772 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. [NovEMBER 22, 1856, 
s conclusions “boldly, whether they “tell for orlsize towards the base on the anterior side, and t t develop Mead flowers are = 
against the party calling him. If this became uch enlarged on the posterior a so that Bey | on ERA ad aiy al so, on aip Fogle foward 
‘general, scientific evidence Goal be estimated at are M ry gue in outline ; Blum D fo from a — Pitta on) summit of 
W imidiato-co! Į “that 
its proper value, and would not, qatar unf ortunately ably lai Jar ger than the rest, and is Tey A hal eon ea yore ‘ton.—The manner in which g 
the case at present, be regarded with distrust and |è ondar oc Tea: all tar ate aa 
shen given by men whose impar-| ¥* raed rD A SA ‘a i oue Sar e AERE 
suspicion apr ig 5 y P Ep apex of one of these, | i ae ne "the pee culiar “vernation” (vern atio, a renovation ); and the disposi- 
tiality is as unimpeachable as their talent. etted venation, is shown the accom panying tion of the floral organs in a flower-bud is called their 
Aa A Ee. fure which also shows one pE of the base “ æstivation” (from estiva, summer Peere 
New Plants. fertile frond. The frond§ are viviparous in the tls of Bracis.— Leaves developed on peduncles n ie 
187. CHAMÆCYPARIS THURIFERA, Endl. Gen. Con if., 62, | the branches. The fertile fronds are very much smaller | branches assume forms and characters more 
alias ar eee Sygate a. Humboldt, Dogs e, Pand ana o on longer stipes ; their divisions ar rrow linear, distinct from those of ordinary leaves. 
Kunth, II, 3, not of others ; lled * bracts.” Re! is generally small, and often 
There is comm ae und y arsi PAIRE | branches : again are oblique in conseque: e of the much | scale-like, No b are formed on the Bean, the 
E Mexican Coniferous. tree called Cupressus | greater d development of the ani ade, Two or three leaves on the bevat having been arrested, as we 
thurifera, under the morose goie 
called by Humboldt. he la how: Beals Tis N.B. he figure to Ex. 1, white Lily, we see many g 
ed out the iia 7 act mas i set plant ae i seale- like wut on the pedun ncle. In Ex. 2, wood 
Anemone, there are three large bracts, closely resembli 
ves, 
e rm 
| peduncles shou! “a ‘se so 5 oratia In Ex. wild-cherry 
Plum (or common Cherry), vat little sonlas ‘at va base 
of the pedicels are bracts, Wi the ae 
flowers are too crowded to fad “ai small seale-liko com 
ach is x 
rong-n: gar 
ore had previously prover the name of 
Lindley pak hes sam rine No two ea can n be 
differe han s Be nthami and Cha 
cnr j scale of the cone—the soron a : kni at t the base of the li ttle pedicel on Metal 
Camber paris ith only two or one, and those ted ; s a cimen, 
winged. } 8, pach o D ) the numerous 
But nobody seems of late years to have met with wale es ornieh in 5 fou surround the unexpanded 
this Chameecy paris in Mexico ; ; even in the re Her- head of flowers be Te Many plants of the same 
barium of K found, A few cones of a order (Composites) have ais hae re the 
niece plant \ with roundish wingless seeds having base of every fiower. These bracts arise from 
ho and npp and ear to vast close packing) become 
tt ick < Gardens, further inquiry has led ranous scales, bristles, or hairs. 
e discovery that this Orizaba plant is in all pro- Ife escence ~ This term is applied eara abng 
bability the long viet Chameecy paris thu rifera. Mr. 
3 ts branches collectively. In 
but with a small dried specimen, from which we learn | of their fronds and in the nature of their eae | wanty be restricted to ro rata E ‘ 
that he found it in a Saara state. | Bein nage a true | were associated with this species by Mr. Smith in h n the few wood aa in Nos. V, % 
amæcyparis, and only on b Philippine Island Ferns sar by | and VI. the term Ynfisitbdines will be applicable to 
to botanists, the inf Mr.. Guin Olie of ae figured by Sir . | Single flowers in Examples 2 ae 3. It includes more 
plant of Humboldt seems inevitable. Tn rin preni Hooker as iy Hemme we conceive to be the et | than one flower in Exam mples 1, 5,7, 8, The term is, 
ilosopher’s work, above quoted, it is said to be a| Presl intended by his Digrammaria, judging by his iy fact, of rather arbitrary ila though there is 
very tall resinous tree with spreading Haila figures in the Tentamen rd th an interesting stove |$ seldom any difficult ty in determining whether it is to be © 
ns. 7. M. 
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Be 
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Where the flowers stand apart, or where each stem or 
branch supporting only one flower bears fully formed 
ucous, huj 
PRACTICAL LESSONS IN Boran FOR 
Hew. ani inl be able to bear this climate remains | BEGINNERS OF ALL CLASSE S.No. XII leaves, 
8. Tuvsorsis BOREALIS of Ga rd By the Rev. J. S, Henstow, M.A., of rah Suffolk. has its leaves so mo fe = as to be regar rded as bracts, 
What p Rar beau tiful and onite. Rasa. Coni ord Flower-Buds.— he abundant “fotwiation of buds in| then it assumes the character of a peduncle, and all the & 
i iginall yc A 7 *|the axils of leaves is s wich leaves. AERAR to.. the flowers directly or indirectly supported by it constitute 
1’ 
fi 
4 a ment of branche le 
and sent into > the trade by. Mr. Pontey, of Plymou' sit PpS ft thi years) ait il pee a Without here iir or bilan ae a several Me} 
E Ammas as the decay or pruning of the | terms whi ch d inflorescence, Úi 
It pas, wo, sents igi? ae a of Th. cece accord: | upper Lac or of “a brane) enu ative them to develop de to the relation in which — 
fe oa eight Sati te WRG Tas dako,” a Certai » fror the earli ihe stage in which their five eae ‘kinds and towards each de pe — 
unable to find in É 
Hie’ F 
d nascent | +} m 
Bati ‘tm may ae be sariinbed that this word Tchugatskoy | ‘the mo re usual sealed of closely, packe 
leave sate the character, aa develop as an aggre: dicels` ag ens we S should have it transformed 
is only an erroneous reading of Tschukotsk, the name | gati gh oprana = Sich. buds are" A lint e” rs, we aloan aiten were 
which € m ta > The influence (whatever it be) whic! Jeho Rises sra el; t the flowers stood nearly ; 
well poi Should so, gry “question aos some buds, That ae by |t ies ae sinry ap would be the result, It th the: 
whether thi is Thujopsis borealis may not be the Chame- icra ect AN 
the earlier buds whieh but the length of the pedicels still ‘so regulated as to 
same level, an “ umbel” 
abo ut N 
vatory f Sitcha, a place frequented 
by oh pyel tt must have been seen al fe 
officers of all our expeditions that have been at Noo 
Ph a EE eiA be formed. If the pedicels of an umbel were 
are form the | arrested, so that its ee became sessile, whilst 
Bean we “observe this td summit of the pe edun was sufficiently expanded (ic 
A bud o their inserti 
the main ‘te (s) has de. | head” would be pr riri If the expanded summit 
v int sho} g a head | 
y 
apari is siia ame E a a tree inhabiting the nor rth- 
ofA 
perc The Russian botanist Bongard calls Cupressus 
nutkiensis Thue excelsa, which renders it the more 
I } ithout re el d, the obliterated internodes being also 
probable that Thuja borealis is he, F inna Jere The leaves which in the restored, we should return to a “spike.” T i 
shoots, while those of Thajopsis borealis, ore flat. Is TS ? a of ajof inflore e, therefore, depend ee relative | 
that the difference between youth and age? pated BPN ADE bee oh, developments of the Pigg une piri me pedicels 
NEW GARDEN FERN $ yanna ea 
A RNS.—No. X formed), and their position 
27. STENOSEMIA AURITA, Presl; not oi ooker. at the nodes is only faintly es E CROP OF FRUIT IN 1 eave 
ÅCROSTICHUM AURITUM, Swartz, PoLYBoTRYA AURITA, | indicated by slight swel- med strange during this umn bac A 
ume. lings. The axils of these anon he prt any counties and see all th ai: i 
Prais ternate, pnberulous on the veins, the fertile contracted; arrested leaves would lie | ba are o! of frui it, loo! , as. compared wi i at autumn, — i 
_- en ie —— ra thy segments of the barren fronds nshire, Gloucestershi any ae hy 
cute en upper blunt, the lowest posterior pots, and here rhe is the shire, Herefor Ertvhtem wand” Ken ent, co serie "gene E 
ee Iy lanczlae elite beneath with |S, stem: p, petiole: së, stipule : ex buds are formed. | productive in orchard produce, have failed in conting 
spore-ca both sides the midrib; longated,| peduncle: p’, position for %3 These davelóp aioi owers | with the P not so highly favoured by clima elled 
palea: pgs +4 prea i Paak Hower. with Y es Kret be soil. I hear also from a friend who has trave all 
> hi. 5,0 one of those Ferns in which the hinder or ATE it 5 petals, 10 s (co- | through the frait -growing i rete! of ° Ge by 
‘side of the divisions of the frond are more Fal hering), and one men One or two of the + iodectent France that the re has been the sir y OE ‘ 
the anterior or npper side, producing con- | buds produ As the | America (a Unite ted ge ben the main crop 
he It is a very | artist, in improving on my own sketch, has introduced | an entire e cause of re the MN 
int looking p plant of the Acrostichaceous the base of a petiole ( p) with a stipule (st), the latter | inquiring into. rth my own orchard iden tly 
e and fertile fronds con- | completely hides what I must, | failure not to “frost, for there a Plums whick 
former broad and therefore, leave the antn of kea a short flower- | sharp to injure the germs of Pears a of (the 
w space | stalk to the imaginatio and content myself with in- | remai ined green and fresh till they 
th ae h $ nich), but to aa ats 
feet | occupied below the u ermost t flower A it hac been of moist cold winds from the north-east, w peor 
spore Sein are ners below, and ven there. The re fied branch from which all anthers, and se s prevent i 
nds. The sterile | the flower-buds have been rode ced is sealed a | proper action ; ey Bikes e wb such a variation 
y as ae “peduncle” (r) ; and ae little branch p stalk sup- | exist over s0 Iz m llow me to 
p Z cel” (as at p’ if one | surface and Ain as above A 
been re! orga, 2 hope that some of your meteorologi 4 oe 
gare: At the base, y and| N.B. Oftentimes the branches produced from buds | cuss in your columns this most cane a er, Joe hich 
d, the segments oblong, acute, entire, | formed on a peduncle do not immediately support| When M. de Jonghe visited Eng get fally set, BY 
pinnatifidly lobed below, the upper ones flowers ; but a further degree of subdivision in branch- | year the fruit was all destroyed after being told 
$ A page the 25th i 
gel Peete eg spp ote g cage nt 1e true us that he had sete ot ard poe E A 
but diminishing in | flower- In numerous cases the flower-buds d — 
