462 ZAB 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[OcToRER 9, 1875, 
servatory. Doubtless the кол variety or species 
would succeed in the open air in the most favoured 
parts of the south-west. 
—— Some weeks since we drew € s a 
splendid DÀ Lily, which had been — 
Hill, then we have seen another 
y 
SON's hybrid LILIUM (auratum x speci: 
URITY. This was exhibited before the Floral Com- 
I First-class 
acquisition, which we may h 500 ѕее 
Мы now that it has got " "the congenial an of 
Knap Hill. 
—— One of the interesting novelties to be 
seen in M. LINDEN’s vs Orchid. houses at Ghent is 
а new Odontogl of the type ‘of O. gloriosum, 
ossum, o 
but CER a very distinct white lip. 
number of the секет Z the 
Aen o Vs € of St. Louis, Mr. CHARL 
RILEY 
CTS WHICH BRAVE THE p DANCE 
er E SARRACENIA — The а is Xanthop- 
tera semicroc mall, glossy, straw-yellow and 
black m "The e Ram it is stated, is s laid within the 
tube of the leaf, and the young larva covers the s smooth 
yma and leaving only the epidermis. 
ochre-coloured excrement falls i а pellets to the bottom 
of the tu 
the putrid remains of insects which had been captured 
before the closing of the mouth. The transformations 
a 
ing to the genus Sarco- 
mother- her livi 
the tube to the number of upwards of a dozen, and 
these easily find their way to ii^ bottom, where they 
eed on the softer parts of the macerated insects which 
have accumulate of the 
Sarcophaga larv 
ull fed, er w it has a 
nourishment at hand, this ша works through the 
tube, and burrows in the ground, where it under 
i bee so a week Ae Sen 
new ies (S. sarracenize), ad orem «soem v. 
nected With ith Sarracenia, T 
—— Ata recent meeting of the St. Louis Academy 
of Science Dr. ENGLEMANN exhibited a section of the 
es ae about fth of a 
growth i had шыка 
of slow growth that come under his notice, 
e prairie, situated r mile east of n 
could, thirty years ago, during th 
said to be an 
s, weeds, and flags, аа а rm ae barrier 
to the rapid flow of th during the spring an 
er fl des it had o fuer through the roots of 
San te rit 
grass, of brok 
vegetation "ше alw: 
ed the ikers 2% 
еѕ, іо араіп епсо voi the dre v surfa d the кш 
мша м маре Its 
was n = ccessriy so slow that it di hot attain 
' апу soil; how 
ever, it forced the water to spread а. area of. 
: 4 1 this way: After June т, 
quite late in the fall, the used to swarm 
in their attacks 
all d ere driven to the 
estic animals w 
after Mh du I in the morning, nor did they 
ust before sufiset, when they would 
emerge from their retreats and march in single file 
through the long grass to the n 
ce on 
I have f these cow-path 
reams from their inception to the present day, and 
the size they have attained duri s time would 
astonish any one after becoming acquainted with their 
—— We are informed that Mr. E. W. 
lateoft ofthe Hall Gardens Tun, Yorkshire, is д. to 
take the managemen ера ardens of JAMES 
CLIFFE, Esq., ene, Park, Pendlebury, Manchester. 
RT Cross arrived in Lo 
—— Mr. Ков ndon 
Saturday last with a collection of Indiarubber plants 
transferred to India, with the га of — plan- 
tations dum. e tree was found growing in the 
interior of the Isthmus, around the | base of mh. гр ита 
low hills 
e tha 
It спе probable that this experimen 
Government, to cultivate these trees in India, will be 
uccessful, 
—— The jurors at the Mec ies Pn ae 
warded Messrs, eed ie silve 
vir for the grass supplied by that бна for 
the creation of turf on the exhibition grounds, &c. 
Home Corresponden, 
Bougainvillea glabra Flowering Out-of. 
Doors,—I send you a жире x Bougeityilios pon 
which has been flowering in 
two months, It is planted inside à 
it has been for the ve escis e 
portion of ee cun and ETE гон having free access 
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the last vs days wi mient ie: slightest efc or 
amage, — за may se 
would highly recom 0 every one who has fiia 
pare to t oeiia or two young ones outside, and 
so prove its hardin vo m hn Fraser, Gr. to Е. Pike 
Esq., Bessborough, Cor. 
Heat without Cost.— see th 
article pi this title in уз det ^d Sept. 25, by 
Mr... D, x X sh, 2 I am afraid uade 
some may no acquaini 
with Meis, S that the fest given by ‘the On 
of coal may be increased by mixing — th it. 
Chalk is com of lime and carbonic d 
the object of burning it is to drive off the I leaving 
the lime hen k i with coal 
burnt a considerable amount of ЕТ 
the chalk to a red heat, 
is used in 
and a still greater 
mic acid gas. 
was burnt. So that instead of 
мү chalk с adding to к -— of the fire it takes away 
1 cannot possibly add to = 
not combust shes 
y pers 
which have 
iin 
proportion t passes 
up the chimn of into the , and when 
th boilers of this description the. use of 
will no doubt show a consid saving ; but 
@ great of the ed in burn- 
ing the the use of a boiler which passes 
nearly all the heat into the water, and reduces ! am 
the amount — up the chimney to a 
will show a very muc 
effected by the kiln of chalk 
ones, | 
wan for 
e seems to e ntirely forget that if ree 
possible to heat ee a fre of cost, it is possible to 
will be ‘the greatest Б to 
the wo at has ever lived ; it w 
bargain for the country to gi 100,000, 
his patent. “ Heat without cost,” that is, heat 
without the consumption of anything that is worth 
oney—perhaps Mr. Fish would be surprised to hear 
that this is perpetual motion in a new guise. Per 
eoe з as been discovered several times 
, but it is very comforting to think that one 
Xx our Sountsymen has the possession ai the patent, 
5, Е, 
Gourds.—People are not н how long Gourds 
with their jos eaves, &c., will live out of water, 
form an ornament. I have fad бо “bottle” Gourds 
for three days, — leaves show no signs of flagging 
yet. Last Somer. 
eer Strawberries.—For the benefit of 
“Е, S. D., others interested in this subject, 
I venture to нн that probably а Е of 
Strawberry producing a second crop (mentioned bya 
Times corresponden nt, an oec was 
rawn by “Е. S, D. : ardeners 
Chronicle), is Stirling Cas ari 
in this neighbourhood in чм нан to 
i (not, v i for fo reing), жа easly iis 
of a fine flav It annually produces a second 
ka ud 44-9 Бие is seldom no cted i in sufficient 
quantities to be of any real serv 
noti 
lot of flowers stronger and ec than Met I yen the 
soil loosened about h 
with m 
breaking the soil fine 
have ge in ient т really ni 
dishes. I gathered the last Oct ober 2. 
nd with 
e grow se 
econd cropping a 
characteristic of Stirling Castle тй 
I. b. ers Park Gardens, near Southall, 
Middlesex 
Voice’s едер s Cucumber Frame.—I saw 
the frame answering to this designation exhibited by 
t thinking — 
Mr. Voice at South — ча and w 
it to be an admirable seful invention at the 
same time believed it to "E "ur — and heavier 
than there was necessity зж. Sto 
at all times strength, neither det it at al 
I durability, and irt the bulk of the 
were d not 
ered with some 
vig that would 
not exclude 
esired, give off . sm Mw 
н t could 
rows un Me 
ae a 13th, and there was a long 
fine dry weather nearly up to asked of : 
lime, then ore, was not mu foliage, 
and on taking up following 
on tubers last wee 
kinds, namely, Wood's Scarlet Pit, and the Red- 
“eet Flourball, there was hardly a 
ongst them, but I found those not 
