THE 
GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
[Fes. 9, 1856. 
eight or ten pots are eres din this manner. In]|t 
after sheol ag e pots are kopay nd full 
an a How is that? Alas, they have 
fou 
of perme, heathy roots. The tub, after being filled | s 
arbarians who require them 
ti ally. I ed by our excellent correspond-. 
suppo: 
he Tihai, “which ee rs p be one of those 
Sia appiness in the midst of torture, | Shes. forms of the Parm pel nae ip group 
and to fatten though perishing of starvation. e | up with soil, is allowed to stand a few days before which often puzzle botanists, ‘and. indee o be a 4 
earth in which they grow is the place whence their aes wi ea” state of P. cæsia, 
eat drink should come ; but its springs are| After this explanat by Mr. Bastneron, is pms oped i in the first instance 
choked and dry, and e food | it once contain ed. has | of oo na trees irim left to die a i because a on rabbit or sheep's a which in the process of 
long since been ichaiisted. The roots f thei 
gave them for ths are broken, aw Som rt rope, a little in vain searched for “the slightest 
misshapen ; i he assages at, de stout rinib for niet penn ra tees vith some ae gff: the be ao “Abies of which such sub- 
food should flow upward Sa invigorating streams | aid from the wheelwright, will enable any one to | stances c 2 the retin matter 
are bent backwards and forwards till no passage | do at — " mnie beyond manual labour. which ili s tia is merely hypertrophy 
remains; in others t! pe the surface apparatus is Gabe: ly well|of the dark root-like bodies which clothe the 
of their prison, searching round and round for a Be hives" Mor. lifting ad transplanting trees in the |under surface of so many species of Parmelia. 
scanty Bea verage till at last they 1 have panes spiral, open g ground, but t tod that tee int we must endeavour | The viene Bia the Lecanora affinis group are 
Tasis hick future merely exte s by ramification and radiation of 
Ahil so that Mie at last the plants to which Sienna tae a single orden whereas the plant before us has 
ps nolong are transferred to some fertile a tisy We took occasion some six geag since in the | arisen probably from many distinct plants, which 
pable of imbibing their food a und p rish b communication of the | have formed a solid mass by the contemporaneous 
g i] | scunen T Licuen of Partas, Lecanora moe re growth of y imbricating fronds. The ý 
directions, hich hey ultimately |and the allied species Z. affinis from Erzeroum, to | therefore, of ei ode of growth of the esculent 
it th h, and ve re the trunk to | call attention to its ve pom history, and to| Lichen is as im ania r; - 
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fall over—a Si alas wrec Bales | publish some remarks tr: y our TERE 
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greatly gee ao to Sir 
dent oy aae. Chronici, 1049, pp: 612 a 
Fie pe going no highly coloured pic- | ta te a, 
ate 
the 
yhta ram poe ‘of P. cæsia, of 
mere effect. The language em- A pene )- hat though ‘these Lichens, which we can an trace in any book to which 
bee although s somewhat figurative, ly we a) i F B. 
but faithfully —— what was once common marcity h mix apera head corn, they were quite 
among us, an li rs in ancient places. unknown t e shepherds Sha "traverse the grea! 
Perhaps he cal this wretched e- | plain which nai the city, and that Dr. Heryic, New Plants. 
ment, at scale in the case of large trees, is vag men | Who has rambled much about the ons aren 163. KÆLLENSTEINIA KELLNERIANA. Reichenbach f. in 
do on how to prevent the i» me had never met with them. Eversmann had in v Bonplandia, Jan. 15, 1854. 
of from centre to circumfere Under ‘this name has been published a terrestrial 
unhappy rls, s bythe oa remedy, viz., frequent tn allied: -species L. fruticulosa, though he hal Orchid ly allied to er and Warrea, for 
pete Sb potting, or, we say when speak- Loge ently m ot early stag ty of examining which we are indebted to 
of larg specimens, -etabbin ng. To E uch | 9 growth, scarcely exceedin ng a of Bateman, Esq 
Feo! laa cellent) article ay “Me li magnitude. It is manifest Stace plants “ofla living specimen, “produced in his stove under the ca: 
AMES Macnas ta ae "Sorta Garden The | 4 + ca zy ig no attachment to the iR 0 Ry ry ow Cera sg soe 
health of the Palm trees and other "large exotics specific gravity, m ay Wagener at T Ar Truxillo, 7000 fe feet rials the sea, ae he 
under this gentleman’s care in the Royal Botanic be lly riika for "mile by the powerful winds | yi al oe 
Garde dinburgh, is the admiration of all who ellner y Køællenstein, a German amateur. a wll 
see the precepts, therefore, come recom- wani 
mended by a practice to the success of which we to have flowers Smelling ke “many Stapelias 
all bear witness. The original paper is illustrated Bateman describes his plant as having pseudo-buiba t th 
th woodcuts ; and it will doubtless be consulted size of a — iaa sy roam 1—2 to each, and 
by those who feel a difficulty in unde: ing such or two at stems 18 inches high, flo owers 
description as we the means of giving. In | lasting a ret es Gnd having a peculiar disagreeable 
e first pla r. Macnas describes his manner of secant aie them to be secund and of a dingy 
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i heavy tubs com plais to place. Sach | Professo: r Reichenbach, to whom specimens have bee een 
O COP ORROT YO onera OF: J OT commu aicist considers it identical with his speci 
facilities for draini ning o off the superfluous moisture, 
and thus preserving | the tubs: from early decay. This 
ts from place to place. Three or four iron 
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ban 
| which traverse the wide and open steppes, and that 
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the plants 
rollers, four fee t long and two inches po diameter, 
ositions below the tub, ae at the base of rocks is the natural sahanan of | 
in suitable 
whereas in K. Kellneriana it is larger. The plant is 
merely of botanical interest. 
Pha fact that in cold. winters several of our hardy 
e ae a Irori on them by means it pine which they 
patna the plant is then speedily run in the are placed. The witch-balls, Gies] of round Ee r 
requi d dire ction.” compact rolled masses of dead herbaceous stems, | ON FROST SPLITTING.—Br Dr. Roser CASPARY 
“When placed - the operation of ‘poy the ball of | iy present a a mo but even more str iking ities of i i 
iid the uoa in ate ann es. If these | 
away rn effected k Lichen e known to gro the Sooni sur: 
a pair of strong art upon e: Erzeroum olu 
aig fis 
two moveable hard-wo od s eiles resenbling the | of the showers of Mann a aei ie ven, of whic ch £0 
1 known a 
very pat ts ad tbe en bet Abe P hii circum: 
stances under which it occurs and the causes of it havs 
me in which the tru nion o of a pie e of ordnance much has been said at ‘diferent times and whic 
is made to work. df ete roan been inquired eran by very few a T joss va z 
“ sollers” or vrindlooied “worked by handspikes 5 so descent of figs shells, seeds, , &e., aie the clou f Shiu ee actol y sacextained. r er oe 
that th B f 4p hh } 
e ball of give rep orts 
centre of a square, two of whose opposite sides are ower of the wind in lifti ing up bodies 
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pone 8 of tressels and the other two of rollers or | some size from the earth and carrying them 
es. It is easy to conceive how, by a simple s a distance i occasionally very toai table, 
arrangement of this kind, even the” largest tubs |even in this co In „an early volume of, 
memoir}, i in which I gave an accoun or ott 
cbeeniiseds on the disru hatin wd frost of ey tissue in 
several small plants, cl Sie o aceous exotics, which 
was accompanied by a curi eous formation of 
ice. The frost clefts of o or trees are, | however, very 
the Annual Register, t to which 
referring at this moment, an account is given of a 
which took place a at Oundle, and which was 
sed in gardening may be quickly and safely raised 
o any — height. 
a 
aratus of this kind we are told {s Honi 
attendant circumstances. shall presently show 
what the difere ences peat op In January and Feii 
work an a 
at: che Foraw an ight of 20 or 25 cwt. eight men witnessed by Ker father of the present writer, nie of the present year (1855) on the coming on of very 
will be quite med if the Aces is heavier, it | comp le tely co: ays the report. Skins were carried | °Vere weather, numbers of these fissures show terse? 
will require twelve men, tw: g placed at rdat Oundle, a and aie tas in the | elves © te nt and cna Berlin, eis os m ed 
handspikes at each end "af the rollers. After ithe Elm treesin the f distance | CPPortunity of solving several pcg reh star r are 
men are ioste two bein See A E ae 
e guy poles, the plant is pie Air a oe in eae by | stances took pom ark more marvellous. As is usual metenrologial Heladtons at tha time’ thacclefts o 
means of the handspikes ga hiaai the ropes, so 
with aR winds, the bre: aith % the e curre ent of | air 
l, along whic: 
is of great consequence, I will first give the details-of 
as to wp hoop and bric o be drawn | was very smal 
from belo nl an drain- | was distinctly visible which I owe to the kindness of Dr. Schneider, who has 
age. Seana all clean, then continue the raising till} We that anal di the direction of nd station of the Me teorological 
the plant is sufficiently high to allow the tub to be | England till a a few days since, when specimens of a | Institute in the Ritt in Berlin, 
run beneath it. This done, the plant must now | l Lichen, which rolls freely on the | „ The commencement nt and mi iddle of the winter 1854-5 
lowered very gently into the new tub, taking care to | exposed downs or sheep-wa f Do eet at | till the 13th Jan was, with the exception of a short 
p it quite upright, and exactly in the centre.” Melbury, were communicated to us by Sir W. C. cold period i EN mber, unusually rainy. Poise pes 
The last matter of oe to whic j It was hoped that they might throw pict ps Me Jih atin x mie pre 
has to be pa aid is the es See of the soil. hee pieren Se sink T a aoran although the absolute ET $: 
the 15tl — 2 3 
T the tub with its prepared soil, pots either Ma they are piep n two disti inct modes of grow wth. | Dei nes P i pna as one 96 "tee 
cracked, 6 or 8 inches deep, are poets ally placed Fahr), imd ts mini on the 2st 
Bie the surface of the drain: the open end tł t - | Dece: —2°5 Tienda’ (263° Fahr.) In January 
next the roots ; and in the case oi plants in hae wally pty and increase ater a Tebon 1855 i lowest temperature which d before the 
tubs, it is las practice to continue the inserting of | manner, as is ange marked in L. affinis, but far | “s gee a i injury do Oak timber the very 
way while the tubs are being filled up, | more decidedly i n LZ. rations, while the speci- | instructive work of Hiring, * On “On ao Characters of the dierent 
in all Seidl; oai to rer Bin opa Fed bn s before us of which we give a view of the Toutes or eel ie Berlin 1853, p. 109, with ti 
Fae pis nat 
od foveal size, together with a section, grow concen- | 
+ In the Botanieche Zeitung, 1854, No. 38. 
