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range from hardy in the milder parts of the south-west | species from pecus and Tasm of more recent ай езе eis and new, small and large, it now 
of England and Ireland, to those requiring a tropical на ction. is of a looser, бен spreading habit, about a score; but towering sta ii: А above 
climate, For the winter and spring decoration of the d grows naturally in healthy ground in Stringy- bark tiir ias are the ессе half-dozen of this 
conservatory, or any house in which the temperature forests, and other dry and ba = — Two ve year’s growth. In every way these latter are — 
is not allowed to fall below the freezing point, few curious species = this group—not, so far as we know, | if not quite, double the size of pde roduced las 
d in cultivation—are A. quadr inii en and A. laricina. | year, from which were selected the specimens used E 
things are oou "m and иа e r the dry heat of The former is a "Макен. viscid, pubescent shrub, | Dr. Hooker to illustrate his lecture, and which we 
ктоо pretty 79 course, to m them in bloom | with narrow, almost four-sided phyllodes ; and the | heard him state on the occasion were the finest which 
in winter it is necessary to maintain a somewhat | latter is a dwarf bush, 1 to 2 feet SN with Larch- | he had ever seen. We believe, in fact, that they were 
higher temperature, say never below 40°, rising to 60° e foliage : uem, are western for larger and finer than any met with on the plant in its 
during sunny days. It is to t ol and wa ming to th it fl native habitats, and were regarded at the time as being 
greenhouse and nearly hardy species that the follow- | We Tees such familar s species as A. DE verticil. | exemplars of about the maximum development of 
ing remarks apply ; indeed, we confine dime here | "Ata nd Riceans, all oe е very ortamental aub Kart, | елен the plant is capable Шш марка of Os кешин 
to the Australian and Tasmanian forms. A word A. verticillata grows in moist situations in various | insecticidal amphorz. As above remarked, those of 
parts of Tasmania, Victoria , &c.—a fact to be bornein | the present season's growth are six in number ; the 
respecting the use of the appellatinonadte ew Holland, | mind in its culture. It was introduced in 1780, The | height of the tallest is about 2 feet 6 inches; the 
Swan River, &c., as applied to the whole or a part ef ordinary form has very n пато wr igid sharp- pointed | inflated tessellat or dome measures ut 
Au v works on gardening, gar- n inches by 4 inches, and would scarcely be covered 
eners’ dictionaries, and nurserymen’s catalogues, it in Mods of six to eight ; y: variety latifolia has | by a partially с hand of ара size, с yos 
is unc t * New Holland” given as —— or oblong phyllodes, : and ovoidea is a hand- | usually small orifice leading t 
the native country of one species, whilst the next is e Tasmanian variety with v сее а аа Dr. retos by € hood, is rea e "inch and x ds hal wide, 
ted to come from ‘‘ Australia,” a third from Hooker кисе E grass а «үр 2. ———— дәр 
терог ” a , z Riceana isa hi ghly oam species, A pees only from and then diverge laterally i m "sat s the dome 
n River," and so on. "Taken singly each one is | found in solet shady places on the river Derwent, in | are each about 3 inches long, and measure fully a 
right, but these names have so much the appearance | the south o ani h span from point to pel 
of referring to difterent countries, that the sooner | narrow phyllodes, which are scattered or whorled, e medium in which the plant is gne g so 
people leave off calling Australia New Holland the | and its general aspect is that of a slender Conifer. If № oie А is chiefly composed of chopped sphagnum 
bett the Swan River settlement in West | trained up the roof of a conservatory it will make with a portion of vpn fibry heath soil and 
Australia, forming f the colony of Western vg е -like ear ine from ? to E are e iin ‘of of charcoal, the w whole surfaced over Менон — 
Amid dt so longer génerally known b t е it has gracefully pendent branches, but it is | ing sphagnu he vt wean as, 0 j 
perhaps scarcely о profuse a bloomer as some species. well cared for, and the ps sits Y elevated on 
name. It is not surprising, after this carelessness on | Thi would, rue btless, деб out-of-doors in the | its mossy mound, over which is dotted, here and 
the part of book-makers, to see collections at our а cn parts of the United Ki ing dom there, tiny plants of that гена little insect 
shows labelled in the same inconsistent manner. The fth trapper of our own bogs—the round-leaved Sundew 
Indeed, we have observed this anomaly in some of | which are chiefly remarkable for their often very е, This remarkable specimen of the Californian Pitcher 
the collections exhibited by the foremost nurserymen элй Ай арк ог texte P a A. sien mifolia, v from Dd им. үм S mei rhe vera 
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this season. Van Diemen's Land, the name formerly Иб Шен. рс салран out thin por tne vig A t » ker ды, thier «s Тон: Orphaleiul, Dessin 
applind io — in аме UC бн НИ ne has — phyllodes, 3 la, 4 зй long, and is more | bi that prettiest of Sund р 
with the adopted on us than beautiful ; ft was introduced in 1823. | capensis. Dr. — has reason to be proud of his 
LM ourselves a ти неу amen А  тезйасе - juncifolin  sciepitolia, and кын ате Darlingtonia, an rap think, may safely challenge 
ing, of course, the Tasmanian, species of Aca very curious species, no ot iti cultivation, bearing some | the gardens of am ife to show such another. Zr 
: hey may be divid ed into those | having only n inmate ме! Ж кые in their foliage to the T from which Farmers! Gasett 
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reduced to а ‘‘phyllode” orflattenedleaf-stalk, Taking | their several specific names are derived o А. nh 
the ” faidesi сеа fnt, er mar be ку cover the unexpanded flower-heads. THE AE пея ОЕ 
into two ОСА SEN PONE 1a Жин goto on A ve remarkable series, the Brunioidez, follows. — NTS 
small globular heads, и киин All the ee are from € northern parts of Austra- à 
arranged in oblong or cylindrical -— di Tu — lia, and none, we believe, are in cultivation. The IN the Gardeners preste for May 15 there is 
pr for e of the ph eden "T ose be names саа, iycopodtiolia, hippuroides, and gali- | a little ңар я ich contains within it consider- 
arated eyes st of the СЕ іп со Я С oides will suggest some of the strange forms ‘belonging ably m ар жн the eye. Although so full of 
presence of one or more glands on the upper edge of юл к senes. ы à ease lada tuuc дад meanin is re than this:—‘‘At Belvoir 
the phyllodes. In the flat-leaved section these | je one g% api s NA теу ар tha most dic. | granite eo is found an admini aik M Ee 
glands appear to occupy the points whence a pair o hind ове ор the pod Th ep UE dn are vertically grow Vines, while the bunter, sandstone, deficient in 
pinnæ would be given off, were hey developed. fla pa wink dics T Toraidh lime, is dabit for Camellias." 
least this seems to be the case in A. melanoxylon and cen tral or nearly marginal nerve, very rarely with fac The fact is suggestive, and may have caused some 
others — roduce some true leaves. The purpose rves, and usually devoid ога sharp point. The | of our readers to reflect whet "d the principle it 
of these ides ceo ir Ы ыалы first group of this series consists of about half а dozen | involves be not capable of much wider а licati 
interes — ie Te н reg n cei aL (heir est Australian species, with spinescent branches, | То help them we give the substance of two г - 
the economy of the life of the plant ; but an | 1086 of хе iet e JP. h a ripe ay oe able papers, entitled **l'Alimentation des Plantes,” 
attentive study of the pires in their native country pex e em ү, them having short, more or less | Contributed a few days previously to Le XLXme. Siècle 
ight reveal — ч natu 1 Monsieur Xaviet Du e ет. 
Following Mr. Bentham’s arrangement in the Flora pe gm as ake A i ога > dak | Nobody will deny, he says, that if one _ thing 
anes and in ri oue yes же — green anne compact habit, and р җете: fowers it | be absolutely necessary for man's existence it is his 
division with globular heads of ers, a series of Bs Dato а general favourite, and is now found in | alimentation. If he do not eat he dies ; it is ron of 
species termed the Alatee, on account tof the phy llodes almost every collection SE has der на de a tu tho ose truths that are sometimes -worth to 
being continuous with the branches, a running down a very variable species, having a wi de range of distri- qu T o clear that they are apt to be mis- 
twe sidu ese аса ehe toe wings A. alata, in- | Potion, and, under cultivation, it has given birth to understood in consequence of the disdain with which 
troduce 3, is dd g several varieties, some of which, possibly, are of eregard them. But if we are all aware that we 
me of this series. The form i cultivati fatal жа Mr. B considers A. undulata | must not fail to eat, if we strive to fulfil 
airy, an is a com , free-flow 6 a he d ornithop b З fái as leasantly as : ble, we are apt to 
feet high. Like all the western rv egg gra — hybr ida of Loddiges, and tristis of Graham, and | forget one elementary truth—namely, we 
moderately warm greenhouse with a dryish atmo- micracantha of Dietrich, are referred hither. The re- | nourished, not by what we eat, but by what we digest. 
attention to the toothsomeness 
sphere. A. pla typtera, figured i in the Botanical ану groups of this series we must reserve for | We pay much more 
Magazine, plate — is a v — with longer narrow ticle. Æ, than to the hygiene of our bills of fare. 
phyllodes, raised from seeds sent : home via поб. another sr UI — — ыы If we act with such thoughtlessness in a matter 
а diptera, and а variety зар 9 ер aa sti P d. which concerns our own proper selves it will not be 
The atier ха ntr меба; e эое c egi DARLINGTONIA CALIFORNICA surprising if we nu the оша of owe - 
-— ff-hand way. e preparation o 
the Pungentes, pacer р larger AT GLASNEVIN. e dais Made Votes them mage," say role 
next з 
number of cultivated forms, characterised by having WE took occasion a few months back to allude to | people; ‘that’s enough." Manure, no doubt, is a 
usually very narrow or linear sary роны Lem prend the remarkably fine specimen at Glasnevin of this | capitalthing ; but the question is, whether it is always 
ud ратам is чама рет у A sep ia ne ndn. singular production of the boggy slopes of the Sierra | sufficient—whether it cannot be ot | rix ын; 
the second one-nerved phyllodes, and the third is re- Nevada, and expressed our 
d h bis or! every maj 
markable in spicate flowers; all the others of | finest example of this curious plant to be met wit mp 
this hog pet series by themselves at the | anywhere in Britain. We mentioned at the time that — to the crops which that "land pected to 
end ofthe Phyllodinea. To the first group belongs | it was this plant which furnished the splendidly Р к. пау не the лаш и i 
the not very attractive А. earis, a West Australian | developed pitchers with which the distinguished Pre- | must study € DM dul е the way in 
species, introduced in 1818. The one-nerved set in- sident of the Royal S iety illustrated his remarkable | which козге ivta heap of trouble ; it's much 
cludes several ivated forms, among them A. se nivorous” plants before the British | too а рае? Xi Que ym d trouble LC — де 
кнн эн — ayy i аныыр Ts Associ Belfast, and expressed an | Serres’ old saw, ** Never change your ploughshare ! 
edel some resemblance PC T е таш й That is to say, “Do what was done before 
of the most desirable sporis. dor general. ‘cultivation, | opinion that, large and fine as these pitchers were, AE. and never set k step it a forwaid баак е 
and er since I In cul- | their dimensions wet probably be ** considerably ч cient d: ia toad nde ЫЙ, 
tivation it Due T or 8 feet deg E. it is covered i in | increased this s as the plant had just then been Ae ы Be ден ааст А tm 
id WIRE емо at ре дн n os ed from the pot in which ore gum e to make an intellectual рту to open one's brain to 
slightly di varieties have received distinct names a pan of large dimensions, where it will have a larger кыр nést—thot obliged to excuse them, 
аз species, i species i ide 9 stribu- ground.” That this anticipation has been | orat least not to Й Кы severely rea and 
Riv uM. wero be apes g from the Brisbane more than realised will appear from what we are | frequent weakness is is the fear of difficulty. People 
: mod of Tasmania i in and extending to the "aun an to Ou f ка ‘condition frequent Жени rng; ngs because 
ie nn d ag lp fancy they are too difficult ap of ing If they were 
a places and in light A, diffusa is an allied I of the plant. 
