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NOVEMBER 21, 1874.] 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
647 
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recipitation of oped Wash sai 
ee ia that ace * nls wile olay, THE OLD WALLS AT KEW. of its orange-red flowers, and the s sight will not be 
Arai Bigi ipeni a verifyi E l i rime (Continued from $. = voy ar I am speaking of the variety called major. 
was observed more than onc ), is merely sufficient to I hepsi? a about 1640, and y therefore, a 
ws in the plants until the recurrence of one of A — pe me ~_ my notes are the very pid inhabitant Of our ens, It is a native ‘of 
keep life ™ d r egul IL rain ; after whi of inducing others to co e forward and state their North Americ and is perfectly hardy in this coun 
a som i reanimated, and attains its full develop- re ce of certa p plants, as the hardiness of a | t ough, on account of its lat i flowering, it 
; In an ordinary way plants look as if half- subject is one of the most important c onsiderations, 7. T, brings its fruit to perfection. Thi 
T t In se E Oranin enables them t our correspondent, “ N., tainly surprises me rather unfortunate, as the -vessel affords the chief 
dead, but ei i MOK little respecting the constitution of Ligustrum japoni- distinguishing character from Bi In the latter 
hold out sate chit à considera lisë ech x cum; but tement adds to the reputation of one of the partition dividing the seed-vessel is parallel with 
is highly pro A ah a fall ra aE Eo a favourite shrubs. I should be glad to know, how- valves, whilst in our plant the partition is at right 
q of plants w ith HA ti rs ht, = whether it. withstood the winter of 1860-61, | 3° les to the val he nam is an 
E ordinarily met wi og 5 ~ 2 roug as many | without injury, in orth. Respecting the ‘bar bbreviation of t ec Tecomaxo was a 
herbaceous things must totally fete į i barous ” am not disposed to ad “N.’s” | happy thought to give us only half the word, though, 
_ A peculiar phenom E mani : te r the struggle are though by way of concession I will give ccording to the explanation of its meaning, it suffers 
for existence amongst desert iP ants, deserves par- | the sounds as near as I can in English characters. severely under the operatio comatl” signifies 
ticular atten Almos re n E ae ee the Whilst on this alice I venture to recomm ng | an earthen war vessel of poes a shape, and ‘‘xochitl” 
power of growing `p through the i » whic A A gardene n the Greek alphabet, m Naki as | a flower. pi e informed by the late 
stantly threatens to ay e of emitting fresh | they wi he oe in a position to trace out the mean- Dr. Seemann that the nams is applied by the 
roots ; on So grada l scena a hill : ng of many of the Greek compounds employed as Mexicans to a totally different thing, Solandra 
may This A e graves ot their rE Sere generic One our correspondents asks | guttata. 
is phe = is especially ark- | whether Euonymus fruits at Kew.. I hav er see The genus age offers many ornamental, and 
eo T ‘amarisk, hillocks clothed | it in either fruit or flower m If, but I have seen | some very strange-looking, evergreen shrubs. The 
with which often attain a height of ro to 15 feet. An | dried specime seine at flowered in this country, though | Most attractive ot all is the charming B. Darwinii, 
owever, = cag - offered by the in all probability under e Tn Bs the ae from the extreme south of America; and the most 
Arm ess x eos! — in the sand of the name wr iters do n ‘Dr. oker, | peculiar, perhaps, are those forming the group to 
oliage completely barring the quick- | in his Student's Flora, gives as a i et dwi by | Which B. nepa'ensis belongs—the species I have in 
only accumulate around your gora ent. view. This is ve . japonica and B. Bealii, 
Sori distance from -n so that they appear more or hen speaking of Solanum jasminoides I scarcely | and they a y n one species. 
did it —— as it is really an ex ingly ornamen- ve th over- 
dden the eye of the stranger 
power of the 
west. The exti 
_ ish depends a, upon 
ing pn of water, and pio 
in utilising. ‘these gifts of 
ce, in 
H 
p 
constru 
ter alea S, =, whilst i in some par 
Dyin t ne Ms gift of Nature is allowed to 
away un 
As a important e, Spe supply of water in all 
oases with considerable force from 
t cases 
springs as a rule, belong to 
te proprietors, but = the communities ; and cer- 
defined rights exist respecting their use, a know- 
ul: interesting ‘Cornfield 
gar us, for in 
x is nine times 
sowing until harvest, a period of ninety days; 
t supply, whilst 
trees, 
oisten 
olating water which 
atisied with a much 
e divided according 
seasons of the’ theyesr in which they are produced— 
Wheat Barley, in the 
months fom sy ta tee to March ; this s season 
Ae of the latter falling in Now r 
afreh, where water is scarce, 
the southern part of Khargeh (Beris), Rice 
urra ted on an e 
hargeh Rice is the 
rra but sparingly rai 
l EE tho inhabitants the value of a 
ain, following out the same 
afer Wh Wheat, cuter Indigo or some variety 
(To pra j 
tal ha a x t 
cold n nights we have had, 
n the east side of the wa all. 
o have 
time (Nov. 9), in ges 7 sa 
it is still. in full flow 
t is egg both Tt bed ers and writers t 
good Editors. I wrote according to the extent of in my 
Eiwibiee of Menispermu did also of the 
Ligustrum, for I prefer this course to the chance of 
per ting. an e fa iou piis 
mention here that Bentham uses the ter mbling 
fo h shrubs Brambles, in conitradastinetiott to 
twining, climbing, &c. 
ing, 
er this somewhat pers sod he goin I will ree 
bjec 
duce sty next subjec orus, sometime: 
lled pedunculosus, B n more commonly i in English 
gardens leucodermis, The latter would be a very 
appropriate name, it previously applied 
to a North American ‘Sem pt allied R. 
occidentalis. Our pla a native of the moun- 
ae of India, and is palet riy here. al 
i for its stems and branches being co 
white rami bn the a 
rat ec mak opene tn ates 
and the fruit I arte seen ver- 
respects it 
flowers bein 
at ey re diferent ene describe it 
amber. 
er 
Tt is is wey sweet, 
when the la ser 
spec or "1820, oul 
em is a coloured plate of it in the Botanical Maga- 
zine, The name osen, as the 
ott are solitary, or two or three together on Tong, 
, from the axils of the 
nu 
all 
eae ate is, there a 
aot en the perdi flora of New 
inciades qu an exceedingly po Iymorphous 
plant, pearing a yellow harsh-flavoured fruit. 
mania presents us with two species, one having ye dio 
and = e gpi a” ; and the gs is active 
as hav ably favou „It 
highly "probable, to sath that one 
ed island d of St. 
the isolat 
of them twiners a and I have now to men- 
tioti an eat species, Lonicera tatarica. is quite 
y, indeed Dr. Regel recommends it as one of the 
best shrubs for re rigorous climate of St. . Petersburg 
It certainly is not wy as many 
succeéd very well in almost all of this county, 
but it seems to be just the thing to try wh 
se will grow. aoe are fein ia 
iffering in the colours of the flowers 
but they are very little known. 
i = it is of so much value, it has long 
A glance at the poene 
portraits of these ois given by Regel in his 
Its 
omg where it er ft detected, but it is rather Pe 
pind distri ated i 
e brilliant T: 
a Aanja sit o be the native mame r 
f and 
of the 
pping, cordate or rotundate, very coriaceous ice 
farnished with Fe canh teeth, and ofa 
reen tint at this n of the year. 
winters injure ey form cae Beali, though, it 
is not a killed ve tried to discover charac- 
ters whereby to distinguish -e forms, but m 
iiri at ae sen 
49 
oa piatt aaa to a peculiar family, 
from all other dico- 
indes; which differs 
S . 
similar in to Orchids 
and seeds of this family are interesting. The fruit or 
ets asia, nsists of t 
reading, and the, 
mon 
mile ar 
characters a 
Pelee 
Aes (an mri a), 
corolla, T Ec an, i th ing ana gg 
untry for some 
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