THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
[Marcu 29, 1856. 
ro- ] year more ore info on will be elicited on 
points of no slight 3 Aktoro to a great mercantile 
coun rth So valuable and extensive a collection | m 
similar in 
reer stearic seid, “or as ans are © commonly |s | 
called 1 Price’s patent, candles. 
Should experiments — that re really | di 
ascribed t 
tributio s, and „a cons nsiderable 
unt of them e 
Įwith the e portable greenhouses 
| ceded the present Mh ese cases ; 
Mr. 
more, 
which 
i 
t cap 
himself. 
ith 
sending home new plants have been 
with much success had n 
ers been se! 
py a shed 
eer pega rn ye sanctioned „by Parlia- 
ment, and it has a ha 
ttl 
quite agree with 
red: in eccrine s should on 
the of the accommodation to | the extent . iat squi 
n every respect 
pe 
+ But what can give e it the property of stimulating frat te ca the 
as well as preserving vitality 
Estimates ror Civi Services for the pre- 
Tue was a 
sent year now before us present some 
active part in the jury of the 
n 
structure is so ifa advanced, for | i 
be rej lace 
verance meres no ila ter aed dim min Me 
| Among the methods by which Mr. Reeves ascer- 
tained what would be tnt in England 
was the transmission of drawings, executed in 
n 
den interest. In the irii par for is re- k arama piike; pn the Great Paris Exhibition. That|a pl. l e China Rose in k 
quired for filling up what called the basin | class, mainly relating ad v egetable pr roducts, offered ance as ano ject of usthitian. a this. way was 
opposite Devonshire House, aa improving the the e very TA most requisite d that colle an of authentic drawings of 
adjacent ground. We had pees that th ant of "2001. was i aaa bt , by far the most pena ier in Europe, 
Water ter Company could have been compelled to pay h | which now forms pi of the library of the Horti- 
Ta a + +h 
ma ural Soc 
have so. mes been permitted to enjoy - from a 
£ 
sance. 
while the President of the Board of Trade liberal ily 
Thus pro 
public If the pode is skilfully | offered to expend an equa ovided, 
sit bat this park will be uch improved in | and further assisted by hs meni Ait s of the 
for jë ‘toss of the beau- | Science and Art eee of the Board of Trade 
tifal bridas over Tabe water in c James’s Park, 
— e Times wo ould not pe’ ermit Parliament to 
sanctio: 
tions in 1 Victoria Park ; it 
one will kee 
hen in Paris, and enric by numerous donati tions | 
from many areg oi 48 large cases were trans- 
They contain vegetable gery 
many of a very rare and valuable, from Ales 
r| Australia, Austria, the East Indies 
o be reid that some aor tai 
pa vigilant a upon the mann 
rtions of o uch lamented 
end fe to the collection of ving plants, If 
e look into private Herbari we find 
of his industry ae liberality; at pe British > Magian, 
| and in the a t Kew the f Regyes 
| occu i where er Chi e produ EFE iii j mabata 
At last the kind good o wt Kanpa has left us, 
One shor tw eek ago he n examin- 
f the Horticul- 
in which pia money is expended. Grand Duchy of Hesse, Jamaica, Mauritins, aa 
S Tuscany, 
ay, 
weden, United 
ictori &e. &e. 
+ ural Salei, Although now taken from us, he 
ie lend, a present the affectionate memories 
those to whom he more dear than words can 
Then me of R Reevesia thyrsoidea given ‘by 
peza 
descr 
i 
mania, Vic 
ariv i in safety, and their pigs will 
ouple go far towards filling up the surplus spac 
to the drain se of 
A we at how often this we rk e To. po = this collection of vessiable poina 
Ei: E n | is valled is grin = pe and n 
at a cos als might k ave been a: ile thea Tramer was 
34267., more quite in its infanc i 
uired for forming a | structive kind ae 
ichm Ta eerie 
"5 Holyrood Palace is ga have 
o-third 
of which is req ever been _attem mpted 
soot epitaph inscribed to his memory in the 
poet of science. 
ETABLE PATHOLOGY.- —No. CX 
ass. 4 EXTERNAL OR ACCIDENTAL, 2 (Organic. We 
new road to Daddingetone 
The total cost of the R Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, 
exclusive of the new museum, xis 10, sata Th 
of the eg is accomp an. important 
report from Sir Wirum Hoon, s s which we 
extract r n Drnis statemen nts. The total 
of visitors 318,818 ; their conduct is 
veral our prt 
ien menies] Melbourne, ata _ dyed 
India ompany is forming a similar in 
Lo ndon, at Calcutta, , an nd at _ Madras ; another’ has 
f Edin 
now being followed in se 
and at the momen 
observe the 
Dai ly Post 
urgh ; 
t of drawing up this report I 
flowing paragraph in the Liverpoo 
m of a 
q ot with the Royal 
a | take satisf: ietioh. 
ch acts of impropriet mee 
yasa are occasion 
committed are plainl y described as b 
i 
In- 
ins already above 
of grea ge i and as it has | ¢ 
commenced Jik. “the wr ‘sub 
purpose to follow out the Sa 
ently 
stitution of te ps own, 
“The | e yea 
for succulent pi ory 2004 Jen tlong, 30 dite wide and 
15 a t high, has e ena abled us o displa ay (a nd to 
stances, we ey 
has afforded 
as possible to those ‘diseases which, 
cies from external causes, are as far ca Me can judge 
pure’ We now come to a d series of 
ng, 0 atmo: osph eric phenomena ; from 
dations Pi piii and other animals, or from what may 
js rm ed as wage accident or wilful mischief ; 
diy: 6 be a to the 
al at sc Lar ba at 
advantage, for t 
owth 5 € 
plates 
medicinal Aloes ond Espo Sr ah Cacti of the Royal Gardens of Kew.’ 
and fibre aring Agaves bi Ear f, At 7 
ind ur new pits and fr 
ki ae 
close of the Paris oe n by order of 
pope oN; and wi 
Jnak riv. al | 
t 
rubs, t n 
ived D a acces- | and ot the er 
sions fro m temperate climes, whi ne require 
ut time for their more full dev elopment to become 
ornamental as well as pot en i Ay: A ons 
who are | in sresti in forests and ental 
nothi } 
8 
| appro oach to an economie museum ti 
ponai and purchases at the close 
Pari whe ae will lay the foundation of one on 
a most extensive scale.” 
“The Sagres of our present Museum of} With e 
mic Botany only Peed from 1848. The| concur, 
among the Nestors 
Reeves, a nami 
anywise service- 
is e cout of the highest 
ses, an 
of Horticulture. Mr. J 
h 
tim $ y be combined. It is not, how- 
* | inflict no 
ow 
of the Great 
el 
ery word in these extracts we cordially | 
Deatn has this week claimed another victim ia $a 
| unded, 
oE ao and some nourishing a | 
ever, rely by “exhaustion that diy. Be is 
This ae exist in ao us de 
sscareely one ee sem ae nan 
purpo 
ommercial coi presi fs must be 
n who reflect 82 
er the | a | 
E. I 
| rorporhmg Ly 
little was | 
| pekir the ‘Chinese Miis -i de 
hinese aarden ns beyond some grotesque | 
a ae 
‘acturer, the’ weaver, 
th 
question rae — ic fungi, both on T eiA 
important part they bear in producing disease, the 
ures upon paper and porcelain, Mr. Reeves 
csaployod himself with indefatigable veal in sending | 
that he found most rare and beautifu 
among living plants. 
, the ayer, f the oil and colour- 
&c., wil here 
arranged the several „obj bets 5 in p e ie wali are 
me ail 
Thus employing s is “leisure a 
e pind either iate 
for due = he 
if they hope to contend success to 
| The gardener must first be able to ible to speak positively #8 
It = not aah in such matters 
TO: 
7 y years, 
e names | or source from wh wn 
the countries whence the: indirect s 
Till Nema Azaleas, C 
$ , Roses, and 
were irs the | * 
amellias, “Moutans, Chrysanthe- | so 
that 
much less 
ja itl ges sh pA e me erm oni sareret 
me specks of carbonate of lime, or other other chemieal dr. 
wi as 
a and a merte whichwe are as ofen aee 
pene it is indebitable cat iz origin | et Hee porn aol ache ek d ted 
f, 
JE 
on of the subject by all cultivators f 
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