. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. iatrdi M. DECAISNEinthe preparation of thetext-book translated by the late Mrs. Hooker underthe title DiScripUve and Analytical Botany. Mr. Andrew Murray writes us hoping that the example set by our correspondent D., in ourlast issue, stating his views and experiments on the vol. xii., p. 154, t. 9). He called it Echinocystisfabacea, the specific name being given in allusion tothe form and size of the seeds, which, Naudin say?,one would take at first sight for those of a leguminousplant rather than t
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. iatrdi M. DECAISNEinthe preparation of thetext-book translated by the late Mrs. Hooker underthe title DiScripUve and Analytical Botany. Mr. Andrew Murray writes us hoping that the example set by our correspondent D., in ourlast issue, stating his views and experiments on the vol. xii., p. 154, t. 9). He called it Echinocystisfabacea, the specific name being given in allusion tothe form and size of the seeds, which, Naudin say?,one would take at first sight for those of a leguminousplant rather than those of a plant of the family towhich it really belongs. The plant, it may be added,proved quite hardy in the climate of Paris ; but it isof botanical interest only—that is to say, it possessesno decorative beauty. Dr. Gray states thaton germinating some fresh seeds this spring he wassurprised to find that they came up in the manner ofBeans. Instead of remaining underground, as fromthe great thickness of the cotyledons would have beenexpected, the body of the seed la its shell was raised. Fig. 29.—THE ruLiiAM oak. (see p. 139.) than Rape ; and the oilcake from the refuse is, accord-ing to analysis, very nutiitious,containing 34per cent,of proltin and lo per of fat. Mr. Bernard Dyer, , Member of the Society of Public Analysts, of 17, Great TowerStreet, London, h^s b^en appointed Analytical andConsulting Chemist to the Nottinghamshire Chamberof Agriculture. Mr. Dyer holds similar appointmentsin connection with the Devon County AgriculturalAssociation and ether kindred societies. Several plants of Forsythia sustensa are well established on one of the walls at Kew, growingnear the top without communication with the soil. Inthis position they were self-layered from a tree removed Circulation ov the Sap, may be followed byothers ; and he suggests that instead of his attempt-ing to answer them piecemeal, both they and manyother such contributions in other journals sho
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