ake matore pes 
y n ki ales 
sixteen h of t 
_ Another gentiodina i in ihe ies poas of (hes 
the rmed, 
206 THE 
GARDENERS 
CARGONIGLESL. 
[AuGusr 1 5, 1874, 
mei a rikan bee rene it more liable to a wad | 
mable nature of p 
peri iy tè oo iat the landing-stag mt Li - 
pool recently burnt do d Sir JOSEPH GABRIEL’S 
; roye om 
fire. The tungstate o experi 
have been made publicly pd rori oie the 
last | three years, is Taps to render soft a ig such as 
it 
hat has been oe irea rot 
the original condition of grbin The rats on 
restored Oak 
Bo Pa fea shown a of taken 
from the Lord Clyde, an that was built some 
‘years ago of unseasoned timber, and which ha d become 
eS | Ha: been treated with Dr. 
ern y very severe te pris 
mids a nicks were made, one of. prepared a 
of unprepared wood. These were then 
anand wih p parafin, = igni ited, In haragia prays of 
n soon burnt itself out 
which 
ex 
one of which prepared, wh 
of ordinary Scotch Fir, had not. A stro 
by the Slee. and w 
had been tr 
the flames sng at their height, and was taken out 
some har ed aa, ca indeed as O a outside, 
cally un 
ertr i and ae e asi ujua Dii 
P the most imp 
but 
he 
over it; and dried, The keg, w 
ed upside d 
of petroleu 
on the top for about a 
r of an hour, without t yiedad ng the slightest 
po on the keg 
test admirably, and è solution ee the fi 
pri that the henik did not even Den a ‘eto 
rring. The paies ani i ‘hans out and 
The} of his invention, D NES 
a hall and E nd fre 
also great saving to e nation in preventi 
necessity of continually ravira and peti rrei d 
on Saturday, mijeh stated that the cost of the ren 
a telegraph poles was £240,000 per annum, aT this, 
_ it was said, would W saved by the use of Dr, Jones’ 
process. 
w COWAN’s SYSTEM OF LIMEKILN 
YNNE, Grea 
At present it is heating twelve houses, | 
; EN, at Nokk the other day in ‘the plant-growing 
establishment of Messrs. J t Western. 
kiln, 
anja: ana y to heat 
Pees tek fe pits. 
has a tons e are has 
further adapted it to the’ siannfacture of sufficient 
e supply of his establishme: Git We learn that 
of the comp na has been formed 
now before 
ef Rita ki 
scliedute as fist Been iss 
an Exunté BITION OF FRUIT AND Grape to ja 
held at the CRYSTAL PALACE on 
10. There are 
SS, 
pots, &c, 
Mua, Gladioli. 
of the new 
ich has been made to feollitste® ie labours of 
x 
tt will proceed to make their awards 
.M., before which hour all arrange- 
a speci must be c menr The super- 
paraa of this department is Mr. F. W. WILSON, 
whom schedules may bè e asied. 
ew York Tribune — that the 
y Add Board of Agri- 
A 
a sae pa who 
a 
Secretary of 
culture, in his i 
pa EE ab York that was as broaght t fro 
rs ago in a tub, ne was still ‘Heating ar in 
pret rs another, near Wicasset Bay, that was M old 
tree in 1805, bu t bs atk fei aye aAa. i 
PLE 
d over 
the 
town of Bristol, e over 200 years old, still 
bearing fruit, and athe ve ees that ie occasionally 
from 25 to 65 bushe of fruit ea owever, 
charges the pilferi Had boys, hein kas ga choicest 
faite with being the chief obstacle in the way of pro- 
fitable and improved Apple gro 
— On the ne inst. he scene of the RoyAL 
BERKSHIRE SEE fg T, READIN 
accompan nied by. thei ca eee relations, went for 
their anp Are an A a cost of the journey being 
fra by Messrs. SUTTON, who also Baise 
ach it sum for recreation and refresh- 
ment. Hastings was the place chosen this year ; 
at 7 A.M. a special fast train o ae South-Eastern 
ailway, with more than the eri an “eh 
i cco en a 
of t 
mber aha thelr ir 
destination i in good time, and enjoyed a aleasat day. 
e 35th anniversary meeting of the ROYAL 
So OCIETY was held o 
Society's House, Inner Ci role, Regent’ À 
WALTER Sai Te. nthe chair. The Secre- 
The ral 
Iso. beet added to the 1 is 
wigs siege owe 
missions to study ha een 1s d to 
ae six eae and 318 prann and students, and 
1,500 cuf s ens shad been asied to an 
veral improveme iad been S, 
and many new and interestin othe 
ose of a more or publie i insane 
being placed in the qomecen oh ing to domestic 
economy, such as new medicinal pos trees afford- 
ing india-rubber and. other eat ew. varieties of 
Tea, edible Nuts, &c. The fepott wa adopted. 
i 
—— Mr. Dunn has under cultivation, in the 
gardens of the Duke of Fars Be at Dalkeith, a 
pe age sf fine strain of WHIT 
of which he obtained 
S.A.), where this particular variety is, we unde 
stand, largel arket. The plant is a 
strong grower, produces fine spikes of pure 
| white double anwar Naat of the size and substance 
i T ater this. re eed Se ae weal te welt tg 
— Gost gienh plint, held in high fvone 
by Mr. Bux N, at Dalkeith, is the pretty pink-flowered 
Laurastnislike oct TERA GRATISSIMA, It isa pl ant 
of delici ciously sweet-scented flowers both simmer and 
winter if desired and suitably treated. 
—— We learn from Natre that at a recent meet- 
a of the trustees ry the ‘‘ Gilchrist Educat 
Trust,” they decided to a pr csp ag manm nat exceed- 
1000 to the promotion o research, 
the rospect of repeat vt Th this s grant annually if 
it ER bear adequate The plan proposeđ 
> ask the Council of I-Bociety to. 
: nendatio i teen 
a the necessity of giving 
Sik for the Sake of D kaa 
believe that this ag bie movement 
esentations of D 
. CARPENTE th F in 
e Se 
the trustees, they would be in this moda 
worthily applying about a fourth par their income - 
in meeting a great national want, and in pr omoting | 
the second of the objects as to which they have an } 
rine z fle were Appr asfuly "The new range of 
reenhouses for the pashslentadl of plants relating to 
the sae, manufactures, omestic economy, com- 
mence age ye R had been completed at a consider- 
able cost, and thus extended facilities iad be 
afforded A thie ici students, and others seeking 
tional `| 
ae 
—“the benefit, adva the founder 
learning in very part of 
of the Royal Society ma 
ee to consider 
EET, discretion be the will of 
ment 
ED 
the responsi i 
ilchrist ieai as to the 
Rop rabria bon of their grants. : 
—— According to a pap now before us the : 
number of pupils attending Prof. BALFour’s 
cal class in the University of Edinburgh was 354. i 
Of these 308 were me ents, 9 science sty. 
dents, pharmaceutical students, d 33 ral 
students. S nts of fir ar, 225; advanced 
tudents, 129. Pupils of the class of pi his- 
tology, Numbers of lect nd examinations, 
vo practical eai 30; Mistologieal demor : 
pe 
h 
Linlithgow 
s and Ladybank ; 9. East 
hame ; ridge of Allan and Stirling; tr, 
Murthly : 12. Inverarnan, Be 
Lomond. um of spécies o 
Number 
during the excursions : 
Ferns and their i. 41; 
total, 740. Number Me cities ‘travelled by 
steamboat, and batts 961 num BE sin 
dents who An the excursions was 228; andthe | 
c 
see i o be offered 
session A 5) is one fot ‘the best Ses 
on any subject in eae physi 
is expected to make Bt rE and ex 
mente S These may ears ted i B 
dens. To be given in on Taly int 
departm ment of science pity greatly in ‘sald 
couragement i in a this cou cou 
— The /rish ier Fuk gives the follo! 
description of a very curious instance 
astrs Misting growing on Mistleto :— 
on an old Apple-tree in -the 
laden with its translucent pearly berries, many bird-si 
seeds of itse 
arasite. Several of the 
app: sgn firmly attached themselves s by 
sucker ooting end to the branchie ts of the 
plant tt in no case then noticed had the plumy 
ascenc ding portion t taken a vertical direction or dey, 
further 
e know, hi , OF 
eeu arene; fact of the double parasitism.” 
—— At Marlborough Street Police Ci 
Tuesday last, THOMAS JOHNSTON was cha 
Mr. NewT ty 
as 
E eamias: owe . some tim 
oyed in Such a 
to pay 44, or be imprisoned 
