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422 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
forcing in pots or tubs. a plants intended to come a massive stone wall was erected instead, heated by | the Norfolk Beaufin; its flesh is 
in befor re or after those in the bor ote y be soca | flues, and covered with half hardy plants. As aj}and very juicy, with that t fine, 
in the first stage in a p beiga eiia as ie tem pie e of arch’ pips it sien have succeeded, but as a| acidity that KE s, es the 
ture of parr in whieh they are brought to finish fruit. servative of plants it was never right. Imme- | was p ee tho ught 
ing be suited t the eir progre: The pots or tubs diately after the gluse era of 1851, this wall was cased | but on comparison with it 
should iasa cubic foot | with glass to form the pronenode at first proposed, be more acid. As regards the o 
of ea The soil ould be richer than that recom- | and how it has succeeded an m r. Davies sag a peli oi 
rth. 
mended for the brie 
elves nape seeing i it. As an object of beauty it is cer- 
hat 
ould not r ender i te or e Li iq 
and that frequent Aiai se 
agula’ rete ntiv 
the kind could not do better pr ps 
degree for the e coninemont of the roots.” He goes on 
to state “that the oy a e best forced in a Peach-house, 
a poi or succession Pine-stove,” but 
adds, “ they are best forced in 2 Dutch frame where the 
b g 
temperature can be regulated at pleasure, and where 
they can be near the giass, &c.” think it does not LINNEAN : The] President in the chair- 
i oa more ney ae an eye to see (although there Eardly G. Fi as elected a Fellow; and 
mi a Fm ras the style. Asmodeus 
Societies, 
diy, nT was 
Professor A. Kiker and Professor C. ro von Siebold, 
= 
h 
hink no 
d I thi 
sound sense in 
orresponds pretty 
Rivers to bis disciples. 
fruit trees 
one will ar there’ sige 
old Abercrombie’s advic 
much, with that given by Mr. 
Again, Knight says, “ When Mga ~ other 
are abundantly supplied with water and manure in a Me which has been frequently observed. of late 
liquid state, they require but a ah uantity of | on board vessels in British ports; and made some 
earth,” and he “a pot containing 2 cubic feet of observations on the characters "by which it is distin- 
ric a ly rat (Mus Ratt as), th e 
of Berlin, were elected ny Mem Dr. Car- 
penter, Mr. D. Ha nbu ori d Dr. S. ci is Salter were 
elected Members oi sree for iting the 
treasurer’s ame ce bog o th iversary 
meeting. Dr. S. J. A. Salter exhibited a living 
specimen of a species of rat, probably new to science, 
planted mgh fo: 
is a pine me pees 
bearer ; aioe ts 
excepti ili 
on it.” The Gace 
Lincolnshire, sent a Seed: 
Hollow-crowned Pip; 
round shape d g 
of Russet. The flesh 
with a fine, sprightly, Sorrel-] 
precedin, considered 
and w ike: have 
n forced very early | g 
principal of these being 
th 
ail, th d th 
of th oe. ms Mr. sige exhibited : spe 
dri , prepared in two different m 
cimens of the 
bä; fru of a 
species of “ee (Zizyphus) from China, 
odes, 
and made 
$ 
to beyond the li Nar of the house? 
Here is a deteanmik I Teel ai Ad will iit came an 
ig: Rac spa narter. Again is on re cord th at M 
on 
Q 
n one 
of the samples exhibited, the fruits appear red to hav 
been simply dried ; but in the other, v which gy poses to 
pulp 
al St. 
a dish hof a very excellent dessert 
Cli pien s oe Lo 
raised some t 
eI a a Cr 
oD rr 
i} 
evident 
DA 5 
A Wal 
Cheon re from © shamed in er Bi a memory does 
not fail me, I FEINER: T some = his son, W. Pi 
Ayres, the 
; the obje 
ct of this 5 process ee pr robably, 
th 
writing on 
culture. of EEN AE in aig 
has 
or 
Doles ee a + we 
a new beginner, and h 
not or seen 
rial, improved meohani cal Skill, „and |“ 
h the i 
constr ruction, | wit 
d 
n pot culture to which | fe 
condem 
urated wi 
some Lind of s syr up, in miigh the fru nit had bee 
immersed, prior to its bei ing 
orm o. 
See ie 
T “think it must be obvious 
that pot meee 
deal more of lations un 
ary 
ail a considerable 
or gl 
ha 
70 to 76 dozen aed beaatifaly developed Tas 
many weighing 8 eS 
Seca with | 
ai and polymorphous genus, but sti ill more so for 
in Be to D neha of the ae a finely striated Pipp 
a 
e 
REE w 
of E] described 
Mr. Bentham observes th hat ‘Dr. 
are not only valuable for the n 
marked species which he has added to this astra 
the 
Ba 
e 
t | to complete our knowledge of many species previously | = 
e 
Observations on Meteorology, Se. By the Rev, L 
as aesir able. 
Notices of of Aookg, 
Jenyns, M.A., F.L.S. Small 8v, pp. 415. Van 
For nineteen years Mr. Jenyns, an acute observer, and 
eminent naturalist, seer te: ‘Swaffham ee : 
little place i in  Cambridgeshi tions‘ te 
you there 
s of ‘aul of elass hundreds of gs br 
where every Pog as 
lend its aid t o has to be 
he 
asi ; 
are even 
i few cases where i 
ST M. could be clearly 
_— previously 
been given, and ee Ms +] 
referen 
drawing conclusions therefrom when 
concluded. The res 
G b 
North A 
h 
former collections; 
number of Australian Acacias 
becom. 
the Winds: 
3 A 
instead 
plia 9s 
“same. devil,” 
system, now so. often 
might. Ang under co 
~ Par ds 
h| reduction of former species. 
Most singular is t 
| preponderance of the Julifere in pris iat these 
being nearly equal in number to th mall oi ' 
sections ealiectively. Only f Ba sary speci pois 
À from South to North, and eight only have 
West Australia into. 
causes, ut to 
e seems no good 
there has been any 
saws the of 
change as been on 
there can be no 
je asketa.» 8 
de. At neg the deataing: of 
Ghi 
ine pet ow 
ch of the 
by 
large Apple which he stated was a , 
med by him Taliesin. is above the 1 nd 
William | the 
m: 
as | im patches where it had 
Wiynttvilie, the architect, and 
bad been shaded and ipere it a 
resemblance to 
greenish yellow, It “ss sana 
