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| [OCTOBER 9, 187$, 
y cutting” made for the single purpose 
moving the lime from е kiln, must have cost a 
little fortune itself. I am not by any. umi hostile to 
Mr. uu s invention ; in deed, LA e had a good 
opinion of it best. both from 
he t, and my employer contemplates ae 
n it if it tums out as well as it is eom o do t 
n on 
сЕ one effect. Не has volunt dd FN for not 
adopting his own pet scheme, which, u ds his stoke- 
holes, ** will "et hold water." Jonatha 
New Vegetables.—‘‘ How often we find an old 
friend with a new name” me a household 
word amongst Cabbage grower season, how- 
ever, find amongst Cauliflowers a new name an 
an n ** Dean's Early S Il.” Itis the 
most distinct, and also the earliest on I am 
acquainted with. It is no giant in size, which is not 
is the dean ideal of irs at a Cauliflower 
great pleasure in recomm 
my gardening friends, 
from those who 
at the whispered ** Еу СА next season, A, Gilbert, 
Lasiandra macrantha. — Some few months since 
. Baines, in alludin the growth of ian 
macrantha, stated that justice could be done to 
that beautiful plant use that would be 
ired to grow Ixor , and some other 
few things to perfection. I think he chiefly alluded 
to 
ed M. At the time the statement 
made we had ho 
been croi flower, tae Allamanda, Stephano- 
tis, à and Ixoras, and I have forwarded to your: office a 
stove. I iet just say that I have been able to cut 
uen es in your valuable jo , 
but it is ac De де oF justice and truth, whic I 
always u ue to all things, that I have 
taken the en to Eod jou William Batip, Gti, 
Bylaugh Park, East Dereham 
Reports of Societies. 
THE FUNGUS SHOW AND CON DEREN OF 
iip a = BOTANISTS AT PERTH 
oolhope Club doubtless owes a d 
of i a to its hard-working and excellent offi- 
^ х 
ly done. 
Doubtless the Scot i hich held its first 
meeting at Perth, ful inits work 
with the English Society. The President, Sir 
Thomas Moncreiffe, Ba. y well know an 
entomologist, "uad as the President of the Perthshire 
Society of Natural Science, is thoroughly in earnest 
т 
ЗЕЕ 
— the City Hall, where 
laid out for exhibition 
and last to 
of fungi 
Last, and not 
everal 
otany at 
ho 
hope Club 
Doctor of Medi 
or at least ide Pear dí 
-** Macbeth," is ** Mac- 
century, wears a 
2 earty, and anui ing 
TM made special table (with bed 
his 
pc erase r, Carrington) one of the most instru 
tive in qvi City Hall. 2 Treasurer is the Rev. James 
Us Е son, of Glamis (I was alm "а Жы е А the 
of үзө; "E RN name is often men- 
tioned "yt the Rev. M. J. Berkeley at the meetings of 
oyal Horticultural Society. e members of 
ы Council, ^ iem men and true, 
Fergus Д . 
L Ke ith, 3 9ч Е 
Dr. Ogilvie, and Mr. Charles Howie. 
men for a few moments, we wi 
work, Each e the po cipal officers exhibited a 
fungus ne rita Sir ee marae 
showed in his р, ата the tru icus aureus of 
Mattusch, perfectly au b its —— Ton the 
Agaric us herefo rdensis o nny, and new Patios 
S mens More “of cert size cad extreme 
ment I saw the plants in their 
i at Moncreiffe, I knew they belonged to 
new to tephenson, of Glamis, 
ЕЧ Agaricus Caput-Medusze, a plant in every 
way remarkable and noteworthy, also new to the 
Brit ish flor ras, 
Fic. 98.—GEASTER MICHELIANUS, 
The real work of the Conference programme 
ednesday, Чыр pe 20, а Не 
oncreiffe ods, wi 
a 
Rev. Mark Anderson, the Rev. James F RES oe 
many i. whilst the Moncreiffe party in 
Hobki of Huddersfield ; t "James 
phei хаб h; the. эйе tg 
these Ve and several others. Assis 
carrying great bere and p wh öle 
of the mur Nerd bri innumerable hampers from 
every direction, was P th nera on the 
morning of September e these excursior 
e parties we imes overtaken by driving 
pitiless storms rain known in the 
orth as ** Scotch ан ” but in the South as hurri- 
canes, Atthe City Н ursday, SéptéinBur 30, 
ber rked at * 
the ver ind of the business of the Society, 
chair, De M. C. Cooke then read | 
a paper **On A Scotch Fungi;" Mr. C. P. 
rdee еп, ‘On 
Ergots ” a thoroughly eras paper, full of sugges. 
tive matter and detailing many ments of аз 
interest. t was pleasant to hot. Wilso 
оа acquaintance with and his s estimate = € 
works of Tulasne and others on the pore subject. The 
meeting concluded with the election 
Le ] 
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ze 
m 
ч 
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"et 
mem ин “eign to the exhibition 
and arrangement of the 
specimens till геена p ly put an end to their 
urs, and the party strolled over to the “ Salu. 
= Sierra -e 
pleasant dinner cam 
The **bill of MÀ бленда =, stewed p with 
Chantarelles ; curried fungi ; 3, dressed. кт head 
dem ’ Fistulina hepatica à l'Anglaise 
` 
Crypto ogamique; I2, 
rasmius oreades i T des Fées ; 15, Sparassis 
vd à la Scottish Naturalist 
are “paddock stool” dishes 
"a "greatest novelties were Hydn 
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3 
ell ala R and was 
thoroughly delight, being interspersed wm a few 
rief sp es an acy songs, concluding 
cir К ren lang my › with joined hands all round 
ар 
As to the exhibition itself it was three times larger 
than Jast year’s Aberdeen n show, an 
which were very con- 
ent music enlivened 
the proceedin gs from beginning to end. fresh and 
drie d s specimens inclu ы: еа, 
long me 31 feet Toc] cu d 5 fee 
with fungi, besides ta as all ound the hall, 
positions in the there were great trophies or 
of fungi, Sone) skilfully and аана: built | 
loca 
Owing 
to the aer. n de exertions of the President, Арт 
and other officers, parcels were made rom all 
parts of сон; апа some arriv 
n 
any of the specimens wer 
; for instance, Ты was a mass o 
round ; a Boletus edulis, 3 feet 3 inches, , -— ano 
pos round; Agaricus maxim pet 
round, w. inches in cir: circumference 
porus applanatus, 2 2 feet across ; a Phallus 
with a volva 9 inches round and 3% әле ‚ stem 
то icis i an » ileus 3 inches deep and 6 inches 
round. Ther Helvella crispa (fig 99), 9 inches 
round and 9 in осебе and a Ѕрагаѕѕіѕ с 2 feet 
ches in circumference, sah several sheets «а dry- 
rot, 18 inches across and Ij inch in t ess. 
d d 
Fols 
mpudicus, 
of this stained wood, an 
as Tunbridge n sent i Drs. уч 
of Dumfriesshire. The rare С rufa was on the 
Keith, and Agaricus 
in fact 
vend прн 
this latter is a. niin TEM 
in the Moncrieffe 
was found, in сот“ 
ad t Сазан Krombholzii, 
