Юкскмвкв 28, 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
778 
translation from the French of J. de la Quintinie, by 
George London and Henry Wise,* “to which is 
added his treatise on Orange trees, with the raising of 
lons—omitted inthe French edition, and translated 
into English by Evelyn, This publication, which was 
‚ш folio, witha namber of Plates, had a с lease of 
Acetaria, a discourse on 
in the ey > sei which is published in the 
hilosophical vol. iii., p. 28, 1684; and 
it shouid not be f pire " t it was in consequence 
of a recommendation of Evelyn's, in — Fumifugium, 
i i ces of the air 
gro g 
затори that the ls trees were planted in St. 
James 
Evelyn "himself tells us that he delighted in “a 
Fic. 133,— sAYES COURT, JOHN 
cheerful gaiety; affect and cultivate variety; the 
Universe gm were € beautiful to me without it; 
versant with his writings will 
raved Mah that cheerfulness and gaiety were 
t striking characteristics of his 
ns His tr ped was a character “ fall of sweetness 
E s м Ў the whole of the stirring period 
through: whic Brel n lived produced no truer 
English gentle " 
porimit E вее р. 772, was painted on 
al occasions, Fira U, in 1626; 
1648 рчы, іп 1641; by Robert Walker, in 
bs Ki by Sir Godfrey Koeller, in gd 8 5 again 
7 Sneller, for Pepys, in 1689. W. Rober 
A REMARKABLE PUCCINIA. 
Р the varions parasitic fungi included in the 
P Uredinem, few are more singular in their 
eae of development than those species which have 
cs 3 not be К of place to state ders that the present 
and May N to the Gardeners’ Chronicle of March 19, 
Gardening we — ы paper on London t Wise, and their 
а even known as heterccism, or metcocism, 
Daring the summer months, examples are frequently 
to i 1 representing various geners, but the 
majority of hetercecious Uredinem belong to the 
genus Paccinia, and in this group it is a noteworthy 
fact that the uredospores and teleutospores in all 
the species described are only to be found on mono- 
cotyledons—generally grasses, sedges, or rushes. 
which is classed in Plowright’s Monograph of the 
British Uredinee and Ustilaginee under Hemi- 
наты а * that i is supposed to be without seci- 
diospore 
and tarde ike during the paat three years, the 
writer is convinced, beyond the slightest doubt, that 
this species does not o 
short series of observations were brief 
(Grevillea, vä: 22, р. ». 45 to 47), which it is unneces- 
sary here to repeat, beyond remarking that subsequent 
cultures have fully confirmed previous observations. 
EVELYN'S RESIDENCE, DEPTFORD. 
The fungus first makes its appearance during the 
early dee е April on Conopodium paren , and 
possibly it may have hitherto been sed with 
JEcidium Banii, DC., eee which, ro it is 
clearly distinct, and ma described as follows: 
JEsidiospores; Pseudo ала ви 
ters, seated on orange thickening, mostly hypo- 
phyllous, on segments and veins ofthe radical Dd 
rarely on the cauline leaves, more elongated on 
the stem, and petioles nearly flat or ‹ 
drical; ск, 
margins ee breaking up into white oval cellules 
evenly covered with minute warts 20 to 30% in 
di 
all irregular clus- 
of Conopodi 
In the spring of 1894, several plants of Cono- 
podium denudatum, abundantly invaded with the 
JEcidium, were grown in pots under glass for the 
testing 
the fungus, showing not Ы 
nial, In like manner, їп{1894, plants of Polygonum 
Bi eutospores were isolated 
atorta, bearing the te 
zin 18a +h 1 
of the могат arenes р the season, and paid 
the mycelium also in this case is not perennial. 
Germinating scidiospores were applied to the 
leaves of Conopodium denudatum and Polygonum 
Bistorta on May 1, 1895, but not the slightest result 
followed on the former, whereas on the Polygonum 
a number of plants of Conopodium denudatu 
wing among „ and bearing secidiospores, 
were “ р and for a fortnight were г y 
visited, but no other spore form ap n the 
u 
3 while uredospores showed abundantly on 
the Bisto 
rr туз the fungus s 
By of t preads 
арб Tepodaig з іп about en 
days, The uredos 
р 
germinating scidiospores and uredospores weie 
applied to other species of Polygonum, including Р, 
aviculare, Р, cuspidatum, and Р. viviparum, b 
without any results, although the latter is given as 
the host in various works. It is intended, however, 
to continue the experiments during the n year. 
The zcidiospores were first found by my friend, Mr. 
James Needham, at Hebden Bridge, in May, 1893. 
Н. Т, Soppitt, Halifax. 
THE WEATHER OF 1895. 
Tue year which is just drawing to & close 
been а remarkable one in — тау — — & 
ж, D be „Д w 
& 
temperature did not 
fall below freezing-point, and these were on the 17th, 
20th, and 21st. There - about 3:21 inches of rain, 
nights in the month th 
including melted sno 
ry was a А odd амы Mns juli 
only two nights during the whole period that frost 
was not re and these were on the 22024 and 
93:4, when the mercury fell to 33? and 34? respec- 
т portion of which was melted snow, three 
occasions only during fifty years bas there leas, 
arch.—1t not till the 9th of this month that 
& lthaw set in, but the sun was so bright in 
ted by the e 
than ман inches of rain fell, the greatest am amount 
being on the 27th. 3 - 
April. —T part was cry, 
very suite 1 ta work, though ti 
were cold, but on no no occasion did 
than 6° of frost. Rain was pretty ple 
the latter part of the month ; 10 also were sluge, for 
ber seeing such an The 
total | : 
May was montb, rain 
occasions, dd this only to the extent of 14 of an 
inch, this being a trifie less than in the 
of 1893, There were several hot days on which the 
thermometer in the 
ex the 61h. The coldest ni Dg 
progres vui dá steel when the temperature 
fell to 31 55. i 
June also a month of unusual drought, and 
tho h the nights were cold, the days were warm, 
there was no occasion when the maximum did 
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