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THE GARDENERS’ 
In colours, No. 12 is the most novel, 
23—1850.] 
Fo rtnum also exhib e c Gordius, which, he 
had taken from a an specimen of 
iguttula also a parasitie dipterous 
H» 4 
completed the reading of 
One W. 
Doug 
i i Gelechia, n 20 additional | m of. . W’s.” seedling, though pleasing: 
— te? resident sta of the a Focusias came from“ E. B., Dea 
committee appointed at the last — gers the — ey were sadly bruised, but there appeared Penni 
prize Essays, sent in upon a ovel, possessing of excellence 
in genus 
would be announced at the next pas, dn! the Se Poety. 
W 
announced that the Cu. 
thanks had been ed by the Council), and 
T be filled up at then next meeting. 
J. F. Stephens exhibited specimens of the true Chryso- 
— olenta of zeus, from the north of 
know that name in the 
3 of the 
rea h oe = 
um 
en, and ha attacked the — — — 
r. Shepherd exhibited the rare Xylina conspicillaris 
from Darenth, and Mr. Bedell various 5 idop- 
tera, including Depressaria assimilella rear h 
s of Broom shoots, and Tortrix strobilella, from 
t the 
— arson — of 
ate 
es of very rare Ly 
from the larvee, which feed in society on espalier Pear 
trees in his garden at Hammersmith. Also the curious 
eased larvæ of a — — —— — 4 of the genus Astyages, 
which are at the present time doing much injury to the 
foliage of Pear tees 4 in the Hortioultural Society’s 
Garden at Chiswick. unders read the 
scriptions of ral able ape cies of — noptera 
from Albania, and exhibited specimens illustrating the 
1 history of the little Crabronideous Rhopalum 
rufiventre, w WS ©} Mr. 
Stainton exhibited the rare Lithocolletes tenella taken 
in pl on the Hornbeam in Eppi d Hain 
forests, and Mr. S. Stevens specimens of —— 
anobioides and Hyl ododactylus, which burrow 
in old Broom Fumea retiella, and a new 
imbledon Common 
the river 
Mr. F.: yee made some — ar on me Pediculus 
melittæ of Kirby, and on the young f Meloe 
eos — 3 and also exhibited three 
i sis (0; 
also stated the 
stance that he had ee 2 noticed that th ae m 3 is 
Sto 
of the — near Stockbridge, in Hampshire, was at 
least on e colder that of the adjacent river, 
but that 8 the May flies are always de- 
canal several days earlier 
tiai than in th 
: Wg ae May 29. — Pansies. — “T T. 
of each, and well packed ; 
em 
colour, bold eye, i advantage: 
— — Nos. 63, 43, 51, and 16, 88 0 
drews to figure. 
Tings. of 1850 accompanied them, some of a ve 
0, 
sda’ of deep 
ae 
ers, 
The deep bright blue is 
1 —A selection of si 
3 Soman, tat 
had become vacant, by 
Mr. F. Smith (to agp a vote of 
good elem 
e enough to e . 8 
66 
eavy e 
size and shape 5 3 3 very bright blue, B 
ish 
form, too flat and too much — | 
„dry and w. 
small disk, flower rather 
„Cornwall, 
quality. 
falien to 28 2 as as had = 
+ H 'the hot w 
N for 
88 
eolour mpi — of pri 
— NB, 
c W. Ws” Cin 
against these charges. 
g man 
Gren W. 2 All these flowers were perfectl 
is a v 
one fr 
variety. — white ground, wiih W 4e op 
PELARGO 
ee "m, “api packed, 
ants from “ M.“ were very good in 
y 
Two boxes from 
erarias 6d. 
o note accompanied 
cost 6d, 
Six Lectures on Astron 
Astronomer Royal. 
a 
subj of as 
legitimate scope o 
before our readers 
the uneducated and the — $ — 
- | tific subjects were heal te 
the Astronomer Royals 
848, delivered a cours six 
P lectures we ake 
ters at the time of their 
revised by 
the directors of the Ipswich 
as to en 
an industrious poor man to 
e a aan! Tae 
oroughly to un 
tuall 
of a journal 
we should not Ca ror P — — the 
re us. 
Of the lectures themselves we need say 
great reputation and well-known — 8 of | 
eare: 
veyed to the public; it is only b 
orks, of works sista 288 to ena 
g chase 
re should say they were 
ination is entirely diffe 
of len But we 
Review. 
omy. By 
8vo, pp. 247. 
George Biddell Airy, | 
Simpkin an 
astronomy not falling within the 
to horticulture, 
t been for the peculiar 
lectures were 
— on other — 
m pursuan 
in the month ‘of — tha 
delivery, were afterw 
e lecturer, and have 
ards 
since been published 
Museum, in the volume 8 
nothing; the 
HRE. 
„. S:“ thej 
(i Me er on the contrary, were of “thereat eas 
selected for Mr. Andrews to 
ition of what a l 
really means, we akea tay iong th the poor Bo 
educated, apa the well educated too, will be oN that 69 69 
a degree, 90 degrees 
angle, and ib left to infer that a right angle Eat of 
nt lectures, with others of Mest same 
The prese 
should be Aas in all the 
uall 
which are 
being petty pot out E coun! d let 
not again me other . ig of na sty, an "et 
eat | despise them bearin 
UMS.— pursuits, for they will find, “ia | Professor A ‘Kays Ne 
74 tha 
Deal 
The Censors protest pe 
— volume 
of th thought which. ere ade and the mode of 2 
em are so simi respects, that what applies 
to the one will in apa A apply to the other,” 
Miscellaneous. 
We ortunate in ing 
— are ng to the testimony of 
seen it, the leaves attain their 
— ter. . amc tg 
many leaves 12 feet in diameter, 
we saw measured a ands little above 4 feet across, and 
as close as they could lie, But I can 
— — 
dat Senet 
Air; ily conceive how, in et season 
1 — . under ‘whieh Me. — f be derably augmented, for whereas at 
Our readers may remember that between two and ige a ey e 8 — . — p — — water, 
three years ago, there was established at Ipswich a — — cola — e, 1 pny tga f —— 
museum for the express object of giving facilities for | i wilh was we wis. — 
the study 0 istory er classes > greatly in 
(See the Gardeners’ Chronicle for 1848, p 2 It was | rise 3 of the Vi — ee with the 
not intended, however, that a e natur: 
istory alone — be brought within the reach of 2 surfaco; o on which — * room to 
to about twice tne 
what to compare it. The i image 
si am | * ass shee the i 2 
ewed from t 
1 
and there a bouquet protruding betw but 
when more closely viewed, the leaves. excited the 
reatest admiratio ir i 
be | Snad daanin — no pros- 
trate — 4 ther ebe ve — 
the thi 0 — 
e mud (we could not dig to the botiom o — — 
t con 
he Sir vert of 
le 
simple 
telli 
ary 
tnowedge of of the subjects of which 
them, 
Tabajoz 3 8 
its rowing abundantly ina 2 
12 hich — into the Amazon some miles below 
9 Mr. Wallace, : i 
