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CHRONICLE. 



pots of plants, with three or four h looms to each, and, 

 more than this, if there be an abundance of pots ; tiro 

 ranges, one behind the ther, properly < I vated, will 

 p ro do ee a grandeur of effect which can only he appre- 

 ciated by those who have seen the collections properly 



gardens of the cultivators. But they 

 id as plants, split pods — which there 

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 stand competition. A rlor makes the best 



he can at home on his own stage, he does not throw awa 

 flower for a trumpery blemish ; a split p< , or a mea 



petaJ,orone with a crack in it. which not one in a hundre I 



would notice, will never induce him to throw away a 



flower at home, and why should he at an xhibition 



It must be obvious to everybody that what a florist 



would do at his own garden to produce the greatest 



appearance, he would like to do in public, where the 



object must be the same. I bop the jud s on the 



occasion will be men of some mind, not persons of 



views and notions, circumscribed by the rules of 



private shows, and that they will judge according to 



the health of the pi nits, the freshness, the colour, 

 the size, and general form of th*- flowers, [f | had 

 my will in the i r— and I mean to 1 among the ex- 



hibitors— not one of the stric !es which may j »perh 

 govern shows strictly and exclusively for those flowers, 

 should be allowed to disqualify a si ?e of j nts on the 

 occasion. I would hare nohuntiogl a run or asplitpetal, 

 no strict urination to del iaged p I, and it 



is exceedingly desir ie that the growers of Carnati is 

 and Pic hould know that such would be th ca 



who er at j>ts to cut away the most effective 

 ot his dowers to reduce the number to such only a 

 would m the criti I examination of a flor incln 1 

 to put the rules for showing cut sj imens in force 

 against growing plants, will aasnredlv destiny the noble 



^h^Y't^ % lh * ^titurBd to throw oot , T«..il«^»iwm ... 



diese no , to the parties concerned, and I hope thev KjaappU,. wti i 

 will induce others, who think with me, to say all they Cera-t um Bi< berateinit 

 can in its favour. Florists m say hat thev like ^SlS^^Z^ia '" 



about *!ia «i;^^-.,««« * e cl i • , ♦ „ £ V Khud -Mien-Iron Nobleanurn 



?>OUt the di ajirag Ilt ot "florists' flow, ;,» but tblsiberica 



m y ne "»• greater error committed than ad- 



mit n them to the public general exhibition npon the 

 eond.tu imposed on them afprivate shows. Look at 

 balf-a-dozen l X es of Pansies, a favourite Sower, 1 

 grant, and one which always attracts notice. \\ hat 

 lady or g. in ever 1 1 a chance of seeim* 



them long enough t mal a memorandum of theft 

 names? Lhey are cut and plais red, as it were, on 

 flat boards 30 within the space of a yard fronts -e ; 



and mdej lently of the disguise which the mode of 



Showing eff ts, and which makes a crumpled worth- 

 Aeas flower appear flat, by habit, the nfined space 

 Shuts out 19 ol cry 20 from even a transient view, 



wine the stooping , irc necessary to obtain a sigh 



The following papers were read : 



1. Onth ' imposition of the A sh of Armaria ma 

 from different l>>ralitic$; with Remarks on the Gcoara* 

 cal DistribsU i of the species, id on the presence of 

 Fluorine (qu. Iodi n e ) in plants in general. By Dr. 

 Vbelcker, of Cirencester. 



-. Remark* on Diatomacece found in? Peat from Can- 

 tyre. By 1 >r. Balfour. 



3. Notice of a Lepidodendron found in Craigleitk 

 Quarry, and of a species of Dadoxylon discovered in tlie 

 sa ndstone of A rth u r's Scat. By .\ I r. A . Bry son. 



4. Notice of several new Indian Plants. By Dr. 



Cleghorn. 



5. Ii»: port on the state of Vegetation in the Edinburgh 

 Bota c Garden, from 13th January to 13th February 

 current. By Mr. J. li'Nab. This communication em- 

 braced the following register of the periods of flowering 



f plants in the open air, as compared with the dates of 

 the first flowering of the same species (in most cases the 

 same individual plants) in the Botanic Garden last year. 



Due of tl-iweriog ! Date of rlovrering. 



1851 



Ataos glutinosa 

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Piimula vulgaris 

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. ::rica herbacea 



ffUnthu* nivalis 

 I anium album 



[« lleboro xlorus 



um pyrenaloom 



Lfl im vernura 



V*foca minor 



Symphytum caucasicum 

 horonicam c iucasicum 

 Cr us Busiami* ... 

 e nt ilia fragariustram 



V i major 

 Tussilago alba 

 Lnndum marulalum 



al * nth as plio&tus 



hjphuo Mezereon 



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Kalmia glauea 

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after u;n eur- I'ini 



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Flelleborus 1. vidua 



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uywiiouK i is insect, (-araaii upon « 'yatoui a ulicia* 

 Also drawings of the larva an<l pupa of a species 



Vpion found within th is o\ Lathj isaivn-ia. He 



lik« -itocl that two of the rein-deer in the Zoologi. 



cal coUect n in tlie He gent's- park had been attackeil 

 bv a species of < Kstrus, most probably 1 1 •;. Tarandi. He 

 also read descriptions of several new e\ tic I les and 

 butterflies. A paper bv Mr. II. W, Ncwman.uf 5( >ud f was 

 i*ead upon a hornet's nest constructed within a bee-lii?^ 

 which, together with the queen-hornet and her young, 

 was presento i to tlie Society by the writer. Mr. Main- 

 ton exhibited a remarkable Lepidopterous insect inter- 

 mediate between the Tineidje and Crambidao taken 

 among Rushes at Hammersmith by Mr. S. Stev. ., of 

 which he read the description. He also exhibited a 

 new British Tinea from the neighbourhood of Liverpool. 

 The description of another new Mu-rolepidoj »ug 

 insect, from the neighbourhood of Morp li, was also 

 read by Mr. Logan. 



Royal Dublin. Feb. '28. — Mr. Rain, of the College 



detailed the result of an inter sting 

 experiment which he h A la* performed, with s view 

 of propa ga t ing plants from their leaves. Theexperim t, 



which was tried upon the ' Dionaea mnscipula." i fly- 



Botanic Gardens, 



i~. ■ -I in cuiiiii.r D flf s , mmj 



loav a * tlie situation of the auxiliary 1 1, and 

 placing them in :i pot of mp moss, with a pan of water 

 underneath, 1 with a Im 11-glass for a >vcr. [n a few 

 lays a con lerable number of tiny plants ni their 

 apj tnee, which, as 60on as they 1 >wn to al it 



half an inch in length, won- potted off in the usual i y. 

 JVnfessor Allman re marl , that having watched the 

 pfOgi «>f the expi merit described by Mr. H i, he 

 was <piite satisfied as to the c«»mj>lete succ s which had 

 attended it. Dr. Maekav, Dr. S -uler, and oth< v n- 



tlemen, tlien entered up n a diseMien of the scientific 

 questions involved In the subjecf, and Mr. Bain was 

 complimented OH the successful issue of his experiments. 

 Dull in Advocate. 



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those behind him as weU as other., who feel they have 



ane T ial right to make a dose exam ation, and hope- 

 toady waittoobt « it ; suppose tiiese were shown in 

 pots,av I the names lal lied to each so ; to I^e r i 



here need not be 3G varieties, for that number 

 is always obliged to include a good manv that e 

 nseless; 12 weli-grewn plants in pot^ v. be 



* t worth looking at, and then florists' flowers would 

 become a feature of imp mce. The time lias arrive 

 when most, if not all the florists' flowers, mar- be 

 room! worthy o place at public d exhibition! 



'lit they must be shown in pot What runiperv col- 

 lections do x see at many exhibitions Y.-rbenas in 

 unmeaning bonchee* which gh* th ayer no id.^a of 

 ™ bl % a '" 1 ms of consumptive Pinks med 



into a box a foot square, a f weeping spikes of 

 measly Antirrhinums, flat hoards sto all over with 

 blooms of Petunias, or French Mari-olds, and ther 



mean and miserable dowel which just answer the pur- 



pose of an exhibitor to get an admission for .thin - 



and crowd the Mies with things unworthv of a 5 dl 

 »t market, I rejoice in the changes introdac I bv the 



Horticultural y. 1 say nothing of the number and 



amount of prizes, these are matters which do not 

 affect my view of the qu tion. Argonauta. 



&o netted* 



N winvM. 1'loricultural, ATordftll.—A preliminary 

 meeun^ of this new Society took pla to-day, at 

 1, Regent reet, for th- purpose of completing its 

 organisa » n and settlincr the davs of m P Afi,, ff ° 



ton 1^ flge) 

 Tusilago hybrids 



Cottage) 



Oroluis cyaneu* (Canonmills Oot- 



tage) ... ... ... ... Feb. 



Alluding to the mildness of the season, Mr. M*Nah 

 exhibited flowering branches of the Goose' rry an d 



Pear from the open wall : and stalks of Rhubarb from 



the open I :der, measuring nine inches in length, exclu- 



ive of the leaf, from the gardens at Warriston I Ige, 



Dr. Balfour mentioned that he had received a letter 

 from Dr. Join >n,of l>er\vick,in which he states that lie 

 is now convinced that the Anacharis alsinastrum found 

 in the Whiteadder is oT foreign origin. A letter wa 

 read from Mr. Parker, Torquay, not ing various in- 

 stances which had been observed of the effects of light- 

 ning on trees ; and mentioning the occurrence of Tilia 

 europsea on a promontory in the s i near to Torquay, 

 wher he supposes it to be indigenous. Mr. M'Laren 

 exhibited specimens of Erica hyemali pacris miniata 

 and nivalis, Cactus, Primula, Cydonia japonica, &c 

 prepared by dipping in wax melted in a steam bath, 

 lie found that tlie colour of the Camellia was d troyed 

 by the operation ; but he succeeded with all the other 

 plants he had tri . Mr. Gorri ■ exhibited specimens of 

 '' 1- -^/-v- i -- ikitaandsessiliflora, L, f rown 



If. l'aul, Esq., was elected 

 a Fellow of the Societv. 



Garden Memoranda. 



Royal Gaudi ns, Fkoomowl — We learn that the 

 beau til ul AmherMi i nobilia has flowevad at I ro^more. 

 The first racem w;is taken to Buckingham Palace on 

 the 7th inak, and we anticipate that another will have 

 expanded before this time. In the cultivation of this 

 plant, Mr. Ingram has found it n<- ssary to constantly 

 lhada it from the rays of the sun, otherwise the young 

 pendulous leaves are apt t«> (ret th Iges scorched. It 



prows luxuriantly in a moist heat of from 65^' to 70^ 

 I'iihr. ; it likes a good supply oi" water, and sometimes a 

 little manure water. 



M i its. VkitciT s Ni rrv, Exktku.— We understand 

 that the Victoria Wa Lily has been blooming here 

 for these thr< weeks past, during which time it hits 

 produced ( > blossoms. To M A h, there >re, 



belongs the credit of having first flower* thisinti resting 

 plant in a nursery. It i upies a tank 1.5 feet long by 

 12 feet broad, and has 7 h :« s on it, some of which are 

 reporte<l to have been upwards of 4 1 t in diameter. 

 The water in which it grows is kept in continual motion, 

 by means of the revolutions of a small wheel. Flower 

 buds continue to make their appearance, and in all pro- 

 bability there will be a succession of blooms for some 

 time to come. 



in the glen above Criehion. 



Entomological, March 3.— J. O. West wood, Esq*, 



President, in the chair. A considerable list of donations 

 to the library from the Zoological Society of Lo Ion, 

 the Royal Society of Brn els, theEntomol ciety 



of Stettin, the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, &c., was 

 announced, as well as a collection of insects formed at 



Botanical, of Edinbueoh, F 1 ;;._The President 



m the chair Several donations were announced. Dr 

 IJalfour exhibited a specimen of Polvsiphonia suhulifer* 



Calendar of Operations. 



(For the eneui / week.) 



PLA f DBPAKTV4B«T. 

 Tlants which liave b» i recently potted should be 



kept in a somewhat closer atmosphere, with shading 



during the hottest part of the day in one m ther ; but 



the latter should be vt ry cautiously u 1, and only when 

 the plants would be liable to flag without such pro- 

 tection. Heat and moisture may be applied more freely 

 to plants which are in progress ; and for the sake of 

 economy in furnishing the necessj.i amount of heat, 

 retain as much as possible of that £ rated during the 

 day, by clo.-mg tin house early. Let those plants in 

 the greenhouse which are flowering, or approaching 

 that state, ha\ the most prominent situations, and be 

 liberally supplied with water. Geraniums, Fuchsias, 

 and other soft-weeded plants, whose flowers will not 

 be required for the next two or three mom -, should 

 be kept in a healthy growing state, by shifting t ni 

 into larger pots, using a r i compost, in order to 

 obtain fine plants in moderate-sized pots. Let the 



appear 



nflwtft « f1 . pecifnea of Polysiphonia rotaKfera, 



*Z!L ? \f' f Uthered at I-amlash, Arran, in Au- 

 C 1 ?, ^ Balfour. Dr. B. likewise exhibited, 

 from the 1 m House of the Royal Botanic Garden, a 



extrLl. "/] ( mea5urin « from the floor, to the 



£ l * /Ae centre leaf). The lower portion 



fti?2£?5 ^ S ]eet 8 i,lCheS hl cil '^^ference. Above 

 this point, the stem is covered t the stent of 10 feet 



nalm^^i f a n leaV€S ' aV,ove which I large 



ttES/r " \™\y ™V*"A*A, l>esides numerous 

 2^2T? 8 ^ e8 1 ? f / l< m m > ^ *° arrayed as to 



head, Winch is 20 feet in diameter, a somewhat 



ntmUhttt^ Efe? h !J M,ta ^werin.-pad.ces 

 «PJtght, the largest bem- 3 feet 6 inches Ion- 



^ranched than the specimen exhibited. It 



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Baltimore, U.S., by Mr. R. II. Spcnce ; pre nted by 



W. Spence, Esq., F.R S, The President announced that r . . 1W , ._,_ M _ wmmmmm „ vt , 



anew Part of the Transactions (containing the portrait 1 anee depends as much upon this matter as upon the 

 of the late Re W, Kirby) was ready for delivery, as : colour or shape of the flower. Those which are required 

 .- A , . ergarv meut i n , r f or present display, should neither be stopped nor re* 



potted, but ourished with occ ional waterings of liquid 

 manure, if they have filled their pots with roots. Attend 

 to the propagation of greenhouse plants, particularly of 

 Fuchsias, for autumn, and Chrysanthemums, for winter 

 display. As Cinerarias go out of bloom, let tin m have 

 a few weeks' par* i repose, to prepare them for com- 

 mencing their new grov i with increased vigour. 

 Seeds of Cinerarias. Cah >lari;« -. Petunias, Hume as, and 

 other soft-wooded greenhouse plan , should now be 

 sown in a £< tie he As Orch 



by the late President. Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a speci- 

 men of the Geometra catenaria of Drurv, a native of the 

 United States, which had been forwarded to him from 

 Worthing, where it appears to have been taken alive ; 

 likewise specimens of a beautiful Longicorn beetle from 

 \*ew Holland, and a Brazilian species of Curculi ridse, j 

 from various parts of the body of which small, pointed 

 fungi had grown. Mr. Douglas exhibited a stem of the com- 

 mon Runiex, excavated by an insect which 1 1 formed 

 a series of cells in the burrows, each now inhabited by 



a whits grub, m fc probably the larva of Cemonus about to i mmenee th ir growth, they muld be re- 

 uni color. Specimens of fivo exotie snpeies of beetles moved to warmer quarters* and ringed more fr ly. 



Glas- Those plants winch are now grov j should a en- 

 ow, were presented by Mr. John Scott. Mr. J. F. couraged by a i re liberal sup] of beat an4 moisture, 

 tephens stated that all of them were reputed indi- Dendrobiums, nhopeas. and many of the ctronger 



The President exhibited drawings of growing kinds, will make a good growth if suspended in 



a they will be partially shaded by the 



which had 



enous species. ^ 



a larva found within a cocoon, in the pods of the com- a Vin< 



box 5 feet y 4 ™ ^"^ *« grows in a 



square, and I feet 3 inches deep, in soil com- mou Furze, which he considered to be that of a small Vines : "indeed, Dendrobiums generally 



here they 



