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on the ground ready for study. These bring down 
with them Orchids, Ferns, and SN bers — many 
kinds, including Rattan Palms, 
are the officers who devote their en ere 
opening up this country, there is not o 
о wW alm from a Dragon-tree, so the 
chance is lo trange to say, the medical men 
the Government service know less and care less for 
natural history than the military men, who 
w 
least regret they have no training or study to enable 
them to эче. ап cgo ger in gimus they see 
around them. A doctor a-days es for no 
living thing Jarger or more —— than a 
bacterium or a bacillus 
here are ж d even more serious 
a n t 
mbridge, =т= begin by more ог E cera 
it as & theory of the origin of species, 
ceed unhesitatingly to reconstruct it, "The . 
rarely seems to me successful, perhaps because the 
limits of the labor e 
theory, 
except the Law of Recapitulation, and that, I di 
told, is going out of fashion. 
The Darwinian theory, being, as I have attempted 
to show, the outcome of the natural history method, 
observation. This rn speculation lacks, 
The res l of transcendentalism, Of 
th 
а reviva 
is we have had а copious crop in iege EER cw 
it is quite put in the shade by that with whic 
have been supplied from e ам the 
most remarkable ence is the persistent vitality 
of “ Lamarck’ 
of species—effort - 
ditions—was, on the face of it, inapplicable to the 
whole vegetable world" (ii, 150), And if we fall 
back on the inherited direct effect of change of con- 
t though Darwin vier. Ms “ physical con- 
s have а more dir: а on plants than on 
3 ” (ii, 319 
fication 
of con- 
give one illustration. The difference in habit of 
even the same species of plant when grown under 
mountain and lowland conditions is & matter of 
generalobservation, It would be difficult to imagine 
а case of acquired characters" more likely to be 
"inherited," But this does not se 
The recent careful research o Gaston Bonnier only 
confirms the experience of cultivators, * The modi- 
fications acquired by the plant when transported for 
a definite time from the plains to the Alpe, or vice 
versd, disappear at the end of the same period when 
the plant is restored to its original conditions,” * 
regard 
had a long history.” and * when we contemplate 
every eris structure . , , as the summing up of 
many contrivances,” this can only be done, 
or at any rate begun, uu Sela not in the 
laboratory. 
A more serious peril is the dying out amongst us 
of two branches of botanical study in which we have 
plight, yet Darwin calls it, that grand subject, that 
almost keystone of the laws of creation " (i, 356). 
* Ann. d, Sc. nat., Tth series, xx, 355. 
ї Origin, 426, 
is new and interesting. 
j 
Iam aware that it is far easier to point out an 
That it is somewhat one-sided cannot probably be 
8 Мел а sca gr of the — - 
incre n the number of teach If it h 
MTS rug it is that it is sometimes ler to 
be too dogmatic and deductive, Like Darwin, at 
any rate in a biological matter, ‘‘I never feel con- 
vinced by deduction, even in the case of H, Spencer's 
writings” (iii, 168). The intellectual indolence of 
1 e inclines him only too gladly to explain 
mena by e" эл, to “isms,” instead of 
4 them tell their 
(To be — 
VEGETABLES, 
VEGETABLES A AT HIGHCLERE. 
Аттносан Mr, Pope, the gardener at Highclere, 
should not be assumed that the growth of p 
for 8 absorbs his whole interest. To a 
dener of such experience and person nal knowledge ra 
vegetables, ‘the testing of new varieties is an agree- 
able and interesting employment, To visitors this 
is an important item, as one is sure to see much that 
When visiting —— 
of ef р for that meeting. The kitchen garden 
appears especially well adapted to vegetable culture, 
partieulariy i in such a season asthe present; the 
peet is a westerly one, having a sharp slope in that 
асо. А dry summer exactly suits such a garden, 
for owing to the great depth of soil, and the cooler 
condition of the garden itself, consequent upon its 
aspect, the vegetable crops — positively revelled, 
uring the fierce heat. A tablet t over one of 
otatos 
vegetables shown by Mr. Pope, for he rightly con- 
favo 
it —— —— form with a clean skin, and, what 
is more, ooking qualities are of the sat инет 
Satton’s — is also а favourite, and it too com- 
bines all the qualities that ma e Potatos чет 
Windsor Castle is T 3 and во is Reading 
Russet and Prizeta the latter has excellent 
quality here. Mr. Рор oes not believe in the 
crowding method of Potete culture, Abundant space 
allowed them here, that they may make a full 
development of haulm and foliage. 
nions are remarkably well E t not only for 
exhibition but as a crop fo or home use or th 
cent ыйы were seen; 
- 
on 
e, and it is regarded the finest Onion for 
exhibition in cultivation. It is sometimes thought 
nions as these are useless for any other 
thorough 
— the weather both hot and dry, 
watering has been done, but heavy mulchinge of 
Mu e manure were employed. дай: 
8 Lord-Keeper, too, are prized for 
exhibition. 
The Main Crop varieties, which are grown in large 
quantity, are thinned but little, . the bulbs 
oroughl г іп the rows. Mr. 
hen ob — Биш take those 
atrong objection n to 
remarkable only for width. Walker's a is 
an excellent cropper; Veitch’s Main Crop 
established favourite, and so is Bedfordshire tm 
in existence over 100 years, | 
ade а strong point in collections of 
; but this is an p ra will and do 
The seed is sown in a 
pion, and the Wroxton; 
long bulbs. 
r has especially 
a 
ng it with soil is 
paper are 
resembling Sutton's Al, are the varieties grown. 
At Highclere, extra- heads of Cauliflowers 
are not — medium-sized closely grown, pure 
ite heads those selected; M 
sowin jäk ‘liberal cultivation are the chi 
to observe, Especially good are the Carrots; the 
are not over-large, but perfect in form and colour, 
The soil here is jast suitable for this crop, New 
Intermediate is the variety depended проп, 
do they ied here, that Mr. Pope drew out of the 
ground bat nineteen roots from — € select the 
eighteen he staged at the Southampton show in 
three collections, Mr, Pope grows i bulk of his 
4 
Plants growing against a wall out-of-doors and at 
e i of а Yew hedge were carrying very fine 
as as two dozen fruits of 
many as 
Fouga upon one plant. The plants were 
strong, and a good size before planting; it 
planis on on » under glass until they are 2 feet high and 
they are haer carefully poe in a 
are 
arm rom plants good 
obtainable at the end of EJ aly, Ne Plus Ultra i is the 
variety preferred. 
Among Beet no variety finds -— for exhibition 
for the early shows like Pragnell's ; 
some one of the Ачи dark-leaved 
considered excellent, but dried sphagnum moss, too, 
is much used, Е. M. 
VEGETABLES AT READING, 
At the autumn exhibition of the local society, 
а ale are al ray how in У f 3 
^w ое im compet sition, cach comp ie eek. 
6 3 
2 these collections difficult 
фиш pe singularly 
and lengthy, so comparatively even S " fine the 
average. Coarseness is rarely se a тегс 
uality . The ultimate alk was that 
А to С. Hoar sq., Hackwood 
Park, Basingstoke, was placed lit; . R. Lye, gr. 
to Mrs. Kingsmill, Sydmonton n Court, w as 2nd; Mr. 
W. y gr. arl of Carnarvon, Highclere 
Castle, 3 апа Y 
Talbot, Glen hart, Esher 
battle of the bes 
