Feprvany 11, 1860.] 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND a ht cee GAZETTE, 123 
—— or Mr. R. states that an rsons being in a — is me “ag that variety ear the new University Moseon. ine. ivy y kaas 
pe 4 cha before The 16th of Angust | or good, his was — to “on Bem mg Teme e i Pem very smooth were comple 
4 obtained them aE i A except pee summer whieh we capptanes last s u From the | fringe of rime on all the eir edges, w while re middle of the 
het reg Co. of Edinburgh, and Mr. R. a of | same exhibi } i f Van uelin a | leaves was quite free from it; at the same time the 
oe “a he autumn of 1 I rased | Some late Pears from Welbeck, sent without a name, | dead leaves of the Hornbeam, although intermingled 
pom the fi nurserymen in the dew a of Winter Nelis. Of Apples, Mr. with Ivy, being crumpled and rough, were completely 
Su wf whose name p! epared to give) plants of | Gadd, , Dorking, i Fae Court of Wick (misnamed | covered with the rime, even on —— which were so 
be ohh of the North” described to me as a} Go! lden — y) w which was found to be the best| inclined that the frozen particles could not have fallen 
ite poene pears i I fruited it, and as far as flavou red riety exhibited. The next best was) on a. The se and delicate spicular form of 
gairt Fi thl in f th This crystals seems to favour the idea of oe 
T could Ju = he tee now a considerable quantity of prere =g ii a local variety, to y which Travellers Pear. | poral in the arrangement of the minute particles of 
aa d shall be able to test it fa wad 9 season. | main aa other names mong | which they ar 
b= herd parties raising new frui o them- | other Apples wee oe Pendu ao from Mr. Spine The same stem rs is held by the author as to the 
re te and vindicate their candies y the Wi heeler’s “wee Messrs. Ivery, of Dorking; cause of hailsto rms, concerning which he has haunt 
pect pono tion from such miserable i iti ws aia pe Ribsto on Pippin, from | of which the following are perhaps 
TURMA A Fiod from Aberdeen. I bave been (up Wh iting; ca y Pearmain, from Mr, B | the most — arka ble: 
e the present time) a purchaser of every new kir t3 =< Onion Apple, a late peeping local variety, fro m Mr. “Such s e pre ant ee oe the 
be tora eet compelled to keep for or with the | Stewart, gr. to Sir T, V vienagie. 1 Stam- | | most oS anette this respect, of ropean storms 
nor. But I have discarded most of them, not that Court, Aed. orcester. g kite a" m les | o being that which elated oo anton portion 
they do not bear fruit (all Strawberries are A. if | shown at last meetin A and Pras pui baked, = of France a, July, bet traversing nearly the whole 
cultivated ae 
à fruited | ng 7 
or in quality. The next T shall notice is = Austell; and the second best, Lemon Pippi n, a) est ee a vame of more than a — ae. 
on Deoembe X 1859, from Du 
being inferi Me blin, and in | M r, Re id, gr. to J. Hur nt, Esq., of Syde nham Hi. Ot her F | This t vaca ar storm was ushered in by a dreadful 
ise case the raiser appear to ia almost total darkness, which suddenly poten var 
ai Se although ~ = fruited it for two an | low’s nore} Hortolk Beaufin, and Loan’s Pearmain. | the who p coun ~y ry. Ina single hour the whole face of 
eri vers the testimony of two growe From Mr. y» Cyfarthis Castle, ror anshire, | Nature entirely changed, that no person who 
which the public can form their own fs aa Sout oe came bunches of | ha d slept p devii the tempest conld have believed him- 
Mr. Niven seems lace great win ng a nit jand another Black Gra ve, all gA which eh bad been Dy self in the same part of the world when he awoke. 
tint for gathering = May 20. It to cool and otherwise cul the same kin ad f Instead o ox smiling bloom of tenpe h and the rich 
that) all whberries be aoaiina.. in le | treatment. e two first, thongh in fair ina i f fo rward autumn, | which | ere just ust before 
ing at three according to the situntion | were considerably shrivelled, bat the last was as plump | spread over tl X 
or luxuriance of the plants; Keens’ Seodling, Grove End | and fresh both in berry m stalk as if it n the | it now p ted t y aspect agreg winte 
and other early kinds will ripen by that time, | month of August. This was thought by Mr. Crawshay’s | in the most sterile Aa goy of tee pre no 
i few others, especia! i the pee 
I intended to have noticed a 
iall h ener tol be Black Prince; but the Commi were soil was changed into a morass, si ing corn 
"Pte pp y could ld not be had i Sagt broken to 
as new ones, and at 
tres ne 
Eh a i consequence 
ui m 
a i the season; steps have therefore been taken to obtain n | pi 
too far Sem our . | eyes or param of it for trial i in ‘the Society A sm | the fruit trees of every kind were demolished. and the 
pen Feb. 9. Floral Mer m —The Rev. J. Dix in the) hail pras unmelted in “as like rocks of solid iee. Even 
ner 
“Oscar” to a gp yee tribunal ï have been a | chair. Among some fine plants to when were ati the ro forest trees were incapable of Ss or ee 
ble purchaser, and feel confident Brussels, w 
the ts are strong en 
ie plants are w Yates, 
T abali (when on this occasion by Mr. Linden, of an | the fury romeo the tempest; po a large w 
exi handsome variegated Fern alle Pteris | trees ic i =o Aren Neat ‘aan 
awarded. more and 
ze 
Walks, .— Allow me to'add my testimony | which ‘resemble those of P. aspericaulis, when {trunks. The Vines werë so 
tthe eines Ss for cleanin e aoa baras af young'are of a beautiful red colour, and when fully that four were estimated as the shortest 
or an ywhere else. At| developed rich d , With attractive silvery | period in which they would 
ravel, whether on roads, w eep green attractive | { become again in any degree 
e ion of my euiplover we spa ge! it here we te along the sides of the ee tle are . Of the 66 parishes saa in the district 
ie y 
Hand- ust be 
` waste from the bacon-curers, wh 
able amo tre. „This is 
i an dhfews ‘by hand from a wi 
not to Jet Tt emmo in contact with the 
dy men sow it with their shovels | other points differing from the latter in having a deep 
_ from a rt, afterwards ru running a light Birch throat. A cut spike of a small-flowered Oncidium 
= it. “Bat er Pn hand wall be Citas Che Wel aio aani Dyte iat amet 
distri machine argue 
butor ; 
be 
will Za ika 
which F 
would be waste, for we only EN Sr Lae Notices of Books. 
it is AM ae ‘weeds don’t 
where as „they did formerly. 
oo cleaning th but 
foe or fow dags balora dae ee Sea z and be proposi Hio Sibirwsing/at' 
ought 
day last summer we 
som 
are not f their harv Arago 
alwa až I bearing one or r two pale en flowers, andi the} marked, that the damage done to 1039 pari 
seiso gene mm =s peer this occasion amounted to 24,962,000 francs. 
nich contains a consider- bant. Messrs. Veitch soe torte retty, hte new, | The storm which occurred with such violence at 
Adiantum, to which a prize was wren os a brilliang | Chipping Norton and its vicinity on August 9, 1843, 
crimson must remembered 
edging. On the the former the smaller of the two, tone 
now evi fe 
ate M On the Cause of Rain and its Allied Phenomena. 
te oi " By G. A. Rowell, Oxford. 810, pp. 166. 5s. 
that all 
Page il It | theories whichsattempt to ex be Re 
tank 300 yards in- half the surface was 
‘covered with floating masses of hailstones, which had 
been carried down the ravines two days before; sortie of 
road; at vee aat <a ¢ “The theory iy that the atoms of water being so the masses were five and a half inches in thickness ;'the 
angular and oval, and some meastred 
$ : were 
ever. ` Buch a case Piasta hapres, RR so buoyant as to be|three inches im diameter, This was the third day after 
if expand 
phting | at the fe enties me years’ experience | heat, their capacity for electricity being increased b 
ite en: 
of this form of 
every point urged in its 
vour by your 
“F.G. HH.” I will ony add that m, 
‘the scorching month of April. There are 
. 
reer beoy to i i he size 
ectricity ; when, if condensed, they become | took three days to melt. We have no further a 
grates have a | coatings of hav 
ny artful and simple contrivance for raising the tali positively Setrit bat mn still -pn up by thë tical bout it, but — is no reason for 
which acts on the igs pm of 
eo” in preferen the 
Proy Im ia a 
may n r ng 
pit ni wisely forbidding that; but meth I shall not sven at length, and for them we refer the reader to 
the wind if I say ell’s 5 pecan, 
be sailing too 
< daailifegticas's oe: name er be k 
Pa ne te going to the aT till, on the cape of th e surcharge, the | the fact. In 1896 a ass O 
atter travelling to the | parti awet all as rain | size, fell in Khandeish, In April, 1 
names, you ce “a arguments tdaucea in support of this view are stones, 20 feet in its larger 
thes the Jad May 
at my ingenios Mr. Row Bangalore, an i aO A 
nown to most persons The deposit of dew, While the soundness of Dr. of hailstones oem re, an eé 
se ed 
Visiting the British Museum. ish Museum. W. F. H., Weybridge, | Wells’s views is aa is also referred to ele 
action : loubt that deposit 
Wells, by the conc 
Societies, 
rhe Committee.—Mr° 
Mr. Smith, gardener 
Josephine de Males 
Standard and ex! 
Leder anes Do explains at Je i Bat for tiis ae 
| other e consult the volame 
a iit wd 2008 rece from M eteorologists the 
en sen to which it may be entitled. 
