Max 28, 1859.) 
THE GARDENERS' 
CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
unable to find any ny absolutely new 
the pages before us. What we have are 
known facts pl in a new point of view, or accom- 
panied by such striking ‘illustrations man 
Professor Liebig's talen 
portan! 
rought forward connected the nutri 
pothos formerly noticed by u s, and a yellow- blossomed , Ficaria v erna, o | verna, on the 3d or March, at which time 
Blandfordia: Mr. Williams, n urseryma ie Muswell Hj | Daisies covered. “the up * ‘il and meadows; Cyno- 
had the pretty Caladium ed Hag with ‘small lea eaves, ered all the winter, — 
charmingly b — yai Tydæa Duchesse dé | E 7 — Coum and the different — of He epatica 
Brabant Leopardi came lou Messrs. Par * "s were in flower by the end of Febru: The chimney | 
— i 1 i the latt eet was s abou the shortest. day, a and at the 
- — bod dener — 7 rom ndi ritin 
e last-named firm also s a pr. city d little Wit y wrens * - — piden ear and the 
Vanda v with — coloured sepals and | 2 
also ada 
none M bbur-v —. w; from Mess 
of ee Messrs. Parke er & William 
tals, violet | blackbi 
me or two ee po 
E. G. ee ndérs 1 
efly re 
collec 
—— like . s and de “looked 
sent ta fine | s 
H 
morning. 
enfrey. nal 5 1 of Griffith, written in 
1835, pee an elabor rate technical account of i 
en itely, —— chase the: at tl 
Palace; as shown on n We 
ory effective. In the pet arei class Mr. Turner | 
as first with a fine ely-co ured Etna, the lar arge — 
lossomed Festus, 
dmiral ble, Covemor-Gener Lord 
; and Matilda. 
Vestal, 
Fairest- of the "Fair, n Br ide; Admirable, Sans- 
— Starlight, Carlos ie Duval. Me 
5 Toa delatum, 3 
zeppa, 
— — 
essrs. Dobson 
FTE <a oS 
ey did 
dnesday last they were | Prof. 
M 
Governor-General, betwee 
portes ingen 
and from n this, pua 
never replaced, t 
„at last be exhausted; or that the more — they 
igh 
with nutri- 
tion-of ete but the examples that he gives are to 
far from novel. Surely it is not novel 
incessantly removi 
re sioe ore quickly 
rikes avery old doctrine ; 
and Dr. Blyth does. not —.— "to anything else; B ut 
enfrey, were d ved the 
cated p^ Dr. Lindley à in the axlicle 0 
Vegetable Kingdom, “ Ey 75 riosity," — Prof. 
Henfrey, “was excited by. M Griftth’s 
long convoluted suspensor in the ovule of Gne tum, It 
8 Were ens 
cy, Sansparei 
pee. Mr 
ttersea, a. ed in “te 0 
C. Turner sent large well bloomed plants in g 
new. Of the lati 
st, p 
es, of | end of the Vidak convoluted suspensor does divide into a | re 
t 2 e of Sais Lae pret as in putes and that 
ood the e f these 
bryo is dev t the end of o one 
ccount of a 
e to me that this Jeet an aan W 
taceæ and the Coniferꝶ an 
it is to p^ pm Coat what is not novel nthe 
islands is really so in those countries. This — 
we must in justice — that some of the — — 
| qn have a large a 
One of the — uita in the character o 1 
their sensibility to ‘opposition. The total met 
ir se views is the reaso 
i n 
We + 
* 
3 2.43.24. s, i 
one as an enemy who does n lat ir 
h ly t } so Mas yet remains m 
A 
UT the latter we! 
variety, several of w 
— P — Rosabell Princess Royal, 
giére, and Carminatum. Messrs. Fraser 
had u en Celestial, agone m, formosissi- 
mum, pr and delicatu Mr; Windsor 
ed esse d — delicatam, Per: 
fection, cwm xm Campbell, me Cassandra, Mr. 
Gaines also contributed a 
In the Amateur's Class PH. T n gr. 
Esq. furnished a fine plant of Carlos, Fair en, —— 
l, Saraeen, Governor-General, on. n 
i and Celesti: 
ai of dévelopment, with a view to ascertai 
continued Prol. Henfrey, “under the li yos of my own 
| our ignorance, and the — a of. our faults are the 
a 
Gnetum produced cor puscula ; which I thought might first steps towards improvemen 
have bea overloo! jokes, by Mr. Griffith, his memoir] And again: «Tt isnot tb all the province ofstienee to 
havin n written the. pu n of seek out the means of i or augmenting 
Mr. Brown's celebrated memoir on the ity of | incomes. inquires no what * 
AT in M ae ^ Specim — the flowers in | this s belongs to 2 ——. art, with. she has 
stages obtained from “the K ew eee been con science is to seek 
ind "together with n Griffith's paper, in possession for causes, and like a light, to illuminate the surround. 
the Society, were examined. * The study of this paper,” ing darkness, Science roosters not m ; and 
e of riches and of poverty,— 
pP ee H 
power is the source iches 
eid verty w € it Ginttoyty it 
ly. 
na, Admirable, Ir. Wiggins, Leni ny has led me toa ttach grea t importance to when it produces, 8 e 
to E. Beck, Esq. Isleworth, had Bride; Admirab fali it, fi use, newed by 
y, Laura, Governor-General, Vestal, W M m ng the of my inyes tigations, on account EZ" . — ulture isto Hak at renti V ch are to be 
Sanspareil and Symmetry. Mr. Bailey, gr. to T of the author's arg forestalled me in the greater lasting, she must decide upon 38 on that path 
eria: ham, h e well grown plants, mto oa the facts important in the history of e which kin has r to be the only trust- 
consisting of conspi Gem of the West; i ent genus, ne to lead to a knowledge of hidden objects 
Carlos, "ivever — floribundum, Fair Ellen, and tó do ew 2 supple 4 25 ir relations. This could be done without re- 
Mr. —— ints, before enter g Y ioe the prc ns facts acquired by experience 
In Fan he best 6 came from Mr. Bailey, whose J 
I have drawn from his and my own A Sal P * * A 
nouneing one of the 
kinds were e dadas Sontag, Cloth of — — formosum 
1 
opinion expressed by Prof. Agardh, i chen new T — ia 
Celestial, Evening Star, and Lady of the Lake. Mr. 
James 2 Mr. Holland, both - descr exhibited | 
wel is Class, in which Mr. W 
— 
‘Seedlings appeared to greatly interest 
vasi this popular’ flower, as well as the public. 
EE yere Autocrat (Foster), whit 
painted lower. of Purse 
a smooth : — a 
Hire” (Turner), salmon 
m a — I air — much ightest | V 
D Goddard m eid 
—— ds — Judges 
. e above for prizes. 
k), 
r- petals ; | Cro! 
e form. 
‘There were dee Juno Museum 
scarlet, 
ii a of « 
me Linnæus first described Clu 
us Cliffortianus; of this 
fen exists in E He 
, so that can 2 
Tow) ca Y 
in aa 
satisfactorily identified. 
the ——— 
(Beck), bright crimson; Apollo 
;; Eastern Beauty I 
'eranium, ä and * 
ae but not new in foliage. 
edica, 
foa rey nius, Plukenet, and Seba, ponang to the Croton 
of. Jacquin, and those of Plu and: ki aei: 
the agen of Linnzus's rx Cr Fa gom illa, 
ziven to this p 
tre cH to Cho Lór that the Gnetacemare related even sions — special pu : these facts, and only 
? | oco themselves with i ting the proximate 
= the facts "contseetét with the life and 
under the names of Clutia Teese 8 Clutia Cas- Pesce ot inta the produetion of which is their 
‘ata es ” By J. J. 1 48. M Dia BS ae ry. During object. Fr nd favou ipe action of the hse un 
esidence vod eme: Dr. W. F. of a manure in ns oi et ey 5 nce infer 
had direc mat anti the T of|its equally —.— e action in an in 
thos s, and: | of the | derive. immediate profit from it; bub they "ought. 
first place, to inquire into the reason of its good 
the special case. 
“Such investig an agricultural point of 
cient oF ate d rum pos conditions of me 
the presen 
e | fourth D, a 
er vetting tale e different 
submitted to proof, 
nevertheless the two first collections were v ery d 
They came: from: — — — — poe EE 
— — of Putney. Messrs, Débeon-& 
me 
porai: TM The. best were Slough Rival, Perfection 
: hscbild, . 185 — „Brilliant t (Lidyar 
ere shown by J. Hunt, 
Tlie ok were 
uni 
Mrs. 
rå 
md dan 
=i — 
Ventnor of a 
also a noto on the phenomena 
a 
t 
of- — — 
Toti in the yel 
acus, 55 
— Li meaig out of tower ty ALIE 1; Pilework 
ragrans was in bloom i in 
c ^ drop a —— enà of 
F 
Slutia Eleuteriä of Tin 
Linnwan Wesbirititn, the Ce oton 
and.of Woo: — who has: giren a very bad fi 
his t. 223, fi; Of these r W. Indian and totally 
bo 
E 
pe 
E 
Woodville, t. 222; (4) z Sloanei, Bennett, is the | sp 
n Amon. Acad., and of the | ce 
f 
t. 
t cad., a 
the Linnwan HERAUS, and the Crot Seon d Cel of 
3 
0 
] Heuteria of Swartz. 
488 50 "t 
lant. Swartz's C. Eleuteria is distinct. points, our ‘conclusion must then b 
m the foregoing, and is called C. Sloanei by. Mr. whether all the conditions tite een 
B Sindit. The plant figured by. Catesby- i: e' original | considered to sgether, x yee overlooked. We 
Ulutia Cascarilla of Linn: nzeus, who, E evene mis-st; ated endeav vour to produce sam A — Ac — 
he habitat. ed Maps citations of | by f i itions found. Should 
Linnæus in respec hese planta w 2 by the result correspond with our expectations, and be 
i dern and p following were equally favourable as in the first ini 
ve 
n his examination: “of the subject: 4 made an ex — nary step in’ advance 5 or from this 
ec Eleuteria of the first edition of Sp. Pl., the | special case we can now in all predict th 
5 Meri of Lin, Hort. Cliff, 486, is that Jum by like or aniiko en of the mánure A. The effeets 
hires at t. 223, fig. 2 of his Medical Botany; be like, in hich we know ree 
. €i carilla of the same edition of Sp. Pl. is that have present ‘the same conditions united in the same 
ied by Plumier t. 240, fip. 1, and by Catesby at | manner; unlike, im one-of these is known 
;.(3) 22 Ert of Jacq - (Amer. P pow fig. 4) is | be want 
Ty Clutia ro. in Am nd off “TI f all tl diti 
of the effect sored is Meets S by the t 
special law; because it refers to a pepe case, to a 
t for instance. If- ve ye rien ees — 
nips,” 
e of lime and ' 
is equally true: for ‘Whea ot "Subs a 
d for euch 
distinet speci the chara — and synonymy, were each 
practice, and so. on; — con tue ve ore been 
given. 3 — — ‘of Croton were gathered by | ded 
Dr. Daniell, i 
Notes of Books. 
on Modern Agricu e By Biron v. Liebig. 
: “faite? John Bite M Ab. " Smáli- SVO. Pp.284. — 
A Maberly. 
— 
f d 
upon a var . 
4 en! prepared” ith all 
plis 
courses jn 1 
and restorat d 
empirical i from 
alone 
„the agriculturist 
to it; to inform bis att 
science, he must frequent a diocl OD 
