bet 
Ti 
ny, Mrs. 5 i the constitution of the b in question fighting with 
Ia Deke Lighten any e least geome-| The result, of this struggle angantia be 
— Classes. —Best Ornamental Group of Cut | trical powers of increase in every organism. will almost | com in some t a hy ose 
: Mr. ©) Tumer, who: also sent. the Best instantly inerease the average number of the favoured | agriculturists who pay AA attent > the ‘careful 
Device of Dahli species. Seep oy ogee tee a omega OE of a ang animals, and more to the, 
Dahlias in pots: Ist, Mr. Turner, with Golden Ball, | rest 10,000 sharp wedges touching each other, driven | occasional use of a mate” 
+ srg e , Empress of Whites, Beauté de Massefis, | inwards by incessant blows. Fully to lise these views Sapsan 
Royal Purple. These were dwarf, healthy, and | much reflection is requisite. Malthus on man s be} The Atlantic Telegraph. elt A 
well bloomed. studied; and all such eases as of the mice in La alone SE aia 
Tn the class of 12 New Dahlias Mr. Waites’ Ten- |Plata, of the cattle and horses when first turned out in} Whitehouse. poe poor e pag atat OM 
Gr Slandard Beren, Ai , who showed Mrs. South America, of the birds b; our calculation, &c., In 28 pages Mr. Whiteho See ae 
ee ee ae Alice Downie, Village Gem, | should be well considered, Reflect on the enormous | tia ot the progress of 
Elizabeth, King, Miss Press aa S TS aas power inherent and annually in action in | Jogy, an and a'scientine account 
Pestloes, Commander, Marion, all animals; reflect on the cour | ayn cst wis A oira the inter- 
Seedlings were shown in great Jass | a hundred ingenious contrivances, year, over | ruption to am penne re since the © 
“a 5 igg Flirt \Gtelmes) Ch Chair- | the whole face of the “ys and yet we have Fons grand objec : aon ghey eee 
r! 4 By. g oi 
mie): The E aiis e (2 oe an ktosebud. (Alex- | reason to suppose th that the a e i h kastari to = aries isc Ws Phe phe to 
j- Star of the North Conqueror ean , let it be borne n mind that this average sal of every rested in T d ed 
Sri Men ae (Briggs) ; rp og moth pea pe ro ber of nile (the external oii ms TC pna ae exiled the ovo foe in modern his 
K ftai agg) the Morn- |i EA in try is up by recurren cE OTE 
pad. s); Dr. Livingstone (Rawlings); Enchan- aaltepet Trane Lists —Lonis v. Houtte pae 
Fame oe he borders of the / gia 6 where —— nt de “Fecithes, &e. jescriptive —_ 
si TEE days were not cea Hand tat ordinarily eae e narm wale À 
ous as could desired, We under- species hol its place, @& 
Sand that th capacity of oo iring nourishment in 
droer, “Ama 
ole = Souter Johr 
ə 1858.] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 735 
mazon, nce “of | | will i inev ite ably } prove rove it 
Premier, 
to be true. The war, However, | 
i P, A A 
short 
variat ion in ) struotaro, habita, or instinct 
that i adii 
ad uug 
tsare easily overlooked Jt 
ext mich, "ith dicta eros a and more severely at occasional more oant 
rer, Comma mand rner, | 
ler, Mrs. Tu 
‘Admiral Dundas, Col ERE applied in mos 
Dr. Gally, peer A Du chess of Kent, King, $ tenfold force. r% in ev 
nus, Pandora, | habit 
5 idap Å 
~id , would 
upon its vigour one hes alth ? yo the areas o a 
| have a be otter ance of surviving; and Chow: ‘of its 
ery climate there are seasons, } 
which pons ited the variation, be it ever so 
= ial would also have a better chance 
are bre 
Critchett, Canar 
er 1 y, Ver 
pada, T hero h: a Village Gem, | so all annually ronn a the moral 
~ oera y x $ me m degree checks tho i increase ‘of mankind is 
fearly mi 
e bi ed t han can survive ; the smallest grain in the 
he 
4 
full, a foe a whic ch death shall 
} 
A Herbert. Paxt 
a hee Mr. “Hi. Bush, Swainswick, [entinely los Even sl 
pre Pandora, Marion, Cherub, Robert Bruce, | hin 25 oth and could increase his food 
pa. ott iy, Lady Franklin, Admiral Dundas, Mrs. | greater ease, he would double in less time. But ~ 
Pal , Sir Willi i wi 
Bact, Palmerston. Sir William | animals without artificial means, the amount. of |i 
pr Popham, Lord 3 
Lady Windham; 24, Mr. Hopkins, Brent- food for each species must, on an average, con. 
N ne de Pecq, ion, Mrs. Church, | stant, whereas the increase 1 organisms tends 
ae Sir R. Whittington, Br tford He: gine ” gone, an Esa ity of ca 
T shstone Po , Lord Palmerston, |a oe a in a tain spot 
sm pe . 8. bg are digit rs of birds wo that only fi i 
‘Ware, Herts, with Midnight, Mrs. ards, | of them ann mually “(induding double hatches) rear ‘only 
d, , and death on ace ae go on for a 
who will pretend to —_ that 
it pena parun no effect, when we remember what, 
sA hes w years, Bakewell effected i in cattle, and Western 
- | in sheep, byt 
at give an amaginary example | from change in 
animal which preyed chiefly on rabbits, but sometimes 
cause the number of mitts very slowly to de crease, 
igh 
rch, Pandora, Miss Maey | four yo ang, 
Scarlet, . Ch 
~~ Taig Popham, Touchstone, Village | the sa — then ati the end of seven years (a short | 
ease; MH effect of this 
would be that the prs oF aaa w AT be driven to sA k 
ersley ; 4th, Mr. Lidgard, ammersmith, | life, excludir minal organisation, however, 
er Brace, Lolipop, Sir R. Whittington, | d Pde on ginal 16.. As this increase | sli ghtly plasti rag oo “individuals with the ra 
Pre-eminent, Lady Popham, Amazon, Mrs. | is quite impossibl conclude either wee sini polis Fees a Tm and b eyesight, let the differ- 
Sir Charles Napier, Mr. Seldon, Deutsche, do not rear nearly Dalf or young, o or that the average | ence be ever so small, ey y slightly favoured, and 
+ Sth, ete wet? rm stew A e | life « ofa bi ee is, fr om Sooner, T lee seven, "years |w jaron would tend to live Jonan a and to survive poca mtn | 
Robert Bruce, Touc' ne, ipop, sm > y J of the year when food was scarcest y wou 
Palmerston, Miss Pressley, th, nb, Mrs. | latio to all plants an mals affords results aie eae e young, which ldt i $ it these 
i Mrs. Church, Colon Wyndham, Perfection ; cae or or less pa but in aay few instances more pad pectin Fhe less fleet ones would be rigidly 
Z, , King’s Road, irao Hi Mrs, | str pases than in man. siren pan so n jont t that these 
Loveliness, Den Duchess o 1 illust this rapi en aey pres a ti nd generations woul oduee a 
fast, ee Sir J. a, Dake of Welling- | to increase are “ed record, among which, iwing pem liar | marked effect, and d adapt the form, of ‘the Fae or dog to 
i rd Palmerston, Amazon, | seasons, are e extraordinary numbe han Loe arene 
en 7th, Mr. R. James, toke Newington, with animals ; eS roche during the years 1826 to -n hounds can be improved by. aa stion 1 careful 
Iard Palmerston, Lollipop, Colonel Wyndham, Pandora, | i n La Plata, when from casneink some millions of cattle peg So would it be w ith Sante pr ‘a S =N 
| Pany, Lady Franklin, Fearless, Amazon, Gen. Faucher, ped the whole country actually swarmed with | cumstances, If the nux ae of ae als 
} lead, Dr. Gally, Lord Cardigan; 8th, ag bagi 9 w I think it cannot be doubted that during | with plumed : seeds c ould ? (3 agent cs met 
g wich, with Marion, Dr. Gully, Mr. Cri it iat is, if the chec 
a, Tou Standard ener, Duchess | a few b r females in neg ordinarily pair, and | to increase fell chiefly on the seeds), t eeds which 
f Kent, Village Gem, mander, Perfection, | therefore that this anlonoding: increase during t so = ttle more jee n pars 
de ears must be attributed number than | the long run be most disseminated; hence a greater 
Pete icla 1st, Mr.C. J. Perry, with La ady Paxton, | ust ing t b -o aas? then breeding, and | number Ef seeds thus ea, would germina ate, a and 
Gnqueror, Mrs. Bushell, Oliver Twist, Baron Alderson, | so on till the third -year, their bers were | would tend to produce plants inheriting the slightly 
Ghoire de Kain, Mare Antony, , Comet, | brought down to their usual os ip ws i a own. ~- i iis “hy whieh 
Triomphe de Roubaix, Carnation; 2d, Mr. W. | wet weather. man introdu plants an “ Besides this natural means of select: y whic 
| Delds, with Carnation, ter Johnny, ‘Jessi, Lady | animals into a new and fav ‘ourable country e are preserved, whether in EEE egg, or 
Paton, Spider, Countess of we. Premier, Madame many aeconn nts i in how tacked wit them few dari we whole larva fe “mnabare eh which are. best adapted to the 
Meni, Jupiter, Lord Sta pératrice Eugenie, This crease place they y fill i in nature, the re is faeh, agency at 
Mn Babell; 3d, a ©: Fellowes with Triom phe de would “necessarily top as soon as the country i t t 
Roubaix, Charles Impératrice Eugenie, Oliver | stocked ; and pai we wen pigs reason to believe, from same ee namely, the rasan of the m ales for ee 
o P 
an at iter; 
ie C. Roe, Bury St. Edmonds, with Tam 0 patie to imagine where the 
cag soon sia Bristol, Fancy King, Florence | doubt, 
e, Charles 
Conqueror, La Defe 
eet n eN 
buted 
_ Ja 
press 
Enchantress Ci Chast s Perry, 1 ver cow na ; 
entry, W pte nana eanan to discover w : 
Magicia tai — the ase Sasana 9 k falls i in ea or plant. It should al oni 
Topsy, | be eases the checks are recur 
Perry, Lady penta 
o contri 
Tienie, pH du Spr on 
Mr. Woodward, Stoke, Jupiter, Baron 
Alderson, Charles men 
Duchess of Kent; 3d, Mr. T. Anatis, Bril 
Inimitable, Miss Frampton, Souter Jing y 
e 
tter known chee te other anit sit i 
from repeated casual ions 
life is, or to discover the diff 
animals, that all would pair in | females. These stru ggles are generally ico by the 
difficult pge of — but in = case of birds s apparent tly, by 
the 
charm of the eir song, by their beauty or ‘their 
percen 
countries, we oa led death o 
as in the dancing rock- thrush of 
ieit Tho moet Vigorous and healthy males, imply - 
m as generi ally gain a the victory 
“their contests. This ind of selection, boweyer, is 
ra gous than the odie it mire the 
f the less successful, Sak cata a 
The falls, maoreoyer, at a time 
r when food is generally t, i 
| the effect chiefly produced would be hag pga yer of 
the secondary sex Tar related 
| y all, i aSa andin reme 
ere áth, Mr. H. Buh, with chemie | degree during ‘uncsnaily cold, hot, dry, or wet years, | to 
nsa: nchantress a + z ae . 
j Taanit. inn ii p 
life, from the egg upwards; or 
een ha bakara organisms, 
Notices of Books, mee — 
TEEN ine or ai of 
of the Proceedings of the Li iu. (I£ in a small degree the relative proportions of 
The first part of the third volume of this earn inhal “akani will i i be 
en ination of the Council to main- | changed; but let the number of inhabitants bes 
r) a aa ee great of as on an island, toit from other 
The zoological papers are | be circumscr? co 
Farel and highly interesting; the eS consist of tinue progressing (forming new stations), im such eea | Catalogue 
conditions as 
Saly as relates to the pape, | Sewers the i they were origi- 
EA Saas eo oer | Jt has been in a former part of this 
we iaa a n organic beings, | that changes of external. 
their acting on the reproductive probably 
“ De Candolle, in ing On 
Sah aaa nuroa anr s Pamma; has declared | the: orpine a 
organism with another, 
system, cause 
those bei hich were most 
nature Seeing to become, as 
each indi- 
this may at frst wel tS as contented face of | Now, ean it be doubted, from the struggle 
bted; but reflection | vidual has to obtain 
subsistence, that any minute 
ve a atail 
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