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| th Iternately they will be amply sergio In the 
ae x poe ie wih t ieir imiy onet | same wa 7 they m y be cultivated 2 cu ieaie one 
flo s in abund- 
psc ul in fo ms in kubetan, and in | poses, and give off t ir beaute he eee eet 
ol on, | ance ton Christmas anaes: ed, 
ied e Pade bows figs pos more aoaie or a more erit Dendrobe in culti- 
Meadowbank Nursery, Uddingstone, N. E Weed dad iy E aE Whe hie ire 
aportea as. — Going throu er hundreds bis peat of species to Graw comparison 
ebay a "be Š Gardens jA her mA with h mes Anderson, Meadowbank Nurseries, 
Smith, I peisen to touch a leaf of th Laporte Uidtachiine, N.B. 
i i nsation : . 
Afu ha nes part ately after maka ee The Chestnut Tree.—I have noticed in some of 
‘ung it. The pain was quite as severe, and continued e periodicals that the rafters of the roof of West- 
so several . The pain, however, lly | minster Abbey, which were supposed pe of Oak, are 
' , but e w, after a lapse of three weeks, pred A gars to be of Chestnut, and have been there 800 
I feel a slight sensation, and the place where stung you know what Chestnut it is? I p = Sos 
is still visible on the top of the fin Of the two on S| panish. If such is the case, it must pro e 
T would tages being stung two or three times by a | one of our best timber _— to eor as it is one a thè 
wasp than once by = treacherous Laportea gigas. | most ea e have. Z. N. M. very 
Henry Knight, Floor. old story this. = wend is probably that of the 
‘ise sessile-fruited Dak, and not Chestnut at all. Eps. ] 
Cultivation of the Strawbe or 
Forcing, Aia iae been a S sful prac the Carnivorous Plants.—The article by Mr. Andrew 
season in meas large quantities of Straw- | Murray in the last number of the Gardeners Chronicle 
of mo: an e si quality, ts very clearly and fairly the objections that 
am led to offer you a arks on my mode present themselves to the doctrine of ivorous 
ure. I may mention that numbers of individual | habits of plants. To some of these it must be left to 
fruit gathered by me weighed over 2 oz , and single | Mr. D r ker to reply ; on one or two 
plants produced on an average from 8 oz. to 10 02, ex ktn I gTr be glad to be allowed to make a few 
fruit. The culture s as follows :— As soo urray contrasts the phenomena in 
as the runners taken root in the open peig Pinghicnls with those in Dionza; I think more may 
take them up carefully and pot ae into 4-inch e gained by comparing them with th Drosera, 
in a compost consisting of three parts good turfy loam hen the resemblance will b ound very striking, 
and one part of w d leaves or even dung, big is the more remarkable, seeing that glands 
slight eg ing of silver sand wil und bene- Pinguicula are, I believe, entirely epidermal, while 
ficial. ae e pots are loosely crocked, so that X least the larger nu of those of Drosera are sub- 
even idi may root through the sttoms of epidermal, belon 4 g to the tissue of the leaf itsel, ee 
them. ed th ts firmly, place th not aware o Mi ement garı 
na pry a cold vee a bottan of cinder perigee eg of the ages on the upper surface a the 
ash ; shade them for a few days from the direct rays | le rray remarks that in Pingui- 
of the sun, and for a few weeks let cula the slight irritebility “does not appear to be 
account suffer from want of water. At the of of being exerted injuriously on the insect,” in 
this period the plants Sait rooted firmly | consequence of the long period which elapses before 
in the soil, then remove the lights altogether ins to operate, But sely the same is the 
and water sparingly. A little Tacs manure may case with the very strong irritability of the glands of 
given t , which, how rosera. from a note ons ei 
discontinued at the eres of Octo North Wales this summer, that o n placing a piece o 
z p till k for forcing, sufficient clea tton-wool soaked with blood on a Jeaf of Drosera, 
water may be givi o prevent the plants from a actually it was hree to four hours before any of t 
ging. a then ugh the winter i cold | superficial glands had begun to stretch over it, and 
stac = ‘ok another in + piace early three days before the greater number of 
where severe frost will not touch them. When forcing | marginal ds had come into contact with the 
ist mence re e the pots to a shelf fixed as near cotton-wool ; a ast summer ound very nearly 
to the larisa as possible, and in which have ae = sey Meng oho presented in the case ot a living 
rips of green turf, about three- -quarters . The movement of the glands is certainly no! 
ct 
ic 
P of a 
inch thick, the Sa midih of the elt The plant will pea by the struggles Mr. Murray 
derive immense ks of 
heavy rain complies ashing the i insects 
e leaves of 
the anim 
should be digested by the — gore the parien 
r. Murray 
in sayin 
is sure to follow the adoption of this mile mode of la, cells 
- Fon Rose, Ietham, Seveno aks, ave ar nature, ntaining protoplasm in 
a very unusual form, in the leaves of these two plant: 
sep mina nobile,—‘ E. H” asks whether which I have obse lse except in Calli- 
is | a temperature of 55° in winter? | triche, whi aware Se 
I have ' wintered this p Ta an ordi- therto describ: ells me that he - 
nary g not adapted for cool Orchids, and | acquainted with stru of a similar only in 
the method I practised was this. en the plant had arli. That there is any connection between 
been own to size, I ripened the | these cells and the process of digestion apparently 
wths in a strong Indian temperature, with as much carried on by these plants, I am not, id, abl 
sun as September ctober would give. h i 
a At the 
end of the latter month I gradually withheld water, and 
reduced the temperature, as is always done, or ought to 
at all events, ta 
of ig. to ce Ae e peste: | to us Bage er. but 
d to be advant 
u 
that ceremony, and 
an 
Aela escape 
e to trouble you d 
now with t 
Murray. 
e Showing and Shows of Ros 
que pe sa most others, has branched off ined 
side issue h ues are po 
be any limit to this pting th asur 
of igas a ry cae and love of the 1er Pemeran 
the or abuse of s as test 
out the adv. van 
S 
ns, as has 
ested by several correspondents, is pif: a bel 
the inimitable beauty f 
for not 
objection ne to 
trough d deal at regular 
the box Doubtiess a 
minutes, 
tables of on 
le el. 
Niel, Dev Baronne_ 
Ratsa a othe golden, joes te or bril 3 
coloured Roses t as buffers between the long 
s. The c colour of the tables mi ght 
lines of mixed colours. 
Tf bai ape be wart, vty Bl 
ree straw colour, or ev 
If any cr 
