330 
THE GARDENERS' 
conclude, therefore, that glucose i is, Аы the point of 
0 6 inert body. 
n i 
, will e to have a not very exact chemica 
Mr senum 
‘That the connection between cane-sugar 
& conclusion to which both En 
And оп botanical grounds this would seem to be 
"т те we ge its 8 with cellalos 
that the — that 
* 
бше, sugar to be e ised by 
e processes see reconcile 
with its probable a chemical N and 
with the fact that, botanically, it seems to stand at 
the end m yd at the beginning of the series of 
metaboli cc 
ROTOPLASMiC CHEMISTRY, 
The Бнр of proteids is the problem which is 
second only in importance to that of 55 
Loew's views P, this deserve attentive study. Aspa- 
ragin, аз hås long been suspected, play 
roduct rn кесен ТРК eere 
reconstruction from 
the re marks I as to the Chemical Society I 
ventured to express my conviction that the chemical 
Processes which took place under th of 
oe pleat дк 55 
stance, we are generally confined to the 
purely accidental properties of crystallisation and 
volatilisation.” In other words, the chemist only 
deals with bodies of great molecular stability ; while 
it cannot be doubted that those which play a part in 
tija propones of life are tbe very opposite in every 
respect, m convinced that if the chemist is to 
help in the. Beld of protoplasmic activity, he will 
acend his present limitations, and be 
prepared to admit that as there may be more than 
ойе algebra, there may be more than one chemistry, 
I'am glad to see that a somewhat similar idea has 
been suggested by other "ug of inquiry. Professor 
«үзө vestigation of photo- 
processes “ may * to the recognition of 
RE of алам мый; ór of the old 
манов in a different degree.“ 
which were floating, I 
im 
а source of motion in gu labil position of atoms in 
olecules, a source that haa hitherto not been taken 
Pls aii either м chemists or by physicists.” 
z Bas I, must say no more. The problema to me 
I on an occasio 
{эдем 
o fure of our Selen of тотты, the prospect of of 
* Loc. cit., 64 реф. 
t Pharm. Journ., 7 =e =e 
1890, 7 118. 
KEW NOTES. 
acca PALMATA.— This is a new addition to the 
cultivated species of Tacca, seeds of it having been 
received at Kew last year from the Java Botanic 
Garden, from which a batch of plants were raised, and 
most of them are now flowering in the tropical houses. 
The general yn desta of the plant are similar to 
those of the well-known T. artocarpifolia from the 
Mascarene Rn but smaller, the -— я 
foot long, supporting a palm lade 
flower-scape is pns from 
being 
9 inches across ; the 
18 inches to 2 feet in height, and it bears an um 
of about twenty dull purple flowers VE AIT: from a 
uartette of leaf-like, green bracts. e flowerr, 
ees are 3 inch in diameter, have ei inner an 
three outer recurved segments. The plant is worth 
a place among interesting Main, dum stove plantas, 
Probably it will grow to a larger size. T. pinnatifida, 
from the roots of which arrowroot is prepared in Fiji, 
bas also lately flowered at Kew. A fourth species 
grown here is Т. cristata, generally k Atace 
CRINUM PURPURASCENS, 
Sir John Kirk. KC.B, recently brought to Kew 
seedlings of a Crinum which he found growing in deep 
water at Brass near the mouth of the river Niger, and 
which, so far as he could see, was a true aquatic, the 
Jeaves яя well as the stems being quite submerged, the 
ees YU 1 : h +h f. fth 
water. In the distanca the flowers had tha appear- 
ance of a Nymphæa. On pulling at one of the flower- 
heads he drew up with it a long Leek-like stem with 
narrow strap-shaped leaves more like some rea- weed 
in character than any Crinum. Sir John, on seeing 
a plant of О. purpurascens in the Kew collection, 
which is a native of that region, thought it might 
probably be the same as what he saw at Brass. E 
inference is that C. purpurascens is of aquatic habits, 
and judging by Sir John’s description, it is a 
moreattractive plant when seen growing in deep water 
than when growing in & pot in ed терлы way. It 
flowers annually in а stove at 
Aaa Та кат 8, 
For many years there has been gantic As 
in the succulent-house at 155 . ея name, 
early Mer appears to be unknown, but 2 rer 
go it was included by Jacobi in his Monograph 
от ^ was first described under its present name. 
At that time it was a large plant. so that probably 
roof of the house, and bearing a dense head of large 
bright eed flowers. A figure of it has been pre- 
pared for t agazine, where, no doubt, 
Mr. Baker m tell all that there is to b with 
regard to it, Meanwhile it is worth the while of 
one interested in . ern see this plant, which is 
flower, but which does not 
at present look like ‘perpetuating itself, the leaves 
having al perished. and the stem failed to to develop 
suckers. у, waver’ bulbils will be produced 
on the inflorescence, Н 
CEREUS GIGANTEU 
One of the large specimens of this 
giant Cac 
recently obtained from Arizona, a ни 
the ph 
these pages a few weeks ago, is now flowering freel 
This is the second time this чарлый 
ical = 
zine. The flowers are 6 inches long, Decent 
with numerous short white petals surrounding a large 
cushion-like cluster of yellow stamens, in the centre 
of which is the erect — stigma. Compared 
with the colossal stem the flowera are small and 
1 Had the XR T8 been on the same 
ose of C. Eyriesii (Echinopsis) they would 
have — about the size of an ordinary wash- tub. 
CHRONICLE. 
[5вртемвев 91; 1895, 
THE WEEK'S W ORK. 
FRUITS UNDER GRASE 
- By RICHARD PARKER, Gardener, Goodwood, 
.— Late crops of Melon 
useful during shooting nre in October, Reir to 
at such 
obtain fruit of good our 
even te 
moisture, 
ma e given to sustain 
condition until the fruits are с 
T prepared, a house 
Faer " Rot — — ts that 
standing in pots — — во that еу may be 
remov р> m cover before damage is done by 
heavy rains or frosts. A house that has been шей 
during the summer for Melon-growin g may be 
i if small, and — of 
r for the former 
am and allo 
3 
oof-glass as possible, orten back 
lateral коче, — the strongest foliage tir d ite 
— * во t ' air may easi 
clusters of 185 The house should be к 
freely during — weather, and a өс 
shoul 
1 
ИЩ 
TUE 
LIA8.—Show r varie of Dahlis 
Puce | be given attention — cutting off ict end dore 
the plants again 
ible. fore the 
tm oom they should be loo 
ed to 
‘2a TRAE с 
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