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e which, being several, Small scale, and with no more thau two varieties of fapnisii flowering plants for the following season, and 
attached to the rocks, the ‘of which, being several, small scale, and with no more than two varieties of furnish flowering plants for the following season, and 
ds long, were more than — to strangle a man. Potatoes; but I confidently expect that the importance amongst them there will probably be different — of 
Graham s aving seen a — the arms of the 2 will be seen in the largest exhibition blue as well as white flowers. 0. nobilis will be grown 
s effects. The practical use of the sulphurous acid as a novelty rather than for effect, its large pendulous 
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duesd ati almost to believe that the stories of the kraken „pot, furnishes the fumes which may be led by wooden thing, but very se ; and Symphiandra — 
and other ee cephalopods, are only a little exag- pipes to the lower part ‘of bins filled with the roots, until another * — plant, with white blossoms and 
gerated an oned.“ the unoceupied space is filled with them. As the fumes|a dwarf, drooping — deserves cultivation. Pent- 
As — in t — desk published = — Van Voorst, cool they become heavier than air, and will then enter eee all pre tys but unfortunately the best of 
this volume abounds in beautiful w every interstice. By placing the pot of burning ma er are * most Age. Seouleri, venustus, 
Se a> in an empty barrel, and — over it a barrel filled 2 — ovatus speciosus, have han 
Garden Memoranda. i ue flowers, especially a latter, which — is 80 
Kxienr an Perry's Nurseny, K Wo's ‘oe — will slowly rise within and impre the | delicate, that, to have it in e erfeetion, seedling p 
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Z all the new French Verbenas, are arranged in groups in injure troy the vegetating 3 of the tubers, varieties, one with white, and the other with pur 
i as 8 eo ded a nd — although this result may be highly desirable | flowers, which ought to be cultivated — 
by houses, and placed so as to form clumps of various for all that are preserved for a those are for | especially the —— one. Being short - lived plants, a 
figures intersected. by walks. The surface on whi seed should not be so treated. Dr. Hovey’s young stock must be kept up by putting in cuttings 
i they stand is made of coal ashes, and in order to — 3 of Horticulture. bout — after the — is over. Hed 
| the uniformity which would otherwise prevail, standard erbaceous Plants.—The system of filling a 2 (the French Honeysuckle) is one of the 
sweet Bays, with round compact handsome heads aud viole ‘bed with plants of one sort, which is now so much | most showy of Papilionaceous plants, its deep-red 
aig) i had the effect of withdrawing attention, flowers being produced in profusion in June and July. 
at measure, from this very interesting class of | It is a biennial; therefore seed must be sown every 
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al * esirable species, with the view of recalling them to spring, and treated as bienni 
house containing the better kinds of American and recollection. It may be premised that the plants in the lasting Pea (Lathyrus la ‘atifolins), as well as a ite — 
Italian Camellias, selected when in flower, we noticed a erf mn ental towards the end of 
Malva with a bluish lilac flower, nearly as handsome as | Proper place i is in those beds of mixed flowers which pri summer, when carelessly —. 1 a few 
that of an Ipomoea. It was — from imported seed. ae 4 seen — the principal walks, or sticks; so likewise is L. gran onis ro 
In another greenhouse contiguous to this one was a and there in conspicuous situations, in some | folis is an exceedingly p — thing, — ite pale Rose- 
white “ Camellia Balsam,” st large regularly formed asure-grounds. One advantage attached to this class | coloured flowers and low bus shy habit; and 2 it is 
; ia quite 2 inches across. These Camellia Balsams r plants i, the small amount of skill or of labour | seldom seen, probably because it is short: lived, and 
; r than the e common Balsam; they are of various required in their cultivation. Once planted in suitable therefore requires to be frequently — from seed. 
. po aan exer. mae that is, common E eee Liatris spicata, scariosa, and elegans produce their 
Kaige and Perry had them from M. Vil ilmorin, of Par: nriched with manure, many of them will grow and spikes of bluish 1 — * pb * — of 
A plant of the new Passion- fewer (P. Belottii) oceupi 10 bloom for e, with little care — he —— d aud on De of au and are singular as well as 
i a rafter of this house, which also contain peci- tying of the stems, and an occasional reduction of 5 pretty. Dictamnus fromioaila d isa afian old | plant now 
men of ‘the extremely hand New Zea — the root stock has beco ut there aps 8 
| Fern (Die ksonia r isome 3 3 Bar- are — which demand a little 9 —— and yet there is sufficient character about the plant to 
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with brilliant d fow raat for the —— on they give and one of make it very interesting. is species is red; 
panre n iful than those — . cas and fh these is — Igens, — roots of which fre soe there is another with white flowers, which apppears to 
more beaut f B. sanguinea. Cleroden nas i, : 
dron na’ was ee on the rafters of the Peri when exposed to wet and cold during wint differ from it in Unip ane colour. Of the perennial 
house, and on the roof of another stove the uni- - poan ise young plants from — 1 ins, polyphyllus: 3 
| versal favourite Stephanotis * has this season every spring, when this species is treated aa an ordinary incleding; However; its s white variety.” Geandifolasbes 
fa 3 bushels of its snowy, sweet-scented blossoms — plant; — its splendid scarlet . entitles flowers of a 3 dark dull — pe ornatus is go 
à 8 a Gille ai Sak Doeme paa — 4 south. west it to be cultivated in pots, in the same way as the better- blue. By preventing the growth of seed-pods, th 
alt | Tts known L. coronata. In height it seldom exceeds 14 or —— season of thee —— may be much prolonged. 
mens, are hand er 2 feet, and as it does produce numerous flower stems, a in some form other, is seen in most 
— very e ee Nee, a Bee better — would be obtained by setting three or four | gar pem — the tall dec k kinds com- 
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y y a patch. The doubled-flowered variety o of the mas y called Mic > _ owever, 
with i s i common seldom | several species of lower growth, whic * t never to 
red, and blue "Water Life, — ang other sen although very handsome ; so likewise is the dou nd fo excluded from herb beds; and of these 
inches 
e . Lychnis (L. viscaria), — the double — amellus, spectabilis, 3 and alpinus, have large 
biu ums, some of whose | leaves measure 30 across. er (L. Floseueuli). The us Del m (Lark- showy blue flowers; while r ‘blossoms of 
N. mph b d d spur) contains many s — petites —— which i usion 
abs of, un g e Knight . 5 azureum (li blue), mesoleucum (dark blue, with | that they equal the best in effect. Numberless others, 
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8 arranged on W e of iz white centre), and elatum (dark blue), are suitable for | equally fine, might be added to the above list, if space 
t in ms with different kinds of Oaks the middle of large clumps or the back part of borders, permitted; these, a 2 serve to form. the 
and other d useful trees. The borders a8 en an grow > nucleus of a g c 
are filled Hit l plants, which we are glad = i 
find coming m fi es may be | niums.—The follow- 
ongst ian 2 dee . she’ — kinds obtained, —— in colour between dark blue and ing extract from a paper read by Mr. Sowerby at the 
white; and occas jonally a plant having double blossoms | Conversazione Meeting of the Roy i 
Re, d | Will appear — the seedlings. The oon queens double in the Regent 's Park, describes an interesting case of 
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fruit. all. belong to a different species. Another taller- oving | ae of. the genera and Pelargonium, 
ith the Bum bas uf fle on leaden labels to correspond double sort is called Barlowii, and this also is Ms. Sowechy praoseded: te eara- 298 gardener, as in 
logue, while the synonyms are represented by the letters handsome, All these are — in bloom about Mid. t case, when he finds nothing but external beauty to 
of the alphabet. “Under this system a confused nomen- Summer. Several of the herbaceous Ranunculuses | cee plant, endeavours, by. seleeting the most 
clature can hardly take place, and the plan is worthy of have varieties with double — which are very perfect, and then ‘cultivating it highly, to increase in the 
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desirable things. — — aeons both th d of form ; and 
FEE is probably a variety of Ranunculus as the beauty of form depends o the same elements as 
a this grows about 2 feet set high, and is in the height of it of its that of colour, that is, as i A explained, upon the 
eager greeny beauty in June. Amother having very pretty white | indication of perfect adaptation to the end, or the re- 
Death of Delile-—We observe in the French jour- flowers is rather dwarfer in habit; this by some|semblance of that indication, so a full round form is 
nals the er ibe of tho 4 of M. Raffeneau | botanists is refe to R. aconitifolius. Allied to these | especially aimed at by the cultivator of N and the 
Delile, a celebrated botanist, who accompanied the is Caltha palustris, a marsh-plant with large yellow | Pelargonium fancier endeavour tain five broad 
scientific expedition of Bonaparté into Egypt, and after- | flowers, of which a double variety, very sui err ot for | and equal petals, to form.a 8 2 — with the upper 
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t that occasion. Neither nor place are —— mon Columbine i is well known, and some of z — trast to the three lower and light-coloured ones; but 
f in connection with event. are equal in beauty to many —— of far greater pre- with all his care the flowers do not come constant, an 
i soe: 2225 of Preventing Potato bee A in tensions; but all are eelipsed by the — blue and now and then one will play the truant, and sport as he 
l a moist aeg — oma destruction, and whi te Aquilegia glandulosa, a — — ought to be calls it, and this commonly happens among the mos 
samples which had been cooled, and ——— par aki in every flower. garden. As a spurious sort is some- | petted or highest cultivated varieties. When the dark 
5 protected, readily passed — all the changes when 5 substituted, it on be as well i intimate that the colour disappears from the upper petals altogether, and 
; to warm and humid air. After using true ki has been advertised in the Gardeners’ | the petals become equal in size and form, it will be 
: several substances * direct contact with diseased parts cote | Ghewitele. In the . Campanula there are so served that the characteristic tubular nectary also dis- 
of Potatoes, I soon found that the mixture of sulphur- | 3 fine things that it is difficult to ete a selection, appears, The want of the nectary or honey tube is also 
ong most desira will be foun i 
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and when exposed in contact with tubers, passing | double — Throat pas (C. a and the salmon- coloured petals, and it is also rare ; 
through all stages of the disease, no further change i in | double white glomerata, all of which grow from 2 to ma fancy — i frequently it occurs in the central 
the prepared ones was in duced. The trials were varied, 3 feet high. Taller kinds ak p (blue), lactiflora | flower of the In some flowe’ rs the nectary is alsa 
and the uniformity of the de, | (milky white), and pyramidalis (both white and blue eee and in others a small spot will remain on one 
that the fumes of burning sulphur, flowing in contact varieties); an and of very dwarf sorts — are pulla petal * — eee is absent. In the fancy variety 
with Potatoes y will arrest the further | (dark blue), pumila (both blue mafas gh ), garganica | called Yea anum grandifiorum, which: has spots 
and prevent decay. It is proper (blue), and ary Bell (C medi A biennial species called | om all the 3 the spots become equal, the two large: 
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um) is also very orna- | spots being reduced. An additional petal also aceom- 
about Midsummer will panies es the change im a few eases. _ One plant of the 
