752 THE GARDENERS’ AA AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. fAveust 18, 1860 
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the scene of Mr. MARKHA operations, and with |in vinegar. Indeed, little discrimination seems to be| may consider them very beautiful ; but when it i 
the Cinchona districts ‘which. ovina not vi rinita pais j ezero ised in Ta of Mhe ies. L. S aas eritus is so | that, without ak gras tr ouble or expense, ee 
t nstantly used that it een suppos more hings can be g 
Gardener 7, | that hed Russian s agian: be the same e wi one grow we mek not 
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ag pe expedition : Ms he wat er of the arti on haps “the v negar which Hind Fungi are prese ar varieties or Camellia whee sonte phy aar, ee hundred » 
Mr. MARKHAM’s mission truc $ righ | neutralises the oles Ble properties of ‘the alkali, which , when we know th inental 
on the head by soies the folly of carrying young | seems to form the deleterious mt in these vege- | 50 50 really first-rate kinds among them there arena 
semi-tropical | ome. | ms ndes, Whe We | tables, It is very possible, indeed, that — canes of bespeak better taste to grow the good Hie it not 
know hich pass nly to | if mber 
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at S fringe described in | þe said of all countries in which Fungi bara A a | or three of the best variety. Again, o 
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throu ugh the same Andean ions in the co me species which proves a poison to one, s not | rated, and the nurserymen have a’ 
season, sas although not aes fond o t anen to be Ohlas with perfect im- | ties, who would think of growing that quantity Ay the 
= RAD Te can dà otherwise, exporionesd punity by others. The recklessness with which they | sake of saying, “ ind,” when we 
col d hunger w. are. eaten in “some districts on the continent | aware that 100 kinds would ‘take the c cream of the w aL 
‘the e Europe is illustrated by a circumstance which hap- | ¢ ollection, and that with 50 more there would be ve nae 
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don in evel Being on one occa- 
R W r Mr. za prisoner ia fortified tow , he amused himself lt th qG ve Tans boas te de pae giving pot-room 
ke oe ae ag te oe T diving i ng te 2 the | e 'aollecting and Paging macy i ies ~~ jz = hard-wooded plants,- wry more is it needed am ei ng 
her supposed by wn oded ones, such as Pelargoniu 
forests of Carabaya, to proceed to wages oF | 1 all equa aly vanished, being at | it Cinerarias, and the like, , The epr f 
Pelechuco and Apolobamba, or to ines nearer to psi ua as food by the Russian or Polish The varieties of these 
La Paz, where I cannot a ate rehen = he would bere be troops. A similar circumstance happened in the case = them, almost ‘undistinguishabls poa 
ex danced. much difficult; rom the bar t j gni- ji 
or, perso: nal ete ia m climate, wild foent he) of Krombholz, insomuc t Corda who Let 
Tae a or precipices. designed all the species was unable to preserve the see 
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LOGY.—lio. XXV. This might seem amot t incredible to a person who the poor miserable wretches we too often ditt will be 
sai Fr.—The genus Lactarius is | has nicki the tortures of a dog who in mere play- | generally recognised, and not be confined almost to a 
nob Eees Be garicus, pone ye on account of its Sag se - worried a specimen of Lactarius vellerens e i 1 he pres à e. These remarks * 
coni ntaining a milky jae. Several true Agarics agree | Ind rid are its spores, that on one occasion Dr. e offered in connection with = management of 
with it in this character, deed undoub Red ea Badam “having tast mise a few was seriously incon- ph ants and plant- Tas, for the purpose of directing 
ur in ee ich t he juice is water, ery i inste ad o milky. enced in consequence for some hours afterwards e indis poate necessity of giving ample 
Tha tect ] i, together He: at may Milind t dissipate some of the evil pionen | | room to, ever ; Tint; out this, success in plant 
with Russula from other genera of the gill-beari | but Wo, all know that if we > plant 
tribe, consists in the; substance which constitutes the! with which the sp prep ; but y case wei a crop of Cabbages yo thick, or sow Peas witht 
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LACTARIUS INSULSUS, Fr. F 
centre of the gill lying between its two fruit-bearing , should not recom end English sensi to ikoni an allowing sufficient room between the rows to admit t = 
surfaces, and technically called the trama, being | experiment on pri very iA subjects as the acrid- 
formed of sub-globose cells and not of filaments, a | milked Lactarii. Ca bbages nor yet good P 
character which is moreover cou mon to it in general | It sho uld, however, be remarked that in Swed do not ge  saiciont Ti and air to 
with the substance of the pileus. f the tribe, | elat he jui P tly they ba 
"ne milk: Lact: „at fi t sight, | is frequently mistaken for the truly excellent tritive 
aed ae ra = E ig | Lactarius deliciosus, and though essing sae of its life ratiining Nn for bie these vegetable 
closer inquiry it will be found that there are a few good qua! alities, it is — according to Fries, without | so much admired. Now, plants cultivated in pots or 
exceptions of species which from natural affinity might | any Serious conseque . M. J. B. ander n though a may no 
be supposed to be mild, though they possess in reality a | ob n = 
eaae rg = ses tel ay aii esd PLANTS AND PLANT-HOUSES. elt ae air, and that not we fits and starts, beti 
milder Tax time is now „approaching when cultivators will | first-class cultivation is aimed at, regularly pes p said 
Individual species be mt [ree geen tender e plants Hence specimen plants, whether indoor or ow 
rience, as in the a aa ae paves zies e sheet Ae 2 into winter quarters; an never be allowed to touch each other ; neither should 
they can be pronounced mild and free teens _ | men, much diversity of a Mae eee mad Re a they be so placed, especially during the winter me 
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Lactarius ee ee whose evil p > | houses, I suspect arks at i = h 
ties will no! p rg papsi for R as ah 5 ttle o inviting in subject will not ave y anscoeptable As has been re- | with t cultivation, it would appear that the wet 
outward appe: of t The pileus is | marked oi most of the plant col- | of its importance is not borne out by practice, inasmuc® 
rote or sam slimy, of a a dingy ali a ooh z PARS, Kod with | lections ve hout the country require a severe weed- | as no decided improvement has resulted fon its D8 5 
arker zones, ly ressed in the centre, an , whereby th ould be cleared of many h dred | but, 
sometimes radiant with the border waved and fue are fetes: ae w a m Paes a danie we STER es a bec? ae opposed 
arched, and the margin naked; the stem is short and caverta of those which sian be left. Fortu nately, to the use e of sheet gian, = as our own experience < 
aes si rags stuffed then hollow, and somctimes | however, all plant lovers begin to see the judge we h no great affection for iti 
ar h tear-like spots or depressions; the gills growing selections as distin E from collections, | and ex xcept for pie rae aae ce and economy n 
are modor erately broad and distant, often forked, and of | and the recognition of the prisege; tia t good things | repairs we should not care much about using a 
1 och Th e like the pileus; the spores are of a pale | well managed a capable of affording more rei eal plea- | Singular as it may appear, it is nob more singe fruits 
ye d Th e milk is white, unchangeable and ii | sure than great quantities of Amg om ugly, gawky | true, that nearly all the best specimens of both 
acri e pileus varjes much in ne sometiin esa attai plants, is now bec ponie 2 weg ge eneral. This of itself and plants sent to the London exhibitions are gt? 
— eter of some inch ll dk in heaty 
ing a me inches. e species is far from | wil] do much ad tiei nore both i a u ad very fri uently : 
on the borders of i = of ; 
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any are ever it, while the thousands of comparatively worthless | houses so glazed require much closer tention sy 
In Russia on the contra or | plants which now crowd the lists of nurserymen will be changeable peer 8 and are very liable to score 
-piperitus, &c., S EN their | thrown on the rubbish heap. I donot tayi as all thes plants if neglected. + Loge 
Jargely consumed when pr reserve. | plants are unworthy of cultivation, any pe: Where houses are glazed with sheet glass 18 
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