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AUGUST 7, 1875.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
ACHEROYIGEE. 
167 
HYBRID TACSONIA. 
Mr. ANDERSON, of the Gardens, Sowerby House, 
Hull, to whom we owe our first knowledge of the 
beautiful Tacsonia i insignis, has been hybridising that 
ith T. Van 
species w Volxemii, the latter being ше 
pollen-parent, On this point we subjoin Mr. Ander 
son's remarks :— 
onia insignis never seeds with me unless it be 
ut of about forty унон» raised from two seed- 
pods, all, Ў the divide d leaf of the 
male parent, weiss one RE. i" every respect a true 
E Only one D АМ doen thus far. Ihave 
outh Ызы out- ‘of. doors, 
Should it prove hardy, I will let: you kno 
Mr. Anderson’s note is interesting, as) confirming 
the fact that nets often set better with foreign 
pollen than hour their own. The internal conforma- 
tion of the h Hote is very diia and affords 
the first stage I ards a doub - flow The calyx, 
corolla, and corona are all n 
instead of bearing anthe 
ge springs an 
additional corona, just as the corona springs from the 
| feet across, petiole 18—25 fe 
| sobolifera is another example wherein ee stemmed 
y be 
and soboliferous plants m A in 
he Burmese jungle m each 
other. Again, the armature in Calamus is түш very 
different peer to the a 
accordingly as the spits 
upper parts of the Mm 
alami, includin 
may occasion 
s not a dozen 
come from e-lowero 
On the eg hand, the 
species with any of the hundred species 
or thereabouts tee ot published. P1 e new зро cies are : 
Areca hexasti icha, a s slen der-stem us Palm, 
et 1 ona speciosa, a lofty 
species fro: Lau a feet high with a stout Rom i 
flabellate leaves 6 mi feet across—a very ha 
; Hug ha Di a gigantic wr ges Palm 
30—40 feet high, АНА palmately flabellate, 12—20 
ong: this и be ап 
FIG. 33.—PETALOID STAMENS, ETC, OF TACSONIA (THE SEPALS AND PETALS REMOVED). 
flower-tube at the base of the petals in Bed in? па 
here, then, not only a ve interesting mal. 
formation, but the iiem of a double Ta: 
suggest that Mr. Anderson's 
hybrid, thus x Tacsonia Andersoni. TS 1 
BURMESE PALMS, 
THE second part of the forty-third volume of the 
Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal contains a de- 
scriptive enumeration of all the Palms known, in 1873, 
to occur і in Burmah and the Andaman Islands. 
les Six x of which 
are долы, and there are nineteen uncoloured plates 
to illustrate he new species, which, although only of 
Octavo size, will be of — service in determining 
em. Insome remarks on the variation of Palms 
seven snec 
which precede the descriptive matter, the author says 
: as 
еч 
е common Betel-nut 
similar instances are no 
has unhesitatingly conn 
Е а species that differs i in no structural points, Carpeta. 
Ж 
be attached to thi 
cooing i imposing plant with its a ped leaves 
oa rein of 40 feet! All the re uri new 
e gre Рено 
rianus, and paradoxus, of ben the Bes former repre- 
sent a new type, characte by having the scales of 
their fruits furnished with frh fringed appendages as lon 
as, or longer than, the scale itse 
his enumeration will be xu xe useful ; there 
is a reprint of it for private circulation 
ge of the gem itself, or: 
СИ ас и 
Нашрай ipei сата апі Wood $ 
language as ''fossil poetry," and in this regard Arch- 
with exactly the same кү that it is fossil ethics, or 
fossil history Not o ver, 
that ** os er is the uer in which a thousand pre- 
cious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded 
and preserved ; it has arrested ten thousand light. 
dave bygo ne ig: acts, kr. often 
ast in a recallable pi interpretative form. 
The ees of the observations on ** Names aces" 
note the facts language has preserved o 
phical distribution of wocd in the land, 
We may notice first that at a-very early period the 
British islands were pretty well wooded, with a 
а чы oe or very anciently planted tree 
im We e this from the fact that our early 
Saxon а" have supplied us with тапу of Ње 
mes now familiarly used for the trees of our wood- 
pers Take, for instance, these monosyllabic Saxon 
Asp, mae 
ors 
e certain] 
not st/vicultrices (wood-trainers), they w y 
gro а to use the 
ime— 
nemorivagt (wanderers thro - 
phrase of Catullus regarding th 
* When wild in woods the ae savage тап.” 
wards, when Wem gr began to be eq and 
ecame 
Prom on was given 
flourished 
After 
towns arose in the clea ч S, WO 
material, pn 
that npe: had grown there, or s near. 
Ferris, еы Mortimer Mese Wal 
in Wil Woodboroug Woodford ; in a Dee. 
set, Mes a! Dae Woodsford in Somerset, Wood- 
and W That 
key; in Dev leigh. 
pretty wall аы f for the geographical distribution of 
er іп the south-eastern countie 
say 
uite as good an a 2o 
reference to id Tact in Hants; in - 
ford, Wood Eaton and Woodstock; in Glou- 
cester, Woodchester ; in ester, Smallw 
nd ther Aeron pie , fen me in the - 
ford, and Wood N wton ; 
ix t, and Wooli: ; in Баси Wood 
Wood Ender| 
Lincoln oodhall ; ot- 
ШЕГИ m а Woodborough as ie as in Wilts ; ‘and in 
Northumberland there is Woo 
The foregoing paragraph ras proof of the 
extensively wooded country England was in ancient 
times ; but we have instances too of the habitats, as 
it were, of ici trees in special districts. We have 
h near Sandwich, and As 
CURIOSITIES. IN. THE NAMES 
OF PLACES.—I. 
AS INDICATING THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION 
TIMBER. 
NAMES of places аге often significant of facts con- | юр 
nected with them ond — the casual | | 
which | 
reader or hearer perceives them at first. The 
grand physical features of a А i mpress the mind, 
and the names to which they = rise remain attached 
to them even when change has swept over them, or 
the memory of the word has faded out of the minds 
of the inhabitants of the district. The secrets of the 
eqs not em ады hidden in words, so that by 
the bringing out of the meaning of them “ more know- 
ledge of more value may be conveyed by the pnt 
of a word than by the — a cam paign. e 
a parish in Hampshi 
and jap iine 
Essex, endo 
Suffolk possesses | per € binge ld 
field. ‘Ther n Ashford in each of the following 
counties—Mi aiies Ken 
Devi; Derby, and © 
Shropshire rejoices w Ashford and Car- 
As d Leicester in Ashfordby. There 
is an in and in Somerset, an Ashing- 
don in Essex, and an on in Somerset, Ashel- 
