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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
495 
HÆMARIA DISCOLOR VAR, Dentsontana, Revue de 
[Horticulture "Belge, March, 
Macopes PETOLA, Revue de I’Horticulture Belge, 
— 
OLIA er. Dictionnaire Pratique 
T Horticulture re, liv, 35. 
1 eat Revue de Horticulture Belge, 
Me TRONICA SUPERBA (= GLORIOSA), Z//ustration Hor- 
ticole, February 28. 
Orc 1 Rolfe, Revue del’ Hort icul · 
ture Files, April 1. 
Pear as ve D'Ucoreg, Bulletin d Arboricul- 
ture, &c., March 
PENTAS . Journal of Horticulture, March 7. 
HOME GORRESPONDENGE. 
ARDENERS AND EDUCATION.—I was amused at 
the tone of W. G.’s ” article on this subject (p. 2 
— what he — ne I think, quite correct, and 
As ooks he mentions, I am atraid 
price of them, 
ladies and gentlemen who furnish bothies provided 
filled e 
large gardens where the h gardeners 
premiums from young men, and yet many such 
— not a single book f * me use of the 
smp. This 9 should n nstead 
of pocket g all the money, why not with 9 0 of 
* buy hn ps needed gardening socks? G. Burrows, 
KALE “ GREENS.” — consterna- 
tion at your recent — — the flavour of 
green Seakale and Spinach Bee egar ling ¢ the 
latter, I know that ite usefulness is mush a 
vo 
who prefers it to the ordinary Spinach, and 
which latter she dee as too insipid. Hence, we 
have the extremes in difference of and much 
of either the nee, oy or their stalks, w. a 
it or blanched Seakale. V. G., 
PRIMULA OBCONICA.—This perpetual- floweri 
ve character at 
colours and tones shows the care that should be 
i banain pene s dsi such as are not 
of a very distinct Pie. a little warmth 
winter, but in the ties e and summer it 
succeeds under cool I may add tha 
—— Mr. Reynolds nor any of his — appear 
to suffer in any way from handling the plants, R. D. 
BIUM AN EGYPTIAN PLANT ?— 
from ancient 
a. 
an immense quantity of plants of the Lily species, 
which the Egyptians call Lot aving cut down 
angi them in the sun. . There is a 
econd species 0 of the Lotus which grows in the Nile, 
8 is not unlike e fruit, which 
grows from the bottom of the root, les 
wasps nest; it is found to contain numbe 
of kernels of of ive-stone, 
— tit Hist. Pl. iv., 10, 
elaborate account of the Bean, and remar 
grows in Cilicia, the Chaldean fields of Syria, and in 
the Euphrates. caliger, in his animadversions 
upon this chapter says, that the pink Lotus is the 
gyptian Bean; but in Bk, ix. ch, gs p. 1093, 
after making some remarks upon the Lotus, 
to ay: Before I finish my account, I wish to point 
out the error in our fourth book that the Egyptian 
Bean the Lotus were one e same plant; 
but perience and diligence of more ent 
writers, especially Justus Heurnias, prove 3 they 
are not the same.” St , xvii, p. 799, saya: “In 
of Egypt 24. the Ballrush 
The Ortus Sanitatis of J. A. Cuba, printed at 
Mayence in 1491, has a — -i the Egyptian Bean 
as follows :—“ Many l the Egyptian Bean 
ta habitat is . Sprin, — — 
yellow flowers 
peris 1 comes u 
.. The root is 5 ar a reed 
either boiled or ra alled ‘ Collocasia,’ or 
oleasia.’ . . he see ais eaten dry, which is 
of a greenish black — 4 and —— than our Bean. 
n his second book of aliments, gives 
— — the — Bean, and does not — 
sider it to be a Lupine, as some have thought, and he 
has given a separate chapter upon the Lupine. 
Avicenna says, in his second book, that the Egyptian 
Bean is the Syrian Bean, and he forthwith calls it 
the rtea Bean, having seen 20 much of it growing 
i e sayr, also, that Syrian Bean 
is the Greek Sess, Serapias says that the 
Egyptian Bean is very heavy, and weighs as 
much as four pounds, the 
— the Egyptian Bean could not have been any 
ariety of the plant which we cultivate ie proved by 
the remark of Herodotus (ii., 37), wherein he says: 
“ Beans are sown in no part of Egypt, neither will 
the inhabitants eat them, ners boiled or raw; the 
riests will not even lo is pulse, — it 
exceedingly unclean.” — who travell 
i pt, adopted their priests’ aak espect- 
ing the — tse during the period of his . 
forbad the me 
ean 
Nelumbium was not an 
sidering the abundance of its seeds, it could not have 
been so effectually exterminated. C. n Prince, 
The Observatory, Crowborough. [Ses also p. 494), 
PROFITA TE WOOD MANAGEMENT.—I acarcel 
think that any land-owner or practical forester 
will take your — s statements serious 
Mr. Webster’s text seems to be what Mr. Elw wes 
stated, and ya that text Mr. Webster has preached 
n erroneous sermon. The whole point lies in the 
qualification. “ ordinar That qualification settles 
the question so far as ordinary Ary which is known 
as medium arable land, is concerned. No person 
would think of planting ordinary 1 144224 
8. 
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vat 
— 
2 ase 
THA 
ity 
its existence. 
tock in amounts to 12,000 
cubic per acre. Take this at 4d, ta ER foot, 
and — have £200 (the ld at 6d, 
per ie foot). Tue rent of the land a 2s, per 
planting on capital, say at 
5 per cme Eis, ia a all £39 per acre, leaving for 
wood alone, £161, Add to this the value of the 
game k ‘daring the 
amounts in Wenne per acre, net revenue. 
You have then a ren * of £183 10s, per acre. 
n for themselves, I 
and aleo 
some better, others not 80 — others 
are failures; but because of a few failures, which in 
most instances are yn accounted for b 
ë d 
1 figures, Lask, 1 it sog ridiculous for anyone 
say that woods will n The accounts have 
been most carefully any 3 kept during the 
whole period, taxes only being omitted. D. 7. 
Mackenzie, Mortonhall Estate Office, Midlothian, 
THE CHISWICK iON. —1 
have seen a copy of Ve en le of tie show. "Alas 
difference is 
what a 
and the realisation! What a capital . 2 
create an original and attractive as well as a ser- 
ave so far done so much might have been 
consul 
PRI GARIS.—If we may judge by the 
ous quantities of Primrose flowers sold in the 
streets day day, we need have little fear that 
hardy or wild N is being exterminated. 
ay be that the very 
m 
through the agency of : of t 
seed falls on grass or pact | barren soil that little 
germinates — can be no dou till, any one 
king over area he 
m and treated as a 
seldom does well. Give it wild or nataral surround- 
right. It would be very 
