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Ginerarias : Ist, Mr. — arnap 1 Cem Cerito, f of the sun’s rays. In this way they are obtained much portion of water. 
Delight, — le Mi ey > . 
Auriculas (Gree een : 
for Standard of England, s Alexander ; 
Selk edged, Ist, Mr. Edward Corrigan, for H ; d 
Squire 0 f varie 
: Double st, Mr. E i 
Charl for Blocksberg, Laurence Koster, an 
Bride of Lammermoor ; doub ble red—Ist, Mr. Brady, 
for 3 de la Costa, Honeur de 2 
Lord Wellington; double white— lst, — Brady, fo for 
Pri Van Wa 3 Staut's Gene 
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] 
Prince nc Alert, — an “a Weimar, and Charles 
-ed 
8 Ringlender and M 
ed 
. Mr. Lari for Favourite form; self-edged 
IR, Mr. Livingston, for Apollo and Lady Miltown 
four 1 Mr gstone, for Napoleon of the 
Sarah of the Alps, John of the Alps, and the 
Alpine Shepherdess. há us plants were sent in not 
for competition, and other prizes were ee 
we have not Jan d avoured ag th of the 
subjects for which es were give 
Garden Memoranda. 
Tre F — ganar so long and 
a winter as that from which we ust es- 
aa it may be sati ry to know that no ill effects, 
beyon check, have been experienced from 
the f in these gardens, and what is true of t 
may be considered to be true 2 all Bs arket-garde 
extensiv occupied by 
round London. The 
excellent vegetables, which are ‘everywhere observable, 
or: 
be apprehended. The 
fruit trees are in full blossom, and 
there 
solatory, except to the market gardener, who complains 
that “ the market is ae ‘ glutted ; that he cannot 
get rid of his produce, except at greatly reduced p. 5 
nd that if things do not mend he will have to employ 
instead of hand labour, the effect of whi b 
an i f tillage.” t us hope, however, 
for better in we will e 
is a fine looking Cabbage. of 
the market sad the light 
prira 
wintered safely under hand 
number of which to be seen in use in these 
Wi 
are employed in — ridge 
rs, &e. 
oumbers, e kinds only are planted—the Early 
Cape, for autumn, and the — ſor spring use 
plantations of 
almost lead one to suppose 
be be the tet of the Longe 
e 
„where they have 
ed | abundant crops. 
; 
hese | branches 
s 
earlier than they otherwise would be. 
Turnips 1 — Large breadths are just coming | were pl 
und. ca 
through 
Carrots (Early Horn) in open beds look brown from 
cold drying winds ; but between re. Potato beds, 
received some s helter, they are green 
and healthy, 
Potatoes in frames are now beg at for market, 
and are as yet free from disease. Others ted in 
It was commenced in E 
the subjects chosen were two small Ys 123 
e free passage of the 
This receiver 7 about half filled with 5 spring 
at the bottom with Taga and m 
of 
; ground come in. Some the 
— 
—Som: 
tter are appearing 
eans.— of these have been p 
Kidne 
but it is k 5 feare 
y the 
se — kinds of i of fruit trees are in full 
afe from frost. fede on 
walls have set their Fruit well, and are being thinned 
out for tarts and bottling. Bush fruit promises 
Miscellaneous. 
atum.—A very striking, 
rom ee pore seme a of Matloc 
were 
a these arranged so that the fish could get 
below the m, if ny wished so todo. At th time 
th ode fish w d in this miniature pond—if I 
y small plant of the Vallisneria 
fet 2 , its roots being inserted in 
he mud and sand, and covered by one of the 
stones, so as to retain the plant in its positi The 
allisneria spiralis is of those delicate aq p 
e a 
f the sap in 
ce of long wiry strap-like eae, of shee 
a inch in brni and from 1 foot to 3 fee ength : 
the en the sun shines on ** evolve a 
= ntinued stream of ox which rises in a 
urrent of minute 3 partealarly from any part 
of the leaf which may received an injury. The 
materials being thus arranged, all appeared on 
.| well for a short time, unti 
ci 
which indicated that another and ver 
On serra: orchidaceous, 
half-twining epiphy from Peru. Flowers, large, 
brownish-olive, and brilliant yellow, produced with 
Pescat Till we received a flower of this 
curious s M. P it nly known 
to us from a rude copy of an old S drawing, 
sent from by the late Mr. Ma s, and pre- 
ed in Sir Hooker’s He The p | 
oblong, smooth, terete, pseudo- ha 
two broad sword-shaped leaves at the point, and several 
others below the pseudo-bulbs. The At r-stem 
9 feet —— partly twining, with fi 
each carrying 
from four * six flowers near 
a 
from havi 
r 
rey useful little scavenger, whose beneficial fancti tions 
een too 
life—I big the water-snail, he! eg natural food is 
very green slimy growth, or mu us, and decaying vege- 
table matter, N aprem ed rs de N oe object 
which was wished to be ined. Five these 
ê wh 
healthy state ; thus perfecting t e balance between the 
animal and vegetable ö — and * both to 
jo * vital pig cameo with health and 
ne time a n 40 b 
were counted lyin “ths surface of the water. 
have been lively, ‘right in n colour, and appear very 
healthy and the sna ng from the enor- 
g 
have deposited ll of the receiver, as 
on the ments of stone—appear to t 
fully, besides their 8 in sustai 
perfe justment of the 
t es, afford 
fish in “the form F the young 
oured as as they exhibit 
otion, ae before their 
Thus we have that ad- 
e animal 
and 
8 element The 
held in 
but it need hardly be stated that this is the worst of all 
the 
tain the healthy fune- 
slight protection over the leading 
on the 3 of the 5 rte a 
Vegetable Kingdoms, by which unetions of 
on ae rejected matter, which has fulfil 
in the nt of the fish an 
ns of the animal life, 3 at the same time that it feeds 
has its purposes 
ison into a 
viewing crops, most of in the 
but not yet vegetated, the 
rows is now bein with swan-neck oes, 
not — wth of GR: + none, but to 
promote the 0 which now abo 
— et natural — re transplanted 
in February, generally lock well, though 
some show the ill effects of the cold terly | al 
aay — y) in —— es 
h (the y is. a grea 
crop ; but in a few places it has failed, probably from 
rotting off early in autumn, a circumstance which has 
— s years been more than usuall 
Rhubarb is plentiful and fine The colour- 
— — iy ster round th pats, 
“Eeyore 
at the foot Ge open oan, ter on sloping horde. 
ghansk.3 3°. * al. J 1 
bas Wil oat of eof a experiment gere 
y nearly 
121. 
Yeats out of 5 feet beds, | 
sloping borders 
to the 
existence, The experiment has 
traw at night, s0 as to retain in the soil the heat it had | vital 
usy 
reference 
healthy life of fish preserved in a limited and confined 
me pisces fe May 
ing in “Beck's Florist and 
Calendar of Ope Operations. 
( For the ee wee 
rey way h. 
vantage of the sa pes — to produce a 
