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what мел е this self-variation may be carried, 
I dem some си — — Chiswick 
by exhibiting mb e plumose 
Athyria, passing through 41 y — plain to 
grandiceps cristate forms, and yet the result of a 
one and the same hese for 
reasons then given at length and generally accepted, 
d none of their diversity to j 
dissect d 8 en 
terminal crissation, while his, as mig e expected 
from the brid origin, showed sity of all 
sorts, It isa very curiou t the 
spores, and comes up аз a stray in 
other sow ings ridi чанне in лонаи with its 
its non-sexual 
з that ode о 
favour, and seemingly might 
bea tual factor without any detriment to the 
continuance of that al branch of the species. 
NEW INVENTIONS, 
A NEW BUDDING-KNIFE, 
'urs new knife differs from all others in make. 
It is well known to all who practise budding that 
the hand of the workman has to execute various 
manœuvres before the bud can be inserted in the 
T cut. T vm or 
this operation it was formerly necessary to 
knife in the hand. The new direi inv ттт 
Е 
rning the knife, 
now is as fol 22 tbe bad is cut by the long straight 
part of the knife. By the same part the obverse cut 
is made, Then the lower of the triangu 
apex is laid against this obverse cut, and the — 
wise cut is made by a wavin By turn 
the knife to right and left the bark is ра 
Care should be taken that during this action the 
ent 
Plums, Cherrien, Cydonia, &c., were made 
f 
а committee of gardeners, U, 
West’s Improvep Patent Овснір BASKET, 
new vos Ray "- ad ea the in- 
‘ou 
е 
upper inside edges of the 
square rods are * off wit 
to throwing the water towards the centre of the 
basket. elled rods with 
each plant can be ual Eu карша i — ot 
a syringe or watering-can. 
COLONIAL NOTES. 
HONG KONG, 
_ Banrmza CHINENSIS is an 3 Melaa- 
entative of tl — TE makes les home 
2 xum) elevation of about 
e NM M 
83 т. it will be exterminated in Hon 
ry few years. Another thing which 
militate AtA ita chance of existence, is that it 
just outside a European’s private residence. 
which means Barthea chinensis, when in flower. 
they were to cus iacens in a proper manner, there 
would b 
shrub down when they get the chance. The flowers 
are over 2 inches acroas, white suffased with pink in 
colour, and are borne on the ends of the branches 
FIG. 56.—A NEW BUDDING-KNIFE, 
generally in threes, The leaves are lanceolate in 
e a 
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4 
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10 feet higb, thriving in very little soil on the top of 
rock. It is not such a showy species as some of 
the other Lagerstrœmias, but nevertheless, is a 
plant well worth cultivating. The flowers are pro- 
duced in panicles 3 or 4 inches long, at the end of 
е branches. The calyx is about 3 lines long, 
J 
FIG. 57.—A NEW STYLE ORCHID-BASKET, 
downy white on the cutside, and the tube furrowed. 
The be are white, the limbs being about 2 lines 
across, orb shape, and crimpled on long 
thin claws. The leaves are lanceolate, 3 to 4 inches 
5 oles of a 
ich. ripe, the capsules are 
in colour, oval in shape, and about 
win 
i sepals are nearly l inch 
e, yes oblong in shape, and 
of а light lilac 2 o petals are eig same 
length and colour sepals, but only 2 inch 
in width, The lip is pod saccate at the 
base, and crested in the centre, The middle lobe ia 
either light green or yellow, the lateral lobes being 
of the same colour as the se ian 
long, and 1 inch w 
he flowers have ud 
about 2 feet 
away, the leaves appear, ese are 
long, and about j inch broad, we "ee | 
what grass-like in appearance ; | 
nger. The plants which I found were 
the south — d "Y island in a com vely y 
situation, n eet 8 sea level, while 
other eet тей й а 16 у P 
the top of one of our high hills, HE 
Aristolochia longifolia is a rare H T 
uations. The 
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The veins are very „ ет к= under der suf, 
but less so on the upper. The stems and leaves ars 
rusty tomentose when young, vir the upper side of 
the leaves becomes glabrous when old. The flown 
are produced in April on the old wood near te 
roots. The inner or upper side of the perianibir 
dark purple, the throat being creamy-yellow witha 
few purple spots on it. The month of the perianh 
is fully 2 inches across, and the tube 3} inches long, 
bent in the shape of a hook. The outside of tie 
flower is marked with purple veins and articulation, 
and densely covered with hairs, the general color 
of the outside being greenish, When the floym - 
are fully developed, a very disagreeable odour it 
emitted from them, similar to that of other speci 
of the genus. A plant which I found p 
of а dozen flowers on it, — its gro a 
10 feet long. W. J. Tutc. 
. 58,—AN OLD STYLE ORCHID-BASKET 
a Коха Boranic GARDENS: 
The бааа! нон on the Botanical 
tation Department of Hong Kong (bY 
intendent, Charles Ford, F.L.S.) for for the 
is now before us, The climatic and. т 
nn tiken were powe 
unterac . 
A ati Ш m re serious evil was the plag 
pillars enel was prevalent during 1 
Th cies (Каш pig 
numeroualy, that 
pillars, and — them to certain f 
the authorities at which were 
Ачу weight, Over 36 tons of cat 
ere collected, and nthe ai paid 
4,880,95 dole, 
