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CHE: GARDENERS CHRONIGLE. 
587 
or boxes, it is much the best plan. Pots of soil 
ucers, 
uty or ‘the qm ря service, can be obtained 
them, on a thin layer 
When bulbs of this character are allowed t 
wn in their growth the result is anything but 
satisfactory. D plants are makin 
as 
G onarque, Luna, Grand P Я 
and States-General. One or two bul placed 
in a 48-sized pot, for the Polyanthus Narcissus is an 
accommodat t, and does not req great 
amount of soi in. It ws up a stout 
flower-stem, and russ of ch g white and 
o range colour wers, that ar 
ss of summer flowers. Crocuses should be put 
into pots at t e rate of four x bulbs to each, 
according to their size, and the same ы blue Scillas, 
which are very prett early to flow 
ulbs grown in pots in this way within-doors 
hould never be over-po uch better 
when restricted somewhat at the roots, provid ded they 
m rn well supplied m; water at the time they oe 
g vigorous growt en saucers wi 
o stand the pots i 
EA in them are die 
will bea moisture Ке in the 
. saucer, which will greatly assist the Fg nts in the dry 
sb e water in the 
ofthe bottom of the pot which stands in 
Rotices of -— 
Notes on каш. Ву С. F. Amery, se о н 
Conservator, сите fadi. London 
Trübner & Ba 119. 
The Indian eet mo have of late years become as 
her Government reports or blue- 
contain a mixture of matter 
xt sometimes only of чен 
oung men are being trained for the positions of 
erything bearing on the operations 
ust 
5 
Seeds cannot "be насип poni nd n peri 
‘shrivel them, while, а ^ other 
hap 
dryness will of 
capsules have burst and the seed separated from them. 
vg seed (Shorea 55 germinates on the tree, and, 
it is r equired to sow it in ground not yet prepared, 
d to keep it until the soil be uper pog it 
immediate 
germinate, but if a pit ne dug ма. the Ба filled to 
a foot with sand and t 
kii it УШ be found on бред it t the see iy 
of three or four that germination has 
commenced. If it now be taken out and 
ing up almost ge pasts 
it be kept well watered.” In the chapter on planting 
some practical illustrations are ‘aves, thus, for the 
aeg of seedlings from the nursery, an implement 
and described, which somewhat resembles 
pocket companion on the subject of forestry. 
—— In British Marine Alga, by W. H. Grattann 
h an айели popular 
ing of the British sea- 
weeds, accompanied mall fi in white on 
E a black ground, and which generally are fairly charac- 
c of species, some representing the entire 
ма: - a re bia scale, and ot por- 
tions. It is quite the gossipy sort of book to excite 
interest in marine botan 
PUBLICATIONS ,RECEI VED.—The Movements and 
n, of 
anb rt of the Tribal do Society of 
Victoria for the Year ending June 30, 1875.— Tent 
Report of the Que kett t Мю et Club, апа List 
of Members, —Man's Best Food. By William Car- 
penter, 
i 
b 
Obituary. 
Іт is with extreme regret I make known to you the 
sad intelligence of the death of Herr сенін BRUCH- 
MÜLLER, under very m circums As 
he was frequently a contributor to your RE, you 
will, I know, share my re 
The only information I havé at present is from 
Bogota, from Mr. Corder, one of my plant collectors. 
‘In a letter just to hand occurs this paragraph :— 
“ As tn will aem get the news from no other 
source, it is my painful duty to inform you of the 
murder of oor Беті ег іп Ос e was killed 
the beginning part of Augus! Fun criminal, 
who had ro soldier in е Г army ; very few 
other par are known in Bogota, but Mr. 
Bunch, vex English Minister; who is acting for Ger- 
many, to Hamburgh and Paris 
subject.” 
My last letter m Herr A. Bruchmiiller was dated 
June 21, and in that he intimated that he hoped 
shortly to enl in collecting and sending me the 
re Masdevallia elephanticeps and M. polyantha, 
D MA cal been going 
sible to send sh 
which appears to ha 
rapine an i ally. 
lectors may be said to sometimes ©“ th 
their hands." William Bull. 
‚ We can but join s with Mr. Bull i in regretting the un- 
ives in 
prising and perhaps most succes l collectors that ever 
Lee red South America. Not s travels and 
sketches from his pencil have phat у appeared i in 
spring h wo 
Baranquilla to d ew int 
"a s—the оба of so many of the beautiful 
Odontoglossums an Masde both in t 
United | Stat f Соне. Pise sending 
to sup- 
PIN descriptions 
es 
the sketen Mr. 
plement them at an early pu 
Mr. Bull has 
.| last letter which X received from 
' successful professional practice 
of the scenes pourtrayed dnd some notes E the dis- 
tricts which he had visited, and which we may b 
[7] 
w in the Oca 
85) we can say nothing, but ofthat on the Rio 
na (p. 559) we n the belief of Mr. 
h n up that river, that it was 
taken on the side of the stream opposite to — a 
smal Baranquilla, 
where the river steamers stop to take in жад, the 
only fuel used, The steamer shown in the illustration 
ga ave to be wor a pressure of 300 
the square inch—a procedure w which еа А 
to explosions and other 
B ü ieve, a native of 
eburg, in Prussia, but of his antecedents we know 
nothing d to hisenteringthe service of Messrs, Hugh 
w & Co., of n, and his subsequent departure 
to | Ocalla, where he made his home some few years 
p collector he was eminently suc- 
cessful, sending home to the ssrs. Low, and subse- 
r. Bull, several fine new Orchids, and 
been kind enough to show us the 
Bruchmiiller (dated 
June 21) and we have extracted the сарди 
passages, which hive a melancholy interest :— 
d ima dep now a month since the great exti diis ав and 
assed in which i or three shocks have 
P 
чө has Y (elt. The people are rather seriously troubled., 
No у what can be the ca vdd 
“The Govern t various scientific men out 
to take notice of np destruction procured by the earth 
аш, and to find o 
es Nurse news of 
become mad 
Writing at the last hour, before the Черин of 
the mail, he says :— 
* It is reported now from Cucuta that some E 
laces have been submerged, and there are no signs 
'The earth has su 
It wee that all eim. the 
e, 
eshwater lake has been destro far 
rom that plac e have 5 
is rather strange, because thos e ali 
X d to wri ucuta is entirely destroyed, and 
not a single h ins T: 
fever has broken out, through the dead bodies of the 
an beings à , and no one can get 
to the place than five or six miles. P 
h n in Ж” c district, 
Five 
played on the piano to ЕЕ her « 
ence, She was soon extricated : as is was ome dea d 
n to her, but it was too strong, and 
some wine was give 
she died soon afte 
It is with sincere regret we have to bere 
the death x WILLIAM ded Esq., M.D., which 
y nce, Plantation, "Monks 
nam 
as it has been for more than hal 
most successful cultivation of his three sp 
nations, Tuli 
ior. 
is marvellous Tuli 
and Tu re his pets, 
leisure hours which E r2: — "a a large and 
he found his most 
agreeable relaxation in the box anions pir culture 
wel as, we iy cond 
like a man 
century te to bridge, before arriving at that age, than 
who had touched the goal. йй Farmers т. 
