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AUGUST 2I, 1875.] 
THE 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
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posed by Wooster was also unrecorded in the 
one a of that meeting. Eps.] 
се at Muswell Hill, —The new Alexandra 
Palace, AUN its pleasant grounds, pictures, and goo 
music is a great attraction for Londoners. 
eary of work I strolled there last week to look at 
the gardening and listen music. om 
- main hall, th gh ы резе ud I пене 
0 stand than eally goo 
mic roscopes (nearly ie dodblis barrelled) with the fole 
lowing 1 printed in large letters, attached :— 
dr a wonders of Nature as seen by the aid of the 
microscope.” admission fee was the t 
sum of 22. І need not tell you, sir, that at this un- 
e 
abels seemed to say, as the Sirens sang to 
5— 
“ Approach ! thy soul shall into raptures rise ; 
pproach ! and learn new wisdom from the wise." 
On nearing a stand I could see c of the descrip- 
кзы labels : the first was ** Mai air Fern leaf," 
owing “ the n. by which the leaf i is supplied with 
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зоба ;" the next was а ‘‘ human louse,” which 
ay be ed pic ld if not nasty. But it is 
never wise to judge by mere external appearances, so 
I knocked my projected gem peice ion on the 
head, and speculated on tw rth of Muswell 
Hill microscopical тайыйт, peste ng to possibly 
see (at last with my eyes) the famous ‘‘tubes” and 
“nids” which were some time since so Vim: 
sically set down as the two most ent dis- 
coveries of De Bary in Potatos Оп entering 
the enclosure I was fa t of Prince 
Albert and another of Dr. eae Begs 
of Nature” thought I, and wit 
was somewhat акрон with 
f the ** human 
to see another portrait— possibly of some journalist 
who thrives uus РР ent on other гор 5 
head ds. eaving human M the next object 
was a *' flea—ma ss u 
being =. апіса]. ew 
ез 
inclined, a blac 2 
ge 
the fro ow the circula 
tion of TE the “ i ng, showi 
parts which ате affected uL осор, ar and x E 
on to the “ ber wing pollen in 
pods ”. hich vet i be to te no othe T the aie of 
a composite one zi en to the famous *'tube 
in the Fern leaf, the **tubes," of course, being (as al 
t so too, and, passing again 
into the central hall, was in time for part of Rossini's 
“ Stabat Mater," W. G. S. 
Cicuta aaa Hi called Cowbane ?—The 
enclosed a ich I believe to be Cicuta virosa— 
Cowbane, grows x consi: им e quan in pits 
е5; 
sh it appears to TE ero eb ty the cows, the 
tenants I have asked have never suspected it of being 
pron to them f your readers - 
what cir cumstance serves its nam 
er 
c. Wolley Dod, Edge Hall, e Cheshire. 
How to ui Cs Pachyphyton. —A simple 
and sure method of propagating that pleasing bedding 
succulent, Pachyphyton bracteosum, as we 
fellow, P. roseum, is to break off any of the prion 
duri m 
m Here, so 
or swept away, it will not matter if for a e for 
otten in about two months every leaf will have 
thro t roots, and .to de Ely e in 
at the base; these, if p in singly or in 
pans, w ake nice useful stuff by the next Moyen a 
out No doubt Cotyledons, other . 
y in the same 
pri plants, would propagate 
imple fashion. D. 
Seedling Delphiniums.—The Delphinium is a 
plant I am very fond of, and of which I have a good 
collection. Last summer I saved a quantity of seed 
from the finest kinds, and sowed it directly it was 
drills in they w 
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y protection g the winter. I had th em trans- 
planted in April, when they made about an inch 
and present time I have about 2coo 
i or less utiful, some 
у кы! ating in imr Gom d delicate blue- 
w 
as пої ` 
cattle i ini ше old pastures i 
caliti 
“a without | 
lilac to the deepest shades ne "yer ta purple, and 
many " spikes 2 dris in leng wr I will be 
gay for a month or six T a quantity of 
wn d have e yet to open, a met plants have 
et to flo 
de pna rather 
than otherwise to the Potato crop. sorts 
E exci m 555 Ashleaf Kidney, The Coldstream, 
x) Regent, Late American R 
Red- oon Foetal The two first 
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limax were attacked by the disease, and in the course 
of a few суз they were all dead ; and when the tubers 
were at o en up on nly а few were found to 
aftected by the disease, but the crop was light and the 
tubers s About this time the plantation” of the 
a riety was in Ith, and 
he foliage cde that singular shade of soft green 
whic ariety, ich dis- 
t 
two days after this ссе ту the to 
and dried up. The g 
ent quality, of large 
size, and a 125 i crop, 2) to all appearance free 
from disease s also observed that about this 
mp 
et 
Imm 
o 
хаф 
о 
being dug up а 
and smaller Mentel: a y of them b 
considerably di: e e of the Rete 
skinned Flourball became somewhat spotted at the 
same at e Regents did, but 
appears now to have e pervert rom > attack 
and continues to grow vigorously, rs not 
the табы mentioned 
Apiary. 
PETTITT’S COTTAGE нке those persons 
who cannot spare much time in the management of 
their stocks, such as 5 cotiagers y who are out kns 
FIG. 52.—PETTITT'S COTTAGE HIVE 
all the day and have only a few minutes in the eve 
e roun nd the admired bee-bench, MEM 
pers this m ма i te a 
i nough may easily manufacture a 
few caps or praia during е Jong winter e 
their n hives by cutting p: 
hen 
t t pa ned 
ng, bu Е is tead a id yes 
superior or hich is worth 15. 64. 
ven This bas certain cer B s a wretched honey 
y the forerunner of 
PS Mr ud aif и 
an abundant honey year. We bays qunm Кто judo 
in former years, therefore it is well to to be in readiness 
to weap the harvest when И does eiae. К 
Fotices of Books, 
THE —Ó ical rig pe e for August opens 
ogress on the Congo, lorations of very 
+ scientific i i portance, : and guns meii would 
th st with abundant int стен in the shape o 
repay irme The Baobab, 
ivory, copper, and other p 
Adansonia digitata (not ел, as s printed), і is stated 
to yield Ар from which the best paper that сап be 
made may manufactured. Mr. Clements Mark- 
am writer of the article, "A don seti каш 
mends the cultivation, or conservation ir cs 27 
, ON correct forest principles 
regular supply of the fibre, without pi a dir 
ing the goose that vem э golden eggs, as is usually 
the case t From Mr. John Е 
Of the ‘‘ Spinifex desert,” which he 
iles, 
wing out of the S 
irritans of botanists. a 
to walk through, and o 
bleed ; when dry horses onl not and cannot eat it ; 
country whichever way we turned all was the 
ва scarcity of water ist 
red. Mr. Forest tells us that the natives some- 
n dish, The cles meets with great heaps 
Мелон: сай and it is a bad sign when in search of 
h X in the current number of the 
онбай Magazin are eet to illustrations of 
Mertensia 
k Magnolia but 
with narrower petals—the colour of Fthe flowers is pale 
ee -— 2 e 
'Typhon о 
hastate, " thioe parted leaves, ^ appeared a 
s—the plant was in- 
y 
is described as ‘‘by far the most s 
s of all the Alliums," a statemen 
alified without detracting from the merits- of the 
has deep purple flowers borne in 
ery 
widely different жон on its position, For our own 
osed to side with those who allocate 
it nre e e etg een in 
of two y rem qe in the perfect flower, flower, and the _ 
curiously i of the rr are mor- | 
жергш — which analogy has not explaine ed, 
but the solution of which may possibly be obt ained 
from a study of pelt sonny or by a lucky accident. 
f Warners Select Orchidaceous pl 
(London: Reev ) the thirteenth part of the 
second series, completing the second vo а 
recently been ed. This sp d publication, 
len 
which is got up with all the artistic skill that can be 
: wet : he 
may mention 
W: eadiness to continue n a 
if the public is willing to support him in the effort. _ 
Er ume, am one, is йорсен 
Нег М Majesty the ueen. The subjects in г 
2 and ten gem; 
exhibited last season by А. Wise; Od 
lossum vexillarium, from splendid specimen 
flowered i in 1873 эч М.) Rucker; and Vanda tricolor 
W uper сае in Mr. Warn 
own collection at Bro 
o 
work, and m 
be «Ul udi come if it came at more 
intervals, 
