t| yen rs ago, w. 
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so dense a circuit, that the e escape ofthe drupes appears 
р ык The explosive fac Er of the mature cone 
шу! оча » rg difficulty, 
ex e the of the РАЛА rie cephalartos, | 
rs, showi he attachment of 
ihe io тыгу are smoot because the vessels in the 
bundles of woody fibres 
According 
to the pr posne 
explanation, the кол is 
to the disper. rsion of seed i many | 
ile aris ; 
| ач ая — named, but many others, and 
in the 
ris; it contained not only all the 
e also 
n 
x the reino a dri dà 
fi 
pla 
instence General Jaequem 
preci 
t a: 1 
бу › Walkin. 
g b 
"s "Ulex Europzus, or Spart scoparium, I have 
listened with much interest ni "the crackling of - 
ера ods. А circumstance occurred here two ог thr 
еа members were seated 
's da i 
mer's day at an n window looking into t 
escis n they were startled by e 
appeared to have proceeded from 
of a large an j 
унон were till then closely wrapt round one another. 
Jame. же 
Conifer 
wer to your Correspondent, “ Ex- 
гено: 2 ne p 288), 
e 
I send the heights d the four 
re grow- 
i on "the calcareous beds of the lower in sand, 
ni had 
confirm i ordir 
6l have е4 а but once lost its pied by a bird. ce 
8 
* | young wood, which ha 
No. 1. 26 feet. | 
No. 3. 23 feet 4 inches 
No. 2. 23 feet ^s I, et 
d dde 
ЖҮ, 
which may throw so me light on the йге 
of the f. 
ÍR 
It i is only, however, of lat e years, if we ex "i Kew, 
ments, J. F., Сї d z 
The Nar iis fiir p 0).—You doubted a short tim 
since if gra quadrifolia could ba cultivated і in this 
pe cit Ih ve half a dozen n plant of Head w growin 
cely wa t 70°. nclose a leat. 
We are penes corrected.] 
Rhododendron i iem tum.— ested by Mrs. 
Vivian to forward fi 
r your ud taii a specimen of 
оола em barbatum, raised from seed sent her 
m the Himala untains by Mr. Pakenham E 
УЕП It is the ru Mus its fl i 
bon. or th at w 
The 
R. W., S 
e 
seen it 
chec ed 
1 а never been i inj rary in any w: 
years ago. The other three all had their 
aders checked last year, Ке not lose wenn nor 
ave they ever lost any importan „laterals ; bu at are 
We 
and we forget where, 
of the is owers is зубне Аи t. ] 
Gish p mpound.—M;y orchard house Peaches a; 
ow «ré in pois but = of them were planted in th 
borie er last s 
Ina short t 
in ане ers but long ago, 
The cri: 
I may say that the Heo of tbe nume- 
symmetrical to a er: Thes 
16 I do ү 
ere are finer ed 
rous ш felis buds i is not to mistake en for a natural one. 
7. С?з L Y 3 f, +1 
her 
servation goes there 
caped ала from frost so vel. 
remarkably Беш when forming thei 
red hue in its early ; singes 
They are 
raw- | some band h 
to the tre 
and a heavy 
The 
planted in exp osed найзаа," as mo 
In eem 
в the young shoots are вар brittle, 
itle of wind will break off or distort them 
Ө. рр ely 
sponding 
sid tiiat all the apum are seedlings, which vo 10 or| U: 
ive h17. agr 
s pu anted. iste s os 
r Corres- 
as h 
8; if however, as gn вау he is 700 ids 
further vien an Pari not 700 t 
bedding plants will ie valuable bi 
the spring months, o French g if һе has to give 
18 remarks 
nch A коен gardeners 
e trees ier piei charge, a. poa 
рпеш 
ооо dry ? 
Coelo. — Den: 
cope. 
Fat ar brother ата ME the ball 
a-rolling. The Plethoric $e returned pum 
the 
th 
sprin bear 
mode of cultivation vente 
flowering bulbs chea 
s ideæ, unlei 
e my mean 
years ago we had a fresh roof put upon our "houses, | 5 
which in every way rese sembled · those at Versailles ; ке 
asphalte All temporary c 
could not prevent the trees from getting = ум share 
of rain and snow water, with c cold and dam is 
rag 
the usual time ле trees were pronou 
Жн Күн e got them round 9 cer reg them 
хане п, excopt one of t the fines 
£4 
une 
n Lita doubt. pase have y exisb ted as to how to treat this | 27 
e had w n fortunate enough to irs a glass roof 
p sufficient height, but that we had n 
ure 
about 
year up to the present time this tree has got worse, 
and last autumn, when we put it unde over, there 
were only 13 old leaves on it, and half y up the 
branches the Ернис of an attem t growth, 
which had me by aut men а little piece of green 
without a leaf. This та р got some old lights and 
uw a m of shed o t, and in the middle con- 
our din се 
not buy 
and NE pers 
less than old | Muscari : 
the НЕ and filled the 
1 rst week 
and-in tho name of "the seeds! Spic ус descrip- 
n of Calycanthus ; itis anie and no Taist Even 
oM me a io invest in a EE packet of Galla. E: 
ica, would not every old woman in the sh peep 
5 window thi h foliage and laugh me to scorn? 
Canna : confusion т, but not your fault, Fatties; if 
Indica rubra is a new species it dica; iridiflora 
um and several other uncommoh things, hich 
rth pear ly in sect hi > Celsia is 
а ph кө тее? Iw 
E Surely й 
careful Hor. would overlook the two items Colui and 
Sutherlandia. Hemerocallis flava is not a bulb, but а very 
common her us ; I indignantly refuse to give 
sixpence a packet for seed thereof. Magnolia: I confess the 
description; but if a ryman sells me a seedling instead 
of a graft lant I decline to deal with him again, 
knowing that А-А зе а Eee it flower. 
Melianthus ap int plant. 
Quousque tandem 1 I doubt. if: Pr 
flower. m, 
starch 
other r part heatin ir d ma h in от E nt pef cg 
February w e the tree inside, sawing the branches | ап the ous speculations, that of bu Date-stones i 
off to within 1 foot of е stem, and covered the latter | shilling packets is the ито remarkable. proper: 
PARET in this situation tos of etr MM Деда оер айр e 
onth, an. d Tos can see little dps n eyes peeping | t5 ex crop of Pium: dose icious fruit, with a little 
out of а» old wood in all directions. I sup that of doors, Punica: ve by omission of 
ppose 
this t tree is 200 ) years o old. If the French would therefore 
soon renovate 
walls, and add bottom -heat, they would s 
however sa w little the matter with the 
their trees, I 
; | Paris t rees; it isa a part o eir 
n plight they are їп, оз of the finest ribbons I saw | 2000 
t season was at a place n 
ear the village o; of Boulogne, 
