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GARDENERS CHRONICLE. eee ee 7, 1874. 
as the Ivy: these are all true climbers. 
Another set 
all familiar. 
ous shrub, with lar, aes heart: a raes or ange hey oein 
entire or Tobed peli $ ing 
the attachment of the stalk within the margin es the 
blade of the 
a native of N 
advantage over many d 
country in retaining its 
leaf. As the specific name implies, it is 
orth America, but i 
eir foli ed 
op OTD The flowers of the Yellow Sarsapa- 
r and of all the plants of the ate Caimisper 
usua 
maceæ) to which 
by sepa lants. our plant i 
us ot I have not b le to ascer. 
tain, possibly it may be polygamously dicecious—tha' 
A is, with male, female, or hermaphrodite flowers on the 
same or diffi plan Be that 
in this country, and fruit may now be see ew i 
abundance on the plant against the front of No 
museum : early south-west. oes not 
rapes, The drupes (one-seeded abla are nearly 
rape. The 
as aa as those of the Black Cluster so showy as those of M. grandiflora the south 
s are | re long, “at loose or | and west, where = will dourish, t a is t 
rø flo - s fertilis Sì it as mental evergreen, and ñothi 
t is an instructi approaching it in the e beauty of its large White 
much like small | flowers.. Standing out in the open groutid it is said | 
A irh appearance, these clusters are | not to bear more than 20° Fahré eit of frost withow 
very d in composition and the result of injury, but against a wall it is sg it It was 
nol patil structure. First of all, lett me define | introduced about 150 years ago, and there are at least 
he difference , bety en a and a berry. oa So varieties, differing in the size of the leaves 
kish is a fleshy fruit, ig a stone ak | and flowers, oe 
a. —for e e, | » Peach, and | I sh nclude my paper with a notice of 
` A be is a fleshy fruit containing sever. Elsholtzi . onena sins 2 sh nging to 
seeds, w which does not open to release the at | the Labiatæ, and inhabitin ountains of Indi 
but frees ieee hes decaying, like the Grape and Goos and Java, represented by E. polystachya at Kew, i 
berry. Occasionally, however, from abortion, a Gras e | flower at the present. Tt mu be idea 
berry contains ‘aly ne, or even no perfectly formed | with the yellow flowered annual Eschscholtzia, which 
se of drupe mentioned above is solitary belongs to the Poppy amily. a owering 
ans , only one from each separate e season is perhaps its only recommendation from a 
in our plant we have from to four developed sig ie point of view. The flowers are small 
and forming the fruit of each flower, and for the and dull-coloured, and crowded together in 1 
sake of distinction these are shor termed drupelets, ica dika g opg 
In those I have been able t ne there ht (To be continued.) 
are ae several iHiferest 
tin $ 
in the structure presen y the erette THE MEA TREE. 
this family, of which there is i S iaia representa- | THE Yournal Officiel Fran 
tive. In Men Pa um itself the sepals and petals resek of the Commission that holds i its: dittings i ia 
are arranged. in two or three series each, and the | connection with the Per ent Exposition sai French 
Stamens . e most impo: cha- | Colonial a pisem st these th facil es has re- 
and this genas b resides in the drupelets of the fruit ; | sulted a notice of the properties of the cae rapa tree 
t the first of its family 
known, received a name equall licable t 
other M q Bits icable sain tial 
le E EE is Bhvn 
orépua, a in allusion to the crescent-sha ped 
From the fm of the drupelets being widest entirely 
2 ae the it in ite ripe drupelets 
E hehe very e next to 
shoe 
ound within the raised 
radicle 
in position. The seed is of the 
e, or rather of the Batten of a 
attached, and the embryo 
part resembling the 
ing in the exact 
anthers yellow. The fruit I have not seen. It is ex- 
tremely floriferous, protei a profusion of its pretty 
flowers all through the summer and early autumn, 
ti 
native of South America, very much resembling the 
Lage weet in habit. There is a ¢oloured plate of it 
n the Bolanical Register, vol. xxxiii., t. 33. I may 
add th at the genus Solanum is one of the largest 
known, oe ee several hundred seth, eng 
all over the world excepting the coldest parts, It is 
distinguished from all other Solanaceté by its withers 
We will new rettirn to North America, and view its 
magnificent Magnolias, represented on the walls by 
the gorgeous M. grandi flor ra, The affini ties of the 
he large convolute stipules, whic ve ly 
deciduous, a arrangement of the carpels form 
ng the fr n a cyli l elon acle 
These carpels (follicles) split open when ripe 
th outer face, allowing th b 
seeds to fall out, and they often hang suspended by 
their slender threads (funicles) for a considerable 
deciduous species h a pleasing pyramidal out- 
line, and their lisit is of the amplest, but 
their flowers, although very petty, z a nearly 
w ae di particularly aroraa ars peog of the 
pm ell Lf 
J an 
ies in France, and for which pur- 
pose the latter have been supplied with 20 tons weight 
of the seed brought direct fro m Guiana, 
belongs to a class of which there is only one 
kind acclimatised in ne South of France, known 
under the nam e of Melia Kediri, the “Pride 
India.” This tree -fi in uiana, 
r 
October being much les cheered and prod 
oil of an inferior qualit la T 
The seeds fall of Theta yas in the course of 
in such quantities that, for many miles, 
mes aa ck layer o ansi inches | 
in tl 
SPR AG MUIR ai 
spermaceze, but there are two remarkable hee 4 ; 
mely 
est 
. | the vicinity of the forests the Commission havé stg: 
—— 
the waste consequent a = ravages of t 
worm. air also essenti: chick the lie white 
opetation that en ‘the epi ent of laboi 
which is alwa n Gui rot of is thee 3 
fore attended with, Sontag able 
ihe boats oon sthroagh peas in i phe 3 
řequiře to be small, and with a light diaught ai 
Owing to the jexpetses inctred i a addition to 3 
freight for a to Fran article of oe a 
extraction o il in any considerable quantities 
upon such m n abu 
might be obtained at a low price; and in the an 
e expediting, as r first nie t, a small 
on the Thomasset syste Thi a ae 
been tried with adv desy ‘and at 1 poste: of 
this notice one of these presses was being fi 
to cag The seed intended for experi 
purposes in has been distributed amongst the 
different manufactories at Paris, Beaumont-le-Roger, _ 
and Rouen. B. 
‘8 
Florists’ Flowers. 
IT is a matter for difference opinion whether the 
Rose or the SHOW PELARGC the 
onder, and well enough they may. One of the most 
docigeroun of plants is the large-flowered show P. 
gon 
placed in the ._ When the plants arf 
the 
hence the care observed in in the cultural pro an 
ing October, and iig the latest by ne 
month, the, plants, un unless they can remain roomy 
airy pit that can be heated when required, should be 
e gathering | little 1 
ought to eyle place at the moment tofi its fail to obviate 
