260 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. [APRIL 19, 1856. 
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of those pretty ornaments of gardens w hich ithe aioe which ravage his crops. We answer s it New Plants. 
r Vi si Pelargoniams and o that if it would only repel the G cater- | 167, BEGONIA ROTATA, PIRAN Gir 
“bedding stuff” has a out of general clive e gardener would be satis: ed. kine zsch Begon., p. 91, eoudia rotata, 
tion. In the gardens of Belgium and Germ Bri dise way Am this drug is said to be Picked by Mr. Gordon out of some Epid 
is still An Armenian merchant called Sumarrorr, | roots received by the Horticultural Soe Society ger: Me 
as waan not it poh be after we shall have said ootie ‘esting in sout Asia, remarked that Botteri. It forms a stout short-stemmed ed’ plant with 
something of its curious wg sto’ e inhabitants employed some kind o wder a digi 
It rn nations are perth ect themselves from the stin nsects. | leaves with o oblique sinuously mba d ‘oval thin 
tormented by Fueas—the pte: sila a more than | Having discovered that the Red Pyrethrum yielded wog ts, pale beneath and thinly covered ar d 
the latter, if travellers are to be credited—saving | this powder he, ie his pate to his own to , | lon fou s hairs which spread over the stale w and 
always the Pyrenean shepherds who are so happy | communicated : he secret to his son and t of the petiole, 
as Konisk shee in k, and who nt SA ho ow to ) know e son, having fallen rae strageling sparingly down th gin itself, 
better than any others the meaning of a d: Sa to work to manufacture | s oug S ie n righ The E pa oe j- 
Now there are a plants which possess, w ‘ pulic eifagal® pow rem and made pone money: by'! tower, male dt fellale, firms abt ocks hy t to each 
hardly say des the reputation of being hairy pe it; his selling price in 1818 Tavidi been 25 roubles of the fentk ee nearly semicircular, on ne being p 
> emi French ‘iter calls pen icifuges, by which (about 4/. sterling) the pood, or 2s. a poun: wice as large as the other two. i a pretty addi. 
he repellent of fleas. One of our co n ere is no doubt that the Russian flea powder | tion to the genus, its firm pia hog lesan 
tid-side de plants is ‘called Fleabane (Inula Pulicaria), | is the same as that Piré-ot}, of which samples have giving Seed to the hasnt hat monotonous foliage of 
which same, says Dopoens, an old Flemish herbalist, | been sent from Erzroum to the museum 5 the 
“ laid, strowed, or vere! in any place driveth away | our invaluable correspondent LV UNBERGIA LAURIFOLIA. 
all ve venomous beasts an ae eth gnats and flees.” sq., neath the following memor 
s 
that the com 
din Bosnia | a mos! s wally 
i powder rors a at or over a sofa or c i 
> or drive the intr uders away. The Enclish. and 
ban! excellent use of this drug 
in nthe arah barra Ih ble 
tain the iant pi% ‘which it is obtained ; I 
thought it was a Puli i 
on 
i g puli icifugous es by tis 
“jy ence at Lig 
168, Tuu 
T. 0 ò gla ape caule volubili, — oblongis acuminatis obso- 
le tè denteti 
act: is 
‘unculo com- 
uce duplo brevioribus, cal firra aie 
gerrimo glanduloso, corolle lobis subrotundis ee 
fauci infundibulari equalibus, antheris villosis omnii 
quali-bicalearatis. 
This is a noble twining stove plant, for our knowledge 
rs gio = are indebted to Messrs. $4 Veiteh & 
heigl be finer 
he it loan ooth, firm, en ‘elining z eaves, 
from 4 to 6 ea nrg The corolla, 
marine blue with a whitish throa pna fint y m1 
iameter, although the plant before us is far 
rous . It is perfectly distinct 
iflora in the form and surface of the 
against Puli and Leuc dan t eam which they a plan a white flower, yellow disk, and | from T. grandi 
rt oy Secltnine to associate with those plants. divided Teak, which ae ee l 
But seems that Caucasian, Persian, and a Matricaria or I believe the two 
K i ree have a still worse enemy in the aia of Piré-oti are more or less adulterated, ved 
ouan red © Oy mm shee oe pe referred in | I h 
the beginning of the prese: icle. M. Ducwarrre| not find better qualities for yo a. 
has brought oe to our recollection by announcing; We think ourselves able to say with certain A 
in the last number of the Flor Serres that | that the te te is the ground half 1 ripe flower heads 
LY 
nor harsh with hairs, 
and its flowers are considerably finer. Its native 
country is uncertain. 
ON THE DAE ae nea STOCK UPON 
HE GR 
oe raiser of a new va aeret bm male A the 
ersian flea zea wy re iad tole it flower eads, | of Pyrethru eu e of Mr. Catvert’s nereases it, in the first place, toa 
P not only x es th ra Pth of f all so is sagree- samples thats e still remained some unground fruit, = order to to study its te itan an € TOO 
able or injurious insects, bat dial dsiled arg which we are unable to distinguish from that plant. ee ing this, a Le isa yore 
—_ of ni yeas small’ q r| At all events it seems that plant spoken of by | are ~ 7 
be u te peer in nike onl Messrs. För and goTTI is that species, | success ue the Saas good condition of the variety 
house flies, &c., if the figures in the Flore des Serres (ix. t. 917) propagated. One of these principles fi ject 
without rm the least i injury to plants.” We know represent it. As for P. roseum, we have never seen | of the I pamar aa It is founded on facts, and sup- 
re mismaque* adver- it in cultivation; for lant so called in the | porte which every amateur might 
not whether ho = the Poudre the p 
tised in the nom for such Botanical Register, t. 1024, is certainly P. carn 
wd as n m out. i 
eat 
wder must have re Aai Pre Ap mise them 
80 that ifit do not kill A feas it it twill. at i? a: prove a very 
given by Mr. Henry Garrorrti in the Fournald Hor. gay ornament of f their flower garden 
z It Ais viden 
-| Palace wd to y ereas pean usly with 
Horta exhibitions, The immense quantit y | fru 
of covered s heir di them f: 
Paker mia himself, either on his own trees or in the 
nurseries. In fact, from a series of observations made 
ona ‘considerable number of trees, the conclusion that 
the stock has an influence Porch: upon the and 
productions of the graft m arrived at, 
of t 
that the directors of the Crystal Sock 
year doubt, several specimens 
n 
he ensuing 
ere is to be a meeting, | 
| Pot 25 
h 
“of a nursery quarter where 
to 50 stocks of aa kinds are budded with 
the same variety, it will be seen that 
growth in the same place of the st 
more vigorous than ea a different origin —_ 
ine. are t! 
1000 Ibs. ES of eh flowers are | ne; ri a thir 
to ces a ne pound of dried ones ; 
ird, ex- | 
lanted into pay quarters for training, it will oe 
seen eai hai the stocks viih grew best in the beginning 
ead 
which | is evidently som 
n those of the 
mateurs’ ad stow 
plante ted with the view of producing frui 
ha t 
Five-and-thirty tons of ae p A gage are manu- 
for res e in Transcaucasia 
on Forkeisinn mra may be e pipra din to wo well ; ut 
g =e 
iety, and peo the rose of r= born 
rk w b 
rne by vigorous trees arees 
ing from the growth and produce of a tree worked on 
one 
ard to ‘the real merits of a new variety. ` 
exa varieties, worked on the wild wild Pe 
may bly ay able to peti the 
= fleas which 35 tons of flea powder will 
kill. This gentleman adds that than 20 
in the 
more 
an an alluvial soil enriched v with rotten dun ng, n namely, 
stock, on the same so Bear in a wild say o or o 
free stocks p ra praed anted in 
of very different in 
hana ‘oi with a gravelly abel; or in a marly cls, 
the same facts as in a light deep soi soil, or 
nd lice, and 
the wounds o 
creatures are 
bed dealt with the powder i is to be Biar, with ny 
such as sugar when anger 7 
ps are to be killed. M. Förrersanm is also of | S 
opinion that if further experience should demon- q 
strate ficacy of the Pyrethrum opiat er| ĉn 
y of the 
should be cle: 
sorts of insects. he exhibitions will esy themselves | 
has a garden a grow hania WE itio zaoa all the “ae | va in saer mar misunderstandin 
eee ee 
* Plus de doute! Les ai uces, fou: Tue 
fards, chenilles et ee re pave, rieien a par Ta Street, wi a H aeae pan vate view, at 14, Newman | nd 
: t détrui 
phen ks Ane g- d.g. Boites de 2a 20 fr ite à k rtion of the trunk of 
pa CANG & t Edo aT 3 Pasta Exp. y ns stripped off the wood at 20 feet from | 
{This grate = e. The Sp imen is 20 feet in diamet 
arly pointed out, or | 
p 
temperament from that 
sie so healthy and tb as those 
vigorous stocks, whatever the nature of 
nd te equi y 
unt of vi and the e } 
ure that all thegratts or buds employed shall be exacty 
alike. vigorous variety accommodates ‘it 
better to any stock than one does that i is delicate o! peer 
“ Membre du Comité du 
Ministère des domains, des Sociétés i et 
St. Petersbourg, Moscoti, Kasan, de Pinizede iros (oes de 
the 
inside the bark, and gives an idea of this santa 
such as no drawing or description can convey. | 
be admitted without reserve. 
T order to mae this m this more intelligible we will give 
