. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. ?=7 Fk; 57.—tuknii-finiji:ks. is not difficult to imagine the superstitious feelingwith which our ancestors, who attributed such powersto the Mandrake, would have regarded such a sign-manual. A surgeon would probably long to plunge. Fig, 58.—A USEFUL hand. his lancet into the swollen tissues, and let out thematter ere the disease extended to the bones ; afarmer would recognise a marked form of finger-and-toe, and a botanist would see in it a reversionto the branching more or less woody root of the wi
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. ?=7 Fk; 57.—tuknii-finiji:ks. is not difficult to imagine the superstitious feelingwith which our ancestors, who attributed such powersto the Mandrake, would have regarded such a sign-manual. A surgeon would probably long to plunge. Fig, 58.—A USEFUL hand. his lancet into the swollen tissues, and let out thematter ere the disease extended to the bones ; afarmer would recognise a marked form of finger-and-toe, and a botanist would see in it a reversionto the branching more or less woody root of the wildBrassica. For the purpose of helping the illusion thephotographer has reversed the natural position of theroots, so that its hand-like character is the moreperceptible, and its root-origin less conspicuous. Hyacinths and Amaryllis. — It was an-nounced on Tuesday that at the afternoon meetingof the Royal Horticultural Society, to be held on the23d inst., Mr. Shirley Hibberd will deliver alecture on the Hyacinth and Amaryllis, HARDY PRIMULAS. The introduction to the schedule of the NationalAuricula Society of a class for hardy Primulas willdoubtless lead to the display—with the Auriculas,Polyanthuses, &c., staged next month in the competi-tion — of many allied plants that have not hithertoreceived the enco
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