372 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. [May 31, 1856. 
was lutle Sydenham and | eye weary of the gaudy scene. As in toes iole) ; but it is greatest towards i pi r smaller 
the Regent's Park; the specimens in one were as |a eg oe rank finely painted ons but with | to the side, and least towards the bas ng oe first 
most of them having in | no repose, there is nothing on the eye can | three days the mean hourly pet i li- 
fact been transfi ima from the Crystal Palace to the | rest. Wherev T turns ne y et and | metres ne the apex, 5.06 Ae to the 
Botanic Garden. In each hersi was also the same | little else. To right i is fed yellow orange an nd | ge y 4 millimetres towards the hase 
want of novelty; fh Trove we could discover, the only | blue, to ie left pet yellow ing he ats is most rapid on the day of the first 
piani — hy Sydenham for the first time were | whi te; $ ront sc gu prevails over red, behi poet of the leaf, when the mean hourly 
very cu alifornian “hardy” bulb from | crimson and ye llow struggle with rose colour Bd mage of the radius is 4.8 millimetres. thoy 
eek: + ag anda en gg hybrid Azalea from | blue. a garden kaleidoscope, mean | hourly | extension of the radius in the 
Messrs. Sranvish & Noste. The former was not exquisitely. beautiful, but T becoming wearisome. | th 
particularly handsome, b han the writer of this how| As haar te amo an of growth, the maxi- 
botani interest, fo I e A ies y be encountered | mu the leaf in an hour is from 22 to 25 
genus aia to Brodiea, T Tapeh was av 
ned as a cross between 
ery nic 
A. ameena oes 
agers 
these npc it is 
pir siti e 
such meetings. 
in the hop 
e that defects which 
pi Foar ; tak in colour and foliage it was half-wa 
pions i addition it 
mere rng ba 
A. a 
being Thar $e the act tof hybridis cena 
is remarkable for havi aah what is ca alled a “hose in 
’ flower “that o say a and with 
d within 
a corolla 
skill and fool taste 
so much will b: 
is still defective 
the actly all the eas in this 
in the usual form of the corolla. ° Crossing tasi in no 
he hose 
in hos 
ee uld like to 
ossing A. a with indica alba, or 
indica phcenicea ; for ren sald of lateritia is a 
fault. Messrs. Verren also produced what are 
almost as new to 
e A. ameena has assisted in the ‘production of 
ee the | ar 
e wo orld as the two plants 
th y 
d that 
op Ae the | mon notonous diversity of the 
be gradually removed. Every year has witnessed 
ome he 7 agen since the pr 
27 7 millimetres i in latitudinal diameter. 
um was 308.3 millimetres în longitudinal, 
al ame 
em 
367 millimetres in “tit din dia 
aea ar sbor 
hi An 
y degrees pai in correcting what 
the Garden itself in 
becoming covered with thickets, trees are 
gro ound 
eyi 
i Dr. CHARDT, F neeaae from 4 hie 5 per 
cent. in an fay or from 75 to 123 in 24 hours, or 
mea: rement, it increased by from 0. wiki to 
0.2872 s square P uy ae 
to 5.0832 in the 24 h iod 
One 
: of from 213 to 25} weeks ponad. Ae 613. 6 to 
g 
Evaporation had no pemn influence on the 
growth of the ori a, in a plant-house where 
ways near the point 
spicnous view much 
The t ey as 
< robie half hardyi evergreen $ DAD with deep red 
and Correa cardinalis, a handsome species 
distinct by 
Winchester, the Peristeria fusca Ware aes | 
Lr 
WAJ: 
ev aba cy else. 
also in admirable 
| danger ; the 
gh to k 
Pi uring the afte 
concerning SUS we shall have fan va ree ay 
hereafter. 
Those ae watched the crowd inspecting these 
of plants cannot have fa iled “a beeen id 
tah it Stalered among the O clung 
day would 
pad it not ka T deluges of rain ‘which 
ash a bie bangs, plants, tents, ni 
e Cry 
voie. howi 
mais ng of. pe visitors under glass 
that should never ri bee 
in beautifu os s oe se 
joyable day 
tion 
at all by the cape nage saturation of the 
it continued to grow ndiatar 
d 
The ai ily periods of ‘relative moisture, from w hich 
atmosphere 
sta Palace, which was 
growth of the leaf, as affecting its evaporation, 
S| had howe ever no perceptible effect on its daily 
r, uncertain 
Let us hop ong t the sight- 
eers of June will po better tories 
Dr. 
the 
to the frui lit, a adm ired the Azaleas, Ferns, and a 
ths. t always is ne 
with the 
parison 
pose h 
garden at rennen ad 
few observations s “published Pir | 
a on Poor Awe & grov pk g pan Fo 
Rosrrt Casrary, of Berlin, has inserted in 
Ratisbon “ Flora ” a long 
| periods c of growth of the leaf of aio Reota,t 
obse 
paper on the daily 
the 
” The manly periods of atmospheric pressure, which 
might also have been supposed to ogre the 
evaporation, and by that means the of the 
leaf, ee 
uere altering ‘the daily per 
t can mad He to grow least tow ards mide 
oe ns made the botanic 
of ac 
r Berlin 
r this pur- 
4. made ert 
he Heaths. So t beca 
sort of yola is feriha Akabe. kani akatha bat | 
because 
- | growth c an be made to fall at pleasure upon any 
hour of the night in total darkness. Light ame no 
enlargement of het — but only effects changes 
| the matter they co 
Them 
the eye of taste dwells with more pleasure | p measurements of three siterent ioe of Victor - a; kiman period ofgrowth E, the sn 
very hour $ ni n the warmth, and especially 
trim and ahah gore just: as a nat sa lg the one opened” a horizontally on oe > faa Ai water.* By heating, the maximum perio od 
, | Water, and continued in o for 56 succes e to fa 
either than a row of neatly dressed shopkee Ce ase: Again in n Geter, “1855, e repeated oa E “Warmth acts sone on the e pai 
assistants. As to the me it alwa: ač. Mink oe an | the hourly measurements fo ‘n | sion of the c 
f admirers, fth 
t is ex- | 
hibited with what can bebo ought in the ks He Taket and | 
love to gratify their senses with its fragrance and | 
luscious 
The way of ie nt is 
ham and i 
different at Syden- 
ts Park. 
accompani 
an 
several i es he 
| iw _ wate 
d other meteorological observations; and 
odi 
y- Thes 
a Geewieasisell, hygrom aly 
ene | 
The ordinary rise in the rate of growth in 
night cannot, however, be deduced from any vale 
h | agi 
a principle of the plant itself. 
Cc 
t, but its cause must be sought for in the vital 
e air, in order to ascertain aig she a ve ear warm water promotes the growth of the 
tabl influence on the gro owth of 4 e lea He also eaf, An overcast sky, an alterna tio aki sun ang 
while en if they 
ed wit 
here and there a baki is effected ty ‘rat out a 
cross table or by some similar contrivance. It is 
not easy to employ this mode with more skill than 
was shown on Saturday. Its great advantage con- 
ents 
and for those who go Booty e Aaka no 
better way of showin che ay a 
en tents are e empty, or ileal a one or tw 
pe ge points of view. 
In the, Royal Botanic Garden a totally di 
4 
Dr. Caspary finally 
clusions :— 
pani is followed; as much ground as four or five 
tents can cover Cane laid out 
like an irregular flower garden, with beds and husks | 
turf, upon and among which plants are d > 
The middle of the area being the lowest, the spec- | time of the first expans 
tator as he enters i exhibition sees at a glance the | adyan: a in growth e 
entire scene, here glowing wi ight colours | This d 
of Azaleas, there gay with pyramids of R s, and | p popeda 
} another place festooned and carpeted with fan- a 
tastic fragrant Orchids, while the recesses are 
with the forms of Ferns or other plants not| The leaf gro 
in flower. Undoubtedly thi scene, ‘tray it first tion, but Bai ee, 
u 
meets the eye, is one of the most 
heless, me cannot but feel that in both 
| towards mid-day. 
smaller than the kadai 
k daily | pat praca 
he leaf is solely an expans' 
= pvas = division or other i areas in their 
ee 
of their growth, se their first appearance eas a 
slight pro otuberance enclosed within the wy ie to 
that SA their perfect development, 
observations are detailed in a series ofl 
; | tables, ror aigassa with great minuteness, and 
Thes 
easure- 
deduces the following con- 
After t pe Victoria leaf h 
zontally on the surface of the water, no ghee 
fi ormation « pof ae takes place. From tha period 
of the 
piratory system, the thin parenchymatou 
damire npari Airaa parn of the leaf, is at the 
f the 
do not directly act on the plant itself, Aade ot 
ean peA ate of growth by lowering the t 
New Plants. 
173. PHOLIDOTA UAVEOLENS. 
P. pseudobulbis conicis obtuse angulatis diphyllis, foliis oblongis” 
racemo erecto fiexuoso-10-fioro floribus Ainaa er" — 
linearibus convolutis cellis ciduis, 
sepalis ovatis subcarinatis petalisq. conformibus 
ecarinatis erectis, labello a ee oblongo 
de: flex â crispa line! is 5 weri tis flexuos: 
t may t be ainest described as 
f the irer so alike 
nogustnbie 
minå ac 
leaf much fi arther l 
re leaves, flow wers, col ur, stature, and _fragra nee; Ir 
is is however s a E Pholidota sapp ensis, 
but larger its parts, and bearing 5 pape wavy 
ines on the e surface of the lip. The pure w white a the 
eriod the chorepbyith Rolding parenchyma g 
the 
rapid growth there follows usually 
disappears, as from that 
n the proportion 
y and night without interrup- 
After a period of very 
a slow one, and 
certain daily 
The most rupid 
12 and 1 r.m. ; later in 
t "ee minimum ; i reaches a 
growth z Pa 
then rises again 
minimum 
odical growth of of i the. Victoria J leaf | 
chester, 
preg grown specimen n from the garde 
Castle, where its origin is unknown 
tivated there many years, but flowered for ry 
time last 
Coelogyne, from Miir the pedicle _ mae and 
bilabiate dehiscence of the anther 
174, cee ROBIUM 
D. (EUDENDRORIUM bello indiviso) 
shee Soe berg 3-4), sepalis 
natis, petalis dupld lai 
tearma spara beriak zmes elongato incurvo 
eok aruma miata. 
bit of D. transparens, but 
LITUIFLOR 
caule pores “Too 
ss anc 
ere ost Jabelli 
lituiformi tale na su 
repan SA 
Jocks i it brig a ” cornet-shaped lip deep violet every- 
is | where except a broad border round the expanded p wy, 
D. transparens, 
state of 
It look i ka ike some large flowered on ae see 
reedy form of D. nobile ; it is 
the central 
ways, and faea the base =< a psd 
ee corresponding 
with the 
. Caspary further confirm 
* Many of the details given by Dr. rag we of beat 
| previous observations as to the much 
in the water than in 
