190 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
= 13, 185. 
ment n classes, orders, genera, and spec He 
who is debs ctly acquainted with these Siete is 
able, with the aid of books, to ascertain the name 
o sh 
country "it comes, pse 
cultivated, 
arity 
ark gree 
oy ent "aon “divi ded irae 
branches of W an, the 
uch of con- 
these flowers 
harass 
"and n time 
1. 
the vinapata of a flow 
‘hen ae 
> i 
Term 
+ 
as BISCHOFF’S 
An 
Pa 
n the rit ae whe 
er, is in 
atte nds to 
. Theig ignorant shears es 
u 
aving 
Olive being common Rosem 
the obse: 
server is intellig ent and ins 
mary. But ara. Mi that dih 
okin full of sound Mi peed nothing, o or r of 
a:f. upo: on of | 
He wo 
refering it slop to i its ‘lass, secondly to its order, 
accustom himse 
between a few p 
sorte: an cis 
s, and finally t 
that it belon ged to a ve ry poisonous 
genus of a poisonous order, and bo et name was 
Aconitum T gicoshansee 2, His book d the 
tell him that it was a venomous pah of classical 
celebrity, 1 {TET 224.1. 
then 
pe 
s | paper 
well e 
other Sel 
4 4} 
a it — many parts of Europe in moun- 
— tit been cultiv: ine 
San ie turies, and must eons ently 1 
well ncaa to apaia areata although he himself 
had never seen it before. 
ad 
+8 
Such are among the} th 
Ae principal 
a far better | t 
the firs 
n 
t part 
si ies un Ppa eha ina nitat or ye 
moins else and h ‘i 
This should 
is to master the in pitt. 
occu 
those who havı = 
the fall wpm of Be hap y enoe as bo 
JUSSIEUS, ROWN 
bat and preparations, 
obs ervator and th i 
s his pastisloginal muse ° surgeon i 
k 
bags, remarked that if they r been so 
Then co is the toe _between 
b-el. which a 
cognise the 
rincipal ri st or orders ee Si 
r the moment, Thus: let 
alled 
the alternate action of sun 
d the lac to powder, 
tR 
+|} 
differences 
for 10: years in preparing tke bags x which 
ton) in in al za 
; dition of 
, of the Jardin des Plantes, 
that shading for glass houses, prepared byl 
that estal 
At another mee eting nage 2 
285 
same way ; 
between. 
+ 
ma ink on for himaelf, oa after- 
recognise a Ran ned cs plant. 
kei ve him the ar Lh to val thes ote 
which 
k __He will 
oe 
fas 
of an aequaintance with botany, irre- 
spective of the habit of order and arrangemen 
which necessaril; nas b ind is con- 
tinually ron A with me of classitication 
and which, although cen Pieters is perhaps 
still more valuable in in general educ: 
How, it will is this subject to to be 
asked 
mastered? What course Py be followed by those | n! 
who desire to gain the knowledge ein „questio n. No 
entirely lost their iina al sme 
A method of GRAFTING WITH FRUIT S i 
Re introduced into France with variable rendis, 
Accordi some it causes a 0 
in the size of the fruit; others deny the existe 
« any such advantage, and limit value of e 
ontrivance aah the speis ee t ae 
REST sta 
But he must enter it at the 
rsue it to the end. ak in 
is placed upon it. 
and To bre 
here or there, to jump over prè little obstacle or to 
beeen round that, as is the he oe ee parison grad areca a riety sap. He did not find that grafts put 
a ur | of structure as in Peete ne te hes produced such fine fr t 
mom failurı acute observ always want to a ent however which did 
nthe beginning of Botany is an accurate know- | examine the reti previously $ tire cone 
ledge of the st uses of all the external be It s that in the a 
parts of which plants consist, How these parts are admits of their further investigation at any Sotisties: iti is customary to issue 
Experience has shown that y to exhibitors wh bjects are not 
mu bal y stand, what technical words are ang be preservi pressing’ and rize, and that when these roai ppe 
mel ex xpress tet difreneos pra eee t ee ds a me pr Tat ‘iad ie 
ich such words are employed—that is first | tice o ming an herbarium, the most/ able agains : Not iw 
to know Once ; well learned, the | rest is of nas to botanical science, - How N A tanta wer ine pee dg 
; il REE a 
eas, 
wae PE ee ‘is the great 
Potting Boe of beginners ; they fancy they 
understand, fancy they see, and jump to “conclu 
sions: which are more likely to be wrong than |€: 
— seng 
a 
es a aig admirable 
Dr. HOOKER, = PP 
ore of 
use of eyes nor understanding. 
to look is to see. They 
or their teachers m in 
they must before they can craw. 
Pe 
t rented of modern 
“Coll 
be best prepared for the herbarium 
we have — on miy pre 
a aoe to oke our ou marks 
t able 
article 
| it isineluded. tae of a variety. 
Any one with a little aim a i see how this | a great mistake to “the 
are is to be further carried out, and as we have| in the season, If such grafts are ae on in ġe 
nt eaders th sity of | end of August they generally die, whereas OY 
thin ng A nly will | rarely miss when wae at the end of Sept 
or the presen: sat aver e much preferred for this operation spur 
Er re ber it is ditt na tra moth i old wood (des branches faites) to aye: 
one plant and a KA i 
is, imja dedivable p ri sarà e mean nage etm EE 
n the subject 
and ex: pe 
at the present any ee em many. yrn 8 
one 
set i to ps in before they have koss lo 
to draw. Sucha course is fatal ; ore, indeed, 
in Botany than in other branches ofl g; only 
it is attended with m mmediately obvious 
From, what is here said i 
at minute knowledge i 
¢ Were it so, indeed 4 k x 
> Botan oar hardly be appro ed except by 
oe But there 
is indiaans -B 
t may be im imagined w 
subject | m 
acy. of 
ut the fallacy of such n 
in but it is of all things 
mentary wee 
e 
arranged and k 
as to 
‘student’s knowl > a and ped materials 
— importance 
pave Rs ot dhe the 
| Specimens amounts toa passion 
the half-dozen organs that go to | profoundest botanists of this century, whilst all|840 grammes of 
otions is not our function 
most 
an 
cimens 
ison with 
e; but a 
of study, and 
be the 
int | w. 
are Siler eee a 
of botany. Collecting was 
is an 
which 
collection 
herbarium so 
mepa *~ 
ine some eons se of the 
and it coo! 
sufficien 
seen its quality was 
Fruits of the CHINESE Guma E » 
— at Anti in oe 
more t han db. each ; ut nothing 
itory of the 
than vat 
heir e Aada ty. 
_Drosernos VIRGINIANA, 
— is eae i the be: 
[ras sen to Paris 
W 
is prop 
