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nay more, our wine tainted or rendered a oe oe y magnifie se ‘hyaline yk we ai Srith aa ar — class table hars. seeing ti 
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mortuum, and all from the agency of fungi. ‘The ya aston DR give off filaments, an thd! Sst wring Shared ut it s 
e p per perena = nade pees (Wor) pg wall within.* The pencils of threads on the ie place among Italian to 
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table and s thol: ology, but o 8 winter a hon by troughont een 
now with the penetration of fangi into closely demand thane t In order to sy y the a 
Kad bottles. ill the recollection of is sooie this the ho extent of „t 
y of our re th k =m si r mr however ye Sata 
confounded with Sweet F ‘ust on ng 
Talan Fennel, which is ennel, often ed 
t. little different fa ge 
useless, by a fun ch a he corks, 
penetrating their irisa and at last reaching on or 
the cavity of the rare A far more extraordinary | osed to evs b 
case has Tately come under our notice by the kind- eee, Tele een ori 
ness of — Genta and CURREY, and as far te s a S, 
as we know without parallel. The case was th ifficulty of ae 
originally communicated to Mr. apia by Mr. eel pmr er he Ko 
some of our 
ROBERT GAUSBY f Birming sham, w. has taken 
valuable note a 
Some Moselle wine had been Least án a co es. 
pk from three casks. As how r the 
ears two 0 bottle veinteh ery curious obt nay ic 
aaen The co had increased downwards inches in fireadth; a ant ano 2 inches in 
into the wine to four times i ginal length, and when fully matured i 
much swollen at the lower extremity. Its white, fleshy, and 
inner substance was converted into a we flag 
lioid mass, which broke through the surfac 
and there, while the top and sides of the pes p 
id ortio C Y 
become brown, strangely corrugated and sculp- | root-like bodies have Lee omitted for the sake of | in rows a foot or 16 inches apart. Etis nees 
ed, throwing out here and paN simplo or | clearness, et ey not being easy to execute in a| to have several sowin pa 
branched compressed processes exa hose | woodcut. run to flower and the stalks 
of a Rhizomorpha, at at the lower ollaa. a re- | —_ hard. Water must be given occasionally, 
mi ving off a number of brown fibres beset} In old books on gardening we occasionally find | plants thinned in the rows so as to stand 
wit ikot branches and scattered branchlets end- | directions for the cultivation of wea that | inches from one another, 4 
ing in ovate bodies, with a nipple-like apex, and | are either little known or discarded ether | stalks begin to swell they musi 
sometimes presenting two re three moniliform | from our xi hen gardens o ‘the le day. | remain until a be P 
articulations, so as to resemble a seaweed of the| Among these may be mentioned the dwarf} On the Con the ta mi 
us Chylocladia, These bodies were surrounded | variety of oe sa Fenouil d'Italie by the | slices like tte Artichoke and gonea AA 
by a eglounless pe Miele, from whi sprang tufts of | French, and Frnocuro by the Italians, of which | seasoning, but to have Finochio be pipe 
d ads, which when | we late İy. had an iar tunity of seeing some beau- | recommended to be dressed as $ 
takon from th wino eembled Iie mases of jolly, tiful er that were sent for examination to | oil, vinegar, and pepper, he doe 0001 gh 
The wine had lost much of its colour, was nearly | the Horticultural Society by E Lupoyico Samo- | M. SAMORTNI it is “ most deliciewc”, 
tasteless, and agos only a very sight t-acid | RINT, m Eccleston Square, who has the merit of | much in request for garnishing 1 
worthless. No trace of reproductive 
bodies was anywhere visible. 
„In the absence of fruit ‘it i 
e, and 
in owned vis found pre n the ter- 
= ened 
rocure good se 
antet ne wood saved in 
being be ae to degenen ead 
Finochi 
under Eng a ti 
| what it hai ever pa even in ee 
of zomorpha, the 
name of i „ah ‘ 
voinblansl of the t os the close re: 
some. ia perh: ery one thusmenti in New 
Tha pa “Ad 1 . CORRESPONDENT in, 
prot: P 3, race which form con tufts copy of the Newark Daily A 
ee ends of these omalous that Mr. ALEXANDER HENDERSON $ 
it is diflicult to bes any conjecture a ascertained POTATO DI 
dapergilins or allied f fungus, for, as in 
ductions, -ont articulations are Tariy r e 
and t] oniliform, but they seem certainl 
to arise foarte the processes themselyes, $ 
t affec 
so on. Wem 
É putrescen tengai be should listen 88 
idle tales, which haye not eyen the mi 
being new. ie 
Happily these tions of corks 
are not ———— 
common, but should they prove troublesome cally sitet us that this salad pl t “New E 
can recommend no better remedy than what wel bo = successfi nana "n URASCENS, 
e ing © corks in bailing | The ‘eel of Finochio in Sa ger sd Sa pier 
si i May be gathered from the fact that at cutifal nd hard, 
coy a -A = with a metal Naples and throughout the tates, = fi This baat ent by De aaa 
we conceive, for | €Yen towards Venice, it isso generally used that one | regions of the cp 
ae cavity, as it “> Vertical sections of these bode apas eee pe ihe covered growing in 
sealed box, | SMe result. Sometimes the large dark k calls at once give off | 10,000 to 14,000 feet. a 
reduced; ntal branches from = say Ar ragt threads arise; and | Himalayan S. li Wall. ( 
i riren ingen AET Seems to be a complicated mass | sista, Royle (Bot, Mag. t- 
> 2 | especially i es also exist in the internal structure, s4 ' (Bot. 
h 
Prey = the Rhizomorphoid bodies i ed d 
like bodies | of far wer cells, to the outer coat is form: ent from, an brig 
hich succeed dark branched threads, thi pth 
some of thes and then the hyaline aie f th species ; noi ing, indeed, rg" 
3 these threads | | conspicuous in ayer reei mucedinous cord which is a n of its leaves, which are can excel Wy 
