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582 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, Crx 9, 1859 
aa th ern t some plants ars Junius igit nd teme dien Fon he ral eg 
interi x adopts is thus certain that pla — . 
ftat via Ten e 1 sg ci pee | en alive; and if so why should not — pe so? jis 9 feet, covering with a pendent branchen 
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** the asserted eren T Movers as s at igs t| The whole subjec ot is a ques stion o of fa et. L der | times an object of —— —.— — - is at al 
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C dopts th a ethi uliar to that order, and tha when | Wit ty dow. th 
the same opinion. Dr. CaAgPENTERadopts pam is something peculi ; pagans 1 earl , tha ae 
‘doe, which is the common one. In fis opinion it | — wood is found to ^ sued e unn ii Duo E —— . — (ot - 
ati f light is in part | only becau he spawn 0 of Fun planted unsparingly in well mar na positio 
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with tha version of oxygen in ub th sap of plants dn no relation to a: beautiful park; all of them 100 ite 
carbonic acid, which ie place very rapidly in | is p luminous. Many ofthe en already re sched aheigh 
flowers, iy which may be regarded as a slow! ‘ Mornay describes a tree in South Ame rica and are now objects of great bea 
combustio his also, as will be n m^ called Cipó de Cunanam, wit 
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Per ce we 1 the subject so surrounded | every cut n the st r 1 
i ffer any 0 inion ; uice was luminous. MA 1 r 
x ie — ie fum ag in, ip 15 kind of light in the sap of Euphorbia phos- i aei extent immediately în f water of more ie 
question as has been su 4 That Fraxinella | p horea, a Brazilian plant, when wounded. When a nt immediately in front of he mansion 
under some circum- this was nc the po ie wae af ^ aid opposite egy a beautiful Dorie Pemai and 
d yet have z pE tioned with an iban ble background imum 
which rises up — behind 
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that plant possessing such a quality. ARWIN, is therefore um — ord 
indeed, assumes the story to be true :— when nis dm > luminous — are e infested groun nd the hime — from the 9 
Slow o'er the twilight sands, or leafy walks, wit h Fun of Boutin on the eastern side, "d 
With gloomy dignity Dictamma stal The ample of manifest luminosity that are and exceedingly well directed; they 
Routeur has com 5 ourselves is recorded in the enter "the park by e and unpretending 
à volume of the Gardeners’ Seg for 1845.|gates and lodges. There c alaa el other ap- 
he phenomenon by - ying — n w, x fücer, informed proaches from different e which unite i: 
aan Loc ae plant emi emits - inflammable air he Royal Asiatic So iot x ; hat a plant —— . — —— d gta ps = lodges enit 
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ee * t had been aes by a reach the mansion by rising ground on either ded 
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—— — ascribed to it % seek shelter at night und K 
: ^ ght under a mass of rock of gravel 400 fee 1 
— be — very iiie e in the jungle, had been astonished at seeing a blaze med 3 180 ow —— ches e nim "i viti; 
little volatile oil; althong hit may be analogous t 10 of phosphoric light 55 ffused “over all the Grass The park is bounded on the nort — 
that spoken of in t o Tub 8 in the vicinity ” “(see ard. Chron., 1845, p. 243). | woods and the beautifully fern, village er 
Bh di ctn eee Fungi indi A piece of the root, or tutis was sent home by | Warden, which at this period of the season is a scene of 
luminous in cho dark; u od n that M Be ilk x General Curren, and was found, although dead, h interest and attracti tof theg 
Acer. We again qu n Balf E to become luminous after being wetted. Having | masses of flowering shrubs, creepers, and other beau- 
ee ee een .; |been enabled to examine this plant we found t z tiful plants with which its tastefully omamented 
with all the vi cottages are so profusely decorated, . a 8 
à e the cleanliness and comfort which seem: 
whole, Near here is also his lordsbip's — aa 
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"The ; pecie e colour, ‘ e thir dofi 1 deti be ed wood, but in a piece of a livened with birds of fine plumage, some disporting on 
jer p ie ow ugh dry, appe spear and to — arii a the waters of the lake or soaring over hend, others 
the : ders R . | ing or congregating at will, all united in forming 
— c of the Olive- 8 (Agaricus olearius) ke 3 Bee x Wan Ey ap Ee: 8 a scene of the most — kind—a paradise nom 
continued white light wit intinlatio; with which he has lately favoured us pup A alas! Mi mae wildern 
when plant ai o ite 
: livit 3 is a noble of white freestone in the 
* ; has blui c caused b Fungi. S ground. n whic. Ene » 
he vile plant of 46 len Gardner gives out at | 22 ile. rhizomes were f fond lud bean ge and conned ice he the roofs af the 
osphorescent li at | T° n up, an exceedin effect, 
simnila^ to that PERDU by the Ai fire-flies,| Andropogons and other rhizomatous Grasses = — ic, ad hae an facade of p pend 
— 2 ue — h i F is % These rhizomes,” he adds, thus exposed | nd theve — feet; o aces and excellent stable 
t is called Probably for weeks or months to the action buildings cuta Sox eastern end, and hidden 
rer dio. tee ter tae of Vili 2 Netividnde, Flor de | of soaking — and heavy dem. alter-|by plantations from de ain portion of ‘the boil 
0 met A i with hoi rn hare 5 would | — carriage drive being diverted by eee 
—: describes two species of A. egin to decay, or e e ave become im — Ht e to giv IUe 
near the Swan River, which emit * most preme with min te luminous and in that state, entrance, front of this superb residens, f 
light. They grow a emp n franks of | When pad bene ae m the dark. This for the late Samuel Whitbread, Esq. M. Wen W 
om such as Baria N xim paper, inia i sine 3 was led to draw from General 1796-7, ^ by Hollan de who has been M abet 
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— intensi as — — dried trae e of luminosity.” superbly furnished 
T —— — EY ticed Bu eee MN upon the authority of the ed or — and fue ite walls he 
by Mr. Dauuxoxp in — on ara trunk of a late Que with many admirable paintings j 85 
dead E dent The r surface Indian — 4 are occasio pe luminous by night best masters; and over the doors 9 bias 
of the — nearly black, while the central during the rainy season we do nof — principal apartments are animals in Gin, he 
r d the > gills v ere milk-white, thè stipe | stand that their phosphorescence is consequent on | by Garrard and paintings of live gamie by we 
— T —— pilons. aoig udo f dit Mall land rooms and Horarios we svat 
e species wen le ch being the state of this curious question, | "^ verin hae Aig inches in 
for the phosphorescence which they display. These we Concur with our correspondents in thinkin northern side; the former portage Aia 
plants v in dark cav y display. — "wi 4 6 inches in wi width, and i i 
coal | that the attention of those who dwell in gardens and 19 feet " materially to the 007 
3 be i och mÀ the subject, and we shall hope —— Sein id whieh a do np room; the T 
FP feet long by 17 feot 9 inches in width, and. 
tains in handsome cases a well chos eB 
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the spawn S 5 | t — a M 
of the Trufle —— aby Abk Po à - -y oad books E: the 
are instances of luminosity in living icem TuS ini " present, worth 5 
disap wit Me Dim living Fi gi, which | T ,maguitont estate, containing as i it does the either side are portraits of his clerks 
2 in plants in A atate of Miren, bora principal residence of William H sic 8 iy the | Street cer d s — . e. mar 
in Henry Whit r „south sid u wide, 
sa p TT Xr half-decayed Pota : lies south-east of TEA and is intersected iy the | x oa en the largest is 43 feet long, 23 fet tod by 
ULA made best vation D on "th light | Leicester and Hit r 11 miles in EE e| and "ee adt = doe ce Its walls ve ‘portraits 
given oat by eee subtorranom, Bye property a an a Heng Railway u pya s through th | some exquisite paintings, an 40 fall 1 ; 
ro roe Weg thi EL TUNE station in ilie of the Le Samuel e L aa -- 25 
nE Cap fus UTER set — hos ben | pro — ty to e park, something less than a mile from | There are Pied i à 
There is als a station at Biggleswade, one hand a ey beantif i but simpl 
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e| Bedford by road, over the high i 
` E V ground, the distance is | o a superb sittin . and : 
D obtal miles; by this rout some exquisite views are Sgt come ae? wine bamn — ; 
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beauties of its broad and fertile plain, enriched and mansion Er area of mo dr 
| Lg as it is by the sluggish waters of the Ous portion of th Dam d on [tha north side is divi in 400 fet in 
Se oe hak ud — an area aeres of exi Kell park by a handsome open balusí e, sup 
mto irregular character, — adorned | length, having elegant iron gates Y ither si 
with noble timber in well disposed gr - masses, | MAC colossal urns, and E oh on i, round i 
ES Moor points are well brought with m many | upright Cypress. The her d nns ES ph the 
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and the xygen of air, that is to say, arc Weeping Bi ad X fine trees. An admirable speci- | enclosed by a sunken wall o od 
;giving tion, is an object of very great beauty; it is 40 feet 1 in 150 feet, in which — is a fall 
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