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hour during a week twice a year ; it then takes the | Feb; | 
етли | ruary, and the seedlings were shortl 
p» Maro The alow ing may ane i^ к bus as | ans A» агу с" out and placed on a shelf n "s cus е ` Tru [нъ 1 Tur JJ A dao 
р рауы -house. About the middle of April they | do DX A 
E i шы, arka ча an nne — ‘amid | were potted off into thumbs, in some iM Pied fifteen TM two e um five f de er Se eptember I, 
times ihe would appear to the naked : o's if h | and in a few others two in a pot. By the second | doz. ; 8 ten’ doz > КТ a X m Te 
ре osiy 337 hier ашым Фм Vds 2 эй ` d — in May they had grown too tall for the shelf, Tota i, 192 doz, “thie нар, sh т аи 
ing almost perpendicular to the ecliptic, the sun | in "E ihe soe ee ong Hina mr ye па уезде ee ee ud 
ee i l! ittie heat, where the k 7; " 
ie eroe eth Зая 5 it follows that the | growing, being treated very Liberally dee bit | TI [Th moe one ne x Gardens Basingstoke 
КЕ ЛЫ axis during the м S. M EUN Fus | | etit and "es Fy tgp. wo к Жи P evening: here | was small, ge ye on 7 ао 9p 0.09898 
ne ; | a month, when their final 
of i rus rines a E wt arene teen | шо шо Cpu poi dock place, and they were озна M. Jean Sisley's New Double Pelargoniums 
and, what is very re markable, one M its hemis M | es wth € рн. eva aking à ди of | — These MAES, эге A peg Greet APBD, кї f 
sighted by our earth i indu Ат of ia P 4 they commenced to thru up their plumes of | them being exceedingly beautiful T ite a d - 
Ая night, vhi e беге - АД nu T m | lower, Jy ake at the present vase ба ey d magnificent, | race of plants from the double elsi T. qs 
ardin devs” durat "y ‘light тет ровй. | " эк. t having plum which are much more | ated in this country. I have succeeded i : 
Bee ehh earth ndr "d light uuu cn s , but where that is тар case the oa ts have not | four of them which M. Sisley kindly sent me for tri f 
Deor. WF. Radclyfie p | ; own out "A 2 Ee x xo gra ia specimen ae | They are all of a dwarf and c pat bit pale 
u. 5 ill also find two pieces D dept e of medium si d d 1 е 
Ж n at ms ig ze, and distinctly zoned ; th 
Aristotelia Maqui in Fruit, —4A fine plant of у: are just есеп on th olds. geri ae | а o goro a M эге E 
BE Low ts ful eccle te нан "i t ood f filled up with "aile petals ои the outside 
е" sh erally covere I| Au in heat ew them in | ones, and in every instance they form lobul 
p wt gon ~ 9 ew he ay nd Lr saw it | end ore when they threw up their spikes of | (reds: thrown well above the px oig ree i 
| p in size an e were cut in most cases as soon as they | st - а 
кк ed zy Leve of А I on E = - | were presentable мо па denis continuing to grow 4 | rae opp yit pa ptr А has vice rg rà nom 
, с оѕе were potted on, and айег making 
that tree in shape. Æ. y Ta [Please send us | threw up a seco ond batch of — tee СЕ т | Souths pecu: "aicut ни af ME 
| utsi 
cut for vases, &с,, and now on a a few I have saved | 
a specimen of the fruit, Ep 
5р rur petals being of a light bright pink colour, Henri 
Weight and Number of Cells in Fungi, — І have the fourth batch of blooms. You will notice | Lecoq : flowers of a salmon-shaded pink, the plan 
· enormous number, smallness, and excessive ыле» they are not to becompared to the spring sown plants, | being of dwarf habit, with heavily zoned Ж ету 
of the cells of which fungi are built up is almost | still for a fourth batch of blooms they are by no Sylphide is, perhaps, the most beautiful of all, the 
; Mushroom like the one described ans to be ised. I have another sowing just | flowers being of a rich mauve or rosy pink colour. 
in Gardeners Chronicle for July 22, 1871, p. 937, | up, which I shall prick off in a few days and grow | Of older sorts by the same raiser George Sand 
d which w } Ib., would require for its con- ina house at present used for Cucumbers ; fro x4 ey, being a great advance upon Aline 
aggre no less hu x billions | these I trust to b le to a good part of next | Sisley. ers are exceedingly large, with the 
undred 2 ety-six thousan illions x W. Swan, Sept. 7. ae fine specimens, | outside кы well rounded; the colour very light 
106, 59 000,000,000) of cells, Each of these minute sy pink, or nearly white. When grown under g 
bladder-like bodies is furnished with a coat or cell- the plant is of dwarf habit, with somewhat small and 
| , and contains within itself proto рр water, and Pinguicula grandiflora.—I was greatly interested peculiarly ed leaves, ight ed. 
| other materials. e are ex xcessively in the capital cut of this plant ата in your | Pertusati : centre о the flower salmon, with lighter 
o inconceivably light in weight that in number for July то last. Iti isa very com on plant | coloured marginal pet Ta Aes t: the i wers of 
Species belongin the same order as th Майдын in all the mountains ey and Glengarrite | this variety x: s "rich velvety dee 
| tl d by me, I found that it required no | I have also und it about here and elsewhere in | co colour, sa Урра upon t 
| less than one billion six hundred and twenty-four | quantities, where it often gets trodden down temet | older variety Gloire d e Lyon. P. Grieve, ned n 
thousand three hundred and twenty millions | The leaves plant ded in instances | Bury St. Edmurn 
_ (1,624,320,000,000) of cells to weigh one ounce troy. | with captured i — in — of absorption or | 
_ How I arrived at th si € I hope to reportin | decay. P. lusitanica also grow тэри yu gt Co. | Planting a Wire Fen —I have here about 200 
. Some detail, with other matters of interest, in an early | Cork. James bons Znisnag, Sn ford, | yards run of 4 wal galvanised wire fencing, six strands 
number of is улты) рани W. С. Smilh. > | | of wire, and iron uprigl ry 6 feet. It is recently 
| Old Apricots. — A notic = given of the | put up, and fences in a couple of acres of ground on 
e$ pyramidalis. — With this I send you | old Turkey Apricot at медет in your paper | the west and south sides. I hav e permission Rm "y 
ire of the sepes which I have жер out of at p. 1112, 1873. Thinking it worth notice | sere to utilise it in any way, and it seems 
| pot and sent entire, that you see what | this irem I have kept a daily account of the | thatit would be most profitably employe? if Aus 
а fine it u“ for autumn к Акон An when | — а also кА a fruit or two, | with fruit trees, to » produce years rket crops. Iam 
ther finer. (I may | anxious to have the opinion adm v4 pat praetical 
seco 
managed well and flowered successfully. The batch | though. the earlier fruit was rai пег. — y | 
. Of see Бара from which ће опе sent was taken (which | mention that the fruit стор at Malshanger this year is | readers on this matter—first as sond 
_ is by no — ans the finest, though a fair specimen of og) abundant.) Green fruit: May 11, eleven се ; | к mode of training. I should he ыд Apples o ears, 
others a at home) was sown in heat abọut the end of | 14, twenty doz,; 31, twenty- -six doz, Ripe fru r both, and Yo i also prefer kinds that are not 
