580 THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. — [SEPT. 14, 
10 receive 3 but that 3 Fa oll no importance, stems; but I afterwards learned that the roots were 
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easy to water put late into pots and 
* on the other hand s moaie eds potted | having no e 2 —. * ashes or 
plants very gently, and when e ball of earth has 
n all it can, they then . it carefully from 
po ere But that is cone takes up a 
great deal of time, slops a m n’s legs, and is merely | 5 
a — of folks Who N t be wiser than their rani de for which I could not divi 
neighbours Hornbeam protected hundreds of Camellias 
Another method to a 3 A ig secon Holland plants, and prepared me for the sight of almost | 
7 arrival I i 
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immediately afterwards ; but as the reasoning is | Composites 
right. 
correct the 3 must be blossom; they had 
y had been grown under 
It will be evident that the plan the mis- lights taken off as — 15 s 
are far Sore judicious 4 ee of the maea many bulbs 
b 
abour is saved by irrigation, such a ad here the opportunity of 
i = er; they 
n well given in Paxton’s plate ; | pla 
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Frenchified way pert never be * adopted. It is Gandavensis in 
just as absurd as that plan of warming ee: in Lach other, as has 
Tanis artificial ly heated or exposed to the sun, * there was none of them at all eo mparable with 
before usi o would drink lukewarm “fla tin the Gardeners’ Chro 
Wee Fo i 
water, if he could 3 it 3 and oa from a ue Brenchleyensis is a far superior flower, being at once 
well; — a pian it? As to| of a higher as well as more pure and trans 
1 . pipes, t chat is about the colour. I had left it in blossom at home only a few 
silliest — of the modern pretenders to a know- | days before, and could not i 
ledge of gardening. A 8 man might as soon have natalensis for one parent; but the other may have | I 
ing water. 
Besides, plants cannot feel. If you ask our friend | other ; but however this 
t 
water would agree better than cold with a labourer Brenchleyensis-—i is pee 
m À m’s Lilies, 
bear it; and 
plants is an object with all real gardeners. 9 s we — 5 pect to aa 
Never have a syringe in your garden. What is Loddi ese are 
plunged in * * 5 n ground, 
y may be, on 
e genius whether he does not think that warm namely, that we have 8 Lrg flower a rival to 
w ale 
e thing is oi 
Gr were | Griffith, 8 Harris, Stocks, and others f 
8, . 
these the most extensive was that of the late M 
| Gri i ies $ 
w as | collections con 2 Himalayan, Cas inde, 
Ara 
Scin 
Abyssinian, Africa , and plants, The dupli- 
cates in these calleetions h e been presented to 
ublic museums. Walker-Arnott com. 
ange that i in the twos of their plants the Hon 
n | where frequently mee was no provision made for their 
| 1 and they were regarded as mere lumber. 
re | He knew institutions where this had been the case, and 
the 
= the — e time only individuals who could make 
of th ishing treas 
ces in = the plants would be made generally 
teas and available. 
8 on n And charis alsinasirum, by C. C. Basınc- 
ed 
v 
eight years ago by Dr. George Johnston, of Berwick- 
upon-T weed, in a pond at 3 dace neart that prm 
s. 
but he had now besser ns to exhibit which p 
en- flowers. It w ile É diœcious plant, and the 
flowers on on Paap present plan 
they possessed no — " the plant was allied to 
the h ow 
leaves ; but where is the advantage of moistening whilst in a Anode ‘that delightful geet! of tropical 
n close 
0 
the use of that ? hat good can it do a plant to are generally narrow, and s of them 
Drs water on a brick wall not within a yard of it ? | length ; “the — 2 | upwards s of 300 feet, and | Udora canadensis. 
th 
o, no; keep the footpaths dry and nice to walk | with a 
upon ; keep the walls dry too—(if you do not pe down at the — ve timè 
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h ill : fortable: 1 a n which one 3 might stan 
then you will make things comfortable f = 0 uasi his Wå siid: 
Vailisneria, and the flowers were attached to an elon- 
gated stalk similar to those of Vallisneria. Sinee the 
f 
it necessary € i 
had been the case in the Cambridge Botanic Garden. 
ouses. The houses | Professor Walker-Arnott — his conviction that this 
Canadian p 
plant was precisely the same as the lant 
n the MECHANICAL prin (G.), Mr. MACPHERSON 
enting Water 
angeme 
there Welat side. 3 ing with the frost, but as several expert rt mechanicians 
whilst another con- 
is l 
employ a syrin to use it most when Vines * e e e Was * 
in flower, and afterwards when they are in fruit; ; . stove ‘ree — all X = 5 3 Aa psig A : re ba ei = the ees 
d in t 
opening, and next when the wood is ripening. 
When bad are making their growth it is of no | which were admirabl gr 
3 outte seems to take particular anaes „kor here were 
se rales are high'y ge ee There | seedlin — a erossings al 
on 8. ‘ol 
and the N Au 3 t ere house " just been erected for the growth of Victoria 
i n | to 
pre 
little * to desire by him who would mihi i. regia; it is circular, the ou 
r puppy dogs, i the young specimens | 
all of which I duly ins inspected. Fruit, * 1 herbs, appeared very happy in an atmosphere of 95° Fahr. | ¢ 
„ 2s well as medicinal drugs, are all exposed for sale in this | But the most remarkable part o t 
congeries of Amongst fruits 3 some and one that separates it entifely from all rivalry, is 
jeti rom those 0 
ut posses 
to warrant their introduction here. Nuts and a few first puzz 
which reste a curbing of stone, w 
bars—for rafters there are none ; these ascendin 
i cir 
t without end; and | Afte 
ould secure the object ma Macpherson had in view, 
"Fanit, . sa . e CHEMICAL SECTION, Mr. R. 
Hont read a re * Presi State of our Know- 
e | ledge o of the Chemical Action of the Solar Radiation. 
r an historical introduction, the author — up 
un’ 
as follows :—The chemical action of the 8 ys is 
roved, by its influence on organic 
k teat’ J over all the luminous rays of the — 
etrum—and sl yond them at the l — 
frangibl and considerably beyond them at 
| most refrangible extremity. Living or light 
| products of pi. life appear to be influenced giai 
0 istin e fromt y 
—the lumin 0 0 
hemical igi pat fic powers. The vitality of P ma 
aws = teà by Pant i and rag ta = y er 
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a? 
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; but 
Filberts were exhibited, and an abundance of Plums. route agin of holding 150 —— at their desks, 
Oft these, the Greengage and Che lums were most marvel. 
rry 
eommon, the former more yellow-green than we usually It is here that artists paint 8 from nature; 
. grow them, and the latter prettier to look at than to these are copied, for form and s 
r Nectarine wi separate outline then is 
effect of rail and steam, that there was not a single 8 at any n 
upon stone, and 
ey ean to the 
the ursery in Eng 
plant but was familiar, although some were of kinds returned as highly gratified with the place as with 
that we do not y grow in pots. For instance, Mr. Van Houtte’s politeness, and would eer ae all 
three 
kinds of Marigolds, a Sun- lovers of perme, trave elling in Belgium, spare a | lumino 
hours ee William poate By" Exotic |t 
there were ed th 
flower, China Asters, Mallows, and even Hollyhocks in | few 
pots. To me the Chima Asters appeared the only kind Nursery, Canter 
x 1 di I 2 
and hence 
: peculiarly due to the wagen * of 
` — leis n process f assi 
chemical principle is necessary to man 
oom and con equently to the production pa d 
— Ài of germina ad 
budding pe tiall Togo ced by the chemical ag 
ciple Actinism ; that the decomposition © of car 
& Li 
y g 
e flower is due to a delica tha th the 
Actinism and chem a since we find 3 during 
worthy of pot eulture. A few G Gandavensis 2 — a combination of the many of 
tand Lilium lancifolium enlivened the collections, but | BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCE- | evidenced in rathermic are by Sf 
; r grown as wà na Aeoustom med to see them NT OF SCIENCE. es of which have ae oh a 
: land. g o thing, THURSDAY, be 1. — Srcrion D. — Pror H l an dies, 
however, 3 which was, that they had con- Rorre M.D., ee Ht —.. On the Herba- the action of the rays of light on ee ie bel 
_ trived to produce ria of the the Hon. East India Company. He stated | author thought the following al (acini) 210 © 
more than 18 to 24 inches high. I was tempted at that the collections of — of the Company con- 1. That the maximum of chemical (acti uantity of 
__ $o believe that the roots ere not there, only tae flower: sisted of specim liected by himself, and Messrs. j was to be found where there was the 
