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Novenser 13, 1858.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
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CHRONICLE. 
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and separated his he eteroger neous Negro 
or for 
See of e has always rewarded me for my 
eepe 
a> ns it ato 12 
s, according to their tints, and a a few of each F 
has 
f meting } now that t bees hav roduced, | 
ve tr for by the fact, ir T dre trust 
in England this plant is visited by 
y rer 
sev: aas ng experi imen 
= curious; ae who, seeing that oar 
eden re herma gusedite, have an abunda nt 
h 
adapted. As far as racial it shoal be Planted y 
m 
them near He has kindly sent 
Disk Kahla + R 
The variation is now much aioe than it was in | 
a parent lot of 1857. Bea of new co colo ours “have | 
ea, 
it 
ai a J. C., Prim 
Hill, Paington. -The owi bloom at Lov won d 
Knowle, Kingsbri ridge, the} property + of J. Luscombe, he i 
Devon. ha 
ch mo ea Tot one of the 12 a has | i 
own tint to all the Beans produced by | 
rk oe have clear 
many 
nore en ‘ited its 
it; nevertheless, the da: 
is SANG before the fi 
so nea 
= were very 
of seed- -Clover 
1. fat} 
f dark, a e 
a greater number of light oak 
to have been strongly ae mos alw “2 increa: 
To give one case of sone ariability, a dirty 
brown Bean, nearly in eb see ‘in tint t betw = 
darkest and Pe agen “produced a sample, whic! II) 
e into no less than a dozen aif. 
a aficiently moved. | 
wt in — to ee of insects in — a 
plant with itsown pollen. Andrew Knight m: years 
ded the ee that no aeh self. eis 
a perpetu! the f generations. 
dose investigation, isa t y St ect, n = re thronghont aan’ | 
to believe that t of ma ont Sas 
~ karabe Area vane hat | di 
are several cases of diffic al 
 Legeminces: wi with papilionaceous flowers have 
teen advanced by Pallas and others as a case in which 
d never naturally ee oor But an, 
manner that | 
ve tl 
dividual of the same species. In all Leguminose bees 
do brash over the sti oni And the possibility o of 
fere: 
foregoing li itle experiments, however, were not | a: 
agency o 
ints, viz, How yew ne A pecs yellow, 
vy eight other tints “betwe late, yellow 
piel or black. It has cated G that a few of the 
white Haricots in the ond ee ining the N egroes were in 
yd ken htly affected; Mr. = wed some which were 
vinei rown or cream-coloured ; and he has 
pia a pod produced this autumn, which pod in- | 
cludes ‘two. Beans of the above tint and one of a pale 
be asked are we “arin in rong e] 
this. pairs amount e 
paue mt mas the crossing w teed eH “to the 
es si bre 
mpre 
we must reject a liter p> reborn 
Bean is an old variety 
rtion of my crop, W 
re 
F | per acre. 
nea 
ing respectiv rely 50 and 37 s spik es oi ers, the’ 
being from 10 to 12 feet high. The situation i in kaliak 
| they are growing is high, sunny, sem but the 
ants received liquid manure from m tim 
month earlier iho usual, 
aea ne ee Grass has been in 
bloom, but it is gi inferior to the female, being ofa 
faint. deai tint. A nian rea jo a fine 
plant of this por flower; it was n 1856 
aen $r ke, last year it jpo es pe this 
m7, “the highest being about 12 feet high. 
mor oe 
ic] 
J 
EI PN 
which I should think will 
be pom familiarly k parand by farmers under its English 
name of ~ Chi Sngar-cane, is very different from 
re ge Eliot will 
Tih Site melts a s Botanical ogg gn se 
ow “fo ormer was (I suppose merely 
botanical plant) i in 1759," the latter “y 
panim tillers rather extensively, mae th 
several canes if plan wet e A I have, Oct. 6, 
ich was koaa May 20, cut 
weighed ; it gives at oe rato of 36 tons 14 cwt. 
This loam, and is 
of plants o 
same peri riod. 
if the agency of insects for its self-fertili- 
an for it wkl pan w that it repens} habitually visited 
From oo considerations I 
f white and bro 
together wile the facts which I have given ok r m 
| Kidney 1 of insect Son in the mec of t 
ney an ae — may be daily seen, h 
ap pete mus occasional], 
ust confess that from such eviden 
Thave been abie to acquire, crossin 
favours the ‘th neory of ing. Moreo 
dinary increase in eat in the pede generation 
confirm this 
ic Sility Ae 
ly so 
conclusion, for extreme varia- 
e pring n mongrels, observed 
about 6 feet high ; the soil is not sae but was aural 
with the fork. The second growth, nee that 
eek in Augus about 
per 
ol haapt Stirred 1 foot ‘ied 
| fork ; ; nit wus transplanted about the middle of 5 une, no 
manure given | to the soil, but a top-dressi ng of the (not 
ph pret woa does Set tobe 
as I expected. A 
lieve arain of 
itisnot by any means, 
inuwi 
such crosses are on record. 
_ believe, a common practice 
raisers do not + meal sks 
was led last year in my short 
8’ Chronicle Fm ask 
to ha 
eit, 
seed-ra any p 
in Ekee their re of Leguminous + area ih aea | 
how.are we to account for the extraordina: ary 
in 1857, 
as soon as the plants s had rooted. As far as I ca 
apes ntj Jn udge the S. saccharatum is the most "prftable 
to grow with the stems of this I sen nd some pieces 
Hall 
amount of crossing in Mr. Coe ’s plants 
almost every plant in the four rows of t 
ve been affected ? I may here add 
paper in - Journal of ps jena A pei a 
there is almost exactly rg 
rob in an old | obser 
drying and having cut into chaff. 
fie of sugar these dried canes 
horses have now had it, freshly cut, e 
of hay for eight w weeks, and rpi thriv 
thi nae 
S 
tl t a whole 
better 
this sı 
had hay for the same asar ws 
rod 
less, were pu 
he 
brown tled | Ji 
with white not oncefifth of the Bonns, perhaps much 
te wh `s. Some few-of the ] Beans also | duce 
ie oua ra 
ale uae ; and even Mf Palle is brought by the 
er flower, the chances are in favour of | bu 
personae 
that deo Bath 
where a 
t 
three horses six weeks. Holeus. 
ive-Bees in New hive bee was 
PT ie into Wellington in io and into Canter- 
and would x ne with the aid of i insect aiio ag cy the | 
do, hae it is a law of 
then, we > R have the 
described by Wiegmann in the a? of asi L 
lani ve mentised on = 
in 
an ago by Mr. Berkeley i in the Gardeners’ ( 
the onicle, 
the 
experim ost carefully by | ¢ 
case of the Pea, iat described a few |: 
eving, as I 
nature that every organic ‘Belay sh 
rey ally be | n 
with a di oo. aaa ag the sa i 
ure of pa 
embryo alge Mio tunies of the seed b moe iiy the pure 
ave said that a rentl e here a 
fet of of this nature ; for iD stats the r. Coe sent 
breeding p 
animals. Moreover, in ye gmp Be it has me 
ried in mixture. I sa them thi 
that t tility mo 
+he & 
1857 og 
dced plants dit quite, like each other , the doz 
, ke, and 
causes, ‘ad father a they resu 
1 crossed i successive genera- 
various tints ; page 
es, 
ers pc. 
| length eo a fi 
t | aperture on pba sunny side for ingress eg - 
side the box 
fer re readily 
both fiih hybridity an con from other | 
ee their fertility 
o 
Ar. 
j 
roge 
nt diff 
in taliness, hae, gr and size of| cas 
ne and flowering, size, 
aki of every conceiv- 
le eas some dark purple 
7 
z 
EF 
rple Beans 
y seem to inlets 
ut 
and | Pihet tae Bs Yen the _ w 
ng vr amo’ 
and of various sizes En 1 
as did Mr. 
"the m suppose in f Legumir 
plants, ‘after a lon, ng c course of sE fertilisation, that, the 
na begins l aan 3 egg and not till then aor 
to receive pect from 
va gl bijon the a appn- 
rently short Y are om Pond, 
J 
England. perpet! 
Apaga summer, and mild- 
t increase of the 
succession of 
ess of the winter all Sond 3 
pf = m 
farnish t 
we fix small rails across 
roaches the hive the bees give no 
r enemy and down with 
ale 
in a their grea 
aja mud, and ste can sites 
‘ould be cog 
7. 
E 
© 
arara: gardeners w 2 
he same kind, if they, would communicate their 
Novice in 
n the Continent wit ith Ki 
the inf 
in Derbyshire-—At page “is 
tions, when L grown n near each other, 
ness to 
on 
trouble to communicate them to the 
Cen or to t 
is sta 
t Buxton in a year Fà ae after they 
inds, 
Fern, secured agai 
sno’ owe by a stout This covering bab 0 on before 
Christmas, an towards the end _of Ma arch gradually 
and to 
removed, answers well here. F 
d Perpetuals, than 
. 
> 
Darwin, Downe, B vonnley, Kent. 
Corre 
ner 
ies, I feel-y 
Hom c 
Pampas Grass.—Ther pecumen 
ies m a as having produced 
distinct: 
ery 
; and we ink species, T fecl y thai i = we estab- 
ly, a 
spikes we in : 
on lant only requires t 
be be fa lly oS Biner e ereere 
the dull monotony of their errate 
y Hybe 
tt no i ere n be more © bent o cyan of 
tall ag selest them 
height. Fro! 
cent Eei of this kind of a i to E tată npa 
* The 
xed | was by the French Consul at Shanghai, who sent it to Fr 
since. 
few years 
