THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 
| Jury 14, 1860. 
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fi tly parallel. Among| tried from the first and iets so well dealt with as it{and wait. Its continuous lateral growth and exquisit 
Beis “exceptions “ey otee. aeta cevowehandh ci might have been had I own what I now know li Sahne $ of er v conog them that Bere Pa 
l f 5, OF Tes ecting it. Not long since, at the kind invita- | plant that ma; pu 1 
tks ‘nultip! ae ayete iry PMO th po of Me M ongrediin, I saw the original lawn and profitable in . ‘all. i ; © good 
horls. ote "Nor ot Hill, and learnt rE Mr. Summers,| I were laying-out a geome ric a? and 
Tity amiet ren are in Barberry, is “ Spergula Summe .? the poor ents of treat ment. especially fete cer age tin the g à be 
ale r | The ere is ae in pa way of garde ed a cl 
aa ann e ws beg 2 oral wori B th of Spergula lawn ; to talk of Turkey | ines, neat and c an has to ee proper 
observe i tranen Pond . &c. 1 would a meh on “Gras ba e cost x 
N.B. An example of 5 stamens ye arrest of on) a in by ‘man. that took the footfall so softly, gently, a ee an inch. To o surface the und in a rootery 
brelitai tyledon ingly as that, for with a >| or ergula an Së : 
Spat in sh _ But no British Monocotyledo: | elas tie feeling without as the soil at all, ‘for the | and then no fear of summer Jonii K spoil the 
f artificially dividi 1 c- | greenness own as if it knewthe ¢ 
A eene og goonies ak Me eond i dI p h to New Zealand through the centre of 
into three; as illustrated on the nine Botan cal | son to it buta pi- ion EF swan’s — the sac ond if you take year-old t you may 
Diagrams prepared cai the Government ewes To rhc ue such a surfacing m ab hae ork of time, | dig cop to find the forrest of its spongioles. Where 
of Science and Art : and it i: to be ever that a plant ot owas kind | the roots of Mr. gredien’s piece are gone to might 
Groups: | Should ‘tei forth all i rits until > few hel elp ‘he me conclusions respecting thé internal 
Sect. 1. Thalamifloral T. |years have elapsed ous ‘dl he dat osori it : t 
Division 1. — 2. Calyetioral +- II. | submitte o the public. This oe p awn e comes a question. Is Spergula a pilifera the 
I figi Angiospernous ae me Ya IL jon a stubborn clay, on a steep slope, mes the only ‘pan os will ao ny What is that little thing 
oh iiin — : ies om plete .. orth, and gives its glorious verdure a softness to a tha tufts in Bl beds and Aha ery often j sa 
a a  \ermnorpermous $ bec where turf wo robal arb eat oa peaty mixtur es where the 
PR i, Sect vast deal to keep it decent. I did trinage is a little Sad Js it not Sagi ina pro- 
Class IÈ Newer fs acai = S SH wrong in the first instance lot of prime | cumbens, that > we root 
Mono- ; ; Hyacinth co’ for my circle; the clay which we |i i That makes charming 
cotyledons. | Division 2. a ._.. VIIL | have here for a subsoil would have been the v tufi t may prove to be a law 
eeemceons 3 for it. Then I did wrong to complain of its colour in| plant for sour = pe worn-out peat, as $ h 
~~ Linnean System: its expositi ducationally valu- the first winter f from — ng plants, eing | pilifera is for the #1 tubborn clay. in my piece I 
able ; its application penang serviceable. 
frost made ice of the ie and a me plant | on a rockery a tuft of Spergula nodosa, ‘which i is of 
Physiological Botany. cate: able Anatomy reveals | unduly because it was oy’ = k enough mfo rt | ano other ti nt of green to pilifera, and for all I know as 
the “ Elementary Organs,” sele Ducts, Spiral Vessels | itself. These Geni rains, however, with. How many such 
aryllis, Agave, Nelun wak. Inte poui pas- | growing ai emendous rate, and afier the roller has plants are there? Will Dr. I 
oody-fibre (Ex. Cata- | b But | with a handful re Botánica perie yo willt the 
ween i the 
ons) distinguished from Elongated Cells. (Ex, Coton 
of | 0 
there is another reason 1 why it was most unreasonable 
from Peruvian for ing a croscopic preparatio’ of me to complain. 
Epidermis, Pubese 
All Veg ni eep, carted in 
compounds prepared he Plants.—1, Non- gh A Wa aoe and cane ihe bed with Aai eratan: 
(Ex. Starch, Dextrine, Sugar) of ys Oxygen, and | species. I put down planks, and made a speech on the 
Hydrogen. 2. Nitrogenous (Ex men, Fibrin, | inviolability of pees seg ee in spite of me the | i 
Casein, Glu uten) o of Carbon, Oxygen, mae: ydrogen, and | fellows Bae or plac most to a paste, 
Hortic ult ural Soc take all these promising turfing 
ie their values inter se, and as to 
l es for this or that soil, and this 
o that clim 5 Me awhile let those eam 
ut Sperg 2 pilifera substitute action for dreaming, 
and instead of new patent lawn mowers, let ingenious 
inventors turn thei eir attention to the _ production of 
So ia 
es dc Ini 
po Faf ‘thing it w 
4 = 11b. of Potatoes and 11b. of Flesh; and their proper- 
| vanished siogetien ee in spite of the eraai of 
ching December 
as Flesh-formers, and Heat-givers. feet and wheelbarro uring a drenching 
bag onion oeth, in Dicotyledons, reveals the age | week, every scrap that was crushed has started u 
of Trees; preserves all blemishes s narodi d by prun- agiis like so many vegetable Phoenixes, and every m 
ing; and enables the wood of t a seedlin g fro m self- sown — ~~“ t — ‘hs 
in their i wee “Endogenous grow wth, | and w 
in Monocoty! cee a ad s eating, and ramat ie pardek 
K Crne A Last year’s are now r 
z yo yeti July the wn 
what th 
Flowering Parasites depends a 
ending sa ap (E x. Mistletoe, Misodendron, Rattle); or 
@c on the descending sa, Aati Dodder, Orobanche). 
EIl 
E ei of some peculiar prin- 
Order. Ex. 
ikh from Aconite). Ex. Nar- 
Ex. Aro- 
LEC 
Economic Botany.—. 
ciple in many EA of the same Natural 
Acrid in Ranunculanths (Bi 
rs. m: io 
Wood, in carpentry ; ans; Guiana me -pipe. 
ba fibr 
es en 
fir ke ea tras Moss, and the ae s of its swan-down ury | 
be densely turfed, 
Why, it will begin to live it pti Suppose he Erh 
ae the emerald swan’s-down. Shirley Hibberd, Stoke 
Newing 
me Cor vaenaene 
Education i: rmer y which 
w | I sent you on this subject Er mid, hi “Give better wages, 
eke to ee batter ge instance, hae 
> 89. 
ris gets his 
follows? 12s. per week ir 
a fresh growth goes o: above. Thus the felt holds 
moisture 1 in the  dryest and hottest weather, an nd whe en 
ES 
“ale. I saw by a piece of the Spergula, which M eek in a gentleman’s pkg wil be the revad d 
Sum rs cut with his knife, that the stuff makes a | years of dere and self- denial. mt sh d like t 
Sbedcs "felt } by aa qora T ia cana 
a good many examinations cS Chiswick, and could 
tell w Detter than any man living of what vali 
Onl 
essed as the foot 
zg 
be p t, and make a tired man forget for the time 
the Sri of his body. 
o have brought my piece to perfection quickly I 
Teaves, Sold have used Heri tufts instead of seeds, and 
ps Se Tables, iting, ses Dean nes a eee thes it should hav ve ha d of water the — — If, 
i nut; its endocarp, for turnery, in Coan illa. aving ay anato seg ial, | 
in 
Seed. The Albumen, as fruit in Cocoa-nut ; Betel, for 
nut Palm 
e others will be “ake are feolfne ‘a “gt = 
po 
humou and S deserves humouring as much 
> in Ivory-nu m d Palmetto. ja ti alia ati 
arious Organic produc Sago (Metroxylon Rum- | ae aaa abt SA ah 
ng y some hard things have been 
D5 W tow (Ceroxylon, “cana liba 5, Oi (Oil-Palm, said about py The sample at Messrs. H ende: rson’ s is no 
it to them fit tł 
am). a caper of 
acids, in 
cerine from ar earic, | ag 
» and 
nly a very tele, I believe, of the pri 
a situation. After p: he most 
pie 
brilliant ia arr, one was returned to Chiswick, 
his master ering one of the officers of thi 
Garden not know even how to tie! 
Lettuce up. on Diploma. [A fiction]. In r i 
to premiums I do not altogether agree witt f — 
“An us Lad,” who says “that the whole a one 
premium paying seems to be a kind of bribe whid | 
etters a man in the ihai of his duty.” 2 ve 
iti is quite reasonable that rA young 
a ired to pay a moderate premium, 
a8 
ae 
es he receives; say "10 per cent. of 
Stearine, Margarin 
holesome. 
an. 
Ex. Crucifers, tim 
o 
much. This is not = oe discredit, for at nurseries 
hil 4 
may A a for about three years. But t tod emand 1s.6 ee 
me can not be gi make a special feature 
unjust. That such is often xacted Ih 
r sale, 
5: r beauties under ee ce pas ? oe 
¿|a good pi 
s Hen n grow and 
Soe a ae og Mine mt at, ma how can it show 
'utbu: 
sh has 
being poo: 
| only 13 y 
S| Eune petanen 
pipe titing a any ety han psy it, I can safe 
eeds; Henba 
from i Fobateo, i Par to immod Euria smo. 
SPERGULA PILIFERA 
so little of this oriana 
that will T SE s pests a 
good thing ; and after that 
high 
of six or seven years, 
sow. 
l begi 
character, as it does at Forest Hill iting a pe 
hich tself is 
overstocked th raderer. D who a 
in inxperened. They get low 
as they ai re worth. In short 
aeai th 
to plant or 
piece a are now- goot d tufts, therefore seed sown now, 
th 
ainga d chiefiy to the “ 
How e hear 
wonder, pei imitation of swan’s- figs vg 
lastin; re? Are the fo who have grown it 
oved a a ie an 
the 
plot the ma e of a lawn next spring. 
will be fine for 
It grows quickest i ina loose ‘alk but, to make a lastin ng 
uch approve of nee 
vad” respecting 
ri 
of the mee cB hh flooring let us know, 
the better. 
drot 
Tufts put in now and 
ught will ha ave the benefit of. all the antumn rains, 
e possessors o 
that ye may take heart and E — pla ang it 
item o dat SAA ILa oroughly satis! 
h of my piece a I be epini EA 
fied | let no 
But 
no one imagine that a perfect lawn can be obtained 
the first season. Like 
acquires nobility with age, and if I stay here till I a 
kept safe in case of 
ood claret or Scotch ale be 
th 
t eS Ie in accordan 
ould be more attended to. and 4 
e operator’s. al 
are mighty i in their effects, and produce the best 
y 
id grey- -headed I suppose I may sleep i in the sammer time 
rald swan’s-down 
go est Hill and see n ees 
en d done by the master 
or in a nook of a rockery 
Mr. 
let them aS a _— of seed or a siie taft ol of | 
and grow i a pot 
Nu teande dt 
ove them, cee po 
ay opps 
il ot 
| watch advantage of you, be É. 
the ain pian with -e vet is Aa quietly dismiss a 
ch might perhaps bring them their 
or henge to so) 
whi to 
