Max 14, 1887.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
641 
baskets.” Our pgs brethren, eg ahead in 
many respects, can certainly learn something this 
side of d valor one of these "nis being how to 
OW 
Than ient "should be sown rather early in the year ; 
the month of March will do very well. When the 
seedlings have grown an or two bea can be 
the a 
sunlight and a medium tempe 
tion is paid to a ak they will к rapidly, soon 
being ready fo ift into 3-inch pots. In these 
they may stay until the time for d cit them out 
in a well-prepared. This may be done in June or 
upon the ground, or a 
ides latter 
bed n not be more t 
with а om manure for compost, will be found suit- 
realised are often double those obtained in the 
needs plenty of sun and 
previous autumn. Smilax 
water through the winter; pe Pa. mperature by day 
eee be from 65? to 75? night should not 
т than 55°, Some ee it advisable to 
eal every year, but if the old bed is well mulched 
it will produce good crops for two or three successive 
years. American Florist, April 1. 
“THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE.” 
(Continued from p. 514.) 
Seconp Perron: 1801 to 1896.—Dr. John Sims 
ecame editor of the Botanical Magazine soon after 
the aer of William Curtis, though his name first 
appears 
n the title-page of xv. 1801. He 
was & не of Canterbury, born in 1749; and 
the presen of. t rdeners’ Ohronicle 
to 
is a lateral descendant of the same family. I 
Fic. 121.—м, TRIANDRUS, VAR. PULCHELLUS! CORONA WHITE, SEGMENTS YELLOW. (SEE Р, 640.) 
able. The plants may be placed about 6 inches 
apart in the rows and 12 inches between the rows. 
Stout wire e ا ا‎ piretohod fron one side of 
the bed to the ot The sam 
number of wires, han to the rafters by any de- 
Vice which will gag: should also be arranged about 
6 or 7 feet above the plants, according to the height 
of the roof above th oe house. Green twine can then 
hie from the lower wire to the upper, in position 
От each plant to cling to. As the plants grow, 
эр frequently and keep the bed well Linee, 
e the hot days of summer — shading will 
be needed, but let it not be too 
Case, thrips will surel { 
Will be fit for he by October; and this first crop 
dispo; d of, if possible, before November 
а 
be made for other things. This, in my 
is a аар for every year witnesses а 
milax in then 
room may 
judgment, 
scarcity of е spring, and the prices 
have pany hei S отча biography of Sims, and 
only know ugh his botanieal works; but 
Sir Henry Pos Royal College of Physicians, 
has kindly rie a few particulars rof hislife, He 
the session of 1773-4 
returned to Edin burgh, where he took the degree of 
Doctor d Medicine in 1774. Subsequently he settled 
, was admitted a licentiate of the — 
died at Dorking in 1831, eighty-two. 
also c with Koenig of the of 
Botany*— a work of two volumes (1805-6), анса 
ly of translations of bo ical essays 
largely o 
Маро синон of bellnm неар а 
* Ina notice of the Botanical Magazine therein (i, p. 16) 
that the price of the magazine v part after 
ight y latoa Imay 
ume of 
ir Joseph Hooker le 
sd iieri Ma. p dn chiefiy y relating to the maga- 
h Lom per os of 8 nterest, Among 
them is is a characteristic letter from R. A, Salisbury, while ^4 
was still Fielding at Cha 
at Leyden, and then - 
various foreign languages. 'The first volume con- 
tains а ign y: of Ray, and the second one of 
Dilleni 
In a an preface to his first volume of the 
Botanical Magazine, Sims vine that little use had 
latterly been made of the materials left by Curtis, for 
i a desire to preserve 
as possible for the service of the pro- 
n case of emergency, and a wish to indulge 
ical slang re ith a etr pais vans and 
description of some of the novel and curious plants 
which are эккен рне, purior from the 
Cape of Good Hope." made of 
— Án from John Dellenden-Gave,w ho 
afterwards changed his name to “ем 
Ker. gos specially ion ud “ie, & contri 
ing Sim's editor- 
ship; and finally, in "1827, pare үз: separately A 
Brussels а paper al aca Genera, Iridearum, R. А. 
A and Dean paid great atten- 
and Am maryllidaceæ, which, as well as Heaths, were 
bulbous and Hea hus, for instance, 
upwards of на of ^ fre in are sixteenth 
volume represent the former class of pla 
der the new editor the magazine Teil and 
two i 
ba one "t justly Prem this as the ` period of 
pla T 
succeeding volumes of this 
yearly, so that the number of plates now published 
annuall been inereased from thirty-six to 
ninety-six, or near| ly trebled; and each part, from 
88, c оке: eight plates 
апей some other interesting particulars 
wa 
mention the йы нина: of deae Curtis’ чен 
on The Culture and Management o 
vegetable that ‘had been greatly iol Ses until is 
devi roper system of culture. 
е ben Ls the period now sepe селери nt 
tio to liii. Volume contai 
gen did recent чә ihe plants бабайда й in the first 
twenty volumes of the an agazine, compre- 
hending an alphabetical Latin index, an alphabetical 
English index, an enumeration of the plants figured 
in the order of publication, with corrections and 
additional remarks; an gement o 
plants этчї. 
note the existence of these engen 
ar d in one, 
portrait is placed at the head; yet it is 
it was issued with the 
first series of the magazine 
in which is an alpha- 
series, incl man 
index volume. 
terminates with volume xlii., 
ДЕ 
ible to 
tionally noteworthy subjects in the — apr of 
dso 
that period.* me africana 
(pl. 516) commemorates one of the abil of 
In void tiresome repetition, the volume and date 
MISCERE here and there as a guide 40 the reader, аз 
рч 
ровез, 
пишет ui 
