SEPTEMBER 12, 1874.] 
THE -GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
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old well, and that in some distant time past the brink 
and the roots and trunk of the 
f great size 
and it is fence 
tain it as a feature of interest. 
—— That part of the City known as BRIDGEW ae 
in its general mae ance, ie 
t w er 
IP i0 op J 
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wer y 48, 
IP gO op pe | 
> pp YY yf Hy ¥ i, p 
E ‘MRAM Wy 
w. The a oie is a complete leafy ee 
ed with a number of pr a ee = jee 
sunshin ‘Kee 
of Mr. ETT’s steam-printing press 
ve at work pror Semik the Coivolvalts blos. 
—— CYPHOMANDRA BETACEA is flourishing ee 
the beds 
of the ear ave he at Kew. It form 
handsome tree s produces a icin 
edible orna eect frait. "which hang for more than 
twelve months. They are the size adi shape of a 
hen’s egg, and ofa reddish yellow colour. For thes 
the tree is cultivated in South America, where they a 
S way as the To ; ae ies wo 
strike, and see ow 
very readily. 
— as a pot Athy but should vidal be platted 
ptable 
with pleasure, therefore, tha insert in this 
< a roan ms AN ESTATE recently laid out 
an accompli and energetic Belgian land 
e-gardener, M. PYNAERT, of G 
in question is 
* 
WA USD 
| 
casca re 
| up W pd 
| Let ged of me beauty.. The following aera en a 
lan u 
the 
wa c Siete: 3 ~ n 
F, kitchen garden ; G, entrance-gate, at the end 
venue of metres in length ; H, rustic cottage ; I, 
lan bridge ; K, 
o 
orchard, picturesquely plan ted J, iron 
L, kiosque, pring by a mill to = 
"Mand A ustic bridges ; O, 
| farm ran 3 Q, woo 
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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. 
THIS eae ke which is for amin e eer model o 
o 
e 
phological c on ‘the same plan, a an 
| find mal 
= acta ty artfor , un he presidency f Dr. 
e Conte, of Philadelphi k ones 13, Mr. | 
Mechan read the following paper 
Natura non facit saltum has been ape sare as a 
and canon by most nitet orendi and the evident 
sence of anene links he een thodi fatal to 
eories of evoluti aJe studies in plant life lead me 
o the belief that one form will spring from another 
without any gradual or hose 
hem. 
evolution morphology must take an 
ph 
In the rite een of a leaf-blade to 
the change is sometimes 
In my theory o 
essential part. 
the various organs of a plant 
ginei as in the gomg from leaves to bracts in some 
, or from sepals to pet als, ge etals to stamens, Or 
shan but the where 
different c er is ya 
ved that change with edos ification, and change 
y the sudden ap f i “distinct fort, are bo th 
g morphological laws in plant arni ther 
why both laws may no in any scheme in which 
morphology is called to How suddenly the ee of 
plants often change is rine illustrated in most coniferous 
oped often ani length. ter some time 
these leaves are 1 ted, and the ari bud 
suddenly devel int icl needles, ey are 
popularly call So; when the plant reaches its floral 
condition, the aoa of leaf ai into th 
arious parts which constitute a ë roe n with 
onderful suddenness. The leaf which we saw so sud- 
denly arrested i fe now becomes a bract, the fas 
ciculi combine and form the scale, and the axis suddenly 
ceases to elong nd gives form to the whole. one 
in search of missing links would be sadly — here 
This su ae en ee ee folial organs to organs or- 
escence is very ¢ h 
of a leaf miir koi 
afford interesting examples. 
In many plants the 
forms 
ange of ci: ‘chins 
and inoden 
are as suddenly developed. The pe etals 
e and transformed stipules, 
ifica- 
sr ace anys He merging into female, and 
domai Sra each, bu 
reat e waceptiee to the ethics ral ru 
ot true of individual ] plant 
cific form 
een. I havea Halesia from seed of Halesia tetraptera, 
which any one ardoned for placing in a new 
it is much further removed from its parent t 
o 
one at first 
plarts th up t 
eaen ssoms within twenty- arae ho 
o one stru off to have 
o0 A 
which characters remain 
eny. This two weeks was not nine seer ra ae 
it Mey: 
" EE EE 
ip OW = Malt 
FIG, 71.—PLAN OF AN ESTATE NEAR BRUGES, BELGIUM, 
by rene pie ts pee ap generations, but in one great 
leap. ing Peaches Se varieties ot tee 
ap a pui maiie usually akis D the gene 
the parent, tie: once i a 
varieties from seeds of early ones, and early iom 
Azalea viscosa varies to a 
ie agit vi 
In Delaware and New Jers 
orm having i AOS ergo gtd 
raised these up from a4 
ith leave cine prin ‘ike’ the En ngtish 
Lonicera Dendy than an ordinary 
growing un 
Glyptostrobus is another 
=e ved ener a Chica beset from a tree iail 
of Taxodium distichum, and binid beh an 
acknowledged Giyptostrabus eee ulus, are pin could 
separa em. Her at once to an wah 
oni r, I have a The nt wing which the highest 
au nthorities insist is a . Retinospora, | but whi ch I kno 
genera seem a 
