8—1850.] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 115 
[BECKS PELARGONIUMS, anp ormer RAISERS | Cuawwan, of Bletehingly, produced the specimen on | Cactuses, and other prodigies which grace the Exhi- 
as are T which these remarks are founded. The plant in| bition tents of the Horticultural Society in .the 
rne Selection advertised at t Two Gu me n E. Becx’s Cata. | question was about 12 feet in circumference, | months of May and June. Moreover, the principle 
Togue (t (to'be had in ad in exchange for one postage stamp) a good | reckoning from the ends of the flower racemes, | upon which Mr. Cuawner’s gardener proceeded is 
assortm: mains. The varieties intended - for sending out of which it had 35, each averaging about 75 r * some reed ee to almost eve 
next —— in the two guinea se a are now propagating, a 7 T 
and will be ready in September, enabling purehaedes to grow | flowers, of the most delicate cream colour, veined | plant that is known o the Orchids from 
them on, and to make good Wil be distinot and good pe * 4 jolet. Therefore, about ae of these. ape the highlands of foe — Guate mala it is indis- 
— — Lalewerch Feb. 2 expanded o eady to expand at the same tim nsable ; it is applicable to those of Brazil, Con- 
It is is eae tonsils 4 40 justice by bat to the appear- 3 India ia, and China; it is applicable alike to 
R 21 14 eS we PUBLISHED, a mia of such a specimen, nor easy even to greenhouse plants and stove plants, to forced fruits, 
— on application, GRATIS (for one pen magine — ee of a s beauty. k sci je. ‘said pant those which naturally inhabit climates which 
er contains a descr ptive list of — “the ero "Fidà ras be a fountain of flow ender “ forcing,” strictly so called, the only method 
urns, with the lo — market also a full“ The — of so ioe successes and so many of cultivation that is applicable in a country like 
descriptive price current — all the beet — of Cannors, | failures is instructive, and briefly told. ngland. 
Maneotp WURZEL, CLOVER, So., eee as all the| Many Dendrobes a 5 hottest and dampest 5 aaa e of this is, that all plants, likeall animals, 
best varieties of Permanent P sture ‘Gras parts of Asia, wher son of rest is short, | require a season of rest. They cannot remain healthy 
and temperature while” heya are i if their vita pia A continually excited. They 
t; the 
pras Imperial Purple.top Swede Turnip Cat og lb. Os. 8d. g EN 
Pen as . per qt. cessive. Hen e find the warmest part of the grow by day and rest at night; they are exuberant 
skirvin 4 —— Liverpool Swede ditto, ani 5 — — ac stove their habitation, and moss perpetually moist | in summer, and in —— a — are torpid. To quote 
oc f -top $ Scotch ditto ditto, pe r Ib., Sd. per qt. their favourite soil. The object of the cultivator is the words of the “ Theory of soa culture 
White and Green Globe r Ib., (d. Per gt. 0 10 to imitate ber jungles a the Malay Archipelago,| If we look over the differe ee z of the 
* e lb. 19 Where ther not more than two or three degrees world, we shall find that in Rat ee are a season 
True Italian Rye-gr sare fi per bush, 7 of — in sae ner mean — ure of the | 0 and a season in which n is more 
e * n year. At Singapore, for e pe it appears that the or less suspended; and that these periodically 
With er very other ‘kina of Agricultural Seeds at the lowest eee rig ora po al near ie 0° = x igm round, alternate, with the 5 25 1 A as our summ 
market prices. (See Catalogue.) there not being a 0 n 39° be- and win nter. do not know that there is in nature 
PERMANENT PASTURE 1 dels of light tween the means of the ne and , ana months: any exception to this rule: for even in the Tierra 
lada of Mexi e 
at 30s 
seed and 12 Ibs. of heavy Dritto pacers, and at Buitenzorg, the Botanic Garden of Java, the | templada of Mexico, wher 
di t o exceed 23°. But 
— 1 , ene 2 . family of Dendrobes is a very large mprising the genial climate of spring, which 
Marrow, Auvergne, Bedman’s Imperial, Fairbeard’s Champion 1 of most dissimilar habits ak e nes than 8° 5 9°, intense heat and excessive cold 
of re some Alpine species appearing upon the branches of eing alike unknown, and the mean temperature 
One quar tof each for Gs.~6d., or two quarts of each Oaks and tree Rhododendrons in the Himalayas, | varying from 68° to 70°, we et suppose that, 
Py BEST FIVE BE ANS.—Early Mazagan, Long-pod, Green and others fuhabiting the arid forests of New South | even in that favoured region ason of repose is 
g-pod, Windsor and Green Windsor. ales. It is, — evident that the prey ee: for it is difficult Wes conceive how plants 
me quart of sach for 2s. 6d., or two quarts of each tion suited for es from Singapore, would can „ any more than animals, in a state of 
or 4s. 3 — those from Australia and No — N excitement. Indeed, it is pretty evident 
SEEDS recommended by the writer ofthe Calendar (See Gar- in ia. to this 5 is what has that these countries have a period when vegetation 
deners Chronidle, Peb. J, page 6), obtained aT THE produce J the: failure of so many, a pk success of 2 3 Fe lapa polonga to the Tierra abit 
e me o few in the management of the hows ndrobe. and we know that the Ipomea purga, ae in emia 
ry Danto TENGE DATTERSEA ATANT Strong roots, hat Plan ant is wild in New Holland, where it is of its woods, dies down i own 
— —— — met i a , | Said to 15 aa as far south as Port Jackson, and Ber Convolvuli. But, although all plants ma — 
nat — 7... E E ic. We have it from Port Bowen a season of repose, their winter is not in all cases 
an vag lg 21. will be delivered free of i ote in latitude — 50 8. The 8 of this cold. In the tropics it is marked by coolness and 
the Great Western, Bristol a ee a is long dryness, moderate mean | dryness, while the summer is rainy and ve 1 5 
Gloucester ‘Bristol veh Exe vale or ae denen Rail- temperat nd excessive — between the and in extra-tropical countries the two seasons v: 
ways; or to any town in Devon and Cornwall ; or to ere te — riods. pex appears from Sir — in their character, according to latitude and local 
Cork, Dublim, or Liverpool, Pyn Steamers ITCHELL’s observations, as quoted in the Journal | circumstances.” 
paara and Stem o all parts of Great of the Horticultural Soc er that in latitude 29° S., This is one of e cardinal points in gardening 
For Catalogues and further particulars apply to which may be taken as a middle point for the range | well underst 1 by our great cultivators, 
WILLIAM E. RENDLE & CO., Union- road, Plymouth. of this species, in the summer there is a difference | but still anthonght of by om whom better 
ESTABLISHED 1786. of 41° between the day and night, and the lowness | things ht be Wa n r. Fox Cuawner’s 
H LANE ann SON have great pleasure in recom- | of the night temperature throughout the year must Wee will, we trust, remind them that by at- 
14, mending the — en | SEEDS, which may be had by | greatly depress the average of diurnal temperature. | tending to it ratio nally a country parsonage may be 
— „ 1 e — . — “Melons Where — great explorer found an epiphytal Orchid | made to St Sa specimens of excellence such as we 
having been so — ara . uire no commen in flower (Cymbidium 3 culatum), the night seek in vain in some imperial gardens. 
CELERY —Seymour’s White Champion ... 8 a per packet temperature was as low as 33°, and that of the day 
ͤ— 0 6 s not m an 86°. It is * evident that the Ir is not a litle curious that, gardeners as we are 
* 
# 1 —— 1 8 = A ee Il 
2 e of plants, plac y Nature in such a the true mo maki = fies WALK ld 
atEioNs—Pietting’s oF TE Hybrid 1 9 í — a a be rene different from that of still 557 88 of dispute. € One PEET, 1 thought 
Ispahan ” ies from the jungles of India. that so 1 and o hich per- 
Great — — — The following memorandum, by the Rev. Mr. — pth co gray depend n He 
T'S LINNEUS RHUBARB. Cuawner’s gardener, brief as i it is, explains distinctly disposed of conelusively long ag 
Mie ee 
MYATT 8 — SONS can confidently recommend | the history 2 this noble specimen : Opinions may be said to jot dinadama ain 
ei — ertion is th — — aaen “The plant has been grown in an . rt . ; Ta No. 1 che ok ph 
Gardeners rannd London anf Mancheater have planted the,| house, — 9 5 from 45° to 55°, for the last three or | vated to the depth of 9 inches or more, and then is 
Linnzus Rhubarb more extensively than any other variety. | fou r years; uring the summer e house is kept filled up ith a layer of rough materials at the 
—— — pr Beet —.—.— santier from 65 to 75. Last May the piant was — bottom, covered with finer grav convexity 
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than the Victoria ; added — this, held i vel, the 
for preserving an — all culinary — bantar planted _ te and exposed to the su y little being below or 3 up to the ire of the adjang 
roots, 18. 6d. ; ditto, Mitchell’s Royal Albert, 1s. 6d. ;' Victo ales 9 in . — 
n MUON 
The usual Tr ‘ade allowance.—Post- eo ers are — 
AD DY ey $ 
n September put 
quested tobe marie-payable'to Josspu Myatt, Manor Farm, medir odaie Bouse, and has since that oe — plenty 
Deptfurd.— Feb. 2 
z 5 le othi — 
g hie arene Int are most favourable to The health of this and all 
6 A rS Chr ble. plants. During the s t, the Dendrobe we: 
such season of rest, 
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1850. is stowed away in an unheated pit, where its surface | sides. In No. 2 the hollow 2 os is made to 
———— — is acted upon freely by air, and such 3 downwards from the si pg „ wt 
. SE et rds; at th it ittle Po ee ashe 
— er e 1 1 water. In the month of 3 the beginning me ee convexity still — below ‘or a mp to the 
Tuxspar, — 25. Feed 8 — 8 of its own natural spring, it is introduced to à better — Ñ 
WEDNESDAY, — 91 — ne z melas where applied s eat is 7 diy 30° sere water we AN 
HURSDAY, — Antiqua 1 — ses ÖT ra. : ee re e as it fully renews its yi SSA 
T ; 28 saps ti H Bod in abondange: 2 
Faroar, March 11 Boian iar 1 aers rm is 3 the latent Vigour rae on during its Fig. 2 
SATURDAY, 2 Wenn as di aot forme durin: uring a lof dryness and level of the adjoining sides. In No. 3 the walk i 18 
the 
r the last meeting of the Horticultural Society a „ is rapidly Savors into new parts; made upon surface of the ground, the edges only 
plant was proi ed which illustrates in so striking | blossoms appear in profusion, and, by the month of being a little excavated, and the convexity is com- 
er the true meaning of nien CULTIVATION in Samay, they gush forth in one vast floral stream. pletely above the adjoining sides. 
ee. as to 3 from us peel notice. In May the new growth is accomplished ; Made 
The plant in question was the well ; are fully ised an with the rich | 
Dendrobe speciosum),an Orchid whose | ich i nür 8 
low price enables most growers to possess it, and 5 as’ digestion in tae ‘ie Aa O aed HY > Fig. 3. gee 
all efforts at making it blossom ; ‘the few have suc- i Man these: 3 the surface is hardener 
ed, the many have fai so good Pin ding gravel. vey 
latter are to ed Ta Nos. and 2 the rain which falls o1 
“inthe world. And etained b 
is #3 |—especially in 
8 have een cou wed 
ergymen ; the J. B. Hoxrxxv was am 
ie Ma oS falls on the walk is 
first to e ceil, it, and the ‘Rev. C. Fox | th 
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