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THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
[NoVEMBER 13, 1875, 
the Guernsey Lily, it appears from Dr. Douglas’ 
account that it is, or was, generally believed in 
Jersey to be of East Indian origin, and was 
hence known as the Indian flower, but for this 
supposition there is no foundation in fact. 2. М, 
New Garden Plants. 
plea о comp 
"iid ч техн тоге оѓ 
looks the more the 
Ae petals 
onger, and a mar- 
The ao is much more in the wap o 
each p: an inflexed tend lobe in 
lieu of 4 nearly | — 
staminod quie that of 
tum, when the two D ie pii would be those 
ovided the 
wasted with the colour of port itio 
water, All the nerves remi fated am 
ume central gree 
bars, чае wih bai baits. I ee to thank Messrs. Veitch 
the Characters quite = ag m yellow 
э u 
| the so 
for the great р mparing those plants with 
Lance tee А Fhe plar licit i is obe of the. реве, escellent 
n likes to raise, following Mr. 
Dominy, ny followed the good Dr. Harris, Thus one 
man's idea has pergit to ONERE: ютеу. beauties. 
dH. G. Жел E . 
AN ASH TREE ON STILTS: 
ME a vh while botanising . last 
оо! 
а ас е ча fte 
Wailly and. F Frénontis I4 Or 
Ami upon 
was, at ps sight, anythi ing | but obvious, 
Seen wm distance, th . А tree, 
supported below by a pedestal of rough grey bark, 
suddenly shot up, at about half its height, into a 
green stem, . Was it a stout 
straight, slender, 
saplng growing side by side with some old 
close as to touch it ? 
stump so 
sa UR the i k the tree же found himself in 
о associa’ 
plants, and that 
as а ipn not кылу bf fn jux іа but of super- 
район also. Raising himself а little, he discovered 
that the lom wer trunke "rbi рив 1 was that ot a bu 
We ox = viene 
Me aces te 
by the decomposition of its fibre, 
ace with Ui gent! aliter law which ordains that 
of life, 2 
resistance which this cortical са 
removed it, and found that the 
Willow's trun 
— from top to bottom, where, findi а: he grand 
of vegetable forces, the — t had aban- 
doned a succedaneum now beco e insuficient to 
satisfy its robust nurseling’s адр Е А 
Often had our observer noticed (as Bas азба 
* x Cypripedium tesselatum, Rchb. . hyb.— 
tesselatifolia.) Foliis pee T MB Apice "ingequa- 
-ovarium dim 
obtuse e 
. acutis (si mavis tridentatis) С — „barbati i cec | 
о altiori, pubernlo ; bractea dom 
south- west of 
table canere (Gg. 128) 
i 
whose eyes are open to natural phenomena) attempts at 
tation adorning and sometimes encumbering the 
tops of old Willows, but este anything which ha 
attained a like developm 
tree, measuring fr collar of the h 
uppermost twigs at least 18 feet, and which moreover 
as standing aloft supported, as by props, by aérial 
by the su 
| pression of the 
„ | had grown, some igh, corresponding to the 
x CYPRIPEDIUM TESSELATUM, — fi, nov. Er height of the Willow t runk which had been their 
77 Those who like Cypripedium ni color ааз e. and indicating an age of not less than 
must be delighted by € мые interesting novelty, twenty years, 
It is a sal thing, nearly a e two | да endently of its нче as а picturesque object 
species, yet a little ate’. pur cad без Аа ауе | апаа Serien i is there not in this Mc t, for those who 
the form of. меш ч C. concolor, and the marking o of | study vegetable бык; а ч allowance for 
those of arbatum. IN b on dhitk is rond | the ЧЫК, exercised by the Wi — cortical envelope, 
than that f т "osicolac: b not muc 'The flower | a special interest in marking the vertically descending 
is at leat a half larger dan that of the P teer. | course so obstinately pursue E "s roots an 
not natural, at least not habitual to such a degree? 
And ought the only explanation of th t to be 
referred to t henomen nce combined 
P 
with the external constraint, that is, the pu y 
n short, the Ash, 
nical action of the bark? Did, i 
roots straight 
Fic. 128.—AsH TREE, SELF-SOWN ON A POLLARD WILLOW. 
(dts original support? М. Liénard modestly leaves the 
than to the Ane HUBS of more com persons 
an 
well may pate, on үзөлү: himself at the 
eni X one of the g of li 
e 
In animal о! 
clear, their place in creation is distin 
they have sensation and consciousness to d 
em we behold a comp 
t life, locomotion (in t 
ority of individuals), fr i will, rae highest 
quii. 2 all, the inward persuasion of their own 
атна The last attribute is still more fully deve- 
oped into pleasure, resulting from the ме Parisii 
ce of natural and healthy functions карб d pleasure 
(whic ich, get о ex ecomes Benepe ain 
by whatever is unwholesome, унь ‘dangerous, or 
destructive to the creature. We see the various 
relations of animals to each other, 1 ч йб for advan- 
jects and consequences other's actions ; they 
have their likes and dislikes, their чуба and their 
feuds. 
In plants we have also a complex machinery, but 
# 
t 
} 
| ample supply of nourishment, and also maintain itself 
perso: ch showing one dozen of ea 
е largest Apple (Chebucto Ben) we weighed 
184 oz. ; the second largest (Cayuga Red Streak), 
are mum less easy 
its perfommanes, objects, om А, 
might asked, *'Is a plant 
We 
to [өш iei hdi It 
a live thing, or a dead t 
avoid palate it alive, bie 
crystals, which hav 
tendencies, «гоно 
тау resu ult s чар ое 
fixed. Exc tin the case of the microscopic loc 
motive diens, no voluntary change of place is possible 
for the indiv idual, althoug ater the race, Jt takes 
à runner 
certat pers and 
ut can we say they have a will? Can they ever feel, 
if ever so faintly, and know that they feel? Do they 
taste their food, aware that they taste it? Is liquid 
manure their anchovy sauce? :Do hun 
un 
really enjoy a hearty meal “of fine fat flies? Haye 
ey n eamy sense of well-being in sunshine, of 
lassitude ought f suffering in frost he 
s the force of gravity w 
s the Pales t of the seed АА 
ds ; Е the force of gravity cannot at the same 
time pes they ung stem to shoot in y upw. 
Th s wd ever recur to the mind, 
ex 
it is so connected, no doubt ; 
rary accide 
but, perhaps, not always. Our heart is boss but is | 
not conscious, that we are aware. It has а Ше inde. — 
pendent of our will and of our knowledge. It beats, 
trol or or tetera 
nly occas hen i 
e no single gc 
lect, or p tipa athies and feu 
plant s [Cases of this kind have bo ro 
сь эша inconvenie toget ether 
ntly | 
ey ma a grand relentless M ugzle for life, ~ 
nd 
the stronger i inexorably overpo — stifling, a 
starving the weaker, But who 
that ts are 
say nev iy d 
conscious? Many lea 
sensati ons Cumas n 
ey no iw v k 
gione: of agreeable scli-peroeption, like that 
felt a health; ке: 
Ay, there's the rub ! = uld give one’s m 
finger to discover the secret of their lives, whether 
not they love sunshine and detest chilly inte 
whether they turn sick when their leaves are drooping 
with thirst, and rejoice when warm showers restore 
their strength. hall we ever be able = state the 
ffirmative, А without perso experience о "n 
passes in the organisms p ve vanis. existence 
BEND oe Е 
А FRUIT SHOW IN NOVA 
SCOTIA, 
ane M" а of the Nova Scotia Fruit 
Growers’ Asso n was held here October 19. 
peii were vli cecal articles shown, and perhaps 
Some readers 
Five collections were 
varieties, two dozen of each sort grown by the exhibi- 
tor, Besides these collections 462 dozens of some 
fifty kinds were exhibited by more = a hundred 
17 oe The best dozen shown apie: Alexander), |. 
oes its appointee у bets ушка amang an cons, 
the fi e 
er, er d ces, 
aves En flowers he t o 
д { 
