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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
[Aveust 2, 1856. 
add a quarter of a peck of silver or any coarse 
siliceous sand—calcareous san nd and road sand are 
ious—and the 
i unpal 
atable here ; but suppose they were crossed ! 
pose that such insipid kinds as the Syrian 
destitute of ocior, The stamens are half as long as t 
sl 
lobes of a aim None of the translucen Pp oa. 
injuri nd b mixture will do for all the frait | White Nice, and Black Sweetwater wer uc dots mmo: 
trees of the tropical orchard house, as well as for | with the erfumed races of the Unite States, droe in thi is species aai Ene Wue of the calyx 
Oranges. In potting the Orange it is batter to com-| vice versd, there would be fair promise of good | bee they are oblong, an m foga d in a row or row and 
mence with a pot too small rather than too large ; | and hardier kinds being the result; and if the first | n either side of the "To us this Hearted =e 
for, unlike the Peach or the Plum, it does not feed | generation were crossed again with the Black - ae ea Tt ought to look 
rapidly and at once bat the pot with roots. Thus a| burgh or ite Sweetwater or Muscadine, some = rhe: w trim beds of a well kept parterre. 
two or three may potted into a | further improvement would be almost c rtain. Fe AE A RI DAF PR we ae DOF KOW. AFARA 
9-inch pot, sufere to arog for he year, an We are told by Mr, Cuortton that “two of the 
then removed toa 13-inch p forated as for other | } and Catawba, PRACTICAL LESSONS IN BO 
meer it may remain (unless | both of which are only natural seedlin ngs 3 the fi former | — BEGINNERS OF ALL PARE k OF, 
the house is very rio and a large tree is ae: 
or) six, f the 
orchard-house 
4 inches, early in 
h a 
sheep’s manure on the s 
h is the pia rs ‘this hay 
e hope 
Suc 
Orchard House cultivation, and w to see the 
Ga 
leah 1). 
with the above chev and about the beginning | ing character to other sorts. 
Marc surface-dressi ing of manure should | be bec: use 
rface ; they | “expe 
hav 
sal , 
nch of | eer for a 
Chasselas tai 
t 
then must, how- | Fo r 
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the famous Wine Grape 
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from the species Labrusca, and the latter, which i is | 
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On this account, and | 
of the invincible tendency to disease 
g the European kinds, he also songy urges the 
FA of tryin: g hybri 
es t 
which stamen: 
By the Rev. J. S. Henstow, M.A., Rector of Hitcham, Suffolk, 
NATIONS AND PRI ubject-matter for an 
annal é examination may ba sxigeested under the follow- 
ing hea 
Ta 
A 
- Afe w questions viva voce on the general charan 
te risties of the more prominent orders, and remarkable 
| deviations Ponape t ane 
| ‘x. gr. The ordinarily didynamous condition of the 
weer with the unusual 
them, as in Sage (Salvia), 
chad about a doze 
specimens of wild flowers, to be filled up according 1 to 
the example here given by the words in Italics. 
7 mek 
roposed experiment ex- | 
cept disappoin intm 
h 
ite curiou: 
mucl of tae 
HE 
practical 
us deserving of considera 
the present on it is not a 
To of c com) 
in flavour of all = uncommon Exotic fait, 
miniy 
n pro jaa e 
and: the Pine Apni Its fault is that the berries grow 
singly, an are no ed than , Bla! ck C arrants; but 
unmistakeably | that it is ata second. 
that when 
make the 
aves ; d 
it he supposes 
(The first 
o be the E 
Cl.: D. Div.: An. 
E Sec. : Calycifloral 
(monopetalous). 
Slit for inserting 
the specimen. Ord.: Composites 
or Asteranths, 
Gen.: Plume-thistle. 
20th July, 1856, 
| Sp.: Woolly-headed. 
>] by Jane Finder. 
N.B. It has occurred to me since my forme 
nication that these label schedules might be useful, 
instead of keeping lists of “a plants first ae by each 
If e scr 
Let us hope 
sees this | remark he will 
ae 
ME years since we stated, upon the authority of 
french reports, that while the Vine Disrase was 
| raara Po infinite mischief among © a san “ae 
gujis, wing amidst them w 
untouched, Wy we Sie to Aiheet | dike, 
th 
ahi | our e Atsoa sorts upon American stocks. 
| when it visited the Looch 
Mr. CHORLTO. 
American p 
New Plants. 
180. Lrsmtacura LINEARILOBA. Hooker in Beechey’s 
Voyage, p. 268. 
a Fortune has sent this from China to Mr. Glen- 
It had been previously ak only by the 
euraliets attached to Captain 1 Pena Expedition 
t forms | a very 
season. each were re qui o A 
all it found, and a yrit: for 
an correctly “filled i: a inlet rences both o the lant 
tands for names, | vont ved on = list bed ong, 
walk be vastly in the wrap evel be 
sen i ae ‘cho are ge 
others find themse' imp 
ordered a ie with pigeon-h Glen i in which these 
of in may accu oa yam in sl ome the day for 
investigating € them shal Thre orks insten 
of one will ry nt brought in 
flower for i the first time 
3. 
rary 
s tol be fe: ared, however, that this suggestion 
The aanne Carana. us is about 2 ie high, 
Ang tug 3 
na Pte o 
lain 
us. 
ge q, 
: 
aT F is now confirmed upon 
pasar that can yrn be disputed. Mr. pore? 
ul li ittle work whi ch has just arrive ed fro 
e United States the different varieties of 
as Isabella, &c., an 
e e rena 
ause; and although man Birt ts have bee: 
tried with the most e expectations, they 
have bi aac abandon 
n few words an exper erienced practical 
Grape grower substantially confirms the French 
t, and w t the subject may now be 
thought worthy an attention. Not that 
nq hee twigs. 
sessile, = near the base, oblong- 
pra apace 5$ haie, leathery, convex, with a very 
The avy | 
are ons 
the same genera, as the 
bourhoo . Lenses, Freep, vatculume, a and 
, are coveted Fag sige — 
+ oral 
forthcoming for pro- 
31) } 
stimation 
curing such. 
EDUCATIONAL AND 
Borany —As these notices Sat 00 
Vi al 
INSTRUCTIONAL ADVANTA 
to be econo 
perhaps I may be allowed 
press my opinion of the smote to be pe aes fro 
SRA ts song abran — eral libera 
any persons are interested with mere 
speculations of botanical Physiologists, who 8 
disinel: ree to nd to systema 
der this set “nce morphologi 
oe oda 8) 
Pap e 
and 
nevertheles: 
botan; Un 
HH R 
i 
ich 
vanced are not so generally 
cable of ie so readily —— 
of the physiologist. So far 
nables a teacher to convey oot 
botany en 
systematic bo 
indeed f for naii 
BES 
SES FRE? ESR 
nysiok dame apne spa sony P 
on ee of een botany 
is 
sens Bees 
ved wofortan 
might astronomer 
y 
slight tendency to crenatures at the mera 
p 
portlets when fully caoiniaee. | 
Ephemerum, and perfectly | 
has pro 
progress o of the eria wae oie srs "iont pa ying due 
| sitetion to mntiematie 3 as botanists b hope a propor- 
eir physiological researches without mans 
sous te progress towards towards perfecting = 
But I am now endeavouring to substan! 
aking system 
te the edver 
