692 _THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. fOctopgr 18, 1856. 
tant information pee ws points nt. “ When t he Army | Rhododendron } ponticum “almost free from the im- | | portant, t, and cultivators should look to it, Maybe it 
of the ten thousan r to Trebicond, a very | putation that has been laid at its door. ows some light a e a mysterious disease that 
strange Accident oat befel it it, ty whi éi caus’d a great Con- — d houses of late. While, 
ording to XRNOPHON, observe the following paragraph in the las however, we pause to hear Eeh of M. Ducnartag, 
h TER 
sternatio: pie, the Troops, ace ON, | 
one ofthe princ ipal Leaders of it. As there 
es u 
Mash of the Florist :—‘“ Fis neh the Horticul- 
ura! iety’ in Regent Stree 
et did n 
The Ear ah y 
it, and the Di 
same hour that it began; so shone | 
hir ourt g , but 
understan 
the 
sh or 
us 
in the condition People are in after t 
Potion.” 
R or 8 acciden ha ban to the poisonous 
ity of oor p nt, abun oat n Aey co yaey 
krii h ked bees largely p Gk The 
Si 
the 
Hon ney, 
n 
leaves Sof such p 
e 
os 
we admit at mist qm the s 
f 
as Phalænopsis ? 
N Plants. 
185. DENDROBIUM Macartatz. Thwaites in Bot. Mag., 
t. 4886. 
A gered kapie i belonging to s bite tee Le 
drobes and magnificen 
re Pedi long ee 
of the 
they expand. The 
Sobralia macrantha. 
the au! thority o of Mr. 
ey are damre of such a thing 
Sir iret Fee states “pon 
Thwai iseovered 
mn MeCa 
different t 
arthy, aa vieo of 
f Ceyl 
y de 
contemplated 
he 
will in agp introduced, as the 
finan cial position Soe will e 
of the nable the 
of diva 
t s 
from the — Ava (or 
ari 
is reckoned unwholesome. | The 
e 
ie 
end 
of science, that it occurs “sparingly, meet tied the 
trunks of large t trees in the fo mat of that island ae 
ts native name is 
be Wis-sak-mal, “ tie trae. hed which is Rainy 
flower or May note from our in- 
onth 
viant friend Mr. 
it, with above eighty other im 
nas ing remeny “ a Ceylonese an, whi le 
o the jungles in po of the parses 
ieden n To th ‘in g an 
the excellent „figure in ‘the Botan 
added I 
t.” nt h TOURNEFORT “adopts that opinion. | 
the likelihood in the world,” he says, | 
era re w 
at the next meetin 
What the ear r will be for 
mined ; but we 
election 
November. 
belies hoa Ap subjects of exhibition will me 
chi 7m hpi con nfin ied to fruit. We c 
io: treasure 
— 
186. me Farconeni. Hooker Bot. Mag., t. 4944, 
mose! coloured. A pale 
colour forms & groun pi at the points of 
all the divisions d at the aa of the lip is a stain of 
inten: nse purp le, which i in the lip i is bordered with golden 
i On a shrivelled 
sta zi sed, even 
UIT, excludin ng t oa the 
Py Alaa will el awarded on the occasi on, 
opr fessor Linpiry having placed 5/. at the rs al 
ol drooping stem 3—4 feet lo near s of 60 such 
flowers appeared and continued 12 or 14 days in perfec- 
tion. Its history is said to be that it was impor rted in 
f the nae for the Aad erag and M 
Went a Die the m for the P 
oe accompanied on the B 
‘Sea he made up “great Nosegays of it oat ik 
-his Tent: WE was told by his egg that this 
Flower caus "d Vapours and Dizzin I tho 
rere 
e 
eig 
se 
[zender he pair 
that 
d at an auction in famine eet that he ora 
George Reid, , Esq.s of Burnham i in Som 
of 4000 fe eet, it was pur- 
op 
(Itinerary Notes, page 194), observed “ on rocks rece ~ 
huka and to Morichiódk 3500 to 4000 feet.” 
“The species eu ra the a dn yé 
ted in the Botanical Magazi 
one 
k Order daily ; that the number of persons 
admitted by it can in hat no 
can be re ss filled up and dated by 
ed on 
will be to prevent the rooms in 
‘eo ng inconvenienti crowded, and to 
mg more s 
As far a fo 
e | of the Council A ‘to the Garden is to discontinue 
it, and causes Loathings 
Hence it Sie be inferred that pe a aes 
, for which ex Cn 
and illustrative gardening are if be substituted, 
er par 
[erop w whateve: mé ted for the puro 
shnient in some Ser self- 
onany | 
ele 
art 
informed, “the general intention i 
iri a misconception of the habit o “ol 
ro “of the pent This and 
finest plants by far of the two a seasons. 
FLOWER GARDENING. 
mong the pan ee ions in flower 
gardening, the in 
proce rere of mAai 3 Seal ed the 
BE 
= 
y worthy 
A recent visit to sev 
of the metropolis. 
ens has quite convin viticód 
opinion that pe latter alone is mischievou: 
of the | Euxine honey ki like 
m 
Seer the ‘establ 
ans. of a per guid e e book “a 
er may er any time 
In this on it is age “hat 
cena a grows. The nativ: 
well aware of the noxious Cea i Aus ‘pant 
and it is related that goats which b n the 
try | the operations carried on in the Garden will b 
ende: or instructive to a hao oi visitors. In 
conne old, useless, 
pares 
J ili 
me 
that ; indeed with the exception of two examples, one in 
=x uate of the Royal Botanic Socie Longe 
at Syon, I have not seen one single exemplification © 
jocrity. Hence 
ap 
the sytem is not popular 
from 
3 
28 
cnprolntied or duplicate. 
Pinth 
L 
leaves, before the pA cig ™ green, suf fer th con 
Pe, oreovyer that cattle aad sheep 
be the of European: 
We 
s | Hoi 
‘er ioaditey $ iv which 
ema 
observe in a late e Revu 
agr aiiis that 
ques 
tectural objects it is 
archi 
to which, the makings 
testi associa 
a inta — Es of sonar os p7 
d enrichmen 
ae seeaated ih | OrcHIDACEOUS s are “incapable e of feeding 
eat hon nif bea ha upon moisture suspended in the air as invisible 
a Yaad oney is well | vapour. He says that experiment “A satisfied | 
which is 
ebizond 
jan al 
theless often se egy bane 
and boiled 
ea Baa 
alor Mertons betw a Tre and eeri 
The sale of this this sa is Hg ae it is sever. leaves and roo 
wie S 
is an 
of 
— of food, a 
an 
wi bebe 
or | becom 
and t 
at they feed wholly, upon t the mi 
whic 
2 
ter 
ht ina aE yw comes in contact with their 
sphere, according to 
| indebted to the Duchess of Suthe: od. The 
tine one, oug 
afi 
| to Seen scenery, 
ad 
ibbon at 
West Hill was a serpen 
be, in truth was not so 
Trentham, | Eo ville, 
try are at the p 
this piani ana Tarnishes os. absolutely ee ng A | 
can have no effect upon 
cept diminishing pagne, which spins T 
f the which they ions were to 
ome to dads 
cHaRTRE asserts that ore. eget oy and 
y upon the roots, are what such 
i eee 
wim it abundantly in the 
r houses they must also none it if they are to 
We are unacquain 
ents which have led to 
— the detailed 6 to 
resen! 
was the first step in the — apt and as 
rving of kenene men 
fi ribbon 
hat a 
e form o a notion prevails t 
pposite 
ed 
e upon the ously contrast: A 
ribbon to be effective, emery be of con 
rather than broad, ind! 
perim 
in the justice of which we are an ca ne pre- 
pared to acquiesce. The statementis, however, im- 
I have seen 
| pain MERASA than please the A wide, bai i were 
very effective when only 3 feet 
