THE 
DECEMBER 25, 1875.) 
GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
809 
ж ——— 
Foreign Correspondence, 
THE COLORADO BEETLE AND THE WINTER IN 
ago. 
unt, among other things, of - 
E s. Beetle, and dof the last winter’s weather, in 
clear a tied think очыра extracts from his letter 
may in i yoni reader ave corrected the 
Educ " "little an A added some еее n but no verbal 
alteration or addit as been e. The Jeter is 
dated ** Pete (огош, Ontari rio, "D, C., August 30 
1875. » §, S., Seveno 
“ Our Potato tops E oru eaten up by the Potato 
n Colorado, one of the 
poisoned, but it is just the opposite—they are 
m he Potato crop is reported very 
pas in spite of them 
e havea sn bis jw for weather ever since 
the y baled commenced. We have had a deal of stormy 
. weather; we had no extreme winter till the last two days 
of the old year, and then we had about two months of 
terrible weather. January ' was bad, but F eat 
it ропа ЖЭ stinging frost ; roaring, phising, and 
howling ; falling, drifting me gen ; roads 
and railroads blocked up in all ; fences buried 
out of sight ; such intense frost that А4 sno as fine 
ind sent ft Wing. It 
un 
as flour, and the least puff of wi 
was looser than so mu sand foot, and 
squeaked and grated under foot, sno 
lightning ; one man is ruck about 20 miles 
I never тый sich st rong lightning in the 
: | n that ; no grass for the cattle till after May 20, but 
rovidence sent an вне, стор оѓ hay and straw last 
mmer, o would have been it is 
_ hard to say.” 
Hotices of Hooks, 
pon Decorations for the Dwelling-house, 
: By Annie Hassard. 163. Macmillan. 
Pp. 1 
The opus of this handy little work also entitled 
it, A Practical Guide to the Home Arrangement of 
Planis ists “Flow ut the on plants 
a portion of the ma 
subject that has 
that 
: ped to educate 
improve public taste in these matters, 
season nat А induces wt to mention 
account of- опе: of her 
А March stand with а trumpet rising out of the Mop 
Morea locke in the centre, Round the edge o 
the bottom dish should be placed some fresh Fern fronds 
(hardy kind. i 
f 
mouth of the trumpet should 
be put some Selaginella, ne off with a few light- 
looking scar wers, Ferns, and grasses, 
m out- 
ards in a graceful wavy manner. 
stand should be arranged eight specimen glasses, four of 
the usual height, and four rather shorter : these should 
be Blie d with flowers similar to those used in the centre- 
pie 
i At the top and bottom, where, i ina larger table, two 
ойе should be fi еа the rough pots being 
at the top of the tables, and Apples at the bottom 
Pears, Nuts, Medlars, &c., or any other fruit that may 
seem desirable to add, can be then placed at the side.”’ 
Other unm pe orgia the preparation of flowers 
by wiring and g and the various methods of 
arranging the а ы thar in bouquets, in vases, in 
aths, " crosses, in eei. dresses, or in 
uq different kinds of vases, 
baskets, and other receptacles for holding them and 
petting th them off to advantage, according to 
the place whereon or the dije for whioh ey oe may 
be required. Thus breakfast, dinner, or drawing- 
room tables are treated of, together with ош) 
mantelpieces, and ha 115 ; and simple direc 
tions are given for placing the pots of plants through 
a dining or breakfast-table, for cleaning and polishing 
ases, P lighting a dining-room, and for 
erhaps the 
ovel part of the о ok, is that dev 
in bloom in each m 
the year is А” 
еасһ, qeu part sonde 
be had a that season йлн 
colours. ta the latter the te is divided in 
months, and an qnas aon of three different forms 
of vase is given for each mo 
Miss Hassard (vanta much praise for bringing 
orm a work w. will 
find invaluable, and enjeu decorators 
recommend it to our 
In 
of four months 
5 
еп- 
s gifts, 
ey will read it before giving it 
Historia Filicum ; ж Exposition of the Nature, 
h 
n the volume whose title is quoted above 
тебе pieridologist, М Mr. ee Smith, formerly curator 
of the Kew Gardens unds his final 
B 
з 
has served to while Lond the days of darkness to 
sn some years sub- 
aros through loss of ipsi qii. 
- ith is truly a veteran in this branch of 
iine mage eit was in 1823, as tells us in the 
prefac чү еч the collection at Kew— the kider ones 
then берир only a vm "v" 12 feet by 6 feet in a 
lean-to house—came under er his charg: is collection 
now occupies an area of 6570 feet, and fills hot- 
houses. The constant o ation of this ever- 
increasing series of living plants, and the study of a 
llecti some 2000 
'The fourth gi 
of writers on Ferns and the titles of their сипай the 
derivation of names, an alphabetical list of generic 
names not adopted, and an index to the adopted 
genera. 
r tł osition of 
the sori or of the ер пог ү absence or presence 
usium, takens тэ, fd mbined, can be de- 
ык. but that th € difle- 
© 
^^ 
5 
with la idi жег fronds, including 
the gone мее иши and Pla: d with one genu 
each, avallieee with three, Po wi ce 
twenty-eight, and Hymenolepides: with six genera 
гаре ectively ; Desmobrya, with fasci 
fronds, ps ' a pair of stipulif 
cluding 
This classification leads to ти хијар. 
tion of fills, since the Desmobryous and Eremo- 
bryous plants must necessari аракы: Kad die 
dean € бинед сре, in number to those iie 
oun 
these a nk 
tional chara into account га in addition to the 
characters Се from dev cgo г. Smith 
makes fu e of those d mede on om the venation 
м! пе аво. Hence while Hooker and Baker 
nopsis Filicum have seventy-six genera mainly 
buie on the fruc tification үн Moore in Zzdex Filicum 
has 1 n ificati nd у 
tion d the ок of —— ctr goat’ intelle 
the number of genera up to ag r of 
ood numbe 
Mir: ch e oso pi or concealed by ^t few 
ersed as it is with many critical remarks, th 
ued observati 
$ mit 
gre 
fruits of long-continu 
favourable position 
5 
disadvantage observations on recen 
e a ton and the Slight they might have thro 
n for gareng with: 
oi isi з wo a a d 
Ferns can afford to do without it. As regar 
fication now set forth, we must own that we are 
arene to adopt Mr. Smith’s special groups 
resenting pri rimary divisions, since their adi 
da st lead = a genns worse confounded " in the 
nomene clature, by necessitating e alterations, 
e therefore "much prefer ze they, no o dou, yir 
s value their to them rid 
em, by which t they may s serve ts: нта 
of b 
though showin wing 
ups adopted, fragm 
the plants, are, like all Mr, Fitch's ime ашау 
illustrative of the structure of the parts represented, 
—— The December number of the menter 
Magazine contains coloured figures of Calochortu 
citrinus, a very handsome hardy or pain balboas 
ore flow alba 
eae Orchi hid pi singvlar 
a d 
tral red stripe ; 
arklyi is another species 
remarkable genus allied to Stapelis;. but x which the 
owers are tubular or with a spreading limb. The 
pem structure is exceedingly eh The e species 
be favourites 
sure to be with succulent growers, The 
plant 4i was introduced to Kew by Sir H, Barkly from ` 
d: P is similar 
Little N. 
ndres; th 
claret coloured beneath; the flowers 
borne i in an erect spike clothed with conspicuous white 
bracts—yellow at the base. The whole plant is more 
or 
he Villa Gardener for the present € 
tains amid its lighter food a su 
the pom of pot Cherries, in which very great stress 
s AVES IO Mii porc ber mop re slc ыгы 
stocks, а as good scions, 
