Max 14, 1859.] 
Mr. Spary of 
cpm taken S hereafter, 
mentioned i in another 
colum 
The list of prizes awarde 
found in iS r air eolum 
Brighton, of which some notice. 
rd Mr. Hutchison's ventilator, 
ei on the occasion will be 
INSTRUCTION : May 2, N 
e Infant Schoo! 
to h. 
Ho 
le: — on Th. care 
9 d Doings of e — Ho 
the lecture . for t of the 
Society, a — first mee — the Society. had held 
for any — purpose, a s tha degree of interest was 
excited. The des cw nd among the persons 
3 Mrs. 1 Gusen, of ‘Highgate. J. R. Scott, 
cultural Society; 
THE GARDENERS’ 
L a glacier itself i is as it were » a stream of ice always 
a ing, a and flo win ng fas ter n the middle than at 34 
he bott 
fas nea 
CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
427 
dence. We recommend the volume to the serious 
consideration of medical men, who al pable 
of for orming upon ua L an opinion on which the 
par 
1: 
pt e community uu to de s 
1 
nd 
nay ale during the , day han during the night, 
faster in summer t The a 
— his observations as proving that this motion is | 
ti m 
is due to pressure and the fo orce of gravity, d 1 
the dilatation of ies Pan: in the substance of the 
ingen ously sup ppos sed HR open. 
+} th 
E ns that noi 
snow whi hi ‘has been a and then 5 — "but. Snow 
converted into ice by pressure in the presence of mois- 
ture. 
The evidence on which these conclusions are based 
resent volume; but the 
J 
— an inquiry ? ? 
n —— 
R POTEMKIN, IN Russia. 
Nat olen z wag 3 
Chr you ublish a letter the esta- 
ene of the Prince tents, at Vii, menr 
— erhaps it will m A. 
to 
cmn hi about 
Russian garden in, in all pati with Mr. 
Mas: epa 
I agree 
ecident occu th Ju — 
tion M establishment is the only one this kind 
Russia; doubtless it is one of the ri oes but is it the 
bes re and the good state o 
wn) It is no very great merit to have a large —— 
when ie are rich — to p 
urchase all de 
ust "temm to his first visit to 
nced at the changes that bad 
» lost,” g the eh to sho rten the way, attempte ted t to tak 
EJ 
nts), — e a stranger to 
Jardin * ing, as usual, the knapsack from the 
Montanvert, with a supply of bread, cheese, and wine. 
They arrived without aecident at the to 
Forer between the Aigui 1 
Glacier du Talefre; and when at the point marked i 
the accompanying "sketch with. the words Knapsack | 
EA 
© 
w 
op of the 
du Moine and - gre 
— as you do not find them 
— 
may rival with chat ‘of the Prince Troubetz uM — 
and enade effects, 
tion he said the 
i was concern 
f| usual t 
Aiguille r^ Moin ine, a 
as 
d round the foot of the 
rod sharply to the| 
n firm gro 
and then 
ht, so as to make the passage of the glacier as sho: ort 
ossible, 
miles from the town of Nijni, belonging to the 
Scherimeteff, still richer than that of Nikolsky ; qe 
about 100 miles in an eastern direction from the above- 
mentioned town belonging to Mr. Alexander Potemkin. 
The xt " which he tered ed was part 
7 
a book of authority, 
Gilbert, 1693, xod 
tices prevailing at the present day. then con- 
sidered the several — of horticultural practice, and 
ie M mpo: ing 
e m ee important works relating to them. 
—_ er- did much towards that 
— study of en “which protea ** The Pinetum ” 
lea 
almost always the case ced | 
in J — and near the edge it was also fall of c concen aled 
fiss 
Everybody ountry* 
offers very great difficulties for gurdenin g, the winter 
lasting seven months — — a sce ^ day, the 
25 
"m "MER mer thi 714 
e summer 
very short, dry, and hot, rtg the — 
of rods and ice. 
obtaining - answer, he lat the — in ved. imde — 
retur — _Mon ert 5 the way he had come. 
Dévon 
that the spring laste 
pe only in the climate 
h difü 3 
of Messrs. Gordon and Glen cs ng, and then discussed the 
5 
several merits of Cobbett's Forester,“ ‘Sweet's ** Hortus," and 
the works of Bliss, Forsyth, St. Hilaire, S San- 
oare, 
Lindley, and Loudon. He md it Dus disgrace to pa 
ol 
aid of hi 
the and make his 
behind him his knapsack, of which, of h 
t barr: i f. Astonishing fact ‘that the 
g | yet besa A ed Np i s, together with a part of even 
ts wi many 
injurious ts which give 
in and of which English gardeners 
establishment of Mr. Alexander 
her means to transport plants from this 
town into the inmost parts of the ers frig the 
"A d formed his Darden, should 
o Tight n th he surface ice after 
movem s 
nt, | J 
the 
— He gave a brief sketch oft he 
numerous n which ce 
had once e : ly the T Tulip, 3 
einen d ee 
arcs P 
0 — Re rn 
— Haarlem at ridiculously 
A 
extrav: t price: uld now be of but small value in the 
eyes of a critical connoisseur. l q 
t catalogue issued by the late John Lawrence to — 
Ww 
hat 
— 
on — map, as N in the dein be I aret 
Pri eed alg thik the difference of level of the tw 
points, and also tl 5 
Kapaa ot, Glaser dn lo, a 24 aly, 5 1074 ét 
2 of level 
Horizontal distance moved over MEE 
Declivity 
Annual motion 
e | This motion harmonises sufficiently well with the 
und in page 193, if we allow for the —— 
provided with a large number of 
— here called gardeners, who, however, do not 
E ae pre whom he 
nothing w any difficulty in 
practi Notwithstanding. these and 
many others which time and place do not permit me te 
— plants are finely cultivated, amd I: 
you a super tion of the green- 
uses and stovi — Tue best cultivated plants are 
" 
Auricula, Polyanthus, Carnation, and other puse flowers | bers fo — the Camellias, the collection of which consists 
were then briefly dealt with and their histories illustrated by — due to the rapid ES which commences | of a best of th 
— — from Fo Mr. —— works 2 md —ÀÓ erbe iet rem ns M. kr 
Owing to thela istenes of —— hour, — Hibberd c concluded the s interesting discovery. forms a curious pendant plants so sa shooting and so 
lecture re by o other intended to tO ie history o of De Saussure's ladder, believed 4 have | flowering. Likew the iidoderidto 
been found in fi nts e Trelaporte, vro U 
=) A. Boo t, Esq., one of the Council of the Horticultural detailed in ay Tierala, | - oe: but "this ne 1 PM finest state, developing just now "their “peat 
— vote of tiranka.- Ho oni Mr. Hibberd had not | much he „ 
referred to his own works, but tice abl tter ascertain dá all its particulars. about 6 and even 7 inches long. All vies of. the: 
books of the present day. He considered it a pite to hear m cannot conclude this notice without ri remarking | Sibkim Himala 5 of Boo — es: — ted 
who written on horticulture such an interesting im the author — iniit himself an injur - n: fme —— „ 
discourse on the art itself am: re of its various man, who has been, or is, or is about be robbed o rel cultiv: 
branches. The vote of thanks by acclamation, as : 4 " 4 A bod, id 1 th ink pte T: pui paria the best show 
pas also a vote to the worthy chairman for his kindness the am — which his — € him. We plants of Ghent and Paris. A ck collection of 
presiding on the occasion. | believe that i in this respect he is thins tds!) Conifers’ and New Zealand Plants “has pas 
| real merits are duly eee — — wi Mer vertit y y garden of the 
Notices of Books. 
arkin, the au 5 of various. _ treatises on 
the —— outdoors was — mpossibe: penes very: 
Song re | epidemi ther di 
Occasional Papers on the Theory of Glaciers. on the Causation and tion of Disease Gro. 
7 D; Forbes, D. C. L., F. RS. Svo. Pp. 278. Mu D in which he denies that fevers and o! 
The Edinburgh. ases are assignable to the — from pire —— a beautiful Latania 
the claim object of the qon puis is to establish foul drains, churchyards, pa , or even to the 
: claims of the author to the merit of having origi d by the pletion of me numbers 
nated and established. the plastic theory of glacier | o of persous occupying a confine 2 e is of 1 
; ving. been the fn to givea cate that miasma, as it is termed, is merely carbonic acid, 
ure. 
eL Purpose most of bu. various papers of the | produce in the extinguishing of 3 sod or even of life. 
curious and interesting subjects | itself, it will never, can be productive of fever, 
and reprinted without alteration, in | or any o ieu (p (p. 19) e maintains that “the 
the ucts of the decomposition of animal — 
o take 
borbonica of about 15 feet 
es. Orchids 
plication ot Ferns by seed is ve: well practised. 
ot ther sto plants such as Ix ar ini 
nifica is 
dise: ds 
the dol health of young men am 
"of [Inti ons of the dissecti ting room, 
n the highest di 
at most persons ar 
2 of ice zT altered 
The idea of a 
majority of 
fis 
this opini Vk Suton alli, ns - 
amidst the putrid exha- many others, 
and of knackers and 
gv 
by the decogiposition. of aru of dead 
|the —— 
t, the "millions about to be 
ed through 199 em ad fe 
expended there 
euch 
— = foreigners. 
one from Go or France bebcide it, he 
