THE GARDENERS' LEM 
m ANUARY 8, 185 
and Physcia prunastri. But the dye - whieh render this „That's a pleasant € said They t me -— ing habit, time, ^, have | 
= a arta Mipan in a commercial point of view are — ros a gran ud herb, omething of Abad n Py ‘oe everely ‘injured here; and any “of the upright 
orti zd hie f he Me oh under the | * e they call it Rhubarb; have ies, generally known as C. macrocarpa, hay, ave 
o cule! 6 É se are th cies cce! and - " a „ ki 
which iA orshil a and 2 though fine ntl vette r?” n my replying in the affirmative, | completely killed 105 fut ge exposure, Th 
des are e ylelded t jy Umbilicaria Taea gud ustulata, Parmelia and d ne “the same. question to him, he said, * No, | stands fully exposed to the south. There a 
perlata, and some Urceolarias. There are, however four Ihave not v reb se en the plant, but hope to do so some upon it, amt it is remarkable that they are al] 
species, which yield the finest dye Roccella tinctoria and | T hs northern side of the tree, and generally on t 
fuciformis, and — a Perella and tartarea. The Roccellw | day or othe er^ hi ath 2 y hat 
are maritime in character, and in Britain are confined to the| Pucca gloriosa.— —A Jad dy having noticed Mr. Cut- of th e which is between 2 or 8 fe 
south TE About 6 s are an nally imported tor m hills inquiry about this 1 in the Gardener 8 ground. There are tw : o clusters of four con nes, 
of manufaeturing orchil the best being from the . . t two elusters 
anaries, averaging 3001. pe n aud Azores, 2901. per ton; | Writes to say that here the a grows and flowers cluster dad —— hey ar E " and the 
while the Cape weed only 20l. * Lecanore are not | freel She had fem from dices ace ot el they grow in ingle cones. y e a wards the 
uncommon in Scot tland, Upon “both à mes and trees, the | masses, here and there throwing up flower ung stems to | trem mity of the branches, as in the specimen 
m Held ty a ter eret p FS be T is] 12 75 ur erem the height of 12 feet and 1 more, covered v vith white Mr. Robertson, of Golden Acres pee Ma. 
| be Iles sha ped flowers, in perfection in July "m P 
an n of this lichen-blue, 
and thus prepare ed 
ing. 
Pharmac 
its autumn 
e Corresponden 
So ues. have Sai w a pe ig with 
ea on - of Ulmus sin gathered January b The 
conspicuous sti 
in 
oliage, 
for 
b Howe ering stems in autumn. These never have come 
— — had b 
= —.— wee from Mr. 3 
d water 
Dee 
Fungus Spawn. —What is the name of the inclosed 
old 
plant ? grew below a gravestone, inside an 
ahiri s formed 
e E sen — vm from rea — 
venues abont to be planted in the o RS i in 
which I 3 aztia especially in what you say 
wo An e tree E a lover of all trees, but of 
than "Low wever object to Líme 
— — their — peed early in leaf, and being one 
of the first trees to shed their foliage; also on account 
of their liability to honey dew in excess, and the habit 
t lateral branches from the 
ground, renewing them krni shrouded. The scent of 
the blossom: — too, a — na well — single tree, | ! 
would be sickenin: I would suggest the 
| a thick Lie i mass. he church is in [m middle of 
to perfection, a and the summer bloom is lost. This about 20 0 hours 
] fft he y W ere A and they bue 3 » 
they e - thus hopes to restore the proper | heat w. The referred to 
seasons. She has had three stems in flower here at seeds of Pop ppie „ Len tils, eatit: e 
once. Zrelam mums, Fey onvo. vul us, but none of the 
except t the — minii tage of which Desk 
seed which was - Pe 
communication pen € aim t of a 
| Switzerland with Papi in Avg 1t “1858, y Prof 
BE 
manufacturin wn, and it is 
been any 155 or other "peine P 
the wa alls for above | 100 yea 
„ [Hi 18 what 
N. 
otia a 
xamined 
ma Grim 
Among the em 
ow peat to be the mycelium or 5 of some 
lange f ngus s.] 
Jd FE 
Viola, A 
| Oxyta 
(see | p. 80 wishes t to * whether it is E^ 5 to 
o | Aster, Eigen, [o em um, Hier: 
hyteuma = say ndron, Gentian 
M September. I should say he would not, for two 
in : 
Turkey Oak, entailed, ite ie 89551 
the first. pla ce, Gereniums | struc k in 
nica, penes Pedicularis, Androsace, Pr pes 
Orchis, Tofieldia, men, 1 — ula, N ban 
dL 
Ferns, Mosses, an 
gravel asit does] here—straight, — 5 and lofty, e every 
tates sinensis, of which I send leaves 
n the y 
struck in spring, a consideration of some D Sa 
secondly 
pagal t, and consequently are more ten 
A t Geranium 
ed in hea tl 
$ likely to — — spring beri —.— September 
and but not leas vi 
in all betw ons 
were observed 00 an 
emarked that it is of im 
r eeping character; the ey pope pant a 
able for js avenni, unless capable of being corrected by | Pro stro et perde in iv sing equal to rrect his notions regarding the ain found 
ing. ould be a quet tees rid line the pro- d oe e palate in autumn * ke up as muc | wh coun ntham says ere is p 
menades of aa ^ enham ole my plan would as three cutting pots each holding 10 antumn- | not a 85 species of flowering — peculiar 
be to pun alternately two y different kinds, first, visit- sinek E nts. — al Gardene islands. Those which are con 
— uin Syon Rain at Cirence. — ae 1858.— eounties and to Ireland may geuerally be 
E earning with powers what 4 a ^ i4 zd nches. es. | down the western departments of France to Sp 
age and grow rapidly. I y it one fast-g J February ` z s wp Jadi forward 3*4 Portugal ; the mon plants of Scotland are 
ing tree, he. Acer pseudo-platanus, so full of March . 6.90 2 e i ound in greater al i) in No 
delicate bl = a RUN green in April as April 5:95 October 1.70 Sweden, and often, though at great elevation, 
to ap t n leaf, utiful iu summer pou 15 * November 0.83 Alps and Pyrenees; in our eastern counties then 
from the finely — leaf, “hd so gorgeous in July : 20 December . 9.56} Occasionally found a very few of the east Eum 
autumn = its red stalks and orange eg Since — | species, which, although extending over the 8 
writing the above I have been walking i plan- Total oe Total . 25.64 | navian Peninsula and Denmark, do not in € 
tation of evergreens, D: ws - beni that 1 ym Average — —— r n ine ches T. C. Bro | Europe spread much to the westward of the Rhir 
second thoughts whether venue at least sho uld | a x: “Am the Tree Ferns ‘of —— | southern coasts here and there shelter t 
not be planted with Conifers, provided the soil will suit aud New “Zealand pus v there tuy; lipcciaiy trm — representatives of species com 
it. 1 fr enough a e "MV elibico latter country, that might with any y degree of € — zurope, whilst thi 
uenced by my own ity, pall be to plant — a ility be expected to bear the climate of the south of} o common inhabit ais E 
but still I would recommend the planting one avenue at — d Bes epum not, unl UM ma tered hills, sins anid. ph coasts, are, in sim situs 
Re ver Conifers rather thic ly, and in. | Cove in S. Cornwall or Devon.) I could n or less spread over the continent of Eu 
mfit maj be ent out. But on no account eke under t — ussian dominion, extendi e 
Tei that which. may prove at =i Par ainage. d E — the use of beyond rn Siberia to the veg of the Pa 
o re — ig * Brown, Gren [i te ea n d cylin ist i merely cover — — pte. exeursion the party met wi n 
rive a Kensington e. Le sept of p! ging to the British flor; 
= od the Elm sent us being U. with thin: a Moss, fi sani or distri 
— Sycamores, they are are by nom 9 8 5 E aaa coal, «less, answer admirably. pt B. C. h many of the e 
— : know dnt under proper treatment many plant — ea D 
2 E me A LA ar ul vay be m endure ea cold than vem ame — cs e 8 wer 
the decision of the des ho awarded a dorm em this imagine. Ih meer things illustrative of this s, but katem 1 isteibution of plants o 
e: t the Great Fruit Show at Willis’s Rooms in 1857 — which I consider the — striking is a “ Shrub- | the party, dividing them into dant regioni 
E ied sens a in question was not igh 95 d Rose” ” Petunia, of which | I send e exam maples. This region of the plains or lo s, on — 
or carelessly giv ut siad eg t e wall flora occurs he 
several Ans exhibited your a of my videte house, air way to 
found by the judges t dar pre Ong Pippi | t as iy winter. It has m rer ected the sight pote — the pelts bus Chesnut. 
‘better than th under such cireumstan on of ET “kind, except the wall against whic onntain region, from about 2000 to 4000 
other course 9 5 —.— the judges than to a rd the mailed. F , Faring 2 Berks, qn. 5. (The — terised as the zone of the Beech, aud 
diet. the Orange — Tipp E do gites do mens went were and green, and evidently in| Ash, Che „ and Maple. 
with the question e o ion of future seasons region. —— ende 6500 feet, when man 
upon the quality of fruits; they have merely to reward mes lants oce 5 . 
merit where they find it. The same Apple I find ob- Societies. spedes, Wi aach às w exa d ina, Gd 
‘tained the 2d prize at the Horticultural Society’s —— Dry as oct octopetala, Saxifraga op - it 
nt Great Fruit fhor in 1858, the ops Gill. BorawrcAL or EDINBURGH: Dec. 9, 1858.—The Alpine n, from a 
flower recognition of the great | President in the chair. prr dolitióus to the museum | shrubs, p as Rhododendro 
merits of an Apple before unknown by a Msn set of at the Botanic Gardens were:— fe Juniper and dwarf Ald 
judges is sud A y confirmatory of the excel. | Melbourn B J tig labout 7000 8500 & gen See 
— a Meier mother A 3 "n elbourne, per B. Stewart, Esq., cate with a from about 7000 to feet, in wh 
nidum 1 r dae 0 = | s ies of sphæria growin m their bodies. From R. attain the highest elevation are seen b 
1867. TWe Da Akam Bell, Esq., wee oce x bark of Quillaia Sapo- | genera already enumerated. Some of t 
lage — Ti : me pretii REG — in Chil due — — — ag e 
E E ES where an extract & es, Aretias, Silen 
3 S cues de. ae Barly Crops nfusion of f this bark have been long in great repute for | been found at 10,700. Chrysanth 
eru, coca n abundant supply of ha i Segoe tent a momen eee — 
eni Brady n n alites render it useful in| Glacier, on Mont , at the heigh 
Lade e eansing the hair. Ib, is also admi d medi- 7. The nival or snowy region destitute of 
— EM a = From Mrs. Brooking, | tion. Office-bearers were chosen 
* rs. Miller, cones and ts, of a and se several new members el 
4 — ag of ie ies: so DAE — ái 
from the roots by Indians, 5 
Professor Balfour read the following notice from Mr. Notices of of Books. 
from a plant grown at the Kilns, Falkirk “The j P E; 1250 
lant from which t i . Conversations a 
ake e te qe mire orci re Is, design oaths — and Hom 
e It is only about 8} m ne» and 7} fi i t 
det Kemp carries her ls through 
through at the widest part, and the stem near the | Bngland, pointing bat what le 
, whet i n 
e day being. s very warm.|never been injared by frost, while — of the same cally, or — r 
