Fees. 23, 1856.] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 119 
too. The truth shone out with clear unmistakable | ceeded to detail some experi ae iments made on Tigridia curious form, hooded ; spur red, with long stalks, yore 
certai a g y «In this peer Š a: arked, “ the style | three petioles, small and s ve like” What shall 
the matter in favour of rearran ere elements. The|and stigma are at leas © anaiei in ength, a after | say !—what can we say ? cept that blundering like 
porir thing with which those pots and tu er were sur- the lapse of 14 sours aa the appliontion of ‘polien this is most distreditable. 
rounded was get in gach with that ney taste, grains, rere: of pollen tubes may be seen in the 
and the glories of Rhubarb pie with me g the ntre of the style, many in the axis sof the ite and Mr. McLean has issued a prospectus of kr dpr 
things that naa least that sat of it ahs te pro- je generally one in each micropyle. The following is lled The Gi England, drawings 
ceedeth from ha: and sigh with their beg known n | sume mary of the results of many a aari on n this | | made at tmon Woburn, Shrubland, gyn To Tomes 
coverings of str R. Bree, | plant. 1. &e, &e. &e., _ by E. _Adven o Brooke, with a 
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that my statement feepcoting the Beech beam is } per- | safes 2, The | pollen tobe 3 is not a — tubular prolongation p sold at twi ice the ~~ him the ordinary pri The 
fectly correct, the inner me emb. brane (int onre f the have seen are well Riran”? and 
bon ‘hatural i > do of Carmarthenshire, it a never pt distance. thful representation on of the beautiful places 
n tried sin The ee was cut in Jun ne, ] 830, t the | of ies of , the first of which i is peat from the | they are Arrar to illusi 
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small beams, small bi its of which da are with they note | |i the stigma, the third near the axis of the style, and the) An d very much fuller edition of Mr. Francis 
to p It g n Oa k w varyir star e last cell is usually at | Galto ‘on’s jawed on the Art of Travel (12mo, Murray), 
the banks of a small river, ier 7 at Sitti wa perforates the cell | has just appeared. We formerly drew attention to the 
as to pickling, it was cut, sawn, and im nificant used, | wall of he ovary to ort ies wien of the ohare of | first edition of this valuable little work (1855, p. 135) 
I sent the paragraph in the belief that it might be an | the ovule. Each cell is divided from that abov and | and we are now glad to announce it ho author, by 
advantageous thing to be tried again in a part ea below by a more or less perfect involution of f 1 d 
| is indigenous. Y. Z. [The specimen sent us | external tell wall, 3. The pollen tube pasjes trough | instructions to travellers intelligible ‘to the „bluntest 
l was perfectly soun the stigma by a regular process of cell gro 
Robinia Pseudacacia.— In December, 1843, I com- | wards cell after cell is added to the tube s a process E intended as-a ck arar ” to all who may have to ‘rough it, 
municated to you my experience rel the value of “the me a each cell performing its function independ- , missionaries, emigrants, 0 
Acacia tree ; my opinion is confirmed every aed te ntly. 4. No ger erminal vesicles exist in on mo oa sae | soldiers.” To the army, indeed, it must be most especial 
iced hey } the pollen tube effuses its contents into | useful, aut we doubt not that its value would have bee 
been in the ground 30 years. Mr. a be tah in his the sac with whose granular contents a mixture occurs, 
RE (1843), advised the seed to be ixt Mie and commissioned officer in the Crimea. We see, 
America, d gs were sent to illustrate af reer ra with satisfaction that the e xperienced author 
frequently raised it from trees in ‘this Salers < oe the author's view: s.—3. “ Notes on the C tA 
pee | apn # heard the same remark, I wished to ascer- | seeds of India.” By Dr. Murchison. These needs iia |p Somer s to instruet pn troops there “by a small 
tain th t again, aipe uy I directed e* ame oe by the Chaulmoogra odorata, Roxb., or Gyno- | f field p n the pene esate ae 
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in the tong when every seed a ppeared — sidered a section of Papayacece he s are sold in coat art of campaigning will come to 
days. 14da lays ago, ai oe em now eg at about 13s. 4d. per ewt. The uch a part of the > dri ill as extension motions, « or 
ooler me e. Tt | tree is poiso , but the seeds yield, by expression, For ith 
wouid be difficult to exhitiit’ ay pa pae a more blan d aoe bil. Pentre peculiar smell — aste. The a man should know how to take care of himself under 
vigorous state. I beg to add, that from the plantation | seeds a: used by the natives of India 
made in 1823 ave for some pases past cut a neous sane: For this s purpose, s they a are benten. up bearing, or even to attack an enemy and riar t 
many for the same useful purpose referred to aboy ith gh larifi tt Cold and hunger and thirst, and intense fatigue are 
A. P., Cheam. pi eateries surface, The expressed oil is prized i i as our melancholy Crimean experience has 
i i surfaces of s | see us, Rete formidable than lead and steel, 
Sor ieties, Kiai ris Firen peika: os ny. "The Meet tee Mr. ane is dissatisfied with the remarks we feltit our duty 
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pai m z tit The ee oil is Sometimes ven internall, d tells us that in the instances quoted by us the descriptions. 
fr = be Gouna eel yf ae ae: Sue: hea rite ih of fv ve or six m Too se aoe ae are are place col Socio Siren aaa gry np Ap matin 
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ected Sieden for th wewida mi Sennders was the fo nl ng list of plants which had stood the ter | from nature. Why, he will see the same sort of evidence pro- 
Mr. Curti t e 1 year in the stead of of 185 a that Ce Rintaiged iad site: pen Ba by the manoa French gentleman ‘who is practising his 
a portra i a whom was kA ar _ Raa a and | Shrubs ‘aia ose a = included whose stems as well as pease ee eo e- Streets What gu 
meeting roots retained vi no doubt that Mr. Roberts believes they can, just as he believed 
oo) of the “So ae Chairman read pe address on the, Camellia aah hae Solanum crispum that the exaggerated descriptions we objected to were just and 
4 Society, y and on the progress of entomology Melianthus major jaras Lindleyana true. But the public wants to know E these T6 of his means of 
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ivedi A new part of the arent panaris Fuchsia coccinea _ Peucrium lucidum RDB EAR aT 
was announced as a for distrib utio: r. Sam uel i tne Sees Dara Garden Memoranda. 
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] pom fope enhi 4 I: ‘Amaryili neg" eye This is caf’ Sieg pinces Mm which certain kinds of 
Megachile eo within a Lor q ee received iby the Pa digg rt ee ie i here 
aen adia apa y from Northern India. Mr, Baly montevidensis ns large housefull of Pelargoniums all in full flower at one 
cimen of the extremely rare beetle Stine ener ake a re ? time, another of Heliotropes, and some hundreds 
pty chus 'porreetus, received by Mr, Maes from na CER fe s of yards long stocked min ippon Potfuls of the 
a c A note from Mr, Hewit: 4 iemet the Catalpa and Yucca have | % yards long abe 
i : ee ee sent, N said yes ly this year, and that the Fig crop | /atter sown in Septe mber last and wintered in low cold 
giving an account of the creaking kind of no ise made by et tied ver ai cases Lis EEP lenatios ia atad P | frames will soon be in ees, Mignonette, we need 
— X aap e Üa copeh daly ú tie Nagbbioshood o of Ryde, lake of of Scarcely state, is sometimes sown in small pots with 
hs pheuaing AaS A similar arate ae PO wes November, 18552? By Dr. T. Bell Salter, | the view of economising room ; but where space is 
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d | ak Ani retty volume, containing some a A light and air as possible. Many complai 
: huig inn at.8. 5 e figures ot of flowers and i ong 3 t gossip about | lose their aoe in winter ; but this th 
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advantage of pe cance te e the eapesil we are told are principally taken from pom En. ay fete m dripr a = z i whatever nei 4 
single families or genera, that it ly gives the diferential characters used b; y | particular er eck not be taken to have the soil 
the Linnean school of Botany, and which are inappli night ig hid it is light; but when sown 
BoranicaL or EDINBURGH, Jan, The President | cable t g p n the flowering pots richer al sho 
in the chair.—The following papers re read:—l]. is used in the volume before us. Bee rails N draining w well and placing on the top of 
& On some species of pr Yate 0 Fars Babington. Mise s Catlow's generic arpa steed are not always to | the crocks flaky pieces of decayed manure for the 
The author directed a tion chicy to the plants be found there, and when they are slie has taken no|double purpose of affording nourishment to the 
included under each other. Take, plants when they are coming Se eeaee and for 
E. alpinum. Under enh have been embraced several for example, Ba agar Aconitum. — What is called th ging } fi hok th 
Species which require to be separated, The Aconi hil plants, w hich were s into larger pots pr 
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its growth, histology, and physiology.” By Mr.| bad, what sl shall we say of the pase account of |. 
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