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young Vines can be established in the same houses 
г, 
vinery without lessening the Grape supply deserves 
nuch commendation. BE. гуа 1, 1886. . 
HOME CORRESPONDENCE. 
TRANSMISSION OF SEEDS FROM THE Tropics. — Mr. 
e 
Hart's note (p. 756, vol. xxvi.) goes a long way 
beyond the assertion of M. Thiery (see p 7), the 
latter pointing i e tropics seeds of 
expected t s, for 
instance in oe case of the seeds of Cabbage, viz, n 
THE | GARDENERS 
pin 
ordin nary ig dr bags. e ЫЕ. иг M. E 
ff, late Governor of rae аз, hus forwarded 
of Indian seeds of all kinds to 
" las rs, and these were all 
packed dry, the packets (paper) bein ndle 
d enclosed in ca 0 
> onie 
every one of those kept at Kew germinated well, "Sir 
F, von Mueller also sends many kinds of seeds from 
CHRONICLE. 
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‘How long a seed will remain iem when en in à 
seed-room depends on whether it is oily or starchy, 
oily seb perishin 
ng in a short iie -m ing Tea, 
Coffee, Ca amellia, Theobroma, Wa Inut razil-nuts, 
ur however, impossible to ace line between 
long-lived an ived seeds, as the ffected 
in Diks so elroy or canvas. W. Watson, нй, 
КЕЕ CARACALLA.— T have read with much in- 
the 65 ng sel the above named , Creeper 
"Pendel Court s, given by “J. Е.” p. 791, 
vol. xxvi. of фт, Chronicle. The paragraph 
Fic, 8,--zEBEL, TAURUS, FROM A SKETCH BY C. G. DANFORD, ESQ.; THE HOME OF CROCUS CANCELLATUS, (SEE P. 8.) 
monthe in +1 1 
or ten years in Europe, 
Peas лаб months against at years—m un- 
ini we ЫР чо 
almost аз The safest and m 
раа? {о айор& ES seeds а 
Kew to the tropies, and vice versá, is therefore 
а matter of much interes eie ly har- 
i li 
v 
seeds may be se t in an ordinary box, but they 
u be быы. in a dry place on board ship. Seeds 
ues ANM IT bio ДЫЛ, ашса 
* Seeds of Kidney Beans, for two years amaica, 
germinated freely when sown? puo M ае | eed 
ау least et Jong as thes do in England, viz. three to 
Australia, always in paper pockets аы posu niays 
successfully. Certainly at Kew w very reaso 
to prefer the pa 
rw for 
mpi to the pa 7 With oe toth 
tropics. We to k 
vea for d Vg of tim утэм аа more th: 
of Cucurbits and Cacti, but 
mpera 60° in winter, lose their 
vitality w within that time. Excepti ional cases are 
of ; pme cnn many kinds of 
: transmitting 
ра pipes таай tie best of all wrappers, - 
— the more attractive to me, from havin gbeena 
the same time Sev eng Be 
нетш; and t 
bean 
e edges of owers were sometimes 
with a light blue vicum and were bold and 
with а ofa 
Hyacinth. "The winter temperature was | was kept at 
