ATS OL a eee ee ee 
12—1850. | 
Linnean, March 1 
odd, "a was elected a fellow. 
9.—The President in the chair. 
A list of works 
ts by the gentleman sent out from 
s collector, in the expedition i in 
— of Sir Joh a Franklin, in n H. M. S. Herald. 
ces were few unimportant, and me intended for 
publication i in the Society’ 8 Transactio 
notices of some plan 
the Kew Gardens a 
HORTICULTURAL, March 7.—Sir J 
in the chair. The display of orn 
and other spring flowers was extensive and varie 
i d. aren kna. 
CALEDONIAN 
USSE 
e 
rieties of Camellia, lst prize to Mr. 
F. Mackenzie, ®sq., M.P., 
White Saccoi, Fimbriata, Imbricata, a 
derson, gr. 
John's- w. 22 "Oe 
rod f eee in potay si six singi aii six double : 
THE GARDENERS’ 
M‘Lean, gr. to 
for — — Double | a 
nd 
n 
. | piece of water. 
CHRONICLE. 
Vineries, atte against a wall and facing south ; and 
ata right an ith th at their lower end, stands the | 
Orchid commas span u-roofed structure, the top of which 
meets the continuation of the — 
rafter in th 
we have 
pits —— n, and o t 
of the Orchid- — ‘facilities for carrying out the 
natural style — — which would not have — 
tained under ngement ; and i it is thi 
i the visitor as being 
the rest is merely a common, neatly- 
which is pra 4 feet 
chid House at the o 
wc one suddenly finds onesel t 
e the floor of the Or 
> 
stone steps, looking over — arau tas, Ore 
ee all eee in Nature's * e eee among 
large masses of rock, whose 8 
—— in E aat of the water, 
re — — — alt 
most re- am 
the only object of the — 
Another and still more 
SPE 
5 
aL 
se prey true of “east 
&e. ; _ say they, fans 
See w 
t they possess ! look: at their lungs pon 
stomach, in the fo orm of leaves, to carry on 
es. During the first year 
stock having been in vigorous arrier when headed dein, 
the bud is — out — fA and in eee many ef 
the a I have named will bloom pro — 
But vin ‘this ple tr It wil 
and ape er te we a ular beams of the roof, which 
meet in the already noticed, are two 
oaken pillars, 9 “eet "o Sapes with moss, trom 
ong which issue pendulous Dendrobes, Ferns (as 
Polypodium aureum, — water ake ‘and Aisehy- 
ueing 
rustic | i 
ties amply confirms he 
talked about are cut off wit th ‘the heading back of the 
as, gr. r J. Dick Lauder, with Prince | nanths, pr a charm , while overhead | stock ; the plant, with its thin, small, delicate leaves, 
poo Vali Lord Welington, Duke of Wellington, ha eas, sc u tanhopeas in has now to digest and assimila food 
Grande , La deur, Perruque, Anna Maria, | baskets, and other Orchids, altogether ing an forced into them by such a mass of coa nd abun- 
Triumph, ‘Bian i ros Herzogen, and Grand Lillas. blage of magnifi vegetation very gracefully | dant feeders ; the leaves are gorge h an extent 
For the heaviest six stalks of forced Rhubarb : Ist to Mr. disposed, and affording a goo mple of the kind impede their healthy action; respiration and 
Henderson, Cargil = , for Victoria, all from one plant, arrangement contended for in the leading articles at digestion go on slowly; and this continues to ine 
and weighing upwards of 9 Ib to Mr. dall, gr. pp. 147 and 164 am reaches fro dge until all the functions of the plant are totally sus- 
to 8 ia quis 42 Lothian, for five stalks of the same | of the water to the top of the house; and — — su mded, and death puts an e i istenee. 
or best three stalke of Celery, with an [rounding rocks we observed Tillandsias have frequently heard complaints made respecting 
ee — of culture : Ist to Mr. Sinclair, gr. | Maranta zebrina etenas, Begonia hyve loss of valuable Tea and other Ros ich have been 
Tillichowan e with Cole's Superb Red; 2d, to Polypodium effusum, Adiantum formosum, gold and purchased, it m , at considerabl pense; 
Mr. Henderson, for Cole’s Dwarf. Of productions for | other Ferns, among whic bend specimen, surprise has been expressed at their early death; but 
1 aie Messrs. Dicksons and Co. sent two|9 feet across, of the Crow’s-nest Fern (Asplenium | if aps would only examine the st on whie 
arge hampers of Hyacinths in pots. Messrs. "Dickson Nidus), w fronds were 5 feet long and 8 inche ants worked, the fact of their living so long 
and Sons, also exhibited a collection of Hyac wide tree Fern, 8 feet across, filled one corne d be more a matter b wondered at. The Dog 
beautifi 2 Begonia icata, Diely tra spociatilis and and against the wall, above the rockwork, P olypodium Rose ( a K the kind of kad k which is so ex- 
ants. Carstairs p orce phymatodes, 8 feet high and 7 feet across, was growing ing 8 nurseries of this 
yatt’s Victoria ubarb 
ki 
more than 7 Aste long. r. 
length by 2 feet in breadth, and completely covered 
a basket of s spagaat ing her- 
plants, in ainding Helleborus purpurascens, 
——— — — ndi chi pas phon m, &e. 
silver m as voted for the Saxif. Mr. Methven, 
Stanwell-lodge sent e e Camellias, Heaths, and 
Epaerises. here were beautiful plants of Milla 
uniflora and Dondia Epipactis — the garden of Dr. 
of I. 
„ his a 
ds a cia: n flowers 
5 5 
38 
and also a finely flow 3 
9.5 T. Olive 
id 
AL Sours Lonpon 
Arnal 1 Meeting of this — was hel at 
the Horns on the 7th 
heated 
Neill, res a beautiful gore yn es from the garden 
8 t a mone few other s 
. Mackenzie, | we 
passage 
„a- | the latter into two 
ia | Among the pla 
co! 
FLORICULTURAL. — The 14th i 
in great lux uriance, in company wit — scan- 
wall Fern, some of t 
um 
are beautiful objects, on damp, rather 
walls, to — t 
assistan nce, a 
any 
ly that t they: vil cover 
arge atte a Anybod 
e who has a stove ma 
they are 8 are 3 — subject to 
scale, as some Fer he water, w 
2 of A m form "ge sh 
sie opposite the en 
sie 
a vered 
ne 
extreme | ornate 
the house is 40 feet, and it measures 24 feet Siik, 
A 
on which 
are staged; the latter are placed on — pebbles, | t 
which keep t — Sap tes ttoms S the pots _ clean. 
rved a 
long: tailed Ladies? Bigot e "caudatum 
and killing them 8 they sally forth at night in quest 
of foo r. Williams finds that they may be kept in 
n | complete väbjéotion ; and the beautiful specimens of 
pl where 5 til 
t. Ad 
house; and even here, w 
com 
he annual sub- 
scription of the late Queen — they ait 5 
the subseriptions of 213 members, of whom ha 
joined — since the last =. — and 
that the — up es given e Society during the 
1 
by th 
ted to 3230. 78. 6d. sgn the a mete mps be re 
tha of the hou 
covered with 1 ‘linkers fg set in en. no more annoy- 
uld be experienced | 
an ordinary house, 
Before leaving ue come nent is one of the 
ised Bie oid of th e have any 
mus to Peron that the fi e of rock | 
employed a have all the appearance of stone, 
ality not stone at all, but of 
spoiled bricks coda d from the sae and coated over 
h Rom ent. These are found to be just as 
sot sits ‘rom epee. n short time, it is 
ossible ish It should also 
— ble 
almost imposs 
mar 
part 
ed over 1 white: lead, to give 
ns 3 ek the 4 aig ive. 
ill en 
Garden Memoranda. 
C. B. Wannenr’s, Esq., Hoppsspon, Herts,— 
xt week to find room for some | 
ouses, and of the open grounds. 
Miscellaneous. 
Rose Sits —My a on the present occasion 
the different kinds 
We is to draw atte: | 
to our e last week at upon whioh f 3 worked in 
Domh, to give some account of the Orchi | nur —a point o ttle importance — 
The glass houses the face of a hill sider that upon the stock much of the future well-being 
looks to the west. The range we are now more of the plant depends. “ Theory of Horticulture |502 
to of two long we is by no 
a dwarfs, All things 8 it 
ith 
y 
em, and v 
runs round it, and up the centre, “dividing 
beds, the plants in p i 
de the 
‘the 
r Roses in the 
—— exclusively zan or standards 
I hale ee, and to imited extent for 
3 eatly superior to 
the exception of a . which 
well 
e hereafter 3 * classes will gro 
as wellas a 
the others, will, Sts 2o succeed upon this 
stock ; ye they are soaroely 9 — entioning. 
claims ext 
head of — cultivated — (not, of 
e`above), and is Nr wey superior to 8 
i ood properties 9 in its free, 
— 
= 
free growing k do on it, and exist for a 
considerable time, bat 2 ey — do better on the 
Manettii, Many delicate Teas and Chinas, which will 
wo 
The e 
Bourbons, Noisettes, Teas, Ko., it is — inferior 
to ee en should never be used w the latter 
ew 
t of 8 Peaches onv 
Tei e Bro — Plum stock, a very free 
variety, on which the Peach grew 
