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ia 
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May 3, 1856.] 
THE GARDENERS 
ee ee 
301 
a Pol wie ol sag E 
plant, 
SIEBOLD C: 
ness of hich he fully test tiffes 
eeds of the Soja Jape nica, HA 
rep: 
A 
eal staat fro 
W bt th w will soon be 
own for ajar 80 
alrea on announced a as havin been p aquired by “Mr. 
Henpversen ” and “ Mr. E. G 
in habit. 
ee ea 
G. gracilis 
having deep 
ich have bea, yar 
It is il kno own tae the Oak will not flourish, =a 
the ‘soil i is suita 
| green ries anhes on the upper surface, the taller 
eee leg but — is a peonia that it should be rich 
|cnes bearing proliferous buds fı rachis, The 
fro; nds, about half the length y thed fertile ones, 
a: 7. } ] 
3, 
but if porma dition is so it is o great 
| quence whe; ther it tisa decò. loam or nie ‘for noble 4 teen 
| may befound under both Na 3 and even where the | been 
soil itself i is thin , the Oak will fiou rish provided the tap 
g 3 } 
asplenioides, and are 
It is an elegant ws 
and has 
not all like those of G. reptans. 
FA hothouse Fern 
roduced w 
2 years to the Botanie 
G in. The species occupies 
¢e spenition ba G. reptans and G. 
other congenial 
matter. Where however the soil i is thin and poor, and | spend 7. M. 
Pin oe Society of France has tth 
the can never attain good dimensions, ‘but after 
pony E Jou Contis, bie a ps TAF English few years will show inevitable signs of decay in the ECONOMY OF WASPS’ NESTS. 
ae A EENS leadi oot. It is perfectl less to leave them the Rey. Professor Henslow, 
ody. Considering that this Society admits but six after this takes place, but it is also evident that the of specimens in the Museum at Ipswich. The article, 
honorary me hom en men as | wiser course is to destroy such woods altogether and | though rater | ong and relating to objects which our 
Humsoxpr, SON. vrour, and the Marquis pE the soil to some more profitable culture. The | readers see, is nevertheless too graphic to be 
Spinota, and that the | late Me. Kirey and Mr. vil is not in general due to bad management but is advantages curtailed.] 
} il itself. An illustration, i in several portions—presently to be 
476. re leaving the su bj tit may not b ibed, is placed in case No. 72 in the gallery. I 
ann red a very perch as om as important oa place i i } t common 
tion of solid merit. iae aii us the mor ahold d of Hiteham : viz, Vespa erabro 
record i hen blindness i is “aoe pa rufa (A d Wasp), and Vespa 
to render all future labour on n the part of Mr. Ctr 
rees are pave snghended. ei we believed ‘that certain 
n parts 
= dima 
ulgar 15 (C 
= have an espe ecial r of tl h 
mmon n Wasp). The 
the oana of rotte en pe 
impossible ; x y 
consolatory to that the devotion of a life to 
science is Appreciated by those best able to measure 
its isaga 
nts. 
171. oe HSIA PANICULATA 
F. foliis ovato et obova ceolatis subdentatis ramisque glab 
paniculé (parvistora) pyramidal, etal pti ean a ie 
tubo calycis dimidio brevioribus, stigmate capitato quadrilobo. 
ect 
ff 
tree whic chc xi ade “with them, 
st a 
hae It is| 
Probable is ‘ar th the notion is all founded, and if so, mit 
a t 
ing the tap-root to become unsound or diseased, 
eer poopie injury might ibe expected in the leading 
chooses the o op space beneath t as 
a camper for its nest ; angh instance: r of its 
Iding in holes undergroun The pry two A 
knis „bui ild unde: 
are ted by this oe to examine the con- 
tion of the ts tap-roots, se n only be done at some 
ur by large proprietors.§ The 
like 
nse; “but even ‘they cannot con- 
Hae 
“4 gro’ 
that either Vespa H Vv 
found in Sui nr ‘They er x suspend their ne > from 
oe Teexineh es My observa‘ 
aving been ua “en ia ree first-n: 
remarks will refer to » them, and more especi ally to 
A formed, it is s most like! elyi in n the natural course of things 
No. 1. A cavity or nest-chamber in stiff clay on in 
hich 
cence, mu ch s l rs, small obovate o 
e flowers are wine-red and 
in mass pretty. te ibited by Messrs. Veitch at 
the last meeting of the  Hortioult el: S iety. Mr. 
Skinner: sd ved home mala. It 
ola ig: Em oe Ee s fiore pur- 
pureo = nigra Cuesta grande de ‘Talacingo, reg. 
temp. Dec. 28” of Depp a 
VEGETABLE PATHOLOGY.—No. CXIX, 
475. ULADODYSTROPHIA* ar 3 ‘ag a —his word 
adopted from Ré, though n nious to 
English a the 
ain feature of the 
disease under consideration, mima by: the F remit under 
the name of Couronnement or Décurtation.+ All trees 
may be subject to the affection, but it is the Oak which 
al ffer: m it, and in which it is most 
Soe panned Iti isa malady „Which is onl recog- 
shoot will probably follow. M. J. B. it 
NEW GARDEN FERNS.—No. XI. 
| 22. GontopTERis GRACILIS, Moo: 
and Sp. of Cult. Pent ined. 
re and Houlston, Gen. | 
| of th 
ll nest of the 
This cavity has been preserved in “two pie 
and the other with the 
and other- 
Frond to-lanceolate, erect, pinnate below, pinna sno 
tifid an liferous above; the lower pinnæ scarcely stalked, | you carry out, embraced by their legs, a 
distant, deflexed, obiaualy, subhania a ie, Magis wy shlong: pellet aE erti Mi which say a a short distance from 
ovate wit! rong anterior and a slight posterior auricle, su’ 
; ce: ones oblong-obtuse falcate, adnate, | the peio is continually 
scarcely subhastate, slightly crenato-lobate near the base, |€ b progress o a =, 
otherwise entire; the upper ones eee pees hares | stant enla; argem of the nest itse Our ati stiff apna 
the s ath pubescent with minute forked hairs; ‘so: 
uni- or bi-serial, the spore-cases intermixed with prominent being full of chalk i and flint po it th th 
forked Hairs? barren fronds shorter —_— with more petually obstru i these whilst spo are FD n 
crow wded pi nne; fronds terminal, adherent. thei r nest- cham __ By un undermining them, and 
i g earth, ame pebbles subside to 
o Goniopteris reptans, but resents several marked | the bottom of the chamber. „and there form a rude so: 
P P > t pr 
tn Itisa eb and stouter plant with Jess 
of pavement, rapes below the nest. This i is shown 
dispaziiy in the ee of the barren an 
Tiai 1 
Dto et 
any age is ag-he eaded, i is | 
known by he i name te Horn stock, in ails pian as a a 
said, to the condition of the tree es. Whe ther 
er r 
after a in nu of years attains its full 
maturity and perfection, beyond which though it 
may live for centuries, di ter or im- 
ce mences, in g by year till the 
f 
se 
stand. The question p p 
of a very ready answer, but it is certain t 
the t erminal branches show the ‘leas i 
once be felled. On estates liable impeachment of 
this is a safe rule, and one which er ain toy own 
knowledge has been strii trictly carried out and I have 
extensive experience iam 
under such 
round again, whi 
ey 
left all till the 
y one of Tarlen 
material injury . yg allan found to have 
in that period. ‘Where the eye is 
e rule properly carri cation out, it is be i that ‘the 
timber will be cut down almost at the proper moment. 
+ 
2 that nutriment is not ote to them. wit the 
certainty a and rapidity as before, an conse- 
a qira 
catlak 
ferous cherie the point. “The upper p 
ent 
crowded, instead of | befi 
dermined and en ie: subside to the aag ae 
f the nest has adv: — 
t and 
are almost always conflue’ 
oP | 
| 
\ 
| en entrance hole at the top ma 
and around it. The stone in such cases 
~ is preven ws mrs am. 
fragile 
fig 
ber is on the right 
tilted that the whole of the interior p 
may be exposed as wel ' 
a portion of the surface of the soil, with the Grass on iy 
Ths basen dF oodhò of the short columns by which this 
ei be seen ve to the roof. The 
what less than 
tg 
n obse: 
like io en = the surface of 
captured, quite green and 
we here see ri 
No. 3. A small nest of the Common wasp, which was 
in a chamber not more than 12 feet from 
es perish, and decay at _ saleshs.tte the 1854), they were still conveniently small for the purpose 
branch from tra! they spring.t Thismay be for ni ~ required ; contained. 
where the soil itself is congenial, and whe me oung queens, both of which only 
stances are favourable to growth. The disease how- | appear later in pred year, ar. fhis nest ‘like those of Vi 
ever which i Holsatica and V. Britannica) is 
that of trees which have arrived at and are tis th 1 ae ee ae ly fibre, one the wasps may often be 
to fail, ee eee © which have not attained ie foment i ts and window-sills. The wood 
and the pubescence of the rachis is of a different | collecting from pos 
= of proper ns when a = in| charac tie pubesos hairs being sh instead of long fibre is completel, panes and mixed with a some- 
From #Aades a A aaa va Tapa to tune hat glatin » an l 
t See Léveillé in “ Bon Jardinier? 1 1862p, 198. The words p a] fon ae — be beer ra > Dix and lik ich these native paper-t 
are also applied to accidental loss of the leading shoot, and to| Stouter, G. reptan: g S Ba it would be h lene for thie lace 
2 Where trees are felled by the axe without the assi ¢|put to a purpose age p 
ep In some trees w ich have no well defined leader, where the | the saw the tap ost is sometimes drawn E etd ie Eak clumsy operations of the mill Concentric 
main branches a peterpan shoots are sent up when the tree falls, and where the trunk proves S uni anii- it will laminæ of different tin! nts are united in shell-like patches 
from or og itis "ae tips of these shoots rack oi length fail as | often be found prea na ne threads. N: 
having a greater tance from the soil, and therefore | o vw eo oo, Sometimes be made without much of these patches becomes a segment of a sphere resting 
