[JANUARY 99, 1859 
72 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
mined has been the resistance of Leguminous ieee hi last the French 1 have | to take an obli ique course, and u upon whi 
flowers to experimental hybridizers that all eport rouble to explain the real meaning of the — 2 fixed themselves, N 
against the possibility, or at least p ity, of | of a earns fact most ridiculously distort bunch was taken from a trellis a aeg : 
effecting such a uni Cases have been men- appears that in se everal places bunches of was a about 2 vars up, hung freely without el 
tioned indeed of Vetches having inter 1 with | G interfered wit EN d had a beard a 8 
the Garden Pe G2XRTNER, the est of n of produc ing a long beard of living 9 95 quarter long.“ The Dodder had fixed a 
modern experimentalists upon this curious nee or av fite which to those unacquainted w with natural | the very berries, on the stalks, am a d 
regarded them as more or les rtain in some | history Ee probably have * as alarm- branches of the bunch. In a bunch of | 
art of their history.” If suc ge were ever|ing as tail of a co vint: Bunches became | Grapes the berries seized by the Lusouta re 
obtained they soon 7 17 A an HERBERT | matted n a strange stringy substance which green, altogether or on e places wh 
othing of mulin E aio end plants. longer every day, and half concealed ie Dodder had fixed it suckers, around w whigh a 
n e 3p 
could make n 
y Wer 
Th e Atoll 1 80 in the hands of 
Mr. ANDREW KNIGHT, although he, like others, 
fo no y in producing cross - bred 
of Peas, Beans, Kidney Beans péle méle in 
gardens, 2 one appears ‘ever to have obs erved a 
€ 
considerin uch thi 
bees, ordada d isitforeiga o thesu bje 
we know of no repute mule amon 
nous plants except a t intermediate now 
ct toaddthat 
a plan 
and | Lyc 
then betw een | Lucerne and iie icago falcata, them- | 
ender botan 
vU 
eirflowersare frequente wmm not new 
ng Legumi- | V 
le 
hair of B How then could the odor have ained 
The explanation of this A eimi is given well to the Grapes? M. MULLET sugg Un 
nd i tail, ate number of the seeds might have been deposited by birds 
J ios of the Paris Woden Society, by M. C. agree with Prof. DUCHARTRE in thinking tall 
MULLET and Prof. DUCHARTRE, f whom robable. The suggestion which our lea edis 
ur detail ppearances of the kind are | himself offers is the followi The thread 
Bear of Grapes were me scuta have a vita 
und them in Portu- 
as species sui 9 tical. 
In the face of all 27 ree we gui al 
. Sudden 3 hat Dr. Rauen has 
tained a mule of dsl um fit Uu cultivation 
f 
however, in a position to declare that evidence in 
our session supports the statement 
far as any opinion can be formed f an exa 
nation of the seeds. By the Lgs ad courtesy o — 
r. BEHRENS, of Tra nde, we have received 
a parcel of this seed, transmitted Dr UC 
himself; and certainly i n appearance exaetly 
what a seed between the Garden Pea and Lentil 
eted to e. e colour is 
little heightened so as to verge upon Apricot. In 
orm the seeds are eompressed like a Lentil, not 
spherical like a ize they are generally 
bout twice as large as that of a fine Lentil 
even somewhat bigger, but they are by no means 
evea in magnitude, 
Since the Bavarian Journal containing the 
at the words by Dr. RAUCH are not ex 
pressly “a hybrid between the Pea and Lentil ; " 
but da fruit ing between the Pea and 
orerunner of ex- 
mosh cannot be 
| Clover, 
As we were going to Aa c bios: 
lation of a letter from Dr. ar m to Me. Ve 
c se 
-fatiga nt, a furt 
supply of seed :— 
“I have the honour to send you the seed 
have wished for, gathered from my hybrid c 
Erblinse. 
„This has got now already see renown, and 
than the common Lentil, 
al — 
„Further particulars on this plant 
other AME are given = a 
some time agi ur Ge AN 
Culture of New wey Unknown U 
Dr. A. RAUCH. 
It thus appears that the seed is certainly the |? 
produce of a real hybrid. 4 
— : Hala m the 
ts,’ by 
Some of the French ne ibes ha 
m wspaper scribes have 
their readers with more terrible 
news about Vine. According to these well 
info: men the Oidium ildew 
suddenly changed its „and instead of 
em a mere mould has assumed the con- 
dition of long hanging down from among 
the Grapes. seems never to have oceurred to 
the learned editors tha! s eh ellous stories 
were unworthy the ag y jut € they have allowed all 
the new Medusa's hee to be shaken before their 
Aw) Honig signifi Honey Pea, a species of Sugar | C 
0, g fo i 
s, fig ured yn: in his s Phyto, ne 
l nature 
guese Vineyards, 
at the same ti ime explaining t 
The.‘ new” enem 
of idee 
ueh parasites seiz 
i 
9 | 
MI 
ii iW 
SS 
Heather, and other plants ev. AA where. We a 
n p L 
author Si a eurious Italian memoir 
will show how quickly the roads. Er 
Se observer fixed 
s by put 
rape:, 
it. So that bearded Grapes 
be produced at pleasur j 
ious as these pice me i 
y 
ling or 
Ml other potted tes with 
weak could only be arrested by the fire - 
NIC GARDEN, MELBOURNE 
fatigable 
Of the grond ‘destined for an „ of 
— d to their botanical affinity, 2 
8 "ys ee adually — uring the 
ge es than 100 of the p 
jid. are now . in * plani? 
by abou about 1 ae plants. This class-ground cannot ii 
come a still greater source of instruction 
botanieal inquirer than it has been already, 
sim 
sit Un 
and m its 
work published 
v amo) growing ona 4 Vine seed in some Vine- 
ard in Provence by Mr. BENTHAu, as well as 
both Cuscuta Saururi and Lepidanche adpressa, a 
ite, strangling Cissus 
ar paras stans in the 
ited States. Consider ering, in Bend; the indis- 
criminate appetite of these 3 the Vine ca 
diese escape whenever they 
can get at its soft 0 5 That the Dodder 
i | shouid seize upon a Vine is anythi 
On 
ts strong enough to hick ite 
pn be aa living 1 8 
m es were there s any ta 
be ite: opéqrumo: 
i; apo put 
ches 
— he 
Grapes which E had p 
and the 
"ud upon were far from thi und. 
ies p eid 5 ground. M. MULLET 
o person some Vines wh 
bunches had fest bes , describes what who 
to the following effect :—'* The bunc the 
iae hung from a plant at the edge of 
and was about a yard from t ground, | 
towards Piana the thes x = Cuseut; be- 
ected. d been turned un 
f the ect angi | cried 
effects I by th the — of several eis: 
ing out a sery of plants on the $ 
la 
southern valley. 
The me €— which fronts the western po? 
of the la; has been lanted ep ve n tion 0 
E £ Al it 
of More d N ne 
ith gros miscellaneous Coniferz, 
6 trees, of great rarity, and all equal 
nstorm 
| will U henceforth t be sa’ 
whole of 
in o scape. In planting this Pinetum the 
rock 5 to 8 5 — by aa oe = — the b 
the | Yarra, an new walk o f 
D e summer and ant 
system of draining was adopted throughout the 
portion of the cultivated ground. 
ained 
in ah 
on the 1 — 55 
f the pe .ground, e 
2 18 acres, has been 
diate Es te the leaves, „ieh had caused t| 
