aahei tie 
Fes. 16, 1856.] 
THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
that the show will only be open for one day. 1 The fruit 
Baas pra are excellent. Fruit shows in senk will | 
tend to exhibit, more skill, as well as to pre its 
any degree. It has been urged that fruit was not in 
the country, ba ut the same encouragement tha a —— 
the 
103 
examples of Scarlet } Nonpareil. ie Davi f Persh hat happened h hor in the b i f 
furnished what w: Ned Burdo: h Bato 
dessert Apple in that ask and one to ane with| “We at vat reach prl aj irdan plateau of the moun- 
Sturmer Pippin, which was, how- | tain ; our horses are staggering; each man has been 
ever, gem sane o its par re: Mr. gpa t, of Wake- aa over and over in om es, 
at Pears, all of them small in | thr 
sei é the 
— sent some “Apples 
; but so some of 
and though the e 
three hou e of 
Roses i in pots other plants which were them excelle ent in favour. _ Apples | us hav ve much strength eft bat we n feci Ni is goer Fin 
untr’ g f t ÈP | battle for life. the worst drift of all : 
ensuing sh lify th . M‘Ewen, of Arundel directed attention to ‘it pape in n whi Fe whi wicsaipsli 
onga ma y 
largely, i in succeeding years it will 
be more 
abun hat this a is not 
prea to visitors the ush” i 
of 
settled at a 
d | elected. 
of nE prizes at thes 
matter which, after some discussion, was “0s 
new 
ce able = ‘fhe hen my beg through this hor- 
re difficulty i 
future iseti Five 
m scar 
f, and have still m in saving aN 
KF ariel lies helpless 
ev 
members were | hor: on age back, having ce: 
tent gives ample evide ts observe that g | Pie's en to are le, y left hand and “iat 
prizes are offered arious fruit trees in | at are met apparen'ly ; and I sink down gasping 
poi I do not anticipate that many can be brought| Lınnæan, Feb. 5.—The President in the Chair. H. | and apee. in the snow by the side of my faithful 
rom the short notice give range trees in |Christy, Esq., and A. G. sr Esq., were ‘lected | steed, who has give game t. A little 
fruit might have been added with advantage, and when Fellows. The grake) papers were read :— 1. Notice | reflection, pnd a little recovered breath, however, teach 
g of the habit Atypus 5 Sulzeri” a Mr. E. Newman, | at life is worth one more e last I rise, 
simi va A. nee manner it is “set up” for dessert (but This weld rd es corded as Britis sh by Dr, Leach, | and myself and horse are fairly landed on the opposi 
very di t from the one-sided affair of last en ar’, | ha ad n ot been foun ad colwecrunatiy se la ag autumn, Sai i by a 
with the ap aei trees I lie 
riaan the Oran 
ges 
and the Cherry tree in pots, tastefully interspersed 
either in vases or on pe ae stals—we can easily picture 
a beautiful sight, and som 
It appears that this setei is only the prelude of a 
nen it with near Hastings b a of | b: down again. In five 
| Cirencester, whose observations on the rm and i its | minutes, however, I Brai k into pant saddle, and turn 
para “ma caer records. Mr. Brown thinks these a look at my followers, My own t Ismael has 
e found scattered along the mr | esca as my 
much grander fruit display which is to tal 
grea when we ami a on the gardeners fi from 
takin 
const of England wherever the Hastings ‘sand pre ge is 
; this kind of sandy soil being congenial to its sal period ‘helpless 
row wing habits. 2. “ Note ona Fung us found imbedded | struggling in the 
in the fens of Cambridgeshire,” b the Rev. M. J. buried in tbe drift, : 
e fray. iT say fr from all 
consul I h Berkeley. 
the far north will not inger siaha themselves from 
art in some of the classes, from 
HHE 
on 
P 
stacle ie much FIA that w. 
southern frien ave to contend against. . Let fu 
= “sip Melons, — oe agin &e. These 
send to h 
Methinks I hear them “ give 
mate.” Ia admit for out-doo r fruits w we e ave things 
Saer but I y 
is Mr. Hailstone, from the fens of Caire where a muleteer, 
and must haye th 
In the museum at Kew there is a ate 24 r] 
of Polyporus fomentarius, communicated ev, cries feebly “aman, aman” (mercy, pony ta es | 
with bog Oak, 
been buri or centuries. The specimen is so endi, A stout soldier now rushes forward, and by 
perfect as to show the peculiar substance of the | immense eff orts drags the poor man out of the snow, 
pileus, both as ec Agel olour It per. i ies poni men to ni him on 
fectly accor ith und in Sikk by Dr. the pack-saddle of a horse, w had been saved at the 
er. 3. “ Notes S Tonine, y EG G. Bentham, | expense of its load. cana own horse “hey yed 
dow n the m 
Esq. A portion eal “of this monograph was read, The mountain, ae is irrecoverable. 
Loganiaceze, Mr. Bentham remarks, be said W rselves and bozi hd face the 
to constitute a nat fal 0 rder, but ‘rather pal of those | we frig shtful hurrican We ride on over the crest of 
have all the eaha which we ə possess. Let th ere 
fare “1 1 7 fui 
e p state of our rackless Tom T in, blinded by snow, ed ‘half frozen 
knowledge of t ld. After time our stout Kurd, 
_Sydenham commensurate with the liberalt of the 
irited directors, and worthy of baap holden in = 
of the grandest of all gardens, in the m 
spinat of g a Geo, McEwen. 
ure ‘ardeners’ Houses.—On coming „up to 
Sa 1 a pang pas of one of our London 
t great as zi receive anom: malous us genera | by eola su 
rejected from them. 
improvements wey ER ernir Fiy the most philo- | ” 
sophical of mod eee ares as dissimilar in than i oala ME P er a Some of the 
la 
-. 
~ 
Laa 
to nature, as they are in ‘extent. ‘aii tit ‘this 
l 
of gone ge had 
heen „Dronak by a gardener from Yor! e 
as told e tako it i the Aire lodgings, 
ee it l he _obtains another situation, 
h 4 ar per 1 
*Go on, pa 
clamour, 
P jerin Y nE the limite of FaR pt tel reflect well for five minutes, p then act for the best 
Mr Ben tham observed, soem e is the only man who knows of th 
L i f the county wn this the Mollah 
ag t them | po scape, yet fearing 
still far fom Tr ee The 
vast field of Rubiacese ; H 
Iti is well known ‘age Ar an „English gardener leaves 
mje 
aie 
Al i : 
ad. mere: 
a 
Rebiacer ‘respectively 
ied b 
ays, 
enga; a ge eoleniin modestly moots the ide 
having bh. cottage furn 
ished, the p sal appears 
novel and outrageous that it is not entertained ; b 
you would undertake our cause, me! s many g | 
men would be induced to ara estio 
À | 
igri yer on being 
of i 
so | 
;| number, and an enumeration “of gine ey with | words are echoed through ig group, 
, &e. vently responded to by myse 
Pottces a Jooks, 
Russia: its Rise and Progress, 
3, Tragedies and Revo- 
Leesan by the 
Rev. Thomas Milner (Longmans, 
p. 500), is a skilful abridgment of the history 0 of 
Kars (small | + 
Dr. Sandwith’s Narrative of of the Siege o 
if | 
of 
or | 8¥0, Murray), to! ld asi it i is by one of the galanta a | peo Alexander at Taganr 
who 
e new com Id th 
great bi m poor Ser for yrs I am sure 
they rosa fe erful hs pecan usual and 
‘og. The narrative is 
, the arrangement good, = the facts selected are 
an interest in that country which may be the nd | chosen mjt mane It is by far the best abridgment of 
scene of warlike ee en re the East. The work | Russian history which is most 
e pre 
we pees ee 
eneral to furnish ap apan aisig and bailiffs t the author narrates | in the sent state of our political 
hy should i y we onien in England? A up t the Be: city was invested ; the 
trifling outlay on te part of mployer would cure logue called Notes 
the evil. Twenty-five pounds would pure! all neces- | brand pis reached Batoum, after being pomrersbiy dia dis- pae q which the ae are im; “pena by Geo, Robots, 
sary fi ure except bed clothes, which are easily | ™ by the Russian General Mouravieff, in but as we do not know what . Roberts 
moved ab a furniture would be considered fix- sideration of the ki nduess with which he treated the the has with the _—- ts he e professes se describe, and he 
tures—permanent improvement o th his medical care ere h is descriptions, we can 
and for hich 5 fio cent. te charged ag It is s difficult to read Dr. Sandwith’s account of the ouly say ee «judge for yourselves.” That the 
annual balance sheet. An Old linr causes statem: not to be implicitly relied upon will be 
indignation 5 nothing can be more clear t than that the by 1i 
if they Act and white 
aoreties. een f the richest i with anthers of a a gale yell Now if the 
agg past zg ias Baa of pE tiiis am ienaa and | reader s N ari to the Botanical Magazine, t. 3034, in 
BRITISH parents, Fe. 4 4,—(Extraordinary meet- peelation In a urse taken by the | which p = I find this plant figured, ho wili lesii that 
mei —Mr. G Api n the chair. The Aee ga g will aig =x guide to his successors. | it is a g 
on this oceasion pE n P How 2 piese n a l be, the reader may learn | p EERE sko blossom is white tinged a green 
Senge Of the last named fruit Mr. Tilers = Wel from Dr. Sandwith’s interesting pages. The a is old faintly serap with lead colour, and with a deep dull 
jae sent ences of TRDA and Welbeck Black | indeed and so nome agi but it is one that cannot | purple tain athe ond af tae ine no‘ gomen 
spn Soan , Mr. repeated are ‘Visi! organs being 
Fe it was best white late Grapes he had 
usually apie good condition till the end of Marc” 
often anthers 
RRE Gate ch to instruct him, besides Sareari adian aAA In 
politics, in the account ‘which the author gives of the | manner Crotalaria. retusa is called “a splendid plant, 
climate and producti of the | with very large 
rid, £ 4h. 
Pie r E ii 
his of which is sometimes. 
mines of copper, argentiferous lead, and coal, of the complain 
Like Muscats it was to require 
September and October to get it ripened, ar fya | w 
there was sufficient EE DTE Oar Mr. 
Rivers contributed g 
them Josephi age oe oe 
juicy and melting, and will keep till o=s 
pl Gregoire, melting ig mars more juicy than 
, also a first class Beurré Langelier, 
sort ; 
and melting, but not so ‘much sO as meres 
of the preceding, a with which it was 
, neal to be “we rate; Jean de Witte; 
be an 
and Diarbekir, Ene a png being Rete ee eian aa 
bonised and “ i 
superior perhaps to any in in the world,” petal, fal apr ht i somone 
of the glorious forests, and the general fertility of the |} is not a 
land, except on the higher ranges of the mountains, 
are almost impassable in winter. Gumush Khané, 
re-| a place on the road from Trebizond to Erzeroum, is Garden 
famous, he tells us— LLAND House, ineron.—The co 
“For a delicious Pear which much resembles the hara is neni GS wia Camellias, which are planted out in 
middling good kind ; l; Easter 
Beurré ; Dest ~e e 
useful kind, well flavoured, edly 2 and an abundant 
but soils. liable 
Beurré Ste: rkmanns, a cri 
crisp, 
rather coarse Sacked ont one or twoother kir nds. | 
Ras Perry sent a collection of Apples and P: 
the neighbourhood of f Spalding. 
ERAMA 
Fonte a e 
le. a rood 1 k i 
Wt cies eta, than most varieties, and also, 
Jargonel and many of ee ea 
English i of the Te Ee artis tia Double Striped, quite 5 feet in height, 
crack ; likewise | English settlem or two centuries date ; this |is literally covered with fully expanded; Lady 
wines but in this I apprehend to be an unfound pe esa? See cit the, area tial and ao Od 
by national ity, which will not allo’ open 7 e 
Pomni iy, SAP x aa à White are not yet in Soe tihere anata 
As to the mountain passes, those who imagine that form a good succession to ; 
ia. inter. gaa means of Camellias a boses nin ose ed 
| change their opinion after reading the following descrip- ! weeks together, Arrangedalong the e 
