44 THE 
GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE, 
[JULY 10, 1875, 
HORTICULTURAL Arp e 1875. 
gon 
„23 and 24. — Helensburgh and West Ж ссора Rosarians’ 
ета Exhibition. Sec ell. 
28 and 29.— Presto: -x Floral and асана Society" 5 та 
tion. Hon. › W. Troughton, 4, Church St., Pre 
AUGUST. 
2.—Peterborough Flower Show. Sec., F. G. Buckle 
(Royal raris Be coe South Kensington. Meet- 
ing of Fruit and F. mmittees. 
б and 7.— Manchester omini and Horticultural fear 
Exhibition of aoo, Picotees, New Plants, &c. 
er, Y. Findlay. 
бапа 7 cem oth e Floral and Horticultural Society's Eighth 
ree 
—F ossendale: Fi loral and аатта Society's Exhibition. 
Sec., M. J. Lonsdale, Newchur 
10,—C lay Cross Horticultural Society's Eighteenth Annual 
Exhibition. 
areca Н к дела Society’s Exhibition. Sec., 
Charles 
17.—Coventry and Warwickshire Horticultural Society’s Show 
at steno a , Thomas Wigston, 3, Corda nd 
p 
чи е, Соу 
18. —Royal p: Borriana Society, South Kensington, Meeting 
F piy and Floral Committees. 
24 an —Me тыа Floral Society's Exhibition at the 
т Palace. 
Gardener Chronicle, 
SATURDAY, YULY 10, 1875. 
APPOINTMENTS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 
Society's Evening Féte at 
oyal Bo v 
Regent's 
woe EH ош КҮ Society's Third 
"oce Horticultural Society's 
WEDNESDAY, July 14 Croydon Horticultural Society’s Exhibition. 
Exhibition of Flow wers, LE ADM t Oundle, 
Pie on  Horticultural me Cottage 
Garden Society's иш (two d ys). 
Sale of the late T, Bowley's Collection of 
Plants at perpe К, Doi in. 
M Essex Horticultural 
THURSDAY, July SN сув 
Sale of rebida at Stevens’ 
Altrincham and Bowden Rooms; Floral, 
Horticultural, p Rose Society's Exhi- 
FRIDAY, 
bition (two da; 
July ss 
———— > 
WE beg leave to call the attention of our 
readers d a discovery of the fi 
portance, made b m a N 
in relation to the роте ISEASE, and brought 
under m. notice of the Scientific Committee 
of the Royal Horticultural Society on the 
7th inst, we offer our heartiest congratulations 
to Mr. W. G. SMITH on his discovery, w 
should have, by his brilliant discovery, cast so’ 
much lustre on it. To those with ourselves 
hei 
matter of profound 
satisfaction, It is сы interesting also to 
how the practical remarks made by Mr. A. 
DEAN at ae former meeting have been con- 
firmed by this discovery of Mr. SMITH’s. One 
od fructification of the fungus pro- 
ducing the Potato disease has, as our readers 
re aware, been long known through 
researches of MONTAGNE, BERKELEY, 
ARY, and others; it has been reserve d 
or Mr. SMITH clearly to demonstrate Nig 
existence of the resting-spore and of the an 
ridium by whose contact it is fertilised. Me 
MITH has witnessed and depicted the union 
of the two bodies just mentioned. We hope to 
ublish a woodcut illustration 
sequent number, and w 
trust Mr. SMITH will, stimulated by his success, 
pursu rsue his researches and complete what little 
now о be known of the life-history of 
кте заны The classical memoir of Mr. 
was E in the Yourna al of 
p 
It 
same Society the other day. 
Both are honda io. to the Society, and what- 
ever fate befall it, it the gratitude of 
scientific men throughout the world, for pro- 
viding the means of making these discoveries 
prospect is not hopeful, they need at least be 
no longer led off on a wrong track. Not long 
since it was surmised that we might have to 
look to Clover or other plants as the nidus for 
these resting-spores. We cannot say that this 
may not be so, but in the meantime Mr. SMITH 
has found them at home in the Potato, and has 
seen’? shown that the “new Potato = 
as 
We offer no opinion on 
this matter, but if it be so, then the interest is 
g and reproduce themselves 
interior of the tuber, leaf, or haulm, 
where they cannot be got at. 
SOME short time since we had occasion to 
allude in a cursory manner the great 
additions to our knowledge of plant-life and 
vegetable physiology that 
directly by Ln JA 
accrued indirectly from the great impulse which 
his zeal and genius had given to other workers. 
We also took occasion to allude to the gs 
that practical h 
from his researches when the Enowlédgé of 
them shall have become sufficiently known to, 
and appreciated by, gardeners. It must also 
that many will in future modify their 
шеше or adapt their procedures in consonance 
wit e discoveries of Mr. DARWIN, as 
н at all aware that they are indebted to 
in the first instance. A work now урей us 
from the same master hand, supplies additional 
confirmation to these remarks, The book in 
rong degree 
with many of those зе А» which have 
made Mr. DARWIN'S previous works so remark- 
able. We have the same clear statement of 
facts, the same evidence of patient and laborious 
credit and acknowledgment to the researches of 
others, the same PM practice of repeating 
and sum important details, the same 
weaving корена, into one strand of all the facts 
and all the inferences ; the same unconsciously 
exerted persuasiveness, cn leads the reader 
on from point to point, and at the end leaves 
him no choice but to mis the author's con- 
clusions. Our readers 
this book by th 
appeared in the shape of different memoirs and 
records of observations that have been made 
from time to nid of late years in this country 
and in Amer 
The аа of Dr. HOOKER on carnivorous 
plants, at the last meeting of the British Asso- 
ciation at Belfast, served in a peculiar manner 
to attract the attention of the public, ans to 
repare the б мең for Мг. DARWIN. 
however, the volume itself бе: the 
history and bibliographical references pertain- 
ing to the subject, as we can only indicate, and 
that briefly, some of the leading points in this 
new work, and equally briefly Nec out their 
aring on scientific horticultur 
The work, then, is a id of experiments 
and observations made on the common Sundew, 
Drosera ro сыы аз со ire Cae ants, 
such as Diónzea and Aldrovanda, as well as on 
Pinguicula and Utri 
Мам Aa VO 
"d 
observations and experiments may be 
* Insectivorous Plants. Charles Darwin, м4. Р.К. 
With illustrations. Penis. By, Charles " 
have € been prepared for | secre 
counted by hundreds upon hundreds ; many of 
them must have required very great care and 
most delicate manipulation. To avoid risk of 
error they have been repeated and controlled 
over and over again. It is necessary to mention 
this, though no idea can be formed of the great 
labour and unwearying patience that have been 
bestowed without reading the work itself. The 
object of these experiments was 
that when we first heard of them as matters of 
rumour we were disposed to be incredulous and 
sceptical. With the full record before us doubt 
is no E possible. There may be occasion- 
ally a wrong rendering of facts, there may be 
a fealty interpretation here and there, or the 
w. 
question its main facts, nor the inferences 
derived from them. 
It is not necessary for us to describe the 
Fly-trap or the 
Utricularia, as we may safely assume that they 
are known to most of our Тэн while in the 
the 
portion (the disc p the leaf) be placed. any 
lobject, organic or inorganic, then, in the 
course generally of from one to four or five hours 
the marginal hairs—tentacles, as Mr. DARWIN 
wards.also, so that an 
case with the Sensitive Plant, 
where a similar impulse is conveyed from one 
leaflet to others at a distance. Having become 
bent iyani отет the captured insect, the viscid 
able in the ds 
ene its du becomes acid; it 
becomes, in fact, analogous to the gastric juice, 
and performs the same office—viz, that of 
digesting animal matter. 
But digestion involves not only EAM е 
absorption of the solution, and M RWIN 
experiments go to prove that both rocesses 
take place. Some physiologists, while admitting, 
from the researches of NITSCHKE and others, 
tion that 
solution could be absorbed. But Mr. DARWIN'S 
experiments leave but little doubt on our 
minds that, under the conditions he men- 
tions, the leaves of these 
power of leaves to absorb water by t 
Now ifthe leaves of this plant can obtain 
