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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
[Marcu i 1856. 
. Similar o inine, more € A! 
less You MISA, bx ies hie pt gs y subsequent 
physiol Those of Du Pert THouars were 
ts. 
made ee to the English iets in the Philoso- 
Magazine fo for Augus st, 1824, and have ever 
r | appear accidentally or only occasionally. Taking | 
yang into neon J it ANR pay. probable t nam 
under proper the 
i s a u me 
coriaceous, spreading, lan te, with th 
rag and below produced into 
Lg 7 
a ws 
KI V cee {s K 
LARS Ñ AN N RNW > 
have arisen. n Prof, Linptgy’s earliest ame . There is much scope 
com to Botany, published in a oe Bh here for epii , and among those which 
given in detail; and in 1835 the iall hemselves ah the follow- 
CHAUD “brow them before the Hatte in sill ing :—1. The fei? Ta as f fronds ane 
another form. They are amiliar to the men demr ag which surrou nd the lower part of the 
of every country, and we may add are s, ta ff with or without 
iversally accepted as ya Ey f the e caudex. 2. Entire living 
claim a right express an ki inion upon the seg ct riran Saeta, taken with and with- 
subject. We therefore read no little out the ind of the caudex or me attached to 
pad in an ingenious little con that I ree ub idata® experiments 
* that this “ entirely confined to tho sd ona which — 
hel ief, nor does it accord with the recognised doc- fronds adhere: nt to the caudex: t would be very 
mk the schools. ndeed 
rpa eet be said to be nearly u nknown, while > here- by the fronds of those species which are mainad 
tofore it has failed to secure the sanction of the which the i ec 
greater numbe' ur scientific botanists.” What | naturally cast off, a bigs by the po aan 
y 
w ow, any more than what it | 
is as regar e moon, or the cause of thunder ; 
as Py } 
VUL 
hattiy frome ‘of such 
fronds as ap pee with a moder ate iy u of 
th n of science fally recog- | 
nise the itu of b ios as a matter of theo 
do agree about is gio precise rela- 
axil form nied baste ia Fi a an rac chis. 5. Simple 
and pinnules of large and small size and of 
different textures, cut so = to preserve the axil of | fe 
the vein from which they ar 
e en ine tha TES 
are numerous, placed obliquely and forming two 
lines Spik Se s the pinnæ. It is a are of the 
Cape Iope tal, and should there- 
in what man that ree’ is t be interpre eted. „ In conducting these experiments it should be Lomaria aiil T) 
Du Petr Tacs, ah a “agen hel i age 
to prove that the w 0: dite D nee points in connec jon with the 
of ts ra: and they maintained their om At with ribs and veins of Ferns, that b ISEASE IN CUCUMBERS. 
skill and tenacity. Others, however, have r bulbils, as we aes "> fw ge pr ee ai ham 
jected to their theory upon several grounds, such produce examples which p ’ £ 
= ra as the peta of fon in cases lojine yerigan been good enough own È aes hsm veils cee e for ay wna wie 
where no buds are oe or because the stock of to send us, consist of healthy |; py oorer members, ha b; SR $ ergone mue Yy i prima 
a grafted t ree partakes in no degree of the nature of fi ae F thabicot eget a as tll Il lately 
its scion, although according to the theory of and ta portions of he [bsn regarded, next to bread, as gtii 
Ðu Perr Tnovars, Gauni th t of the caudex with the living | portant items in “ food for the million.” 
must consist of a mass o: 1 t ases of decayed fronds, also a us, kis subject of our present notice does 
io} i ba itay CT because wood is not throwing out Ar as shown in | not affect one of the staple articles of human food ; but 
oots. It is on this grou end the accompanying sketch, in which | one which is nevertheless much emand. ch 
that x "seasick. “Of ‘opinion has vps soni some of the buds s T e|those great authorities in g: my, French 
nobody doubts the individuality of buds, but many | | cut edges of the base of the stipes, | deem indispensable to their craft. Ve, therefore, 
doubt whether the wood of a kei A mas he å b--J ~. and others from the cut edges ms, fate of thai dener, who te of vibrio, 
roots. This is not the hich to repeat | 4” age of the rind of the caudex. W, burning the roots, and so forth, faila to produce 
the arguments which either party rests its case | c Living b: s of de- Mr. Jacxsox’s account of his them “ Ne demand. ass eabseet Have toon Heo i 
upon. The reader will find the most important eayed fror trials is as ws :—“ Having kine apenn T he mage a as a Pn per, but the 
stated in the fourth edition of ge In- | been am anxious to increase my varieties of deseri tions of the Riera ie Re ee ee eae nee 
ea pisak ane Vol. ii., p. 187, where a|Scolopendrium, I have been experimenting on H daie and other causes, that with the 
pied by the subject. ec on sorts, and have been successful in exception of the lucid account given by Mr. Ayres, 
we must object to all E | discovering a way of increasing them very rapidly | I eis) 
to lity in a matter which, in a to number, though not as to size. I find that] Last spring I sent o Dr. Lindley ‘the root of a 
been worn threadbare, and we are clad velba ins of the Scolopendrium fronds, which | diseased a. which eS cbligingly figured in the 
see that the ane View R eniertaieg by the author | are attached to the very ends of the caudex, Chronicis ean whi ait dav most Cucumber growers 
of oe little i y hose appearance has led to pa the tops of which piad have been for ny af _At the sa e time e, the Rey, Mr. Berkeley 
remarks. To use his own words—“ He has | years decayed, have the power of producing yo roots, 
nothi yu cad not known before.” pant Is this no own to you ? A find phe that x snd A RA ae ed a small vibe which he had found, and to 
ose presence he thought the affection might be 
aired ed 
Nevertheless he has done very well. 
In a gar raat ye t the yc per of buds is | 
th which som our most im- | 
a 
by 
| of it, and view the lower edge as wella 
e base as frequently as from the edge 
upper; 
s the 
and in the case of the rhizom three iti is requisite 
©) attributable. 
fter the failure of that crop, I did not use the same 
g pit ite Cucumbers again during last year, but another 
d 
a few yards off. 
n the first the plants grew in 
fermenting “materials, 
the the stent a heat _ being 
ater pipes 
from tanks in a gin and the same soil, a fine 
| that it should be cut lengthwi 
th 
ix great Efni of arti | 
e E and cannot per- 
| haps otherwise break thro rough.” 
It would seem soe ot that those Ferns which 
perfectly before, was used in both cases. “Every co 
genial condition for a + icoana] issue was pies E 
aban = light, heat, and moisture ; the result was, that 
cupied an „entire volume of 227 
E 
“$ 
Ma 
from their | ™ 
a greater agence of aris rT or 
viduality of ene The identity of wood and the 
materal asan ~ cut upon which Mr. Jackson, , appa: 
if the reader pleases, the true origin timber, 
In all that he says he writes well, with k- san 
and perspi wih : 7 we gladly welcome him 
ranks of vegetable physiolo- 
i Those hon are atime in trees 
way of living and growing, will find his ree >. 
struct and interest hem, although. M points | 
occupy so large a 
We have lately received from Mr. Jackson, of 
wi a Se nteresting acc! tn of some expe- 
riments he has made with a view to discover a 
ready means of PROPAGATING. „FERNS than that 
sie tee stress—inasmuch as 
me pate an expectations with the second crop, not a 
trace of the affection appe: aring ; but this season n IT a 
pi real on wae crops in the first pit, and the 
t are m the first plants i in the sei T pit 
with r y 
vee old Caeticts seldom produce yomg plants 
ditions which 80 ly succeeded last year. Yesterday 
i 
ded by 
anor 
form natu arah Mr. Jackson’s experiments were 
made renk ae and show that at least 
the curi that Fern ma 
| first kno 
ef 5 oan 
when left entire—does this cut liberate the vital I 
force, which becomes organised in oer hape di a|sample. It will be at the excrescences have not 
bud? M. come so | v4 vas when figured last year. 
aoe eee ee It is not the least remarkable of the phenom 
vial GARDEN FERNS.—No. VIL. asin this disease that it should have attacked 
18, Soro Mr. Ayres’s plants, distant 40 miles from hence, anå 
RIUM Krenstt, Kunze, Linnea xviii M hay from dif- 
and i in a Sehkhr — i. 176, t. 74. OxYcHIUM feren è fo oy friend Mr. Ingram, of 
_ insite darren aie ‘ : sor ; + aiee m Mr. Spencer, of Bowood; others 
anceolate, acuminate, pinnate ; pinnæ So Bath. Th all been from the sam s 
il 
paris an nore res ud geer _subeordate at the but has produced Doth healthy and diseased plants. The 
deflexed ovate, the upper confluent ; sori short emiase; stipes | hygrometrical conditions have both i e of sue- 
shoi ort, te ger: aud adherent t to the semi-erect ri cess and failure been uniform, The bottom-heat from 
A ich the plant sent was taken was 85°. I yesterday 
greenhouse evergreen 
Fern, wit! the true fructification vod a Sechopiadition, 
but having pinnated fronds, aw indebted for our 
sta of this plant i 
whi 
discovered what I han orth i be the vibrio of Mr. 
athe in one of ‘the nees. 
sa hei one of singular interest 
I of paea culture, 
C 
lin the attention of the scientific readers of this 
ein to its age yp And mon a brs remarks m 
the prognostic phases of the 
No sees of mischief nea rom souanies vd me until the 
plants m ade thr ree or four rough leaves. After pale 
| plants do not form fresh breaks in the usual 
£ Wentworth, Pe aoe the finest speci 
was supposed without ve seen were ee “Seedin 
s | g 
having recourse to thi pores. It seems to us nt | plants two nag old produce with us fronds of about 
l row some light upon the nd fu my. fru ~— pi bt a Hender- 
formation of buds on the stipes and rachides of ith the | 
Ferns, which it is y in- ales pilin about 3 inches in length The Tindi are 
si some constantly, in others as it would | more tapered below than no and the 
* Trees and their Nature; or the Bud and its Attributes, By {| PInnæ are more distant ; the yrhai wded, and the | 
Ab. Harvey, M.D. 12mo, Nisbet, = apex is abruptly acuminate. “The pinne are. smooth, ! 
pane 
but appear stunted. Upon examination it is found that 
