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_13—1850.] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 199 
himself f under the initials “R. T.” ss of basin or has ing a somewhat angular aspect. Podophyllum pel- garden, cut off from the lawn by an evergreen hedge, 
hitherto 2 1 a taken soia o ey Tas Apple or Mandrake. The root is and containing flower-beds in ene nice oint- 
were we to notice the whole of them we should fill the whole of an effec purgative, acting very like jalap, and nt. ge ` kag, K / of rock-work, and termi- 
your Paper. We will, however, endeavo = —— some of | app the same class of cases in which that drug is | nating in the end farthest from the house ina 1 of 
. ielea * ine . toa correspondent, | what cn but the fruit. which dä — — called eee The latter, being oiy, aa and t Taring a highly 
said: The seeds having been obtained from highly respect- Wi Ns ith : M b Ae , ri i „ ? g | 
able authorities, the synonymes were admitted. would 1 s eaten with impunity.— Mr. rea architeetural cuous 
ask what man of common sense who knows a Pea- hen he flowing list _ plants as they appeared in flower in stiiking object, In this house 4.2 e 
he sees it, could for a moment s t the dwarf blue Im rders the yal Botanie Garden n, Edin- | beautiful Orange trees cov ndsome fruit in 
pe- 
rial and the blue Sabre or Scimitar, or more properly Cimeter, 
zoer are aa daaim a as the —— and 
“R.T 
No. ere 
(that 10, K Peas hav ving only 2 and cons eque 
nly one pod on each side of the Pewee of — 1 double 
blossomed (that is, Peas having t los N Je zes 
i — o Trams, — t th 
many of the others, — as kes 
ne Early, Early Nicholas, Perkin’s „Frame e, e all but obso- 
— 
by some of our correspondents, bat epa are now — — 
third or fourth-rate Peas Pri Albert, a variety of 
the preceding, ripening about 10 days earlier, 
is very similar to this 1 28 is also Warner’s E 
ing a ig from the Early Kent, and being two or 
hree day rlier, but bearing no resemblance to the Em- 
peror beyond Fon fact — they are both N Peas. The 
Emperor is double blossomed, as early as Prince 3 
ds; s are w 
any o 
obsolete. 5. Early Hero, not known to us, but if it is as late a 
3 it 5 can ane no — to the prefix of early. 
No.1 — 8. In mber several blu 1 
this also . 
“R, T.” — 5 the old Spanish Dwarf, or Dwarf Fan, 
arf, two distinct — — latter 
lm han th 
n the oth er. He 
nning of thi n this h e has 
sh 5 of | i of the Pt ‘language, for ho has 
evidently mistaken perpe for or bragi — the mode 
by which vg A aks only nslate Mr. Bishop’s If our 
conjecture we 7 5 o not fe cue Bishop's Dwarf can be 
interior to. Nain bat Togos which are identical. U. T 
White Prussian, with its 
he 
white seed, the former green, also 
ape. Were we not afraid of trespassing too much 
upon your space, we could give you the origin of many of the 
ach 
tions on E 
— n bo 
burgh ts 15th —— till 14th March, 1850. 
5. Hepatica triloba, * 1. Primula nivalis 
varieties. 2. Doronicum cauca- 
» 16, Crocus Sasi 8 sicum 
(Cloth of Gold). „ 99 Tussilago nivea 
„ „„ Corylus sev „ 4. Narcissus pumila 
„ 18. Leucoium vernu „ 5. Anemone pulsatilla 
| Symplocarpus — „ 7. Asarum europeum 
uae wt Be ee verna 
at ai Via ales „ 9. Iberis sempervirens 
% 20. —. t — „ kA —— hirsuta 
toris „ 3 Dens- 
21, Arabis al 
„ „ Bellis perennis „ „ Scilla bifolia alba 
„ »„ Lamium —— „ „ Do. crulea (13th 
„ 22. Daphne Mez March h) 
iiai Kaappia agrostidoa „ „ Pulmonaria mollis 
» 23. Primul a „% „ Vinca —2 
% „% Mines m > az: Tussi o alba 
25 2 Potasites vulgaris 1 
„ 25. Daphne Law flor 
„ „ Dondia — 55 ——m physa- 
Rag — Fragari- ides 
astrum „ „ Cheiranthus Cheiri 
„ 26. Crocus sulphureus, „ 14. Draba aizoides 
and other garden „ „ Aponogeton dista- 
vars, chyon (in open- 
„ 27. Tussilago Farfara air po 
„5 28. 3 cordi- 3 * cauca- 
a sicu 
March 1, * Sco- „ „ Ribes s — 
Mr. ai stated, * 2 had mage similar observa- 
of plants in the Experimental 
Garden a —— site uation Sisyrinchiam ame 
florum and Primula denticulata were in flower 
a ry. Bellis perennis flowered on 25th 2 
and the Apricot on lst March.—Five new Fellows were 
elected. 
ws. 
— to Inventors of Improvements in the Useful | 
Arts. By T. Turner, London: Elsworth. 12mo, 
synonymes, a aud th he reas OBS w why they are retained = A lists 
of many o eck, Hen- 
derson, and 00. .» Middle Whanp Adelphi. 
Sorieties. 
ted that the plant 
bro He sta 
thrives N in a thas part of 3 Reser te any Bee | 
seen hig is viten. ee also mentioned that in ma 
places on the Mul Coase Maen Hydran 
Fuchsias, and other delicate "plas bart —.— oun zens, 
without prote plants from Sim 
were exhibited from Lieu clagan, Bengal En. 
gineers. 
Altitude 704 
4 
1 e 
imum, Rain in i 
83°5, June 8, mn EOS 
82. May 31. 
> .8, June 19. 
78.2 * 
24. 5. —— i3 and 15. 
29.3, „Feb. 17. 
9.29. 
Dr. Balfour — bee of fog umbraculifera, | 2 
Bota 
a Palm now in fruit in the e Garden, a nd of 
Pheonix E pea . Palm whieh i is flowering at 
the sa ee a Maclagan made t 
k of its priv vileges 
R. Mac ea. 
Stale Shey 31° 6 N.; long. 77° 13’ 22” E. is a di 
he | employ an and a arrang 
ma- exhibit their novel an 
tells us, “ 1st, to sugges eulti- 
ports of bests fields ot e — — uot ee 
ma f new tracts of its territor, 
ibit the 2 s 1 egal positio 
es and conditions, lea 
minutiæ to be dealt with when the pt: cial ee 
— 2 The author has re omy divi his book 
din 25 ea this kirg cee of 
ari: some useful in 
7 5 od with Dae by those 
who, in the words uf the au author, ar ce denoted 
and reproached by the word projec 
Oceanus ; or a tonal Progress oer the . 
Mrs. D. Osborn e. Longmans, sq 
es are introduced, tile —— 
pres woodcuts. 
Bp He ne J. W. Howell. 
ackso 
wine is re show the rela- 
een the different ines of 
The Unity of Siint 
o, pp. 
of many larger works of a similar nature ; bu 
e the nt imerous fa ets vima “which 
u 
CrS0US W ho 
with the si 3 are already — d 3 
rhaps unexpected ` relati 
what ‘ictal to that by which we form 
perf 
‘riosteum 
of this is eatharti 
to Geology, 
ALAS i5 Catnar 
yed in 
America u name of a Phytolacca 
` decandra, Willd. — The and berries 
meto- somewhat 
in America in chroni ma 
many of its actions it appears to e Mezereon. 
oath 
Eupatorium perfoliatum, A wort The 
leaves are esteemed tonic and and ha 
bles | 
JOG that of Arum maculatum, being 
is of a rounded form, but e cn 
3 
Geology, Opties to Geology, Botany to 
Animal Physiology, Physiology to PAA Religion, | set 
and Life to Organisation, 
The “unity of Nature“ is 1 out et the author 
in an easy and familiar style, and the work is worthy of 
bein ing perused by those 
various — — upon and around it, was 
Garden Memoran 
the soap tel 
varied an 
‘water, and the rising ground on the pisses! ye of the | 
valley. t has a neat 
bulbs, —.—.— 
mediately in front of it 
es of growth. Som the wing 
painted — m a having comes 
n slate yard 
— round the top, which greatly improve 
ance. This ran ge of houses stands about half w way o down 
hill, ! 
described "a “the Bye side of the latter 
y one a late house, in 
i erns ; e tr the 
l gr * 
second an early house, filled with Muscats, which were 
pp. 101. 
Tue aim of the ar “a — — — 3 1 is, he be 
piip lime Trees . 5 
who think the * with the 
y chance. | 
untain and gay with spike 
y flowering plants, — undue 
breaking strongly, and showing well for good 
p of fruit. A tan bed in the centr this 
house offers convenience for striking cuttings in, and 
or starting e of the s plants, 
mandas, and things of that kind, into early growth. 
In front of these eries is of for 
wintering soft-wooded plants in, The glass 
is covered ere er with asphalte shutters, 
which are d to make cleaner and more effective 
protecting materia y 2. small piece of fruit 
arden along the side carries us out to 
the lawn, which is . with a neat fountain, and 
bs and ornamental trees. 
rs ago. 
th of this 3 pry Cedar. 
se 0 
ells near the top of the hill, decora 
ments < ancient building, and p 
of ish Ferns, whose culture 
k U 
ore 
find a good deseription of this garden at p. “7 of the 
present year’s volume, 
ellaneou 
Time of Ples a 41 hiie Plants, at Gratz, 
during the Last Five Yea 
K: 
1845. | 1846. | 1847. | 1848. 1840. 
—*r* 
— * 
April 20 Mareh 26 April 15 April 2 April 
pr 
M 12 
Dr. Mare 
a modera averaging little more 
— 1 in ou a generally useful than very 
3 agra -r facility with which they may be 
dishes, i ; 
diffuse — — of Mig: large 
the loss in the we ighi of 
ng the a aa the wail 
me — ot | the border 
an 
