Jury 12, 1856.] 
Pires Lisr.—A list of the native plants which have 
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NER the teacher can employ the Latin terms and | of the 
erminolog: it 
THE el 
CHRONICLE. 
469 
, to resist the severity of the climate w sort in coming alge gs ia pcg Aber worked 
is to oa and peitos its fruit, should axe oat upon dane a ora: aga d produces ol sage fruit of 
ciently hardy constitution. it is o nly ky repeated | excellent quality e even in a less favourable soi 
This so 
bserved n rea, 
for example, should be hung up in th room. If 
it be printed, each pupil should receive a copy. In 1850| Before agiert Api an extensive Dinsdale! as an orc! hard, | 
I prepared and printed a list (in English) of such wild | it is important to know the constituti: 
flowers erved in this pari In 1855 I re- | and its peculiar mode of growth. 
prin it with above 50 additional os chiefly to as in obse 
added by my little village observers. The hether 
specific es have m been sitet from th no the tree is planted attention | is wholly 
given in Hooker and Arnotts British Flora. In the | directed to make it take an easy direction, o) 
first list, the names the rs were mo to its manner of growth. The 
I ots al 
removing super rfiuo 
stem, 
shoots by summer 
preventing | bifureations in the branches, a 
serving the vigo vt ai the tre 
ble 
ts (Duc à 
that 
sort, as a sani: little 
ST 
cultivated, is easily known by its thick olive 
of a darker or oe shade according to the stock upon 
which the tree is worked. 
Colmar Neil, named by Van Mons after Dr. Patrick 
Neil of "Edinburgh. more vig 
be seen? It has the al pearance of a Poplar. 
Me urré Kennes, Beurré Berckmans, Beurré Sterck- 
s, Conseiller de la Cour or Maréchal de la Cour 
@ Orleans ?)}, Désiré Cornelis, Belle Julie, Madame 
Eliza, Souvenir d’Esperin, Triomphe oe ng in 3e 
light deep Soil, Wilhelmine, named b n Mons 
"fine insight 
lands, and which has received in France oe name of 
é CAm anlis, was conside red by the late Van 
tem 
and at regular distances, i is obtained. 
The slight w 
an ‘of “the genitive ea 
periods ı more easily healed over, 
een 
are performe ed i in the first year towards nds, or 
t s are 
We might ates = list with several other still more 
which have not as apo sera 
e sap directing 
fresh se 
tion will, sri 
In rearing varieties of the Pear 
per rties requisite e for 
obje ectionable a one 
ing a aama whi oh 
impos new bears no relation to 
the classical "terminology in in common use, and s 
ubsti- 
sent every appearan 
growt th. 
wed t 
, or wildings, which I lik 
e of healthy vigour and 
In orde er to wget ban of thi 
tree whit 
1 are very | have 
— and are at the same time possessed of f all the 
orchard culture, it is advisable | 
ese 13 oar 
for orchard culture i s than all poe which 
i sigh a 
these varieties will attain as 
mye sorts 1 whic ch still exist in our 
Fe 
sed by varieties which are better y 
jének ¢ soa the Poire à Froment, Mansu: 
to gro 
his | description 
n the « sam 
e| Mer 
ette, Figue, 
eille d'Hiver, Bergamo tte ots of which ex- 
as ch have 
dress. f 
for camel ‘Bevberces, nhac nthe am- 
d be Crow- 
e budded, 
and as nte out for arka worked. 
In the following | n 
not*at 6 ese were the | 
opt gh ing a 
ver borne any b a than = 
produco at the so 
Beyer what has been Saal, it appears that the Par 
worked upon another seedling, attains a great a; wie 
t depends on its constitution, upon he 3 soil 
sak hit 
genarally $ fund sine a ted Ah gece inserted ‘about | 
iddle of the sp: 
n whic gro tek and upon the treatment which the 
tres receives. Its individual er sore like that of all 
| living things, is limited. J. De Jon russels. 
VEGETABLE et il S: —No. CXXIX. 
516. Pa RASITÆ (Å scomyces ).— yces is one of the 
simplest of fungi. It consists o fan almost 1 1 rudimentary 
any sporophores short clavate or obvate asci, each of 
Ra cel tak 
these orders would be Ran lanths, Berberidanths, | the mi ace Tie the low 
Papaveranths, Rhamnanths, ani ths, Apocy- | and the rately or swab a sage above ai part, but 
Hanths. In a few extensive mportant orders, | seldom lower, Thos orke a resist sun- 
where the more usual Latin name is the ground. 
typical genus, as am Cruciferse, Legumi  Umbelli-; Ina light free soil, with EA eep subsoil, in which | 
feræ, Compositæ, it may be advieable he: pe the | water d t stagnate in winter, the trees preserve 
synonymes Crucifers , Legumens, Umbellifers, and Com- | throughout their individual existence a healthy d e| 
posites, in addition to the terms derived by the general | of vigou abun If the soil is rich in 
rule, viz., Brassicantbs, Vicianths, Apianths, and Aste- | humus, or if it = a marly clay of some depth, resting | 
ranths. The peculiar advantages of the plan proposed | upon an equal d gti ‘of silicious aye el mixed 
pm broo It bles every botanist to pre- | brick earth, lying upon thicker of sand which | 
r himself what should be the Prone l 
synonyme for Faiy order. 2d. It qualifies ss luxuriant ; but will bear | 
T TraR pami et means ns of an fut of a finer ewe and "i general lve longer, | pure 
Engish terainology Sgt rrassment to | We found git in sete soil a an orchard in West 
thors _who Hy a Sint "why n ot then Flander: rs a varie of Pear "un r the name of ayer} fe i 
y Ə 
‘as is generally the'case with the whole plant, are of a 
white. It is evidently the Sipe a ae in 
which an ascom fungus can exist, is this 
shad in 
reumstance tha 
view when they | propose 
Nog in Filago avols at —. or wherever an Engl 
terminol avoid 
sS 
classes and or vay 
Eg 
g 
the 
a 
l the wi 
h specimens as 
they ioe pag Bll before 
Ta e positon which each t occupies in the 
_ This mode of a td th | gradually 
aa 
ong t 
deans, the fruit of ‘which ripen about oy same time | 
producing sporidia from the 
me that his ‘grandfather, w o die 
age of 92, had aida en him 
s he had measured it, and 
ay’ 
ci 5 
250 dace old, i is still far 
n 185415 
in 1855 it yielded s six sacks, an 
terminal shoots 6 inches long. 
known 
sacks, as 
and 
that it was nes on 6 
sy is supposed tha a this tree is 
froi mi, alas a marn ont, 
abov ted, and 
feet in circumference, and 45 feet high, | 
ere are ver 
| deeply rent in many places, indicating th that the tree was | of from t 
of imself 8 d, 
organisatio: 
This however is not the 
Besides the asci, 
es, 
spore is seen “pullulati ng a 
fashi ion of yeast globules. The ques stion then 1 arises, what 
development of the aian va or are ‘they a ‘secondary 
Expiphes I am the second ‘opinion, 
1 
0} 
byt the name of Man nsuette, an excellent ki tehen | 
ined to 
because I do n yie p a awe instance in which 
| sporidia after the er of these bodies. 
We have then, even in so very er aa a fungus, a secon- 
pr: form of fruit, but whether both ar e capable of 
ze bun of a flowers into their 
tree whi ich is not en 
as 
also seldom err in relening a garden iaaah if it happen 
to belon; any o oft ese orders, to right pos sition 
among them ey are unacquaint 
aA separato 
ders, and group these pro 
eon ya in the plant list we on the plant-stands. `The ey | bra: 
Weeping 
re other large tre 
nee of having been anne 
py will most arnt place them i in oe right sections 
Any plant roma a the first time in flower dur ing 
the season, in a oa list by the child 
wis bri gsit. “Thus i in 1851, H. R. (aged 13 years) 
te D ii 
Marea 21, stinking Hellebore ... «.. Cl. re Or. Banuncalantis. 
bas meen Pol: | ae Fern: 
Meadow Gras: 
And so it to ‘tie 111th species. 
July Olah TE >, Onagranths, 
t deseri of ay = 
high. 
as 
pore 
han 200 years old, an hee 
e alread = mentioned. 
wn like those ot a 
well 
. 
Gade them in ae condition, an the: care 
very 
first proposed by “Montagne 
Desmaziéres in the place ge ret from specimens 
collected i in the South m the leaves 
of gyrase coccifera, e affects teat exclusively 
he der m nerall, toe the 
ce i The genus was 
ace, gen 
leaves r less bullat This speci cha- 
Aeserised i iis 5 blueish tint, inclining ì in rego Sete ae yellow 
woy. | cond speci 
t: k laas porns 
tha Ta season two 0 
ig roots, 
when 
ro di sturbing Aho ne torf over th 
per tia 
exce) 
ese “two sae and others re might be given, 
its constitution is strong 
or vtaw 
oben Trientalis 
Europea in sarc eit was sent ree many years 
since by Dr. Dickie and 
very commonly on eigi under 
whi [as makes little 
| sport OSporum, yiera 
just Tike the others, as I ascertained from 
last au pag gathered 1 by myself. 
secondary form of 
A * third « occurs 
side of Walnut e in 
te patches, This is Gymno- 
ings an our cli 
n of fhe aea and labels may not-be 
constructio) 
weep, but this must be deferred to another 
comm m. 
(To be continued.) 
Erratum at p. 454, line 56.—In Sel y on arapi e the 
words Pistils, a Ta Sot should i a (2), m a (2) 
The comment of J. S. H. on this sched: ale en Be his sey print 
and tl 
m: 
od 
- | present century by the system of Van Mons, ther 
Pan it can in a good soil, 
and with 
Tt is in 
the Journal o 
are | asci, ee them examina! in Be i 
to be corrected. Perhaps the word “ affect” instead of “ assume,” 
at line 46 ak - dice a would better have conveyed the 
Foar of tio 
LONGEVITY OF THE PEA 
> On the 
ubsoil where the 
n to renovate it, 
pruning, inning, oe cutting back 
peren prais “he or Shaye years years. Sth, Ou oe 
nature Ka the soil, „to pre 
sone and a continuous bearing 
several sorts of 
re à Fro 
rachel on 
or more. 
ualities even in 
a 
reserv 
pr hlin, wher: 
Sq 
eed at of Mec 
w gen 
variety 
hahe 
The Beu 
Cal 
iquery- 
geet: the trees of which would li 
ment or the Mansuette. This anticipation i is | 
fo the observation of these varie 
they have been cultivated for 8, 10, 15, or 25 ion 
py Urbaniste of Coloma becomes a 
son it attains a aep 
Mapi and 
anged in 
ve as long as rae | Walnut leaves convinced me 
species on 
my error, which I am 
the 
glad to correc ct. A fifth ae perhaps tl 
ll, e o m 
Karona 
fruit 
less favourable stations 
e it was raised in 1786. It 
nerally acknowledged t ire 20 sire i days 
— ared, i 
urré Hiver du arap anA or Suprême 
condition It would a to i upon 
points, about which there can be no question. A variety 
| as well as amore regular bearer. 
r baniste, 
” Tt is as lo ong as that 
e irom Mire quarters 
durin tis and th t forms enormous 
n the leaves of Pe on kone hich are strangely 
| distorted ‘and ~~ kened very much in 
d leaves are which are 
tion of new 
51S. . It is € “doubiful whether any meters one = is done 
m erxes a Vessel and puns & fun, For tl 
dep aatend ae d. Sc. Nat. Sér. 3. VOL sipa oat, 
ne characters 
