304 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. (SHPTEMEEE 5 
hat penalty, we may ask, is to be enforced against 
hya who would mar the usefulness of a sony like 
this by — and injudicious regulations like those 
we have quoted ? 
THE OLD WALLS AT KEW. 
(Continued from p. 271.) 
WHEN speaking of parthenogenesis, in connection 
with Coelebogyne and Zanthoxylon, I stated that I 
believed the male plant of the er had not even 
been discovered at vere of peg occurrence of ~ 
statement, and I have t my 
memory was at fault. The dri a nylons 
ningham, in 1824 and 1825, include 
both and female plants. But all three of the 
living plants, sent by him to Kew in 1829, proved to 
be only pistilliferous flowers, [We lately saw in the 
erbari f aillon plants of this s aM 
f 
other flowers that were structurally Seine. 
ye 
very curious plant of the Rhamn ily, 
Colletia discolor, is the next to engage on atten- 
tion. It belongs to a genus confined to the 
uthern hemisphere, and, like the species of the 
th e 
permet gees free petals. The same character dis- 
tinguishes the Primros eo save that the petals 
are united, forming aea called a gamopetalous 
corolla. 
arhe suspensa, an elegant deciduous shrub 
rs of w flow: wa 
Minor and North A ori was introduced in 
England up upwards of three centuries ago—that and tt the 
Orange and Myrtle being pated principal wood orna- 
ments of noblemen s conservatori 
when such 
is X Japanes ft wea, the Lon, nent dean 
refreshing in hot 
where s matures in the open air. It is 
duced 
eve 
of pom 
ium-sized fot and inferior, that i 
with the flowers borne above it, like it is in the 
latter ; but, igen of having a circle of eg a on 
one plane only, them in two cir fer sao 
on 
tinged wi thr : : 
Rhamnus oleifolius, a rather uninteresting North- 
es ica ecific name gives a 
t wisiens the Cherry. 
Plum and Peach, there is no ly one. Accept- 
ing this as a constant character, Carriére described it 
as a new genus, er the name opsis 
by Fortune about 1857. Against a wall it blooms 
most profusely, and its showy pink flowers are beauti- 
fully set off by = pretty paer green foliage which is 
just far enough advanced to peep through here and. 
usters. 
From ina to Australia, the home of Callis- 
te gid ong stride. Callistemon belongs 
o a tribe of Myrtaceæ, almost exclusively tra 
lian, and including ee exceedingly showy flower- 
g shru yrtaceous shrubs 
i s and tre 
and trees form a ver large percentage of the vege- 
tation of West Australia more reaper eee 
the gum trees are found all through the country. 
There are two tribes of this large family, ras hf 
about 600 species, almost testrit to Australia.. The 
group to ‘whi ch the genus in questi ion belongs is 
, brilli 
ently. 
coloured stamens, and nieas small Sates ete 
owers, moreov quite sessile or 
les even. enbi ded in nie branch ; 
genus, see assumes some s 
forms, one of which, where only two of the 
lobes are developed and indurated, strongly resembles 
a parrot’s beak. nfort roma these singular shrubs 
are few of them sufficiently hard hey o bear our statin 
even with the protection of a w ut the species 
under consideration nat flowered, as the persistent 
S 
he am A |- wever, to thi 
that it is C. salignus aes not C Tig us, as the latter, 
from its geograp’ ion ew South Wales, 
is probably not so sa eer as the former, which is foun 
in Victoria, South Anini and Tas genni &c. 
These two TeS are v uch alike in general 
appearance ; t taligi t has yellow, and rigidis 
scarlet roi "The ey name ato o Greek 
ord ing reference h mens 
of thes 
succeed in the south-west of En a: and Ir land 
owing’ specie I nie e tender, 
the sea ; in fact, itis in great demand in the South. 
This genus with three or four others forms a small 
Y, Raving the char 
with the Olive family, but the attachment of hie seed 
is at the base of the seed-vessel, wher in the 
uently more 5-1 > -The leaves ar 
pro pinna > = blade and stalk, or petiole, 
ointed as in in the e. J. revolutum my 0- 
Gent or of pee salitifolia . is a widely distri- 
d | ag aS mae D geet ge as 
a few words, ~ say at once that it is “= 
so hardy a pes other plants we have under 
a . It rarely pr 
rience, and its fruit can only be 
ng like stove treatment. Ay ose a ae aes 
fruit with a yellowis o be of 
agreeable sub-acid flavour. Tei is cal Some Po Soati 
the famous definition of a lobster as ‘a T 
its flowers, even against a ‘teen expe- | 
secured by some- 
a 
India, and preserved. The foliage is large and 
mental, but it is frequently injured by fr ot t in spaa 
cr 
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s have no distinct calyx an prere but the 
= S oh erous, a 
s 
series, and pas ually from one into es other, so 
that it is cipoetiie to distinguish them. The fruit is 
the , 
derived from ch i 
anthos, a flower, in allusion to the time of flowering, 
a abs —Jas of many Chinese and Japanese deciduous 
+ b = Ce 5 AE ES d for = 
e flowers of hed ppa -Allspice are 2 
ellow i red, and v 
It flowers freely, and requires no other proi roteto than 
y the wall. e vari iflorus i 
superior to the ordinary form ; 1766 is the date given 
of its in troduction, and it flowered z Sa first time in A 
this country in Lord Coventry’s gar 4 
(To be img 
THE ROMANCE OF N: NATURA 
HISTORY 
Tats title of a sec little Enoi upon 
appea Mosquitos, pet aw G 
be altogether eclipsed by a ‘‘small whi 
following account is om the round Of the papers 
t“ A DEADLY INSECT.—Amongst the insects injurio 
e is can peri is better known from 
now 
on dies almos 
The Snina” fitimi- — tsa 
vl 
paragraph whic appeared i in “the Graphic í 
22, which runs as follows ee 
“The dangers of the Paris kins des P 
children are being complained o anxious 
In one ae is a = Deadly Nightshade tree, 
aturally of 
agnificent ri co the | 
p ature. 
and is not surrounded by a recoding, so tha’ 
tempted to pluck and eat bs berri “5 without 
a of their fatal effec iat year 
fourteen children fell vem to this cause.” 
On reading this account one is forcibly 
mag ificent, are 
"But this is a mere tri e to what 
