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LRE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[AUGUST 28, 1875, 
in 1866 was 154 dollars a month with board, showing 
an increase in one generation of 72 per cent. At the 
ак time, the average rate without board was from 
"Sew wisn aca to Ww been. making about 
316 IS per annu e same time it was 
ese dA rice of farm dione now 
deli 40 — ET esr ie decline of ds 
2 per cent, since 
e ACCLIMATISATION OF CAOUTCHOUC 
TREES IN BOURBON is now being tried. As in many 
the original forests have been 
again with wo Seve 
being largely planted, but the authorities appear to b 
alive to the fact that Gum trees sh be supple- 
mented by some others of more direct b | man. 
This att , according to the Yournal of the French 
Acclimatisation Society, is still in its earliest infanc 
The indigenous A: Cryptostegia madagascari- 
ensis, is being largely — as this vem begins to 
yield a return the first ѕеаѕо; 
the 
in other places that pest is md in check by 
Paris green. The fruit crops were cted by late 
frosts and severity e wi are 
below the average in almost all the Sta 
suflered still more severely than AP from rn 
frosts. Strawberries have yielded a fair average 
— A recent London pas ee of so 
arried out in the leb € 
m s Bakes Street station 
ше whic! 
the roadway is now occupied by a flower border 
gaily planted, and a gravelled walk 
of it. The bright and cheerful appearance thus 
sented contrasts in а remarkable manne: Е 
nde j tic om 
1866. 
of the Botanical Congress of Loniki 
—— Among other PLANTS IN FLOWER ee pot 
ing 
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one of the most ornamental of the Toad-flaxes, and 
I^ ‘heterophylla, with a multitude of narrow green 
leaves and brownish flowers. Diuris 
п Teniforme е, 
Viol 
in want of the spur. 
fine new tis figured for ve 
steriscus maritimus, a showy dwarf Composite with 
large yellow бара Di си cceruleus, а beautifi 
blue flowered umbelliferous annual ustralia. 
The rous very handsome, prove 
a Log 9g ve visitors. Of the varieties now in 
flower the bes rosceflora alba, Dr. ters, 
Vesta, Еб, "Chelsoui, Agate, and Sedeni. 
—— Nurserymen are frequently blamed for giving 
PROVISIONAL NAMES TO their NEW PLANTS, 
which, by-the-bye, they conid: not m well sell with- 
out names = bet. all, 
~ the value Осе for founding species 
d genera. . Aremarkable illnstratioa of thas менде: 
ber of the Zz»z2a, which we notice in — place. 
For some reason or other nearly all of them have 
changes. Thus, Areca monostac liia becomes Lino- 
spadix monedas Kentia australis = nae 
tralasicus, К. B = Grisebachi 
Alexandre = Archontophcenix Alexandre, P. 
ninghami — Arch. Cunninghamiana. 
these changes consider it necessary to s something 
in deren tp n of the course they have wien; quoting 
BLUME's defence on casion, and perhaps 
— of bcd m 
arra. ent, Mea nwhile, терен. we wou 
what the authors of the 77ora Austrdliensis will do. 
An +. {ће DAT мс in th y pA S T | 
collation at HERRENHAUSEN, under the direction of 
u 
nthusiastic pre may 
effect. It is gratifying that this fine collection is still 
kept together notwi ing the chan 
that have taken place in German 
—— At the adj ourned meeting of horticulturis: 
held at the té Critenta t Circus, W., on Friday, 
the 2oth inst., to consider the desirabllity с: holding 
NTERNATIONAL HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITION 
IN LONDON in 1877, it was propo: y Mr. R. 
secon Mr. GEORGE PAUL— 
and procure signatures to the same, 
requesting the Council to step ascer- 
taining the general feeling of horticulturists as to th 
advisability of holding an International ultural 
Exhibition in Lon in 1877. is carri 
unanimously ; and onthe ко of Mr. SIMPSON, 
Manchester, seconded т. GER, the follow- 
ing gentlemen were el to serve as the с ittee : 
—Mr. ‚ E TURNER, Mr. T. ROLLISSON, 
and Mr, 
o tax 
Vie owing to 
is much dei: valuable than 
diminishes to a mini 
= profits —_— on the ‘ales of the wood, and 
indeed, almost ounts to a prohibition di its 
export, 
e have received from Mr. ERA the 
Gard Oakl ey, , Fallowheld, near Manches 
cut spikes, bearing 
above e cut was 
seventeen, and many o m bore six flowers each, 
while the total isa ad Towers Есе at the same 
time was seventy-tw pondent may well 
TON: Fire ae eae o orig and m uch 
In the subtropical 
Mr. т. ROGER has successfully tri 
PHALLUS RIVIERI as a summer bedding 
illea то ith 
Pelargonium ins Ch "a Palace Gen; ind. Азерин theras, 
The dis is striking. 
LANESSAN, as reported i - ved e ee 
Ноно, еи been trying some ех th 
abso 
Single dn es and br v^ Sors weighed and then 
allowed не wither, again weighed and plunged into 
water, care being taken that t the тето of the branch 
or petiole n was excluded from The r 
E a considerable gain over ‘the withered state, 
e gain never gie ай the total weight in excess 
of the ede ame fresh weight 
n aried, and the weight taken at different 
times, ra which it ap at the rate of abso 
water they w : 
paper and before a fire, even to thant" To сн. 
mitting a pens evaporation from the tissu 
trol fresh branches were 
result was no percepti 
gain amounted to 4.85 tuc Dont 75 grains. 
JAPANESE EDIBLES. 
THE use of Cordiceps sinensis ` an saa e of food i 
China, referred to at p. 342 of the Gardeners’ Chron 
for March 14, brings to our suia some of the pe 
liarities ws сее edibles, а 1 
wer 
where the specimens are now exhibi 
in their ey natural orders. E СТАИ 
very varied, and numbers some 178 sp h 
Leguminosze ринге a large proportion, the p. Q 
several varieties of Phaseolus—known as red, blacl 
and white Beans, according to their «Өс 
prominent and important article of od, for, beside 
being sold in their natural state, that is, simply drie 
omp canal s by he ess 
dried, oi ea without artificial heat. 
cakes and the kc cg ned гос are of a 
D re colour. ans there are also prese be 
sugar and others dandied or кіт а: ed ; these аг 
giro obably "Mo species of Phaseolus, les their di 
Pesce decns characters are lost in thei r ee 
m 
Бч 
bout the preparation of this sauce, but it is said to be 
made by boiling the Beans in water with an 
i Wheat or d and d fried it ta 
and addin 
water, to eosin an ottle it when it Y" ss for сй 
It is a favourite i i 
Japanese and Chinese 
көш дыр digestion. Besides t E 
f the sauce, the are 
Каа quantities as a сые, Жолу. oiled or 
cooked in various wa: 
Rice, of course, enters em pony into Japanese 
ens of are show 
product 
Rice starch, meal, &c., of эйгин 
Wheat, and. Millet are also b a specimen of 
the latter ed ‹ of its husk, and 
assing mention to say that it i 
included by de. Јарапезе as а food plant. 
mongst other fruits and seeds not to be classed 
with pulse or grain occurs the Chestnut (Castaneag 
vul the seeds of which are shown of three dis 
garis), 
tinct sizes, the smallest about the size 
о 
divided 
which is less ата, than most Acorns, indeed 
somewhat resembles the Walnut 
idata is one of the edible species of Jap 
not unusual in Мету Europe 
the Apricot and so preserved for 
when the imm fruits are not o 
y even rolled out, aft 
abstracted, into a sty sheet, from whi 
cu of any size required, In lae == fruits = 
ti 
the shape, size, and colour of their fruits, the most 
m f ewhat resembles the 
Cornelian Cherry (Cornus нан i se fruits 
have an agreeable, sweetish -a and are much 
esteemed for dessert purp Under the а 
jo the fruits of Z. sinensis are occasionally 
in Covent Garden "Market, while in the countries 
iterranean those of Z. vulgari 
only eaten both in a fresh and dried state. 
Turning to the Ebenacez we find one well known 
the Di Kaki. The 
fruit, Kaki of the Chinese—. 
tree is vum e China, and Japan, in each 
country the which nk wn for the sake of its finely- 
flavoured ines which is not unlike that - a Plum, 
It is of a reddish colour when ripe, 
