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: easier to be 
194 THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Aucusr 15, 1874, 
have both the farina and the pistil; but it is not so 
easily reconciled to a species of plants which 
bears flowers without fruits, and therefore dis- 
ineuished into male and female; of which 
kind are the Palm tree, Poplar, Hemp, Hops, &c. 
For how should the farina, here, come to 
infructify the seed? Mr. Geoffrey is pleased to 
answer that the wind, doing the office of a 
— aoe the farina of the plants esse 
have o those which have none. 
ald doi Mr. Geoffrey does a greal deal of 
honour to the wind, to invest it with so much 
knowledge, prudence, and discretion. For to 
effect’ this it must know when that transmigra- 
tion is most proper to be made, as when the 
farina is disposed for use. It must know like- 
wise the difference of the sexes of the plants, 
and the different ee of wt sexes, lest he 
should make some m rry the farina 
of one species to one pistil of wh species, 
and by such mistake occasion the production 
mus 
en 
asu and divorce 
all separation are as frequent peni them as 
among us. Therefore, the wind must know all 
th before it can be. supposed 
qualified for a faithful Mercury, unless they be 
all as terous as the one mentioned by 
Jovianus Pontanus, who, sensible of a poor 
female Palm tree which had lived ina state of 
very much 
1S sania EREA from Otranto. 
more surprising to me is that Mr. Geoffrey 
seems to believe that monstrous romance and 
to make use of it to support his system. 
mysterious farina, the fine filaments, tomentum, 
or down, always found on the fruits of the 
isation, 
sentiments, w 
sidered a e of the: greatest ex 
and folly, ends Sisena at least et or the 
ites Maisons; I cannot but admire: the 
ridiculous vanity of mankind in ap not 
: ara of all things Why should we search 
oe ee T gen 
eration in vegeta 
here: they are to be found: 
pam rtd tee barbari nto, 
ellow creatures through so many in 
- difficult passés to Attaith to ‘am: ehdcwhich; With 
the least reflection, 
should we make a distinction of sexes in the 
| pes where there is none? | 
that wat moment the | ċonstitút 
ope forth | as table Grapes seat 
e to reason; Gin to 
Baver recourse to sz tniieapossibilities for the seper 
sericea Is it not more evident 
; demonstrated that the 
problematick terms which we do not so muchas 
understand ourselves, has 
fecundating the seed? The difference of senti- 
ments of botanists on that subject, m even of 
the most learned amongst them, is- sufficient 
. we convince us that they speak of i ‘hing which 
etables any- | 
lead. our 
is so easily obtained? Why h hapat 
Ta what end? ; 
seed has. in 
that faculty of 
they know nothing of themselves ; and that they 
would, if they could, render problematick what’s 
apparent enough of itself, for in fact the seed, 
without the concurrence of any other causes, 
has its fecundity in itself, which wants no other 
assistance, for to unfold its first principles, than 
of a fermentation in the earth or in some other 
place fit to excite its activity.” 
And so Dennis de Coetlogon, Knt., triumph- 
ae strangles Mr. Geoffrey his theory, an 
sends its author to a madhouse. But the 
attacks of critics are not always fatal. Time 
works wonders ; Linnzus’ reputation has sur- 
vived this and worse, and it has seemed to 
that the above extract might be read and 
reflected upon with profit. 
New Garden Plants. 
LYCASTE XYTRIOPHORA, Lind,, Rchb. f.* 
Nearly as strong a plant as Lycaste macrophylla, 
and exceedingly near L. Endr. and ‘Rchb., 
but distinct á in the backs she callus K the lip, and the 
organs of vegetation. e L, Dowiana it has a very 
fleshy shining f gee like some e Pascatorea or Vanda. 
he smaller, like those of L. macro- 
ois 
z 
= 
are 
base, ah thane are some purplish "ines over the nerve 
of the lip. 
see in the 
It flowered a I believe, in 
inden s establishment, then at 
very o 
LycaAsTE DOWIANA, Endr., Rchb. f t 
a isay e Dowiana was discovered in Costa. Rica bby 
the late lamented WE The flow 
ever, were no se well preserved, so that i condemned 
them, as I hundreds of other s 
till I poses cota better materials. 
obtained from Mr. Endres, and beginning to flower in 
the Hamburgh Botanic Ga It is im wiively 
distinguished from L., macrophylla, Lindl. :! (L; p 
pee !), by its very short bract, the latter “ead 
a long te bract much © ‘the o 
also quite pania The sepals are olive-green 
side, brown inside ; the petala and lip. are yellowish 
The plant is dedicat aptain iw who was 
for = years a OIERA to all travellers -= 
s 
use of the steamers under his command, an 
mo mowy a pa serial hing it seems, highly ns 
by Mr. Endres, the most persevering and the ekia 
pe Ail of the Costa Rica Orchids. Æ. G. Rchb. f. 
VINE... TRAINING IN ITALY. 
_ THE Vine i is eres one of the most accommo- 
of pl Within climatal limits, now 
TAE 
Sopi 
HA 
a ; 
ne dike j in the onli vetion of the. Vine re the 
manufacture of its produce... The Vines from which 
the best aia ge ie made wv’ furthest to the 
north, if we except the C as de Fontainebl 
hardly é an exception as 
The Chasselas is gown near 
, espalier- 
| wite... 
* Pedunculi POCEO R e taacuminata, noi 
` ovarium pedicelltum multum is dash „mento parvulo re- 
trorso'; emer — ; tepalis mm dong 
ism tr eri sarin lacinia antica producta longiori 
cular t title, ak Eae teaieglaid Dy chee i 
yeastidis macrophyllz, Lindt: 
sed omnibus partibus minor. Bs cea extus ee brun- 
albidoflavidum ‘punctis 
= tepala alboflavida ; 
supra 
rsus; striae quedam atrobrannese in ne aS 
med. 
column subcalvse : anthers apice velutina 
It is an ex Donais Ge free flowerer, as we — 
urgh Bo , where we have © 
in Saund 
acuminate ovary. 
narrow lip, with a little fold on each side, ‘is 
um: et br ee pp heer „basi? utrinque T 
As the traveller through France passes ward 
either on the Strasbourg or the nE lines, he 
on comes into the Vine districts, at first meeti 
h 
0. 
Bur: ns that the cultivation a the Vise te 
the flat is to a seen to any exten 
nh 
frosts cause enormous losses. sing the present 
— (May) large tracts of Vines e beaded near 
ijon asad Nuits ee ned by the T though here 
ik there attem m: rotect the 
ines by straw hats and light planks of wood. It is 
evident tha measures can only on 
a small scale. Later on the hailstorms often do 
great damage, as in Horace’s time, when as we read 
‘ grando contuderit Pinay ve Biri in this part 
of France are in 
in 
the most part limestone or re dish marl r 
c 
halk, and evidently hot and well drained. The Vineis 
only allo to ery short stem, being cu 
do ery year after the ingathering of the crop 
. anal 
places, are 
oidis Toa, pole to ate bid the rods trained al 
them. This method permits the use of a 
mats o r canvas screen : 
TALES et L a4 atied 
sahih of training the Vine of t we read so much. 
A French vineyard—and the same may be said of those 
Fic. 4t.—VINE STUMP. 
n the Rhine, the — and the Msat; and n i 
of Voslau and Baden Austria—is decidedly not aa ses 
ts sere 
dei eTa the 
i ein e milvet a y carriage eon 
roa n Turin : 
he stock 
an unbranched sem, Mi ia S “et i os 
ir and preserve the — 
the boundaries — 
asin which Maize, Lupins, and other crops are 
