756 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. [Nov. 30, 
greates feet ho t were like the pages of a living book.” I own that till I | canes can be purified much more quickly and by much 
hi ee * e a ght e had seen the Belfast Garden, I had not much faith in 7 8 Indeed if a thin slice of the middle 
5 Ps 2 Abe cannot | 8 atility of — Gardens. In addition — r of the ae = a os n Sugar-cane, only one-third grown, 
pa ee he rders containing e hardy herbaceous plan nal taken a a ele 
The Woking and Bagshot American plants are 
the world’s 8 The marvellous exhibitions 
made by Mr. a Warerer and the Bagshot 
growers have * n curiosity as to the wher 
and how such results are attained. The pla 
Mr. Hosea Warerer, the puze of ter cultivators, 
grows his plants is 2 — ribed w uracy by Mr. 
Macra as being seated in the midst of a bleak, 
to the burning heat of summer, and open to 
rude blasts of winter, and suffering both from early 
frosts in autumn and la 
hodeilendvon trees half a century ve Kalmias two 4 
through, florid Andromedas ribun — 
scarcely inferior in size, with gorge 
idbar — 
of this Woking w 
cellence Pore agin in the soil being soft an 
pasi e 
ure, in spite o 
po mato * we American plants against every- 
thing they man ‘to fear. As for cold, it is their 
weakest 
That the precise nature of the soil in which they 
is immaterial — been admitted by all the 
icularly insisted upon 
oste in a pamphlet to 
drew attention some time since. Mr. 
ace where | to 
* 
annuals, opt is a mart pn of hard cass aad 
trees, e collection of mas y 
F bly well arra 
oe cannot be uk p bien t 
ma 
- | blue <r? 8 ty 3 whils' Ü the 
- | from w to 
e 
* under 
rn gree 
eit cells pass 
yel and a indi igo violet, swelling 
and separating little by lit litt 
“A of the lower whit e part, which was com- 
2 
; 
hese gardens, cae the sam error tae en occasionally 
al and there 
n the planter. 
p 
| specimens at the same time, and a: 
I forgot to 
sam it is probable they will bə joined to ; 
hould ae . the students of the college will obtain the 
adva = gardo for study, as at Dublin ; the 
college, Guinean: contribu — 2 bee the nee of the 
ens by some ‘small endow 
Dublin College Garden, . — neither rak 8 
nor so well kno n, 
admirably kept, with man 
a a dro 
S, 
| Nen bundle surrou 
5 cell walls 
a mos curious J 
3 — * the outer hairs, yellow on their externa! 
and their l granul embrane, became 
— in the — o of their swollen lta as cuticle 
thickness of all its cells, and t 
in the small pitted vessels, s0 “thas th 
nded ng! as at Argel ‘alii 
mo the | large pitted v with the 
ring to api of them; then came 
d 3dl 
s; Ist, there 
—— —.— 
blueish ring. 
8 The cells of tissue rip younger than the last had 
all of them a roundish o . ptical nucleus of delicate 
azotised tissue, — Wee f which was about one- 
tenth of that of the cell; K ‘quantity of “of Baier ge of 
azotised matter adhered to the inner the 
f 
detaching itself in 
yellow ; all the tubes, vessels, s, and cells swelled, Lene 
e +h 
ti 
The len of th the ound, he obser ves, 3 js the Orchidaceous plants well n: the collection is 
simple ; in most cases 15 to 18 inches of soil is not large, but there are som pecimens ne g 
rage, and this — * eres of leaf mou iden | kin jand it is particularly rich in tropical Ferns 
andy grit, rotten turf, or ANY n ote |e eee d omit oe is n: Mr. Bain, 
2 in the absence of the curator, Mr. M'Kay (whose 
= tha will ion the ‘oe water Ar ee ek —— = ce Flora of Treland 55 is well raj own), i is svory ene 
eely to the sponge-like roots Gy imamer t ana T balaos WEG all a 
if the surfaces of the beds are laid flat. Atten- ste 
tion should also be paid to plant them so close that 
in * or ee years the branches neg | overspread 
the which they grow. they 
better <a the branches shade their roots ; and the 
flowers produce : finer effect when they mingle 
their rent c ad 
margins of the eds should be well plan 
hardy Heaths, Ledums, —.—— and other dwarf - 
growing plan ants. Lilium super anceolatum 
posean, and others of — tribe; will look well 
masses between the plants, and wi 
renova or ornamen 
e margins of streams, no 
adapted as the Rhododendron. Floati 
ak refuse timber made into rafts, on 
oO 
rushes or flags; the plants being placed 
filled A wand th the balls with debe 
gar- 
manner in which 
nsively adii For 
materials can be best 
collected for preparing such artificial mixtures in 
readiness for planting in the approaching spring. 
wiat gree 
emg IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND, 
—No. IV. 
COTLAND, AND IRELAND. 
ere there 
gow.— is a er garden ‘main- 
the = much within the in- 
fluence of the : e it, the 
is not very favourable to vegetation, and the 
Glasgowians are probabl much Kare ied with their 
‘ecommerce irs to u in the gard 
The houses are large, old, and ‘rambling and the 
collection not very interesting ; there was a large co 
lection of Orchidaceous plants, edt ome contd: t be 
more kind and rp = Mr. y, the curator. 
The] tion ; the 
s ry good conditi 
several appeared doubtfal. and the garde: en is kepi 
d. e fee, a e of cut flowers. I 
believe ing used by students or for le b 
_ Crossing 2 could be more strik- 
than The Botanic Ga 
gardens, truly and elegantly observed these borders 
flourish | and th 
Ww 
wattle-hurdles should be laid, ve 
cants, but k omitted to inquire. aa 
t p of the Dragon- tree which laiar Din, 
and an erode” — = has appeared in the Chronicle ; 
ere is a specimen of the — Pine. 
Lectures 8 at the Garden. Dodman. 
EXTRACT FROM A MEMOIR ON THE STRUC- 
TURE AND COMPOSITION OF THE SUGAR- 
pa 
YM.P “ COMPT. Max, 1819. 
Accon ic to M. Payen, — exists 15 
1 lised 
mbling s -cand thin-sided 
Ys 
— Eag calle — 1 surround the woody ane and 
- | vessels of the Sugar - eane, fro 
xis 0 stem to 
"e e row of the — wood * vse es. 
cells in the ripe Sugar. canes become yellow 
pore water and placed in contact 
colour is heighte 
which disunites the ce 
isuniting become tinged 
of the sugar cells, the Bape last see 
| swells is rail, iiad passes to the state 
of disunited cellulose are found in ‘hydrated — 
i eep blue. The an 
orange co f the granular outline N t 
form n parallel a the i inner swollen sides of the ce 
yi eolonred the 
dissolution soon be ecoming more complete, the blue sides 
e view the isolated brownisk- 
disappeared, bringing into 
yellow epidermis = all the orange-yellow azotised 
puseles whi — to the interior o of the de- 
stroped cellular m 
Thin slices ari a Interal bud whose leaves — be 
ly 
with | ce 
ned aa = on ca | 
titig 
eimilar x- 
hibited a right o range yellow colour in the opidan 
of the leaves whilst all the rest of the 
— ra whilst being de- 
2 tly, on my stems and leaves of newly-formed 
shoots contain a great quantity of starch granules. 
Starch occurs in the stems 3 in oa tissues 
rmis, in 
any profit in 
ee of t climates, the cane cannot 
e ripe ; for it is certain that organic matters 
3 3 to +h L ta liica ts. A 
B “The nodes of a ig ome E Felber aded er pare 
iek-si 
Y the 
compact, are not so much disaggregated ; oa 
however, form sinuous folds, an gies 
from the neighbouring cells, but still retain the oran 
ye ellow colour write acquired under the influence of the 
i 
a solution of © — 
a or potash, all those . of the tissues 
tain 2 matter . ye -e the little ‘pitted 
per and the cu 
This ws nr the latter parts sot no 
200 matter at all. 
“Ifa thin slice — — 3 after bein bn 
eted u by 
n 
“If the action of caustic potash or soda on a thin 
slice of the cane be heightened by — the 
alkaline — n nearly to dryness, and the slice be then 
washed, it will be seen that the * 
appears that they consist of pure ce 
—. 1. 
“ The yellow colour thus produced by the alkaline 5 
coloured ON THE CULTIVATION OF THE ee 
x 0 
asy 
then, that the quantity of sugar in the nodes — 
is — 5 about half that found in the other parts of the 
0 Another fact, at . sight 1 but but which 
the 
might have been anti 
— is that they eo uch — as it the 
other parts of the — pt — — This is 
the 5 . of cellulose and woody inerusting 
matter e parts is . by fn smaller 
3 * sugar in other parts of the nodes. 
* 
Br C. D. Boucnt, INSPECTOR oF THE 3 * 
benen 
difficulty, 1 1 ta ia "of Pte sr fly 
or less of 
orchioides an elegant littl 
leaves are spread on the ground, int 
from the. ceatre of which spring, in 
mer, several stalks of from 
wamps of the 
on which this plant thrives 
ore most pariy of Mot, mined only ith i le of : 
sah za humnsg, 
