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APPOINTMENTS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK, 
MEET ` 
Mar. 7—Surveyors’ Institute, at 8 P.M. 
Royal Horticultural myer A с 
tific Committee, at 1 P.M ruit, 
TUESDAY, Mar. 8. and Floral Committees, at i 5 м. 
National Rose Society: Executive 
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WEDNESDAY, Mar. 9—Royal Microscopical Society, at 8 P.M. 
MONDAY, 
SHOW. 
Mar. 11—Hyacinths, at the Exeter Nurseries, 
SALES. 
ifteen thousand Lilium auratum, 
FRIDAY, 
MONDAY, Мав. 12 of Lily of the Valley, &e, at 
' Stevens' Rooms. 
dee ruit Trees, Shrubs, Border 
жей аё. „а% Stevens ' Rooms, 
WEDNESDAY, MAR. 94 Lilian auratum, hiro Greenhouse 
Plants, &e., at Protheroe & Morris’ 
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herr Fruit m Trees ita: 
SATURDAY, Mar. 12 Roses and other Pl кетч Plants a е 
FEW years ago we had occa- 
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Drap eeng ss in these pages to speak of the 
arih of February, received from our esteemed 
contributor, M. CorrEvon, who seems almost to 
have rivalled Mrs. рея in some particulars 
and to have excelled her in the particular matters 
in which we are most óc a * On February 
10," writes M. CorrEvon, “I left Geneva, arriving 
at Zermatt on the 12th. " Any one who calls to 
mind the snail's gallop of Swiss railways in sum- 
mer will think this something prodigious. Per- 
haps it was too cold for the conducteur and the chef 
did not find it convenient to attend the arrival 
of the train for the customary causerie with the 
train officials, In any case M. ConnEvoN,as he 
tells us, did really arrive at Zermatt on the 
_ second day after leaving Geneva, which is, under 
ten cases of Araucarias, 500 clumps f 
serene (pur) WOMAN; and while in the low- 
lands, and by the Lake of Geneva , dulness 
and fog prevailed, in the higher regiona pure 
light bathed all Nature in refulgent glow. It 
is, says M. Соввиуом, a great error to suppose 
that- plants at these high elevations have to 
submit to injury from severe frost. On the 
contrary they are protected by a thick covering 
of snow, or by structural "ome beneath 
which they are—not at rest, but at w 
Accompanied by AUGUSTE is: of 
Brieg, M. CorrrEvon ascended many peaks, 
including the Mettelhorn (3410 metres) and 
the well-known (in summer) Gornergrat. These 
lofty, wind-swept, sun-scorched crests were at 
that time denuded of snow. What were the 
little Vir rig about up there at that time? M. 
Con tells us that all the time they are 
са »$ snow their roots are at work, and the 
buds are preparing for the spring campaign, 80 
that when the good time comes they may be 
found ready to avail themselves of it. The Sol- 
danellas were all ready for a start,so was Viola 
calcarata, Androsace one ver- 
nalis, and indeed most of the plants that were 
covered by the snow. The case was very different 
with the plants unprotected by the snow and 
exposed to the full force of the cold. In 
such case the plants were shrivelled and dried 
up like the Rose of Jericho. At an elevation of 
3400 metres Silene acaulis was found ex 
the greatest cold without any protection, the 
leaves were browned and folded one over the 
other as if to keep themselves warm, but looking 
as by the severity of the frost. No 
active life at the first touch of spring. Saxi- 
fraga oppositifolia was in like manner protected 
b the margins of its 
leaves, and which are much more developed in 
winter than in summer. These hairs form 
protection like the blanket which the "un 
traveller wraps around Primula v 
was eT much better qpróteoted Шы. їп 
summer. 
M. CHER was firad with the fact that 
these plants were by no means at rest. Their roots 
were кзы in soil much less ndi a frozen than is 
y supposed; the ace soil was, indeed, 
cay [4 below the е aE to the snow 
covering—the soil was still unfrozen. Hence th 
plants were quite ready to respond to the genial 
influences of the foehn, 1, which thaws 
the soil, or permits of the resumption of active 
vegetation. Spring, indeed, comes much later at 
these elevations than in the plains, while at the 
end of mmm such plants as — opposi- 
tifolia, S. Burseriana, Pri viscosa, Draba 
aizoides, may be seen in race on the low 
groun In these high regions spring does not 
begin till the end of May, or even till July. The 
summer is short, but very favourable to rapid 
growth. Light of an intensity unknown in the 
plains is the heritage of the plants in the Alps. 
The more retarded the spring the more favour- 
able are the conditions for the development of 
the flowers. The plant which has waited so long 
for the production of its flowers is impatient to 
show them, under the influence of the light 
which may exert itself for fourteen or sixteen 
hours daily without check, the flowers develope 
and take on colour with a rapidity and intensity 
unknown in the plains; hence the explanation of 
the profusion of flower in alpine plants when the 
blooms are so thick as to conceal the leaves, 
These are conditions which we cannot imitate in 
our gardens, except, to some extent, by artificially 
Ф 
СЫ taste, and give additional interest to 
stocking 
prolonging the winter, and retarding the spring 
growth of the plants. 
Another remarkable feature is the abun 
of seed € up in the snow itself. Millions of 
8 e and there, cover the snow ; these 
swell адыш, and become stratified, to use a 
gardener's expression, their husks swell SO as to 
enable the seeds to germinate on the first favour- 
able opportunity. Most of these seeds are doubt- 
less destroyed, but many are preserved. M. 
CorREVON notes a natural growth of Rhododen- 
dron in a locality to which they were naturally 
strangers. This is a spot upon which the 
avalanches, laden with seeds derived from the 
upper slopes, fall. 
the mountain 
It is evide Es EXER this that in repe the 
local distribution iden alpine snow and 
avalanches have to be taken into consideration 
more fully than is оны done. M. Совве- 
voN does not tell us what sort of accommodation 
he found near the Weisshorn in February, but 
his letter is so stimulating that we doubt not 
many will be found willing to exchange the fogs 
and sombre climate of these islands for the pure 
clear air of the mountain side, if only M. SEILER, 
or some other enterprising Swiss host, will pro- 
vide adequate accommodation. 
A CHINESE WATER TEMPLE.—Some years ago 
there was а fancy among landscape gardeners for 
suene Chinese gardens and Chinese pisani 
LU instance of which was the beautiful and 
ing garden of Mr. Bateman, in Stafford- 
"Ne a doubt, in some cases, the fancy was 
pushed to excess, and the ugly was imitated as 
ll as the beautiful. Nevertheless, as our present 
illustration shows (fig. 65), we might do well to re- 
produce some of the nore beautiful features of 
gardens 
them wm appropriate vegetation. 
When we think of the many beautiful hardy plants, 
such as various Bamboos, Tree Pzonies, 
evergreen Oaks, and other plants derived from the 
Flowery Land, re can be по question that а 
garden or a portion of one so treated would satisfy 
alike the eye and ‘the intelligence. Our illustration 
was taken fro photograph kindly sent us 
Mr. ST 
hope to grow the Nelum 
water in our sketch there would be no difficulty with 
many of the Nymphzas 
CAMBRIDGE BOTANIC GARDEN.—Mr. 
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LYNCH, ы Curator, has issued a very full list of 3 
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sequence, correctly and well prin 
list should be 
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tions, on Tobacco culture in Englan У and Ireland. 
'The book is dedicated to the QuEEN 
cultivation r acre of each variety. s 
дю described, and reports of the cultiva- 
tion of the plant in various parts of EY 
land, and the Continent are added. 
occasion we shall speak more at length 
