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532 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. [Aveust 9, 1856 
em m heen that the Nectarine may have ing, and we now see that Tuscany is materially| s 
e of an Almond or Peach, which improved. According to Baron Morremart DE their "merely descriptive uses, and their higher signi- 
mt the Ribston | Boiss the disease had begun last year to exhibi relation to structure. Ex.gr. When petals 
Pippin sha ald have sprung from a Crab or some | un aes pe signs of disappearing, and he n describe rey oe calyx,” the fact 
other variety of Apple. = this 1 subject, however, | report s it to : e - ost wholly ceased in the} ™Y? bers F ba i om sibl, ray of two whorls of the 
facts are thought to be wanting, part of Tuscany. The vales of Arno,| Portai nases tho purianth essentially consists 
to kn ll authenti Chiuno, rei, ta ‘the rigau kas Pietra-Santino pom ahs iw P ally consists of corolla 
cated i instances of a Nectarine rae been raised | now exhi aces its see nee ‘The Exampte l. White Lily (Lilium candidum). 
at si Bly st te 
of a oan re is no longer site ng et smell ; all 
upon this subject has become the ese remains is but a sort of languid vegetation. 
more fatcteating now that our learned fri .| From the vast plain which commences at the lake 
AtpnonsE De CanpoiE h eclared himself in | of — Bes Sm nese frontier, as far 
favour of the specific div: sap: tl Hee only of the| Mar me happy change has apaga 
Peach and the Almond, but eyen he Nectarine itself, epail on ine hill sides where the c 
itself. To the cases Sanachy chk apdet of Nectarines | first beg skes e perceptible. 
being raised from Peach stones, such as the Boston and we learn from M. Monracne 
vers Pea 
experiment carefully recor: 
irect | a 
And he rebet 
that the trees whic h „sport into Nectarine s fr rom | 0 Smut (charbon). It is sa > be caused b Pasa 
may ld d fogs followed by a hot 
Nectarin ne, with the same pired o throw some- The same affection is reported to haye festina) 
‘ : 
n | near Bordeaux. 
owers of burnum, someti| 
e pu pe Cytisus, and sometimes of its own inter- 
fiediäte bree 
This is evidently mere hypothesis ; = it is also | 
to be remarked that neither in om e of the 
e Nectarine can an ont 
| yw ina S enaa article of this Journal o 
ot pposin 
Aw fro luring this hot 
‘weathéf io pi tare the development of great vient 
of the larvee of the Rose sawfly, Hylotoma Rosee, 
Jo n the to 
eles ae 
1E f, 
= 
ddle Ages, when “called | 
cause of an fénoablanta y = 
Nux or alnut, whence 
i nam e; 
e have poogt Then as to 
thonght i it would be Sni to pokin a woodcut repre. 
pose en | the transformations of the species, which is , 
od FE 
ay 
BOM ATL : 
X EN 
7 
s, who 
says that he found on the banks of the Terek 
apparently eaches, of smal ure, bearing 
velvety, austere fruits of little succulence, and not 
bi alnut, which atives called 
i r. R says that Shuft-aloo is the 
Persian name of the e.) Parras’ account | | 
reads so like a description of Almonds in a camel of | 
transition into Peaches that we should so 
pret his mealen and we iien ‘holly 
unable to believe’ that the yras has had any 
a ig ay caver hence yes a grea! aoe 
tendency t s proved by varieties 
i edt or r Bitter bard-shelled or sofeshe T = 
so on. kno 
seston fi now 
and fixed that the seed: 
2 
© 
y all of the natural size. 
represents a young Rose sprig 
> canet by the deposition of the eggs, an 
ENA sketch being given of one of them showing the 
small dark slit on the upp 
| inserted ; on n the end of th 
to perpetuate its varieties by seed. That betty 
t | insect in effectin 
the circular hole made wife naf. e: 
g its pe. 
E k: is a fonise; distin 
antennæ, the natural size represented by the crossed 
‘J 
7 
lines, In the upper part of the cut one of the frin 
ti f th le is gi J. 0. W. 
ee course of ages seems ita ieina — Peaches 
pe 
speculate upon this 
that the changes deems « = sy the Almond must 
nae been of this kind :— 
> | PRACTICAL LESSONS 
e 
By the Rev. J. A, 
A. ond ren ame B 
2. Bad clingstone here more eiia 
IN bran FOR | 
BEGINN eee Ta ae pe ape 
sg RE Suffolk, | 
[SUGGESTION TO THE i ioe ‘OR.— Any 0! oy your readers desirous 
of instituting Laney | Teises of the Lesa dr here A 
— ed can refer to such elementary works 
Bota 
-l 
this suggestion w 
— ted 
nguished by the peame parts 
ringed 
long 
dao 
th 
Collectively ‘these Kavos at 
e| Floral whor 
veer, notions ‘a9, not A song = = se 
| 
| 
well adapted, from its size, for showing the 
sod "3 me and Seo F of flowers, in 
” surrounding 
This is 
“ essential 
th the 
bem 
stil—A green column in ine centre 
is caled aÃ pistil.” ” The uppe emity of 
Li is its “ stigma.” we: E portion (which 
? The lo 
tains three cells or cavities) is its “ ovary. 
On cutting the ovary trans ag Be — 
‘ small flat 
“NB a some plants the pistil has no style, 
n the stigma is Seay. immediately 
on the ovary, and i o be sessile.” 
In others the style i is relatively very long 
tm F Tisei compared with the 
beige eect round thi 
fi 
hen the a nther i 
| whi 
of each, a 
hit parts disposed in 
3. Good clingstone -became more a pit 
pera 
ectarine. 
glish coast, 
TS, 
a foes Eka 
d 
ese. 
LE aahi Ha the seasons may 
EE TE ers 
suc shall pre- 
Should rinbtedube th in ab nearly 
and he 
as possible) to his class in the order in which they are 
Thi 
here described, is will assist in en a con- 
to the 
m fusion € of ideas not unfrequent in zonn 
Ægilops, ses 
“Seg beyond reasonable 
Wass the news from cose tells us 1 tiat the 
ae Miroiw i 
ma 
contradiction. 
ume in certain | 
lea’ 
N.B. After a lesso: to | 
sept . 
n 
perianth to be ranged in 
ves each ; those in the inner whorl alte: 
between) in position with those of the outer. 
stamens are similarly disposed in two whorls. The pot 
outermost are opposite we outermost leaves rd 
par d the three innermost opposite te the 
ree. 
N.B. The three cells of the ovary indica te the te 
to be kois of three parts carpels) ponte ot 
may therefore represent this ower as composed ° 
parts, symm metrical S sat in five circles, ea 
detach for himself one 
it on a slate or paper, and write its name under it, 
hh belo so the number of such parts in the whorl to 
i ing with those in con 
= iat of each floral mpm ; Ean | 
circles. In sp Boe of vot the dife kin 
Hen hose” of the man ingle hort, wit “Sasa 
va GesneriaNty 
aria imperialis); | wt 
conditions 1n 
structure of their 
