192 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE — ak ba alin [Manon 8, 1860, 
a demand should arise for them, they would soon ‘be ; and one of the reasons for tl t its greener | c r t ti ithe heats and then the ; after product 
generally cultivated for wi ) | and more plea sing colour. a ; ai less injure regard this plan of 
stematically arranged border ma y afford’ mu hin t nial Bl raised f perat very important and —— attention 
t to botanical amateurs. —The bo eet in | seed. This is, we believe, t the only way i in i à be alw ays paid to'i y eae particu ularly so 
5 
Dees n 
paete ragemen 
i eatise ; and let not | trenched and manured. About the middle or act, &e., at co: commonly à y 
ht thy pate s for after all i may March, or — in April, a ccording as sae seasgn is hot season | of ee year. “Mr. ‘Ransom 1 _informs us that 
effectual yt othe sare: the seeds are sown in whole tl 
a ag nh which are Te A at about 18 inches or 2 feet nar in n the oy to their conversion into extract i is only taps 
in to show m 12 to 16 hours. The produce of Henbane 
t n, fi w] 
a popular 
ey i E 
vl place! 
vA sof an ahei a Makpela with the elements The young plants generally begin í j 
otany, as to decide some knotty long-disputed po o about the end of May or in the first or second w eek of | p ag the season, for hile 
in omea 1 physi ology. It „seems certain that in any June, although if the nae be pda cold o tł the q some years is not more than a ton H 
r J y do not | others it is as mu tiahia ie: tons, or even in rare cases 
the wil of the science He alw WAYS 0 of © till ndeed, still greater. The pede of extract per cw cwt.: also ig 
veini stance from = n, but never left entirely we are ined that it not fe toe ‘happens that | very “variable e; pose re to Mr. Ransom’s epaitan 
behind. FH as ito o ane The bestowe ed by es sa in, it is from 4 Tbs. to 7% lbs. Pharmacenti aceutioag 
of the for ost men are not to be emulated by the | the herb grower in his selection of his seed, and in pre- nal. 
multitude ta more humble class of 1 a j z the grou no re Bis a oc ae Pes ~ 
foll PY at least a portion by the new terri- ail to pene up altogether: e believe that of a 
tory for a iy ager sott le ini ants cultivated by the herb grower,| —-DARWIN ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. © 
mi ye £4} he has to deal with, | _ [We borrow from the Tangs the following pe Notice of 
h fe ust noticed, in the tham vork. whi ch is 1 now att dira RES uch attention. | 
acquisitions } but fev hus far gondes; r es s jus in pees E 
few: very. learned men will write aiai ar vots rks; e b, eaae ari bie esl the giants pan ‘hey make i which no ee imam thi thing z or thought at a t this PPE ee aeng 
h: a communicative spirit is grea on the ipart s 
app osoph ound E 7 who } destroyed at an earl e by insect: » &e „ and and 
ave 
ily, home 
: > men ea even | securely harveats, ta is an ex es Te and latitude 
TRE PS sabe pd pia S, a ag saa Loe ay that 3 7 + ree jas tentative ans Akne lifts us eri ¢ Coane and re 
es our mortality. ce f 
truth, giving their labours a nd their lives to profound | Commence, “if the weather should then become ve ry dr ry, themes, like the Homeric sage, arch baie ec bid 4 m 4 
much :— ‘i 
0 
earc 
i checked in’ their growth, and the plants sometime “*Cities of m 
pursuit 5 toget! ther with a more just appreciation ofe Si And manners, climates, counils, Ba KA % 
—— has arisen a far more practical recog ooh on of a | entirely dried up, and the crop Dyes is ost, and | ot we must end t by: confessing 8 
truth, which may be RREN in wo rds Waa Tae te p the ’ rf ener nd y wa y s of men 
eat mtn ee ge yy toma Sa ahs 
e work re, i 
was made for man, and not man for RREY 3 and snails, i latter of which Scat wt ying | testis, but whic, hase bousida eat i ae re 
The following table is copied from a page oe leaves with great eagerness a ae a we yo approximate. a 
quarto catalogue of the keg in my own siete If the season be fav aval: t the mahere, i something rey ates out of as ben of science, io 
would, howe ver, be far more convenient to “have the plants, as soon as they get well ‘established ey: pro- Se sa ahd a tiie oes 3 asi prow é k itable. 
blonz foli gress rapidly, and about’ the beginning of August i i 
Had Nood aei especially, the leaves, which are dies ebaodartllg large, | moral worl 
inisa SoC TESE make su gress hat, they imes measure filam oreto. 
he Spirea lobata. Spiræa es mee’ Spiræa filipendula. a tele a ena rc The cits eia beyond the ae bars, A 
tica. I sp. produced in the first year’s growth are all stalked, and | is i idin pii te miai, s 
prit Alvi ioni, Bithynia. proceed from the stem underground; hence, they are | historic centuries will be treated as inad 
2. | Dryas ostopstala. Sievernin montana.| Geum coccineum. | termed radical. No aérial stem is produced during the ry 0 c Diane on which we are p! 
N Amat Ton jan: Hih ae firs SR Si Se Jsa ra of a oe st the leaves are | sci ie 
8. ‘aber titolata i eversia triflora. En cut, and immediate! aced in the ing-room, an n for alarm i highly ven 
aa. Men ` y RBS geoides. Wil. dried gradually by “the aid of shooter According Hike an hypothesis a the eminent BE d alist before us, us, confronts oe 
Legh to Mr. Ransom, these first leaves form the staple of | pan be sastat i 
ss Datibarda f faga- Ean fiori- — a9 a dica. | what is Sea sold as “ folia hyoscyami.” After the thing alee; ina E cclenoe. my t may g it Lene og 
Britain. Bri Europe. removal of the leaves, nothing further is done to the | here built up uch skill and patience, but its suffi- 
5, Potentilla Potentilin apes [Potentilla alba. L. | Henbane crop during the first year ex cept that the ciency m re cea: ba — G mand ny iis 
Soot Pies Je Hybrid. | ground i = which it is raised is frequen’ tly hoods in ee o f Galileo. We igh this hypothesis stric 
6. | Potentia ealabra.|Potentilla pedata. Potontilia to prev the we ts, aan m: nly tests w. 
Poir. Russelliana. se A the earth about their are sy The ARNt si shaina inte ant Bea 
Var, Maxima. ai a | | plants continue to grow vigorously throughout Augus ust rk rin is ba but rap T outline, m 
T. [Sibbaldia prò Potentillnvesta: L.| Potentilla triden- | 80d in- the, early sed of September, by which new md 
bens. L. ata. Sol. eaves are soon pr to replace those cut awa sy 
| ERN Promin ano After the beginning of September, vegetation begins t 
ork . 
8. | Potentila Tongii. Potente Potentilla dubia. Pte gen he ez remain gronin gaboui uitiL os ioen E EURE 
New ha nd. Europe. wither away, and, in November, all trace of them above 
Oe] + ae xo ES Potentilla opaca. L ground is lost. he root, however, beitg biennial, |$ 0 
| Bhain, YE per Hiti | survives during the winter, but remains comparatively |i 
10, | Rosa pimpinclli- |Alchemilla alpina.|Alchemilla sericea. | dormant till about the following May, when it begins | abstra action of the hu intellec: ato ti 
| folia. L. L. Wil. to develop an aérial stem with leaves on its surface. | 23twe. Such are a tew of the signification ms attac pad 
4 ple word which may be culled from authoritative e 
PIE IN read before the Historic Society of Should the newly developing parts be then exposed to | and if, leaving terms and theoretical subtleties se, ree 
roaster wishin nna TT Oheshire by Ban “Ren, Henry H. Hig- favourable weather, and succeed in escaping the ravages | to fa n and endeavour to gai 
Rainhill, Prescott, Lancashir of snails, &e., they grow ve pidly, so that towards in 
Fina, Ff a he end beginning of June, the plants some- 
times reach the height of 4 or 5 feet heir 
the end of May, or 
bu 
CULTIVATION OF MEDICINAL PLANTS AT oe height is about 3 feet. The flowering takes pla 
HITCHIN, HERTS. generally, early in Jun e, and n ntinues throughout the 
Ir is now well known i that there are in common mont th, as also i in July FA AGS uit is matured, | one spec: a fortnight’s s 
H d "the where divines ie teins fo once. in 
=, È 
D 
‘Linn.), one of which is biennial (Hyoscyamus niger, When the Hei pins aa fly i iy flower the 
var. a emid and atia other annual (Hyoscyamus seaward of continues 
niger, var. 8. annua yoscyamus agrestis of gel ‘oughout ties “iad | tien ave here t of Say It is 
authors). ‘The Wennial — only is vo by ons ml fd reserve some of ther plants for the leaves, &c., th 
> secret at Hitchin, and for y on ave pan of the remainder being employed in the Aa eg fe = öt 
some years, ae Feds from o4 a land. | extract. Thus, the former have their mature pei 
This variety is ef a under ine name | rr cl ed i the ~— Mina growing in the 
of | Black Hent es have been brought hom laboratory as 
cal fees as anaules a ail 
for 
zE posi and by: s MTO fdapted fo ar: oa the number of distinguis! 
need not, _ purpose; these form the true biennial “folia Kinds of insects 
s] 
Tha Menil Biak Ben bane is that whichisco AN m cine, as they possess much more medi- Tanga 
d (and, as we believe, correctly zoti inal a y than those obtained koan ae hoes 
active variety, and it is there direc ted +6 bea employed Bs in Sth first year of their gro tates 
wth. 
in the pt don Pharmacopeia, The wild plant is also | that the leaves san gadteared at this gts of th the 
usually stated to be more powe ch) in its pine than life of the plant have a very powerful odour, which 
bu 
44} 
that An i 1s cultivat ed, tw „bave pak vel y be 
ory evidence other peri riod of their existence. Some of! species? 
indeed, st a states, that * from yo | ths ey are also penny plucked and dried with 
made so ears ago at the Royal lattea in Edin- the lea eaves. We beli eve this to be ea mis stake, for ids, are 
burgh, the inferiority of enltiveted plants, if a BE deod, tl it arpal imental fact, but that it is a 
ms not apprecia practice. ere is| to them; inde would appear to be the inion | tion of the purity of species. Such a 
probably, therefore, but very little difference in the| of Mr. som also, as r states that he i not eee Lg ee mi ene i o 
la o the > ed, ds its 
i n 
ina arity o cultivated and wild Henbane. | consider it desirable to mix many flowers with the 
t is satisfac try to e Te is Sia act, as | leaves. m the same ps several gatherings of | and Rev. 
wl oyed fa extensively for our | leaves take place during the season, and when their | #Se"ts 
vely 
7 Seely from Bot KN plants; RS collection has terminated, the plants from which they | but he goes so far 
w by no undani p ave been 
y fro fo 
it be allowed to remain in heaps for | 
