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THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[OCTOBER 24, 1803, 
We desire to qe it as le 
becaus vths 
likely to SD our | 
abso lute | 
less new every year. 
and less new, rather than old, 
are not so numerous as to be 
exbibitions with collections of act tual an nd 
8 
encourage 
other and better b iere yet, for the 
We shall get 
our cobwebs and dust, 
set about gearing T away. Ву sonda to | 
w Hyacinths at our shows w eed. get | 
form 
ably 
s of G. arbor reum, herbaceum, obtusifolium 
variations d 
pro 
| species (quite. distinct from G. barbadense) : al 
"ы 
season rabie vio 
t be egt form pr richer 
ich 
the veltios of a certain number y 
кыда four years—to compete de on Hoi terms | masses. e sball get a much farther. development of ite nap, and with t : o cotton attached all over, 
for the DÀ offered for new sorts. That is to say, in the attractive white-ey ed ANS We s e кн more | This group I consi ау — and the barbadense 
providing for a group of new E We shall e et пе f African origin; while a third group, represented 
ера ‹ of 1864, rather than limit the competi to itin the last few yoann. nly, | by the plant which produces the Pernambuco Cotton, 
AU ge dicio. prominent, by giving them a good! and by Roxburgh's G. acuminatum, I look Upon as 
ot 1863, which would not probably *be sufficient to position a in з tho schedules. But for the sake of moi referable to South е The plan: described by 
make a group, or atleast would not furnish suficient bitors udges, let us say exactly what we xburgh is appar 5 ча ` < E- as the one figured by 
choice, we should allow all those orts which had when ask the one to нне. А-а Ше Аз кка E Rumpb. 4, 13, and by Rheede, Hort. Ma 13, which 
been first sold out in the respective seasons p: 1860, certainly militates — : y MT з but still, I think 
1861, 1862, and 1863, to be considered new for the I am right. € b Ot 20018 "i р are large 
purposes of exhibition; but no rs should be|  —— Dr. J. E. AY mentions in the Journal of|strong awe a ir or oven sm » preferring 
admitted. We hardly think a of four rs | Botany that in Pem bestes des. ао, near Broad- | low, moist, sandy soils v т the coast, and therefore 
would let too wide a choice of varieties, con- | haven, the ес colonr e the PRIMROSE із em | admirably adapted for culture оп the extens 
sidering the limited number of new sorts annually|lilae, and specimens of this of the «prim flats alon he sho то А ia, where is 
brought forward, or worth bringing forward, ibut | colour Ка нун m id be 1 sually to und wit pt oot or two of the surface, 
this point would naturally soon adjust itself. | stone wall (stone walls in th The essential character of this group is found in the 
Aeris to the rule proposed, in 1865 those sorts | of. edges), коралла so riam together АА, ed pod and seed. pod is large, three:celled, ending 
h had been sent out between 1861 aud 1864 | арреаг to gro m the same о { | in а long taperin ag point—hence, I presume, Roxburgh’s 
маса ml issible; in 1866 those sent out | some plants are — white. er examples of | name; while seeds are smooth, flattened, kidney- 
between 1862 and 1865; and so on e might hope|two forms of one plant growing under the same con- | shaped, adhering together r by their inner surface, and 
in the influence of t o see our bulb | ditions, he further mentions а purple Wood Anemone, Doar ring their long, strong staple оп the outer. On 
lists drawn up во that the novelties and the older with the e the cotton thon би, ДАИР seeds present; 
kinds might appear separate, as they do in the case of | the same tuft ; a beautiful pink variety of 1 a flat How many of the 
most other florists flowers. This would be a manifest | Sorrel Moses, А amidst the S eee white 58; and а species. named in bot iil v are referable to this 
y forming 
sized blunt-pointed pod 8 
Hazel nuts ; the seed mus round, Aes with 
whit 
rm of Lamium album, in the midst 
cause the informatio: 
t present the un mein have no guide 
be yond price, and this is qr wives it rather 
ETERS the stock than age or merit of the 
— to which reference has been made, 
new Mane and the AN shown 
were EE E IAM РАТ Florence 
Nightingale Lord pod de 
Len E parin асе 
Rouge Ecla sce en К 
ir Mai id a 299 Ба 
Orange You Lord Масашау, Victoria 
Mibindcios, ә ат Је б Mei en Paix de 
l'Euro view taken 
E 
а а better defined class in fature, we have о drawn 
collections, the praed in full being printed in in the 
article of “Quo,” mentioned as having | 
| in the Ж Nd órist. The 
Чр | 
е infi 
w | later 
of beds of the bein colour. 
Primroses, hanging over the side of the poti in which it 
It 
group I am unable 
part of the чча medi» charac 
T rown together these 
former thoughts on the genus Gossypiam and its pos- 
New Plants. sible subdivision ‚ їп the hope of their proving useful to 
262. ANDROSACE LANUGINOSA, Wallich, Herb. such an ingenious and skilful experimentalist as your 
Ind. 615. Correspondent, ру suggesting various modificatious of 
Am he innumerable gems collected by Mr. Mt жы: pum 
Veitch i T nanle nursery at Combe Wood, we had the е quitting | the subject, I think it desirable to 
good for о find in flower this exquisite rarity. e. drm: the circumstances ird led me to infer 
formed a trail g herba s stem, covered with silvery that the Cottons now so largely c ated in be 
hairs, and producing leafy branchlets terminated by rican States are of African nint. . A good m 
small umbels of lilac blossoms, just like miniature | years ago, while study ying € subj «у a та vis 
statement i ina book, the 
about the e of: pics 
^ short 
say, the ми. > rarely fi 
Temi niseences of 
me of w 
was growing. was fi 
Xi 
+1. 1 
f the „Кей "p^ ees 
India, in the eerie of Sirmore and Kum 
143, 
еті Thos. Thomson met with. P in the 
temperate districts of е Жог: же tern шы аба | 
height of from 7000 to 1 0,000 fee above sen. 
We 
MD en 
again, after A failures, to continental 
merica. "More MS I met with. another y айе 
e presume that t itn ill t 
With Mr, eth. it has nh | 
kept in а cold pit, which it МЕ finds very suitable 
to its constitution. 
£ 
сотт‹ ON SURETA 
es > Dutch jones whose 
oned. The, va а e the 
Ur, ai 
4 +1 + 
m T. C." on анны Hybridised Coton? giving 
We 
an account of a en what 
M" ser assigned by and 
Paul's 
date. 
HYACINTES. 
Duc de Malakoff 
Fair Maid of Denmari 
1852 
1839 
1853 | 1860 
It would thus appear that very few indeed of these 
new, alti h M 
ие 
Уап oce 
Veen Bros. 
шене here | short-sta 
rt of 
eto be the long-stapled Sea Islan à у the very 
short but t strong-stapled Nankin Cotton plants (Goss. 
Pese o Roxb.) Тһе former lias an egg-shaped 
| smooth black seed with the cotton fibre confined to ће 
а the other has a somewhat 
oblong se seed m r less flatte ned at the ends, and 
lothed with a short woolly ,tawny-coloured nap, and 
, 
same 
which Id 
жд 
І received a 
seed, genes Mai Sea Заа New Orleans, 
ey we 
The Am 
the Eg, yptians pieitat both forms mixed 
кейт proportions. 
aim deduction е arrive 
s ronde 
prev vented followin ng up 
ү ago in Mad 
e th eec ckets of у 
ree pa El 
same time in my 
gel de 
be 
ed at did not then occur to 
ПОР the historical d, 
re all sown at the 
attained maturity а 
ns came 
кие 
шн 
ric 
t, for want of the histo 
* 
SEDE 
.9 
the supposition ti 
n 
the easy success of the first trials may be partly owing 
now, авар. 
here паа 
presume AN Ае i dee to the kinds 
brid differs from both, but seem 
e parent, and I 
thin 
I: 
ase d. м» with which 
effec T 
s to ta ht not 
E it probable m кре DENN 
E: e n 
but much stronger “ Pernam's," would 
, om greatly superior to tha 
берш n between the Indian 
staples @ е. бин and New 
with a vari riety superio or to either аз тера: 
x case if truly distinct "Ue 
more difficult to attain S 
and A 8 
rovide us _ 
Orleans), red in d 
ed to consider the smooth black. seeded 
g-staple B F4 
New piran 
years, one of 157 Su. one of 9, 
s of 
e of 7, one of 6, 
nu і 
Th tuated repeal 
fields of them, all so alike that they were scarcely 
distinguishable until the pods began to open. "лен 
ong. 
Ee ier E^ i Cotton, and - s voolisoded н 
rt-stapled 
ud one of 2 бааны old. Thes voie it remeare d, 
t but believe | 
Xhe New Orleans was distin 
some care. The heaps t 
- [of „опе species, was 
faisais, but not without 
t they were all varieties 
bsequ ently cdi Љу 
far maperior to any o t old sorts 
cultivate. They will м 
апсе slowly, 
of tom at c 
we | 
oolly, 
un- snahe? variety e own as the Тык 
аге, воше | 
avin 
е 
ч cultur 
ДЕ 
Тһеге 
^g Georgian died 
Seed, the seed of which is covered with иа аз 
ke cede is with brown or tawny, and the N. 
with dirty white Me ОР ashy nap. "he 
мей differences we have still to lea: With 
t- i irs m 
коч 
Roxburg о his 
is the Georgian Green LA ae "e the vitifolium. P 
| n il is the same as Roxburgh's G. acuminatum, o 
which more by and by. 
en led to view i 
Veri 
| Indeed 
Tndin | give the 
чи 
ан» 
species, dn Wight, poene is, ang 
LI 
THERE is nothing in 
without 5 [2o 
can 
when it is consi 
plants в 
odi ope. for s 
E 
ther hand, crosses dine "e 
8 
likel, Т sevi ваде 
QT i 
PLANTS. 
986) suffi 
wh 
be no аера wh; 
of exti Ў: them. 
