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CLE. [Mar. 99, 
three seedling nance Ay the best of ag FA was anen- 
Classification. By this mode | 
yet! hlas Many have germinated, and are now 
ong tre ees are > several 
pla nts, _ Amo the 
tiss patag This the > fin st we the old genera of Argynnis and D ah 1 a, Pinus 
M é erardiana and excelsa, with Cupressus mnie 
judicious eher eaer of zek sorts, Jf, however, a | their "anatomical al division. —A ge was read “from a Mr 6 x belong Dy to Fae TU Berberis =e 
has been ob baa sage impressa were crossed | Walke Gan denia, Ben Cotonea: aster, Spiræa, 
by grandiflora, something better might s pa: ea 158 aves, ae AA RAE tosa, vides, B Philadelphus, ang Bhus; and 7 
orf S Ce ara poy pee Bond DREIT CALEDONIAN HORTICULTURAL the ae es je among j ia bs rb ‘opi plants s may be noti Tye l 
the highest state of preservation, including Passe Col- 9 W. “Craufurd | On m 
ie nae Nalia nd Grout Moroega —C. pit i! the Hall ia ha ir. "Notwithstanding tl i tt reg erding the altera ation a 
Hig» sent from Mr, Allman, a nurseryman, highly | Esq., im the cn h show t: e Promenado Lawn (which will pas of 
coloured specimens of Uvedale’s St. Germain, a |mency Binder Pri fb id BE great advantage on public days), and describing the 
nigel a gg Fish gr te oh Oddie, cxlarly brilliant —the interior of the Hall thus forming a | disastrous effecte of the late senare a 
A ( : SOCIETY O : 
Esq.; and by Mr. Toy, gr. to Colonel Challoner. a d. For roducin ike ee Een, VB. 
Finally, various Cucumbe ere present.—Mr. Doran, Numerous premiums v Re bikie k ap ces T “ie r Medal, Eoy e ee mg peA i nd ie 
r. to T. Hawes, Esq., sent two specimens of Victory nae Chair. m p wa 
SF kaioa. the iosas of which mcanured 19 inches, |as rst vo isons Davenport, J. Philp, V. Ternie, G. Wilson, and Q. 
S a i t nent anh ea Browston hyb of pad. von ‘the “tind 8 rod eing auil mist, Cente, Meeking, Esquires. The Secretary described the d 
D ve ints. eat M? Mills, of Baonerseesy, Park, double striped, Landreathii, Imbricata, and Kae stance called Gutta Percha, which 6 fi rst Freee j 
7 , = 
contributed so agon i hente by h eih ph a E pii Sto Professor Dunbar, for elk ET sett Col- Iri is the conerete juice of pige 
3 > piec hia igy P f his contrivance, boasted Simi, Elegan , Ec clipse, a tiing nimed i ange ae n the Is land of Sin gapore, _ i ct He 
A I King ; rocket when. it exudes in the form of — 
by fermenting ma Bc hr ae Beck, of Isle rl | AR dre 
That slate pan for the growth of Orehidaceous plants. faba eens oe. nym) three finest | 2 Milky. juice which soon curdles, In emical pro, 
Ar. e much 
tiful | varieties of Epacris, the Silver Medal was piret to Mr. | jess elastic, It, how h that 
A Sao s paie “Se reh ov Chat thy opt gst Reid, gr. to Prof. Syme, fo r E. onosmeefiora, impressa | Substance does not, which will render it- of consider 
4 Mr. Beck in one of them on this occasion, This is| bybrida, and splendens ; and a second pig was | value as a substitute for dogiem cotheteen bs eel similar ine. 
one of the kng leppe biogas Mr. Har rtweg colle cted i in awarded to Mr, Young, Bt P T. Oliver, Esq., for E. im-| Straments required especia. ily yin ye clim The Gut 
Ki ater nearly at t 
South America, and pro da] | Percha, dippe f c 
ble P: esin flower, the Bronze Meda te plastic so as to be for 
enus, cheng esti ae we? in ry |r draha of ies Tones srt co William aeath Bea: dily. be w unit ited, and bec eee . a Fahr 
owers baka dy variegate oliage. A mi er Puf iole t, red, whi te, yel- | ^ naised -ahapo, sad which: eerie: 
was awar 3i 2 N 
Lawrence sent a glass globe, similar to thos ti erous, all of the bat will wer = ta ss : h s prs Bee &e. 
fit eae etitors were num and is used in Singapore forc = y Kea, 
gold > eal yy Bi pt, Pih a piece of glass ad Beatly AE aN a ii pos roe mA Hower. or harira ae m ve: 
th “b glusses).—The Silver Medal ? d ha i ot 
lingo “a zinc wateri ing-pot | i to Mr. Young, for Prince Albert, Grande Vidette, wga ia hes rena, bougies end. 
pi hi ert the position of tho aed Laurens Coster, Grand Vaingueur, Tubiflora, and Rosina, caoutehouc, became e quite ink kaa 
close to op with a small aperture near the Dab. ary the bulbs being grown in hypnum-moss, wit little | fom the subst ming s 
is closed in by a cap, which is moved by the thumb, u up | send on the s ~ Ct. a Ha P swt s Mti S Ai | Secretary pars At i ee paste ee p. hedsler 
required, fo irst 7 ?.| lathe-band, a short pipe, &c., w. 
to bo withheld, according as Sir is admitted or shut nae, | Richelieu, aa Vidette, and i Triomphe Blandina; and | yapi baaz Pa iye a-water bottle, containing ar 
Along with this were two Wa rdian Cases, having a a | the Doom nance a pnt à Aa Mr. Oswald, Br- | pg BOR Eo the ire, Pes an aamin nclosed 
al pital, Dean, for La Cour ?}a covering of the Gutta Percha, 
Am mi ur, Anna Maria, Grande Vidette, Mars, l bat, & t 
Hs ngia iang n ined a ie Bg ma, and Gra vod Vainqueur—A number of articles of great each = na » aD 
off by means of a n no ot wanted ; warm dry air | interest were brought forward for exhibition, and for a solid lump. The trees containing. this 
can also be aa i ‘he top of bard case ‘through pipes. Javora of these extra honorary awards were made. In product .are very numerous im th 
Th uch cases cuttings may ruck in the draw-| particular, the Society’s Silver Medal was assigned to pore.—Dr, ae a an 
m, with wnat as much estan and facility as | Mrs. Haig, who exhibited beautiful flowering specimens mospherie Railways, giving a history of the 
in the propagating house.—From = Garden of the| of Dendrobium ccer nd D. Piera ~ | tion fom Em in which y: 
Society was the larger variety of Onci um sphacelatum nificent specimen of ris impressa, Æschynanthus | Jished a pam n the subjec: 
Epidend EF aradigi Ak hyemalis, Ey ce a ria called Prin- | 9 aren eapevl Pilbrow Saale: 
recent introduction; the handsome E. aur. antia jacum, cess oo — The Silve r Medal w lso voted to F: inal valve is entirely dispensed with. 
with Han. orange blossoms ; they ite Cybill um bar. Gray sq An this new system of fei 
batum, Hippeastrum Johnsoni, Beronfs nlmifolia, with | in bloom; a heal lant Sihowing 1o ower-buds, of th shown in action, which differs from that submitte 
ig i flowers; two Epacrises; a handsome | curious, oril; Tooking? vegdable to Lehbos farete, from the Society of of January, by having some of th 
riety o ododendron arboreum; and|the African shore gos Echino- | small horizontal wheels plain and some threaded 
Rany, a cut specimen of the exican shrub | cactus Scoparo E cand ge actus fr rom Lime of being c l, which had formed a au ive al o! 
Habrothamnos ‘asciculatus, which was ta in their densedly clothe h fine lk we and ‘popularly to the invention. The aaariae, when the 
Transactions asa plant of great bea sequence, | called the ra Cactu .—Still another Medal MIT) dabai dagane ehpok Orao ance — the lo 
however, o! ething else (probably bittan roseum) raise e tison, for a seedling „Cineraria, to the upper end of ihe Tarsan raile and which es 
having been ir a pee nto collecti his, 
doubts ‘were appre a es its ever realising oe urple flowers being of intense brilliancy. —Messrs. ——— SS 
is the true H, , fas 
AFT “Dickson and Sons sent for exhibition five plants of 
aie E 
I. Economie rurale, considérée dans ses rapports awet 
l istata, and a very large 
ha che as been 8 ceed it. fà its native country it specimen of Centradenia yeuea, in _full dow er—Mesers Jaa Chimie, ta Physique et la Máilaroinoi: 
forms í eii hres, about 5 feet in height, covered | Carstairs, Kelly J. E. Boussingault. Paris: Béo! 2 vols. 
with multit tudes of beautiful re hems ossoms, which a tipi richly-flower ed plants of “Andromeda flo ribunde, with aah 
duced in cluste he ends of the sho rt flo ower- stems. Camellia ochroleuca and C. elata, —Professor Bone eT- | 11, Rura my, àn åts relations with Chem 
In this marge it should be groma ly ola Epacrises.—Mr. Purdie Physics, and coralogy, &e. Remeelaiots with 
situation as i admit of without injur ana as | produced ell-marked seedling Epacris. — Mr, ppa an and Notes, by Geo. L w, Agriculturii 
it on a Siaposition to grow iene ing. over aad nce Oliver sen ate a very fine POFTEI specimen of the highly Hardon a Baillière. 8vo. 
- shonld be checked uch as possible. It was| fragrant Illicium bras is the most important i? sue slaabis hoha 
pie mentioned that tings of seria having || Mr. Thyne se + apecitiens of the Bai sig Hungarian | brews whieh rape emists of thi 
laid in the ground as usual, were so frozen in, that | plant Hellet produced. It i , indeed,. so ig nid 2 yi “les 
was found impossible to separate the soil from them | variety of Saxifraga expen completely covered paragraphs of Professor Liebig, it 
without injuring the bark; for this reason, none d | with flowers, from the en of Dr. Neill, Canonmills, w eaor 
be sent for distribution. The soil was (March18th) frozen was much admired. Be: many fine plants sent position which the 
to the depth of 5 inches in recently dug ground jn the| either, by petitors exhibitors, the Hall was world, his known accuracy as a chemist, 
Kitchen Garden of the BR and as muc! 7 or 8 | adorne ei iar highly ornamental and i interesting | ation’ which he enjoys as a careful experiment 
inches where it had not been recently dug specimens the Soclety's Rhode 4 met nor Rts tome spakan renonetajiie a high interest to every thig "a 
\ododendrons, and also a he iia We all eaders ab 
gag NNEAN $ shu 
Forster, Es 
larly, several aioe aeS 
Rho doden n campan 
qs; he 
Doutisdas, En, » Surgeon, was elec oben ellow ne 
Bowerbank presented to the Society a collection of 
h hat the 
pots about six weeks ar 
cultiv: ated and flow ie sf a b 
remark- 
ruits, ‘mencet which were t 
fia), B 
the 
fon choon, 
ants 
n rs 
r-syphon 
ably rieh Epacris n nih. bie its Sadia, b's back, so 
—At 
of which We 
as to gi ve the plant a balloon fo orm, — meeting Ser oof of re R Pa pt sufficiently 
me lengt tha aie of the 
ook, shanties va ee on merci statem: be: 
views which appear to be founded on doubtful or un 
| tain evidence lf, -s 
But before we can notice M. Boussingault himsel,’ 
the 
four species of Cocos, y aae dhe 
ecies of Mucuna. —Mr. Gotgh rere a 
runk of the Aspidos celsu 
r 
8 
colleorion = paren rs es Lankester pa a _— | 
of t 
the practical gardeners present were re 
parii Ai aeea ipti several nll soi 
o, the | o the eting: . The fi 
babies 
eques 2 give ong, 
id, oe s ing 
ene phi 
ht rs Gu uiana by Sir Robert Schou Gibi urgk, 
markable for the eccentric Maco, mam of the zones 
ood: „he also exhi bit ed $ speci ki 
paper was read by M 
E e 
Structure W the amen of Plants as exhibited | c 
in siliceous 
sts of tissue from fossil wood. The | find repeated earthing-up t a an igno 
casts H by saat spies th rH rom ose view Penn vantageo! s gh uano did not ll very i ai Sevi ata n cee eae 
the spire of tissue is formed i the mem- | nnoenedict? "aber when applie : in a liquid form or in ask, unpleasant as-it is, 
brane. "Casts of f the dotted and gine tue Bio ed r; but er P akas o this powerfal fertilise ly that v 7 
thät the dots were caviti a = ose concavity was pre-| was very limit mpr ae mjor Ay aa preventing incompeten' t per 4 ee ee alao that 
serited to the interior of t vel in which they oc- | James M'N ab, iie seeds of alay. ees, wi de prt wr — pe gy he wietey 
curred. —A Paper was read by 2 Mr. Edward Doubleda ay, | erap i and Saget siete n Mo roadbed + overland car- hranili dis Bo — > into az 
-of the Britis W. Jameson, Esq., of the Saharunpore Bo-!| found to put M, Boussingault’s.views 
of Guano, iy Mr. or ig n, se as 
ture of the Potato 
ect wee of the ty re liting 1 the seed-tu 
anuary, m 
at Orm sary. Jn 
tes the ma ot M 
tubers 
eri 60) 
ecul-|. i 
t of without criticism,. for t: 
pe 
lation might have retained utility 
pri but an rant one, it is justi 
English dress. 
