Мат 4, aum TRE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 409 
source of nature that it is here proposed to treat. The, the ordinary span roof, transparent on the south —€— are enclosed. The success which has attended 
laws of jd ws 6 which light is governed, are applic- | Ё nci towards the north, would effect the sam се efforts of Mr. Keene's gardener, Mr. Daniels, in 
able in many points, and especially witli r using this very Ураны climber to put fo rth 
hey apply to heat also. | P'Althoagh the advocacy of a simple, natural, and Гені а profusion of боме 
"rhe great. defect i in 
ngs for 
nstruction of man, y bu ildi 
that geothermal с зед lately recom: mended | in 
rom the neglect | 
of such gove g natu Mta 
It is not "y intention to dispute the vast, it may be, 
f lig ht in buildings of уе 
medium 
principle is » — object, че Paid of | 
| construction would gen уй terfere with | С 
ое 
mere decoration wi 
му d in cempli ify | contiguity to the flue, and are thus stimulated into 
this moder: wee dire eferentially т refer | activity by the high temperature to which they а 
to thë. illustration taf v rnit this paper. ut a | subject nd partly to their being co nam within a 
her tha 
urpose far highe n that of 
p and thus prevented from absorbin 
| have been иык if i whicl 
ng 
einn мее vt moisture, by which the үрел of the 
by which the кен ard of heat and light may t has been shown that, "before | 
be associated. Light, ever, been so largely stas to expensive artifici al , expedients in the|plant would be promote ted а e expense of its inflo- 
insisted on by hortieul ural writers, that the em ende tabl Charles Da: — EE y. — Oz- 
ment of glass has been ied t уч ost Positie kingdom with — — ted their native |/ord.—([Similar testimony h m other 
limit, plant houtes having been d 
could be with all the sides and TN the EEr Rn 
material. 
It is 
my purpose to show that this maximum quan- 
tity, so far from being necessary, is positively i injurious. 
Light, it t be Жакее ны is eminently diffusive, 
$0 that, as illustrated in the Pantheon at Rome, a 
— is found to illumirate in an agree- 
cubic feet of s d the 
much, 
faller appreciation 
e simple means pee at our command by the | 
quarters. 
olyanthuses from Seed.—Being an admirer of the 
сее s, it struck me that it might not be un- 
ng to 
to 
‚ may be ! accomplished MX 
Аср нон утеп 
чно Author of Nature. teresti some of y mateur vn rae like myself 
| to learn the mode others — suecessfully followed in 
a gs, as I fin a few — c à 
o. L. 
TICULARIA Sei singular Fungus 
E forms the "subject ot our present шгарп. з Н 
so variab 
nble 3000 pace 
att nx pom in modern times to теб ubject o 
gets peni has "yy — teme to remove, by '; 
shadow from eve 
i. galleries | 
er 
par 
m. w nia side light i is uil ч.л excluded 
The r. Loudon, whose acquaintance with such | 
tes vy superficial 
To 
with э 
ore to insist on the value o 
auy plan b by 
of in form and 
appe arance from age and situation that ie | 
ng — тер т fol to 
а limpid tear-li evenly, I was carefu 
| crust over the surface, 
it Wa 
seed 
like ightly—a mere 
n 
| bee а i gradually increases in size an 
lobos shapeless mass, сш of a ^e 
d. This then acqui 
| which is either perfectly smooth »- gne ав if it 
petra iria to шр it from 
ted 
sub-g i ick 
aee like fui а thin cuticle 
shed, or dotted with little rough warts formed | "P ? t to let them get dry, as thousands are lost in that 
et ami es de a ro netu bota: ui nido din рай.) мад Ithen pricked them out into pans and kept them 
Н r the winter in a cold frame, and found in the follow- 
р 
| 58 cha e ue n it e short de о отет ет, every | ing spring that I had nearly 500 healthy plants 
p 
ранаў of them bloomed last — and - Ré o 
done so thi а 
de this. And what is there 
Mid кома ЕНУ еей а мөл X чно e a g stage varieties among them | whose subetanoe н, 
n erect беков compressed th threads. The сие cing аге almost all that could be desired.: T hav 
shows them to several friends qualified to judge, who 
an early stage of ксл 
tion of heat нче to the largest practicable extent 
secured. 
The optical law of ess ger is, A - — 
ray of Mut is throw 
TAS, 
amount of light within ach aiding, a in 
be formed о 
а 
Вой 
so far those E бам 
cellular 
. conduction 
valuable 
t Satem, 
rials 7 d vourable to the 
f tha 
may be secured | 
and inexpensive 
example, that it is 
reception of plants 
the al of a a Mag parallelogram, whose chief 
dimensions shall run north and soutb. 16 will be a 
onouneced many of them to G. J.. 
en, April 29. 
Mr. Thomai Lobb И: р. 387).—1f the pps of 
your correspondent J. M. is acted upon 
tion n opened, it манй afford. me great Sensing to give ds 
any of J. Мв ws hbours, as well as lovers of 
Horlténltare everywhere, 4 Working 6 ardener, 
Torquay. 
Peach and Nectarine Trees on open W alIs.—At this 
after such an unfavourable summer as the last, 
e said to be attached to be superior kinds. 
- yn 
aspect, I ma may in the first. "Dinos Senat kt 'each 
Nectarine trees have been grown on this wall for these 
last 40 years, and I у State on reliable X o^ 
S been en Ln ered fro = 
hs. trees 
rder 
a du grow and Pid fruit, prem s Pes ch 
be уа dus east mper С ера йене eT yam ago, and that in m in which de is not a single 
opaque heat-retaining principle, and this may be RETICULARIA UMBRINA LL joues үш hide ааа 
further subject to а consideration of other special| (Соріей by perfüission from Greville's EP botto ні m min ik solus estingo ek m 4 
и; с it will never, I believe, be disputed that | the renda in clusters, put we o ind no чилге E Б кассу ear 1857 I foundthe whole of tho tresine 
‚ then may be t on the principle of 2 -— ing this. Reticularia umbrina is fond of old E Бу NU ышкы Wl vo CRI 
р а Кыйы rathér thám óf ini 4h with wood that I considered 15 im to dian ca: 
+ eateh a few extra rays of dim di в ЖН: Даг M rim ibo Jis 106, даа ТЖК туза s, | ing with them except tear them out and burn them. 
ing to this view the north side eme plant house should 4 Diit ie бай дн attached tb od posts ier ine. a | This I 8; and immediately afterwards І planted young 
always be а wall, and; mf snake's gu dhering by a flattened d ones, rder g deep I raised the bottom by 
eastern side may be а similar €— dier че eit | mene of stones and added hea our ехїзїїп 
wholly part; sath and t uld rished b a e dark mould, which is not as a yellow soil. 
invariably have a large proporti glazi any Ie it is found 1 in моне оп fallen. sticks and leaves. PN V рт nd Nectarine t bear fine fruit 
It remains to consider the roof. "Taking the Ii is d dil species of the gen and well in Worcestershire, in what would be - 
general average angle of the sun's rays throughout ieri ee at least in this country. termed here brick clay. 16 will be seen from theabove - 
, wii ib: оао в те; js sometimes much "alter tered. b y, weather, becoming that I have had three "und from the young - 
rain, and general convenience, the y | occasionally s so firm and hard as scarcely to be r cog- trees T planted. "Most o m produced some good 
pitch: e pears ver: suitable; but instead | nised. It is hardly pe to preserve good speci- fruit last season, but many dropped their blossoms 
of carrying the ridge of such а roof along the centre of | mens of the common form, t rien they ought to have been setting ; and althcugh 
e parallelogram from north to south, I propose to | and the spores so easily dispe A We have never seen 
divide the length in or compart- the threads so slender as represented in Grev villes |! bad a very injurious effect on wall fruit trees, 
ments, such as proportion or other considerations may | Plate, but Fries informs hat they vary much in cially Peaches and Бак ies, I сате to the- 
dictate. These divisions would n be covered each | thickness, Mim that he has at times been disposed conclusion that I would lift them, although young 
by its own ridge-roof running east and west, with | to make two species. The usual size of the plant is trees ut other work me heavily, and 
8 between in the same direction. With regard | about 2 ойе fero but it oc occasionally in flat hori- did not lift my trees until the beginning "of last 
P" tothe two sl ng sides of e-roof, I propose | Zonta ls ns acquires a diameter of several inches, December, MS the midst of the- 
А to make tha! glass, that to the north | M. J. е wor! ue the severe in thé whol: 
of a hi i i 5. sen 
М а ich may be lined on the exce which w. en up at all, : 
interior with common ing, plain or painted E Home c р laid o. i the heels on parts of the ws We 
should a bigh абм $ ta- h porcelain tiles, Bongai hio On Fisting the Flower Sh bred “hills and holes.” On broken stones, which were" 
а Erg us. esired, it may be xiord, ow | put in as ming, were laid yell from 
with s silvered glass; while “externally any y vus at tent en on vet the 25th of last month, my | 4 inches thick, pite down; thd. ont Tat clay std mari 
ested by e, well mixed with the border 
chars rscter, su h as Sites dated flowers compared by soil. ; 
ifa alight dia re ре сари ged. dió | to € E wi called mauve, which I am ale to pt ш T hee. Н м n =? 
apparent that, when ges rays of light come from the! Ваи dad which at one e үрөө б of Ae exhibition whole of them; ; but the one which was not lifted vill 
south and do not form with the hori r angle plant su I recognised as be de the same | be iu my opinion before it is better. In January 
M s: not one си particle of light is obstructed | |gro ing i an cede ^ 0 e deu Eras, H into our early Peach-house а 
roof m this-peinc mse | young Roya $ 
han ba Mas half cf thé radiating h whi о terni other | кы аш: тендеш in that ci ty. it Es b the v tlie "'ork in the вот, ганна 
will be гері y the non-conduct netti reflecto e ( ween twi 
The plan, it may be эзен " p rei ary B ery a Peach and Nec I co э 
io cases їп. which the longer line e. E tie par Я | 2 sooled sto e Misit to the Rev. Me Kee «Кеў б the house sont ener NE. the 
may гип east and west, but it would no ot t rire е Gardener? ace y я cup з xt ча; " Royal е EO Red зае ud T gathered 
to divide the length into compartments, as ronicle, am de th 168 | four dozen tine fruit from this tree, as m 
" ye io er 
" тео 8 rose-coloured bractesæ, within Its roots were outside, and it "e at leaf 
