Avever 97, 1859.] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND eee. GAZETTE, 
on ir. Skinner from Guatemala. After that —— ture: Esq. Curator of the Royal Dubli were most acute considered 
veller it * — but we enn from phos ^ t | Societys oria Garden, Glasnevin. that they saw the Welsh mountains, which are said to 
— y specific cha acter, because e have a str rong cou Before entering on the = tails of the ramble, it is, 
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and so ach species as 
In habit p is very like the first; and the universal attention that was paid to Vaccinium 
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th , on the pia and 1 gro ow th of plants ; the myrtillus qune and more "MG to its black 
bat d flow ers are larger, the sepals rn are — E summer course), ystematic botany gla vacous berries. Some were fortunate in lighting on 
roundish oblong, and the lip is a, circular, deepl of t the latter, "and when the young | some specimens of the pretty filmy Fern, Hymeno- 
co ordate, distinctly thed, and m ly d i Wilsoni, though apros. from the extreme 
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0. — * * Rossii. 1 are unacquainted with the above institution, that there — to er 15 was — S rem ets le to: notice 
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puit à ground of the same. gms and have had num d and lower dow m, on t the | margin of a little rill, 
1 th 1 f the natural orders best — — ted for * observed Drosera Round-l d Sun- 
— de) ey are the same as in O. Bictoniense ; but it i f Jussieu, De Candolle, and Lindley, they Fes and abundance of 15 stren oreopteris (Sweet 
much finer plan are taken out to the field for the purpose of enabling | Mo untain Fern rn), a nd L. Fænisecii (? ) with some com- 
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quired, b We cannot Close without expressi ng how much we 
THE pt TREES IN THE CHAMPS ELYSEES. | as to collect and name specimens of he ordinary way- | to th "i Wicklow „Railway Company on 
„Tur of treatment 1 eges by the French en - field pisita. such as are likely to the present, and to the Drogheda Railway Com- 
im trees in in the Cham amps "d in after life. pany on past occasions, for the N vinced in 
Ete tural orders selected fo lu 
„ p "r3 is tue different from the one I — Men an excellent — ted, to — — 
saw 2 ractise some two or three ago. At unt of really usefu —— information, which ang 
that time T pened to. be in Paris. ant-while eng | youth, — — 6o que horti culture the NOTES ON PME I PLANTS 
2 “the hamps Elysces my attention was drawn | profession which he is to live, ought to know, UST ms 
| tot appearance — many of the trees pre- -" few do. For example, the natural order, By Fi e , Mexturm, M.D., Ph.D. T 
| sented by having one or two dark stripes painted on tains the original species from which mo: 
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them from top to bottom of their Pm On closer cultivated fruits Jm sprung, including —5 Are "Pe d. ON a a former occasion I alla de 0 to the medical and 
| examination. i, fo und. the Ph had. been removed from Peach, Plum, Cherry, Strawber rry, R tas &e,, as | chiefly diuretical properties of the numerous Diosma- 
ach E the stripes, v vere for t "t ‘his alone | ceous plants, which ornament so many parts of this 
2i inches wi lth 1 fill Ri up with | opens a wide field for showing * successes which have country. I. ately, ina 8 ey performed to the south- 
a pian dark colo: ured composition resembling a been — in tl ts, and the p TU an Alpi I noticed, at an 
mixture of tar, soap, and resin or wax. 5 could Ae the means used to procure the ain, among the elevation of mo e than species producing 
conceive for what i vl this had been done, and — ciferan, v we have the 5 25 the Cabbage and the essential oil (to which the medicinal virtues of these 
— friend cx was with me, although a Parisian, was nip, garden Stocks, Wallflowers, ras ms ch serve plan is to be DI wi n very high egree, and, 
nable toe ighten me on i the s subject. He however farther to illustrate the i improvemen 8 careful since it is unkno nical Mero I thonght a 
brief enn istie "hotie orit it mig! a — 
down the dead tr trees, and was informed tha was a| which have been obta from the wild wol in n this | and I hav n furnishing it, as this 
recent 2 on PE — the progress of tedis sease | order, again, tbe E Uenbellifera, with its cnl; plant will eed endure the Wie. init tm — 
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altogether of their outer bark was adopted. It was not | ear slightly notched-repand, on short sa, chat and of 
simply a ab ion of the rough outer bark that was|is highly ee "i trace the progress which | equal colonr on both sides, flat on the marg gin; ere 
p] —but large masses of the entire bark— | has been p sing improvement of the varietie: es | terminal, and bel the apex of t ches, one- 
which, in "justice to the operators, it is but fair to say themselves times. lowered, or b mbel; t = aoe 
ey could sc rat avoid removing, as in numerous t may “ap esl i imagine ed, then, with what — | minute calyx deltoid, somewhat 
instances i of destructive little pests with as advanced poi of the class look forward to the | Carpels rhor mboid- ov ate, beskeð ; ; seeds uie: black 
whichthetrees were infested had so bored and eatenaway | excursion vad a as p» iln them to see, in their natural | polished.—On 
the portion of the bark next the wood, that hardly any | habitats, many of the re whose acquaintance they the NAllister River, Gipps Land. videly-spr i 
remain an was sufficient to keep it on | have made in the lecture- | Shrub, a few feet high. Leaves Bu between 3 and 
the tree. It was very evident that the disease ha ving arrived at | cage (selected this year), we 5 lines long, 1—1} line bro ad. Carpels, with addition 
it. fir for any one to entertain the hope of arrest- | €— along the beach, and p, among other of their eee 2 lines long. Seeds ovate, oblong, 
ing it; and even if such had not been the case, it commoner plants, "Trifolium —— Srodium mos- | het longer than l line. Strophiole half as long as 
ie to me thet 2 means prie to were more | chat, we some good specimens of fe e pretty Cru ed, 
cale ulated to leath of the trees than be tof | fer us plan „ Cal kile maritima (Purple Sea Rocket). | y gen: ad that the Australian 
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leaves, which soon m withered and a hth month of Jane rérer species were Fœniculum officinal nale (comm 
n one of E which [genes ed were dead. | Fennel), s E "Narioram) Beseda Reseda | be transf 
o instance the stems covered with Moss lateola ( s inalis (Soapwort), el 
n. — TOW d wi suck Moth; but this plan was | of which we passed a fine habitat, v Arma pien tn 
probably adopted — a on finding that it answered | in its normal or single — which Mr. M. * 
so well when applied to the trees that t were planted to is seldom the case, it being mostly — with double 
Uthe ey occasioned by tl 2 of Ph discov 
"eh had die d the previous season, argle, after so long a drought, was not rich in | Species 
their attempt to aire . we = indc ac dew 5 — be 3 e. genus Eriostemon. 
ee He Eins piens e n I am bound ually found in Fes ants recently collected by Waiter 
to say they deserve great credit for the manner in gigantea, a -— thers wae aoe, “se the n, — the. Director of the Botan nic G arden of 
which they dia —— xe I know that our T— of the dell of ‘the — — from the top of Brisbane 
friend Mr. McGlashan had been sent for some years e Lover's Leap. At this spot we! had oe = antage | for his zealous nr dort into the botany of sub- 
ago to teach them how to use his transplanting ina g Quercus sessi- tr opical Wes stern venia I noticed an bern of 
chines; and here I had: an cay opportunity of finora and Q. pedunculata, and of am the chief | whic 
seeing them in operation and form ing an opinion as to eres of = ren seroma them explained. in Tasmania 
their utility. A large vacant Space adjoining the Place| A merging from the Dargle woods we headed _Anopterus Macleayana.—Leaves chartaceous, large, 
corde was marked out; in lines according to the | | straight across Tn country, over hill and dale, through long, lanceolate, blunt, serrate, with a teethless acumen, 
n g and e (of which latter plant we have some | on rather long stalks; teeth of the calyx 6—9; ovary 
h th l ith its load 1 tl y lively — fey for the Sugar Loaf — grey, tomentose ; capsule of great size, with 8—11 very 
latter g to the pl 1 the slope of the river we noticed Erythræa cen- large seeds.—On the summit of Mount Lindsay, at an 
tu ease be which Cie ‘operation was per- taureum and Liu ium cathar ticu um; an d in the pod elevatio: on of * or 0 feet, accompanied by high- 
eric seemed to asto apis who witnessed it. | valley ste 2 africana, by Bursaria spi 
In the course of puer a fort rtnight a grove | fine nest of Anthemis nobilis (common Chamomile), | and other pea rl plants.—A tree 30 feet high. Leaves 
of Horse Chesnuts formed ‘which could not possi ibly | growing ruly w longer and, in comparison to their length, narrower than 
reas been jones gg under any other o rcumstan As we — determined on gaining the summit of the in'the Tasmanian species, sometimes fully a foot long, 
hin a period of 25 or years. et same aa Sugar Loaf, and had, tl irem o over 1800 feet of eleva- | giving to the treea most noble appearance ; their gland- 
of tre iy A planted in England any have been tion to climb under a bur ing sun, and on slippery | bearing teeth similar in both. Racemes 6 inches long, 
airs quite sufficient to fill in re Seth kine Grass for a considerable pies we gave little heed to | or shorter. Corolla unknown. Pedicles often an inch 
about their Toots, and afterwards perhaps potenia, mig radually the unsocial feelings m c. PN , nii -lanceolate, acumin * 
| but the Fre neh adopt a nother generally 1 sine a Bie travelling stole over us. Teet 
3 with pe „ —— intned |» 
where Mite v to have much breath to waste on his neighbour. How | de 
t i a operation of of ied the bold adv fellow who was | the ova 
— SIA É begin at the ground and bind the waving: his das ed Mme pinnacle, to which we | 
er 9 feet, had 1 mount. And when we 
w uo rit top a sort of f gel of 8 into | r. top w iet maine pleasure did we | 
cy ly pours the E ii u rugged 
hay bands moist. With this 9 during the first watch a — i : ur before, i ep 
a a strik amen to some eam of tcp ce cer — vor ementi d ge ton . 
ean utifal pros which 
large trees, which I I have seen in England. B ome ito be had in the county Wicklow. ei coe the ich 
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ANNUAL BOTANICAL EXCURSION OF THE an on hie king Dey? toile 
STUDENTS AT THE ALBERT MODEL FARM, E sra rdg 
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Ox Thu — “th inst; a party of about 60 o orama. Then we had before us, towards the south, —.— yp 
otani men of the Model F. isual 2 pan beautifal ifie of the Downs; and gazing over the | late, to "vid per idera © — cap- 
ical excursio; m, under the guidance of their lec- | great expanse of sea in the direction of Wales, som eof petioles; calyx wi g T 
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