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THE SEB RED ERE CHRONICLE. 
[SEPTEMBER 6, 1856, 
kine s A from ilui a mi stako s. Such | 
pow e ight h e auch intrusted toa central rg 
whether ould 
dealers bA the serait 
was weve sia wand deserved 
ing inquiry on whi chh e $ 
= Cornwall is better adapted for i an 88 in 
his way than Lamorran, nor co eb 
ful fay o of gm ha 
ka 
made acquainte 
continue the interest- 
ul 
named o 
e Mr. P DAEA has eae 
Tet us hope Borg it will hot be long z befo 
d 
No situation 
nei 
severe cep 
other East poroa Lilies, as well as ose 
Chi and Japan with rena our garden 
and 
e power of exposure bein 
of a board ike that of the Tete Revenue, which 
the most attractive ornaments ‘of our conservatories p 
Bey 8 
of 
lo ical 
which now form 
regard as most probably a vulgar error. See G 
Chronicle for 1848, p. 590.) (See Gardeners 
ankind t; thei 
proof that the sun and stars revolved daily pedimp o e 
no! 
tific i P G i reco; 
a 
ái rpe er ide to be a phenomenon of precise} the 
character as the daily tion of b W ace 
ignorance of a particular us incompetent to the 
task of properly demonstrating 
would b ee from 1 Prejudices, nd ê Sı ngl. Blah but odie sede ics mane 
suspicion as to the fairness of its proceedings. od fraser OTIR oe ikae iara investigation raue 
Too inds the teration of food forms onl A beginner, in filling up the fi t colum of a floral schedule for 
a part of the inquiry to which Parliamentary at- PROA, LESSONS IN BOTANY FOR a TE O aat 7 
iaten might be deed, Pod of al Edn |, PECINA OF Abi chase Na VIL -a tn Bane rior 
e ve EN! s i mmi ne, ani wo notches summi t 
quite ss serious, TAFTI du the farmer who is a eraen pe me erp a jp 1 Arelia of the paces this will probably satisfy hi thet an 
victimised by éched fo , column 1st.—As filling up oral | number of sepals are really five. This le would further 
who is sold a piece of iron yaa sade er the name of schedules f orms a principa al feature in these practical afford me an opportunity of eating Set an are 
atailss.9 ora mine of Poa , Cocksfo ot, and them. I hope to convert eee vae there must hess. of Ma gresa Furze.” Now, as all flowers thas cee 
Cow-grass instead of Poa saa PEN A fah ik s and | pe something t hal be =i Pe hild Sà structed (Papilionace are easily recognised, and alt 
White Clover; the traveller who only half § too abstruse for t c re O | belong to a very large section (Papilionacee) of an extensive 
rs ; master, in the e meaning and prdntirem er ite more tural order (Leguminose), he will hardly be again deceived if 
a pint of wine or beer for a pint ; an fhi ife who portant wo ords em ploy ed in á ciriaily, senii e Lupin, with apparently only two sepals, were next offered 
i f l tti hi y o his inspection, He would a suppose there must probab) 
purch Paa ture of wool a on under the | efficient b e sepals to its calyx. Close examination would show him ha 
name of flannel, or fast-coloured cloth which lose] Num arith cick Fiat. Whorl.—The following | had judged rightly. This ambiguity, it may be remarked, is 
their colour after the first shower, are alike vic examples will e to show how the first columns of | confined to very few sich {paplibonesnens Sorem; in all oth 
tims of fraud, ay +e equally in need of legislative ne wcliodulen should be ma nip. ; anda few com pn anne tahoa th thd aineta of the saute Seine 
protection. And that being p it may be dou bted mill et ey some of the n ti tant natural which soon becom pressed on ithe 
ithe: eid all people m memo ese serve as checks to imperi ervation wher- 
tb h to be arently or actually) so 
themse URRE IESni oe deviation fivan The an hiie tA o ceia Aa by neh porn 
|= aj | 2 Al We cet ae groups are recognised. To return from this . digression to 
Wr have ieee baq our anton called to a jz = a] m p ve pa examples selected for the first columns of the school floral 
magnificent of Liliu nteum—the| = , 
Dee peor: te Common red FEIS Ea . Perianth Leaves).—Where a subdivision 
i sae of Lilies as it has been suayy, Styled by |ejæd = | 4 J | Repon Poppy i perianth, into calyx and corolla is sufiicientl 
AE, NY ILLIA. as recently Howered in| | = ele OS aa arked (as in Examples 9 to 18) the number of its 
the garden of the Hon. J. Townsnenp Boscawen, faja hi | E | x | als | Wallfower. pen e noticed ; since it would only be the 
hertan 3 i th wh % r i | T ENET T | aggregate of those of the sepals and s 
e drawing and account with which we ave been ai Sweet N.B. In Examples 12, 20 and 24 we have two 
favoured, it would appear to be Be finest specimen Nef co | = | Se SOE ent a Violet. flowers; one kind to be examined for the stamens 
of the d that has yet been produced in this | T T A ae T EFT and the other kind for the pistils. In 12 and 20 these 
country, or fe haps in at D n i ol pag E T E | EZA | = bes ean pui { moog Ae 3 in 24 t a are on 
The et Ti l Esponiad d rs ae i aah F shis | | Perforated to puzzle ari, and no wonder, as its real strue- 
majes 7 Uy Wi bs ‘i di Dr. wW = jol = | 8 ala . St. John’s-wort. ture was unknown t ah pode aster, Linii It, 
oe, of it ave y F s discoverer, Dr. ALBICH, Ei I | or some such, may b uced for the sake of 
in hi ‘ Tentamen F lore Nepalensis Illustrate, a h) Common showing them how to avoid. prey eaten ing an aggregation 
printed at Calcutta in 1824; but the honour of} (Zjnle | S| ajaj « Furze. of fi ) with a single flower, as in 
Aa a i ti 18 ane te bgt late AETAT Ar A eg e the case of composites already noticed, Ex. 8 “ Oxeye- 
sen , als |8 8 o S * EE daisy.” 
from these, as well as the more recent im- 
3 f of No. 6 a little omis- 
portations that have made y. Mes Veriton alal „Great dae a g "The t eek tothe Willow should have 
N of Exeter and Chelsea, we believe all the af cere ae ae ete Willow-herb. been headed Ex.7; and that to the “Heads of Flowe' e : by 
Be tee eee Di, galivation. origitated., ‘The i Pe ene wae atone Sete See 
sien of Maw eane Ranas (ei | = Le] =| «| mein | |GET ae si cetera ESE 
i ‘ cin it as only a spec i “ Daisy” (Bellis 
Com Beak: near Edi cag hy Shik wl | Common is not uncommo a ae 
drawing was made in July, 1852, and subsequently|  [*|~'" | *| * | @ | * Primrose, 2 
lished in the ine, fol. 4673. 
Weare they: A = Common VEGETABLE PATHOLOGY.—No, CXXXI 
Ve are th gear pba pry Colonel |  [Sj+ l= | wo.) ajja g Baur: i 
aren plesk ry SRB Par ee 59. Parasirs i Potato in). It is 
thick forests of ‘he aes he provinces of ein Blt] -* | 9l Perennial now so onivieusity acknowledged that the Vine disease is 
, Gurwhal, and Bushur. . It grows in rich Sjel a a E a aie Mercury. due to the atta itic fun rh re ought 
ak EN] Pe ee gee eee to be no di t the ption of the c 
Pat mould, sa bulb close to the surface, at from Skoi Spittiä. patmetd theory as regards the Potato murrain, a theory respect- 
ve the level of the sea, where ne eng Cpe tk Wall Mb gronie, ing the justice of which I have never entertained a 
it is a lekna atk snow am November to April. | | eT P SE TETTA TO ae padi The oni nly theory w which at the present y can at 
The hollow stems are commonly from rie to ni IBS| eo | ps | a | E Fallow es y 
a rst and are used fr et pertine | — SN SER SS others, ‘that itis the result of high eatin a ne 
e orran plant, we learn from o Isla | om Fhion shall b be an aiely on nd of rs 
one of hich were offsets taken in| “t= | see Neel ae Blue-bell 560. In ing the Potato murrain it must be 
November, 1854, from a plant flowered out of| | Sai Ey yy ee m borne in kerey at ied are two distinct diseases o£ 
doors in July of the same yi The bulb was| J$] j | E | B ea | i } Apam, the Potato, each characterised by P’ ae but 
unprotected through the severe winter of 185 ra - ungus, which may and often do oceur separate These 
when the the: ter was do as low 10° Paper ver Rhwas; 10, Cheiranthus Cheiri; 11, Viola odorata; | Which may also simultaneously attack the plani der ie 
(Fahrenheit) at Truro; and it has also b the | 1 ate mis oa i3, Hypericum perforatum ; 14, _ euro- | diseases are distinguished by the Germans u dan 
A : y F; pwus; 15, F) ria. vesca; 16, Epilobium hirsutum; 1 T, Lamium | name of inpe " = iybevnns don i the wet an 
two ] trying springs of 1855 and 1856 without album ; Be Primula vulgaris ; sat Daphne laureola ; mar rot: are istic to 
protection. b pon Pra b h di pas Apa is Ar aansen >" | other, though both iida in the final destruction of 
ee aol Lily pe s it bei l ee © When mposing a floral-whorl are “free” | the tube =n op tius, from 
is called the di 
x Be iy: ae P i s vi = A to En, lish oe peste seis their’ n is evident. When they |, 561. The last 4 hi 18 gg Tt is 
winthe hag a ili a gè hh s not Ue e aa en eens a He aiarar a ar ws Bad ah having Py % sen § pose of its forms of 
2 : the up of the several | Cuaracterised : by ersed 
of possessing the soft and bal arra fan a banii erk air eti Ltr nid Solani. The affected tubers are trav 
; $ ng beyond the nb oie co ering portions. | / s ; es the 
Cornish climate. kipa dat ht whieh y Sy Gs But th which the cohesion between |in irection by mycelium, which gorges, 
m in the <a soup, So mos dink pete at estat or very ne eeh Ei I tis tissues ai soos an extent that the er mae we 
unusual for of the ‘Lily Dr. LLICH’s|then sometimes d E eS impossible, to | hard, so nire “af to heavy ste lways equal, 
specimen is stated to have dec 10 feet igh eo recognise the cise number parts in a whorl, | 2! e waye. The degree of ca ay z 
was also the siens d that of Messrs. Connix AM, without t t taking fies genesis the ager Js aws of | 8nd in so least inthis country, tissues are 
ieh particular groups are ted or | May exist alone on the Potatoes while ie te 
$ flowers. The ily. defined The practical instructor will warn the trated moist. According to the degree = Tree described 
however, airi exceeded th and must | that “seeing is not Aros believing "in botany any | eter ae many dist wher This had e 
2 than i 
ve been a very striking object, being no less than | ™°T@ js A OE ANO in G and had become gh 
12 feet high with a raceme of 10" large white | g2 Seingat beting T inpraat pier thane [lent at the time when Martins wrote as to make 
drooping flowers. resembling those of the | pu generally at enone to adm mit. Some of yo ar readers | s saceestl cultivation: of Potatoes any lon 
$ may remember the manner in w) ici i 
opman. whi at Lily, y excepting ~ they had a in the G ers’ Chronicle ‘eighty wf on Wied r iain ier = f Martius had attained its 
; lish tinge ach 4 5 i t as eie disease o 
ep: purp. ge along the inner edge of e: the accuracy of those who declare they have seen a mother vipe by the more 
division of the perianth. nin i perfection they allow her young to run down her throat for shelter. I then | height another malady, characterised ab of 
measured fi do half Seales ateos the h of | #88etted that whether such a vision were fact, or the effect o y dissolution of the tubers and Pe presen i 
red ive and a Inc out delusion, science required better evidence than otrytis infestans, made its appearance. It 
the tube, and were no doubt ‘Similar ie ce hitherto been produc ced, before, 20 yemarkable an anomaly could | tremely destructive in some part of the United State 
“e » | be admitted un n : E 
described by Dr. Waxuicn delightfully fragrant.” | Pe an undeniable marv es Pea es be 1844, and w ticed: gland and or ArT a 
= WEN on wake suc hich the fact (if such it were) migh iy demon- tinent i in that and g year, but n 
cess | w i 
strated by some competent authority. pied iy Borngen (so far 
= I am aware) in i such spam aA has 
y opposed to 
e precedin 
ost Perec Psat and from the great i ean 
of the t subject attracted general notice, otic, though z 
