a: xan ee ee ee, ae ee ee eo le le oe eo TFT MUDGE GRG ee ee eee 
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DECEMBER 27, 1856.] 
say they were the best, or I purposely omitted the very ; 
new sorts. Now,as to the 12 recommended by Mr. 
G aste! 
asson, ar’ 
R ; 
Surd opener in many soils ; and Gloire de Dijon 
sould not be grown out of doors north of the Trent, 
ed i 
any do 
w! hich psi call hybrid tisha ps any es 
a: two or three blooms all through the autumn. W 
want good hard sorts which will 
may go on 
may from such 
Mrs. Elliott po “Mri Boccella. We 
ttl 
THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. i 
855 
da; 
tack is 18 feet 
tial shape a real ust excuse me from t sufficiently | Sear planted in rows like Potatoes, and staked 
this controversy. I confess that I: t Runners are, In proof | of its productiveness 
| Quixotic in spirit to find sai ember 
shadow. William Paul, Nurserics, Cheshunt, Herts. produced 43 t tubers, averaging 1 ounce each, P ant all 
Stacks—By the foll wing method I have been | within 1 foot of ground. Exoniensis. 
ground. 
~ lden Hamburgh Grape.—íi learn from Mr. Veitch, 
of whom I ordered Vines of oe pore: 5" ker epee of 
t|of the ground with broken stones to secure a perfect 
wing t e failure 
| in its propagation, Iti is also “reported that D Bg i 
drainage, and covered ove 
I build the 
is year in perfection 
B. did not t exhibit 
n the form of a hay | fa 
rated. Mr. 
| fruit of it ning thea eg that has *just passed, ss it 
ust 2 
feet thick, pa that ch the es straw sufficient to 
turn rain. 
_ Boilers —The ‘article i in a recent Number respecting | ¢ 
ear why he didnot do so, Vitis. 
societ (eS. 
6.—Prof. Be f, Bell, President, in the chair. 
janine were 
—l. 
Linnean, Dec. 1 
The Rev. C. Kingsley, and G. H. Kings! sti 
elected Fellows. _ The following | papers 
F. Curre bse sq. te species 
with the 
in the dealers’ ee S, and then we 
know what we 
amateurs shall 
But 
use 
b ay only u upon 
s own account, a very i mportaut also on the 
su bject of the best size she the various ig ow Bi of 
u will permit me to call the 
A ‘0 
orti ulus ree ciety, and I ca 
why it 
fancy an not years ago adopted ti the 
by 
of Pilobolus, recently met gir ag at a growing 
on cow-dung, Mr. Currey considered to be P. roridus of 
Folton piia has hitherto pr ade eg ge a doubtful 
p appeared in the of small dou yellow 
points on ‘ie surface of n Fy a thin layer of which 
moist beneath a bell-glass yielded an abundant 
io in a priy: 
tinuing in succession for a fortnight. 
a 
ours, others con- 
The paper con- 
J 
th 3 
ree pri r cut 
show, send a list of the names of 
ol 
in their respective stands, an k ús see what 
of f Scotland and the English Agrieultara Society, and 
one stand, and can call to mind very few with new 
wm 
Mr. Paul’s article. It is very pleasant to, get hold of 
k digno. and to be iE. by novelty, but I think 
f ho r these societies dive 
premiums ner OT aiaia. aa apa imple- | ° 
and for plans for heating. Other thin ings being 
2. Conclusion of a Memoir “on the Phenomena of 
| Lorpidity, _ r es of fat in hybernating 
>” by Dr. Holland. mai Note on the rhizome 
e of food, ” by the Rev. 
of Pter teris ain a as an ar ticl 
ag Bracken 
M. J. Be tkel 
P. 
equal there can tbs no doubt that the one large i 
must be far superior to several Smaller ones—but i is it 
of bread, Mr. Berkeley, ‘ving sty a had occasion to 
memo S 
h at. 
| 
r- 
proper price, ae not leave it for an amateur to pur- 
chase a ae and spen 
i not to speak of was 
experience can “easily Peer 
yourself, Mr. Glen- | 
sort of — it afforded. For this ‘oat me of the rhi- 
_They were found estab but very 
oe nning, 
our readers, would be judges in whose report the 
£j 
pebli would place implicit | confidence, _ The onl 
ig 
ayes n tes eee ts resembling Ber to 
Brinjals ra te they might at cme a be 
his own selecti ting 
Sülüvation of indifferent varieties when it might 
who are prejudiced, and a need not say the most 
filled with the choicest and most undeniable collection, 
ley. Whate I think of 
3 mley ver ay t y 
correspondent A *s” knowledge of Roses, I mus 
give him credit for skill in argument. I humbly submit, 
however, 
t ey have 
whi ch ret waa oer their 
f systems which the tried for many years 
pur, ne is such men 
above all o very best to supply | facts, although 
T 
n yet” he 
z the ju 
Anything like hiv would be impossible. Suppose 
udges were to decide that Mr. We eks plan o 
be slimy matter could be rı d; Me D 
craped some of the e seer which had been 
kisii d led. e pulp thus obtained 
was t hich, after 24 hours, having 
become extremely slimy and of a yellowish-brown 
colour, was carefully decanted, the pulp being again 
washed with water, which was now quite colourless. 
This water was also poured off, and t ulp 
i |Safficienth y was — oe ke, 
t 
må William Jesse, a5 in a good faith, ‘differ from wom 
certain hig that is, heat to the requisite te 
mper erature 
provincial 
of this fecula, a mg was 
| usefu 
sng een oarse but t palatable 
e fre agrea able fi meets indeed 
Mn "Be riley thought EA oe better, robably 
ot less nutritio n Cassava bread. [the analysis 
no’ y pre would have been a 
l and interes sting addition to this paper.] 
Ent ocicat, Dec. 1.—J. beat ood, F.L.S., 
Vice- Pride teresting collection 
the chair. An 
| of a ae from Moreton Baby Australia, col 
Mr. 
iggles, was exhibited ; amongst a number of 
- | new ‘hte baal tiful sm several were remar 
e, 
bearing a striking resemblance to English species, in- 
Agrotis MENN 5S Lithosia pul- 
of certain length — an 
to decide whether tl yet, manufacturer einn supply a En gaa boiler, and all 
dwhetherafi duci ro fR Weeks would get would be the professional credit, | ™ 
to “the 12 best ” (mark thi iis) they I d | and that of haying ikea d the best 
. This is th l i s | boiler, aided perhaps by orders ose who 
“A. R.” writes a Roa T might be allow a to|like to have things made by t o have 
a the matter Hike without noticing the insinuations | had t practice. What therefore I would suggest 
tained in his article of last wee But as the| would be t the hoarse Society should 
triumph of f truth is alone my object, I ‘will agra give notice that one two prizes would be given—I |p 
to clear away the dust-clouds in which his dashing | think one would be the see for it is difficult to se 
charge has envelo oped the matter. In the first pla ce he the questions for —_ waa me eth for the t 
ght in fai in my gir with plans for the bes of hea neating the 
spoke comparison I 
of g ipa in with 
beaten yet 3” wh n the catalogues they are spoken | 
of in comparison “with abel 700 varieties. Y This alone 
the co country, ` with Pin ie seers ouses. Here 
peste question immediately arises, and one not so 
I 
bea 
0 
explains the ‘apparent ites ge al so triumphantly 
paraded. 
t 
t 
thus, Madame Laffa: ay is small in compariso m with 12 «of 
the best, ag “of full ‘size in soie ison with Roses in 
general, ‘and so on with the rest. Does he not also see 
that La Reine may at once “magnificent” and 
certain,” Louis Buonaparte “glowing,” large, and 
ll,-but “of indifferent shape.” His inf e that 
“either the dealers’ catalogues intended to take in 
i ee their splendid descriptions, or else 
ly er- 
ing, as must tina do, in the taste e, and 
20001 
so | exhi 
easy to be answered : What are the descriptions, 
iffe 
arire number of the family ? _One with a fortune of = 
l. per 
now and then, when his magia, with mn o greater | me 
means, requires an almost meg pr ly of a produe:s 
t diffieul 
of glass, both fruit and flow lty is not 
impossibility, at least to so ni nd although I 
do doubt your practi ex ould soon 
suggest a useful solution of the question, in stor mean 
eluding 
chella, &e. A i ed to to Bonia pudibunda was 
resting from haying a female. Mr. Douglas 
ibited specimens of Gelechia a, the larvee 
of which feed upon Inula dysenterica in August, and it 
ggested that it might ibly prove to be the 
autumnal brood of G. inopella found y 
pro broods always | large 
Ss; the caterpillars o it 
more rapidly, and consequently taking less ‘food than 
the former ones. nerd beret of this difference 
were mentioned b embe: wer sent, namely 
Geometra illunaria A ida aliari a, G: il ria and delu- 
naria. Mr. Augustus Shepherd etre a new Bri 
Agrotis and a new Ypsipetes taken by Mr. aikoi 
e gaai ua = they are” ie is puerile i in the 
extreme, re appreh 
ake sweeping stants in matters with which they | 9 
m 
are oe acquaini men and ti 
aterhouse exhibited specimens of 
Aricerus Coffer, a native of India, Africa, and South 
o höns of each kind of a size suitable to a 
sto 
Sate better than they are from interested motives. 
Chis i f my experience. For years 
sell faster than we 
wW: 
I d flowers, pori me of 
Pine Apple or 
ould n pple or a bunch of 
Es on h every day in the year. ger best 
prrangernent yie pte houses, both with the view of 
catalogues for fragments in support of thei rabadeabely-a family, say one e-house, one mo "Nutme Mr. Douglas oned that it 
If they read poses Prejudice they will hot Tene “the Vinery, one Peach-house, one green-house, two Cueum- ‘oved injurious to a quanti ted Mace in the Sen 
12 omg by “ a R” as the best, at least t the | ber pits, two Melon elem two ane pits. My Docks. Mr. Lubbock made i 
c for this is, that these houses the proprietor, the various recorded iustances of fertile eggs deposited 
make hee appear so. “To show ith a skilful gardener, ‘might g gratify his ease taste— | by n by the 
knowledge “A. R.” possesses of the case T has in | he may grow Pines or. cass rehidaceous plants or not, | male. Various arenes instances were mentioned by 
other members present. Mr. Westwood called attention 
to the excellent series art memoirs ne M. Lederer on 
Lepidop tera of Syria, ars e &e. 5 
exercise the eond of | îr 
past we have found the ee 
could propagate them, if backed by c 
nthe Vienn 
mendation, ites is all I part rties who oie in owas columns as | on exotic ripam 7 M. peices in ones Tan z 
ao table. I do aot wish Aerar e the int te ioe builders. One whose means limited, Transactio ions. Mr, Edward Shepherd Eat be 
Rose-growers’ ca need nothin tl t least for had rece visited Laco rdaire, the four th v 
Sort at my hands. ‘The veal may not re three, or even more, instead of one of each ‘kind, The | of wh tly h olme 
rg p e plates of the e gene ra, executed by M. 
are “intended h } d” g pon this, the, person who carried off the prize would Jules Mignon Mr. Armitage exhibited en ing 
and unj w however that tl y attack ł and Mou on i 
More value to them than “ A. R.? ae I and Mr. Stainton read some notes 0 i ega eric dis- 
One or two facts in connection with o re than | him ; and in such “employment the pene l com- ti 
oe editions have been artes amounting t to nearly petitor would reap his “ase rited reward. An Old ‘Sub, eA Serene OTe 
000 copies, and the cir is i ry Awe : 
em i ald have ben. ore alo se i Me. Ra about aatas up Ri oa fea ae a i _ Patice 3 of Books, 
ceased anonymously before cas Tropæolum tuberosu ‘This tuberous rooted orna 
a on hasiak ti por peciable body of = mental climbing plant = a mer et: of tubers ator, an By Viner KeS ae ate 
labour hard ox ¢ rhe i gessifitations of others w which of nice flavout very m Poor __ square | sli PP- 478. Tga b brarie ar 
Very moderate profit on epee ers he think peaty soil suits this piai ane and, ie Piet be be 1 fv ilmorin an d Co. 
Proper to pursue this c stand substan- | advantageously grown on this description of land b y 
