r 
456 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. (Max 19, 1860, 
and in the midst of their tissues, cspecia ially ae oe New Plants. use the microscope he wonld not be more successful. 
Sa point of attachment. Tore however the Ånd Ati the chaff on the receptacles of the Sunflo ower 
mblance anea p there is not the Sen C. cruentum ; foliis Inflorescentia habitu Cle: ardent maet aolid minses ‘like 
trace ie iti 7 Was ogres aaa. Aa va Brai i A néo folinceo aaae ‘punctate, aE ite Tr ‘es, black ‘externally and white Piri but 
in cart corollé cru and on 
Now it is Het diffioul r Abra to culture or the plant Esi was exhibited a few weeks | Cabbage leaves and Unions he fiuds hundreds or sha 
specimens, without any information as to c he since by Mes a . Veitch (see ante, pee and a noble | thousands of little grains so closely e iS 'abbage 
peculiar outward conditions, to pronounce as to the i ie leaves are p green, oblong, r Onion seed that he is almost inclined to believe that 
cause of dis he bu From the diseased appearance 10 ‘ines in A Jesih by a| they h ture, a 
4 in breadth: oe {here is 
however ofi the lbs and noe our attention must fine branching panicle of blood r red aowa 
of s e shrubs, But iti is 
PI 
merely the ekar or winter wot eh of certain 
Fu 
which adhered to the 
ngi of various kin ads, which i in due season 
ri 
like 
mneropbylam ror eled. Cl. phyllomega), t that it may 
be oe is a it is iken nically distinct. 
rich red, not a dirty } white, 
in the 
h da 
least clear tha t there is is a considerable ere as | 
= poob decomposed venetable matter likely 
n of which we thin ie mad 
we should not at all w ` i 
; at coro mes 
pe noe Ea Sara t| glandular fur, and the 
„calyx 3 ins 
thie h 
s nature i is 
ng the evil 
risen from this particular circumstance, the cause ponia; andi dorod, oo 
as still be sought aan e meN surfa Sia of the so il | at any ‘rate distinct enough ina P orks point nt of 
very narr 
shh] 
n ain for 
bed for the 
others we fre 
bodi 
m s in this 
pean of several Fungi, and amongst 
uently observe as o 
the diseases whi t plants, view. „Jt was found by Mr, Thomas Lobb 
where not produced.) by parasitic Fungi, are due AE tronidal Alte 
the bad condition of the ee Th i LA poin int 
eee A Il. 
AGa —One of a great | a 
| af nities" whit ror ds the wendy of Fungi arises 
is assumed by the 
condition the; <a 
ert 
nT | from the great — of a and character | | 
fi 
Tr es a Ph b 
us, under er cor- 
aa gh t the ey have lit he gene: saa aspect, 
at "nothing in point of structure to to tify such a 
aee After a time these tubers fall to i Aras 
oduce me as 
e to the o 
Pee 
roper 
ruit, w ack dees 
Cied and are then fertile. This fally raped nts of 
e d 
mie referred to dist tinct, genera. d the 
sm oth Agaric, with a ss slender slightly m 
ealy 
J ollen more n the centre, mid be 
a 
perp 
El basia ider diferent conditions two or 
flat head 
ligh ached g ills. en it springs from the 
bo 
ned Id = the ihi hater at the base 
woodstacks is used, such instances are very ire ~~ of fru X may be — gr 
quent, cain ally in pot culture. Thousands of |) safest rule, where no fructification is produced | j 
seedli lings an young cuttings da amp off fro br in $u aa temporary or abnormal states, is to be almost 
fact that it ig | sure that the produc n e esti 
o! 
athe 
round, ite nal nature may be overlooked except ere 
e Be = 
t IRN and patience of icons with. little st after 
whole interest of | this little A 
open air culture; whether the objects of cultiva- ie. 
tion be small, like the Strawberry, or large, as t s conn , taken in connection with 
Larch n ara. We se that oe ing j Beyond this 
it has no akl n ons, ar some ec ion “it 
Godar 
The abject, Can will Fs De without its use, | 
though it contains n roni Taire we D, ‘ae it 
leads emtia e for 
ey past os stat Wide 
iving at a pr rofitabe . pas than by 
j partie s, however well informed, who © 
the roe pA of the case give only a ps 
Opinion. M. J. B. 
We observe with no little peer that the 
deners at Kew are now ing regular 
ANICAL InstRUCTION from Mr, t 
will be seen that there are 
ea ubers of a very 
nature, at least to the ontan e whieh” D S 
own importance even in an eco: of v 
It may not be un 
si m 
instance many years 
since, and Mr. Currey, wis bids “ir aie follow in the 
steps of the Messrs. Stes in the Mycology, 
vio fig successful in several vere: i e important 
AE R 
‘CULTIVATION OF MEDICINAL PLANTS AT 
HITCHIN, TS. 
HERT: 
—Belladonna or Deadly Nightshade 
(Atrope Belladonne, Linn.) has been seerrates ü 
tchin, more or less, for Al —_ 30 It 
Mess; m an 
_ been, i 4 evidence of the medicinal activity of the 
_ growing, neglect of eae else, diminished by ultivation, expressed a like opinion 
as 50 ye man fancied that he must be | upon the comparative activity of wild and cultivated 
a er if oe S aai of inui Kenes hen ee upon that plant in the present 
x en take was found out volume 'harı conmisal nal, at page 414, 
a reaction took place, and botany was discou 5 and the same E reie which there made upon 
tion concen upon mere cultivation. it, we also apply to Belladonna, namely—that it isin 
It is time that this should be changed. impor ontehines,, bak tare. is 2 hese? 
dener o to know Hy“ lic’ little difference in the medicinal activity of the wild and 
plant, but its name, its structure, its native cultiva! lants; for Bellad is employed at the 
country, and the climate of that country; unless, pasion 2 00. extensive sagt = 
pracy tty Here sie t Beco ; in this md is, moreoy 
think 2 Resomning: less 96 every year, sph a sousve of supp! 
of botany I Ake become exhausted. nae 
hy pier a — ga -|day, we know that + parations of 
Can’t Belladonna, in in ag e made from the 
a plant PAE Moats 
He 
an grow 
himself about the name ‘of the thing?” 
praene a 
as well inquire the use of decent gape seeing RICUS TUBEROSUS. 
that e of rags would oP him ~war : Natural size. eon by permiacicn from Greville’s 
We hope to see the di ay W Scottish Cryptogamic Flora.) mane pa area respecting them. I ia tat 
public body will h horticulture | and not evi idently related to athens even though fru Belladon mna is found tre m t Tna bebe ae 
n to every sade granting c r de egree of caution, on commonly in a | my ioil, in E ie i rind Aei 
cates to none who ible to t real limits of the | ruins. At Hitchin, we nee n both the cultivators of 
s gi soll to t = grow it, as is ible, in eer 
4 E a E SE i i 
ing | piant i in fb ome may be. 
d re 1 g 
s possi 
ch it aa cout wil 
ry d Per 
, | ing to the first class. If he picks up the A aeapon k head 
of a a : Sonflowar or Artichoke, if he examines t the pith i in 
| thei rotting stems, 
whi 
s pr sie sated in two ways at gs et is, by 
division of its roo ts, anı nd fro m seed. Whe 
SAL divi — one 
y up fo r Winter use, OF at be searches amongst the 4 fallen 
rn zo iE divided, a 
E 
+ 
4 
mhich pale noi more than a uniform | mass co 
ıd if he were to 
about ee E about o one "foot 
between each pe in a ‘tap sti nd soil. After 
Brn sto 
EE ee ane ee SS Fe ee ee a oe 
Se O 
