Dzcemper 15, 1860.] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND mhea abt GAZETTE, 
cies Sug and moderated, and how far ib would be 
$ 
a li ttle more; or it might 
terminations, and eupho ay is the only safe guide. 
sit sid means, not ends, Fr rules at” lead to 
rrassment a the objects for which a nomen- 
cate i is intended, J D.H. 
ali nt various Sus in forcing fruit. Any excess of 
paced fs in the atmosphere under glass, might be 
rrected by ventilati tion. 
Bad 4 
s Banan át geto —Many of your readers 
hear that the great Musa "Bnsete 
has ripen and w seeds ih tl Palm house at 
v. The i 
1105 
(Taise and fissure it, and he believed that if he had not 
extracted bg the Mushroom would have forced its way 
| into the 
Pre « ape.—As you stated in your last 
that no farther yt ar cae could take plate in your 
columns in reference to this Grape, unle: 
to expose the doings of certain ies, I send 
a few remarks which may d to w some 
light on the subject. Janu 56, 
house of was planted here by the then gar- 
the bo rder of a fruit wall, so as to Ee et the roots | result has n the maturation of several out of the m was a plant which he called 
of fruit trees, and what the effect on garden culture, | many fruits; one of on containing four large black | Bowood Muscat, but at the same time he told one of 
applying the ae (o such seasons as should ward off | stony seeds the si a Haze l-n ut. Musa Ensete is a|the men that he would get into trouble if that 
frost, and such were suitable to promote early pre os of Abyssinia, d 4, Bruce | variety was known to be in his possession, as 
growth. and figured i in that tra veller’s great woi rk. Unlike most} it was not then in the trade am not pre- 
ut the idea is probably more applicable to fruit | of its cultivated De ec its panel is ot dry, in- | pared to say how LA ae his Grape, of it 
houses, MARTI AL and others, and | the scheme edible, and ripens only a few very large seeds: fhe was soe hes variety, ether he had ne de an 
seems to be a more simple mode f th plant of it; but eh following season, e was 
moisture than the whole apparatus of “hot-water pipes, 
and is highly esteemed by the natives. The Sees 
and 
E T h, 
p “It seems likely to create 
was for several years the chief ornament of the Kew 
house from the d 
t 
++, 
any pria Sa if tere be no objections which have | 
not been apparen nt. 
; when 
| serge Ae took the Ae. in Br up, and sold it 
ae iffin, f Bat On 
sto rib; ai Me 
tained ri girth of mat 9 feet ed Poin to M 
th is a 
ut a 
i the late Mr. 
s Mr. Gi 
A nr 
Cram ba he h ad his plant from that narer 
Spence oy, P 1062) states “that he sent but 
e may | have sold that or some 
Mr ae I shall 
Ensete has no suckers 
e be el yp 
s as mi ight be. doomed and “found to be 
ro 
gate, nh ‘ike 
however, as ee young pme 
o 1 the r predec 
e 
the houses, “thereby diffusing steam, they might be 
Seed or closed at green re the other hand, 
arm vapour rising from the earth inside a how 
might ha F a En rg Steam. 
RDEN FERNS. 
romise t 
fe rite w his own conclusion. 
| not now ence hl 
nt, other sorts for 
If Mr. C. is, therefore, 
“ith the ben the blame does not 
ith other in 
Te Mr. will pay meav 
rest with it, 
. Cra: isit, I 
eka p getting the informa- 
tion T have jst giv en corrobora ted by the party y who 
‘ross breeding.—Your article on Saturda ay las ast 
r. Buckland’s ee upon eu seinen of 
nded me of an of a 
and at the same md show | him a Black Tanny 
he house 
animals, remin 
eeting of the Zoo Ailein Societ, tri rp r or nh ago, 
which allusion i is made to the herd of Rahal oia 
t 
this season, which was AEE 
eR goers Muscat. 
her e to the 
NEW G. N 
PLEOPELTIS INcCURVATA, Moore, Ind. Fil. ined. 
earn INcURVATUM, Blume, Fl. Jav. 151, t. "6. 
ori 
t 
one ee 
and 
a single series of lar, ae i 
sori, dopi. saccato- finals NE the 
ee the upper 
very ha eas and con spicuous phat, 
hedonic for the eariy of aspect in the sterile 
anå fertile fronds. e rhizome is about the size of a | 
ed with ovate-lanceolate 
k ds are sm 
uing, coriaceous, d 
e no die: tyre 
ordate- gular ottlerighiens, hastate, or more 
rarely h irregularly subpinnatih, ari ew oe Pecan 
ute acuminate, th 
lanceolate, ac 
largest, pod 
into th stip rtile fro 
pinnatifid or almost pinnate at base, Ia 
wis i 
| ing have been ye par rough A  Tibernlity of eons 
@ 
ne tha an that r ie 
a ati to by him in 
as also to the adjoining group of Elands, to which the t 
first Hird had just been ea, It is = satisfactory 
r that the anticipat: meet- 
Hill and Breada lban then stated tl 
“th 
peiie eee oes) Chi m, Wilts. 
en pote house on na 
therefore no reason ee tbl 
‘ood farm, and there 
2 doubt that the beep of Elands may in 
h 
paratively fe period from this time be completely 
eaa ex 
within the reach of any gentleman who 
make the jieteasdiy outla; z for obtaining 
su e fforts of Mr. Bu ‘land ant 
| the Society for the aise of other animals, 
his lectu 
bity on the truth of “the prindiple of maiia È 
port t, and I would bav ve offe red some observations | to 
allusion to this importan ie to bri 
XJ 
£41 ta f Atakan es 
of 
1 p PE Lheot 4} 
f my 
| your socoloction tha y ae oe. the “Sana 
acclimatizing, o 
anes h iii ptt 
i r that with ene 
h ile ars h attention 
taller tha an the sterile ones, ovate, with rit tos | the artificial ‘mixtures of these fruits, our “ancestors, a itself or 
Elizabeth, had di 
was an air of total ered 3 in, gibe n gotice oe, Healt 
Oth 
ers have from 
noticed either the we rat pena T, e eoroal cuties 
e time about that perigi, em have de- 
‘obliquely decurrent at the base, acuminate, entire, with ess 
marked | with „prominent tubercles, i in the hollows of 
3 ` The sori are ları ge, in 
roundish, or pm pee ones somewhat oval in pray 
f Java, 
“ House 
a | Gaw 
attention. In proo 
make an ext 
quo Ped by EH 
and Far 
thorpe Hall,” in the 
cant ue that orchards many 
to 
which you will perhaps permit 
rom an Elizabethan writer 
n 
received by Mr. Pike, of Cork. Our knowledge of its 
isted for age 
endages wealthy religions establishments, 
that the Abbe ey 0 of Whalle ey possessed ma ad 
ved from 
Botanic: Garden, rote 
ingly communicated by Mr. 
42, 
PoLyro: wide ES SANCTUM, e ni Syn. Fil. 39. 
WwW P 
spec imens cultivated in the Royal bo 
tes eg were oblig- | hes 
nities Ht be 
never furnished wit 
and | weather pro; 
makes | either ordinary ones, when it it 
se 
observed, and what it really 
ep pedet Ha pga oy Pi he way of 
gnostics. 
n Be of no particular- 
to know the partienlars ee extraordina) 
ti “8 of heat, 
P 
ef and common, inary andi 
Aserp ‘DIUM SANC Mettenius. 
the 
and P, TENELLA, i, Fie. 
Fronds ene jm gp en 
pin: 
as esr fro om Se rm Giacnevin |" 
is 
ta 
about three years since, and 
old 
ad no strange fruit, as Abricots, Almonds, Peaches, 
Th 
ing mei 
tex 
but ies 
b 
eB are cohen worth, so mee we no we 
ons, and it wi aive the great 
emonda a many porra ar of the last, but 
the meb 
ns, and heard of wild Olives, gA 
beside other Onn We trees brought from far, 
ate ee i nn rae have s 
ledge ESAD to 
no eat iggrs at all of Fried pega te the 
t the xpected w 
ordinary. I a be 
on this su ubje 
in grafting the natueal anda 
wtificial mixtures, whereby on nt tree | 
eter ‘forth, sundry fruits, and one and thes 
mn wW: 
mic aA 
described j Mr. Moore as “ 
‘Speci 
dian Forn, | 
| fruit of divers colours 
and tas oe dallyi 
wit ‘th your r 
order that the subject may be 
paumas to any useful ere it w 
the first ins stance not to attach t 
It is a well known West In 
k 
ive a 
average heigl u of the 
According to Mettenius ni 
p indusium, which hi 
urnished with a 
describes as being setose. 
Hom tiers pondence, 
anical Names. a oe eae for Latinizing proper 
tre “Re mete of the 
rik w tish Association in 
air soar of the ete Tame Popote, 
onder that it is so li gutly esteeme d. It 
Anite 
any per Hpi pet se them. 
p 
foundry Mushrooms often spring up; sup- | reckon 
osed erat y t e horsemannre which is or oe — epia 
mg ai 
ier wna ahd were 
“Of hard fruits the ey, 
pos. ka and then n, when th 
be “We cannot gs asa: upon it. ie I noticed some 
make ten der, rs 
vee | 
r kernels, others of their cores, | 
em with the. he of musk, 
pices, at their pleasure.” Cli 
Expansive force of Fu —A friend says that in his 
h; they are 
casting. 
P 
ve rred 
eavy castings from the horizontal positi Is it pos- 
thin gile 
> for Ma 
Mushrooms ea 8 lifting the "tact 
Times s under the signat ure 
| which it wa 
no tigor, 
R. H., atentan im. 
mee pingly sioner that : 
ernal and 
n on six months of the sa 
wae ait wie 
ends wi Aa a consonant; a » genitive i E 
ra igit from it, or face ‘tbe he slightest on id 
Thomas. 
gone cl gh and the fat 
= abalone t to this Li 
ila with a 
make Lind. ne, ae Doane 
5i 
ich w , | the s 
The f fact is that there is no practiesthe rule for. such 'cumbe + mass of earth, and had succeeded 
md 
he patra aat of the road. de examining the | 
rote he found that a Mushroom, several inches under 
ain was struggling to Tor rce aside the superin- | 
ay. Sas ie 
este to your extracts from- 
to the ‘humid gar fg 
ai 
or nces.—Refe 
Dr. Hartwig’s work relatin ea 
forests, the following ps aragraph taken from my 
“Emigration Fields, 
so far as to | further into the subje et :—“ These facts do not pro 
” published in 1839, enters a Titte 
