700 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE, [SEPTEMBER 18, 
ee hess % faa ion iene 1 the Eea w en the | iere aiy a : on a 
whieh Cnet iia sfc bryo is spi iral, are a on ge the iom, in the ia now onion | aan Hig onaidesia > hee mat , aad they 
ext dgr tale ee Sam growing, asi i aye ny ae or a ted > other cannot. En ae chan Most ftid k 
colours s in imme edia te a rica renee with it | skill with whi ch groupe et by the usia 
ses will bear no denial, such i: groups of plants are « 
Paos as ip ne Chiswick Exhibi gm 
therefore a property a ally peculiar to plants 
in a state of active it ane à 
that would suggest itself to pe But i * it really fee would puzzle ; 
a ea {nality is ehy meee ra ~ twist atall [of colour in a flower freee is to be Tule ed of b y | what relation the pars: Dinti $ poiat 
ad of being st aisht I like other plants Ai Could | the same ia Falak ? We greatly doubt it _ All know colours. Flowers in a arden ee 
instead of ead i g 
i me inei e naged like the trimmin b 
that question be a spies ahd and left- feat emo kee of oni “should be Ee, When we look around se “aay ma 
of learnin right-hi seed art 
lity. But no answer can be given. |so as to produce ct in harmony with his | which most delight the well- f 
handed volatility. But n sen indeed been Ai theoretical views. Can any one truly say that he | we find that = secret of ite fro ; 
roposed; such as that the stem of a twining | has obtained y such result as he expected, after | reside in the contrast lour, but oes ag 
plant grows slower on the side next its support, or | following uIL’s dire z" : Rue with | METRY OF arees tee 3 am 
of the constant action |Crocuses? We at least have successful. | ing of colour by colour, of form 5 
e sana KA 
of which would be to produce first a aer and then | Every one was pare hee Aiek a the oe 
: ‘de. whi 
damper, must A s 
ram are spi in the embryo aj Say, 
vidual 
yy 
state, which cannot ot possiti know 
either a dark o: uminated side, 
po know 
HE 
reel 
esides, as we By eat a voluble | in som l 
lant, if depri of its support, me degree at stud: 
rill ¢ a aeiy ba bx ens to y 9 in individual fona E 
the tendril of the V. e EN submit that the moment the eyo paa 
i i of ni a 
p, Can e. ad wy a ba the tendency 
is rent peculiarity 
given =n the Owais “ certain plants, 
mithhel ee oon oe thers ; pot ree that it 
ce it: that twin 
plants are es onl gaoa „the power 
of torsion is 
arran with respect to cach othe 
Gii cable, v A vary: 
true veget cable, wi ave Pig 
ves stand spirall pice, 
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« gardener’s spp be ue 
lene than execrable discord. 
rol 
inclined to search for the causé of 
this singular ight 
ipted to parts 
are | 
sn to pl gg ew depths of 
m, ourselves, we think that) b th ed 
the best band : y the learned Frenchman, when applied | t St hitherto r 
Bvt o those who ask f wisest answer that can be his theory to d ed fal bries ; and it was 2o b) between th down the best e 
shea or an explanation of the unnaturally assumed that = t was true ra i 
i, “nomena is an honest Nescio. | and satins must also be true of flowers. fow 
Unprr the title of th Gard years since, y everybody was studying pia Be 
print ie irig olumn P > cea | Pt Po ours, pondering over their contrast, an 
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of M, 
foma Praorroar ee i a TA , e inge 
waincte is a seale in chromatic, | chemist is rarely mentioned; and what 1o ealled | . 
in eene, a j and that this sale t e hat. bie mere matter of E ip À 
$ been y the eO Ra pa ai ha The explanation must, we conceive, be found in 
‘swe understand him, CHEVREUIL and all eae r part of CHEVREUIL to take form 
mistaken i ; accoun t 
it is eer tht ay a ject, | him that the ean of ay aF oo ieee i 
i atly Pagers: Bg the ees the 
guide the artist e, the various other iarities of living i x 
ours are Tisoni, gad obese a and oe to theorize upon dead matte ter, merous seeds. ae of? 
doubt that when we have to capable of being fixed, poe or ad b ; 
: in aad ante ely olen contact in whatever wa way th artist might ny 9,000 foot, i it s at : 
e designer, the theory of | upon” ips i erent fóir theorizing | w isn 
i e mos a d surfaces ve ¿r convex, satiny or frequently ass ascii wit agit 
ull, near or distant, buried in green or brown| ‘The smaller species, Z. 
