468 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. [Jury 12, 1856. 
botanical ho ghana but with the unusual terms TEE Epiphytes are less understood ! 
employ systematical botan It n here. cod English gardener thinks of sa 
that Oreck * and n compou Peay | erie pow of such plants to what they can p som DIR j A pa “begs ovata 
retained in the memory of childhood as any other | find in the air. On the contrary, it is well known | meree sk apii f. 3—alias 
wo This, wi irly confess, takes us by|that although some will exist if suspended from| Wahlenb. OS 3 pizat alias 
surprise, so cont it to our own anti-| mere wires, yet that no vigour is attainable under | 7 
cipation or experience. The fact is, however, | such circumstances, and if Orchids are to be grown | i 9 crater omen mers plant, anna 
testable. well they must have their roots in contact with |  Soingted by an intolerable hireine smell, ” The 
ra by what means such esih or its jpa maeh suc ecayin Moss, | panying figure shows a side view of one fi 
S b- | 
at some in the desire to 
m 
A. c 
bh revealed to ‘them. He has had the kindne 
a anded 
iz | maintenance of such plants are re gradually ia 
all |i 
sub- 
for th 
n sufficient quantity. It is mo S ~ 
thats we kno 
arked 
peate 
e | from above. 
4} 
that, the first roots “produced a young 
Epiphytes die, 
in the educational ee and this x very ‘ay E as 
in another column. To that 
and succeeding cn we refer our readers wi 
an entire conviction that with the same zeal, the 
same , and the same method they also wil 
ost vital nna. ies eee schools. 
Let us cae the example will a 
w that EPieH sa agunia are Hegtuning to be | Orch 
aris, 
with an account of some experiments he 
This 
h| On the itari. thei 
i thats 
Mons. PAYEN introduced the | P 
Us floating i 
e believe to bea complete mista ke, 
r roots naturally seize upon 
some support or eis wherever it can be found, and 
Branches, old 
ie ies 
the air. 
e 
bo ee of studying herbarium specimens, are 
fam’ in this fact. Nor is 
erficial area of roots which such 
ints cing to their supports is often ore ir 
oo in proportion t o the leaves and s 
| accom 
| and the appearance presen by ano hee when sein, 
Their general colour is a delicate milk 
it to be forgotten | arran 
are opposito fi ive 
en 
s learned chemis 
t, these fe 
com- 
= mo surface i in proportion to the Sermo expe- 
i 
ess modified by 
e dust contest every where 
fe et of birds, from among which there can ie 
o diffculty in n extracting the mineral food required 
‘in aid of what air and mnie water can supply. 
For the information of those who are interested 
and 
Tzenio wg drags Chilo- 
T |in el are €! 
t “green 
- short distance ae 
a ring of short delicate sii 
corresponding with the 
rays. 
ust therefore an 
comia. Pie S o; 
e lea oyle, but is also found on the 
anlai p í Soona whence it was brought by the 
| Russian traveller = nk, 
of that botanist is proved by the specimens, ra 
the garden of the Howtcultzcal Society, from tos 
not bairro E but acco: 
rding a? we ‘extract. the following iy from Pro 
of the plants, just as he had found |"? 
Epwarv Sorty’s report o 
been A pa justified _by the 
ich Epiphytes 
= | tity which ti 
m 
ti present in those 
communicated by Dr, Fischer. 
PRACTICAL LESSONS ae nn pee n 
BEGINNERS OF ALL C a 
By the ne J.S. Hexstow, M.A an ee. sit 
_ EXPERIE cE has shown the ficiency ofa plan I I hav 
er 
was interesting to 
roportion of earthy matters they 
I believe Bomicwhat 
ecti an 
asc 
pieres 
cumstances. It appeared „probable that the quan- 
containe d would 
maller than that in e pla ants, and that ue 
ich grew only in 
would be less than in those satin roots entered the 
soil. It was found, however, 
Orchidaceous plants contain about as much 
i 
É sy 
er; and n their native countries the first 
roots by which Epiphytes are attached to trees or 
dead branches soon lose their power of growth, an 
are gradually replaced by new roots floating in 
To these arguments M. dye replied by remark- 
ing that rain-water is completely free zir 
mineral matters, rept e par er of dust 
perform 
times ehe in the 
portant part in the nutrition tion of Epiphytes, that the 
cumulat 
e: 
that the ama se 
th 
men 
We must impress on beginners oh they hr have 
to pei hea strictly ke geientifie ideas” for whatever 
“vulgar notions” they entertain concerning all 
common’ 
easy royal eras =A botany, 
very aca term employed ts “fpd 
plants, and that there was but a 
evident, Sangre the plants h: 
oil o o he 
ad theit roots in the 
mopa n of earthy matter 
il 
imafia wher f Cataset m grown in soil, and a plant 
of Bletia grown Whily suspended in the air, hein 
Inorgani 
Organic Inorganic in 10,000 
Water. Matter. Matter. parts dry. 
Catasetum bulbs ... 8669 1269 62 465 
Bletia laset . 8309 1609 82 488 
Catasetum leaves ... 8055 1791 154 794 
Bletia eo ++ 8200 1658 ame 79; 
Th gh th a reat e 
| were in a te 
t pr esent 
in 
p i the plar ant, as shown by t the pr nie ‘contained 
n the dry | leaves and bulbs, was nearly similar, very 
nd in the nature of 
fore, that strictly scientific ideas can be a aired ‘vite 
nar We might as well Taney we may co 
reject the Arabic numerals, aud g oural with td 
re — a ‘whilst unding ourselves in 
a arithme aay ie certainly advisable 
ers aoe ie 4 Sena i ical te: 
portant ; pps no teach haald shun 
are so. As as the scientific idea, embodi me 
tech it term, is duly appreciated, there is 
no longer any difficulty — pagans “ee that em. 
Many botanical <i har anglici 
Latin, or anol 
writers, who use the Latin inguin ‘in por to abl 
botanist to be mutually intel- 
m the 
sts of | different countrie: 
eo Esida, a prozima a s gave— 
asetu! © eee ae Sarie 
Alkaline salts 
Earthy wc Hi ove 
Carbonate of lime m ove “ai 2850 
Carbonate of magnesia daa 1315 579 
Siliceous matter... . 428 2596 
o be observed, 
reduced | 
ae on bo een of wood o 
m those s 
or that by measai ai panied ed fluids, especi esap |e 
had been able to gene the | 
Sach roots of imbibition, sufficiently | 
they cannot be 
; a of rapi 
“ „derive 
- Weare =e a proceedings | an 
Go Busai. the principles of | 
10000 when: 
It in connection with thes 
g Sern, that although the Bletia had eae: 
r|and ig ay © in chen ck so 
contained 1 
tained bef 
piace commenced. And this 
such ae — are necessarily made u 
To have real "aelentifie| 
_ the | Epiphyte e should sg een born, grown, | 
d wholly formed in — inde ed v were <a 
sible, rs ae gratings don 
that t the siy ih 
W early inculcate upor 
—— that os must np gi learning “how to 
observe” before they can mer to acquire any accu 
rate “i nowledge of the of ary 
observers, content with su arg par ton et 
derived from pee will find aninlies ge a ou 
empt to solve some of the simp 
Non- 
tion of, practical les 
| pose the 
‘dens a oes 
judgment, Engli 
F zli ish rehita i r their c 
yew ted tor: ce schools 
taught, or faces sri chil 
ter life, zi esa their observations 
heir immediate neighbourhood. W) 
a 
