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GARDENERS' CHRONICLE 
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{AUGUST 28, 
upon his cms spring 
upon oulders, and ber on w, while 
summer lies er an А at his feet. Æ, 
(To be continued.) 
Pome Correspondence, 
s Marsh alli —1I have seen some 
real origin of the plant, I subjoin the history of it чөе; 
m Gardeners’ Magazine of Botany of June 1 
i 
“The subject of our plate is a very interesting and 
remarkable plaat, said to be a BiA between Cheiran- 
thus — us and m um Perofteljanum ; and it 
btedly exhibi ВЕЕ on of the characters 
of the two ‘plant € dd e y^ of the ee of the 
flower, and in the forked glands, which appear t to еро: 
sent abortive stam: 
h more closely with 
Erysimum than with Cheiranthus ; but in the seeds wi 
find the 
+o 
erence in 
es careful investigation, and the 
further ee € тет ane seeds serie we have not һай. 
an opportuni examining) should be carefully 
observed.” Tnitaled АН. ws History letters stand for Arthur ' 
“ 
ЙУ, 
Henfrey. c.—This ve 
v d 
ochroleucus with the deep ora 
skianum, an 
consequence of the iculty of getting see it ; 
the fe which resulted from this fertilisation were 
so nt n border in 1846, and the plants first 
bloomed in 1847,' one of them proving to be the vari 
now rom th f seeds three other 
were obtained, like ochroleucus, and the 
Others with orange-c owers. One of these 
orange-flowered sorts was lost; the other, is 
like Mar: 
all 
allii, slightly different in colour, height, and 
foliage, but inferior t ir paren Linnburn the 
plant flowers about the latter end of May in the open 
air. we f go charming variety is now in the 
possessio . Stark, of the Edgehill Nursery, 
Edinburgh "The fresh prin m very agreeably violet- 
blend ed with a little of the Se dire of the 
a very enthusiastic Hors, каз бй 
ived with 
te wé dioted t5 Hybrid P s А AME 
spare minute we devoted to hybridising and raising 
seedling olarias, Fuchsi &c. ; and 
having no idea of turning them to a commercial profit, 
he gave them away to any one who fancied them, 
believe с iranthus 2: T imi seedling he ever 
sold, and he disposed of it fo m 
Bees Feeding on Apricots.—I, for o 
bear testimony that Mr. Miller's bee "fruit ** rr 
is not an волей case, as here, and also in the gardens 
of Sir G. R. Phillips, ae iles 
dist = ^ observed about 
but comparativel 
variety, the Angoumois нанел dele | 
i. John _ Marshall, of 
niorm l by 
experi 
hand, how is it explained that Pota 
cious and highly-coloured skinned fruit. Like Mr. 
Miller, I do not recollect such an onslaught before 
by the bees. Doubtless a lack of some honey-pro 
ducing flowers this season has caused them thus to 
k food, for which, however, they ought to be 
— and not begrudged, considering that it may 
ot all be lost, but refunded in the shape o of eni - 
vieni ose 
s and unremunerative pests, the Le the 
loss beret be iz toto. W. Gardiner, Lower Eatingion 
Park Gardens, Stratford-on-Avon 
The Potato Disease.—I purposed to say some- 
thing in черен to this all-absorbing later on, 
when some ideas yet rather crude had enam 
but I cannot 
have striven to эзе from it 
would 
the 
winter home 
So e — nw 
is disc so far led him to believe. v after the 
Ne 
n due Posen 
e one open to doubt? If the resting- 
UN can be discovered by means of the pen 
n affected tubers, cannot the sa eans asc 
hether it exists in the sou ber, and whether it is 
on е nsi of the = ог еее ?—as, if the latter, 
e it, and if the former, i 
У too probabi : that A what would kill the resting- 
spore woul xis kill ae growth germs of the tuber. 
h rn Fi ish. advi soot in which to 
store Potatos, = forgets = that remedy has been 
ithout 
resting-spore Fedi on the se 
and heated? 
cumstances and d condi tions. 
n advises, 
burning of the ha 
when Бы attacked by the 
combustible, and can only be m 
M | the grov prc 
in question the es clearly impracticable, 
Has it been nof sive proved that аба the 
fun has done its d in the using 
vegi ‚ it does not de. also? 
That nece: кетт en esie us 
back to the oe 1844, when the disease first became 
manife d I КЕ a right to ask, ** from whence 
nd 
did the od en come? is it not 
fair to assume that where it then came from it is pro- 
bable it has also com M 
Smith’s discov 
under very exceptional circumstances the peculiar 
form of the disease, as manifested in the Early Rose and 
other American kinds, was n and 
found in diseased matter and not in any po moo on 
or in he AT matter, Then Mr. Fish a 
soil. Well, if the soil сны 
of бет resting-spore, is it not possible for micro- 
scopi its But if this be 
oc toe it that soil that ys uced a v 
diseased crop one year will produce a clean one the 
next ?—as such has been my ence. On the other 
in 
piece en winter, aa which had 
been pasture for fifty years at least, perhaps had 
b uce tubers and 
ulm just мачы as were those in a noe 
Potatos been grown now five years in io! 
a in this ome case I had but very н little disease 
wo years since the Potatos in that 
ery bad.. 
g? Finally, Mr, 
early lifting. Well, i e question is, At what stage ? 
It is no use locking the stable after the horse is stolen, 
says an old proverb, ess to lift 
tu Iset to work 
picked I find . What 
P gained by eariy liting? 1 The er crops grown 
E Lane now being: ко ар worse апа їп 
some cases not so bad, w. чы kere the eibi Es 
15 less 
of knowing that what I now gather up аге all soundi 
I have just heard of an instance where a lot of Myatt’s 
were lifted before a spot of 
start into growth early in the winter, and make 
troublesome and unsatisfactory seed. 
no Potatos ин or more robust 
earer jj 
can eder to Na ature th 
We are only on the threshold of this subjec 
andi it will take much patient ig before it can 
nig mastered. Were it the rth Pole," Govern 
ment would long since have cer $ munificent sum 
for its discovery, but as it is only th 
ing x into that can be left to local AE disintegrates 
. Mr. Smith is worthily trying 
o us аре Hal his 2800098 ud 
eventually be fully rewarded. 4 « Dea 
otato disease mee Rc сетш the 
о too early to the effect on the 
p. ew in neighbourhood being lifted, 
I have for several years pulled a few haulms or 
the fi pe brown spots a putting ой 
foot each side and clo se them, vi 
in agr tubers to be comparatively fr f 
from d ifted, i uta 
a а fortnight = palp t e haul ^p. H pv 
rele Mr е hich bipes rs te 
s 
aad ee rapid ve 
d of the disease, Wm, 
mery, Kilkea Castle, August ІД. 
Rhynchospermum jasminoides,— There is 4 
plant et this well ca MO against Sir Howard 
Elphinstone's hut in uth Camp, Aldershot, 
which has stood two et tere atte unprotected and is 
now blooming fr 
generally, if not hin in wet cold situations? 77. 
Cowb In to Mr. Dod’s query 
(p. . 235) as и the irri tita under which Cicuta 
erves its name," they would appear tc 
ext st when t the plant is in a young state. Sir J. E, 
Smith, in the rose ene Flora, says, it ‘is a very fata 
to they happen to — e ; 
re it rises out of the water, in whi 
rivers, always u nhe, va per 
situation cows and bullocks, to which animals it is a 
eadly poison, sometimes by e eat it." The 
name Cowbane does not appea y of our older 
authors, but was first published by Withering ; and 
** Water Hemlock,” as the Cicut lso c 
books, was by Gerarde and Parkinson applied 
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mem te had attained great height and luxuri- 
ance. lt seems to be not uncommon in Mid- cux re, 
dangerous, 
byit; bu mese 
e probability t 
the ме s, the name 
fact that 
bane for 
Withering was 
Cowbane, is increased by the 
is also the first to publish that of Horse- 
inane Phellandrium, which had been 
to be similarly injurious to horses. In 
Pp. 
which is even 
d 
America the nam 
Cicuta MC. maculat 
aponica, and in his Zour in Lapland, gi many 
Interesting details as to the yea effect produce 
ta upon cattle. He 
it in the spring chiefly to two d 
cattle are then greedy after green herbs, and less dis- 
at a lat iod of the year ; and. 
ys the odour of the state. 
ee I am persuaded,” he says, 
*! that later in the year they can distinguish this plan: 
the smell al 
may be gi en n 857, sons 
were fo paral and speechless c ditch 
when they had been working. soon 
