486 THE 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[Ocrozer 17, 
Spirzeas, bulbs, Eranthemums, Euphorbias, and 
is isa ho ouse, 
similar <a aig ng plants. most useful 
not too large for uired, 
pensable where a continuous supply of winter flowers 
are needed ; for have to be t on 
in i stoves amongst the ew Ser pena» 
e to submit to the treatm necessa 
for the later flowering stuff, and are ake yes 
into growth before their natural time, 
- 
BO 
uate ie 
joining this is an intermedi iate house, 25 feet by 
20, the outer +> filled with oceans Tepora 
d Celosias, 
fisc 
Vines some from eyes, the rest have 
tion, 
eet by FE oeer 
bey v gro 
t is a cross 
Lord Napier, possessing the c 
with the free beari i 
excellent in qu 
The last we come to isa 
leas NS i aain 
I er from red-spider, ae require 
keeping near 
The 1) oe me Me ery ree | sh , front- 
ing the sipoge range e fruit houses. n 
no mistake abou 
aol 
their being 
ern 
Sivi 
and Plums, the greatest advan 
rae is es, unlimited supply of water, fan 
ion sufficient to give the ne 
for ie F distribution wherever regres: 
‘a thie 
van 
Sary pressure 
T. Baines, 
THE SILPHIUM PLANT. 
a aiai of the nmi known to the 
a species of 
heard very litle about one 
ro 
La val, who is quite enthusi jastic A respect ing its 
efficacy in certain ae a and the desirability of | 
ee ottng it in Alge 
We will over the “historical paa which is 
little more than a repetition of what h 
the r j cing 0 
where the soil i rie 
that it is stopped. The : suggestion that it 
gated itself in this way since the time of Pliny dd 
has thus managed to hold its —_—- rie 
cts have devoured 
iod. 
r. Laval considers it ite distinct from Thapsia 
siioalon, but from authentic seeds (carpels) collected | 
S half-way 
n the spot we have failed to discover any characters 
r par 
to separate them, hse wie no arts of the plant 
may afford ae epee charac 
He finds e gum- det of Silphion grail ade 
principles, ive or vesicatory, as in the root of 
fo ht 
e Sree 
angina bronchitis) with Silphion, I 
tried to dnt complications of phlegmatia devalipied 
around tu in pulmonary phthisis 
In about a month, on the ane 
if this remedy 
be ; used when tuberculisation cı 
mences, no ste etho- 
hence Dr. Laval concludes oes the Silphion will heal 
tubercles if they are not allowed to reach the ulcerat- 
ape [We fear this is too good to be true, Eps s.] 
It is 
which ee already begun to soft 
far as Dr, Laval himself is aie ed, he is ne 
he efficacy of Silphion in cases of chron: 
tubercular formations, and adds that its effects may be 
pidly perceived in acute tuberculosis 
is. 
ls experien ce has bee 
E Ei riage 
at aia ienne 
urther experiments, w 
render Silphion valuable d 
supply is so limited, 
o 
ed. He asks to be 
lity of military pon is to ii 
where he would have 
a 
believe that n is on its trial in 
England, or, if notin gE T a likely soon to be the 
subject of some trials, 
> 
It. That ae favourable circumstances, a rate of 
ascent of 40 inches per hour be obtained. 
re probabil Shor | 
hat fl wards as 
as nuriy in the wood (xylem) portion of the jibe 
THE MOVEMENT O OF 1 WATER 
IN PLANTS. 
TH Sarr = of Dr. McNab’s igen 
a ag be brie 
sed 
In recorded the branch 
was kept under observation for a iile day or longer, 
the temperature being recorded 
vascular bundles, as seen in a 
solution was applied at ce 
7. That pressure of m exert any 
marked inion on afr rapidity of “the flow, 
one veld ema made with a pressure of I 
grammes of merc 
QUEENSLAND EXPLORATION 
E time since we gave some extract 
interesting report of Mr. Walter Hill on the bot: 
i oration o 
are now e 
to supplement that report by some further parti 
FES to the Bellenden-Kerr range o ? 
mber 26 a ged Consisting of 
and eight native 
what 
We en crossed a fine 
which is name of Davy's Cros 
and the stream itself, w 
creeping Fern (Hym 
demissum, ey and the water b ut 
and co 5 
The trees along the banks consisted of i; pal 
Castan ng Ocean poems ay imenia, Elzo- 
Owen Th i 
y 
cage "for th 
a small a Darsan roin ridges at ap te 
250 fee 
hardti, peni siarekin 
Achras Pohlmaniana, &c he 
andanus was not one of the least o 
encounter in the ascent. here 
Fern (Alsop C 
et. e still had to 
Lawyer Cane, the sete sees the V 
ca monostachya 
Mo ete Range 
was the most di 
e 
paper in the Zrassactions 
ee psa 1874. Dr. McNab’s 
5. That a well-marked ra flow of luid 
g ina stefn after the api fow of the Qaid wi wil take 
fluid will rapidly flow down 
ocured and tea ot 
| found a very handsome Tree Fern, a pot: 
feet 
in the morning ; we 
summit by night, but only got to the altitu 
e A superb Proteaceous 
ro tree, a 
height, with glorious crimson blossoms, we 
at aoe wipe and a-e rapsang new 
2000 feet ; but 3 we shea . 
“Sembee wich the C oh ease and Pandanus, 
phila Rebeccæ was th 
from the summi ere without : 
was ee halt a mile down the gully. 
was being pr made, I t 
