844 
ng’s , carried thither by a yal Botanical 
ss, as rumour said, from the Ro 
Garden ew. From the “old hela came 
e x Midiy b 
10 few 
3 
of which are now remembered. Then came the long | a 
a 
M2ZCENAS of his day. Thus by 1808 about 
Verulam, and Chaumontel. But we confess our-; as in 
selves sära to pic se their award. What! wa 
h 
the public wished to have was the relative merit De 
of the Pears—not that of “the exhibitors stoļasi so 
y noia that ene: experiment will be ioe: on ; arthenogene X 
Two or three new plants aoe a ee deal the subjec ribed in Bray’ oe 
The a. obscure s 
r thr 
of notice. Heterocentrum rose ming pecies 
utumn lenis , requirin w Ania Red Snow of our voyagena come at SY Beg 
a greenhouse Ta ent erem by zoospores, ry: s i i 
owers like | botanists 
SPARY, of are right who 3c ea ; 
st 
hi 
of gardening pursuits. But when peace return over 
attention was again directed to these flowers, and, | those of a Rhexia, came from Mr. other to the Al gæ,* 
mainly through the Horticultural Society, many a | Brighton, Cyanophyllum magnificum, the m 
new and gaudy form imported from China was added | superb o ‘‘fine-foliaged”’ Melastomads, one of 
to our collections. By 1824 their number had so} LrnpEN’s numerous great im meg from Aa 
a, was ave RSON, 
there the first public exhibiti Ch: t 
eee i eienn in the words of th OSEP. 
generally allowed to be the most 
SAB: 
wplendid one “of foweriang plants in one mass that 
had ever been seen, and superior to any other 
ps e ibition at eyen the gayest period of the 
Toula t Certainly it was very pretty ; w. 
w Americ: 
of Pine-apple Place 
pecimen noe ‘Ca ar 
pa (we believe C. sapere); “quite. insignificant | 
wha n in flower, was beaut iful in its winter d ci : 
innumerable rich Aah berries about the size of | w pyi, 
swan shot. ere e we th hink 
What other things collectively formed the pro- clanki that, like other r ca Ai 
digious ‘aging of Wednesday will be seen from to vary much in fi 
he report in another column. The following 
fo 
statement of the number of entries for competition 
at the exhibition will enable Siew w ee art ac- | 201 
quainted with such matters idea 
of its extent and the amount A BE “that was | Statu 
miler 
and 
Seep ines pervaded ao land of f Edens 
bac 
ve | 5—Chrysanthemums, 10—Plants, 22, Total 489. 
Collections of fruit, 2 entries—Pine Apples, 35— 
anp s, 50—Pears, 196—A les, 106—Oranges, 8 | at 
Melo 5 15 wberrie C 
es, 
d 
uri 9—Miscellaneous fruits, 10—Dioscorea, | on the same ‘specimen we often find 
din 
n the 
citing, se ing one vi 
of a in v: ia 
flowers, and thin 
undergone beneath the a of ntti ott bear a 
bai erie ire the pati and skill with; Armosr every gardener has observed either on | ẹ Ta Su ae 
which our lish growers cted in less | the shady walle of his forcing houses, on the dead Er mer mele Sears = 
than half a century more than the Chinese them- | roots of “his Orchids, on the tru nks, of tree esin the t et 
selves — been able to produce from ens ia sa of pleasure e ground, or, in sub-al 
— It is true indeed that a fi a vis or upon the surface of ven ange- 
mn sorts still hold a place in our gardens, bu tleaper red velvety stratum, = le melting strongly 
Ea me. most part they are wholly eclipsed by of Violets, and changing’ when kept for a day or 
-raised seedlings; and when compared | two in his room to a dull fon If — B 
the flowers produced by Brrp, of Stokel|the use of an ordina: ary microscope he rs 
Rewiogten , they sink into absolute age ae 
This gro S surprised ee w seedlings of such 
bea santy as our peni "friend 
thie. gasdenar, of the Templars. The 
eset Itho 
[the fashion of the fruit in certain Algæ. 
often 
= ors it consists ‘of, jomted threads of 
which f the joints is often more Neg bs 
the aie: = a sub-globose lateral cell i med 
pr ojecting from the mother thread, sae a after 
attract = 
one of those productions which 
| eye from their beautiful tin sae ore which i in conse- 
white, was as large as a man’s fist. Thi is eter 
that we need no lo ger send to the uttermost ends 
of Asia for this class of flowers. 
dents t 
bens Mee of A ite little son x 
lbs. each. Oth ut | b 
they sna been i in the ground two years. One ex- $ 
, Fungi a nd by others to Lithia. Indeed pehiai Pec ars ‘States. ” 
UT- = confessedly deals in marvels, states that he ade ri ad es iko a 
ri . 9 
the gen t. 5077. 
By Pror. ZANTEDESCHL 
pee é Tessier having a 
thout examination, and | ox. io er upon etiolated pe 
il have be 
the facts which we are about to detail h been poy 
in shallow | considered as a proof that a new mod oduc- Dr a Z exposed tot e 
onten ed lan d, and the sample showed, Eeh tion exists in Lieh s, like that which is commacat fie. cr Goth aay 
wai Seek nown, that no success is to to be expected | in some of our fresh-water C nferyæ i 
re Ea = ances. es e roots were short, r. CASPARY has just forwarded to us a copy | ( es Se. 
ny, ree. tae pänga pae into a lump | of a memoir published in the 36th number of the | Toaldo, Vincento Pado 
pote Se bi eras, c LaF mag. themselves | present year’s Flora, in which he examine The Abbé A: 
cava veer thei ace te = Bae snd sa | mode of oopan in a variety of Chroolepus of a 2 fluence of moonlight. 
. aureum, i i i 
de v fine one-year-old roots were ain, gar sad TF Oh rool “umbrinin “which | 12 days afer th ajrore It 
? eir 
whioh it is vey arme of diferts essentially i in its short t pi contained in g a olien mt i 
ugenia Ugni was produced by several 
generally with little colour, but eyen 
e best tasted 
of ~~, 
oa ot $ T 
A d man rs appeared i th 
Class of Stewed ears: some poe areal uk 
others very little li In one case the fra il, 
The ieee a. in ano to ney only parboiled, 
Jac ve been o opinion that th 
poe for stewing were 1, Bourré Diel, ti ii 
VHéri; 2, Saaret Winkfield, Bellissime 
rice and Poire í Avril; 3, Francréal d Hiver, 
| two or three ae pn in p the joints being | ye 
more or less “ewe very similar species is 
common on old H Halt trees es all here they | E 
are. covered with Tighous ae ” |ie posed to 
certain period of f growth then the satil open pera 
ear. pw be peng which are of oid 3 ther mo 
uall state of the aif. 
y condensed and divided into a dick pia 
A little lateral papilla is 
sl formed upon these joints, and after a ott time — tate but not 
= | the ——— are hrough it, surrounded | 7 
yaline mass which does not — of si the pots 
be bata is of a gelatinous character. This soon | them, in order that” 
bursts, and the contained bodies a: st free, each | ted to these shocks. After 
which is — with one end slightly pointed, | vations, for ; 
h on o 
tip two delicate, thread-shaped | light of the moon. 
wn len I did not., 
t the 
s thive times its o h. mea 
f th ey move with extreme rapidity, but | the e 
at length subside to the bottom of the fluid i 
which ti re- p nd without sending tho 
forth manifest gradually increase 10| he 
y ae or two a c 
ra bgal 
uce the perfect plan ation take’ 
place, therefore, by ie of firm ni E Chroot 
