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FHE 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[SEPTEMBER $; 1874, 
To test the digestive powers of Sane gar I have 
closely followed Mr. Darwin's treatment of Dionzea and 
ite 
the surfaces gelatinised. Fra ts of meat are rapidly 
reduced, and pieces of fibrine weighing several grains 
dissolve and totally disappear in two or three days. With 
cartilage the action is most r och of all ; lumps of 
this weighing 8 and r a e half gelatinised in 
twenty-four hours, and in Hrm hole 
ee in the o awe for 
week, and placing it re an unopened but fu formed 
orp was acted upon si oh pero 
slow 
That this protasi, which is comparable to cpana 
is' not wholly due to the fluid — secreted by the glands 
nd that very little 
1e substances placed i in the 
mmersion in the 
flu om p ys Fant of a living pla 
all portions fas 
—2 grains, all 
seh w H: a inet ‘ it wit Fahrer pai. $ aa of eentilage 
it is not rtain portion disappears, the rest remains 
d finally becomes peated, but 
as 
not oH ec man s. Insects appear to 
sion of. i phe piece of cartilage, I found that a Linea: 
si hich had followed the cartilage eu 
was drowned for h erity, in two. 
d. removing the kroach, the cartilage 
remained i r for many days. In this case, no 
the cartilage, whilst enoug 
us hard covering of the insect, which vto 
e iem disba 
In the case of cartilage placed in ae taken lager 
the pitcher it beco trid, but not so soon if 
kry in SETA wa ter. 
ve observations it would fhe oe ames 
that a ainarra acting as pepsine is given off fro 
inner wall of the pitcher, but chiefly after r placing metic} 
matter in the aci uid ; but w 
markable e changes în t ra ‘their protoplasm, ending in their 
gation of the 
plasm in the lis, but the walls of the cells 
ves become rriscriceh and the glandular sur- 
the at was of auniform green, 
ble brown specks (whic h 
ds), After the function of the 
dsi is exaust, the fluid evaporates, and the pitcher 
slowly wit 
At this stage I am obliged to ete oe interesting in- 
nthes possesses a 
n 
tive fluid ; we must assume its presence nies nature 
= behaviour of the animal matter placed in the 
m certain K aracters of the 
o 
of the glands. 
PLANT GOSSIP. 
‘THOSE who want a fine ve a her- 
lant for 
a acer 
rmanen in the 
er the 
ete k 
TAN 
ive ita pla 
on Choice Stove we Greenhouse Plants, 
because it may be iagiuiad in ae list of plants that 
have g t of cultiva It is a suprisingly fine 
and effective exhibition lant siotveithstandin ng. 
LYPTUS POLYANTHEMUS en to tee 
— E 
ha diei than = bur r species with w 
na bank near ae ase eum 
oe Fong It tig Fe 
No. + Rie. aR the ate s , when even forest 
aa were injured by frost and cold winds, the you 
d -soft shoots were not i e slightest degre 
ted. This tree once grew near the present site 
c 
and attained a e top 
— of the tree _ ti by frost, but strong shoots 
wards se fro w. :: The original 
T 
after 
n 
e r 
contrast sit and the k foli ehind i 
ood. Ifo it would certainly be worth the 
canta of planters ApEn y in the milder parts of 
the count e nA No th Australia, 
Queensland, Ne ath and Victoria, 
UCALYPTUS CORYNOCALY aad, E, CALOP PHYLLA are 
e the temperate-house. » robust 
globulus, and E. cordata are in bud, and will soon be 
é we ~ large trees ted out in the 
, plani 
Ero is bearing fruit, standing on one of 
Ne AAAS f it, parte has young flower- buds, 
— SOLAN pes VENUSTUM is an extremely ele- 
gait diipi ber, fl Palm- 
The ipa s hang 
light mauve-colou A aie ‘The leave 
green, , pinnately 3s: Senge except the first pro- 
duced on young bran which are usually simple. 
It is supposed to ler sed receiv! “He fro m Brazil, 
was figured in the Bot, Mag. of 1870. "Cuttings are 
easily struck. Itis ve ry free flowering, a and is worth 
a place in every Ninn 
—_— ates NNERA SCABRA 2a eee fie propor. 
tions in the herbaceous ground 
is about I ia feet and the height ‘ef fect. Some of M 
leaves arè 4 feet across, with petioles of the sa 
length. 
—— NYM MERER TUBEROSA is flowering in the po 
devoted to aquatiesat Kew, Without i inweatignon n 
might be mistaken for alba, which it much 
sembles in the leaves and fi “eet Nuttall appears 
o have santé this mistake. w d s distinguished 
Pega often compound, tubers. i Tt i is 
ys Manual of the Botany of the "Viele n 
United “States, 1867, 
NOTES na fake ALDER. 
THE Alder (Alnus inosa) is, eat to the Wil- 
lows, the most ee tree in England an es 
wherever broo eir winding course through 
arshy ground, where it forms 
“According to Loudon, it is the 
S 
or properly Micro ihe wood of 
their pg ee in a bogey nt 
midla west 
tion ma Orleton and other 
in 
ages. Numerous places 
Wal An show t the SFY ea ce 
a the Ah its is Cat name k sore eri 
Shrewsb ently called Pengwern, . 
Malvern so called from the Alder groves 
that encompassed them in early times; and a brook 
ld 
s indeed attached to innumerable 
e Alder is y mostly seen in its bushy form, fór et is 
oa dems that it is allowed to rise into a tall bran 
ing tree, for wherever it grows near occupied ground 
it is certain to bé hacked into = hes the paisa 
cal farmer, and as it is not much valued as a tim 
tree no one cares to interfere. Thus iO by ok 
sides it often posi soon. “pas the. angler 
see fig, 
of “yen and 
— pores fates by the me of brooks, is a 
atter of general observation— 
“ There by grey Willows almost hid from i sight, 
Or by dark Alders overshadow’d quite. 
t thou hy the Alder is mostly seen in dwarf 
bids nevertheless, when within parks or in neglected 
h b Bie: 
marshy spots, it becomes a fine spreadin 
height. Some that I nae aad cad by 
W 
he borders lanth oods D 
ery different to- the denuded — s Commonly 
seen. So by secluded ponds, or ther esses of omas 4 
mental waters, this tree, notwithstanding its somewhat 
ight well be permitted ta take an 
a bush fringing broo 
he Ander p ‘tel to a yer 
tea in cee » forming a dio 
un aii od, ther ert little: in ng composition to 
enter into the pictorial of landscape scenery, except as 
relie peia 7 r banks where te grows from entire 
nakedne: In “this respect ios speaks of i 
biegt: ‘the sluggish River 
” he pi i 
peter that 
owin 
this is praising th 
(e) 
5 
p 
co 
E 
= 
-2 
Pe 
-7E 
rey 
S. 
me 
s ua 
— 
aquatic denizen; th 
hs ecluded. scenes a rura 
sGxy—-here re forming sil 
WES 
m rattles joyously along 
where 
ha 
e, where 
und ng ye a a pring the 
paitani flowers of the Marsh Marigold ri ten the 
ished d nar it a 
ts, where all is peaceful and ively s an old 
stooping tpr onthe with th 
the Al ty res ing tha 
poetical feslings ‘But it must be coni 
are spots where crowded A 
falls ds ; the c 
mouldy breath is everywhere m 
of the water-plants is nem or ie to a poisonous — 
A 
yellow. heavy, saddening gloom broods over the — 
scene, and oppresses the heart.” But here againit 
scenery of which the Alder forms only a patt 
e considers as ‘fone of t 
choly of deciduous trees.” He says—‘‘The l 
negligent manner i which its dark dull gre een leaves 
are distributed o Sher “yer branches gives the tree a — 
dishev elled appearance, as if it” were careless "abont : 
itself ; and if the Weaping Willow is to be considered 
as representing out and simulated grief, 
Ide A should say, forms a good emblem of the 
grief o ” One of our poets echoes 
exceeds he lugubrious view taken by Loudon :— 
“Q'ar ao dark:pond, ypas sullen bosom shows . 
eet whe a ing breeze, 
The rigid Alder its stiff coats 
dine Sa ae sa as though it as 4 to please, 
em 
a 
A 
impart differen 
Although I ok eee Ay 
enced ; 
t impressions’ to successive 
If be imp 
“ grief of the heart ” sot the vinina 2 
hat, if a contrast 
with l 
oe 
remarked this, and sa: 
pes Alder, whose fat shadow moist 
Each plant set neere to him, 1 
