Dicam 10, 1859.] - THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETIE 993 
Arabia's ect 55 to Port Cara; whilst the other four, by little woods or lines of trees, | N had got into the small sj — at the stem 
which ar ropical, o -tropical, are refe rable | is to * seen a d en rming $ ing enough to make a hasty exit 8 
se s genus. "Encephalarto, established by I ded by water, and standing out in relief from a ever an; body app d There was hardly any fruit 
to the | back d of green. It is there, at the cháteau of t i ing but fi cots were left 
ae — These we intend to revie that e Herodes of Ghent has|and they were very well stripped in deed. I believe. 
on this'occas f som Mie 12 amassed one of the rm ti rant collections 2 rare that nets do more harm than good, and that if I had 
important, memoirs on 3 by d we have and valuable plants "that Belgium possesses. We say | spent one penny in white serge stead of 3I. in nets, I 
ian sense of the Son for more sd or should have had a good c , Hoping io eave tear 
" South A rican ollections 15 so small a place are rarely to | buds and to be rev 88 " he sparrows, 
the name of opi ‘ozamiz. 115 t this re seems be met pr A In fact there is something of everything. some Whe eat in a soluti on of Nex Vomica, and puta 
to be petu. out ou reasons so slats - 2 cs al Azaleas, Rhododendrons, Camellias, Conifers, Amaryl s next moi 
ent exa Prae of all the Australian lids, Ferns, Pelargoniums, Cycads, Palms, variegated | T had been the heaps, — 
3 es o the view uci ally Drac een g by | greenhouse n Orchi ds, de. are all housed, picked up ME ‘half a dozen dead Sparrows. about - 
Dryander, and Bde out by R. Brown (Prodr. p. 348), | packed, and stowed i de of littl garden. “There,” thought I, “at I 
and Endlicher (Gen. Plant. suppl. IL, p. 103), to houses placed Weck to back! in the form of an amphi- | out-mancuvred the Philistines, for mim they 
consociate the African and Australian Zamie. in one | theatre, overlooked by a hands some glazed building, partake of the ME provided for them at 
norm ican ies. laced , u » ti d co the tree to seek E 
iud 
Encephalartos spiralis, Endl, (Zamia spiralis, | manding a view of, the gardens, and ‘surround. | fare.“ But, no. such thing— "f AM 
Salisb.) is, by various authors, well eluci . Imay|ing country. In the centre of this building is a the trees the a fom (ad yard 
add that its stem, according to locality of growth, may | rotunda with a very lofty dome, which holds the | could notice) was ever touched after, whilst their visita 
be found ginaren or spherical, re f that this species | larg menta hi ants; such Arau I 
d been oticed as far rth as Broad Sound. At! carias, Dammaras, e Banksins, large Camellias, | before. In fact, I fancied more so, and did not 
ked dif Rhododend Azaleas, and — 3 Acacias, the | whether to ‘attribute it to a mixture f malice an 
wr . ug northern and southern specimens, a s far as | smallest specimens ex which are not less than 9 feet | in their disposition, inducing them to spite me for my 
I had an opportunity to judge. A curious 3 high. Araucaria excelsa, e eai mii, ant brasihensis, | projects and to jeer me for my failures, or whether they 
is of this species, with bifid leaflets of the Dammara alba, Banksia serrata, Acacia ! lly thought that I had constructed these Goose! 
mingly young plants, was found. by Mr. C. Moore in | pendula, with a erben ants arcticum, are especially bowers for their especial gratification. I was confirmed 
aras Wales. conspicuous for beauty and stature, The left wing of | however in my notion that birds can reason, and E 
nthe Encephalartos Preissii, well described as Macro- | this house contains a very fine collection of J Palms and Cowper phrases it) confabulate also, Apropos to this 
zamia Preissii, by Professor Le ehmann, i is restricted to | Cycads; among ‘which may be LEE 
South-west Australia, althou; in the landsea cere excelsa, tomentosa, and palmata, Phoenix spinosa, Sabal | how to use e ball o 8 cotton,“ 
picture of Port Lincoln, illustra "E apta Flinders's | Adan —— nii. and Blackburniana, , Thri nax parviflora, | goes on to say :—** What thetittle icing an d'erstehing 
voyage, this, or the; precedin ng Za is delineated, Oreod ), Pinanga Nenga, | devils think E these threads, I w not, but it keeps 
which however. I Wen "api a, Calamus niger, Chan redorea fenestrata, | them. off, and that is 3 “tor our Lea I 
bt, and as doubt 
Nx ta TOM Latania ee and Astrocaryum 
The Encephalartos Denisonii (Macrozamia Denisonii, beautiful specimens of Cycas revoluta and circinalis y should 
Moore and Mueller) is. by far the. noblest of the | Ceratozamia — a an ion edule; Pandanus it not have the ame app 99 timid de pres 
Australian Cycades, and well worthy of, bearing the | furcatus, Candelabrum, and inermis; with . | creatures? ” A oe * 
name of the enlightened patron of sciences who rules at Angiopteris evecta, a colossal 1 Medinilla ore mar ead and| ` Ringing the Bra Aya of Grape Vines.—This opera- 
present in New Sou th Wal ales. The description, of. it | some beautiful species of He —— . tion, from which favourable results wie expected, will 
furnish (I The right win contains y 300 varieties of|doubtless have received attention from many Grape 
41) rests’ solely on "the examination of the fruit, for Camellia, bnt to judge from the 3 appearance of | growers during the past summer, and I think the pre- 
which reason I avail myself of this opportunity - | the plants this house is not suited to their cultivation. | sent may be considered a suitable time for those who 
Panplete, the | account of this rare and beautiful tree. | The cause of their sickly — is perhaps "attributable have been tempted to put it to the test to communi- 
t 240 t to too d atmosphere during the winter, or else to | cate their experience E its merits, éspecially as 
la f), 3 linear-faleate, shining, without e too niuch héat. "Every one must have remarked at the some doubts are now arising as to its utility under 
callus at the base, "C from the vortex, not from the last spring exhibition in Ghent the Azaleas of Baron | glass. Having | tried it here on d small scale Jast ast year, 
sides of the rachis, w. —15 ra 2 part of A ed rf were splendid specim d | and fi 
the rachis tet tragon 7775 peu par rt s ways com- ated. with gr ; skill, their foliage being lost | results, I resolved. upon giving it another trial, from 
then horn shaped), generally broad o ong o vate, ei collection ^ Amaryllids is also Well known. | when properly. carried out, I therefore selected some 
4-7” broad, and 9—12” lon ng; ant 1 sias Baron e ckx possesses. thousands of them, for small bunches on different parts of the Vines, am 
closely A caedis a each other, those.of the lowest | they ai operated upon - m the way recommended * 
series sterile; lateral scales rid -3", ong ; 2 the The sight or ten small jana piia. n back t ting through t ark Ba a sharp 2 at im an 
base by inflexed margins either channelled or cylindri- | back at the Bottom , of the principal co are | inch apart and TES the piece all round; this 
mboid te, thi occupied tal p 10 5 was done En 
i the la nias, avin a e.; in fact most of the experiments were a ms 
scales spreading, of the terminal ones reflexed; female | plants lately introduced are to be found there. The of which were in one house and two 
cone with ‘Spreadin les. The remaining part of. t. Ore ; tracted. our attention; the | sam oed ps "ug ied want of 948. however 
^ as sti Baron He - ant vals colou 
" ere 
; dark, green, X 
much, thi ck ened; base, which is coal a thin specimens, a mostly very fine and 
falvons, velvet, otherwise nearly. smooth, “unequally cultivated. e. ahe, folowing wot ost especially note- ith. er gl 
t, above dep Mae rarity :—Cattleya crispa, oblige by giving a clear iras 
later angles blunt. Rachis in e blunt part crispa p . Be ii ^" Mosi ossim, Mossiw | superba, | operation. J. ten Gordon > 
tetragonous, in its upper part ae qox at uno back, | guttata ; gc Ba Epidendrum aurantiacum, . Lifting Fruit t Trees. — This i = 15 am n awae, not a new 
and there, on both sides, with a longitudinal fi ae viscidum, Stamfordianum, Odontoglossum P t erally tised. It 
Lower „leaflets e upper ones alternate, piae and. nzviurh ;. Aerides: odora e, odoratum ‘majus, is I think dere to root ‘pruning, for this reason: 
only twice shor r than „the others (n not redu ced crispum ; Angrecum eburneum and bilobum ; Sobralia | in root pruning only the strong and emi — Ó roots 
gradually t Leere en Linden, Vanda Roxburghi, are divided, . in lifting the whole of the N 
rulea (magnificent specimens); that go down itio. the subsoil, an 
smaller than the s rest, all about 6—8" long, $” broad, | tricolor, teres, and cæ 
with n therefore, in. dias ee to 55 Chysis Limminghii Gary rare); De ndrobium nobile, | stro dense tir iden p are all severed. Fruit trees of Pall 
lon ong rachis, mu ch sh porter than in the other Australian Wallichii, neg and Gibsoni; Lelia purpurata, | sort ing in age from 20 to 40 Margret 
Species. l acu minata, an superbiens; — — retusum and ined here tere the mot fios volg : — d bd 
Dot gradually tapering to the base; above glabrous, | Blumei e healthy, but fresh soil and sl 
beneath, from e base 4 to ve thickened n of the Notwithstanding the advanced age , of Boon panting have rendered them all that could be desired. 
lamina, densely eovered with anthers, — are not Heyn nder ezgo ckx. his zeal for horticulture does not cool, as They v every instance well farnished wi with bloom 
detached in two distinct groups. Lamina early 1} Ap s shown bud Some rof the trees whieh were lifted last autumn, 
aa grea of its beauty. to the ardour of this gen- Windpaliy Greengage ms, were almost the only 
The Encephalartos Peal Gulielmi, fully descri descri ked as Sing ; bie collection of medals bears w — ix 2 zr e ha i in - e eden that ry be = of 
Macrozamia in the “F Phytogr. Aust," I., 86, prizes gained at Ghent, Brussels, Nam Mon: 
Seems by far the iot of the Australian species. It ee and Mechlin. From the Foarnal "T Horticul- 
Was discovered near the Glasshouse Mountains, at the | fure 
lia: 
They w. — again 
E histor N the severe dci of April 
t, and produce ed more fruit than they have done for 
time when H. ; Wil f m- 2 — | years, 
burg visited ie ia abe whilst | . ma : | ably situated, the fruit was es Mio P destroyed.. 
s name on this memorable plant, I desired too Home Correspondence. For instance, YT Apricots ue eee 
express my admiration for the 8 ardour which| Gooseberry Buds and ‘Sparrows. Mr. Waterton | with. a net an h be die! 
the royal traveller has retained a bighly advanced | 8 fish nets for keeping sparrows from the | check which they secsire ia 8 
E buds of Goose trees. The aves, I think, is not I thi cor of or wong It p 
concluding these remarks I would point to the good. About 15 years ago I had a good-sized kitchen | the n sprirg, and assists 
Anportance of pom e as . a kiad of Sago, | garden in 80 the borders € 0 beds o of | hardening | the and p im Te I 
of 8 amylum is not equall us in the pith | which e DU E 7 d 3 ‘ E T" tni up aene T; 
erent. es. Es Ence 3 artos. en The sparrows made avoe wi e 5 an ink is stem, as then ep in 
has already 7 ood service ei the Wastin pruning was obli ged ie 55 deferred till the spring, i ealthy. fruitfal mec peg nes 5555 5 pores 
Australian ‘settlers; and Mr. Gregory, the Australian order to make f the shoots that, had least Ww depended on. Henry Bailey, J 
first employed. the method of obtaining suffered. Two sa 2 men called at my house | Amersham, Buc e? Alii "ibd Gl Ud 13 
the starch AS €— the pith of the stem with a 3 with tanned fish pes for sale. I bought a ibat for Datura ar torea.— Mr. 1b I Kb e 
by Which m uch surface of the cellular tissne 3). And now,” said I tei my gardener, “ 8 45 pu ger |ntne plants of this in full bloom in one ith bim in 
18 laid ope dd io chal the separation of the starch | the sparrows.” trees were properly pru nd | ployer’s conservatories. I quite ag wi iC 
grains by er from the pith a tor the xo yw “stretched over the rows, tichndyg p 2 that wd little aene vi ei pa 
1s 5 
trat fect. D Dr. Pip Vito ueller in ut erly P. trees and tl the spaces “between each tree, and the oppo- — . require the protection o 3 
ie — | closely as possible fete wo that it seemed next tory, or ind protection Ploeg aes md e 
eed. any : 
deseo for any eset to get inside. A space, des summer, id Aiding e in full perfection its m * and 
W. oes conl GARDENS. ever of ea was 9 After | gracefu efu 1f rers. Qu etd all s arte plac of he 
CuáTEA N HEYNDERYCKZ.— bservin: eat approached the t 
esi two Tore from m Ghent ia a the middle of “the the | imi flew Met inder , I looked more narrowly | Datura, all 5 them covered wi bes om, as rally - 
_ Fertile plains of Flanders, the monotony of which is and found that the buds had been attacked, Tue loped as I ever saw pow gua no, 
