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any such acc cidental union. There was 
pecimen, 
It was dis- 
but a substitution of one = = another. 
Bromus seca alinus rarely gets as tall as 
= aoe Iokin Wheat 
evidently g 
remarkable ae mekare 
w 
of he sugges 
_ = iser the microscopical section of the Academy 
ental examination, which was done. 
: 
Nw York nh Tribune. 
B 
un 
Ripley, Surrey, and rem 
some this — ~~ sg eae 
ad 
ed an =. sey yat Witley, in ease 
‘the memorable whic pi ma 
mas eve, 1813, Ted his, reas val a E 
:—The frost succeeded a 
ee thus Ee t so lo oag 
reezing, dampness, and 
ive i The 
pian 
shat, what with free 
aa 
E 
= 
EB o 
jacent farm lan ds 
rtion of the work being ex executed 
mes s senior. 
iain s the probability of | 
the 
| 
a 
| was engaged by Mr. Hall Dare, Cranford House, 
win? 
E the land IP and left from Sloane Square to 
Fulham was occupied wd florists, nurserymen, ood 
market airi Barnes lived with Mr. Moore 
until the death of the late, om sitistero the aan | 
could be planted out in the that 
could be spared, hotbeds aiheita gh ic fame 
| ber plants were ready to turn out under re a” 
x64 i 
o year after for the widow. He then engaged him- cna Peang york eve Tights, go le 
se > Mr. Ston , Ot Peckham, an extensive Pine- Potatos, Mi arragon Sweet Basi S tM < 
apple, Grape, and Mushroo tivator, and whoalso | joram, or, in fact, as any lights N eenn th rh : 
tte ds ra extensively, and forced As S, | day ” lost—hot ae faai London dun ge 
alk a nd ne o on . fine | plants and soil g ready; hat by a I 
ed-in garden, well sto cke d with fruit trees; also | have had under my charge za 1000 600 fi s 
: oe eae nt Fes e Peep loam, for growing fruits, | lights covering ae Caribe ; a 
aoe es ee simmers l lads. a k | —hand and bell-glasses, all covering Cucumber 
B years practis w r. Stone, James | plants on the ridging-out system, The Cucumbers 
tn andere the superintendence of the forcing | grew luxuriantly, and bore abundance of health 
ei for an extensive market gardener at Ber- fruit almost on any kind of rich soil or situation in 
mondsey, then > tome the Fanaka Level. After two | those days, and was very little subject t 
seas oie he made ew gement with another | ver Under the above system w 
market gardene ot Greenwich to superintend the | cyt about the middle of il in the frames 
sinters busines, obeldieting of about t 40 acres of garden | and about the beginning = une from the edt 
crete lights of repre 5 hand- glass ridges, some se ten days earlier. 
glasses ‘for Letltiess, -s Cauliflowers, with | Thus, with the assistance -y iht or ten men and 
Asparagus forcing, Seaka Mus hroom, and small | w. to t and convey to the packing-shed, I 
1 outdoor cut in one day, 
salad culture, and extensive a ops a 
vegetables in season, the d being variable, from 
stiff clay on the marsh side, ts hast, ett tine pa 
=e and dry, on the other mplo: 
irritable, m ri so "sitet sijia 
gh two forcing seasons, B: left, and went to 
superintend the sive work of forming the New 
Spa grounds at Norwood, Surrey. That finished, he 
Great Ilford, Essex, to succeed Mr. "E ga 
who was then leaving a Gunnersbury. 
years later, on the death of Mr. Hall D 
| was engaged by the late Sir Herbert aonig Chile 
hurst, Kent, with whom he lived for four or five yea 
From th gaged 
of Bitan, in 1839, to 
well 
new American garden, where it 
` away most raeng luxuriantly, 
ree 
grown d Bat fields, being sown 
down and ut well prepared soil, : 
1824 to 1828 I was very successful in growing early 
frame rE pens 1 „good fruit Fred the end or 
middie of January, and wi many Ist, 
oe gv a Cucumber clubs or sho ra, on tay WC 
then ed, which held meetings from about 
Fe ebrusty 25 — March 8 or 10 eac ach spring: Ther 
in those days no other means but the ue of ri 
ucum- 
t 
er neglect n 
ledge if the sgbeiind wished to su 
** I was ve essful in crossin z and ihe teak 
cumbers 
at Tw Green, the Man of Kent, and was 
— me mae I also r at Bicton some 
good of Strawberries, amongst them a 
Beantifal wren variety, name Dr, iaer 
the Horticultural society's meeting the Bict 
Pine ; it is rgely in cultivation as a pat er 
fine-flavoured _ 1 The „stock of 
Perry, then ; 
Road, Chelsea, and 
plants for om establishment. 
"I aised at Bicton that ne extraordinary 
plat wid: Dr. eee A named Colletia bictonensis, 
rub which is at once a great curi one o 
ppc rh ailn; as during the hois of the winter 
it is covered with its png white flow mea which-in 
s size resemble those of the Lily of the 
Valley, a are Kho s so hein ng n the sun 
me 
erable PaA The a stock of this- plant 
a -= Er Ape consideration 
h of plants in variety, t the late Messrs. Jite 
RS Son of ga Exeter Nurseries. Such was the encou- 
t I- received from m: ployer for my 
pna samne and attention in raising new and im- 
pemg fruits and plants. 
lanted the noble avenue of Araucaria imbri- 
oa in Bicton Park. The first plaut of Arancaria 
a roduced female cones at Bicton grew in the 
= goa and pet nduced to do so on account. 
wirpa for removal 
it recovered and grew. 
and the second — 
uced 
male t and prod 
by over du be a plan i 
t led him t sspcints a city of tomda atkins Some 
aie of leg: l him to rou his this, he tells ent, he time in tak o the female cones, rf “Tals 
hould never have thought of leaving his — | thi TO ich succeeded admirab! 
ere 
ided at 
career, he was 
a situation 
nes 
‘with v vigorous health and'stre 
down only a short oo before resigning 
his charge at — through excessive work, amount- 
a g to from 18 to 20 hours da ily, sudden ae 
o many mies ng pee soni and constant changes 
‘sho agricultural duties to every | branch hortical- 
tu gi &e.. 
ig 
s, that thro aghout his | 
fertilised sor patel of cones then on another fi 
plant at =- he lake, an 
. Some oft cones, which — exhibited at 
5 Pesani T weighed from 71b. to 8 age 
the same tim and wr I exhibited a collection 
about 100 speci ties which win 
oning in the Bicton arbore tum. Araucaria seed was 
first saved by me at Bicton, and was sown, and a pae 
raised from it; and there are now gr owing, or were, 
when I left, plants from the first batch of seed 
enough to bear cones 4 
andchi 
