“ATA THE 
GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. (Jory aay 
“ments of which- still ‘exist-and upon whic! Sorgen 
e 
; the one to`Mr. Young, pesas |i whom the work is principally intended. We 
of the third, 
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sgreat elk and other quadrupeds now exti prizes were i 
Eoakng A or papra of the first Henman led to | Lodge, for Phi Van sa and the other ter oMr ——Mr. Maund has added to his B otanieG 
the destru on 0: of _ a that of the second to that Young, “gr. Ferguson, Archerfi 
r chiiménes ha "Fo urious or uncomm: 
o iaer ei ipie 5 aw: 
—_ ks the first to ae fully executii; nid nt ae are very nae coloured ; 
er, and of the as now existing. 
ddition “will rende er Mr. Maund’s pee more 
“mine arn ne no eo epoch iof the west 
ora. ment,: perhaps, wit with that ep matth- and 
of the vegetation'of+the-true Atlantis— 
JA 
scant rise o Mr. yen for Asple 
m, Erigeron aes Saxifraga Hireulusy ne a "Cae z purpose e of Ans ge EaR the rea ot oe st coral pr: 
S nu 
s point in ven ays illaris—For the -best 12 Pin , the f London. -It is too truea icti ai 
pa imong, e ~ abe "fora reeset. de nen ned ‘by Mr. Currie,: gr. to ale iss Wedderburn, difficulties which many aoa men ka enii 
eteryand far e kinds being— George gi — Cooke’ paseon agains t a and of t the bmallr eward that awaits heira - 
sibe: oldest of the “exis ting floras The eo riety Barr’s Emperor, s ‘Topaz, Ros Dia a, | SI 1} exert 
relations of the Miocene sea, indicated by the anne “i — Mars, Earl Gre a Dan O'Connel R ; unfair unwise, a and indefensible a edi 
“the  eoralli e g give an te certainly’ to Bruce, Rose Delvine, and Fair Flora. For a f : 
and third of the above floras, if not of ‘the fi 39 he ‘first to Mr are excluded 
The 5 o vate the red or middle crag was probably eoeval | Y foun for Queen Victoria, Prince-of es, Minerva, Hera co saarea hrai tar s Sones Plani 'aru 
Comite the ‘in g of the secon nd» flora, thatvof th er, Beauty oe ee Earl Grey, Douglas's Ma acbeth, Fossilium (8vo, L fuk li 
bon rag with ird. -The date of the Ferg rguson aith, Mr. Ferguson, of hitherto fo 
‘th-is too evident to tioned, and: the-author fe siste Russell, Toin Knox, Zebrina, Prince “tikes a fossil state. Sieatranea ace cae to naturalo 
regards the. glacial region m which it flourished as a | Lord Brougham, Mrs. Clark, Lady Murray, mogidanei in that most important: bi 
local climate of which no true traces, 50 far as animal ingham’s mottled, Apollo, and Tady Dawes $ and of nataral -history, th ymy, which’ is akici 
coe , exist thwards of -his nd-and | the cond pe to ine. Jo hn MNei gr. to E. fossil botany even ‘more perplexed than in ther ; 
his was the newer pleocene epoch. eireag 
The period ‘of the sona — that = the postitertiary, sorts, but not se csfoctly. eae oped. The aa ing are and the whole 
‘the uee ze thin was o ngeniine ae for the six finest Pe lazgo oniums _preduced a fine et index. The wo: is intspensile tll wo 
Adopting sirens San ela’ a | display, all the specimens -being sae and well gettin Cata alogus sna be 
tim ime, the ; greatest ‘imeuties . in the way of changes of grown, evincing decided impro nt i elargo-|in horto Botar oriensi culla 0, Ba 
nium culture. The- prize o _ Ena — by | pp. 391) isa list ‘of oe pants ‘aetually: cultivated h 
“being ifornied where land, probably high land, was, are |'th iety was voted to Mr. T, Bis, “ean eado ws, Dutch Botanical Ga rden t Bu iten nzorg, jin Jaw 
„removéd when we find that those greater changes must | Pe sebit for Lyne’s Sunrise, ne Nes Š 
-have happened during the epoch immediately subse- Sir Robert-Peel, oe, Beck's Cleopatra And d Ack- f rich in nall teproduetions of the Indian Ar Seal 0 
siquent to tlie miocene: peri iod. Me ər we have gen se ibar : and anothe igne pee! oes _ species, and the Javan 
-evidence rake el that epoch the mi ank farii or oath ur a p e er 
»sea bed raised 6000 ewe in the chain of the Tatsu evon, Prine Duchess: of Sutherland, a i are 
‘and the-barriers forming ee sre y of the | Flash Numerous extra = ns of great in Dearest collection contains te 
Asiatic eocene lakes so letely annihilat ted that a and =H (8vo. Churebill) is ‘Med co me disser 
sea, several hundred icon ms ites now — then The ing 0 
The changes required x the events which the author | | curious Br Ar (a 1e or “a ANNENS gen species | hime specially with deuce cninibg "the respective 
would arin with tho renee distribution of the | of the anaes Orchids, chiefly from Kent, and e species of Aconitum as medical-agents, ' 
- British need n t'ha e bee nigreater than t an | the ae r ce Scottish’ Alpines), theSociety’s | a eee Sann ai that the f 
ar ane t the peculiar distr ibu- Silver Medal oted arvey, asa mark of a which- the London Col 
of: endemic araua cookie of the terre probation of “he a ty ener zeal.— e employed, is totally inert ! while: th 
“mollusca, bears him out in these views. He proposes | Among tt me essrs. Die! and Co., besides that which appears to possess most energy. Th 
nto pursue the cara in detail with reference both to | a large collection of ‘choice ‘plants, pe model for dissertations of the -ki 
animal and ftl ftl the Geology of the Neig ) 
‘of the geolo gical South America), and. ati species ‘of ee ira hood Sari Chelievham, Dy Ar. Murchison (8vo, ie i 
Mr. -_ Batt i. protested spans the assu: t), and for these novelties a iL þe ome to the anil of that fas 
ae n Prof x Forbes's spes We were ‘not Silver ‘Medal was pn essrs. Harn idasy yde, Kee ex- e name of the ¢ pager aie 
g ing gunwaittoe for the excellence of the manner in’ 
ss to say that -n one of -each speci l'at }of 70 named kinds, had lil Si the subject is treated, and ensures pio the reade: 
view that i sam Messrs. J M a and S g 
speci play of g a ove eis iral ll 
-but ‘also in’ time. = rt the geological se | specimens of mirei Carton parana aa ana | | and “= a bee map; nye some plates 
wassumed by Professor Forbes were too’ great, when | Pavetta caffra, for apt maag: orary Premium was | which are scarcely worthy of the work pen 
taken in relation with theage which he assigned to his | awarded.— Another ard was made to | are appended. 
vfloras. Messrs. Lawson and oer "who besides Fuchsias, se sent 
PE Ee. d; hey 1 a japonica ; anda ‘third was made t — 
A . ae in peinst the | pan Kelly; an nd 'Co.; -fora fin ne wigan i years (orevabinte piers Wied al.) Citas 
| 
of é geolog g with a ryote 
mage: 0 rega aid zs tho ge eraran questions- involved, io of greenhouse spain —Among contributors of. pla Bler he gE iaaii a M ers, it 
arnan see no objection to admitting all the ax anaie re- to whom only thanks or certificates of merit were vote | bein ae of cultivation £ 
uqüired by Pro fessor For þes, to explain the n of | are ihe following :—Mrs. Haig, who exhibited several maine COTES, ‘and it its flow eti, notwithstanding 
ery showy and striking ippica Orchids ; Mrs. Wilson, | ĝi prone t, ‘toler ea e, and’ 
| handsome” bushes of Fuc 3 W. R. , Esq, Oe 
“Mr. C. C. Bastneton thought that if the geological | 
[fally eai éd. For its power 
de s 
uired to effect the eo = the floras bted 
were not too great, that they were th videnee in Professor Dunbar, admirable. Tape Heaths ; S. Hay, collector rat succulent Scheer 
ssupportof the hypothesis ‘urged chit penaa The | Esq., erson, Esq 18 promis- |} Teisa 
Posen sted of accounting for the presence of plants ing seedling Caleeola in “re ; Mr. seeds were ree by t ê 
ded from one — nope then be removed, | flowers of seedling Caleoolavas ; s Mr. Pur die, some well | 49 the Horticultural y that in ‘September, 
ts essor ES, i o Mr. x Ball, stated one sen Cape Heaths ; Mr. R. T. Macintosh and Mr. ffo w a the he get 
“ifthe hypothesis: of the -d ownie, trays a beait iful Pansies ; and: Mr. las f hötil tt m and silver sand 
pate m one mia upset, that ct io cks. The fruit exhibited was a decorate propor should’ 
tology» m is rote wo ihe: aa Baines ket, cont ae beautiful Ton of imn rif too much 
S you couldn e forms with a common de- [Beaches a a Ne s kea from the-garden of Sir J. G. ee wt sii ba Pos > of O 
this sci iani no va real. Craig, Bar Fibre ry littl 
(To be 
nį Miho be-sontinure.) .. * BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. ui |, but air atall times when th 
a gt mot Se aye SOCIETY. a ote cee nee ce-President'in the chair. Dona- sani Fire heat ‘is Hot” hevesstèy, exce 
eurian Exhibition of ae t'the E e libra ere announced from Mr, W. Gar- | damp and frost, Tt is easily propa 
rea a en, Inverleith, was'n oan ees iners a ., the "Bos! ton Natural History Society, and | seeds 'séwn'in the usual way, or from 
cain mber vor exeellonee' but bat “the oq ‘ungeni the Me =dico- Botanical Society. osc G.H K. Thwaites surface rof the soil. ‘Such’ leaves “offer ant 
f hens: and he manner in ‘which the 
rae were awarded, For ie sea finest’ shrubby — nham, Esq., and T. low, Esq., | canm'be mainta by the agency of the foliage 
a: ooo the Silver Medal’ was voted to’Mr. st id, gr. D were snepi mbers. Bade List of ths Grasses pr = though aecdent prevents the formation 
` Professor Syme, the specimens being Pimele a spectabi- fo lhe in — neighieshoed of Sens ee Sie Mr. G. H. fanical ee deieh 
lis,’ P. hispida veg ret Statice mu. _ Specimens "were pres NHOPEA ` BUCEPHALUS. 
' eronata ented finely ent | pe Heath, ‘a first priz Ap T a E. Broome, (Stove a sg e). Orchidaceee 
‘was ‘awarded to Mr. q; Member. TheRev A Bloxam pre- e of the rarest'and ‘fines 
flora, Woodhall ventricosa, KAVINE major, à t speci British M s EN ure resembling S. oculata, eS 
on ba ; and a second prize to Mr. Youn bey" gr. to}ami (Wilson), Sein by ‘him “aos wyer the long narrow hypoch Its flo 
» Oliver, Esq; for tore toa coccinea, v. preegnans, | Leicestershire. Read: “ Descriptions of f Photographic | scented, and their bright golden colour p 
eximia, anc glabra:—For the three newest nd finest | Drawings of Plants,” by Edward Palmer, Esq. rich ffe At first sight it might be 
varietie chsia, ‘there were six competitors, all SSS mere variety of S oculata, but the ' 
bapan aa ee which formed ‘a very Uevielns. isa po Ba ‘mark istinction. 
ne’ disp e Silver ‘Medal ‘was assigned to'Mr. ooks and new editions a large crop ha tl j poi 
y “ s| this shortness is to make the inflorese 
"A. Sleigh, ‘gr. to“A. Rù herford, „ M.P., for Mo- | spru Upik roan a few weeks, to some of whieh the phalus very narrow, while in S.” oculata it is 
i ta, “Exoniensis, and mith’s taş and a second horticultural reader may at- | straggling. Thes pet is ‘a’ 
z iu t Mr. Reid, for ina, Colossus, and At- | tention. “Foremost standsa new editi tion of Dr: Neils Paccha, a sm small village’ in the “An 600 ) 
oe t. or th site finest’ ‘tropical Orchids ‘in flower, Petia Flower, and Kitehen Garden ; an excellent and | from Guayaquil to ‘Lona, a atean elevation y 
Silver Medal was awarded to Mr. son, o | wells known work, revised, andi aprove ed b yt the moré }above | oe level of the'sea, where 1 was fot 
“Br. Neill, ll Oncidium pulvinat rs and Maxill Guide| E It fi perpen he of te 
i miin $ nd pre o Mr. | to Servic e Gardener (Knight) is a little a'o; of of al Society, in August, 1843. 
— ling, gr: to o Lord Vis d Viscount Melville, saenvtie Castle, 142 pages, TM lof very useful information im plain gar as oe as its blossoms. ‘It*/may 
“ina ieee Sucidiem d Cattleya Forbesii.— For fdening. ‘Report tar it to an Irish gentleman cal = rfy heath- — -mixedwith pater 
Sete ore yeeimens oi of shrub by plants ‘the prize elk cnown for the p mB ae ers of his ‘works it may be ew eye a ‘rafter, 
"enchanted lE if he is the autho da | fille d wih 8 hagnum, It isa 
paient tot Mr. Stirling for a well large {tine itis worthy’ of his repu need ion. Ak t half is Aled = a i rere sunder simone 
arboreun i of operations, partly taken’ from our | D pamiainple 
