OCTOBER 12, 1861.) THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL au 909 
Philosophical Transactions for 1836, as proving а Mr. Rogers, gardene S. Noble, Esq., Berry Hill,| no hor’ 
other facts that the decomposition of carbonic acid p Taplow, the brancnes "loaded with v бото jede of | ith моро Аа following 
the consequent disengagement of oxygen by the leaves the richest orange- -coloured t ubes For this, which was | |a M rime y tourist, es we wish to be mian mly called 
wss due, not to the calorific or actinic, but to tl » th fir upon to transport ourselves to Italy sia, nor to 
luminous portion of {һе spectrum. This — a Special - Certifie {е was awarded. Another en toa рео. on Holman шев ъа of 
which has been subsequently confirmed by re- elect was made yn lovely little plant of се Savio the Temple. These, and 
searches т, ‚ and others, or, as it is sometimes called, Eriocnema marmorata, | passages, m make us wish that the two volumes had been 
establishment of the fact in e: has been attri- | from Messrs. Veitch & Son ; the beautifully variegated | edem i5 one : in that case, we could have praised 
buted by a late e: writer, M. eem who does|leaves of this plant were exquisitely developed. The vitho sy аба paavitinn, 
not appear to have been aware of the antecedent | ѕаше award was made to Mr. Ivery, Dorking, for a very r bestows unbounded admiration on the 
researches of the aut thor of this paper) seems best|nice group оѓ hardy Ferns; and to Messrs. 
secti т with the idea, that ligit acts 2 plants|E. б. Henderson & Son, St. — W e for|to a certain extent, his 
ав a specific stimulus, rather {һап as a chemical agent, | a collection of numerous varieties the beautiful | doubt whether ve tourist, лыт ы Soo uh 
those rays which exert the greatest айа influence | class of Pompon or Bouquet М "lilliputians | scenery, would : tirely disposed to echo his 
i П east degree. Messrs. | rà: ‚ Such a Dub M the following is sufficiently 
ne inference was confirmed by an experiment which Osborn & Son, Fulha: jam, t ia n a — У the minute luget in its d to make us suspect that dis- 
e author, in conjunction with "M r. Way, lately made | but ree А ertum Lepan с | app ; t we ere 
with the —— which the latter gentleman "has invented, | Am d, and а ndn i imd gain for the | кыд» on the author's admiration. *'Itis true tha 
by thin в | of mercury to become the Абс ев; еа. Antectochile from Guaya- дм, vg cnm with certain other better-known 
vett" comm: {һе poles of a|quil with ovate leaves dotted over with angular silvery | districts, the ome of the Land's End of Scotland 
voltaic nee light, although rxcsédingly pots. Both Messrs. Veiteh & Son, and Mr. Bull, had | m iy an e particu сојата) take, an inferior талі: but 
vivid, and ca (— arem photographic | plants of the ful vari ated. Cyperns : alternifolius | it ee fails when put to the test hi ; and 
MÀ is chiefly of js possessing the | variegatus, which is one o of tal | after all this test is —Ó ble one, "depend ent upon 
highest refrangibility, and piiri but few derived | foliaged р plants; and Messrs. Veltch had besides a fine | "à diversities of ti e, and for all practical purposes 
{тош the ral portion of the spectrum. It | next to worthless. 
sequently Ке Жы, e no influence проп аЬ, Alocasia macrorhiza variegata, tty pin "is T he р е апа distinguishing ому, ue i 
ey volution of oxygen leaves, | prickly slender stemmed Palm, Ш Calamus төс scenery of Can 
although у w in found to give out the. same дав | And from Mr. Daniels, и : C. E. Ruck | “ - landscape for the narrowness 0 of the Peoia 
freely u the action of the diffused light of the | Keene, of Swyncombe House, uid 2а species of | causes this isible. from all дана. Other 
тап on a mo derately bright day. Bou ова nvillea named glabra, smaller ad f пала. attraction alin "to itself, belong to Can id and 
No. 2.—Dr. T exhibited specimens ofa Violet than В speciosa, a and w ith s smoot th stem and leave + у not doubt that Cuthbert Bede i is vore saying 
peculiar to to the Cal lami ne rocks of Ai xla Cha pell e dl glorious p lint hat **to the historian, the ant шай os EN 
t eg кг; to Mr. Daniele statement, , t, the | the Uta nist, the р the cemere вро 
local chemist, to fi ; f being less difficult to cult dt search of a healthy climate, sea 
1 this stat f, Dr. Daul bloom, fi The breezes = fine Harner Cantire will amply repay 
sit.” 
was М to au to the fact of +1 d hich had b obtained fr E " 
colour of the petals upon the presence of zinc in Ee йк €— than a year id, € during most of t. V Cantire was the original seat of the Scottish 
soil, as when the plant was growing upon the calamine | $ eenhouse, and now 5 feet hi y" vell monarchy, and its chi “ town was the m of the 
o Roe iie whenatthe a nofthe latter бой Dil шде ench хаел by а panic гы Scottish kingdom centuries before Edinburgh existed. 
ey were partially blue, and | of cus the pidan commencing with t It was the first part of Western Scotland where 
yitam of alis wholly Lepent бае aw. егч First-class Marr or Christianity took root; for in Cantire St. Columba's 
of the А: Жк The Е пе E. mem other ода Ге wa а Statice Frostii fro tutor, and then St. Columba himself, preached the 
by the се me “calam snists, | Frost, Dropmore : а игре беор е like ybi Gospel before it had been heard at Tona, or in any 
"Уа between Holfor dii imbricata, with very rich | other part of the Western Highlands and islands. 
No. 3.—Dr. Da f d U d but. cw too "ti nly dispose ed in t the From its nearness to lreland it was subject to other 
СЕ Roots of Plants."—Intbis panicle; some double. Zinnias, and a i tl } by the Danes ; and from its being 
Am Mess TS. — Үт Co ; a pretty, but | one of the chief territories of the Lords of the Isles, 
as the leave: plants appe: hardl 1 Ane le-like plant, called | and having within its boundaries some of their most 
d to fu t fi ia javanica ; ДЫН euh v -leaved Orchid, | important strongholds, its soil was the scene of per- 
power inherent in them- as living agen nts, so in like Spit — а, p also the fine ‘greenhouse | petual feuds and chro nic бү. All these topics 
oF selosti the roots must be гарри t o exercise a quam Palm, Areca sapida, all from Messrs. Vei e | will be found 4: E large in the pages of 
leetion over the substances submitted to „tbem, | additional ` variegated Orchids from Mes i. os | sli ghtly jumbled iz together, it is 
hich d i е e t of the paana dwarf oim | iac the author havi ing chosen 9 hold forth оп 
р gram üghly coloured and. 1obust, ie different sub pjects as they were suggested by the 
was üBferred to exist, from the сы 
е luminous and not ther with ` h ni , эша foune ms 
bat rays. In the case of | C ims, an her win ly-fowering Chrysanthe- | arrange them in rder, pi 
'uspect © existence from two|mums, from Mr. W. Bull; double Fuchsias of по |ins а эчи e аа tai ancient an 
con es st, because abnormal bodies | particular merit, from Mr. "Chater and Mr. Wheeler; — times, which is a little bewildering. 
рг е bing extremities do not appear |а. couple of plants of Kinghorn's Purple Standard — , and e x the only one - 
м-ф иш a — into the vegetable tissue, except in | Lobelia, from the raiser, showing it to be a fine habited 2 pe A is wr belton ; and we give Cuthbert Bede's 
2 ава eir o dete influ vence upon the part is | ат useful border plant; and some well grown plants | description of ог, ш, however "that of Maculloch, 
e y strong in which from Mr. Smith, Hornsey Road, of a Calceolaria which i imm follows 
jer Tank лр uU virtue о endos osmose and capillarity, | called canariensis (!!) maintaining the Аа of mra усы онова ак led in Gaelic Ceann 
2A, tiat whe ооо a membrane devoid of т. dwarfness and ess of bloom for which it had Loch, ^ ihe head T the loch, eg denotes its situation 
тч e ormal substances are exhibited more | been previously re E. Two or three Dahlias were | at the further end of the bay. The harbour YU 
pin Un an usual, th dc AOE корер to Do бива, shown, one of which, a creamy white named Miss | after we have hrough its narrow neck; 
nih ро portion to the quantity taken into the rcr d from Мг. Henshaw of Handforth, was | nearly 2 miles in length, with а ди а UA Mr 
d e ае Yes. ex in any great | сош ing from 5 to a ee gy The t vessel can 
А. which the plant commonly contains. -= enter it at any state of the tide, i roach close to 
proposition was substantiatel by the dlotítes of Books, the town. A втевр "ot lofey hilissiote i the harbour, 
— and -—— none of which bodies when e Сту Mann: € M Home 55% Cantire. | а cresce Н ke form. tia tow ү: эчи аы 
in small doses, appeared to be taken п y e ngman dimensions, conteining its inhabitants, with i 
by hu cg. The latter he conceived to be borne on * Who knows anything about Cantire? Is there one | -— mehr its iint Е з-сы rà ај fia 
P er set of experimen in the Journal — а hundred who ever even heard of Cantire ?” Such qua and harbours cro th fishing-boats amd 
» а Society, in which he lal wé tered |Í rt Bed ейн picturesque confus ion. Аз we — 
plan: К Аргу у ѕоте- destinston ; апа һе is поё: far from the truth i in sup- | TA whose white houses villas 
times of mn mes o! soda, я 
position beyond a 23 fix ^ rep cup й. T тор еше — E ^ p жон ef у” — СЕ ts sinking отот th Bils behind the t x 
< imi n the former | un country. Most o ppose, == A ficodin 
nnper nai the abnormal substa Del to have | place our fingers correctly on -% rr eir "rA map, but - It was а ЕСЕ уйы эрлеге 
Sö latter ho would rather soppose tiat the normal exis | quost а ANE kno st acknoviodgo the jasn of his | repay tho tail of e fer more сле journey 
^ a dre con- | que stion— о nows ап ing abou Can i 
Zar t, a 7 hay i ing been received into the stem, ? Тһе ove t i - "i to under; руг nd x 
йк 
invitation a friend's house, of which the author 
e -diflerence in composition brought about by adding | an ал his wife bindet Mason elves in the autumn of 1859; | | ка ыыы Fon & croy ed elle 
: KE stituent beyond the usual where, finding —— 253 of the beaten track of|*«Cam pbelton ton possesses 6 
аррозїпр ge к ourists, to have - 
рага: sap at the period combine profit with leasüre, Чо the world | walks; bx chief trade of the place i i 
irs cut down and the analysis made all that he could learn. TE d's End" of Nas ce eic о MER | 
n corroboration of these views thor 02 Вагоп Liebig |! Inasmuch as ће is the first to in from 100,000 a year in duty ; and. 
ferred from pis an сено her having TT locality too o оогон, he is fortunate inh his subject; -" a vessel that leaves iuis lecteur Мн 
Way, that th р, е һаз most conscientious examination i on board. Glasgow ів thè- 
detaching from the soil ing amt erort the pows. ar of all available шегш, condensing them with judg: | for it.. Ia fact Campbelton таваду d 
im ol to be А of 
: The differen 1 n 
existin 
2 э same soil е composition of plants which place, we would say, read Glencreggan. But at the | Glasgow for th 
: soil also shows, that a certain power | same verde d айд, that the authors determina- | petual intercourse понова has brought th 
tiere, by which € de somewhere in the те tion to make a is visible on every and market to its doors. Тһе manufacture of spiri 
зка ус јапон" cmd з enabled to v up the finding that ihe ine жн really had to tel тоша consequent — have тайыейыйд the import as well 
present in iie e ot swell to sufficient dimensions, he has eked out his | as the export ; and although Barley and Bear, which i 
Lead: deseri with prre DU prose and verse from | an an inferior kind ot gm have become. the staple pro- 
press in 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL : (Floral Com 
тї mittee,) Oct. 8. rom Maeulloch whole pages are thus taken, | of the distilleri 
nere were "ae i nd A exhibited 2i тө chm prc it is true ; but d must| The graver ped ns of the book are relieved by 
i0 DDS pi , Аа a xe may ped айа de — perpetually called upon to read two (and fre- numerous legends and anecdotes, plentifally sprinkled - 
endid wrea ignonia v y ) descriptions of the same place? We do ' throughqut its pages ; some old and well worn, others. 
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