SEPTEMBER 1, 1860. ] 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTR, 
= Now's MUSCAT  HAMBURGH - GRAPE 
ESSRS. ARTHUR R HENDERSON anp Co. 
M to remind their Patrons and Friends that the BP | 
Three Guineas offered a them for the first and | 
bert 
aoa “se © fond re 
Sa apple Pla: sees oad, London, N.W.—Sept. 1. 
DUT oI ow ROOTS, 
AL Bxorre NURSERY, 
at he has ea er 
upon those who patronise 
=~ their ORDERS EARLY, 
bs depends in, a great 
a. ie to ‘ yu 
him the reat al rats EN o! vin 
= sho successful aoe ation of 
ure upon their 
g 
@ PLANTED EARLY IN THE 
ret, e. Someof the plants are sewed to the roof 
and ÄP: Aert of the =o any of the Arads 
sera. over each othe below the r ridge, me 
hic out. stout. roots, hich i erla 
ee Da a piat branching till the 
reach the shelf c ect them. 
towards b. 
oy 
laterally 
8 soon 
S 
be oa the s ii 
over the surface o water, and | 
finally Tee into it; branching rapidly as at F b. 
ere ises, why 
Why 
e question 
this course and n o other ~ 
reep from a Pera TA 
The Gardeners’ Chronicle. 
SA 
TURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1860, 
MEETINGS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 
Horticul ee Hpk of Fellows 
Turspay, Sept. af an anioi Ceman S 
ATRE 
THE cau = of the DIRECTION TAKEN BY THE 
S OF PLANTS is far from being a mere 
scientific è n the ny it is one 
that should engage the thoughts of the most 
humble gardener. Why do roots seek out as it 
were bits of bone or charcoal, burnt brick, or 
ther substances occurring in t y 
eeds are plunge e ee 
eth? y do they find one as i 
Brose 
ola. wall, 7 and pmen bury p vas hin 
lm enacity, of p va se P 
ere 
e 
a 
‘often ans 
is no appreciable difference in the lig 
O. Point ie be 
c d, Wooden 
paras of roat. O «bb. Root. 
c e. Side of Tank. F. Water. 
rahi i mage moisture _ 
Brel © le hiki is r dually: yh ry at each end, ù 
that of the atmosphere, 
wan 
they are 
„supplies of their proper food, whic 
“7 i A learned Beale 
W. „reconcile the me a Ben ep s tl 
nother o 
: dene panne of air below the level of ma 
of jsi To e | ihis 
with moist In 
hort Bes roots form under circumstances equal i in 
irections ; herr tteloes they insist upon 
peat into the water, and will not direct their | 
course away from. it, EE even the damp and 
appro n, ese roots are 
ew : J “aA a nhel 
( 
, | rinas, arborescent Myrtleblooms, and 
earer t 
I} an 
ge roots take | 
key refuse | t 
Z There with the temperature 
kt "at one es so that it must date been exposed, w pi re nights 
for the. air throughout 44 
sh in 1 tropical J Australi: ia, he beara that at the 
nevertheless, the 
d wild hi dla Mimosas, “we asua- 
antis. 
A degree 
=] 
ic] 
5 
tropical 1 Bottle- ie ,(Pelabechen), 3 Cala ndrinis 
a Lor of 
thermometer at 8 sunris eipeaahia 
erta 
ALE into flow cry, 
is e asiti: Australian vegetation, 
On the 30th of May, at the elevation of 1118 feet, 
the almost tropical at aw was He ees. 
22° 
frost gradually increasing throu 
was th e du 
ias, 
pengea the evening ” tempera: 
be ee , 22°, 37° 25° Palling. <i iah the 
7°, 29%, night 
26°, 21°, j 12; 1 5, 20%; in ine ude 25° e- -o 
vegetation, 
the permanent parts of plants, to render the wood 
Boon of a Mallow nie a to expel every drop, of 
perfluous moisture retention of, which im 
gold c lamp zegion a u e EA consa of plants 
Ticbétore we addnde this ne 
41 ex ay iraa in Se if mus 7 
mailar. whieh. formia aoe is aoa. bserved that with us plants wi ar no suc’ 
than other pans; and hence rae own wa universal E ca "e oñon v Fa tas woe age oe °y Bg port phi s ae 
direction, And by others, oddly en ough, ith t has life in plants i s in pat imals, = fatter the ascle ets that. c parani h aR 
been maintained that the course taken although different in ea ifestations, and that| 2 ashe ag arcane eb et bg tend fe 
that in which tey experience least sians i if gardeners should never forget tha . the objects of | 11.34 they should be | ere 
it be not wholl ntal; their charge, have been fur a Almighty n A aiea The rn a 
No one tolerably well acquainted with the habits | with a living _ Pail ana alogons 3 that which | 8°° ieee ewin er tim. T ; an te je 
Plants can fail to perceive how unsatisfactory, ades their The recognition of begin ii th cedtablish mioa ia tee > so 
ana toes explana ta hin Saas aro vain ain enough ia =a ae is tho k yaio ne of sound y vegotable| g kroi, ‘and that sti large and important Tapore 
of an astonis æn We sio! 
might, Prof. Mont term it ~ the like it, most gr regar ~ = travelling and searching power tations niay ba expéct#d in a few ‘months. 
oo and little oe e` look at it| of roo thus demons au fs _ ead food: = £ 
bh a ess € our’ pre- | is wrth their reach they will find it; and that RATES: OF r X 
Were hoa but the oainplay-of of | a sin par pae: gardener is no obligation to place the em in aay Nis eee pa td IND kee 
the world would be struck with amazemen direct contact fwhich| AUSTRALIA. k 
That it is little understood is true in a certain | they are to extract nutrition, On the contrary it T Soe! D tare wee, ERS 
sense ; that.is to say it cannot t be eilad ki is better to place it at some distance from themin| ‘Typ arrival in this country of additional materis 
reference to any class of material causes, such as the so; il, And this is consistent with the expe- | tows zelig oi up, the higtary of the New Zealand 
light, darkness, gravitation, attraction, “dryness ll well-informed cultivators. gonan, Cori dyline (whieh was left in an unsatisfactory 
moisture, chemical action, and other agencies of stat the New Zealand, Flora), and especially, of 
like nature. It must be referred to afar higher| We read as follows in a private letter from i patiem | 
power,—-to that of life—or vital er Graha f arrsa of June 13. “Itis much. colder | with young live plants of two kinds, all impor ted by 
nature of which is oly ie wn os ever - in the winter in this part of the colony than in | Mr. Standish of Bagshot, li enabled me to offer the 
except by i sults, say so 
ae epee. as a thes think ‘eho require 
annie: Oe 
| 
s | the Maret districts. 
vent in nature 
cal base, Beits 
feat p long. as we are ER al. | 
explained 
use, E etke 
actions of the 
t to search for 
plant the 
a although "destitate of what we so tore 
call the eran 
Pine under our observation 
ne ey be regarded as conclu- 
mon 
span. 
the most 
rads of the 
and the 
of the w aggon was covered with ice. “T think if 
e cultivators of pee were to see the 
t | growing in thei nataral 
some alteration in the eir tri 
may t- POPAT «Hee necessary ree 
| Graha town, is 
m’s- 
| similar oars but a large town 
ish Ri 
On one morning the tent fellpwing Lpporigat i identifi 
It byt 
= hers led O nor 
references 
ons. 
e sy nonymy,, that, neithe Badl- 
Ala: g? 
as 
sap itt es 
_ The genus Cordy! 
Eri i wl the inflorescence, 
iver, in Albany, wc co may? ‘bracts, 
Hope, the eee af bani 
od Hopo, t Polyga iis, "ta, 3, Stape- a i aie — pad mare ang se he base 
iis, and all sorts of Bulbs. The apni n roja of the pedicel, where it joins pedane 
ly tet that of a [ems conk apboene =: i IEA is | ovate or lanceolate, “esos pnp Bi 
| bered however and consequently piacec i 
| midwinter at the Cape of G ate - othe and peduncle, is much broader, shorter, A ris 
ig quite a par ll with another being either 2 Sipeatite sh ines having o 
i “these Stara. site years nerves. ene yo » 3 
pe ga fully one into in the Journal ot atoning “wih ii two opposite lateral, bracteoles, 
and more Ji gone When ir THOM n the side next the axis of the 
ees ony vee General of r | pedicle, the inner palea of Grapes. 
e 
late Ne 
South Wales, was on his expedition ni disco- | 
in Dracena the oa are generally binate, ternate, 
