 
and and handed over to the cook, whe de- 
clated that it Mido better pi than if he had had 
g g themselves, And ‘3 time 
orward peddi forced at —— as regular] 
French hee 
3 and all lovers of good living! 
another, of which there 
from what eb boei alt paar A forest does not rise 
immediately to replace only 
5 x 
year a new bulb as strong as the ol 
oor. ro has not this ad 
ciate 
