40 IHE 
GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
[JULY 10, 1875. 
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^ = MAE S subject to 2 attacks of insects, and 
their t flowering disposition, are 
are not 
appropriate for fe bg otk ce they are in but are 
mat 
of specimen and halfspecimen Azaleas, as also a 
Соу A smaller plants for [тзн быч the 
ere al meis da of the best — 
eer 8-4 in pots ; the c 
extraordinarily = and ped beet the stie 
tion they had rece through the summer. 
are forced on divis over de paths 
ound. There was al 
the variety Brenchleyensis, a hardy constitutioned 
sort. Gladiolus do not on this soil suffer muc 
maining portion of this 4-acre garden, 
erecti: aid out in the usual 
y 
to Northern eyes), 
w and frait in 
of Pears and Plums 
here 
".. outside this garden the Hickory-nut уы 
most as lar 
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p 
OO, were removed here by M 
undisturbed for twenty-five 
years where са planted ; they were moved 
re the leaves were off, and well 
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shape of 
especially of Apples, i is very complete ; 
icularly suited to this 
be named 
Pippin, Blenheim Pippin, Margil, 
ne Pippins, eemper Alexander, EE 
eux Ans, Pott's Seedling, Prince eh Gloria 
Wellingt Nelson. 
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nd he: in each department of this fine 
— are inipir e viis. of Mr. Wilson's abilities as 
ener, 
Vear the «а is the frame ground, which іп an 
as this is no small affair, э plays 
working of t 
a very important art in the ie place. 
Qf lights, in use for propagating and Lan VIAE the 
n A IMEEM a 
RD C lum 
can lay claim to tiquit 
of St. | ы. ж etum + 
directly at or over the massive archway ин the 
gate into the town. There in 
perfect condition the finely-carved lofty roof. The 
| who sprang 
whole of the inside of this old chapel is surrounded 
with shelves с мы DEN MA 
with drawers filled with choice 
E from the ers ~ oats. a little above the 
bend o river, is the of 4 acr 
Md to e growth e its and vegetables. 
en that was attached to the Priory, 
hear g ng out by the leng 
of time they have been under cultivation, if such 
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pemi the case 
have been exhausted some hundreds of years ago ; 
yet t both, fruits fraits =з — pe tables grow in it 
luxuriantly, 
GUSTAVE THURET. 
GUSTAVE ADOLPHE a whose sudden death 
we lately announced, and e are 
plemed to be able to give in the mber, was 
born in Pari y 23, A He wa Mm the sn 
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from a French Protestánt "hat bs 
took refuge in p aea at ^x time of the revocation 
of the Edict of Nan was educated at home 
During t this vx he visited twice with 
and Upper A Admitted 
ae Mw in 1835 he travelled by himself ia 
Сена B itain, traversing during four months England, 
Scotland, Ireland, the Orkneys, the Shetland Islands, 
and the Hebrides, seeing everything that could be 
seen, and bringing back i: his iaer, an ample 
harvest of rom 1836 to 1838 he 
studied at the School of um and obtained the 
diploma of Licentiate. In 1837 he made with his 
family along journey in Germany and Holl and 
in his leisure intervals he occupied himself with draw- 
m Ames and especially music, which he cultivated 
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оѓ Lagny 
Hear et Marne). One of his friends, who shared'with 
him his taste for or music, M. A. de Villers, also drew 
his attention towards botany. 
mining by means 
the plants they met with. In case of diffi manns or 
doubt the question was submitted to туч Decaisne. 
At the end of the summer M, Thuret returned to 
Paris, and received instructions from die botanist just 
mentioned. Under his auspices he acquired a solid 
the h 
On his sic io Panos he 
coveries was that of the locomotive organs of the 
edite of Chara, In October of the same year 
to Constantinople as a/fach? to the 
ae France. He ers 
Constant tinople, Broussa, Mou 
e a collection of plants, ane whic issi 
diues some new species, At the expiration of a 
ear he took a арча) in order to visit Syria, Pales. 
tine, and Egypt ; but this vam so full of Rec 
and the incidents of which he loved to recall, was 
nigh to having a fatal termination, M. Thuret became 
ill at Thebes, was with great yu brought back 
to ii. and thence to Alexandria, 
for France. Having now establish a himself in his 
paternal home he devoted himself to the study of 
the direction of M, Decai 
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© announce that 
not been ascert rovided M n 
org or cilia eo ntly arran 
n lon thou ht 22 some still 
ot h es, 
filaments (с. chapelets that the Nostocs are reproduced. 
He o aking "^ of the re t set at 
liberty by the solution of the surrounding gelatinous 
tter, and f qp M a 
field o of the microscope, eve ey we 
of three —— >. only." Finally. he followed 
ments, and their trans- 
formation into young haan He completed these 
the d 
observati y ter by discovering the 
same phenomena of dispersion and uction in all 
th ostochineæ, in Lyngbya as in Nostoc, 
in Scytonema as in ia. In the conceptacles 
of Fucaceæ authors described two sorts of repro- 
which were called microphyies m gere. 
pecting that these so-called ere antheridia, 
isne and Thu pud а "risit in 1844 
to the northern coasts of France, to clear up this 
ey ascertained at first that the concep- 
tacles of Fucus coe at one and the same time both 
at 
rangium is not simple, but is 
mete m two, four, or eight 
antherozoids ea the: spore is чне taneous, By means 
iscovered that the mem- 
ix or eight minutes after contact, 
and at the indios of an hour it presents the 
chemical characteristics of cell lulose. From 1845 ч ' 
+h th 4 
the higher cryptogams, on the zoospores of fr 
Age and made a im to the seaside with M. 
Riocreux. t of 
It may be ‘said, without exaggeration, that the 
memoir containing t of ad in 
