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THE GARDENERS’ 
ee ee ne ee ee e a en T 
CHRONICLE. 
= 5, 1856. 
of fruit trees common to Europe present themselves 7 e emnat cm success in a cold frame, with 
short, exercises her 
in every tion; Nature, in 
“pe power over the vegetable world. Extensive 
are covered 1 plantations of the White | 
is pr roduce d in 
rely a mat o o thrown over in frosty we eather. 
| may not have 
teurs, or even persons in more humble situations who 
bari dio. wt ae only, than there are who 
have stoves in addition, it shows how primarily essen- | 
sot tes f, N E q Zaf : thi 
more is nece: 
Vine: eries, € one or other of which I kee 
I 
Mulbersy¢ a. the silk-worm ; cotton 
great 3 the 
head. It would have been desirable in the above 
of diac n tata J WI as +, 
Seasons most sonvenseny 
es 
procurin 
. . : Pa E a 
but will attain a much larger size if grown in a stove. 
rTh ` a ht that Ti, tad +, e 
with the addition of the Silk Acacia, I ‘could ne R. W. [ any p where I c ave them near the glass, &c., like 
rT they oo in esteem any flowering plants require a stove temperature, and indeed only reaching Henderson. I have bark beds in two houses, but th 
peculiar to their co try. perfect I cannot fill to be nearer the glass than 3 or 4 feet, and 
Howev r, rtion that P. tolerably well in a closed frame or greenhouse from were I to devote one of them to pot Vines, in a s 
in botanical treasures, may BERN its ancient repu- | which frost is excluded ; and many more of th they would be shaded so much by the pemanen 
tation Rek great variety of plan thri what is nee a “warm” nhouse. | Vines that they would not have the same chance 
wonderful virtues. Of old the mountain of Comparatively few ex ents on this subject have | they had ; a few hints, therefore? 
near Tehran, Alwund near Hamadan, and the manai been made publie, and’ th the stitt facts bearin ng | from Mr. Henderson on the best mode of procedure 
= e of Albuz were famed for rors egetable pro odue- sateen atte for the most part by | amateur culti- ith the convenience I .have would be acceptable, 
ns. Even from India persons tr sied i to the public. Ou R. Reid, Birch House, N 
them, prompted ‘ty. the reputation of their feat entica sted facts indicating the degree} Be owers—Mr. Payne in his “Bee Keeper’s 
m their supposed power, in oran of cold which reputedly tender nos are canal le of | Guide,” a practical and useful work, recommends as 
of =p he ng the baser metals | enduring without serious injury, would confer a favour | good bee flowers Tussilaxo Petasites, Cuscuta sinensis, 
into apt ratios t gold. G. W. on the many amateur culti ators of Ferns by commu- | and Anacampseros populifolium. Would the 
nicating = for Febrany i If the Spores ct indness to infi me hat English names these 
: À oe ate, sa e we will undertake to} flowers are known? I have looked car fully yt: the 
ANOMALOUS me Fs OF A CABBAGE rrange them in some useful form. For general pur- | lists o f the nurserymen in this neighbourhood, but can 
© As every variety of goalie tissue, however com- capi natural geographical range of species will ng bo nor can Im ves any one who 
ning about them. 
eer is derived from one common source, the single eity. ‘Thos, for example, Gymnogramma lepto- | write toe T tinera si m ei ae 
e t in the formation of w phylla, en pai T e ma "eae, srs rhe | Latia aes of ‘plants is rather out “of place. What 
largest. 0 avin, pa RE eR cannot require, however it may bear, l 
should oases that aaepiioad buds and r ee sa the O inti: wilit | be” etve eted O bea ot-herb Sweet marjoram under Mr. Payne’s fine name 
— be produced under favoarable circu umstances satiate Tow- te ome better Ph its general | tion not to cavil at Mr. Paya , aa uiw nie for ee 
m bend pe of se plans, we. pare, -epuka gly ha abitat—Brazil eM uld It is on the | f. ivan to find n E TA Me ie a 
o seem a indica “et 
fact on 
in very unexpected situations, as roots and leafy shoots | 
j } + f th sth f the Cabba swollen ri s 
any Ferns, which do 
require heat, thrive in 
of the Turnip, buds fro 
&c. We have already 
es. In all such c: 
the formation of oii a eoatiog of spongy cells over 
wounded surface. The Cabba as an especial 
ge hi £ 
tendency to form such tissue wherever the cuticle is 
ruptured, or where there is a free sae In the 
and mi 
phi gotb ‘of it is en eer to 
wth 
Vitality of Seeds. — My was acc! 
g i our pages a solution to my 
difficulties.. A Bee Love 5 Sl [Tussilago Petasites 
the common But cuta sinensis is the 
nese paaa 
heat J 
atten ccidentally 
eta. instanco rae? a vitality 
induced to make some experi- 
for 
turned ‘to ue 
Chi 
nacre A nacampseros peu ae is, we pre- 
o, Sedu a posite Mr. Payne’s cottagers must 
c 
oscope no seeds are HEBES jit Ae 
e 
the | within a tin 
+ | were packed i in a tinfoil, > on or ge small lead 
n 
Packi ng Seeda fe r eip .—Anything in paper 
t damp, but HE the pee 
n bottles 
made for oil c olo urs, and whi ch are very T I con- 
fav ms mi cumstances 
xposed eat), 
for growth (in a pot 
mak 
geo logists. 
of the 
et at t the ort and i in the 
in ty no product of the leaf, but 
reali 
its midrib, and in consequence before a “section was 
seemed to be derived from it. Eho apane tissue 
leaves, or the medullary rays and fibro-vascular 
bundles `of the stems and the vessels"of the adventi- 
ith 
than glass ah Somerset. [The principle upon which 
the vitality of seeds i a 2 be preserved i mp to a 
such pl e Theory and Practice of Horticultur 
p- 
Pears.—I fear that this 
assifying thai 
less, as they vary in character to su es a 
I obs serve that in de Ae (p. aan places Bie hie od 
ans, 
E 
is almost hope- 
extent. 
P 
and Brown Gris) und e type. 
| Surely this ciiinot be, tor no; noitwo Pears differ s so widely 
sar seen, and his route traced to the ¢ my of 7 10 or 12 
whic! 
=e | feet. At the bottom isa chamber, 
T | earth, li 
y contains 
particularly the rough “ boll” of flax. term 
shoots, “small buds, tardiness in bearing, plin the the 
appearance and lateness in ripening ts pir Emy 
the Brown Beurré, which is for its 
TR: 
to 1} inch in diameter, t he perpendicular tube or piel 
(and chambers also) i lined by an t exoeeding fine ee | 
ts” of the surfac 
and although to common examination no seeds are 
and ction Ahan 
eet or in the direction of gravity, was gorged with 
matter varying in tint from rom golden igh t to a 
according cal change which 
brown, to the chemi 
taken place. 
I b ll perhaps, conclusion, to state that 
cavity in which “the roots were formed was 
not exposed to the light, but ver with several 
that it is scarcely worth ting out 
the bearing before us on 
MILB. i 
Home Correspondence 
Ferns.—Thanks are iw for the few peek of Ferns 
d in your Paper, and I 
be seen 
p 
E pri tet to remain exposed to t the weather 
: ten 
Nobody can explain the material quality of Hife.] 
Lentil 
t, whenever the bisected pipe ivi es my soy 
‘the 
PE 
Foreign Correspondence. i 
Adelaide, South Australia, August 16, 1855. —In a 
distant eae like this ornamental gardening makes f 
3 fth 3g "OR 
Š 
he A im of Grasses, the £ 
ntly have existed i 
having but iit u i 
of KT and the s superior skill and p Hi ey iho i 
miik You might greatly assist us and 
benef 
use 
assigned, at 
vi urn 
e Oh 
lists of botanical and horticultural books. , seeds, plants, 
m 
Dutch ro H 
with _ price and size ; wirewor k, garden ornaments, : 
n bein 
paas being gre pira reduced, some years ta 
trial. The land 
ago I gave 
result was a heavy oe of aie The 
hear oa poet trae 
aya was in high and th 
uantity was so great, an a the such as 
that the presence of oe Thistle coset "ould aie a 
ascribed to the marl ; it is notorious that in ditches 
oh Inti oi itderi 
all ew thi 
marked geste an feo 
service 
by applying for it it, and ge 
when a person has saidh Tatoo. miles, At thi 
very time the Soa Cotas wie e Garden her 
ps oh ornam costing sa; say 20002 j 
5 
p > 
ely £, +h. 
i a 
marl A na only covered by for time oe 
morial, but had several feet ed 
besides, ut of which fully excl 
he 
n preparing it for market. B. S. [We ac Hert 
omited the theory, facts oe i sng eae Ti i is 
we we fain se abn and fittings ; “the same is the ease 
with hot w: hg agricul cultural machines, and 
many other t itously that we 
It is also only fortuitous 
ot worth wasting time i 
illuminati who aivecal generation. 
tubers. I rod looked very carefully = the adver- 
and was considered a 
tising columns of your —— PS —— can find no 
varieti rists’ fl s cata- 
logue has been my aly Hessinee for years past 
Whoever also, i isa list of i of herbaceous plants er 
required aro simply, 3 the species 
sum, when perhaps we eihave b half ¢ of them raay l 
a not bear transport ? Rin 
ly dry, wh eg a 
a greenhouse, or must! be placed i în r stove t emperature. 
most deficient ; 
vai them ‘only—to se send | for 2 a y mere -collection 1 alway 
32 P, 
iled beef, mutton, or pork, and 1 quart of water. Fon i disappointment., Another pens res ry ais 
Stew the whole slowly, as green Peas for soup ; pour n, viz., the ae ition and distri af epoca 
it all into a mortar, and pound | it well ; then strain i 
> i} b “gee oe : 
the winter in a, greenhouse where 
to exclude frost. In an 
) 
dered lump sugar. N.B, No stock or glaze to be used. 
l pint of Lentils make smi ene eee 
Northwood. 
andn more instructive view of it ieee be entertained. 
yet the seeds- 
| men sell | only 8 or 10—who has anyof t the others ? bee 
amongst others I would just mention descri! Vines i in Pots. —I quite agree wi { ones except 
requiring stoy Gymnogr subject (see p. 222, Mess), oidi] 5 common ones? Gne cha supply de prenien aeaniee G| 
leptophylla and Adiantum Both these gr hM: g „or the 120 Alliums! 
with me in ; the latter I & haves bot of Hie lonGuetiens AFIRE DETE 1 want Gee Ranunculus roots called 
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