398 PIPE: 
GARDENERS ‘CHRONICLE. 
[SEPTEMBER 26. 
nd return by the 3.1 P.M. train, to reach Hereford at 
Tae kM. Railway tickets, Ist and 2d ~_ will be 
allowed at single fares = the double jou 
reaching a mee me will be 
forthwith for E o ation of the 
the Club, iad especially for my ceca of officers 
ui 
for the ens ear. i will take place at 
4-30 P.M., at the Green Dragon otel, when some 
edible fungi be , cooked from the Club 
Appearance of R 
EDWIN H „F.L S., President 
rm Field Cla “ Ta Remarks on the 
Family,” by CHAs. B. PLOWRIGHT, Esq. ; 
kd Three Species of Fungi 
new to Britain,” by ie Wm. PHILLIPS, Gentlemen 
nt are particularly desired to let 
. ARTHUR THOMPSON, 
Yi 
the 28th inst., in order that all proper provision may 
be made, 
schedule of prizes has just been issued for an 
res OF CHRYSANTHEMUMS, PALMS, TREE 
AND EXOTIC 
x Yuccas ; n 
T a piir of Saim Tree Ferns, standard 
ys, ldi Yews, 
The ent oer Nesvedibed 27, an 
should be addressed to ogee jaune REILL, 
—— One of the most beautiful herbaceous plants, 
but one very rarely seen, is CLEOME HEPTAPHYLLA 
(Nat. Ord. Capparidacez), Its magenta-coloured 
flowers were very cH a week since in the herba- 
ceous ground at Kew. 
AT GRAPES at the Ber payee 
i 
e crop, there appar 
the ascending and Aei portions of the Vine 
— POLYGONUM es a North Indian 
z species, of creeping ha bit, is growing freely on the 
-tockwork a rte n It is n Sk ‘Ghite A but is 
worth pikir out in summer, and —— useful for 
baskets in the shortly 
ash waned with a dark | 
sa ioris ia iae ram ; 
ne 
s ie ser topo, "R 
Tor, is doi 
es the 
core,” is not formed 
portion of of. an n Apple or TEE 
3 
“oO 
the 
fower-stalk : in aba the carpets are embedded 
the Pear befor 
0 o 
is the flower-stalk or branch is pro longed cana a 
ly mass, Daa ing fleshy sepal-like scales on the 
alles pl Sa ps 
outer surface ——, in spiral order, At the very 
top are some traces of petal-like scales oy abortive 
carpels. It is a question which been much con 
troverted wh thes the fruit of Apples ad Pears con- 
sists entirely of swollen flower-stalk, or of that and 
` 
Fic. 84.—MONSTROUS PEAR. 
the PESO base of the basari a rs ea limit 
soe — e two 
ois an arb e never 
matter one es eat consequence, oe the 
f the 
aae before a peaa the view that the 
sepa upper part of the ERKA 
rm the fruit, 
The style which surmounts the ovary is 
eni undoubtedly merely the ES of the 
iif 
ee 
bov pree, ones, a 
desivahie td place the case on record. 
RICUM PATULUM ea 
the hes herbaceous Pep at Kew 
the best fi 
and one of or bor t was figure 
the pa zical Mane ne for 1868, where we learn 
it was introdu pAr so from Japan by Mr, O 
collector for the yal Gardens. The steti 
arching and reddish in colour. The fi 
rete and es yellow. 
ery laudable apes nT ay Sever 
sources kaa Cornish Bae cre has la 
Messrs. Fox & F 
toot see ela 
Pee 
iv m but which do not rival in deli 
th er kinds. Sardines, it appears, are 
more nor less than small pilchards, We only wish 
i 
nish ds 
e the difficu ties of land-carria fey (wh 
stated ia be ea a Fours Soap pee of at fs, 
add F a acy t e London 
Maantie: the introdnction oí a preserved fish 5 ) 
distinct acquisition. pE 
e latest novelty S ROSE pte 
re Mr. MCRONAL 
nurseryman bee tiv < aie 
various stocks; Sor we are forced to admit that he 
obtained an unt o ess with 
than the old ce ‘Month Rose.” 
case © Beton us “fe. 8 whi e ovary 
of a KONDER, cut vertically, Nothing on 
| we sow, 
“ last hit, 
i — A 
added to the ORCH 
se the tim: 
out of t 
£ we fully ence oe S FA 
may, "not inaptly be called Mr, McRow: 
—— Inthe nalak house at Kew-there isa 
Ta of ARUNDO CONSPICUA, one of the fin est 
om tal grasses, ork of New d. houg 
suitable for plantin open ground, it 1s 
desirable in pots for t ja Centers s the 
econ t for months the condition. 
ould be a striking subject for exhibition. 
uce plants in t lture rich 
is preferable, wing, a shallow po 
gr 
water in Sa a to stand the pot is of = ben 
pecially 
glazed porch or vestibule lately 
of ng 
g the Meen 
caused z 5 constant — me pos shutting of do 
in a hou much visited milar devi ice 
well be adopted i in the Palm-stov 
E het filou Bs ark an 
County of Ayr cathe pe Basses held pe the 14th — 
inst. the judges New onid 
also awarded to an early flowering WHI 
raised a Mr. Wirra Wison, M 
NTEE LILY, to which reference 
made at p. "366, 8 probably'a Crinum. Mr, D. 
Larne a ati bas the oiigriag note regarding it in 
“In Ai baria GEORGE HeENTY, the well no 
rrespondent of the Szandarı $ 
brought ‘Tous. a et of plants from tha 
time I unpacked them they bed bees pie 
number stood the jou pee ee en are 
house. ors bm probably ie sa pan ae Mr. Bi 
Sutah Lilies,’ wi ee m < 
bloomed six works af er being potted up up. 
