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m n*l dense clluiar tissue. i>r Bammr, wit 

 'aid of his pupU Mr. Matt* ws, examined these 

 in jp*". v I nacess* and they detected them in 



of the ray: — l iichona Cabsava, 



mil win, Ci jdiaelis J peeacuanha, Goffea 



l\ora javaniea, Mussamda : ndosa, Rondol a 



Pa Ha indiea, Luculia gratisshna and Pince- 



uea, Gardenia Stanleyaaa, and other 



In some the secretion was beautiful h oloured. 



were aliown under the microscopes, as well 



ed drawings of the glands. Dr. Balfour sin d 



it he had recently received a letter from Dr. Walker 



iii which he remarks, that in preparing spiral 



to show them fresh, he finds the most easy plan 



la tale the petiole or peduncle of Pinguicula vulgaris 



it between two glass slides, so that it may 

 thin and transparent. In this way a prepara- 



hieh, when put under the microscope, 

 ,1 vessels and annular ducts distinctly 

 farther trouble. Dr. Balfour exhibited 

 Knappia agroetidea, recently collected by 

 illane Links, but which he had subse- 

 ertaincl to have been sown there by several 

 difcreut time : as also, Ranunculus eonfusu 

 et G. from a pond at the same place; and R. 

 ichophyllns, from the pools at Guilane : the latter is 

 ic by Mr. Babington and others as a variety of 

 JL iqoauhs. Many interesting plants were exhibited 

 fcom As Botanic Garden, among which were Sohtnum 



a well-flowered sp< men of Dendrobiura 



dtiMiflorum . a set of Robertson ian Saxifrages, Alpine 

 plants, rare Cariees, &c. A collection of Alpine plants 

 was likewise exhibited, from the rden of Dr. Neill, 

 Gseonmills-cottage, including Stellariascapigera,Oxyria 

 muformis, and others of interest. Mr. Stark exhibited 

 urn androsaceum, Orchis muscifera, Aceras 

 ttiibropophora, and other plants in flower ; also, a 

 Auli Hptriitivn of TrichoflMues radicans in a state of 

 fructification. Three new Fellows were elected. 



withsot 



any 





iul aia: u sou-n: for and »plted, is t "a 



pular eharact ; — all dry, scien ic details, being! 



avowedly and ve:v properly excluded, so far as 

 practicable. One feature in particular is worthy of 

 ial notice. All contributors are requested to 

 append to the articles sent in, r names and ad- 



These. if not in every install published to 

 the world, are in the possession of the editor. This is 

 the direct way of obtaining accurate intelligence, which 

 is of tlu last importance in journals of this character. 

 The topics introdu are varied and extensive, — all, 

 however, having reference to the legitimate objects of 

 | the magazine. 



Let us, however, hint to amateur ol -rvers that one 

 •ingle "fact" is worth a hundred surmises. We ha\ 

 often : ^retted to observe how, at this season in particular, 

 remai ible anecdotes get into the papers, of u singular 

 a to iinents H between animals of the most opposite dis- 

 positions. A few weeks since, there was recorded, with 

 much elaborate detail, " a remark >le feet" connected 

 with the domestic ion of a canary and a mouse. 



Every morning, it was ravely stated, the latter was 

 found in the cage of the former ; and on one particular 

 occasion, the eage-door was observed to be open, and 

 the bird gone. After a careful search, the '• little 

 truant " ( n or if/.) was found behind the window 



curtain — •* asleep," by the side of the mouse ! This 

 most ridiculous invention, which we have uiattsrmlly 

 abridged, was carefully and li rally copied into all the 

 prints. We need hardly remark that nninrs is greatly 

 injured by such oft-recurring fabrication* They answer 

 no food end, and cast stumbling-blocks in the way of 

 youthful inquirers into the secrete of Nature* We hope 

 now that the time has arrived for '• prodigious (i 



d 



; 



berries," u enormous circumfer ntial Cabbages,'' 

 other such "annual" summer monstr ities — that we 

 shall, for a seaeon at least, be released from such 



absurd outrages upon Nature and common sense. 



Whilst offering a friendly tribute of welcome to our 

 new contemporary, we would just observe that, among 

 the Noises on " Spring Arrivals," in No.. 5, are ne 

 very interesting particulars of the cuckoo. In the earlier 

 numb* rs, too, the affection of that bird (to som< a matter 

 of doubt) is confirmed. It does " assist" in feeding it 



There are also scattered throughout th 



Entomological, July 7. — J. O. West wood, Esq., 

 PrsanYnt, in the chair. Donations from the Linnean 



• of London, Dr. Asa Fitch, of the Tinted States, 

 ind other naturalists to the library and collections 

 were announced. Mr. E. Shepherd exhibited a box of offspring! 



British Lepidop t from Burwell fen and Daren th work, in a 6, some curious particulars of* the king- 

 wood, including many rare and a few new British species fisher— all very delightful to the lover of Nature. 

 of Mtarodepidoptera ; also a beautiful specimen of the 

 rare Stauropus Fagi, from Black Park, Bucks. 

 Br. F. Smith exhibited a specimen of the fine new 

 British Gastropacha ilicifolia, captured in Cannock- 

 ■ear Rn^eley, in May last, by the Rev. W. S. 

 Atkinson ; also living specimens of the splendid Chry- 

 soiuela cerealis, sent by Mr. Foxcroft, from Snowdon. 

 Mr. Douglas brought an exotic species of Blatta and 

 asedier of Pentatouia, which had been found (together 

 with the larva of Stene ferruginea, one of the Tene- 

 brionidBe) in Kousso, a new and high priced dm 

 from Abjnsini i, used as a vermifuge. He also exhibited 



mtSy as they ai sometimes calieu. were eoiugly 



handsome, by th riiifl of n firarwiwaU This descrip- 

 tion of Rose is not so much cultural i as I be, 

 >r we are sure that their judicious introduction 

 into many kinds of ar< a scenery would improve it. 

 We also remarked several sorts of Cytisus u worked" 

 •tandard high, whose close heads of yellow flowers 

 strikingly contrasted with the many coloured Roses 

 with which they were associated. The common 

 Broom itself treated in this way has an excellent 

 appearance. The usual nursery stock, which is not 

 lost sight of here, is everywhere intermixed with fine 

 plantations of Roses ; but to see the latter under the 



most advantageous circumstances, the Hill Nursery, on 

 Berkhampstead Comu l.must be visited. 1 lere the queen 

 ol flowers is to be found in all her glory. Large beds of 

 Geant des Battailles, Baron ne Pre vast. Mass Rose Land, 

 and other leadii lowers everywhere meet the view, all in 

 the most admirable condition — clean and free from blight. 

 The soil here, a hazelly loam, though not rich, seems to 

 suit die Rose perl tly. Among newer varieties w T ere 

 Paul Ricaut, certainly a ven line Rose, beautiful in 



shape, and occasionally as brilliant In eotanr at • cant 



des Battailles ; Baron Hall ., crimson, large and fine; 

 Caroline de Sausal, a neat * 1 ro» C«r.au\ 



rose, lai j and doubi ; General Cava a vrj fine 



rosy J ; Gene de Chateaubriand, reported to be a 

 good Rose, but it has not proved so here ; Lady Frances 

 Waldegrevo, said to b< an impro\ nt on Madame 



Laflay, but in reality very di Hi rent from that variety ; 



Madame de Lamoricicre, pink ; Heine Mathilda, large 

 light pink, and good when young, but soon sets out of 

 pe ; and Standard of Maren The latter is a 



charming flower,w Inch must certainly become a favourite. 

 Fortune's five-coloured proves to be distinct and rather 

 pretty. The colcur is creamy white striped with 

 carmine. 



Garden Memoranda. 



WEEK- 



S' 



Messk- Weeks and Co.\s Nursery, King's Road, 

 Chelsea. — The Royal Water Lily has been fully ex- 

 posed here in an open pond, night and day for the last 

 three weeks, and it is growing and flowering most satis- 

 factorily, the total number of blossoms it has produced 

 being 16. The leaves are 4 feet across, and perfectly 

 healthy ; but as yet they have exhibited little ineliua- 

 on to form rims ; their whole surface prefers lay- 

 ing quite flat upon the water. A new leaf developes 



tsrtstmg moths irom Suffolk, and Mr. A. Shepherd, 

 specimens of Depressaria assimilella reared from Broom. 

 '.*7 >teven s announced the capture of Acalyptue 

 carpi in and A cinus collaris, two species of Curculionidae, 

 •ewto this country.— Mr. W. W. Saunders read a notice 

 of some inquiries he had recently made as to the varia- 

 tion in the weights of different specimens of both sexos 

 w the common cockchaffer. The President observed, 

 that as this insect had been extensively used in Hungary 

 ■» the manufacture of grease for cart-wheels, the obser- 

 m of Mr. Saunders possessed a practical value in 

 sifition to their physiological interest. The President 

 •ta) gave an account of Dr. Asa Fitch's observations on 



of different pecies found upon snow in North 

 America. It was announced that the annual excursion 



dfthe members was fixed for the 12th instant, at Wey- 

 bridge. 



Botanical, or London, July 4. — Mr. G. E. Dennes, in 

 *e chair. The Curator (Mr. Syme) exhibited one of 

 Jfc various forms or sub-species usually grouped under 

 «« name of Ranuasulus aquatilis, which had been 

 ^■•fctted by that gentleman, at (Juillow Links, Haddington- 

 ■Kre. early in June. He, and others, had referred this 



lihood oi its blooming for some considerable time yet to 

 come. The water in the basin is kept at between 80° 

 and 90°, and the boiler from which this heat is derived 

 also warms five houses and two pits of moderate size. 

 About two dozen gold fish were introduced into the 

 pond some short time ago, and they have since multi- 

 plied so abundantly that the water literally swarms with 

 their young, which ail present the fine colour of their 

 parents. Indeed so well do they succeed and breed in 

 the warm water, that Mr. Weeks is of opinion they will 

 ultimately almost pay the cost of heating it. We need 

 hardly mention that this experiment points out another 

 urpose to which waste steam might be employed both 

 profitably and for pleasure. It is the Thames water in 

 which the plant is growing at Chelsea, and we understand 

 that it is the intention at present to widen the pond next 

 year, and plant in it the various other kinds of tender 

 Water Lilies. It maybe worth notice, that the overflow- 

 ings of this tank are collected into a cistern, from which 

 tepid water can at all times be had for the purpose of 

 watering plants with. 



I ) »ns. Lane's Nursery, Great Berkh ampvtead, 

 Herts. — The beautiful collection of Roses which this 

 nursery contains is now in full bloom, and, therefore, all 



^-, v.*.*^ llt uuiic. nt-, aim <> titers, riau reierrea nils i • i . • A i • V A - i n 



form pithof tr* « d q , 1( iA;; /tw-^i.- • r wJl ° wisn to examine them in perfection should see 

 jw either to K. Baudotn (Batraehium mannum, of +u _ _ .„ _ _„:ki„ n ' :„ „ ;„ + u. v.^ 



* ?*)» or to R. confusus, of Grenier, and Godron's 

 Horede France," two rery nearly allied plants, and 

 ^tther of them easily distinguished irom some varietie 

 »«ll usually joined with the typical R. aquatilis. 



The muura 



iirbieins. 



xt ; A Po r Monthly Maf/azine, Illus- 

 trative of th € Animal, Vegetable, < d M ml K <- 

 *W. Conducted by Beverley R. Morris, Esq,, A.R, 

 M.I).. T.C.D., Mem. Wern. Club. London : Groom- 

 t^^ge and Sons. 



^this very interesting and well- conducted monthly 

 r^iodical, five numbers only have appeared, — these are 

 7*W sufficient, however, to enable us to form a correct 

 £"%ment as to the value of such a work. The editor 

 PPWs ever way qualified for the conduct of a publi 

 ***° n °f tiic kind ; and his modestly-urged appeals for 



Pport in his undertaking have been largely and readily 

 ^P°"ded to. We observe among his contributors and 

 TJ^F"'^^!^, the names of >me very estimable indi- 

 Jr^^^ 1 united co-operations c not fail, we would 



r^i to render the speculation a successful one. The 



them as early as possible. Conspicuous in the beds 

 on Grass, behind Mr. Lane's house, were the glorious 

 Geant, des Battailles, Souvenir de la Malmaison, 

 the glowing crimson Fabvier, the profuse blooming 

 Miss Glegg, Belle de Florence, and Mrs. Bosanquet ; 

 and near these were the climbers Thoresbyana, 

 Ruga, Amadis, and Ban ksise flora, concealing the poles 

 which supported them with thousands of flowers and 

 flower buds. Farther up the hill were large beds 

 of all the finer kinds of Hybrid Perpetuals and 

 Bourbons, specimens of each of which are planted here 

 for show. Mr. Lane has been budding largely on the 

 Manetti stock, by way of experiment, in order to prove 

 its suitability for different kinds of Roses, and the result 

 cannot fail to be highly instructive ; but at present it 

 would be unfair to offer any epinion on the subject, in- 

 asmuch as the experiment has not yet been sufficiently 

 tested. In another part of the grounds, we c erved a 

 plantation of three acres of stocks— all 

 admirable condition, the stems being f :ht and 

 clean. Budding has already comnK-nc , and will 

 occupy a large share of attention for some time to com > ; 

 13 men are stated to be employed at this kind ot 



work throughout the season. Somew :g or fountain 



Miscellaneous. 



Guttering Fruit, — The elm merit of the gardener, in 

 this respect [the management of ripe fruit], is the 

 supplying of tin table with them in the utmost perfection ; 



and the art of gathering, which is very little understood 

 or thought of, is a very essential and material article. I 

 have seen one common custom among gardeners, which 

 is, to go out for fruit an hour before it ia to be served at 

 table ; and this they think very meritorious, because it 

 will be fresh. I have s«-«*n also a contrary practice, 

 which I shall explain, together with its reasons ; but 



first, in order to show its real use, this fact must be 

 inserted. Two gentlemen, relations and neighbours, who 

 had the same soil, and the same kind of tree*, and those, 

 to all appearance, managed in the very same manner, 

 found a vast difference always in the fruit ; it was 

 so great, that their company never failed to perceive 

 it as well as themselves ; and when it came at last to 

 be explained, the whole cause was, that the gardener of 

 him whose fruit was worst, gathered it just before it was 

 w r anted, and the other much earlier. This seems to 

 contradict reason, freshness being esteemed the great 

 article in the nicety of fruit ; but it is only a seedling 

 contradiction. Let any one examine the state of plants 

 in general in summer, and he will find it this;. as 

 the great heat of the day comes on, their leaves begin to 

 flag, and they droop more and more till the cool of the 

 evening. The reason is, the great evaporation of their 

 j uices by the sun's heat : they grow flaccid from toward 

 noon till near sunset, then, the heat is over, and the 

 dews, refresh them : they continue recruiting and reco- 

 vering during the whole night, and they are firm and 

 lively in the morning. The case is the same in fruits, 

 only it is not so easily perceived. At noon they are 

 exhausted and flattened, and they are heated to the 

 heart : all this renders them dead, and un pleasing. 

 They begin to recruit towards the evening, as the leav^p ; 

 and in the same manner are in the full perfection at 

 early morning. One hour after sun-rise is the time for 

 gathering them : this was the secret of the successful 

 gardener, and this every one should practise. Let hhu 

 take some fruit-baskets of open work, cover them with 

 large leaves, and at seven in the morning go out to 

 gather his fruit. When he has carefully chosen whM is 

 ripe, and laid it handsomely in the basket, let it be placed 

 in a cool, but not damp room, till it is wanted. Old 

 Metgozinc. 





Dog Roses, in 



Calendar of Operations. 



(For the ensuing weh) 



PLANT DEPARTMENT. 



Any more of the Indian Azaleas which have com- 

 pleted their growth, and formed their flower-buds, may 

 now have a slight shift, if becoming root-bound, accord- 

 ing to the advice given some time back. They should 

 be kept cool, so as to avoid a second growth. This 

 treatment will be equally appropriate lor any hard- 

 wooded plants in a similar state of maturity. Although 

 water may for some time yet be liberally supplied to 

 plants in general, it is necessary to make many excep- 

 tions to the rule, and these will every day become more 



Many plants which have "matured their 

 growtn require a less abundant supply ; and to those 

 with bulbous or tuberous roots, which are now ripening 

 their growth, the supply of water must be more restricted. 

 Mants in flower of Thunbergias, Achimenes, Gloxinias, 

 • reraniums, Fuchsias, &c., the beauty of which it is 

 d irable to preserve as long as passible, should be 

 assisted with occasional waterings of liquid manure ; 

 and that the fol ■, 5 well as flow s,Timy retain their 

 he iy appears e, let the pots, if possible, be plunged, 



numerous. 



