500 
THE eile ta leo 
a ee 
i a 
[Jury 26, 1856. 
described, in June 1854. A single rod of each 
wall and down the Haan and 
beneath the glass the 
were, we understand, com- 
o no dt history of the 
success of the glass shed. Excellent bunches Wer 
meea Such wer “i appearances in a specimens. 
Still more curious matters, however, were ex- 
ae le it which were pe erlas tly sir 
Ther ill the same Bienes ois alm 
elade. pT, g the In some, 
e | ho wever, „after i eatment with s str ew cee acid 
“ Coltsfoot.” “ You are quite rig n But, as you have 
| never been shown the al genus to whieh ie = 
| belong, I must tell you it is ia t Fleaban I don’t 
know the English name for eo citar Fleabane but 
I will find it out, and tel more about it when I 
next visit the school.” The Lo “ Erigeron » 
Without dwelling on the peculiar advantages which Į 
conceive childre ust derive from i 
we have : no > doubt that yr prize frait v Bie em 
rer ese 
appeal = sets wi case where ithe possession of this description of 
al ers. Nor we care moisture on the eat surface appeare x milky, and knowledge would, = useful. The position which this 
to know why nothing „heter should hav this had dried up they were deposited in under-nursery maid would enable 
maa T Gre s past, raketi or r antici- curdlike patches wich could be removed with the | her to awaken a Sore hoe’ Bogei istory in children 
para may have "caused it. What we value tell them the names 
fact for is that t larger rch grains, and myriads a extre emely | leading peculiarities in "the c plants. Her’s 
bility of also poving, i in Aed own small Jean- 1-to, small particle’ endowed with Brownian motion. | i8 no solitary instance e interest sant pose 
thei other sections the patches a me | her situation in life take in such purs Other 
in the coun pani arallel to en D the ie and the contents of the cells exhibited a ^ | generally remo serie weenie) ces tis ey ‘ax 
ebana D. rdar: at page 356. ery different appearance. Either the endochrome | te specimens which they ve might be in 
bars tarda, ng, frequently from lain aeti- something anomalous in 
Atmost every market gardener in the neighbour- | ° 
hood of London suffers more or less from a disease 
in different | kinds of Pr which is known 
s comparatively rare 
shied ‘where it is prevalent t 
countr ry dia 
free 
cause, which is a attributed variously to insects or to 
wn by delicate globose o or r spher 
of the tests just mentioned, or 1t was prs mae ina 
The mass 
econ tri 
me 
very different way was divided ae 
angular bodies yso 
, filled with min nute 
nid direction wi ith 
of an inch or m dia 
thelr structure, nteresting fateantrouisies have 
been thus secured to 
Ha RD-WoRD EXER — With young children 
(perhaps with most beginners) it is advisable i to devote 
7 
f sho 
2% 
them how | to master the 40T ography, ne well as to 
of a botanical 
as eviden a molecular. The 
frarinlar seater, when free, appeared poate with 
the brown granules found by Paven in the 
peculiarities of soi cu ulti eared and thou igh 
Potato i 
terminology. “By selecting n most im 
numerals, or with xpressing peculi 
woo ood ashes appear j disease, though when Kes to “the ‘mother cells reai the eet Swill foes active correct idea of 
dispose ed ina differen the mi ich botanists employ many other 
The sabjeinod Suie gives rh aii igurs o of spez |. From fth s dis t twill be Y that the peculiar | more or les schntéally, without his requiring any 
cimens selected from a large number, w will | feat clubbing i is the conden- cise e tion of One of the first lessons of 
me | Sat th hi ainealy Sci (and there need not be many) should 
the root. The whole energies of the plant are show „how the “floral bi > may be exp 
arrested here, “and in a ta in re e number er actua} 
rogress, and a short time the plant dies. | or appare: nt) of their ikier he te w 
e 
bt 
erap of the malady. These larvæ however | 4 
l 
n every part of the root, where there 
re not vascular bundles m such dense masses of | a 
era arp a ree meg ae cullen 
sillaey 
nsist of Calyx, 
pre e fac a flow ning ot co 
z ser nate an Pistils, y corresponding adjee- 
D Sve terminations, “ -sepalous,” “ -petalou 
be 
pointed 
s,” “ -androus,” 
out. y 
t 
sinas, — Sores: in a day or tw i 
ount thography whie ch ‘would s surpri 
e prevention of t 
disease on re soa ea of wood ashes which 
hath 
ontain sev veral salts of potash, lead us to imagine | ze 
GA 
master dimonis of this charact t 
lesson may exact, witha a a anioia time, correctness of 
hy accuracy in comb 
this accumulation, by entering into new chemic 
e nam et and at the same time su ca on 
of those ingredients which abound in Coleworts PE 
tion cannot proceed wi 
Our second figure Horbmats the two different mo- 
paneon of eager In the right hand figure 
e gor ged ce cells a represented as subhex exagonal. 
the three others 
Spector s shoul 
Lead se oa of ‘ie ead elphous “ dyna- 
= us”) are to su ersede the use of * nA n i » and 
ot those of -sepalous” and 
“ 
ee pea i oot has 
together 
gy are as en Pate as in the left hand 
jo sed Be 
in = ma parts of the roots, and weren e 
therefor rted in the article Anbury, of PRACTICAL LESSONS IN stage td FOR 
to th BEGINNERS sc forme LS eye Mpls 2 
ahi soon generates. +A mic cro scopic examina- | By the Rev. J. S. Hex I.A., Rector of Hitcham, Suffolk. 
tion has revealed two peculiarities which we have|  HErzortzine Bxnuss ns,—Ocea ekr walks for an 
Sty ha | 
| -adelphous 
St | -androns f (-dynamous 
Co |-petalous ? y 
Ca |-sepalons f Pe | -phyllous 
v. €. C 
An A- | 5 Pent- EE: 
1 Mon- o- 6 Hex- it dae a- 
2 Di- - 7 Hept- 12 on 
3 Tri- - 8 ee 2 to 
Tetr- - a 
In this table re “abbreviations ae 
not met with ‘ore i researches into the | hour or two with the children of the first class t let ters. Pi. Pist : Sty. "Sil 
diseases of vegetables. Oft pecimens forming | import rtant opportunities for awakening en and opposite io which “-gynous” is placed, because this 
the subject matter of this notice, oo which were |!™parting information. Sunday walks afte in a compound pistil to express the 
first transmitted were perfectly and when | 8¢tvice admit of the party being joined by some who ‘free styles: St. Stamens: Co. Corolla: Ca. 
divided’ theif section resemble d à closely iint of the have left school, but retain a desir improvement. Cale: nf ‘tonal Pe. Perianth: v. vowel ha (a 
As a general stimulus to exertion, a pic-nic excursion sonant, to Fe rea the manner es taco 
of the brown-skinned Tru thin slic Sub- r two during the summer should include all ral be ed b fore words 
mitted t to 1 the microscope €: it ia eae tend i a ae e Lint eha 
a i by regular attenda. 
at the lessons and by obtaining a Silici ent n umber of the oa embodied in this table can be 
with which they were connected, Palled ‘sith a po good marks for e botanical exercises presently to | mastered by young children than the ne 
brownish mass of distinct globese granules, so as to|be d scribed. The most out-of-the-way unintellectual | table, or any considerable portion of it. I have neve 
ighb feel | hose who hav se tried the plan, hink our spelling books anè 
learnt to hold converse with the 3 and | copy books might be e to sta oe S Such 
I do not envy the feelings of any oppone ular | words as Pieni potek iy and Constantinople, which 
instruction who could regard with indifference, much 2 ogee be added Sebastopol ae Petropaulowski 
less with aversion or scorn, a party of village children re important than Dicotyledon and Angie” 
actively engaged in examining the results of a half- ape is 5 oa ors and certain popular 
holiday’s research, appeasing good appetites with| misdirections or ree botanical characters might 
(to them) a little extra fare, and winding up a happy | thus b a few such sentences in 0 T 
aft n with a cheerful song,a than g hymn, | books s its own reward” rep 
Ka and the national anthem, Such children are not likely | some like rá fallow ing :— 
to be worse prepared for the more staid proceedings of| Cotyledon, is part of the embryo. 
“@® @ a £ Considering the desultory | Hypogynous, inserted on the disk. 
D mann n which instruction has heise given them, the} Perigyn jee on ore 
1 r kn said which some children have obtained of} Epigyn pe, in: on the ovary. 4 
resemble very closely the ouk tissue, colour | our native plańts is Pierer remarkable. They} ‘halamiflral, co E hypogynous and polypetalous. 
apart, of some of the red aeee or perhaps more | soon learn leet wh may havef Corollifioral, cor. hypogyno s and monopetalus. 
closely st till a section of the some of those | been exhibited g n y whom, on the) Calycifloral, pigy 
genera au the disti: ee Sr They generally know when they h el} Angiospermous, seeds 1. 
groups,” separated by cellular tissue. Each granule, w to the plant a Walking one day} Gymnospermou «seeds n nelosed. 
as ve seen, had a minute nucleus, and =f the village, I ae ne running after me, Suchi eege: would be sufficiently near to me 
havea diameter of about x}, of an ine ir, Turning round, I | definition, to serve the purpose of i iressing eet 
first impression was that they were starch us little cena (M. S., 12 or 13 years sing and cane characters on the m a aa 
Ids: babs iodine did not: com iit any blue =o ATA out a bunch of flowers, her features all botanical class soon iliar with r 
colour. Gaal wig tase on—“ A new plant for Hitcham, Sir.” “So itis !| terms as with their own names ; ieena 
> and sulphuric acid the re far 
Rasen. “Com omposites .” “What | conveyed by them afford a grasp of the 
* Purcell y beg pl our Hiteham Composites does it most beyond any that can be attained Fi Tokrat. to <o groug 
genus ee 
resemble?” After a slight examination, the reply was, 
plants according to the Linnean sys' 
