June 30, 1860. | THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 599 
ERE aaa Gia Gat in a Ths in Gh Ee r Se 
ce ae ea OW OF AMERICAN ANTS. [iba rT into the structure, without e previous | simil certain conditions to that which 
OHN WA Kieg: cr = o Pe ke announce that oval of the sapwood, which is ea already | is patito: ty Tana on Oak in woods both in 
his Collection of HA H SoA RLE T and o thet GHOLDR sete fangous pa tb be allowed, _the tale sees e mE poira a, belongs evidently to 
ners who contem: 
anti ray gratuitously by Fellows of the Societ ty, 
The 
wicadly pre! different circumstances, and w. 
sli 
t one which at present a 
s finis yer ver occurred ono other than mae wood. 
spea onfi 
n of Fungi on vegetable cells varjes 
ith 
n are 
aimi A hostit to JoHN k, American Nursery, Bag- | different species. The slightest contact of "the 
shot, Surrey, near Sunningdale, “South-Western Misael threads of which their spawn is composed with|no less extensive than our European series of 
naa m Plants at the Nursery are now in fi erfectio: livi P ri foll ad vels cies, 
EW ROSES FOR 1860.—Plants are now ready |; S. E fer tain a AS ts spe 
at 5i. rade price 36s. perdozen. A DESCRIPTIVE ich ace ads rapidly to} Nor indeed can we with the slightest Psion 
, hi rer! on application to BENJAMIN R. Cant, St, John | the neighbouring: parts, as in the Fungus of the | point itt any species peculiar to to Oak of whi ch it 
Street Nursery, Colch Potato- pee the Grape-milde or, the little | may be a fob The species which’ comes the 
TER E BES T. ROS S (New anD Oxp).—The finest | Fusispori whi ithe s lately described » nearest to it is Polyporus vitreus, ch agrees 
sod ORES erin a aa een ae journal * aan g Agrostis por 8D the | with it in the great development of the stratum 
j e CATA re Conifers | beneath the pores, but if our only British specimen 
mpor 
a 
” | mould which Hr = destructivo va 
of our mo 
vs nd other plan is identical with that 
ee 
of FRIES, it is very different. 
ages of which wore fully deta tailed | Of th nl ai ak, 
o which most com 
kane a Sie 
OHN STANDISH, di ma ioy a the folowing P bn aed 
can assure oy 
dition for sending 
h 
urseries, the a on , 
or three years olyporus vaporarius is too ent in the 
EE: Ae of the pores, and P. v ciljne i is tonne: 
able when nel developed for the almost mes 
agh hae is pot the sal 
ne other nae spawn of Fungi par irorertos fhe! 
cells for some mene without PE muc ch a 
MYOSOTIDIUM ; NOELLE o 
B 
leaves, 8 nches acri k glossy green, 
up -ANa trusses of ‘bloom of the most bodutita ‘blue 
and white, sim milar to a Forget-me-not, but of a gian 
is Lge ara = Curtis's Ss tM 
ae named Cynoglossum nobile by D: 
ur last year’s Volume, page 240. It is see) $e or 
the encomiums that have Nei passed upon it, 
—The largest flower of all yet 
FE a eo Me ak flower being 
lants, 3 es high, 7s. 
ach ; 60s. per l. per 100. 
PHLOX MRS. STANDISH. The urest white, with a 
red eye, 5s. each. Also a largo. ca at gs the finest kin 
which J. 8. has sova Ee ast s er and in every 
cas Pants fom dioi 28. 6d. each. 
A CATALOGUE ra a full Paik of. the best 
Hardy Plants in bag poe eg ie ona 
The Royal N 
OYAL = (0) TA Äi N IC SHOW, 
REGENT’S PARK, PA „ge pie. WIFE , 
Py SA Medal tra, omii rst re of Prizes 
o i “Page On es A Moss, Esq, The Mills 
Ohadw ll Heath, or a dish of Muscat Grapes 
al orien | 
URDAY, JUNE 30, 1860. | 
MEE 
NDAY, July 2—Entomologi ical os 
Wasresiax, 4—Royal Botanic 
Tuurspay 5—Pomological. .. 
Pomme 
wee 
rocess of ke rene which takes place 
n wood occasionally wetted with wa m or iù 
ith dam eatl 
; | Fungi, till the time comes for their erTi parasiti ais 
se | 
rm. n. | modify the general appearance of the mother plan 
pplication to 3 
$ have spread beyon oe 
make identity 
Pol we us Yaitant Aa kai the 
spawn when TT developed, but 
two, 
Topan 
impossibles 
same stri 
he 
n its e aia 
ugh it 
arasite may ru 
and even then the y 
without inducing positive decay, t ikea wr ato 
No one in the pres Fe ay is inclined 
bute wee 4 growths rage equi «Babe or ph 7 
generation. It is sufficient, therefore, to acknow- ` 
ledge the difficulty and to recommend He solution 
to future aana 
P. vulgar pig 
a re Sea ‘isk 
In a third set of ins cm “a so long as the vill 
are endowed with v y the naw may be 
pre esent without schiet, ‘at when they are eats 
hi time, it at le ength 
increases, with greater or less rapidity, purely at 
their expense, 
This | 
t ; for 
it is q iI penetrate into the ti 
Thu det how ever is ; clear, and it is precisely 
Y stated more than 40 years ago when 
ned th the Royal Charlotte, which was con- 
what t Sow 
akes | 
towards the aperture and oozes out Hoy th 
` a barah ee have seen pen on eine 
ed from India, where FH 
yeast stir TO i 
n Deal, and more especial yi from that 
| which i A 5 prevaleh nt in dom aaa S 
re Oak alone i aoe nor 
gh we seen a particle of Thelephora puteana or 
the one or two allied eee which are very 
destrutivo i in ie structures, 
Polyporus dorinio us has been de na a i as 
s.i: osed by the ae a some larva, but in 
ar Be gy interna’ 
ry-r 
a itn “of an Oni, beam, ra we 
go m can e: easto; the. To nt 
with which ge markably 
ote ipped from | 
active vendita 
and left acc side 
7 
d 
d on 
w cas er fully or only im- 
devlp does pot Maia ar to eae 
etrie like Era 
ways- 
its develo 
to conceal entirely its Seat imes it Larohes pi ae 
SUALACULLE 
g 
Siia +h 
from their 
Beak 
Chatham 
= 
d by the iera md of" the 
baile gi age he Mp eiA | 
y it sends out saat tm 
Cati M orage which te aye every direction 
and | penetrate e smallest vices, Where i it is querci 
m decayed pade rg in one 
| ovuntey.. Tn greenhouses built of Oak, Dedalea 
na oer 
but in these cases the Fungi whi 
ach high and and Fo at times to - 
the plat temperate veral months before 
mep 
- | masses, o 
| make their appearance are mere 7 forms 
Indeed we were surprised a 32 almost to total 
e | absence Be Noma Pa than Po s bridus 
often 2 or 3 feet in length and several 
ig sa broad, siort showing 
npg ation, e Prince Gat ati Ports- 
the Arethusa at Chatham, which w 
thelr true spec’ 
E p% some pam that decay 
po were spe owe not t yield the sales 
a rtsmouth wigni rs ede have 
been proces to have been likely to afford a rich 
and as | harvest Z otiak Though ev 
ea pre vail 
Saeed ill go on though the ori 
been Son. "But whether the Emar ii 
da of the partly decayed timbers can still po 
paing be changed, "the balance having once | 
only in 
| shove the screw that wi} 
perfect 
pit 
had -s ubbed, to remove ft only Fungi but 
¢ h 
ie tt freon Cavett oa = a Shiels peth ie 
ecte 
re able to detect 
jp in p a 
ira resent, We 
n disturbed, is perhaps beyond tl y 
one to assert upon sufficient experience. 
rot Eea 
cles. pe 
specimen of Pazi es s panuoides 
patches s of Polyps rus h ybridus, pts some im) 
been known for ma a ye unde r the name of 
— 
1 
4} 
wae we can speak of | it only on the report of 
h sent oe its b 
the 
nd, | Speen or spawn | mycelium conspicuously. into ¢ 
y fou 
whi ch mig my belong 
genera of Fungi, is really 
other than t “see 
SoWERBY under 
vp various species of some pdc jint occurred in the Caro ara 
olyporus, and none month; but in the on Regent and 
ears ago weenie 
pane 
Iain a9 atnctly sence 
-xperimer Sew nai this van nl 
Sein ein 
p Viz. 
e conditions which fi 
the kind ‘of fen o déeulit isin we whi oat 
common in ships even where no Fungi pine their 
ra, are conducive to the 
of damp ir withou 
ee “that his figure might ave beats aka belive about 1818, ma sane 
y. resupinate, without the | the rele heh pa most | 
as might be} admit wa ugh ; 
rka i Kydes 
| trace, as might be npp of such spe ecies as. 
are all 
either of the Ero latter is a obri kse ere due 
again 
d, and 
non timbe 
viz. Po pee meee ae 
in 
F wher 
r in the dock- | Every she had bg ori; real washed with sáb 
ide of iron, as e believe, a common prac- 
of specimens are to b 
India ; but wih: ary precise view is not 
| yards petore jia ae a wyi 
3 mairean as made inst the fir If, | 
_ however, in addition to these the pe iia i of 
