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E GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, [Manon 96, 1 
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We 211 157 30. teneli, whicl Deu ot 
d ium which looks A abont the base of the fronds. Nor isa central position with ref reference to d 
| Ath pii t all decisive as nce to the 
me ask, for — how much oft e 0 . te 
E outlay per annum on aget liche — n [p chopped Sphagnum ina a shallow pan kept — tke + he ey circumstane aa aa alg 
—— iim in mane 8 expeuditure is pot ten and is a capital o p i: the ied 0 €— in. e mor im print MI $ 
1 y wi ss agre — an aquarium. ian |. 1 d 
- M praem Macr rige ee | case = ente a apoda; and casia (uncinata). The the 6 3 Ee to th „ Whe 
en I say tiat the s i 0 aleulat sit f | 
i t building latter is th Li 
to damp the enthusiasm o rsons abou n but its bright metallic lustre is beaten by africana, and | greatest number of more or less bob into qj 
orchard houses when 15 me leard "5 jr prr le gt a chich require heat and careful treatment. | races, passing the most gradually the oe M k 
ped de in a house i p Pas i e ro " y Hibberd. or where any peculiarities in the localities j — 
um; as also 
peru EH o n Pea.—I enclose some Peas which I have | indicative of ancient occupancy of th 
to find that 500 yar rds will grow only 127. 3s. 4d. —— ie pin se We cus person who advertises them | pendently of such historie e — 
fruit, and that their enclosed garden of 2 acres will only P Isa much gratified by some | recor ds left by ancient “botanists 
" think if the whole sum | as the Egyptian Pea. 8 may afford» 
yield GSL Ge 3a 1 still ex €: corresponden! saying ait this Pea really | observing th 
of 21/. 19s. 3d. h had been spent in manure, an expe appen rs to me to TK old dwarf Branching tails respecting the areas oc 
t I am fully convinced of the possi- Ma a. Ued t! y has vin : u 3: PE penis rele f 
rativ greater. a 1 J+ } +} Plants o Area ry — 
Pility ny 2 the kitchen and fi Hi ghland, the * h,- “the istribution f, 
} d this appears to be the sa ET i is e p the E, 
fiti — Tto tha ay E Pally [m e C i "Ms vb — During the soleil month (March) Atlan aem nd the German, an exeell en amate : 
— pea he s ga li A. M. V, | these have been gathered in considerable 8 aly and so far ey are considered with 
Wen — unter of excellent quality in the meadows and pas 5 tures of ned "the ey occupy in Britain. The inet 
H 2 iu x 3 r ood—: . eir " 
cad d ege sb of "this N. wi c ity poser unusual occurrence, and strikingly Ws produce results corroborative of these 
— A a gentleman j trative of the mildness and humidity of the prese sent | others will more or less modify them; 
peculiar so often noti iced in ‘Orchids, and which n. J. Miles, Hurstpierpoi wt, Bas ae. portion of the specific areas, being as already 
es, Hurstpi j 
1 leaves under UH jin chsia.—1 beg to wers of a seed- | so small, the names of these types become i 
T Tae n examined med cna led Tí ^de — ling raised from serratifali, creed hy aa vorymibi ora. | when considered generally. With 
ing pe frr rime that would direct us to the nature of the It seems to me to be well w attention, as it has general Europseo-Asiatie Flora, 
complaint. Noticing your article last wee ek u ipit the|been in bloom since the end 1. P september and the it at least which 3 
subj bet Ia exn mined some of his sadly marred flowers have been much larger and finer in colour than Britain, it has appea to 
da t those now inclosed. It is of a fine dwarf bushy habit. | venient to di Ern er linee nous 
leaf, a h, to the eye, appeared beautifully clean, | My plant is about from 20 to 24 inches high, and as five types or classes, which would 
N four of the 2 obie r acari you x sith- | much through; it was planted out in the summer, and but not much modified were the wh 
ly describe, and at once — 2 E ason why I had did not bloom till September. The tran sent are the Se to bo ä 0 „ wi 
before failed in gon eting t why the sponge last the plaut has on it at present; a istmas | reference to Britain; for there are but few of 
and syringe had been so effectual i in s dialing them. it had at least a dozen flowers open o; shoot. | European types of 2n -— have not 
dy appeared X. F. Abergavenny, [The blooms in. are very representative. I have accordingly arranged the 
to be buried beneath the cuticle, where it was firmly handsome indeed; the: e E greatly resemble both in size | species comprised i in amy Ha ndbook" underthefollorsg 
-— the four front legs, w hm h — admi: pes and colour those of se atifolia. ia] heads :—Adve s Flora: Escapes from cute 
soc of i r — r 
of hooked brist. 
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to be an ^» z 47 — 51; Introduced € America 
ahy lobe as described b The four hinder legs = ocietics, 5?), 2; from h 
were - — - ova rds nearly ienen under the . from the adjoming Peces —— — 39 £f; 
body; ce from EL arti al trans- LINNEAN, Feb. 3.— Pr. of. Bell President, in the chai near 100?) 61; total, 158, Int 
f Dr. W. Eatwell was elected a a Fe How. e allowing genous Flora: het plants, 1 Norther 
little pr of d iod which T found „A memoir “On H nriquezia of|and Alpine, 81; Nort and Central, 76 = 18; 
etty freely scattered over the leaf, and which P | Spence, Sgen sof Biga noniacem, — by G. Bo ntham, Esq., General lide gere eal g the “Arete c. 
7 — have flowed from the more recent punctures | V.P. ee is one of the many interesting new 225; short of the Arctic circle, 250 er 
ed further noticed ocensional à E the|genera found by Mr. Spence, in northern B 65 = 540; Central— Európseo-Asiatie, 204; 
darkened in — but confined cell Venezuela. The originally discovered species was pub. 47 — 251; Southern and Western, 76; ; 
i fine; — then m a mass of cells of every gade of | lished some years since by Mr. Bent ~ — = Hooker’s | Maritime plants not ineluded above 44; total 112 T 
^ inan destroyed b ed by some caustic application Ee of Botany, but more perfect materials now |the maritime plants were distributed into the othe 
athe vario tage of Ak the disease; leading me to sup- enabled him to comy plete the characters: of the genus. | classes, 37 of ‘them —_ be added to the 
— — the insect was the first t cause, Ae g the botanical peculiarities of these plants it was | Europszeo-Asiatic Flora, and 7 to the V 
decay ensued from some e property of the stated that the ovary was inferior, — stamens id five | raising the fo ormer to 5 7, the latter to öl. T 
— the ——— the Sareop es|in number, perfect, and nearly eq and the leaves classes or subdivisions were however poin 
Senbiei, or iteh inseet, in some respects, and various | which are large and Peres were bl with stipules. by no means clearly de — pi pee 
others. of the Acarus tribe, 1 much struck me -bo th It nevertheless undoubtediy belong: ed, the author stated, | peculiar Mee of t veral 
formed fo ving a near affini ith e lained at great len th; r. the author pr 
which I found to my y cost, being unable to — it in | Platycarpum of Humboldt and aring anen e 8 — ed © hete d t “hat all such spee ato 
the usual way with a bristle, but was eom pelled to | was dedicated by rthless ived the co 
Sor Lj X s ru wem cs decia much Antony, I, a natire of ‘Leghorn, who for more tha an 30 | alone, „ — 
emies ] l than I possess. : 
‘such as you mention a dem 7 den; AC Iud | à ther i E of t d — zhi wre: eae s 
iom will des ac e t I much | an ot er Traveller pw four s species pede on this|has undergone, can only be X 
Pw — — wA er i — fe: will : ted to be trees of consi A Bize and stantial — — from all rni rade di 
dene on y half buried of great pubem the flowers bein SO va varied ded w ger 
the ie 83 of the leaf. I therefore send terminal panicles. 8 drawi e | th al aeri 4 the whole i pe^ 
1 — — = — they m Ces ten a to|of the qes es by Fitch e the Meis theorist em. dure pakaja bmitted to him; 
we M the subject. J. E., Bo duy nt "bag x Mr. 5 s *No n on ~~ rely more or less on — ee . 
Trowbridge, 3 n relating to Geographical | pilations of others. If every botani , 
"alnet me Ree shall be A be obliged to any of your eater a wd British Flos, resign es the — x = so "- - 
ice mare rn aye been originally | compare it with that o 2 ' 
— — d its bark 88 or — len ves and young | derived fromthe continent of E Europe. All that he has 4 nec ted with it; if he would in the phe 
Wink ie noU iawn wae dene — vs Sieh A i olen — ‘omar he the opinio on to 3 bas in uced se earch out the di rection and extent ‘acs 
so unpalatable aba protect the t E as 
in pastures, “te ond recessit, Vieh ien PR aoe has ^od ri c rns eee suggested, iR hers in — 
* - dp o HR every ulations 
— : dangers unprotected, por my we stacles have been Ah ems to ‘the Which the observer is 5 —— 
“ng any ex a numerous 
— asa ny perience that may be kindly endowed, bi but constantly pe in its progress by in- emis — each follow - pte "i 
Chan f Colour in Violets.—Can any-of ” y limates, by | faunas of particular countries; i dia 
Fema ai dre iuf iU Why Sweet 9 toni. of the soil, ra other causes more or less | of aspiring geologists were to devote r 
Virions m PU are many patches da E banaa at Saeed vame dy made e decer of the ge taeda 
» wi or 3 years 153 e 8, gradual | tha: r — = gener k 
but they have ne gran Seed 55 i ady of ck on the r- ; 
entirely white! 1 should even oy the hi ouid then 3 fo toseg gifted genes f some 
tment whi h x king is —— well ed m 
-Otter arch uch would pre- €— om imei IE un that “the apace Len e scien e^; bat vice eren capable of eet 
— Sih thy hea loo i apie — me — 
stood ont the whole of the winterin wy garden. it in but a very small Portion of its - 
vit EO November, has bonas dy tadpet-for then d —— one-sixth, and ia "i a me, — paris rt E T “or their — T 
Mtem: t edd ies not i 
egother, and only four out of abont 25 fronds | our position — one end one sixtieth 2 ag it “wou ee pare the cant g tag 
have changed colour. It is now growi A old continent A 
It vil do for the: hardy Fe growing beantifally. British portion lies at one extremi het = n d Hookers to € 23 vestigators 0f «o l 
but ok — oe iie may 
jus 
F 
Sudio of soi climate, by th pá 
y ee, Eeer enough to "wins it, 
Métier independently formed by the in 
— nes mue ch finer under glass, if the “ha ee’ fool è and CDM To area, xem frs clu- ee to detect the fallacies v 
allow — to ramble and b dbe cate wu the pot. | had thet oripsnal eon e See Ves very — esee ad aot 
Pom i re firs and that s ear Betten, one class only of natural o nd ji thot 
5 - for su € vendin ng. 1 w pentaphylla | very “cone the great majority hs hare y nj — from | that of others, and to consi — ee, i 
filie E rtr à Arez me ; — handsome as tlie determing ti imate in favour of "which —À elis n 
aginellas.—I have had stolonife ern = Marten sii, for- author acknowl] any given sat i have the — — dues included h led 7 
mo ee e pri aen wa oe mi Cum ai es e, Thr, e 
£r ne * 
hall, w hich i is - heated, all the w. faa 'e dn | *no criterion. “There i —— — int — of par partie vla E Rev ut K. 
n on E ha ave t he ad wa ater since October te t, and part e original rs et © Cynara cardunculus, | ^ Notes — — 3 —.— ret 
ves, to prevent damping by the — — ng like Mr. Aus st ated that t ee aper ie 
Anse vos. 1 ey are all in beautiful -condition ens plante, as oon iode di Pape so many not more than oe 
eolti which’ has gone altogether, aud Mar- es, where it is‘kne id 3 ces diameter. bm Er agis i dat 
. station for the plant in England 
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D.pentaphylla, P. dissec d P. dec 
