6S 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
{Fes. 2, 1856, 
i tt for the facts they made known or the conclusions | Skinner, who foun G wing eee 
paesa ferre = the saeir they | which they drew. Nor perhaps can be found any- | rock into the a of which its 
possess, a mer — st which’ t heir parts are| where more complete infomation concerning the | tr There it flourished in the full sunshine, hr 
osidei h ure. re this required, with the | plants of Oregon, California, some provinces of |" more Kr t rita ed ei h Ronriag 
n ofa Tittle tihng surgery, and ran Coie | Mexico, Guatemala, Chile, Cey lon, St. seran | pees of scraper py x a : sa aant ae 
e small acquaintance ‘iy other branches of | Penang, and the British Meee ali on the west i 5 Foi pe Tna Wi a E 
riat hitay, we should hear no more of su iek coast of Africa. So that one w. surprised t “to p egi 
terrible accidents as that nowrec elod. Suc h subjects | 
find extraordinary D tal 
of the usual studies which, however ornamental, are 
as res 
The aa lot which ey mach competition 
No. 
not would be e eagerly pursued iy. the ris sing gen 
tion, which already holds in 
attainments tean upon 
common ur own. 
ut to iit the students of our Universities to 
occupy themselves with the physical sciences, some- 
rile age having little in 
canty reverence “the | on 
was 
a (alts 
min North- 
est A i re fiat ned hai 
n fine paper the size of that use a Ms ke British 
and a o somewhere about 500 
sh Muse 2 
fru 
. d a 5 1 i 
in popular demands or a faint approval. Substantial 
d t Pha iJ 3}. ç a 
purchased for Pro 
lants already existed in a 
i thei 
is +h 
4 Mes t 
a 1 £41 
Fellowships and assigning a| } 
ir ee to | 
= 
ACRAE’S colle 
ERE i 
e Chri and tl 
ness, cos hsp as they So, a ye 
wane of rpa they, pale and aua are the firs 
When 
to open and 
hry: 
ture, allevia! iated, however, by nocturnal 
PÆO 
harm spont 
z. 
H 
spri 
e Sno peo ee eh 
of flowers pi 
he storm has cut off the 
rosy petals to un 
ysanthemum have len ngthened our days oi 
y the 
wich may have been introduced into tiy emrieala | 
udy. TInt lie 
the eee of physical scienco, ¥ we don 
see that much is a ~ kat gain 
its pay ESR ve, as 
À 
s hope that his poin int will v well con- r: e 
ssioners ; for if the |a 
sidered. ty the Oxford C 
Fellowships are not hearsay pre it is to be feared 
that what may be given the sciences will be 
a 
ae by m: sine 
a 
ners hates realised rather more than 
of 
Islands was ‘bought b 
concerned, and this being now a feat ‘acoorapliahel 
summer, 
Dr. Prancnon for aL, as 
in 
eginning of 
and see if we can lengthen the flowering season.a little 
that direction. 
The Peeo ony surpasseth the Dahlia and a she Hol mr 
Paris, an 
does in the chan 
through May and even pede Jun 
more upon our chi 
of 3s flowe 
geful da; 
ef rp anis for He species 
mari ieties of Pæony are n hen idised a 
uch good working order gigantic 
m 
Vest Coast of Africa (12. nae 
unless 
A Siow pas where as Pe 
blaze or eh is power winter still reigns, 
New Plants. 
162. 
doden 
work, 
drons bloom to herald the advent of su 
Tall-growing flowers wi ould not be suitable f for § spring 
= oe J 
er ag 
certainly, if neglected cA the ‘Commissioner, cann 
an “Rips e be se n by the 
| grow and its appearance is hot a notwithstand- 
co Fro tuft 
Q. Bateman. in Boi 1 3, 
1.23, Lindley, Folia Orchidacea (Oncidium) p. 8, 
larded_ with storms ; rainy wh 
o does not recollec 
and Peds days o 
| We ii see this fine species, although it is e 
wi 
ith ane a i ant down fro m clouds driving z akol 
of the colleges, 1 fter as ahaj all are iyi 
f gaud, 
broad et not unlike fret of 
to 
Pei the nest at ars time that 
L 
ioth 
the E obligations they contracted to adhere 
the s 
5 
wanted, 
oe i that wil em 
f the fo oun ee 
t doubt that the academical body of 
Osii. al although it must not originate, would 
rrangements as are hinted at. We 
e any one to conti 
anches. We have lnn a EN to | 
Sold i Ponty enactments which a 
Spakin nece: R 
ity life to its 
own recent alhon “ie s obvious, indeed, that 
so long as empt ur alone is to be gained by 
play in the e against the 
Unl + 
üsti “(Magdalen F as puta oy its own ipae 
Te mi ed pa „elec tions to fellows’ ships sate = 
thay 
e puri 
college lectiteshipe, shies providing instru 
sii in 
physical science, and founded exhibitions oe the 
encouragement of the student in the purer branches 
beatin. But this is little, we imagine, to hat 
might be done, if old statutes did p s p HN 
heft H e pois naturally looks to the 
t shackled like” the colleges 
who 
themselves to aha e the work which has bee: 
ced. 
Last Tuesday the Herwarta belonging to the 
Th 
“11 
tod af 
collections formed by the 
e 4 
by the Society to procure seeds and plants in fee | 
conaire The p taai Society, not bein 
_ inco! for botanical 
the seeds which were sent rome by its ise pe 
rk Se bate 9 or 10 closely eked fleshy romaa b 
flowers w 
do 
coarse ee flower that it 
rah x is not ni 
formerly oa ig 
Ranunculus, to whi ch family it belong, 
uble as the 
time in perfection and are about 
across, In cultivation their sepals are olive EDER with 
Ran 
ey 
ak: hee 
mops Ai 
TaT with Abr Tolia 
character. 
When we look at the tiny button of the beautifi} 
unculus, we fa el sorry that it is not taller than itis, 
we hav ke family with fi 
n stem ps.: (E: 
age of the most picturesque 
I do not allude to ‘the shabby, Moutan aad 
he xa aCe Ol ss Sn ds which run. yp 
eeks shoots about a 
varieties, but to the 
o 3 feet or more in a few 
long as one’s 
_ Itis fr leg complained of aad 
‘that 
persons purchasing costly plants find 
that after g time and very 
all litte 
en jammed into a Gooseberry 
h that su npported its slender 
flowering shoots; bow lon this 
had been established before I wss 
pon I never I knew 
i=] 
= 
me or at public oe and yei 
t the Chi hav n driving * 
Hy 
rep 
Erow 
bright pre at Canton and Shangha 
acinth bulb wers in Holland 
pre 
lenished with Gna roots of Moutans. from the nen 
e Tree Tady has mene on its physiogno! my § 
lace, whereas the herbaceous Pæonies 
ide; 
That purpose served they became mere records o ya a ountry, but pills 
p y, y icali twi many spo as t; ps of Siberia, the gulleys ats among the ist 
no furth ng th Mejeri Spa are brighter purple with a clear yellowish itzerland, along wi of the blue, Sicily, 
It was, in fa A great Etiisenms oniyi that they bead border ; the sg si which is ivory white diy some | The herbaceous Pzeonies are also found in Spain, Mr. 
Ul E ll as in China, where 
could be studi th advantage and convenience. | yellow and crim the centre is mu A peat fesi f Moutans 
In such laced ser ana the immense | than the other pa 3 lobed, an ese pas as broad | Fortu reedi us the poner sl et open me aii 
ad of being the identical plants published by | ê$ long. But all these colours are much deeper and | on roots mr d thus in 
various botanists during inet 30 or 40 years. | "ighter in its native country. be wings of the | ae agate thet paire eS h caste, 
Gat ai the-materials here to We Boy pe a column i “en ed be bane eso a portion of the evidence which | e Tre nage: ny, in all ito his man of pmt ning t 
, z i; seems uncommon! Me ; P 
mee of the in api npon, Te Nine the mpn for we “nanalty: f nd at their tip a well marked gland | shoot soon it will hardly las it = 
he Flora ARONEN ora, | which it is scarcely possible to doubt is s a rodimentary bloom for pedo ng which gàn for 
the Botany o s Voyage, the anai anther. ushed a couple of ‘of inches of wood it ait bss 
Register, and of numerous minor works relied| We owe the introduction of the species to Mr. Nae has something else to do than ard tet wood— 
m ee ee ae a a a 
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