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GARDENERS’ ‘CHRONICLE. 587 
Winter treatment es that 
dry, and not too cold ‘a night 
weather i is indispensable, avoiding cold draughts, and 
if cleanliness be added, good plants will reward the 
eie ing dry 
ants are apt 
hous ept 
Plenty of air in fine 
auty :—. 
Black Prince (F roster), Blue Bell 
(Foster), Captain John (Hoyle 
pl 
Foster), 
roubadour ‘(Fo 
teal | (Hoyle). Ce reed be t 
of Cam 
uke 
i omei ), P re Aia ester) 
(Foster), ang ol grias 
splendi 
- fastidious among Pelargonium fancie 
of this es have t 
ea P aoi Gardens, 
ak 
AENA 
jel name indi 
(Hoyle), Claribel Hoye) Ee 
two 
out from Kew to the 
winter treatment of the show Pel n 
intending to commence the cultivation of this splendid 
= flower should obtain a collection h 
‘There is no difficulty in pains nice bushy plants 
in 48-pots. t them ed by paving back 
3 the if they are lie a and 
ag soon as yan break again let them be shifted into 
‘ larger an Ci t 
: s a le to small as to large ig 
: Here is a pone = i m varieti a 
i chievement (Fo fae 
(Foster), Brigantine 
), Charles rner 
of Mibe h, 
i- e ai r (Fos 
3 Hoyle (Hoyle), Pollie (Foster), Royal Albert opi), 
Sultana (Foster), T ter), 
and W 
it the oe of 
Of the a natis a “foremost 
Poe be awar Blue Boy 
uest (Foster), Simia (Ronen, Chr Dickens 
(Hoyle), Duk ( 
oster), 
cape franc, 
(Foster), Ruth 
a gong pi pedis 
id varieties, calculated to please 
ciers. iV. 
where we saw them 
__aday or two since. It speaks well for (1) he hardi- 
e of 
admirable 
1 
a revolution 
hing akin t 
estates, not only of South India, ‘put of TF S 
ts hąve been 
cates, the let is $ 
It is 
described as a plane's of = highest commercial im 
— the old Coffea 
ae co 
able to 
ens at 
ernment 
fara at Kalkuti, and tie is to 
pursue 
sh ie fever-line. We have no doubt that planters 
has a lighter colour than the ordinary coffee, and that 
the taste of the infusi onanga = lly rich and well- 
flavoured. Neilgherry Courier. [We believe that } oy, 
= aed was the first to hobite this striking var 
DS. 
Natural y, 
BEE-SWARMING—It may interest some of your 
readers to hear that a neighbour of cathe in this 
s. 
settled in an Apple tree. Is PA this rather a rare 
occurrence?—G. Brunt, Gr. to C. Dickens, Esg. 
Gaa’s Hill Place, Higham, 
GAL THE ROOTS OF THE HOLLY.—While 
niin ‘foe Pungi apaa Holly tree, I came upon 
the encl g what I take to be the roots of 
e 
and on cutting one through I foun ree or four 
pherical cells in one gall, ac erat by a very 
wealthy we ae insect, on being set a 
s 
h 
libe 
that one micht have supposed he (or she) sor bre in 
thi na previ i 
f 
t 
hat I should like to know by what name he is known 
and how he got thi 
ony, ous 
and reques 
7 Villiam Bue "Shrewsbury. TT he 
than Cynips aptera (fig. 122), which was supposed only 
to be bred on the roots of the Oak and Elm, but was 
found last e the Deodar (see p. 19, 
a i. ary Tf it can be ascertained that the roots 
ou found the galls are really those of the 
Holly, — ia would be interesting. Eps.] 
Law Notes. 
A DISPUTE AS TO SAMPLE.—At e~ ses mem 
County Court, on the Mr inst., the case of Ava 
d be e Mr. Taia e Russell, in 
ar. 
business at Ilchester, ebt to recover the 
uppli 
ts. The plaintiff, for whom Mr. G.: Searl, 
Sidt, u ea put in several letters ordering the 
roduced the various rae receipts for 
her deer as well as payments on account, z 
ch the claimed was the eae due. 
we the plant's robe when the defendant said the 
first consignment of goods was highly peitemsrie td a on 
chica a eens cfs so bad that his customers 
the remaining” portion them, that. se iraa 
and made 
after the present acti brought, e must give 
ie in gaan of the “plaintiff or Se “fall amount 
med, with cos 
ACTION AGAINST A MARKET eee BY THE 
LONDON STREET TRAMWAYS COMPANY. — The 
deicii, describe aias as a market gardener, the hra 
of £3 12s. for dam 
such an extent as to cause the accident complained 
of. This was the plaintiffs’ case, when the defendant, 
of the accident, led ver, H Blake- 
an, who that he moved sufficiently for the car 
to pass, but ing — t- 
others it was with difficulty that he was able to 
get clear of Dea, car. The sore Judge asked ohair 
there was su nens car to which 
was replied to oe ia the eran tive, ands several ae 
were called in support of this 
being recalled, stated that his “often t broke; which 
ren ade red his h 
sound or the accident w not have occurred, 
should therefore rule in favour of the plaintiffs, and 
give judgment, with cos 
Aotices of Hooks, 
Batographische Abhandlungen von Dr, W. O. 
en Abhandlungen herausgegeben vom 
Naturzvissenschajlichen Vereine zu Bremen, 
A on Baha y Dr,- Focke, 
ransacti the Natural 
7 
title w another 1 
ew species, or a lengthy disqu uisition on ‘ ‘critical 
Not so, however; it contains the following 
chapters :—American Brambles, Australian Brambles, 
African and Atlantic Island Brambles, 
an u 
Asia. one of those well ed genera 
whose forms are cB ro and very diffi- 
cult to d order, and it is td 
that will tax the genius of hia. hs sees a species 
almost every slight variation, equally with be: aad 
attem caged collect certain er 
give specific 
names. No wonder, then 
i Bato n forms have been somewhat neglected, 
especially as they are not less puzzling than our native 
Brambles, Take the widely distributed Rubus rosz- 
folius, for bere and the numerous diverse 
ferred to R. australis, -If Dr. Focke had taken the same- 
Mo of species entertained ‘some writers 
orth ee twenty-seven ; aren 
| contribui nine species, among which there are no 
new ones ; but Dr. Focke t a di 
ifferent view of 
piel from other writers. Thus he holds R. Hilli, 
F. Muell., to be distinct from R. moluccanus, in 
having the central lobe of the leaf narrowed towards 
the base, whereas in the latter it widens down 
and R. tiliaceus, Seem., Flora Vitiensis, i 
to be the true R. NEA EAN EA Hep pa 
respectin the Fijian plant, 
would 
Linmas ay ge Ss eye ‘on—" It is sid that 
triphyllus, reported gave d vag mg ; but he con- 
founded two plants there is no he why other 
botanists should perpetuate rigas 
frica and the Atlantic islands a credited = 
i are i 
R: oo = mea of pahaa is not mentioned, and 
i to be distinct 
ipele, Ó which Oliver refers it in the Flora 
digs Africa, ifteen spaces are ibid s 
m Russia, including three new ones, A ; 
ered of the Asiatic species, of 
n= the number, winds up 
9 es—six from the 
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