TH 
pinion, hes the myat What is ga 
peara 
its 
t form 
pretties in the foliage. 
your 
J and not the evil in question. 
+ 
sease 
complained of is in my op inion new, and thörafórs it. is 
be | til 
the subject ma 
continued until some cure is elicited. George Westland, 
ea! ta oe “Chelsea. 
e Me fezereurn. — Passing through the aero 
E GARDENERS’ 
then place a line lengthwise at 6 i 
rom the side, , 
lant some crowns of the 
mm cack cut wit th an 
t 
CHRONICLE. 
(Fes. 16, 1856. 
that is watered with salt water every time the tide flows ; 
eb it does ens as well as if on a wa l bende : ae 
1 1 
7? 2 
F 
e, and 
e. en saa proceed thus 
is 
natum I have comes seen growing in ‘one res Se 
ame argin 
nch | dw arf wall at Enys, where there areseveral plants of it 
the roots so planted, mera will | o is 
befor 
arinn "ge 
seen in different places 
y feet in height, I 
Osmunda 
Lind. 
roy of this old but favourite shrub, abou 
foot umi lerenèk , and from 2 to 3 feet in neigh 
sattenely ‘branched to the base. „Oni inqui ring g the par- 
SE 
be J 
ee 
gro the grow will 
soon joa its appearance, par occupy all the de ast 
0! 
Some people _— the set e Horseradish to the 
a hol 1h foot oak ean owe a hoe handle, 
mty, su 
P 
wea } 
} 1 
ies ee dj 
lat 
m.—I hav 
pei er in inte wild or cultiva 
r it seems 
trust that the 
and spring months. As a fair inference 
have proved a mutual benefit, m I 
A. ated 
botanists soap the slid ses ly of Italicum for 
t true one I suspect, the 
A Tta rv abe am. i 
specimens to 
oy tation c 
n the 
Hymenophyilulum Wilsoni, &e. 
the species ma 
serve much of their 
some even 
mistake o the ena variety sa 
wr 7 
je ctill 
found 
Portland, but > which variety I do not know ; perhaps it 
are also taken by means of a ioe o of oiled paper, 
Frs. Sym 
Carclew, mene oo 
—In the rye of 1853 and *54, 
rhea instance of restorative e power may be found 
ious into tos: some of the 
widely scattered spec re and valuable 
variety of this species, ors Day aphne MUren autum 
nale, Cult tivators of 
© 
roots could not be the common Arum, 
ARUM ITA 
a, Spadix always roy et yellowish. (Type—leaves large, 
tall, green splotched paler.) 
Italy. 
B. Spadix, &e., as the a Leaves ditto, but strongly 
vein te; 
e experiment now pir W. Wood, 
ork. 
—T have lon ng wished to know something 
about the different kinds of Plane tree, and am there- 
jad to 
ed whi 
a, oe ver white 
ae a well Ai 
ara rarel 
Py Re poinh green, spo 
nglan 
(T; 
Ma spade laps purple.) Common in 
B. Spadix, &e.. as in the type. oiris lanceolate mixed 
with the usu: na A, Usually without spots or 
splotches, 
| Arum Italicum seems to: occupy an intermediate Lina 
| tion between A. emt mg (all — uniform 
the and spadix pale) and acul 
ply 
ree true Erai ye rums j=! f Europe. 
Rai — 
Common everywhere in| gi 
atum—the ni y 
m 
e 
Loudon 
sb nt them, as being al il Qu ercus ven meee could not 
| t for their fz inte am P 
ur isi English Oaks, “M: ide fin 
lover of kaa took care tow ga me nag lions of of the 
foi arene’ that way ; Tie 3 = infin at the time of their 
an de, but these I have mislaid, 
‘th 
= sn Re Maving forgotten what 
girth d apparent altitu 
wed E now only re 
oot of an 
10 Roi; 3? thi 
traight bole entirely branchless, and wi 
densely a meg He then after a considerable drive 
ith his “ Voilà, 
e 
ot what we enll the eran en Plane. Iam no in at Rothamstead in : em 5 he emer Be 
t the trees po ag court of the mosque, of ‘Suitan z a Pa PETES, ; ~~ | Chéne de Ferrand” was equally grand ; in fact, I never 
Silman. ~H no think Actual. weight Tied tes grinin of | bef w straight, clean-stemmed, yen.” 
Ib Gauge of Areal inches from| ordinary | trees, It did not strike me at the moment th 
With the Rapes oe the summer, if you should think = 1.1000th of à weight in sizo in. | were the sessile sort, but on hiridh Kesis mbt al the 
it Air veer Ht ae Choma ds pm. late PERIE Ea su Ss bmi in) pasha Si forest where the sandstone rocks lie on thesurfac: n 
Link once assu k Plan Ib, oz. 10t Sh masses—one place I rem va re 
a ek kohat MS ais was pieced a an "biter dictum January...) 135 3 7 0.6 0.13 28 I think, the Valley of Rocks—I found some s small ented 
of Dorel! plani OF xtent in | ebruary-| 224 11 7 1,03 0.8725 ES 
BERA Ireland, 11 or -19 Spence a eat Beis’ yra n TA pi- k ea ee 68 = Oaks [ had been admiring were Quercus sessili- 
PIL crose. 1 41 oS 
rch have got a twist ist in their to) With few ex- | May s. 525 12 2.32 2.3125 3 flora. don describes the leaves as being of a “ paler 
spioen, it does not Gur till 10 or 12 feet from the Saly eo ines + aor — g green” of Quercus pedunculata ; this is just 
ground in the eit of the last year or two. Itis| August ...| 596 3 6 2.63 2.2475 Zas | the opposite of my impressions, for I remember 
il ding | September| 348. 12 15 1.295 = | attracted to some trees of Q. i n the banks 
f; tiskenn Tn those Fir trees in which i t appeared October „| 1244 11 1 55 4.555 2 wS. | the Dart by their dark green hue, and by their thick, may 
earlicr the tree does no not seem pean out of it. bn Miers | Novena lr eG m pas 3 a5 |Iealitl pearance. The Fontainebleau Oaks 
Is it an evil kno he. s I hi On coming to the verge of the forest 
where or common? ‘The land is pein) tone, | Total ......! 6633 5 9 | 293 4.2355 | 24.38 | near the town I observed in det of the thickets young 
id to be Poyieatly wove tie old Hea aa dstone. The | 7. } ~ | trees of pedunculata, and I fancied pe 
said to be geologi yer e old red sandstone. The | J, B. Law ercus 
slope is s to the east, and not meS W e xposed. In other Bri itish “Ferns —The a ae list of species with | were hybrids | partaking of = ee of boi aig 
P bad > ev 
there little of it ht ssible a single ae 2 Wi th heard of such hyb rids? The misfortune is that it is 
z Haii g of five miles of this s place thin that compass the 
wind while the shoots were pe iow caused it? Anon. | conformation a the gro ga! ia admirably suited to the difficult he ore for before a young Oak tree com- 
[We rary ig or a sudden frost when the shoots were | growth of Fern a low shady places many of the free | Mences ar acorns one has generally ceased to care 
young ende: : ae Las ga Se rea dilatat z Fili about aco e the timber of the 
i as atata, Filix-mas, OF ae 
Dialed Granite —Y naye found = yh rata aes vachyeam Filix-fremina, Os. d Oal n large quantities in 
solution e eh Festi oloure! rusty | m dh triki Fontainebleau, and indeed in ii Parikia your inquiry as to 
granite, vi pint at Gens qi Fi ? 9 Chironi icle, P 52, ¢ an be = 
laid on with a whitew: Tarnen, after merch: ‘ey me of your 
ing the solution wash off with clean water. If this s Rohgpolinm: sles as —— Adiantum- | numerous readers will I hope be able to obtain correct 
ution is not particularly attended to, it makes b: ; Lastrea Oreopteris , B variegatui information as to its quality through some such source. 
worse by blackening instead of brightenin ” Alex. Robert- > Bilixemas ce a e leris 
y ceay Wicklow, Ireland. p onea 20. cheek DOADORES feo and Fruit Shows,—As you have 
Oak. shat “ Coway y Stakes.” — Botanists, are >. @dumetor 22. Grammitis Geterach ermat of “the Society” oD 
fd g f| 8. 4,  Feenisecii 23. senam m vulgare sere it ya aneto te in suffer me oem 
thes from the bed of father Thames, as a fine specimen | „9; Polystichum lobatum an ubtifuar few Eain on the schedule of prizes just one by 
now deposited in the British Museum, and doubtless | 41; 28. Blechuum aoc gma already gigantic Sydenham ‘Though 
g. 12. iA parner E EA mM 8 Se y 
tthe, and the microsco; pe w ‘would very ee 1 », y multifidum Nat. Printed F argum prove that they 
this instance. Centurion, Atheneum mum Club, i Agron: k scsi val mn Pers i eap a pes hold o n the minds of all ranks of the 
Monkshoo thy nd Horseradish.—1 have reflected on | 16. Asplenium lanceolatum 30. nen Tun- [rent mpr that their area is in unison with the 
your article at p. 67, and I think of offering a prize for brid d educational a which that noble 
h } H, 28 2. 4k, se, oie hihi? D, g r : 
This ma: ‘some of 
often has the pinnæ very wavy, , and v ru serrated, 
but whether that characteristic remains constant when 
that the directors are men w pe 
of the age, and that no effort da their 
I want I can find the best directions for | removed to the nes rai or not I am unable to say. | wanting to — on the dary oy of the wast —take 
its culti I will haye them printed and dis- a „Eliron has often a frond or two slighty varie- advantage of the present, and hold for pantie men of 
tributed. _AndT shall also this ear get t prog: ready to support: and 
hat Gar t h of the whole plant. Several varieties he schedule issued for the 
our exhibiti 1 trati proof of the power o be met with, and joy be stings oiai? exhibition is an improvement ra any yet 
eae a ek g, their difference aspect, b a hard by the olde er societies. In som e cases the {prizes are 
to rival. d dress Monkshood matter to find terms t th still liberal 
for Horses patna roast a cat if the p moe _ During and are better balanced. A rte classes are ‘serstcheds 
brought it to her for a hare. . [There is h I and here and there new features are i 
external bs pinned between the’ of the root of | ing in a dry shady nies among se of Molinia | “Class 1, Plants grouped basen in or out of flower, 
the two plants ; but the cook should have known she | ccerulea, with robust. trian angular ar fronds of a dark — is very properly retained; but it may be 
was not seraping Horseradish, ‘The following di- | eolour, on which the indusium was quite black. Ts th here that for such ing the exhibitors nat 
rections cultivation are implest :— | of common. ? Ihave given dume b d with an as son, but 
Trench the ground 2 feet or 20 inches WEAS fr hes. arte baei e ear if ot ei with ient space floor to deseribe a cirele oF 
or March, nr “the: geocte TP the first | sid nium | oval, slightly raised in the centre, and the whole of the 
trench must be taken ont 15 inc! only, she | Teicha, AMAN poner saan atien an de be mossed . The rather i 
mould PAT the last trench when the mall, is by no means particular in this respect; indeed | year on in ey aten a a A bei “ed 
oe i ore f the first trench | in aghen oen Drona elegans, emi om E doubt be: avoi I think it is t053 
must now be dug over 5 inches deep, and even; Tr the fine of the park here, there is a plant growing | regretted that they have again fixed upon 
