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THE: GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[OCTOBER 16, 1875, 
a really and practically exists 
at 
"AS at acclimatisation, or the adapting 
and altering living ML PIU to suit altered 
circumstances, compared with the retaining of 
organisms in the circumstances to which they 
are naturally accustomed, call:to mind what has 
been said of the respective climates of Rome 
and Madrid. Rome is a “ winter paradise ; " 
Madrid glories in its nine months of winter and 
three of infierno, which can only be whispered 
The Roman air is soft and 
does kill the feeble instead of acclimatising 
^ them. 
Strange plants. and animals introduced into 
countries new to them, whether design or 
accident, have often immediately коен ed 
fitness tor the soil and climate, and hav 
forth mu ltiplied, increased, and ak to eh 
tasto become naturalised. The very 
se instances (which 
cludes the possibility of the slow and gradual 
change denoted by the expression “ acclimatisa- 
tion." The creatures suited their new home, 
the other, and that is all the merit he can claim 
in the matter. If, eee acclimatisation 
societies had adopt ted the more modest title of 
pub ge societies, or mradini societies 
—societies for testing the capabilities of untried 
Бае отд would be too long—there would be no 
harm done, no erroneous belief would be con- 
veyed. Sucha title would express the truth 
and nothing more, leaving the grand question 
open for future experiment and determination. 
and 
But for a clear understanding of cause 
effect, it is most desirable not to confound 
naturalisation with acclimatisation. Too often 
the terms are used indiscriminately, in spite of 
their completely different import. 
It would be presumptuous to assert that im- 
It is an important point to 
prevent a waste of time and money on things 
that have been арац tried before and have 
as often been found w anting. What may be 
effected ы natural causes, in the course of 
years, we tell; what is 
donet die way of Aclimatisation by h 
agency during one or man lifetimes, 
appears often to be infinitesimal and quite in- 
appreciable. 
A writer in this journal has most truly re- 
marked—* The original nature of plants is little 
changed by art. Much that has been written,and 
more of what is believed ing acclimati 
tion, is sheer fallacy, But little of actual fact can 
be sifted out of the masses of chaff to prove that 
any plant is one whit hardier than it was when 
first imported, although the possiblity оѓ 
such a change, or even of its occasional 
existence, is not denied (by the writer quoted). 
даке. the Peach, Nectarine, and Apricot, for 
Th & as warm-blooded and 
ble st grown in England. 
ag еМ have been cut by spring frosts, 
‹ эе бакчы of their crops nd tL 
S, throughout cen- 
turi sis ready to open their 
de on tee first bright day, and to offer them 
up to the mercy of the first sharp night, as when 
originally introduced; and so with other 
plants" From all which the writer wisely con- 
(0—— IN ad 
Rötar HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
cludes that safety must be looked for, not in 
ut 
them with the same conditions that Nat ture cae 
vided for their safety in that a climatal 
niche that she intended them 
As some consolation, we ae congratulate 
ourselves that the limits set by Nature on accli- 
eir m con 
mouths as household words. If we have no 
naturalised Sugar- © nés is pesce dan we are 
at least untormen corpions, jungle 
leeches, white d er he indigenous pests 
of a tropical climat 
AMONGST the Yucca-like plants which adorn 
our greenhouses, there is a Mexican HE ep 
group to which the name of BEAUC is 
now applied, but which—through, as is өрсө 
the тесе, mis- spelling or mis-reading of 
some garden l not in itself very exact— 
once bore the vence title of eor eg 
he name, barbarous as it was, clung to th 
plants for many years, before that of 2:8 
ea was substituted for й by M. CH. LEMAIRE 
in NN Horticole (уш. misc. 57. ) 
‘Heal iid an which are specially remark- 
able for the great swollen or napiform base of 
their stems, are extremely slow-growing plants, 
and so doubtless they are under the restrictive 
treatment they usually receive, which is almost 
that of succulent plants, fears being apparently 
entertained that the cellular swollen mass from 
which the roots issue, is liable to rot. 
We are indebted to Mr. W. B. KELLOCK, of 
Stamford Hill, for exploding this false notion. 
With his choice collection of Agaves and other 
succulent plants he cultivates most of the 
Beaucarneas, and observation: € experiment 
have induced him to rever: 
ment given to these plants. The result is a 
much more vigorous as well as much more 
rapid growth. The plants are deluged with 
water, often twice a day, during summer, and 
in the dull season when comparatively at rest 
they are never allowed to become dry. T 
beneficial effect of this treatment is abundantly 
shown in a fine example, which a year or two 
since came almost leafless into Mr. KELLOCK'S 
ands, but which is now freely clothed with 
vigorous healthy foliage. It is also apparent in 
the ета — made by young plants. 
The e principle of treatment applies to 
many odis —— plants, besides the Beau- 
usual treat- 
carnea, as well as undry y fro 
especially to those хаах what tae erroneousl 
lled bulbos, oots. Inthe case so 
these bulbs, , Hyacinths and Tulips, the 
roots perish annually. 
naturally ripen off, and are no xd the better 
for being t „биа меа at the same ite 
but. -Vall 
Eucharis, zm e = fleshy r roots which € not 
perish naturally, and w 
active Soviet is not going on, are ie plan, mp 
and fresh and ready for action when the time 
for active growth arrives, or the circumstances 
condition as long as poss 
the unnatural process of ‘desiccation. 
dition to the ri = OF THE 
, already 
advertised, it has been decided to ib bed another im- 
portant show on May 3, which es afford a 
opportunity for the appearance of pot Roses 
— Ag 
` variet s 
Pe &c. 
show for fcuits, бува решоа, &c. 
The meeting 
days for the committees are as already оло ИЙ 
January 19 May 3 | August 2 
February 16 | May 17 August 1 
arch т June 7 September 6 
March 15 June 21 ctober 4 
April 5 July 5 November 8 
April 19 July 19 December 6 
ave now the pleasure of introducing t o 
our bdo a woodcut Meri (бе. 106) of the 
gorgeous E a MANNI," 
notice was FË 237, 
icula сао its history, at p. , under« 
stand that a coloured figu 
duced the sketch we now publish. e add a 
further particulars respecting the plant “flomered “at 
nap Hill by Mr. E which had 
been sent to him by the rai PACKMA AN, 
who was, we are ves the first person to үкө Lilium 
very large ues pts nth seg- - 
ments I k: inches long, spreading a the base, recurved _ 
towards the apex, the petaline ones 4 inches b road, the — 
imson, most deeply towards thecentre, most 
of the tinted ки being tiu od with deep crimson 
spots and papille of es same colos, the a a 
quarter of an in ach lon he stamens wer 
what чк at the io op, t the anthers nearly vie inch | 
long, dee псе coloured ро 
green ale was about an inch longer than the stamens, 
and terminated by a pu epi This is е 3 
cam t one bes е рта € flowering plants which мй 
ver been introduced to our gardens, and appears 
м e quite as hardy =~ d as "db grown as its paren e^ 
auratum and specio a 
ood — of what appears to be a fine. 
he woolly-scaled Silver -Fir of North. 
— PICEA LASIOCARPA, is in the possession of 
residence e Duke of EDINBURGH, with 
other choice coniferous уз» It is some 1 e i 
height by as many i n diameter, is well f 
son, which 
the kr etd qe [eem 
five years unharmed 
summer pë 
anese Maples has 
, and was maturing 
— -— Је CARE & Co.’s ROYAL — 
MET T SHow will be ca at x. 
penes "Hall, pum. on осете 18 
— иен TRUNCATUM succeeds wel as _ 
window a little I care, We © 
ecently saw an example g зе ing in a pot on the sill 
of a large old-fashioned window of a Kentish farm- 
house, that had Pet there | ro nearly tw 
lant intermediate house, 
of growth. 
he same extent o 
cient to о bring the into pe di d 
mas, a ud de la Кай; емей is open to E 
east, catches the morning sun and admits plenty : 
light. Such a collection of window plants as 000 
seldom sees coul. found 
asionally cleansed, and a little more than 
tonto is richly Өй with fine healthy plants. 
RON en PEU 
n. hyb.—Stem slender, S e 
vate acuminate, 
he 1 br whi > Coffused towar 
apex, the pe! s er, white, " 
sa ish base with rosy crimson, and thickly studded with dé 
crimson spots and papilla ; stamens somewhat oem 
anthers үзг" an inch long and e pollen A | 
loured ; st e green, about an i onger than same _ 
a + pe ИНИМ eR Г. ашарша and b 
