Novemser 10, 1860.} THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 1001 
income Tax bill; Iam charged fee in the pound on | large quantities on the borders of ana ae and | commencement of t the cycle of a in > pianta, 
ray profits, and also 10d. in the pound on the rent of | amon corn, and is more or less opii a 3. Is the fr uctification of Cryptogams in the 
the land I occupy. Two of my AEDA, nursery- | parish, and the adjoining one of Willin 
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men. tk am, pay the occupation | extent of about t three miles, | It was stated | that ‘there | A very few words on these casera matters will 
tax o =~ d 10d. on profits and 5d. t all th The 
rent. From inquiry i find that these unequal charges | The farmers speak o as growing on their Jand for | fet appears to be a mere contest of words. As the 
extend all over rege without r efer rence to amo! {50 ils ars, and ore si Doak that he had k ap paratus, iti is 
of profits. Would any of y ap They call i Tine Tare. [This has already ł l 
kind as to say what afika a nurseryman is liable to fated in the Gardeners Chronicle, see p- 774]. | buds o f any Se Shien are A ison at indifferent 
pay ? “A Wurseryman. [You should apply to the Lathyrus ities Lateran Nissolia, and Bupleurum | points of a plant. Whe ther, however, an embryo 
DESE NT ee gsioners at args t House. | falcatum were stated = occur in the same district. Th 
uscat Grape.—Is your correspondent | siete ing paper was read:—“ Introduction to the he Berd called a sexual production ‘appears 
posts z 978), rel that he has this erat 4 oie ie of Aden,” by n Pae Anderson, M.D. e contest which cannot possibly lead to wk pe 
he states I Aboma doubt it. We grow owood i sion. a 
the sa me hou: ‘ith Barnes’ s and Musca! ot Awana produce teraction re nation, the cycle m 
ld tt Nottces of of Books, with its produce’ Soi nd not with the iiet act orp impiana: 
the wood of the Bowood is sinter jointed the ioe tion. a ems mere idleness to contend tig vo ol pee be 
stalk „much shorter, and the wood, foliage and fra, On emits icity of TA SEM egos and Germination in| is an embryo cell, or merely a pai tion for 
Cælebogyne, a Sequel to the pae on Fructifica- | cell, and whether Pe is truly mabeyo alle or not 
By A. B: The third point is of im- 
ang the fruit is larger both in bunch an d berry than that| tion impregnation in Plant. raun. | befo on hor i i 
of either of the others. As it sets as freely as a a Ham- | Ato, pp. 155, tab. lith. 6. Berlin, 1860.* fi n here. 
burgh when wa managed, there is no White Gra So much has been written — aa wonderful The hls series of prno nown i in the develop- 
equal to it foe size, colour, or flavour. C. Gy Ted. | ytre at Kew which for ears has pro- | ment of the different of the ai aa x 
desley. f fertil fan and the anin of pestana a in Cry agin are 
Pampas Gras mong the ests. flowers, or without ever sing a aiae S so totally different sche what takes plies n Pheeno- 
this Grass whieh I 1 yt seen near Ea k none sur- plan ithst: which | gams, notwithstanding the striking Lee which 
passed one in the centre of Mr. Turner’s Nursery, at f dat K , that, | are presented in different directions, that we think it 
Slough, which the foreman told me had been growing notwithstanding tl the somewhat arrogan ti f | quite impossible to institute any satisfactory morpho- 
five years, and on which I counted about 200 flower. | eae that its er from the meds to the fruit | pe relations between them. ‘The result of impreg- 
spikes. Jota, Bishopstoke-——Cannot a word be said ver bee en ved "by. a any Ger erman botanist, nation, and the repetition of the process in Mosses is, 
in favour of the male Gynerium, which has been con ble of so different from the i t i 
sidered so inferior to the female erect-plumed plant ? | it mi have seemed almost useless if not impossible | Ferns, where a sin, a act of impregnation, as far as the 
o me it kpe = have far more beauty—of a peculiar | uce 150 quarto pages on a subject well nigh | production of spores goes, may suffice ‘for a hundred 
sort indeed, wanting the pm Meng of the of other, cximoated years or more, that scem to have fallen u an 
but having” ak yed ce and grace. T. M. Thoug tl tially different aad of beings. The fruct; tification 
ds Pe ampas Grass fit for Cov sort 21 Like aed, G zan that is new or which haves any, pnh on the ven of Cryptogams, as far as our 
uestio. f fru ctificati ion without i impr nation, it con 
tai z ape ae 4 and such is the conclusion at 
h I may make some ee p 
Iam thinking of lasting the _ Pampas Grass Pinto we abr to think tbsisht to divest 
Do any o of our ientifi phates is of elie 
cessfully ilaje ed in this way? Any information on truly German and Biases krieg character, and as | Zhe H abits, A 
the subject will ae An Old Subscriber, Woolsthorpe. | remote as anything can well be from ee penn science. and Mier side omelet, By i Samuelson and 
Herb Pudding.—The following receipt ed making] The talented author’s attention was directed again| Dr. Hicks. Small 8vo. pp. 166. Van V 
this may prove as seful :—Wash, scald, and shred Men more especially to the nae by an assertion in the ns, but 
f Spinack Beet, Parse rg st Leeks, r | 14t ih Nu imber of Bon land Ned | pa naturalists. nature is the author’s theme, bee 
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as mäny of them as you like. Have ready a quart management is left to other ers. Mr. Samuelson w. writes of 
groats or prepared Barley steeped in warm water half but merely a bud, the root not being 4 intir hi tois | the ba bits, of the external me bers, of the internal 
an hour, 11b. of pork fat cut into small pieces, two or | the mieropy le, but connected with the chalaza by a|*atomy of a bee; how the little creature feeds, and 
er tissue than | 
cannot, we thir nk, be considered as blossom fora aair 
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The volume before us is not for mere apiaria 
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and tie up close. Boil an hour, a nd the bag must A DREA of that substance. A parallel case was |ê naturalist as as the author adds much that is new to the 
loosened whilst t boiling to give the pudding room moreover adduced from the fructification of Keeng | sene : 
swell. An Old Subscriber | Imperial eal iL in the seeds of which it is ATE |a subject with renovated interest. Among other 
enanthera coccinea This is now pas en i in that ther o true e embriyo dot a bud anilar to that | points we find an explanation of vee 
flower here; its g spike measures a feet i in La ee es is said exists i Cælebosyn It became, | Parthenogenesis, and some highly magnified represen- 
2 ft. 9 inches ac Na Fee cmathor of hi eae ala what the tations of the mec parts 
batt rfec hl was in Celebogyne, for there invisible to eye. re latter Mr. 
is 8 feet high, and Lis attached to a piece of Cork during | opportunity o a examining the particular variety “of Samuelson ackno wii his obligato ion to Dr. Hicks. 
its viol length. Charles Brockhur. eo sega on to =~ esp bertyd a nd rdingly a The whole concludes with “two c chirpiers on instinct 
Wet rawford, ae Lakelands, Cor. dertaken ve Braun, though this was perhaps un. | 824 re g s 
Rainfall in October, 1860.— pote ry after the fruit had carefully efnin | parative peychelogy,. by the same Ps 
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Depth of Rain. ; | It appears from this that the embryo is s truly an | Precede this sentence we are unable to discover. 
i Etats er 4 Fewest M: A 
[Greatest Fall 
in 24 Hours. 
Stations, 
pi ; fag o. | task. antennæ, us 
| worts, and that there is not on morphological grounds | they relly “for ‘touching, or rather for 
Date, |= | the slightest foundation for a contrary opinion. | hearing? as some say. Our 
p It had already been observed that in the embryo sn c, | they are organs of touch is decided beyond a doubt : 
more than one presto cell was pretty un iformly ao ej s t of 
Ins. | Ins. duced, and it n w appears from Braun’s observations | bearing or smell, or whet Vesicles are organs ~ 
gt aah) os hs | that a multiplicity of Sai di is almost normal in the | Convey external impressions to the n nervous centres in 
i > | non-impr “i een ce inappreciable by us, k 
++ | 2 |12&20|14] From this Seino which is illustrated by a|for however reae they “havo ras examined and 
97.02| 441.10 (un eo of admirable Renes, the author takes occasion to compared with the sensory o other races of 
j; z te all that is at prese animals, no malian has m been ‘ala to pronounce 
AA sages a EL rr of embryos in plants, each i titel a to their true fun 
h t And again, “ Whilst its en remain uni mpaired, 
é. ena Daan fa Ee appe by curate a d "especia cial iy awe one | the instincts of the bee are wonderfully active and 
A 47 | 16 hle is suppos adi tA that | 2cutė; but as soon as it is deprived of these mysterious 
28.39) .36 | 16 |12|in e cases, as in Allium dese it is peasy As 
gin FA 16 22 this phenomenon is not u mon in the e fleshy seeds | 
Above the 
Rainy Days. 
®© 
Ground. 
an. 1, 1860. 
Total for 
the Month. 
Depth 
Total since 
J 
Ft. =r Feet. 
Little Bridy,Dorset| 0 8 
1 ô 
organs, its arg nature seems to undergo a 
| and its psychical o or, ‘mental state — <i a o Sans 
perso! n fact, 
who has ‘lost his senses.’ 
Mr. Samuelson mul refesion from , pronouncing a 
peculiar ‘structure of those rg tad the grow wth of 
kiha. fleshy mass from th ie integuments of the tiie trom 
fields ..| 1 
The figure in the last column show the total uber 
“3 ain w: 
ae ted; ca sai eing t " oo exclude days when the t n a position to state ‘decidely what is the. 
deposi othr arisen tom ew only. The aviy The que estion as to the nature of the reproductive Me kieh not io iiem we may mention that 
thp ne opini nion, 
similar nies and ¢ construction; they have been tested b y in the seeds of Gelobogyne. le rnd Roo a long discus- 
Mr. Glaisher and found corre me placed po by side | pe ee the Foose a wens of bh $ PEET A Haber as py ted ng in baa a 
Tey own standard they read identically even to the with tee = though E of ovals thich read tion the r The Para : 
elevations above stated, in Gort mar ga dat the Perni Tke conclusions foanded oti cca re starts field fa research, rer Mie to thos who 
fom each ot o re n urisohtally) about 100 feet being a true embryo, though produced without im- matom of insets, bat io See of the 
Ti ho observe 
due to an elevation of 36 feet may be satisfactorily | PPegnation. their habits, and in either case the careful student can 
se G. J. Symo: "g Guan en So is Se ee righting a eran COR rdly fai fail to throw additional. y upon the inquiry. 
Villas, N.H. fes ” 1004 principally on Cr ryptogamic plant ponpon t subject of th no doubt whatever that the bee possesses the 
rthenogenesis in general, and the ENAN of a few | ayna 2 toa, z, and a sel of fi unctions 
Seca poy cari = speed professedly rather suggestive than | spon nding th Mare 7 A a to tae 
Sortetieg, oufirmative pa cality 
sat tof ‘Then as to the wings, simple folks imagine that 
Linnzan: Nov. 1 ESAT, in the chair. Mr. a veri Mere s subject.. 3 ı | wings are made to fly with, and for nothing else. No. 
. N istak en Ss 
ae ee presented specimens of a new British s Teet "of repeat “2, What is the a point of with, aad ama with, to say nothing of their being 
ans eat of bloo r 
ee it w that ths ol sik mabe ee und Keimung von Cœ Ein Í nat - ; 
appear: at the plant had. been gathered at ivaghtsae Ba Se baton Athandtang br Furthenozenesisbet Pflanzen, | d of a double membrane which is covered all 
Fyfield, near Ongar, Ess ssex, in August last. It was Nachrag za der A the Transactions of the Royal Academy | COmposec > tehed oat upoe AA 
found growing abundantly in the hedge-rows, and in T e su Diet iy 1859, over with fine hairs, and stretched out up 
