152 THE GARDENERS 
health jär state. Mr.F. i is against « covering g Vine-borders 
with dung, on account of its making the border | wet. if 
CHRONICLE. [Mar. 8 
one from almost every pair of leave 
the second of polarity, on 
in 
} 
that the „Whole stock of this beautiful mache shrub, depends on, 
and o 
long litter from the stable is laid on in g 
clude 
opposition or divergence of the twe 
suffici ent thickne ess, no rain will penetrate it to 
the case. et should, however, like to know the opini 
Vinitor. 
—In the Chronicle of Feb. 22d, page 
5. Mr. seinen describing his peatge of the Tae 
d Trentham Hall, assignin g his s for departing 
f m the “universal practic: e” speaks 
ee —* My idea i is, that by leaving ion unpraned till 
r es of recent introduction, whose 
petals show off to much advantage the pure white Jip, Soon be placed at the extremity of the poles, whi ‘2 
een 
fine 
ph aah PR f y Mr. doms. This last he would “explain :—If we were tor rept 
b |G lendi g Ri e ner Tae from “whore NEE table kingdom by two an 
. a la ‘oli 
to G. Barker, fea » peat 7 i: a "endha one end of the line would form one pole | and the oth 
which near n Aap is delicately tinged with pink. 
gdo: 
Cci ether in the centre 
the same quai 
bractescens, 
Now, what 
pis mia sin 9 fully expanded blossoms, re = deer kingdoms, took place als so in each kin 
of which surround a lip o 
u yerfluous buds , the whole of the nourishment stored 
latt rom 
bright yellow: koprene Me 
Mr. 
pply 
Robertson, Igr. to 
took place on the lai whe is 
dal was awarded for As lie combinations in the series at whic 
Mrs. . La jawrence, brn Ba oe te oe Thus, > ith the ial King 
the next is ane for the buds that are left, i 
ng Jost, as part of it must be when Vines are a 
at the u usu ual time; ; or in other words, by Aot all method the 
covered with Maass and proving ‘a worth y rival of 
large} eA E shown at the last SA ing 
Ruc 
di sine 
t what is eee useless to aX Thus : Me F. 
flow 
collection was “also he curious, thoug Me not 
i iW 
with this 
ie p speciosu m. 
d t which exhibited ‘the same 
by Mr. | differ 
ception, that this E is ih so vegetable kingdoms. His object was to veld yal 
From the sa 
h 
ate and aian Ab or articulate animali E 
eral 
d 
e 
nces as was exhibited between the suited an 
i so 
Siwy 
Fr a 
Ri 
bu 
assumes a new principle, and nrg ha a pr 
planation, aoe leaving it to who are ; more 
skilled in Veg 
cea hydrangeiformis, whic 
meeting ; and a plant = ‘Heli 
for 
ncis- tion ; and, crs the analogies they presented through — 
first relati ions ; and in the firs place he would s eak of i 
bing- 
, 
pate 
nia " Pracilicgéls, F re- =| logies was the most practical 
w pt s bright-red sheathing bracts and pur 
the h rst —_ H be A 
al. It ct of 
mon knowledge, = plants salt nt wee regar ded as 
f Horticulture a (very trnly); that when a pura r Eg material. A Certificate 
e 
hat rere indie iduals, but as congeries or combinations i indivi- 
in afe s opinion. i inte re re “down pondent A F duals. These individuals were repute! represented 
ere an Irishman l idh hk ls, of grederi Park, sent a a ONI Aa the leaves and the flowers of the plant eae 
a horticultural bull. Mon wever, neo petty unac- called Browston EL mea suring upwards of 20 nind ivi dua! a dual 
quainted with Mr. Fleming, I would merely say he } d having erformed different fonctions in 
used a most illogical Dartin al tabliah a fine ansoihin of good c cultivation, and was | the Kek lene to wie they belonged. 
= Principle of pruning. He quotes pron tib “Theory powais the pit of Mr. Mills’s agnor heated by | was committed the ae of ing up, oe 
was awarded for it.| and distributing the nutriment or 
tbid 
The small ne feel flowers of this, petals, sepals, ae pistils, eine modified leaves. This 
f t Li 
the ( Garden of the Society ungens, Vente iste to er was given 
e important function of reproducing 
ood is daribujed through the "branches equally. If | two Epacrises, Centradenia rosea, the double-flowering | spec a was now known that those organs were 
h rple Chinese Primula, Cyr aon maculatum, and modes ns be a = sy DEET and that thi 
sap so communicated as the parts cut off contained, is | Mu ssænda agg which was sent from Hong-Kong amorphosed branch, its 
thrown away and no more; neither could that sap | (so eA bS Fortun 
lost) have in any 1 are fo med everal together on the ends of the | fact was first pointed out by Linnæus, but not applied a 
itl 1 lat hich | ll ri are o ne yellow, but the most remarkable | in thes science of botany. It was again brought to light 
l fV ble Physiol “But | pey in the species is the large greenish- -veined white by Wolfe, but forgotten; and it was left for the ge -A 
nstead of,” as he 1 in; d fancy of the poet Goethe to see its importance in — 
of all their useful a the whole tends to drain the composing t the prolate is transformed, The plant is not | the science of of bo tany; ee to draw w the att ten ntion ol he 
general reservoir of that food which, if early pruning}? 
ey 
n. 
had been siopa, would have been given to the useful in ioar © Now, however, that plant-culture has | or - change of one organ in to another, had so long been ral 
arts only; because it is con ntrary to the fact to ass bec: ome SO secs the aioe of the gardener, it is to recognised by botanists, it had no t till within L 
tth f F ee 
to another st e How sap which one | share of hi it and that it will yet He (Professor Forbes) had, however, been e to 
branch contained assist aa general “develop ment 
another branch, if left upon the tree? er 's principle | was bababe tity eae with thos 
of th 8a sp 
a the first 
h 
lt T hilst the sim- | cultur: 
} 
pac isto must at once perceive that the contrary | roo 
is f. 
ascertained by cutting a = anch of when the buds are just 
reakin g J fear of Mr. F.’s brethren may justly 
Horticnitare. =J. C. ioaea Bray, March 
e do not understand the right which Mr. ing 
nities claims of _assuming, that we adopted it, 
denying i legitimacy des 
of Mr. R.: ’§ arguments, we must at onc e say that a 
si is not unknown, and that the 
to another bra nch. The reason why we offered no com- i 
bi 
m, for 
Es r 
by "C. aaia Esq., and had been placed in the 
ds a Professor Henslow, who had commen 
S iia 
The 
video “ti 
were elected fellows. —A por 
ch | the Secreta’ 
Mr. Fleming's | by | Dr. 1Y, 
xn 
from Paris, were also nt 
h Fellows aahei to rece’ 
r 
h oa meeting- | branches of a plant. On these 
them kind: 
ition-tables 
seeds 
ose usually | the 
iven away to Fellows at Hs season, nine sorts of agri- 
al s aan 
LI R SOCIETY 
aoe —R. Pao N, Esq., in the chair—J. p 
E| Bawi bei k, Esq., Dr. p er aaa D. Price, E 
Zoophytes were a group of plant-like inal 
| Sertul: deny Eeh bad branches some pei pe 
branches 
food for the whole co nity; aad a certain number of 
| other individuals constituting collectively caps, wh 
on of a paper was read By 
Now, on looking over the various genera and species f 
tritive in 
The ‘plants described were col- 
collec 
k about oe specien a which 50 were new. 
was, ne it a a ot pa G. Ne wport, Esq., On 
eat 
anatomical characters from Scolopendra. 
a ve 
enced their 
he plants pr m gp ds Islands not i oe ace es ring hh 
08 d, but the}, 
same sap can traverse (pass) from one branch of a tree tere “lands of be group oe at 
Ww 
paper 
‘the Litho- 
s distinguished by many 
The latter is | and 
ants, 2 ft 
any kind touch a leaf or stalk of these plants in the Mtg 
wing season.” No g to ion. that I ha 
n t 
rance above grou eaten b mep 
that not a single plant ever atiainod atha: alga of ai coke ner, theni allied species, as the: Geo 
as 
them. 
inches; and when taken up in 
scarcely the e same quantity of Ns as a had a PERSA 
sed: its iasi food i is Beya larve and ei 
The author had seen a Lithobius attack 
twice as large as its ar fs Sra 2 sagen it 
soon returne 
entomologists have sup- bie 
arth-worms. 
Tan aw: 
an earthworm 
ay, 
hey do not attack oe 
phili, 
The 
p 
d flesh of vertebrate anala acts as a pols son upon 
| viduals wers converted into reproductive individuals D 
a process of re. exactly compa rable tot! 
Reese sion of the eaves of pi 
illu 
People should, 
therefore, be careful i 
tion of this oli a ig 
ore 
the same 
nner as tl rustacea. 
| characters sain ‘helt given eo ‘om the 
Q 
Societies. 
TICULTURAL SOCIE 
peer 
7 Peet 
al rm killi 
ue federal The Tanob reproduce their ios parts | ¢ 
eC 
speci 
dorsal per 
the labial teeth, and colour and pirat es of the 
n a form 
food, 
ific 
—the 
paper the author shad placed the 
Wes. 
5 l, and had found the most satisf 
evidence of the applicability of this theory to the strut 
t and organisation of the Sertulariade 
now draw t attention to the second a 
lative part of his subject—the Analogy of 
Groups in the An 
ore reg e animal ai 
of two spheres or groups, 
held “find the we a elism be 
HOR TY. 
—Dr. HENDER: sin Chair. Capt. 
Mar. 4. t. 5. a hig and proposed for it a new family 
J. Widdrington, R.N., R. we , J. Huskisson, Ae | the ‘Senlpendl hide. Kuen microscope; he aronerty 
de, S. Hancock, Esqs., and e W. J. Epps, were | of the Society, ted. 
. e mo 
Feb. 14. 
constructed by Smi 
YAL INSTI 
xhibit 
W. R. HAMILTON, maag vi P.i in the chair. 
evenin, 
oO 
ne Jelly. o assumed the Pars five and thi 
ike: ee mber four. The two ns or ground 
the ai mala and vegetable Sa gdo he called 
trat The entra 
cte! 
read A 
was characte 
tothe formation 
is “his 
an internal sche and a “ny ofcombination. The 
flowers of this perfectly new species are in form some- | between the Animal and Vegetable Kingoni 
thing like thos Amary ide of 
i a 
y its tendency to eia aonn i 
ther | les 
before them. 
ch peet the minds of the most pro ofound investigators of 
s practic: 
han prada which were sual sor 
ni was one, however, which had often en- 
needed no — 
and ani 
large th 
ading limb ; that the tube is of a rich brown and through the idea of analogy, which as ite 
r p 
tanleyana, which was obtained from Sierra Leone by An numerous 18 audience „attended this 
Mr. Whitfield, Collector to the Earl of Derby. Th 
1 
t ose of an llis; the ins 
being of aw ate brown, mottle 
whi ound. These blossom: re, however, rather 
past perfection, and ins of g t, which they 
should have been, ‘ooping, the whi ing mu 
f . It was stated that when in their more per! Nature, and he truste 
state the corolla is 7 or 8 inches in length, with a lar, object ‘was to. view e vegetable an 
limb pie, ‘mottled with | dark purple, and tinged at 
pright stem 
bstract propo 
e plant, pg these oe gan might i 
py the” t ogeasion, me somewhat the bs Lg ach af the tig be 
be een oc an spre me g: 
sitions with regard to t the 
of natural h story. The 
ology. 
His 
of an sia skeleton and arti 
Inti the Snr sh of this theory to the highes' stg E 
of the animal kingdom, the Vertebrata fars toll 
concentrate sphere, and the Inve ertebra c 
late sphere ott 
A with gaei o 
5 
d 
iiiar ou: 
os — to bea — of 
animal and | s 
= Er near tis ey seve tg horizontal bra rah 
r atd by 
tur alt 
the 
forming a neafly level top, and from the appar ode of pa at pea ne on the corres ot ni 
' f 
of these branches the sessile flowers appear singly, | divisions, and of the laws ct the rte i 
me | presented the re of the spheres. In the vegeta 
perry the Exogens represented the concen’ 
_— and the Endogens s the articulate sphere. f 
y the same opposition : 
he spheres in parallel groups might be observed as 
the Amorphozoa, which repres bans he concen 
sphere, and the Echinodermata the ghee 
the animal king dom. In groups of ordinal 
