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E orties of m In this latter class we must aust place | exposed to o the sk sky,and the nutritious juice thus formed, | value e; ue; they mo reove er possess ti ‘the additional recom- 
eth nor of 4 gs me befo are eai we R ao s tu ning over to the under face of the leaf, is there mendation — bloomin “i at this season when flowers 
without any wish to depreciate the th y i ya From the ated by the Seea iiei action of the s tomata. scarce, and for decorating the greenhouse and 
details in this volume, | which are, we think, of the eo the se chemical change: es mechanical force arises, P h they are invaluable, as hey continue 
highest imp to expand their gaudy blossoms in succession for a 
esi value on mee with all parts of the plant i rom it sugar, coide rable length of time. In the open border, 
3 . object of this treatise is to point out the pre- | gum, amar oh woody fibre, album , fibri quite exposed in front of one of the houses, Mr. 
 eise influence of agents on plan s and the rs parts, o ml Da Groom has a prepared bed containing about 200 
f alluded to in physiological inquiries, viz., electricity, up for purp of the eco: —L. E. bulbs, which although covered only about 4 inches in 
and light. the author is not suppor rte d in some E E de epth with soil, have sto od the severity of last winter 
of his conclusions by i the facts he N Pl myi iinpunig y, f flower 
we have no he sitatio in _ Saying that he has Bezweed A ew Plants. buds, mplete sheet of bloom. All the 
See onhj r f | _ GARDENIA ie ces YANA. Lord Derby’ s Gardenia, kinds reb pk recht hardy here, Mr. Groom 
inquiry, and Tae a neeps which cnonBesm.. Ki 
| without interest and Suse: One of the abject | —The first intelligence whi ch I p pi din the pot culture of then Lilies i is ‘os 
ich he diseusses here with much ability i l } 
which h 
| of the ascent of the sap, and descent of the paa | Horticultural Society, at one of cen meetings in Ma n- kge in peat only, , mixed with a small ı quantity of fine 
et in pla pole He refers this to capillar, ry attraction A p exhibi gi n m the Royal Botanie ra war One great mse is Pe insert the bulbs at a depth 
+ farden at at Eom: i bore "E its ren Sones allo owa sufficient x tity of soil above rates for the 
4 mbled y wate “rumpets and w most "The ey sho y omy be tted 
Bing between the nee of sets tubes, and soon | zex r emardi production. The rs had, ‘however, iF when the bulbs ar d $ they E not 
littl i š 
mattei 
Se inte of electricity existing between them, We | wh which much of the beauty ae was spotted and dis. |e = incredsed by their thick feehy seales, or by De, 
The mere fact, however i of a plant having 
ht 
dis tance to all for finer peat to. te 
" the best that “has appeared on this intricate le subject, y naana ed with blossoms eigi inches long, and | a suffici 
Bebe ll we cannot nea rly five inches broa gai was pii ss to attract cotter aSa stem 
Another portion of this volume, whieh w It flowered in the Nursery of Mr. Glen- 
ar interest just now, ist that o fi di g f Turnham Green in June last. Sir William Mis Pe ENERET 
li plauts. Dr. Drape ri cast pene in the | Hool lant after the Earl of Derby, Monster Cucumber —A Cucumbe foe tess a few 
ientific world for his sarkai upon light. He. di- | one of the spi patrons of natu ese the pre- days since by Mr. Smith, gardener tok. Ste Esq. 
he rays of light into luminous, tithonie, calorific, | sent day, and in whose service Mr. Whitfield was en- of Belle Vue House Sener, Suffolk, from ge e middle 
Borphoresg cent, We canno l the plaut.: ae eae S bette leaf, with a footstalk 
ad pr 
the detail of the experiments by which. he esta- suited to ion the name ba this distinguished no aaa oe t3 ibebe ta length springing from the very 
es the P r different properties. of eted. For ourse Ives we have ie of the fru aoe Stand 
ve 
3 
os rays of light, se pie various paisa sr he | had APB i y of Studying the species, and w Orchis, sambucina.—The only marked distinction be- 
: eeded, to a gre r less deg: in isolating | theref of the following memo- tween the beantifel yellow and white wahie; an mbucina 
ea — rays, a _ a s ‘eaten: Üne pandalih with hich Mr. ‘Glendinning has been so oblig- of the Alps and Orchis provincialis is, o- cirri 
athe amen Ben at by Dr. Draper, whichis of | ing as to favour us. “Mr. Thomas Whitfield, a most has the tubers undivided, and the former ee to the 
s mportance, is that Hake transmitted | nth investigator of the most unhealthy parts of | division which has poli tuberi, sanbapina havi 
A decomposes earboniec acid in ‘Afvica, succeeded in laters sone with other rare | ort prominences at its al colour, fi rance, 
. The rnbetagpe > trough which he | species | ae Sierra Leone, all which are now in my | ng the habit uf „growing on of high mountains 
s of light to pas solution of the possession, this remarkable and beautiful Gardenia. where the soil is blackish a gee the clouds fre- 
otass ; this solution w was Srna to ess | i ving 
f AS bing f the sp Le of the numerous shoots, which nader. be cultivation | Qrchie fase ‘ther ee ee s ee 
Under the influence of these jave aeaeo abundant and healthy. They thrust them- | with a little of palverined shale (the pot being plunged 
bonic acid, the formati hı aon foliage ina | in sand, and the tubers about 34i inches under hed 
g g ays i q zariy erecek po! , and are nine inehes long, resem- | surface), I examined = state of the new tubers 
“a i This is i d g pow umg 3 | morning, ss the leaves had di entirely away. 
b Hunt (Gard. Chron., l d attractive obj ‘The flowers themselv new tubers of those which had suryived the ‘sinter 
nt tat “the lamin 3 rays pele the spotted Japan Lil ies, and like them frosts were large, and of ne purest healthy white ; and 
in“ the n of woody fibre.” Althou ugh we | also very rec What will render the plant a e although the plant belongs to the maien with undivided 
e that iia phenomena of germination « d not, as favourite i in our stoves is its easy cultivation, Iw tubers. ivided, the largest 
as E the growth of the „emb: leaf mould, and silver sand i of the new tubers had two strong yo at the base. ‘Lhis 
m the oth ses of HapeB a is quite | nearly equal pro portions; let the pots be well drained, circumstance, arising in-the very season of cultivation, 
eeerance with this view that me do not germi- and placea little moss over the ramage before o pasias, shows how Orchis provincialis may, in a different lo- 
cali i av 
toping the eoarser tissues and. older parts of plants. lace the plant hie a rather. high t posed to distinguish sambucina from it. The plants 
; k is eurious to observe how sometimes the most house or pit, and give abundance of a mois- | called sambucina, as far as I have seen, are more 
recondite and abst 3. under „these circumstances the cultivation and | vigorous and grow in colder quarters. The fine erim- 
application. Thon the inquiries of | lowering of th n and com- | son Hahn with an orange Lae called O. Schileicheri 
into the nature of electro-magnet- | plete. ”— Botanical Register. y Sweet, grows in company: with the yellow: on the 
in the formation of the electric tel ba Fits, ‘prow of the Sire. 8 and d differs in being scent- 
esearches of Newton and Herschel, |. Garden Memoranda. a anda lit ttle also in length of the spur ; but, 
and Draper, are promising prac-| Mr. Mitchell's, Kemp-town. Brighton.—Th nursery 
f plants. here contains about 5 aeres within tke walls; it occu ld he ch f from the manner 
š in some par H of his, wary indulged pies a cold, bleak situation, near t d d 
but it is precisely to.a acre lis. | other, with aes and tubers aia si anian, À ‘it can can 
a right to spec amie, In one of the Vineries we no 
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col M. has found that | termediate soaa si the Prepliarities of the eri 
he-following extract will give pe idea of the work:— | the irely in judi- | plant.— The Hon. and Rev. W. Herberi, in Botan 
NOAA nsiderin ig what takes place when a pta leaf ie ating ‘aie br the renee is pee and -" Register. 
htened . ake sun, we Au thus allured to pass | attributes his success solely to this syst The hou: caesar ge Seen 
I 
nnot depart far from the sober peng of it in- +} Black Hambu: rgh aa which, ‘were ena rl Il | saw one plant on the brow of the St. Goth and ei tig in- 
mson 
ical 
P> to reflections. on the history of the E: is heated hn commen flue, an sia Hees. 
s And to Sane which have happe ned to were nh, arty kenkihy an insects. The Swarming of Bees.—As it must be desirabie to api- 
In the same e` been planted about five years, and each i with cach Barge: I beg to give 
fruit. | some account „of what has occurred in the way of 
sil 
Yad P, 
inting | Upo wall w 
and aha, so to speak, an ‘lees she. bad en removed ria a south t aspect, of Ayrand Wigton n) this season. Ìn av ¢ apiary about three 
t which has been at play ; | where all efforts to grow them had failed, t miles no orth of | me, fav ronenaly s situated, Lae stocks have 
climates of the| being very cold. The trees are not summer pane | thati 
nk vegetation, | but the young shoots are Herr: to grow out from the ea first swarms each prep once. In another 
f3 summer months, and are iieii apiary rakes or four miles south of me, is an equally 
ti per | favourable district : two stapke predic Say the 
or ree years 
Ee 
2i 
HA 
$F 
H 
time, in the pr 
ruits to human | season ; that being a managem ops yore, wh result ; 3 and t two 2 
passing towards the poles, | The young shoots are Ph SAREE PE in aga a to pre lity, gof 
mosses, and | the fruit from the sea wore, LR ioa ok 4 of the e Monk: swarms itself, and its first swarm Tea ing Ra wags 
perpetual snow, and even} ness of the place may be formed, w g i 
l vital operations under the | Dwarf Kiduey least. In my immediate u+ighbourhood, a 
Do not all these serve to | of es ee By and ae varieties of “Peas, kt Pir are | = swarmed on the ae June, a ver) large 8 
e solar rays. have mama nee fom tying. In the corners of the walls are | weil are pla 7 or 8 lbs. Oa the 30th July 
i of reason Pp us that the same | some fi ld Fig-trees, which seem to be quite- natu-} this a east Wishing 5 ibs, and on the- 
0 our time re ning whi yt 0 things taking place she er are never paed, paa wr bear and yee he saga them off a colony weizhing 2 tbs. Is 
that if aes alo to things 2 sing ve preceded | ripen an abun dance. of fruit not na the. of a NA shat owing off two 
ee or. the cli The we 
lar | possi imagine as ie apa r the emp! 
OP th roy plan ure pots Siss ip i 7 feet in oe quently peing I haw —r, 
be- | and have sade six aa eight stems, producing about ra Ets a ich tigi pew alas ~ pu 
a isas them consisted une, being a second x from 
í 7 pg ease et m, | same stock ; they were = Ag, weak. the one being 
| speciosum, were so a 7 
fast into. nj aati Of these, rubrum has the most | the one increased in wei ns Ibs. a ae st mitre only 
vers ; bi others. are. also. e: i 5h lbs. ; the ne ae.only 
tum are the most com- | 1} lb. for one, and the no ad ehoari on egisi 
Lilies | to its stores, which, if cng, were ra ther diminished 
hya ew of ounces ; e zes 
for apiarians. irni praia 
