Apri 14, 1860. THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 339 
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Petunia, which are aid to be succeeded by yellowish daily, \ weekly, ape ‘nas onthly periodicals, as well as a| the best of the genus; the flowers are “golden a yellon, 
en berries, and is altogether a plant of, suffici ie ent catal bgu of the of the year. lar rge, and produc ed in great profusi on; there m 
a useful he. Quarterly. Reviews referred to are, the t 
acquisition Sr our flower vorder: in summer, It 
is | burg h, _Reasarly tish, London, North ern time we saw it. The Mango tree was in flower aA 
not hardy eno ugh to stand out-of-doors in winter. | North, American, 5 etawali and Bentley’s. The | fruit seemed likely to set on it. In the Orchid Bs 
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The same eit also sent a very pretty y red trip 
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ed.| Mon ao etiga wood’s, Gentleman’s, Fraser’s, Col- |there are some good things not often seen in bloom. 
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Am Fhe v forcing, and the rare New Zealand Fer 
‘odea a | Monthly, ublin niversity, and Macmillan’s. | the Orchids sent to any of our flower shows, seems 
ellucida. An w Clerodendron, bearing a large head | Weeklies—Athenzeum, Literary ated Critic, Satur- | be well adapted for cultivating as an exhibition plant. 
Te orange red han. was exhibited by Mr. Veitch. day Review, ene snilde , Econ i Nant, The flowers are large and prettily barred with dark 
5.—The President in the chair. 
Cc and Exam ly: Occa- is 
sional Publications a ennaa ctione of the | to expand its first blossom 
April 
Be Squire ete and L. Barrett, Es: ite were ae learned Societies, manera. ndy Parliam entary. Papers,| The Ferns, of which ein is so fine a collection 
J ead :— “On dd i 
WS. The fo lowing | papers were 
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whe ere i af & appe are esirable, M nes, Reviews, and | Glasnevin, are Pgh a g to get into goo ood fi frond after 
pers, indexed, of whic ires | the winter. will, however, take another month to 
wal och re > by Jo Jonathan Couch, Esq.— 
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erence, are entered in the alphabet. under | bring the i species. into their best condition, The 
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communicated by Mr. Surg sds yt ‘alt s through the their ‘subjects to give the inform nation of such public ca- | half hardy Tree Ferns which are growing in the large 
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ident Ly f which they treat. central conservatory are beginning to have a grand 
Bentha! i: pes EKNE of oN 7 A subscription of t mall sum oe is 4d. annually | effect. Alsophila australis has already fronds on it from 
on the natural order Ternstræmiaceæ, and embodied | ensures the punctual St of the work quarterly. 10 to 12 feet high. Di sonia antarctica, Dicksonia 
the considerati which suggested themselves to the| Routledge’s I/lustrated ‘Natural History, Part XIII, | squarrosa, Cyathea medullaris, and Cyathea deal- 
author making a complete revision of the order | for April, continues the ry of Rodent ani mimals,|bata are making fine plants. The ae ee 
for the new Gene he is preparing in con- | among which our little friend the Guinea Pig is con- little on the wane when we 
ction with Hooker. Respecting Camellia, Mr. | spicuous, alo h Rabbits, the Gerboa, | they must have been fine. Among the fet, Rr sorts 
en observed:—“ The genus Camellia, has been | Dormice, and ps ‘ers naa of Squirrels. It com- | were = singers and C. Perfection. Among 
lately monographised x Seemann. He admits that |mences the subject of The excellent ToT Por whites, the old dor uble and fimbriata are still 
the separation of Thea, as limited b the older authors have = ae none of ate r high. p Beara as works of art. | favourites. ] `l ow house, 100 feet 
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fith ng the havi lready pro- i art VI. the edition of Ure’s Riikoiiry long, has lately Noes built, for 
> sed its EA Kai m illias ; bu t by tno of Arts, Manufactures, yee Mines commences Vol. 2. | atitiang ue plants in. This is considered the greatest 
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general: interest are Diamond, | desideratum which has been pro neha d in the way 
time. The b ack w 
— has obtained more Seen daly for Thea, Disinfectant, Distillation, Diving 1 Rell, ma The house accommodation | for s some tim 
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hi set oup forms a mnch cul natural and Pie with sashes lifting up on hinges my bee 
better antaii genus, having the =e > third Book of “ The Graduated Series of R rs A it, for pro pagating in, and. Sr holding A Skins 
a Fordonie with a well noka ys ing gen Books” (Longmans) is out. It raat SO and other plants during winter. cts of the 
Seemann’s gen volume of 304 pages, containing r — lessons in | late severe weather are visible a at Ki e ea 
better pong as a n distinct tigak, Leet artificial Travels, History, A al History, P and Miscel- | plants, some of which are only now showing the injury 
section of it. Bentham posed to u e | laneous matters. The aa appear tobe 2 well selected, | they ] have rapivod: Until very lately they appeared 
Bas of 1 Jussien w ith Phe T A; imb after. limb is becoming brown, 
they seem, he obse Josel ted wit} ; g xoduced. | and withering i some. of. them as active growth ad- 
the tribe of Tı 
e fea ah hie is as to be necessarily | 
included in the same family. In nem at the olay ( 
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Mr. Spruce, the author observed thath ~ odi a, nit ¢ intend | 21 lig ey: mater rappers and Ventila ation, with a er at present. Whilst looking through the early 
to adopt the genus recently proposed by Triana, under | 7° 
the tho name of} of Ri iconii tea, for certain ape of Doliocarpus, 
he fruits are less succulent than isus m in | acquisitions to the welcome harbin = 
par. 
that genus, and open in two valves when quite r pe Manan anda. a Ed the newly introduced weeks “of Helleborax or 
* Important as is in most cases. the eens beleen | GLAS: N. BOTANICO GARDEN.—Last. week we. paid | what our readers may know by the old-fashioned name 
a eee nd a capsule nied by Any 0 this extensive ain where we at of Christm mas Bao , Mahalorus nfrornbeni, purpu- 
other ch active operations. going on for spring and summer | rasce ympicus, ntalis, pte odorus e hardy 
vances, indicatin ng that we do not yet know to what 
ae IVED.—: rab WEEK s & Co extent they have been hurt consequently, we consi 
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tories, Gre enhou; it better T delay any. observations on this sia 
improved arrangements, Mam 
pict oie Soi ats and ekg explanatory matter. ý 
per se as to be always absolutely sakes 
CAL OF EDINBURGH: Feb, 9.— Prof: Balfour, Island Pine, but now occupied chiefly with N such as 
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work, and also saw many fine plants in flower. The | bor pse oe are ah in n ate a Tae The old 
high octagon house, former] ailt for the Norfolk | genus Epimedium furnishes some good hia =r 
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be Vv i oe by J. Lgaatih wikia M.D, 
n this paper the author endeayoured. to show 
tat i in thee plants there is noticed, in their early stage | covered. 
he hardier sorts of ee alms, has, lately zersionlon, and E. pamily, But e treats as novelty 
f ich the. d 
pas 1 this d eek BE sdai Aai 
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the finest white ‘arboreum | tra ller growi 
album, we late seen, was in full flower in this, house. The Yee are Kaden 
ak ae 
The Dah h blo. tub, stood 14 feet. high, and was hie, gpa of af He Sha Aia 2 Fela sear | 
red pig an ak he considered this as she fae tne aah pene old soil in which BESAR. Water Lily flowered so |be the case or no, it is an 
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were. basy, in the Victoria House removing Paes in an mer tise es collection; but. whether oie 
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well last year, and making other fly rations for the | hardy Ded bo order Ery e Set bloom at 
bis uring. the nay Rodo. this | period of rmers’ Gazette $ is 
Rev, | W. C. Tho omso lan 1 to William Oliphant, Esq.” i 
2 tom Mt: Thainson Po ba fod Mollet aaae ieh Be aa eee t Miscellaneous. 
TF on acesubt OEL ENANTO, D t se, . jas, pa ises, Hovea 1d other ving awering Keeping Fruit. —In the followin str accompany- : 
Hooks ing specimens of the Water Fern, and gi two S5 be e Bax? remarkal le thon, is | ing some fruit of the Winter Nelis Pear, Mr. t 
Aea ede i E _ which is mow in flower. The | Welbeck, recommended bran for the purpose of keeping 
a plant or two, floating amid sheets ofthe little Moss tear the | flower s noble Amar; fiis-looking plant is | and of packing fruit. He ee —“I find bran the 
Eeka in parta whero the current ran less rapidly, its aerial nearly 15 te feet hg i the flowers are produced in a best of all substances for packing’ latë Apples and Ti 
the srfaes, while tee AA tant above | Jarge bunch at its top. Many of the spring-lowering | in shallow bores. They rent nó care sitters 
ents a little beneath, being. sn el Se 3 alia: ic ‘in the Heath house, which ks mpm gegen 
natant. What ts in it tome ie ite noe ty te tr gay. i The large Palm — ta me ih high, is | jars and boxes, it is usually too wet or o dip, ad 
, the ion z. propagat with ita apleiid me of sates, 
Nace! tas py marginal buds | have-already makoi È to a - Tt is evident that |I have no hesitation in saying, that by keeping the 
a is =e eee thors following with more room must ceo eer sa plied: for these noble. folowing varieties of late Pears and Apples packed in 
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a decay of the mother fro 
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b | feet dons in pe ae pa the singular forms i in the | Albert, on ve Clere de Laval. 
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t which, ithigh not akini. to that carious! ‘tribe, appeared Orange Pipe, Ribston Pip 
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plants, and w to be informed that | bran, I s e able be paer dishes of those fruits for 
an es timate į is now before | the Lords of the Treasury for he ‘he lesser’ i ‘all the roun pe Pelee 
a sum to build a house of much larger dimensions. rré, Doyenné VHiver Nouveau, Ji ne de 
good many Palms have already flowered, and we | Mi linas rn hny Q’ Esperen, Winter Nelis, Ne fe Plus 
observed a fine specimen of Chamzrops Martiana, 30| Meuris, Zéphirin Grégoire, Beurr 
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namely. 
Bearn’s Pi 
well 
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> rous character i: 
‘the Palms of the Feejee Tslands,” by | astonished our then untutored eyes, 
a nto tact rhe ths |-and-boatial deo © Since then 
p plants with 
feet 
matey ca forking varieties o 
<a oks, : 
Under the 1859 (Senne 
-the year 
Bere See nent 
ave Fra ees peep 
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our younger days the first ion we saw ‘of 
with 
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last week there were from 100 
on it, and it was then past its best. 
for arn scat &e a we found anothi 
lant in flower, v 
tt native of Saisie, ‘and co msidered one of th gei 
for | splendid floweri ering plants of that island, so rich with | receiv: 
a | luxuriant vegetation. The 
bunches at ped array of. oY its rag 
deep, pink ore om In Bid 
POE Bignonia Tw 
