THE 
SEPTEMBER 26, 1874.} 
GARDENERS’ ~ CHRONICLE: 
399 
a 
: to Professor OLIVER, of the Herbarium at Kew 
it to be a well-known plant, 
& inum gigan 
evidently have s being dug u 
this be identical with BOYLE's Lily, he ere ian 
last 
5 
z 
Ai 
oO 
i=] 
lad 
n 
E r the Oidium of f the V ine, &c. The 
Solfoterra of Pozzaoli,” ‘like other 
le 
 Pota' 
À Ranh o 
that the 
similar soils, j is very fertile, and it is possi sib 
Í sulphur (and ae aps the arsenic) which it contains is 
pa men as ek nd as similar molds are 
in Cornwall in the case of 
o be 
‘the "Potato Thos who are commercially 
interested in the matter ‘ts state pe it is valuable 
n the case of the i tte oxera. Bath, e no penae 
experience, but l ae least very 
y pire put to the test as 
T. JOHN FAIRMAN, of 
is the agent in this 
dd 
unity offers. Mr. x. 5S 
Ts Mark Lane, London, E.C., 
he Graphic is an eanne regen pie oi 
bit its its = botany i y no means u ne ma 
red-berried Deadly Nightshade Sie which “ea been 
ildren in Paris, and to which w 
o. 
and well arranged plate by 
__week’s number, is further evidens of the fac 
2 “These are the singular specimens of see life 
alluded to by Dr. HOOKER in his very seine 4 La 
vag Belfast meeting of the British Assoc He 
Mr. DAR 
eaf th 
ir pai the leaf closed gently upon a 
_ piece of wet chalk, but soon opened again, and rejected 
it. The experiments also proved t that th 
` the leaf was g similar to the contraction of a 
= muscle, so that, as Dr. HOOKER explaine is not 
er ae ores oe that the digestion of the plant is like that of 
but ervous s , and in fact 
s one mone “i in the continuity of Nature. As 
our readers w t ving, these 
us kinds of traps or snares 
for the unwary insec hich they tive eS 
cenia, the N sages = An Tas ga have ids 
which shut do ing- 
tonia curls its leaf around enh ith the ' Pinguicula shuts 
_ itself up and cur ap n], kies Dionæa also shuts 
: eect upon its Brey, 8 arrangement 
ines 
s — with title “knobs, which it throws 
: over its prey, an it [].” 
_ Dr, Hooker will dor sls ah acing ga by the 
wierd peers aes te 
eae koh 
one ” upon *‘ our pape oio e 
The Beatie 3s. ORCHIDS 
m luteo- purpureum Angræcu 
5” Odontoglossum. Pestatorei, 
macrostachya, £43; Onc apn sesile, £3 I ri ; 
Phalænopsis 
formed 
5 SUMNER at FARNHAM 
hamr STEVENS 
| exhibition table. 
ceeding y 
| successful i in obtaining f first priz 
e We learn that 
BRITISH GARDENERS.—II. 
JAMES arekin 
THE name of Mr. Drewett is w 
c. toa eget being ve af prominently assoc 
the produc 
Macit Grapes w 
ever 
Ne now present his portrait to our 
ish 
Zz A 
YAS 
> y 
— 2 
: SS SSS gis 
ee are assisted by heated chambers under the out- 
rders. It is these Vines which 
o 
maples of Fronti M and 
uscat of Alexandria Grapes, which were so much 
igi at the se exhibitions in 1857 and 
in whic e, moreover, so 
oye Drewett vill me i! Sa oo 
the Feta f gar of which h 
been t m a for nearly giaa years, 
engeded ad his foreman, Mr, 
wo d 
iated 
of the ha ndsomest | 
ha every seo the ese is kept reflects great 
Bea About 
n Mr, his lordship’s gardener. 
oo npr aai i to the th is Dinsdale, the seat 
of La D. Mackinnon, Esq. compara- 
tively a new place, but ar ieee few can compare 
with it, standin, it e eastern slope of the 
shore of the Sead of S Sleat The views from the 
house are xtensive and v ried ; in front there is 
y across 
Mr. HENTY, but have rejected i ing not worth | readers, as that of one of the veterans amongst Brit the Sound a fine view is had of the whole extent of 
wing. me see me co e been = h Hourn, and the picturesque mountainous region 
_ sown, and are now large healthy plants, which, although | Mr. James Drewett was born in the year 1803 in of Knoydart. The en garden is acre i 
subjected to every treatm can conceive, at present | in the mel hbourhood of Bristol, and entered on his | extent, and lies on a gentle g towards the south, 
nt set bioom. K nee the nms l wan ed | horticultural career in the gardens at Himley Hall, | to “ge wena tei of the man At this place there 
Tout his = te ter Aaii], aoe aa penik | Staffordshire, hor seat of the Earl of Dudley and | is a very fine collection of Tahioni plants. The 
oriol gaarda $0 ine -h S Tia ios | Ward. In e came and T eariy. towering Phloxes sd napa well, as also 
Oech he had collected seed. If the plant we have raised | ¢™ployed over a period of seven years in the Royal | te. John Downie, West Coa 
- it wi me | Forcin ar 2 en on umberlan 
indeed of that colour, it will be a no : Some | E gG t K gt Cumberland 
3 eeeeteccons lants, which at present hav no | Lodge, and int oyal Botanic Gardens, Kew. | 
signs of flo and some Ferns of the gees Phatpoathans | Mr. Drewett has held three head ditsisen the | FRUITS OF THE ster INDIES. 
4 Bet Heottoptexis, complete the categor. | first as manager of the estate, gardens, as ATEEN “ig 
| for the late D. Baillee, Esq. ; second as gardener | ontinued from $. 367 
—— A correspondent writes to us in praise of the | to Sir W. Heathcote, Bart., at Hur: Park, near | THE largest most valua a of the hab 
Voucantc Sort near Naples as an antidote to the | ith the late Thomas | India Islands belanga to Great Britain, and on 
i in 
the British crown, is 
tensive tracts cultivated wit 
wn a uty and verdure gak set 
mphithe atre of so mbre 
mountain 
ns, and 
oval, about I 
the paa is sheltered from the winds of the Atlantic 
al and Hispaniola. 
een ical position so near the equator, 
ie imate in the ery hot, 
with little variation throughout the year, t 
niana eing for the arl 
s exceedingly hu arnev arp JPET to 
rature 
any the cai 
e. 200 feet abov 
the sea the e temperature egy ony search 
and as 44°; there the 
1 a e or warm yellow colour ; 
the latter, called aica brick m » retains a 
of moisture, and is the best adapted for the 
Sugar-cane. h the soil be in e part 
deep and fertile Jamaica is not generally productive, 
and requires both prise anon. ae manure ke 
i yi ee | Coe 
Eie 
he will be su ; corn, and | 
ag eg ag great ate cueton at 
is not in ential ee 
ARMADALE CASTLE, ‘and sometimes three ae ape ys gree 
t Reidence of Lord Macdonald (the chief of the | PSB! the re 
daji is situated in g hee of Skye. aa Castle | _/The Sugar-cane with its products; the Pimento, 
occupies a fine positio n the so uth-eas des Ginger, is Logwood, rrowroot, are the 
the island ; i ese the t acre rt, and, with theexception of Arrow- 
mee ig enced occasionally along the western ‘shore e of the | TOO these ave all increased in quantities S the 
island, con: ann uently all sorts of trees and shrubs thrive | >ei few years of the eighteenth caine sugar was pro- 
well, Lat ly | duced at an seb rate of upwards of 90,000 hogs- 
a mairo f the finer sorts of Conifers. Picea amabilis, | headsa year. e abolition of the slave trade in 1807 
Lowii, nobilis, and Nordmanniana are making - | affected the production, but about 120, ogsheads 
ordinary for their size. The kitchen garden may be taken as the ordinary yield for the next fifteen 
here is over 3 acres in extent, and walled in on three | years. In 1855 
ides, with about two-thirds of an acre on the upper heads ; in ps the value 
or western side laid out as a flower garden, | of £3,000 
ding-out is practised on rather an extensive scale. | ei in 187¢ it it was £ 
The standard Fachsias are somethin ng paaa sana i] d since emancipation 
I h to t the friends of 
one plant of spalu tha measured was 9 feet hig’ 
and 15 feet ugh ; and Riccartoni w 
et high bese 10 feet ug! 
There are fair 
| with bloom, 
and 
