Marcu 1, 1856.] TH 
E GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
135 
Black Jamaicas, smooth-leaved bere; = Envilles. | shrub, but whose flowers require a littie protection Be eR ae ee ae ae cen von canal, 
What can a the cause of want of flav in them ?} have ent in perfection. FRotices ot Books, 
uch water, too little heat, wá little pd 
ae which ha ad been ripened on n pots 
uttings a “fruit trees 
which practically 
n the est oc 
Jog g and 
e Too 
very S ar air. pe not these four your enemies, all o British Rural Sports. By yitlaaliddiany ge. (Routledge.) 
some of them ? distributed. Some observatious on grafting | This is a solid, closely a ed 12mo. volume of 720 
Disease in Spinach.—Our winter Spinach here has e made on this occasion by the Vice-Secretary, | pages, with a good i dex. e giv othe author’s own 
gone ne off i in the same way as that described by “Quer-| He began by stating that grafting often occurs wanes he pa co — nts :— 
cus.’ opinion is over rich | naturally, as is instanced by branches, fruits, and M: f British Rural Sports, the 
m: the ground on which my Spinach was sown was | even petals of flowe: lose contact, and under Bel treats of ‘The Pant of Wild Animals for 
covered ry old Vinery | certain conditions g together, and went on and counpeutetllings Shooting— Hunting — Coursi 
border, and not a plant is now left, as a neigh-| to show that -_ accidents had doubtless led to | —Fal d hing. Part the sec d emb 
bour, not a mile off, had his sown on rather poor light | effecting the same thing artificially. It is in real- |an account of ‘ Racing in all its branches,’ viz., Flat 
land, and he has had no disease ; on the contrary, his ity, he said, ‘the property of all living vegetable racing — Harvie, racing — Stee plechasing — Riding to 
Spinach has been as healthy an and good as it could pos- ae to form dhesi tting-r Yachting—Boat-racing— 
sibly be. » Colo. mstan neces Very y young or nascent tissue may be] and Pedestri ianism ; while the third exten ds over - the 
ct together with facility, as is naan Tie ~ iF paat = t, Liaw Cr icket ~ Foo p i= inde ere 
spiral "flaments Bit ber + “R. E” in worms are. ses by what is called herbaccous Bape wling ou ng. 
Now, I ere next alluded to; but g Ho rsemans ip =A Drivin Aul ales 
natur: n“ R. E” Mr, Antherid i is, howev ha 3 be ffect th devoted t deseri 
certain] worm or an animal organism, , notwith- t matter on " the Anatomy, pinan and Diseases of the 
ine 
nly n a 
prepa his activity as a swimmer in water. eed 
not say that ciliary motion is no proof of this, or indeed 
motion without cilia, or else Desmidiacese and Diato 
=a Male 
e 
actors into 
consists in fitting mye a ‘of the a 
neatly to that of the scion, or in o d 
together exactly. If this aiie inida was met 
lly the union, it was stated, wo we be i 
animal structures, | “The po ed life of sperma- 
perfect, as would also be the case i 
the stock 
roader than It was mentioned that some 
wood into 
point had been illustrated by Dr. Maclean, 
who grafted a yellow Beet on a re d o; 
the 
t ii ns 
health, or to relieve any of the more o 
eviations from it. In this enw ion, } 
Cock-fighting Bull and Badger-baiting are omitted, as 
b laws of the land ; and, to e best 
of my judgment, nothi ing is inserted which can 
injure 
morals, or destroy a gentiemaniy PESH me 
be the object of every tr portsman to 
PR or our own parts let us add that all which we have 
] ; a fortiori, such an existence mu st be deni 
oe “of vegetables. The little coiled up spiral ciliated 
filament which, under the name of Mr. Antherid pro 
duces such wonderful effects when ae 
the canal of the archegone to the emb ell in 
prothallium of ae is surely a simple ail, which i 
I of i e hair-like a s finds its way 
an l w plant, jus! st as 
bee en united it was found that the yellow Beet still re- 
mained yellow, and that the a per on which it was 
= | Bonet ted still remained r ed. In ase there was 
varieties ‘kept 
plant 
g tog of the ti ‘ee 
a: + 
worm, or by anything even analogous 
an existence more independent than 
T hope “R. iiei sid 
I am the 
sure you will ies 
that nothing co could be ine stag ra ger the 
ost casual _— 
d has proved to be well done, and that this 
enumeration of contents is no azy only no overstatement, 
ai ourselves, 
reir asi from 
the foll owing rema justice is 
neva my accuracy 
Ee 
ssu mei 
Cellular tissue, it was me: 
d, nor wood with wood ; unskilful 
ment of wosuiatte stocks bad 
urrence. Although 
as the stock, 
q 
unite with woo 
u: 
of fire combined with facility a loadin, 
di st the choice of the rifle much eon should 
now be given ; for the recent monetan introduced 
by Colonel Colt and Mr. Lancaster hav ected quite 
on in its form and powers. ° Und ler the old 
there might Se ahai but the 
ween the two would alway. s remain distinct, andi in 
cases it not anttequenely happened that the two | 
parted company across the line of union. Nevertheless | 
when stock and scion were on kind and con- 
stitution, as when a Pear | is grafted on a Pear, 
f their 
7.1) 
with me 
idea which I think most i 
C. R. re Strickland 
from “ R. Es” description 
Feb, 25. Worm = mite na whieh penetrates aoe 
worm. Not 
ally—when 
might be a oh of steel. See Iaooai, WFE 
race passim i 
A dult 
ie DOU WEEL Sinappeered. “fewer stated. that 
under onl Conditions adhesions 
permanent and perfect, and that grafti tije ight result 
f th 
pan 
régime, a rifle was | considered first-rate ` which would ina 
calm day kill at 1 s 
ahot at 300 yards w: a feat to be never kesr 
rs invention the windage of 
by Mr Lanessta 
might ber ar be | ax 
ftin h 
ery beau tifully acted upon by 
d hell z, 
have recalled toT my aame e a case somewhat i in point. A 
| sy or from want of co! 
orary 
consanguinity. The ancients, | 
round its axis at rig a angles | to its course, Nice friction 
ated, we we of opinion that | Apples s would grow nereased 
o a new and Jeary flower which he had impor ted, | on Piane trees, an ; but it was flight op be retarded in proportion, To obviate Ke 
Zape p — One day p } Į ted that all the revolution 
coke ould or did bu uy p 1 less stock and scion had tł 
d of For eration are at a ci A roe ess price per | constitutio d, | 11 fet and that ail beyond t that aot be avoi He 
rahe. Judge, therefore, of the gentleman’s surprise | as was sport: ed in the case of Pears o on uine d arrels one quart ae: oar Neat 
when the nurseryman told him that all the seed of that ee on Plums ; = rds oh habs not permanent. Ever- or 2 feet 9 as, re of the aan in 
partion mar flower eg aparas to this country was first in en en it was I , being 2 feet 10 inches in À "This 
hish in ilfusteation na audi an example of aie. ed so that the rifle groove shall Teeth JAR 
the eraa argh any one. How the other party was enabled i q 3 er words, SO each 
to sell ata reduced price and yet obtain a oe the | evergreen in this case had grown for 13 or l4 y years, | g hall h on one side, and 
ow dea d, while d l ttom—that is to sa} 
P ie? he y will th I began. [This is rather o! 
a loss to guess. go also before the meeting. But cote it was | stated. 1 of the b makes a qi 
id is “the same constitution?” Peaches take on se oN ie n the breech and ee, and the spire has 
Soctettes. 
espe 
Eoen eB Feb, 26.—The Rev. L. Vernon Har- 
urt inthe chair. Viscount De Vesci, J. Clutton, Esq., 
mi We on jun., nady were elec sted F ‘ellow: 
f Orchids 
same 
s. Several 
Plums, although constit wegen 4 unlike ; but what i is 
Peaches which t: ogni 
a geometrically increasing cur 
baad curious French 
Pear Plum, dislike the Muscle Plum, ve ex: 
to the oe pa on leaving t robe muzzle i 
amples of the same kind were brought A. it the and = ag et "lon ong e 
was stated to be far easier to say what was not ugh air, but like one witk- 
in constitution. The Cedar of Let non, for pa very open Loe pen worm. e thus. 
stanee, would not long a nor the formed, = ball is also made to suit eee at the 
Medlar with the Whitethorn, or the p rple Cytisus least ounce in weight, and cylindrical in form, 
with the Laburnum. In gen’ at uae conelisions with a T skep col t the one end anda segment of a 
might be drawn :—l. A sei will alw: ays a per- | circle at the ie oea as in the Minié rifle, 
he same individual. 2. A scion will deie: e =| ant 
a deep cup with a thin edge, which 
a handsome example of "the do flowered Chi rfect and permanent union with its stock if one isa of its A without i any ult 
Plum. From Mr. Forsyth, gr. to Baron Roth hild, Actas variet tb of the other. 3. urable, but n s per- or of the = rod. It is true that theory and 
were two noble plants of Phai diflorus, Medinilla manent union may be | effected _when one = of a| practice do not ney agree, but in this instance they- 
Bpca and Bo: fi lly bl 4, No nion either | | appear to to harmo! markable manner, for, on 
oe tbush, of ted w stock and | trial, it is found that “Me. ter’s rifie will rh 
hoate 
n not so well flowered by Mr. home of St 
one ow Wood ; from „Mr. Crockford came Chines 
Primulas. Messrs. V. hand 
scionare widely di different. 
any kind of grafting peighaii ` "Grafted plants, then, 
Corrzea seeds, a white-flowered 
tA segs froma | 
Fellow of the Society was Sa to show that i 
the old ones; and wi also carry, with the santos 
allo wances, four or five tine as fa I should therefore 
y select a the 
raised from Australian 
piashenncotns pee a small bit of St 
T 
A RH } 
JE 
Messrs, pak; 
looking Rhod on (purple w. yaa es ‘on the pe ob were, however ane by 1 ifi he old g d 
upper petals) pare was — to pri well. The same ras Noble. It w: nevertheless, universally jere patterns, unless indeed two-grooved should prove 
eminent n also several well grown and except the cad and scion were identical in their | an’ exception ; for his possese as much | > cer- 
finely bloomed specimens “of E Messrs. E; G. lants thus inereased we; so good as pone fot aim as is attainable, and rere loaded as often 
p Euct iii Both xperience therefore showed | without eaning , and ~ net as owling piece, A 
grandiflora, pl itk fi t eve rything on the guinity of th P has been fired 160 times with 
page 804 in th eae for 1855) From the | stock and scion, and that what is wanted is not toh i cartridges without becoming fouled inside 
Society’ gard g = I grafting invented, but to know J. 
th flow Thy hus Schom- | more about consanguinity. Mr. Glendinnin jected 
burg alias rutilans of laris, | to the statement that z Onks did Eraras long Sylloge generum specierumque Cryptogamarum quas in 
free flowering species of this little cultivated | on deciduous on i to the variis operibus descriptas iconibusque pasran nune 
; the large variety of Mignonette cal a | Devonshire the Lucombe Oak worked on aslen: ad diagnosin reductas, nonnullasque novas interjectas 
grandiñora, which i is much more vigorous and quite as i ned the size and imber trees,| Ordine systematico ene C. Montagne, D. M, &e. 
Sop Gains picatus) gathered on the heights of | 
ago 
The as plentifully supplied with specimens of 
grafted plants from Messrs. Standish and Not 
Chal: Ip 
Paris, 1855 ; 8vo. v. & 498. 
_ Tus very ne pis is a digest of all the deserip- 
of Col. Munro; and Fi 
te. Osborne of Fun vrs Se 
Of the same name, which is somewhat different from that | 
Forsythia viridissima, a 
ee published in a vast 
variety of journals, voyages, &e is which are s 
widely scattered, and often in books of such. ostly 
