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dition,” a it is a Dives removed (and too often 
t 
( 
removed) from luxury to comparative penury. 
I do not contend for starvation or repletion, neither is, 
in my a , good — The best cultiva- 
coarser can be withdrawn from the ground with- 
out doing violence to the — W. Paul, Paul’s 
Nurseries, Waltham Cross, Herts. 
The Tuberose P: 434).—In connection with 
Mandon’s specimens of this plant, I may observe that 
— the British Masam } rb: 3 
hid Laser subfrigidis,” from which it 
appa pretty certain that they are truly wild 
examples. Xames Britten, 
Horse Lawn Mowin Machines.—I find 
> at 
tate draught to the horse and handling to the man. 
mg 
Owi our increase of grass-cutting, I purchased 
his one this spring in addition to our other two 42- 
inch ones, y men prefer w one to either 
h 
machines than Shanks’. In fact, from cea 
with ete I tink, on the whole, it is the best o 
Hen ore XS night, Floors, tii 
: ; strongly advise your correspondent, 
Gt B.,” to get one of Ransome’s machines for 
Bsa a 
erties F. aegis Witberitone Park, 
Killing and Colouring al bes am Seed. da 
resolution passed by the Belfast merchan! 
on the 22d ult. in ainan fo my letter which 
appeared in your Epe t, 
although extatrainy th erielves fom the practices yi 
referred 
Belfast merchan though large enit “hold but a 
small portion of Fee Trish seed trade in their 
hands. They undoubtedly are justly — to pro- 
ong aloud om t ep know of no firm in Belfast that 
ills and co 
he: 
of the 19th ult.? They resolve in their meeti ng 
that I should name the town or place where such is 
d ; : 
z aim 
drying and colouring open ennial Rye-grass seed, and 
I believe by so ey I shall be conferring a benefit to 
the Irish n gen 
E of Societies. 
iaid to 3 Cydonia j japonica, ina ean 
ines in constant ice hee sics 
S65 showing: no a ye ik any of 
ams ich 
a The roo roof of a si ' house a some 30 
Soyer all 
. it an 
sale sg tracing the whol 
E onzi towers which are quito to 
HE. Kriit, Bors. oe 
FIG. 97.—COPRINUS COMATUS, 
ort the F Royal Horticultural Society, and 
pedi 
ne 
net aig name of humulifolia, 
found in Corea, whence dried specimens ci oe er been 
been received from Mr. = Wilford, collector fa for the 
Roy: al Gardai , and in Japan, where it was found d by the 
celebrated Jeanie ttaveller Siebold. 
V. humulifolia was reduced, by Siebold 
carini, to a variety of the old V. het jaka "y te 
erg—a plant that we have ne close by this 
ara 
leaves, exactly as in our figure. Bunge, indeed, 
his humulifolia as having the lower leaves lobed, 
and t 
upper entire; but in our jlive plant the lobed foliage is 
pretty constant a a = the leaves of our living — 
; —— 
i ofthe mye — Cpe a short u bat cl rea ‘il 
mycol work o f the eyear. He first 
to Schwendener and Bornet’s theory as to the parasitic 
nature of Lichens, and tho ough Mr. Berkeley 
himself oie sceptic he felt bound to state ger z: 
been ave y done, He then peg on a rpg 
>A 
had Been €xamined and r 
also been laid before the Scientific m 
ypertrophy of the oo 
ered by a thin coat 
