494 LAE 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[OCTOBER 17, 1874, 
— M. CORENWINDER has, says ature, contri- 
recent 
ION an Nor 
of the iare tas Sciex neces 
American Horticulturist, era a ae ns Aaa the 
following concerning a REMARKABLE 
Ld r Sir, —The land composing my ony a shied 
been so poor that a Sbd cou 
it, and. so sto 
y Queen of England made the remark in her 
ook that a pound of Potatos cost two shillings, 
n the herbaceous 
— I ground at Kew 
autumn flowering plan 
are 
nts ee of fes 
t 
process ordinarily own as the respiration of plants | plant them edgeways, but h of your m u POGON edie oe often grow: 
—the d a f the | some on a to-acre field surrounded by a railroad fence, ch fine planted out. It peli 
atmosphi a process of dig: and ee and in the rning I found that the rocks had entirely | narrow foli e, among which ari 
simultaneo piia bis plants carry on, aie da disappeared and a neat stone wall bape larg the field, and ikes recalling ~ S ape H 
well as by nigh a true process of respiration, Salik Set Hpi firewood and piled up systematic- pa ah ES), ok pe aha 
; in all respects to T by animals, consist- yellow variegat variety, whic 
ing in an sar Sadem Sabiani matters of i ornamental out-of-doo ANEMONE VITIFOLIA 
= od Aen ara Sie ek Pigs It may not be generally known that flowers of HONORINE JOBERT an id HYB 
o Nee determined th Lilac and Maple, M. COREN- able a Ag water after being cut. Ladies find this fine | © d still NDHEIMERI has flowered for 
WINDER Sipe = the proportion of nitro- stove useful in consequence; and not only = sti Trig It is very light in app 
= snes dit araa fr e leaves gradually and progres isit aeeai showy in a cut state, but the showi- kas aah) f — stems, a a 
ola ein aneeo | to ne fle ne iver tor bend Ta ay 
; ght well be u 
~ mai pidly g April We have received from H. VER rougher combination, not being sufficiently 
and thin reuse nearly stationary till See ; while | T S, Promenade Gardens, ge alvern, four | for formal productions. The AsTERS 
that of incombustible substance in s duri hati Reach om a F THE DouBLE-BLos- | among the Composi A. a 
the whole „of vegetation. He d distinguishes, PEA owing in the open in the above | the b e and though not new is some 
herefore, two periods in e vegetative n of establishments: "The tr has produced a quantity o dumosus, A. T escanti, A. 
plant. The first period, when nitrogenous constitu- | similar fruit for the last three This is the first turbinellas, and A. longifolius, 
ey pre seen r minate, gry that during yaen respiration z ime we have seen such perfect fruit from this tree, A. No e-Anglice im also fine, ` 
e most active - n en the proportion o. VÆBORACENSIS, wit rk purple flowers 
carbon aceous su ba tance is relatively hacer, s t — Messrs B. RATHBONE, of Oakfield, | distinct in colour from its oakin, 
period when respiration is comparatively feeble, the | Genesee — unty, New York, have furnished to the heigh feet. GALATELLA DRACUNC 
bonic acid evo being again almost entirely | Departme: t of oiak at Washington the follow- yai of the best of the gen , isin a m 
ey rā by the _Sblorophyll, goalies , and cd facts relative to to rae wr gigs iment in cpr igen ng | SALVIA ANGUSTIFOLIA, a fine bl 
r d true process of dige e sp of 1864 they set t 4000 aa uite hardy, is just commen. to bloo 
r a arf Pear trees, 3 Duchess, 500 Louise acne de bs sate iis Ns 
Jersey, 400 Beurré d’ Anjou, and 100 Vicar of Wa re- =M HECKEL has lately im 
field. The trees are 10 feet apart each way, occupy Comptes aes some interesting obse 
the p ha ing To acres. The soil is “a gravelly loam mixed | throw light on THE esas NS OF 
_ the case of the Fr t , with clay il.” For five years th VESSEL or PLANTS, and on e movements of the 
TOTO ‘vulgatis: ve teed were severe erely prun orchard aed in Scrophulariace-e, Big 
number of attempts to fix : varieties which were | received medium cultivation, but no fertiliser, except | plants have a stigma composed of two plates which in 
casually produced invariably failed, the tendency | that in June, 1873, it was dressed wit out state of rest are wide apart, but which, when irri. 
towards reversion to the ancestral: form ing ap- | 80 bushels per acre of slaked lime and unleached | tated, fold up form one plate as the two 
parently lereni On thè other hand, no one S wood-ashes, elivered in barrels at Batavi , and lves ofa book do when a book i ae | 
the ch which are ordinarily relied on to dis- | beginning with 1868, the several amounts receiv upper or inner face of each plate studded with little 
one an constant, | for annual sales for six successive ye wW as | papillæ that is sensitive, one plate be irri 
but is liable, under certain circu stata, to pts follows, and in the order named: — roo ols., | the movement is transmitted to the other ; stimulants 
: pear. Dr. HOFFMAN rely: made a similar 30 dols., 110 dols., 1338 ret Ree! dols 7 5530 dols. such as » ammonia, acid, &c., indu 
of experiments on the common red Poppy (Papaver otal, 9558 dols. It will iced that in the | ment, which is suspended y anæs 
; Rhcæas), percept ontant ea cultivation, for Arira years p S uced saree year, vki is ss sales Taa | pea C. t is the organ of movement? 
C e e seven ear ols, per acre. . HECKEL, and then answers the question 
several varieties ‘ities c so Cee aari in the next year in e movement to the spiral naiari 
the form of iie pata als, made their appearance, tending M JASMINOIDES, on the movement is most active where 
towards an EA to P. dubiu Kew, is one of the finest hardy climbers in flower most abundant, and further that if they be cut 
Rese? ring summer and this season of the year. It movement cease vessels of 
is its readers Sometimes grown in a greenhouse. There are two | across movement still takes place in 
or Jiustration of | varieties—one pu hite and the other bluish; a plate, but it is not pro agated to the uninjured p 
ce, Syde » | Variegated variety is also in cultivation, The leaves | as is the when neither is injured. 
f Kew Gardens, | are dar and, as a lesi n p n one piant sponds with the observations of Z 
nogo ge a as the flo of Dro: Compt: 
ee Sn a ose of sR venustum, it is evident that they are nearl ioven in Phe 3 o can hart? b attri 
eat dub OF the best of ee = are ; pe — go not in —— in tension, as certain Germ: 
quite A U c ental, €y are | think, for th 
flowers are pure white, with 1 vibes Pan violet-black, much like those of Privet, Increase aes ya dry ie a also inthe vacuum of an 
ibs, aiig froin Ap to ti" about y ted by off any shoots from the pump or in compressed a 
ims = int bels els of bout eight ae that have a few roots. In very severe Tan | 
le only one or S are-ot equal R of a mat should be afforded, Nat r. DOWNIE sends us from Edinburgh 
— ore to r kri West Indie fk. Pistons ou | wer. d ripe fruit of a Strawbe grow 
accorded to Eucharis is exactly suitable to this The American eee in reference | g ge of WILLIAM Gor Hath. 
Mik: to the INTRODUCTION OF THE POTA gp enpa |i os or cuy ee oe ei about ee sre 
The beautiful new x TACSONIA EXONI t, popularly pposed, fae praa Io E aa E cr OE 
hich, i it Soe be remem » was exhibited fot the England by Sir WALTER RALEIGH, Joun Haw. | "palo Aei p saeia eme. 
at the pro of the Royal NS first introdaced it in 1565; mend WALTER | chance seedling, W rg chores : E 
E i ; 
map a P satisi - poa rensa e Dan Inat in ganden some time ago, For the last three years 
r pap and the year 1874 is to i ga Fig ag the sort 
x | n. 
P, oe : TE ae See celts rii y |b from the specimens us, a th 
“out in March last tw wo examples off it, one at each end the Sener oe ed Peru, in the sixteenth cen- | p Sa boo Tie eye eet Spr gem 
of a span-roofed house, aa is lle. it along the ty, they caried some a arge to Europe, and sent ariei o 
roof. It has realised at Bear the favourable | them to the Pope w plant was cultivated a as Pie oo dific PEER E 
Cll be iida bere tha Md when first ited. | mS Span, Aae Burgundy and = Netherlands, i gaa linha ae Bro os 7 a heresiak 
climb enw ol fr eo a cite | itikat ee ri me ao ae TA rai | rom the fact that their mee size precla 
as raised etween 2 nans |. bettie. Grown tin ma establishments, Their 
with th | 
e | ficence may nferred fro 
| — to Mr. CRAWFORD and th 
| Mr. UMBLETON, we w bl 
| P- 779, 187 We are now informed that a 
between BROWNEA LATIFOLIA and B. coct 
flowered this seaso Mr. Crawrokn’s garden 
akelands in quite a small , th 
iy, | than te t 18 inches in height, 
n three years in age. It is likely to be a 
having 1 of the size of those Sf B. 
a mi | th icin B of B. coccinea, A free re r 
ne VIA Grana, though h not - l producing its flowers 
my ecies, is ys HOt a gorgeously. | Small state in th pot she uld be a most 
flowered sp late summer-fio or ee i oe ae a = rope. The a 
is an eve ; ate burned them ; by Sale 
well-established in pase ci amier sien eof he aiken? chanced to be present, stepped oh tife Ameria tele on the decay of fruit, the 
red hie tinted with cite of a rosy | one of the baked Potatos as it lay in the ashes, whek American gives an interesti g i 
and Pra en emit a plea. it broke open, and he Process as carried on b 1 
Sant-fragrance when rubbed by hand. P snow, cg oh Saag dpa white M ere principal aia 
— The practi hat he tasted it bad it ven agreeable smell | general st i fangi ate. ve 
ce of givi 1 found it tab on ne Microscopic fungi are 
facturers -of implements 2 zid A ete seit: | new vegetable was thus rescued ; but- for ciety arte nd fants mainly of a network of 
as, says the | after it was only cultivated in his ae and in 1600 | yeo a ents, called the 
