The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . on, and well as-sists to support the doc-trine of the transforma-tion of leaves. A Con-stant Reader—The Roseis perhaps the most per-fect monster of the kindwe have yet seen. It isa Rose in the ordinarystate at the base, ex-cept that the great calyxtube is absorbed; thenthe growing point i vlengthened, changed:!a branch, and clotheditself with leaves; a portion of thoseleaves are green, woolly,and leaf-like, anotherportion, mingled -nith them, are red, woolly, or smooth,tinged with green or not, quite petals in texture, and areproduc
The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . on, and well as-sists to support the doc-trine of the transforma-tion of leaves. A Con-stant Reader—The Roseis perhaps the most per-fect monster of the kindwe have yet seen. It isa Rose in the ordinarystate at the base, ex-cept that the great calyxtube is absorbed; thenthe growing point i vlengthened, changed:!a branch, and clotheditself with leaves; a portion of thoseleaves are green, woolly,and leaf-like, anotherportion, mingled -nith them, are red, woolly, or smooth,tinged with green or not, quite petals in texture, and areproducing buds in the axils. This is a capital season for studying morphological phenomena. O Kn—We should have been much surprised if an observer, with such clearperception as yours, had continued to be an unbeliever inthis theory. No man of common-sense, who TiiU take thetrouble to examine facts, and is capable of connecting two ideas with a third, can have the smallest doubt about it. Oi-iginal—You will find no end to the anomalous condition of. the flowers around you. The cold, damp season has given asubalpine climate to all the lowlands, and whenever thathappens, we have on all sides disturbances of structure,which elucidate its true character. In the present case, oneof the floral leaves of the first umbel of your Pelargoniumhas, contrary to usage, but conformably to its theoreticalpowers, produced a branch, pt the end of which anotherumbel has appeared : and it would not be at all surprising tasee that the second umbel acts like the first. We have occa-sionally seen the variety of Wheat-ear Carnation doing ex-actly as you describe ; that is to say, losing its ears, andflowering a Picotee. The ears are formed by supeinumerarybracts, which it seems that the plant cannot form in the ab-sence of a certain temperatuie and dryness, beyond whatthis season will supply. Pits—H WD—The cheapest mode of heating your pit is with,horse-litter, if you have it at hand. The best way
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