. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. Januahy i.] THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 209 in tlieii- proportions to those of the following, cannot he iinpvocliiotive in any climate. It is a rich alluvial soil, which Mr. Sinclair, in his iuvalaahlo Ilorlus Orainiiiciis Wohurnensis, gives as heing the most fertile for the grasses:— " Fine sand, Uo ; aluminous stones, 70 ; carhonate of Imie, 23; cleoomposiug animal and vegetable matter, 3i; silica, 100; alumina, 28 ; oxide of iron, 13; sulphate of lime, i; soluble, vegetable, and saline matter, 7; loss, 8; total, ; We have already stated
. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. Januahy i.] THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 209 in tlieii- proportions to those of the following, cannot he iinpvocliiotive in any climate. It is a rich alluvial soil, which Mr. Sinclair, in his iuvalaahlo Ilorlus Orainiiiciis Wohurnensis, gives as heing the most fertile for the grasses:— " Fine sand, Uo ; aluminous stones, 70 ; carhonate of Imie, 23; cleoomposiug animal and vegetable matter, 3i; silica, 100; alumina, 28 ; oxide of iron, 13; sulphate of lime, i; soluble, vegetable, and saline matter, 7; loss, 8; total, ; We have already stated what forms it a fertile soil; it may be added, that, to constitute it eminently such, much of its earthy particles must be in a minute state of division. In the above analysis, 185 parts only were separable by sifting through a fine scarce, 215 parts were impalpable; whereas poorer soils will often have 300 parts coarse matter to every 100 of finely pulverized constituents. NEW PLANTS. IHEIR POra' AND B10GIl.\PH The Bell-flowbred Hoy.\ (Iloi/a canqidnulatii).— Botanical Magazine, t. 4545.—The genus IToya was named by Brown, some eight and forty years ago, in honour of Mr. Hoy, , then gardener to his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, at Sion House; and cam- juMulata, or bell-shaped, alludes to the conformation of the flower of this species, which was first exhibited two or three yeai's ago by the spirited firm of Veitoh and Sous, of Exeter. We have seen the now Hoyas, such as bella, campaniilata, and inqimalis, which the younger Low found in liomeo, and, notwithstanding all that Mr. Appleby has said respecting their diU'erent merits when highly cultivated, we must give the palm of preference to the elder plant on which the genus was founded— lloyii ciiraosfi—" the honey plant" of our boyish days; and those who have seen it treated as in the days of yore, wo are much inclined to think, will be of oiu' opinion. The lloya carnosa, with its thi
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