746 THE 
GARDENERS CHRONICLE: 
[DECEMBER 12, 1874, 
a : Teega pyt a mr fom sof 
hardy y M. 
duced io 5 Ie pieg of the Soci "a Acelimatation 
years since, It bea mblance to 
B. viridi-glaucescens of the ihes gos "but an all 
ee ished fr pei s at first tipi, as well as Sas all 
amboos present in cultivation, by the 
spa -yellow tint of oe See and tw Its leaves 
y are green at glaucous on the vac side. 
But it is very dificult, adds the Bon Jardinier, in this 
group of hardy to Saen poe species 
from another. There i is m certainty about any one of 
them, it is possible that the ak of these 
forms ar ieti aad those not very constant, 
one e speci varieties of tuber 
ous le gee meee obtained, come in for their 
Belgi 
ium, containing Dere petals, wae within and ET 
red without 
Buddleia intermedia, a variety the issue of B. cur- 
hee differs so widely from its parental type that 
tainer does not hesitate to consider a as distinct 
e foliage 
a: os arker 
inal 
iolet within. 
ian species, is the 
dla 
wide-open, scarcely-pedunculated flowers of 2 a violet 
blu ue; edding 
and bordering, and which only needs to be known to 
be universally ado opt ted. Clerodendron speciosum, per- 
haps the hand of i is 
h origin ; 
outside, 
panula Raineri, a new 
i 
picturata, a pleasing Aroid ada, has 
recently been fieroduced to tie Stoves of M. Linden, 
of k 
ryngium bromeliæfolium is a new and remark- 
aie example of the variety of pilin oibh a 
genus of plants, even when very natur. ay assume, 
affording an additional proof that the pant and the 
shape are indissol onnected with the essen- 
ial | racte Um ers now in 
Sr ele arance in n 
Um ys na e 
utte 
culti the J 
= , and deserves wider patronage, being ex siy 
oa ornamental _— quite as hardy as its elder con- 
gener, W. rosea 
Poey 
The Art ao Pitak is a small book, devoted 
advocacy of method = mounds 
a caai Italy, 
syste na reprodu uction of fo: orests, an 
more and more the practice of planting as more certain, 
The three rules for rioei arog laid down by 
euffel a . That the 
„large e a quantity 
Spies may 
e roots must be placed 
2 manner that, i, Without aig from the 
= aaa e 
posible offon, ad; Noone wi question 
first or third rules. 
get their earthy food if not a Tt 
ee as gas must ery sm d in the case 
some elements zi The objections to pit planting 
are the. too o deep position of the roots, or rather the 
= L'Art de Piit Re. By T Manteuffel: 
of Plan te:) Translated from th e German 
umper sand revised ee Gouet. 
?—the quanti ntity 
LAr 
ie H. 
Pari: Rothschi il 
dilly of saping the depth to Ee 3 rcum- 
yi sO’ say nothing o £ 
, how T 
placed raare d on n the E A a little heap of soil 
is raised around them, and the — is covered with 
turves placed with the ores inwar 
retain the heat, and aerias cool down less at night. 
tity of carbonic 
unds is greater than 
soil, thus p proving the existence 
cr A 
Ta 
will find a geet quantity 
and w ill, in ie tere ae vehi 9 
more rapidly seo vigorously than ste at 
this illustrations are giv oth of 
apy and Ne iduous- vleaved erie netden 
some remarks are made the incre 
‘efally te managed, The 
a plied of forty-five years have yielded 
mound | planting, a only for forest trees, but also for 
fruit reatise is one which may be read 
with Ski py al ali planters 
Wotices m Hooks, . 
THE December number of Dr. M. C, ke’s 
cht Grevillea, which is now issued quarterly, con- 
tains Notices o .merican Fungi, Descriptive 
Lists of New British F et and other a a ripening 
notes on Nag ogamic plants bee 
orial discussion of the n nom mencilak 
The ioiei 
so = various rai s of 
essed cryptog: 
no doubt, have no ‘difeal in remember ng 
the precise differences and relations betw: 
sporidia, stylos a thecaspores, ‘cospores 
oer ae spores, to say 
a me co 
for Families and feng: 
— wrdeners’ Year-Book and Almanac cia 
875 rey Ta Street) has recently been issued, an 
as EAEAN is replete with useful information. 
-— —— We unde that the long-looked-for new 
edition of The Fruit Manual will be ready about the 
commencement of the new year. 
I oo days of os se sora Messrs. 
ll have doubtless done well in issuing the His 
of Prost, by Rev. A yie “LED. 
i ms r pro; o express 
nu mber of rea 
—— The new edition of Yarrell’s British ev 
revised = Professor oae (Van Voorst), has now 
arri the con of the first volume. The 
ustw. shinem 6 of the text and the beauty of the illus- 
ition es es d this che text 
$ 
or | 
c ngratula ed on sfu porca hich he 
brought the work to ro the level of existing knowledge, 
. Lockwood & Co. 
have priod a a 
valuable 1 jinle e pamphlet on The 
ning Rules for 
Safe 
on to employ a.steam- 
eleventh edition of Zhe Elements Bean, 
ublished under the d 
s, p 
AIA for promoting ERSA 
reed r. Thomas Mi has 
- Itis very 
reach an eleventh 
1 as sufficient evidence 
Dole ff ; held, 
speedily adopted by others, the other day we 
read of the rnaak of a Club yis in, and Fretich 
ladies even have i 
‘ited by the French from us, ne s 
it is to be hoped that they have not imported with 
hat is legitimate and h m 
wha a 7“ a € and honest aught that j = 
and b 0 little Mia 2 hefore us bea ading 
to ‘the Spread of ** horsiness ’ F 
La 
ritique of such a book a: 
heveriisiees thoroughly recommend i 
of F 
ation i 
e elits 
mount fem? with 
interest by those w onal segna with 
orses does not extend beyond the shafts of a hansom 
ab. 
— The Rev. Dr. J. C. Brown, late Government 
foita a Cape of Good Hope, and to whom 
these SORAN are indebted for many interesting notes 
on the M gor and products of South — 
well as 
r. Crawf 
the heeri am vill | rasan copies by post, 
The nineteenth half-yearly per of the Marl. 
borough College Natu ral History society 
n age from ten to nineteen years, a 
ia “record will pi valued for purposes of com- — 
—— The reissue of British Wild Flowers, illus. 
trated b Sowerby, and descri 
Johnson (Van Voorst), has reached its eighth part, wi 
small figure and brief — of Compa 
m 
far as Leontodon Taraxacu 
—— Messrs, Cassell have issued the first pa 
an “Tastratel } t History of the United States of A 
illustrated with nu 
—— The December number rei the $e 
Botany aa a review of t 
Ascobolus, by Mr. 
rming pip eat: the pappus to consist meres 
of hates (trichomes), in para view De McNab comm 
cides, stating that the papp 
develo: se the Sere c ag scattering t ss “the fruits 
: wardly, that 
Com; omposites nate widel dif 
” ae 
cases that, what 
sane bees it does not eer favour the 
of the seed, 
cember number of 
ded e in these columns, 1874, 
Se fulgida | 
me scar 
sabrim (see Gardeners Chronicle 7, 1872) P- I 
a handsome species with w 
f è tnie nite plants uestion ve 
ibed the d differences tacking to, to sexual 
ere not so 
. T. Moggridge, w 
lately had AE to deplore” 
