806 THE GARDENERY’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[DECEMBER 6, 1856. 
contrast. of | the bla 
ld H 
Now, il tnig. y ane akoer the Rocky Manuta it. 
g har rn 
- oe 
s the botanical name 
ak tay Is i i 
tits is Ba 
e had in Engla nd, and 
ek or a | 
aen crown of fan-shaped leaves 5 to 12 feet in 
i The ese leaves, like — of other Pal 
ruits which near] 
effec hat is its quality 
ree! I once before saw | here.] zie Olea japonica of the Horticultural Society ’s 
Ludlow a wild pl ra up a Spruce Fir | Ga rden what ¢ as Ole ea excelsa from Madeira. 
b hred: The 
a 
® 
xf 
as an ordinary re each p or ag in wae 
These fruits have three seeds surrounded by a fibrous 
obtain which 
een shredded up all but the head. 
climber was one mass of blossom, broad at the base, | | hed ges, and where is it sold if [By all nurserymen of 
but piina Iy tapering as it ascende tree ; the | | note. ] Has the gaa’ park . ny fruit of Moppa 
effect in this case was good by jever | been t turı ned f poi sonous nature ? 
Tkali 
containing pulp, to 
it. The seeds = then 
sue n planted, and in ab 
a fright young plants have sprung up, and th 
are ea n either thoiled or raw like Celery. 
ind of flour called “ fidogma” is also 
dark, but nothing like the superb effect the light g n jy 
in; ray excuse “this” long | its fading ł Pied inow.] A letter _ from Baron 
not ripening g—13 fruit its in the 
it [No ed. me 
[We have 
derived from their roots. 
when soft, is eate m I 
y emann, “to find 
his Palm | appl 
Gy phi lata fi 
as a substitute for : soap a for oe. sag co 
and lace; is that generally known? [ Yes. J Aster 
vg 
ith in 
petals, and | wonderfully g por wild fruits. 
ing to see how small the «82 great t things become when 
n Asia, es pecially as to the po of the bak: of the 
fruit, aha eating of the tg ough vee and the prepa- 
ration of a ki Sa of fiou Tho 
Diosc: Batatas.—From experiments that Rave Carolinianus, a very remarkable, departure from the 
been aS m, the pegenn produced at the aE common run of Asters, is about o flow ver with me; it 
cultural Society’: ting o seems Lo udon and § 
peculiar 
fact of enting the seedlings, a 
di 
whe ther r'this idea is of athe growth o 
Indi 
t n 
without showing a bud until this season, The teckey |e 
e O 
ntity of 
r has 
t Indies. Though not inclined “te 
give es negroes much credit for inventive gen us, Dr. 
L uan 
of its being apparently very prolific, tbat itis like | I have been led to pare the varieties, which s to them ; for, he 
me hereafter, if not exactly a substitute for the | Ladin: 2 dedii Lucombe Oaks, &e. I think Les can had been adopted 1 md the steig itis not nikal hat 
n Potato, at all events a valuable sae in distinguish the following :—1. Norm 1 Turke 
ing of cattle and pigs, and consequently its ex- leaf jagged, stem straigh ae apean Tene leaf | making wine, vinegar, yeast, and sugar, wonld have pees 
tensive cultivation ought to be en early deciduous. Dit semi-evergreen. 3.| overlooked, But neither of the B.? æthiopicus, nor of 
I received two small roots of it from Messrs. E. G., Leaf Tegnlarly ang largely indented handsome foliage 3| any other African Taip do we find it recorded that they 
& Son, but, from von song Tanna ~ y. aust » Ver ae regular] y : that purpos all we hear is, that the Date 
meet with the same su as you mention | luxuriant T e. vergreen, stem straight, | tree in doriae yy y 
others to have done, e of ba rail about the ‘branches thick or ascending, making a ae head ; 3 bee , accumulates 
middle of March in the open ground, the other i andsome tree, es as ide l, b s lightly purgative er a eite A ez hago 
small pot, and then placed it in a col e ing close ; habit like a peaa culata. “all these jae ancient iahahitatta of the seem Islands, the Guanehes, 
former, which was inserted about 4 inches deep, kne 
ssi possibly be called a 
h. 
up towards the end of April, but it bip on down 3 Lucombe Oak of ithe, a | original b pate The common 
frost wl an inch or so high, it di Sna wain at Tmenmbe 4 different, and 
vegetate, pomegold T yo searching for t eae wN spar m y ” The so-called eyer- 
time after vestige o! i The ¢ sin elg Ary prer ofl il 
the TiN wine, and also vinegar, honey, an sugar. 
The ety of diay seems to be ee Aneto 
In A rica it is tirely unknown , the so-called Palm 
b d b 
discove of it 
pri reaped when it ‘had grown to the hei eight oi of a 
pN 
li 8. 
Cross Bali. ás have g lately Soy val the | 
oy larger sized one, where it did not make a | evidence which I 
ress than an inch or two more in k ie | and my own, on the ‘natural crossing of varieties of 
to 
y means ns of be 
living tree, n the case with genuine toddy, but by a 
nye rey alee +e crown of a tree previa f felled. 
h Africans and Am ns kill 
of which ¢ they procure, the former Tag 
the latter by felling its trunk ; 
rog, 
and it now remains in the sae mith its leaves all | | plants, Th Le eguminous 
ow. Will you inform whether I| | ås s eurioualy conflicting, but | pre ponderates against pig 
ae A 
nly 
Asiatics preserv e it, mere ly cutting its spathes, and 
as ag is during | € Tii kris ries aid, I sho uld esti 
replanting give in your paper or oa 
my then cultivating an increased nw roots, pner, that Leguminous OM : mho grown clos 
to place t them ' S ema if CA the other han 
they may be t treated like the com: with ne sl may invariably be ps pee together EH PE 
egard to manurin: a curtbing mm & p Še nates whet height auy chance of deterioration, Charles Darwin, Down 
he stems usuall There e thing I con | Bromley, Kent. 
Petunia imperialis.— 
espondent as to the unsuitableness of this Petunia for 
. Itis “> that sgt ae ofitasa y ot 
, fragrant, and also 
Es 
Š 
ey 
n. ae cae bean 
À rows I should imagine will re 
ards each other 
P, 
SESZEERESESES 
S 
ge va: 
and mpost I used plants, and : jeithousie earefully vikaa 
the top | of a ridge full 1 foot abo: kanes. the ground T never saw a perfect bloom on them, while the dark Petunia 
level sy setting. We should take up the root and | ea (a reer ge All bad grower) Rourished and flowered 
ely. As a pot plant the imperiali: Itm 
replant next Mare! ine had in bloom nearly the whole year. The flowers also stand 
EnS. —Having been travelling i in Switzerland I “san well when cut, and the plant itself differs from most Petunias, 
he which I hay ae Es Sacre grower, and not at all liable to mildew. H. 
gew 
your It 
me any evidence showing i 
I quite agree with your South Wales Sea 
e wanton destruction of the trees in the one case 
e produced, and as long as 
is conti tinued never will produce any geoes not 
which 
th 
ta e has fi 
4 finely developed on the trees in St. James’ 
and also in Gray’s Inn Garde 
sington Gard 
hepatica at Highbury ; 3 and he suggests that it sah pi 
due to the e greatly inereased purity f London 
have 
these fungi e their > laah 
mentioned, In St. James Park Phe 
in the 
sarf states that the 
placed for the present in a pan und glass in 
cold room. Many of them having lost their aise and CIPR TH iang onsisting of two abortive stamens united, 
up young shoots which are weak and watery, S>ortettes. some young fiower-buds of a semi-double variety of 
as it would do no good to shorten them like another oe yearns recently examined, were 
plant, would it be best to let the weak shoo groworto| Linnean, Nov. 18.—Prof. Bell, President, in the chair. | in port gts s found completely divided into two- 
cut them off close, so as to throw up| A. B. Cooke, Esq., R. Garner, E . T. Law, Esq., | strap-sha ne og nding quite distinet in front of 
sido à shoots l I would also ask w. out- es Fe tian r, Esq., were elected "Fellows. The | the petal, In on th e single below was 
t ld be mixed with ad foll “ Description of bifurcated each subdivision bearing an anther, 
soil under a glass case. Filix. [Kee v4 by J. B. Hicks and se similar scales were found adherent to the 
the peat species of Draparnaldia, » M.D. This 
fag cold for the winter, and in Has which is ‘Hicks $ first “found two years since, and 
Seemann aias ta oem dene 
eral 
claws of the petals, There were also numerous cases 
amine thay wil will Sprout 
n in the t year, he names D. cruciata, 
A papaka atarie ment of its parts. The 
wi 
Tris reticu Jangs t 4i inches long, light gr een 5 its 
frond is | scale 
p ed | observations Mr, Masters 
and that of two distinct From these 
aroti “that it is fair to 
edt A crrrpndent asin yous impr fi in whorl 
I obtaine essrs, | of four, placed crosswise ; and the ultimate tufts of 
the branchlets also o grow in a cruciate manner from the 
is omiy aq with Loudon’s deseription of it. He says i li a 
t at least. {should be glad ta know wheter 
I have the true plant, which, I understand, is. 
one jack [L reticulata is a bulbous 
ge ing 0 jop leaves, often a foot | Sean 1 SE gages 
rise half so high. Itisa by Dr. See 
i Pes 
rE 
mace with in the streamlets 
of the pier of the New Forest, me 1 ona e to 
sticks and The ed by 
ree of mbnet 
or 
} 
3 
Sie a Bag 
fter 
3 
3 
] 
muco 
s issuing from some | an 
n the petals of Cary 
al of two abortive stamens united 
nee that these bodies do peer constitute any or: 
exception to the laws of alternat flowers 
this Saponaria also afforded piso pont rns e 
d free cent Š 
ExrtosoLocicaL, November 3.—W. W. Saunders, Esq.». 
F.R.S, &e., Presi el z 0-a Mr. 
exhi 
are figures Journal of F; men} had act? 
li 
i 
r 
in the 
a, Vol. ana 166; aud in the Siue enya enigma, the statement of its be’ 
nut Palm being obviously o; 
may have a pat Seeman states, that from i 
et Re he newiy inir araug Lar p ies together w. 
short distance rs the 
thereby a wound which takes a |had correctly 
Da thas health of the tree does ps atarge of Martius. This Pali, it 
e materially affected by it, Such is the | di 
case in some instances with Taxodium sempervirens |e: 
japonica. Ta one sm awing en of the rous 
J 
a 
ee 
ons contained 
p 
over the whole of Central jo ped yr ‘sues 
we forests, especially on the banks of the nume- 
from waters it is 
be inereasing. As it is emo resda Ala g 40, Thonning 60-70, and aes 60-80 feet | 
perhaps not safe remove high, undivided and unarmed, surmounted by a m mag- 
n 
Sir H. Barth, 
jia the letters of Dr. Vogel, he had reason to believe he | 
determined the: arene d 
according to | also 
aie of the se 
upon the twi pn Bini 
nag h 4 a stated that the Pela Wax was 
or 
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s 
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