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502 LAHE 
GARDENERS GHRONICLE. 
[NOVEMBER 4, 1874, 
the Tricolor bet! the Zonal rage, the Bicolor rage, 
eddi ts various forms, the e sensa- 
the big Potato rage, now we e flow ow 
it has become so contagious that a 
traveller can let—we won't 
ef set the society agoing 
I am fident it would ultimately become one of 
the r pular so in the kin Prizes 
the points the ne. za: to be judged by would be 
settled. W. F, Bowman, Leybourne ad 
Viola -cornuta.—Mr. Bennett (see p. 498) has 
att 
done well in drawing at ention to the merits of Viola 
cornuta as a sun plant. ey it 
has been very eae o neglected. a 
time since a line of it at Penrhyn Castle in the 
; perfection, and certainly no plant of the same 
colour produce such an effe 
it liberally, and the result fully j cti 
any things are well done at this place, no! tably 
a portion of the flower garden planted entirely with 
- foliage plants and a in excelle nt 
Digging and k3 Trees Mr. 
Sheppard appears to dislike very much the heading 
which I put to a few remar 
f 
ammonia on the brai not 
at all with what I did to the Borden afterwards. 
I not describe the roots as being warty, with bundles 
of suckers, 
&c., before I began to do anything to the 
bapi wed aes him- 
=» 
: aat dons = 
‘Perhaps te. to have 
E 
I did at the time; I might 
paf ose soil from 
e 
never cut 
short, A very seldom use it freshly cut, buit let it 
rot; and in the abo all w 
5 letter, will not go 
ter fally into the yee of the 
well. add we 
have patos this year on ‘Peach ew planted in 
the border ibed at p. 528, and from one tree 
which was p. there before that, and which was 
dung i 
The hybrid ie exoniensis, from such a parentage as 
an Mie ae and mollissima, must be beautiful 
indeed. F. S heppar rd, 
s (Cydonia) japonica.—At Ash Park, the 
et pe of Lieutenant-Colonel wrens ara are two 
plants of the above loaded with fruit, which I 
nd you by this post. They are mia iain p$ arabe in 
the border. Is it ther u n to see trees 
ea in this way? I have sere ptt fruit on 
them at any place ‘ill this year. Knel. Mal- 
shanger, ap te [We bere ai them heavily 
ana fruit w Kent ear; and remember 
the iara ea ibe ually i a Wes rest t Surrey, if the season 
was a tall favoniabié, fall forty years ago. Eps. ] 
Silphium Plant.—I ha 
article on this 
October 17, pu 
Société d’ Acclimatation de 
ve not seen g original 
r of 
y histori rtion has already gone 
the round of the journals,” I will briefly give my ow 
observations concerni ant, from a botanical 
oint . Recent authors seem to be ed that 
the Silphium of 5p crapware is the T 
of Linnz zeus, and i i 
hapsia gpa 
e case there would be 
immense tr: te o y soil in the neighbour- 
od of i an Dr. Della Cella, 
who calivied in Cyrenaica (called Silfifera by 
Herodotus and Strabo b, k » the plant and 
toit Viviani 1820 iviani 
named it Thapsia Silphiugs a e original speci- 
ens are now deposi in the herbarium of the 
University of Ge r. Cosson of Paris, in 1865 
xamined th mens contained in this her- 
barium, and pronounced Thapsia Silphium o 
Viviani to be a slight variety g , dif- 
oa 
“spread in 
Algeria, who think that ps en is the Soe beauty 
in a woman, Aes of this plant by 
` cutting it into yia Doilin t to extract 
the ae Beers cad A ikon feed their wives on it 
with th ect of producing exdonpoint. I have been 
tol tha z root forms the basis of an empiric 
medicine in France, the eof which I T forget 
valenta Arabica, 
Its curative effects in tubercul r phthisis may be 
Pareet for b by the qu raed of nutritive matter it 
contai The juice of Silphium was sp! by the 
Cyrene neans for its weight in silver, Eia a Govern- 
nt mo y. An one interested h this plan 
will find a detailed acc of it in Della Cella’s 
arrative of a xpedition fr i in Barbary 
to the Western Frontier of Egypt, translated by Mr 
Aufrere, and p e ed in grea 822, This 
ork also co $ p 127, a coin which 
bears on ae pos the head of Tai ter Ammon, a 
and 
ea | Ps obverse a representation of ie eae Silphium. 
Climatal Changes.—I notice the statement of 
flowers and fruits in the Se crab of Edinburgh 
iadicaliy of the singularly mild season. I have notes 
of a si i r, such as Strawberries in 
ers, Phenom no 
ve been often witnessed before. From 
the file of a = newspaper I take some notes of the 
ar 1787 w will illustrate this. On January 12 
kpi as rf llows :—‘‘ For a fortnight past the 
weather been femarkab y mild for e 
at noon 40° to 50°, an unusual heat in 
es On February 16 it is recorded tha 
n full blow, were, plucked near 
Whitehaven on a Friday se’nnight. : ‘There is a present 
in the garden of Dalton, at Carlisle, oo ph 
eral of the buds pea 
an Volxemii 
from all the others by the 
asur di 
a "ou f its thread-like flower-stalks. Tacsonia 
erof the freest and most beautiful 
so. 
unless his plant is very much 
; Here it is: oki out of bloom all through | s 
the year, ‘aad is a perfect’ gem. 
Sa 
trees in blossom San 
| early as the middle of January, par te now partly 
nag On February 23 recorded that 
pee that 
. the thermometer at es: 
ualit 
; Kir quite up to 
ayting qu 
stood at 55°, and it was said “the present 
of the season is Pe On Meal in the memo; 
li On 
person ivin rch 24 Caulifi 
cut i gar len of Mr. “Waldie, a lone we bt 
near Kelso, which had been planted’ out in 
of Ja dener y. es Be mh ril 6 Sweet William was in 
os isbet Boathouse, near phils h, th 
t did not flower = Í th end of Fund ough usually 
a gentlem 
rrican incessant : 
rain all day. with a severe black frost; 
and a drought continued during the spring which 
caused a short rop. On October 14, 1788, 
bird’s nest with se was found on the farm of Net 
house, parish of M ; aud 
there were a ochside, in the parish of Both 
nd shire of Lanark, young crows nearly 
flight, and full blown Roses. The prev. 
ad mmonly wet, but that of 1788 was so 
da: a show that the 
is generally supposed, w ‘ny, peat gie in 
summer of 1788 the thermometer at Kelso 
n “60° at.9 in 
d 
There are a see 
from which I may s some da 
try to show that seasons 
er that the yes now coon eae mi 
days of 
Daon regarding 
ccounted for in some other way. “T, Roxbur, 
y ey grew in our gar 
prodigious size, some 8 feet high, 
as lar man’s finger. Sees of t 
lasa] 
ct 
ie Inner Temple 
called Geor 
P f 
28 
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2, 
ne n 1, 1 
that, some ten or aera se 
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