THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 171 
Feonwary 25, 1860. | 
——_ arably the least T hav and propagated the Hollyhock exten ver hay to give my ex erience of somewha 
only that th ARON Kig eg e a aroditó | early tee “the last eight years, and hav Í n| aventio pry. he worth ie an 
prolite, n fur rh ta well fertilised, and, acc d- | tro oubled with disease; my’ escape from it P ttribut olumns. T would beg eg it to be eria pe am 
B ey ar likely t ‘ns well-esta agers auscnratiges, entirely to never having used other means than the | | derstood. t t I desire to see the subject of cheap 
ing to Mr. D “yr th te a. le erous and les natural on 8 Bropegating plants in open bo rders, in ficri eein disenssed in a friendly manner, and should 
will hence give bir a must it tbe PASAN that this, summer at's py hanee the aid of arti ficial | any acer rbity be ut sho uld decline proceeding any 
vigorous os oa ering type of a bye- gone hase pijer m itis ned E sp a aia cer ch pl 48 the sul if however 
may be the 3 g all had superior ovaries; for tha f so hardy a broadly, ‘nd -prohon I think a great deal 
A, eget an old race is as Co tlas the Hollyhock, yer predi apoting it to dise e; | of goo ae might a many country subseribers, as 
may be the last © ace dibs! An attentive study A“ ps and w when once pp a EA is e iT so o quickly | well as Aa Belerium. 
i¢ is the first of poi’ perdia rwin’s book will, I | that in many 1 stock of so Wir in Dorsetshire. —I have not seen so mach 
onia and a care Sha adoh ed ‘his variation is à | largest growers es ted: nfl annihil ted pn 
am sure, convince ene own heart. The fact of a strong proof of the great hardiness even of very small [s L ion 1 é Biota glauca 
fact after that au Ye and corn on, a as that of stamens plants when taken from a healthy stock, I will just |i ender ge hi P es ae Ta pis | oné oF 
taniorphosis § i ois ere that in the latter end of September last I put Tea, yee trees, have s y d; we oi of ero 
into carpels, crl of the plant i wit ch it isa a batch of seg single eyes from laterals, in an | Palmettes I ha re some years from Bahama, 
view of the affini y and shows che aan Erea sxi our open bed without e ord ator ofa ence. They | I think, nor the 
very frequent on the magnitude or import ted quickly, and “hav ood all this variable and | ornament, Drim s Win teri, - seems ve ry har otf, as also 
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pmag ct 3 aivèrë weather without | ‘the “lightest bine oe until | Tasmania arom: vs ating the frosts in Dobber 
which (according to Dr. last week. It ki tt n 100 plants December peed the lak soa days, the winter has é 
í ypo- | which are perfectly healthy, and I ild Wel had plenty of white Hyacinths, always 
their strong ee will ve be liable to disease. | the earliest, aad Kalisi of various TAS ever since 
è and | This I look upon as a remarkable fact in favour r of | the middle of January, and other spring flowers, 
hace i chapter on classification ; in which he | treating Hollyhocks i “every stage of their existence as | which. nothing is prettier é 
wisdom of ms n the standards by which wè hardy plants, and as an evidence that nursing them up | Lonicera fragra PE abe and Chincnenthus "intone, 
re: = n strong heat and a confine will certainly together with Lithospermum, Convolv. Cneorum and 
coe ste bala Aa G y igh Ù Henry Bowler, Foxhall Load, ait ; igen dnd even Apoubeeths. Think Droa tenni 
ow prone; i are to assume o that a ‘chan nge H fec ide of the late Fro. nb i Vegeta —I ut | form flower this spring, though I 
i itself nine “because it shakes our „systems to | agree | with W. J.” (see p. 1 Fh follow the first year. Pinus del 
th foundation. e di ffere betw st Decem Doctor has p Semer “Aiia or little cones joer two 
forms of the 3 Begonia wa, ye omparable | * without such a _ destructive, Poets _upon " ropotables years, but they drop off young. T. Dorset, Feb. L 
to those between “an it dept at ind i age eros; 3” baba e ETES ETT 
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o they lead us to age Ne * f; S di 6 Darwini fa and presen an anara ‘ruin a to ~ Societies. 
: to $ het st be | frost than the ee amount of cold experience + 
slow, ay elise by the” "scm of ed ons with us never 1 indic cated more than 23° of frost, pae sä Fe u a ae ian E 
low, ak nia, assumin the chair. Josep! c. 
differences; this Begon } uld not have acted so injuriously. h the Broc- Wallich, Esq; M.D., am elected m A. paper 
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Sow Peeni i va “ig ab the colis, both late and early, old wa btished and newly | was read, e of Branching of Amazon 
ai for. 16 confini e wi one “it "of introduced have suffered alike; out of more than Trees,” by R. Spruce, Esq. 
nS š t; p te only; plants not more than 40 miserable looking things | February 16.—G. Bentham, Esq., Vice-President, in 
is conducted with least aad able disturbance on — —— Cabbages have ala rs Parsley paige | the chair. J. H. Belfrage, Esq., W. Coulson, Esg, and 
th digio that class of vegetables, Celery, Pars err Ga ‘ollowi 
oi sgaiat ie of the piant, and rs ae, os Gla Artichokes though protected, ar | et gag oe of New 
5 Il re th royedi Iu moreover tha e marke ealan ” by Ss On a new 
conceive the new form replacing the old ti r the T neers! re “iy W, e ae 
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meri at galiat selection sich my frie a hini Happily, we have had no rain these last four ays, an ag 1 9 ay dh the Homoloie vr the so» = 
his forthcoming new type of Begonia æ has already e glass has been stationary a wt “set fair.” D. James, pie its Operculu um,” by J. ve ‘Donald, Esq., 
dispensed with. Lastly, Dr. Harve ey m makes a a races to his Grace the Duke of Leinster, Carton,|—4. “Notice of the occurrence on Sticklebacks isthe 
ingenious use of the abaan. al flow f the Begonia Maynooth. Hampstead Ponds of Gonen elegans, Nordmann,” 
in seeking the affinity of the curious ees to whi a it} Salt for Walks.—I can add my testimony to the|by C: L. Bradley, Esq. Some sticklebacks ol 
belongs ; and eet it tends to place Begoniacez | perfect destruction of Weeds a nd Moss on carriage | during the present month (February) from th 
Zs APERON and others, | drives and walks by means of rapplicadivlt of salt. It|at Hampstead, were found infested with numeroas 
ides ` | sho rl so that it ma i i rms; these 
with a superior and an | Should be J m e parasitic worms ; were stated to have 
pen washed in before the sun has too much — most numerous ‘onthe fins, but also soma 
iin is one wer, otherwise a kind of whit tallisation will be|over the general surface of the ae ; they wer 
(by. Lindley mach | | left on the _ giving the latter a dull and unplea-  edtaohed by one end to the fish, while the pear entit ad 
and by common on consent si nee), and ti that 4s T ailan sant appearance. l have tried boiling water and sa lt floa ted owe oh This parasite ie the : 
of Saxifrages; in these, and rate in the sam suctorial’ ann P 
lave superior ind inferior ovaries,” free <a sree jing sun; ; but puid rapa it did not prove nearly so stretched oa it measures about J of an ich 
carpels, with several modifications of placentation, efficacious as dry salt when ecto at the “time stated |in length, and about zo in breadth, tapering from 
Epigynous, perigynous, and hypogynous stamens ; above. J. r auld, Hartsb Manor, Bushey, ithe middle towards both ends. In the germ sac’ the 
peculiar ovules of Begonia, its remarkable seeds, and young ones closely resembling the parent, oftentimes 
its reticulated testa. Finally, to the same group Rainfall at at the Knowle, ay g for 1859, mea-|two together, may be seen, and t ve been 
also belongs Sempervivum, which offers another most | *¥7ed by Howard’s Rain-gaug "observed to rons themselves: by p uep, negra the - 
curious fodtands of the conver: i ges ear 4 aT within themselves 
ibas Joe, D. -Hooksr nren E E _ Inches. | ___ Dayse | the progeny of a third generation. It has been already 
ing of B. eye ha sei E CET 2.99 19 described by Nordmann and by Siebold, the latter being 
glad to know whether there is any mode of culture cae $ à ki 4 the first to ZA that it represents a “nursing form of 
which will fruit trees in setting their fruit? I ~ mai % z 3.64 20 aes caly i $fansitionsl ot a 
have an Apricot tree which produces year after year septal pear Sr iceead 1.26 10 a vale as- s- Polysiomu m or Octobothrium. Pes 
a most abun hich pepe wholly barren, due: sip RON a Riek Aa a2 e as originally found by Nordmann on the gills of 
so that I have the disappointment of finding all: my | An BESS RATER EE, 3.93 10 carp, but Siebold has mentioned its occurrence on the 
pains and trouble i in vain, as the blossom falls off, and Seber ee ie 4.64 21 fins of two species of sticklebacks.—5. “Further obser- 
there are scarcely ever half a dozen Apricots on the tree, oo a 5.59 16 vations on the Sg eg <a of Gasteropoda, &e.,” 
hat I am very st coosaful in a i via aisaka + z by J. "D. M‘Donald, Esq., R.N. 
40.12 186 $ 
Somerset È j Pyat Ba Institution: —In s. 
In your our Numbe op Inst ec it | Naber of the lith of Feras (see pp. 1 121 and 129), Reminiscences of the ae i 
“id Morel, of Bar: oF has rais is a statement soon ase and payments of re Institu- = a or the Pursuits on n English Country Gentle- 
ie Sp Tie with the same peculiarity of fi foliage tion for 1859, and if you will look at the debtor By Sir John E. Eardley-Wilmot, Bart. 8yo, 
den Yew and ee It is not, T believe, account I va you will find a mistake of 10001. in the Murray, pp- 
y known that there which, according to the creditor| It was a strange 6 fre ak of a great political newspaper 
cs ti Ten under entivation i in En; gish gardens. | account, init kren aseinty been overlooked. If I am right | to fall foul of the Pho of a great Se Shed 
dling varieties of the common Spruce e | therefore, it might perhaps be well to direct ihe! man, because he did not spend his t n London, i 
A ariegata is | attention of the Secretary to the matter. vung | pester t ouse of oth Stoni with grr har: ng 
Practical. e printed the r re ort as we received it. | The wri eB ete? to which we allude. 
e | It is evidently pian a oe rror of no impor rtance. | to think 20,00 
d “one | jus Stied in the le 
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Tat met with the latter | of the million”. will aise metropolitan sene dome me | promoting 
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at: Fnedon Hall, Northamptonshire ; ; | new pat tented hothouses to recommend them? In what 
er rightl; provement consists? I have carefully examined 
do myt 
b one of Aas bronzy, murky- -looking | the published drawings, ¢ and I not see any hing so | weal 
desire i author in 
says of 
for effect we some- | novel as ence I can 
leaving say day thst they s seem to com y fanciful | truly 
methods, which re to sy "Eo ave pa te | 
usual penalty of ria, mt Beir of afterwards a 
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of his wealth, tu ays a good 
trained very close to the rafter or the glass, and land useful account those mental, ijira, and. worldly 
advantages hier Providence had liberally en- 
in a which is ep 
one side of the growth for f | dowed him.” 
s an e aia, is to show that these are ieai A Veryffew; ater can wth nn a this ea of our 
i hothouses. I really ask for information, |g but would have set it down 
because although I have very y looked into the |" f tho S hallzctnntions r which ei ost gifted 
after week I am unable re seitbaticiven cae ct. Certain it is coved cy 
f this co 
Cin on whose crus 1 ind at fe lished figures week are 
ae i species whose a meee carpels 2 a = merits, After a reply I shall be | ox ails know 
