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quently ten and twelve, and more, feet 

 long, quite erect, and straight, and are 

 made use of for a great variety of purposes. 

 Planted closely, as living fences, they keep 

 out fowls and small animals ; sheds are 

 thatched with them ; they serve as stakes 

 for kidney-beans, peas, etc., and the stouter 

 ones as cross-spars for the purpose of up- 

 holding the thatch or roof of the smaller 

 classes of farm buddings, cottages, etc., and 

 if kept dry are said to last upwards of halt 

 a century. Our friend Mr. Samuel Curtis, 



I a resident in the island, informs us that he 

 has seen a stalk that measured sixteen feet 

 in length, and that one that had grown up 

 un ler the protection of a cider apple- tree 

 ; had its spring shoots at the top occupied 

 i by a magpie's'nest ! The stems are now 

 unuhusedformakingwalking-sticksC Jer- 

 sey canes")- Stalks eleven feet high, and 

 I very good-looking and firm walking-canes 

 I are deposited in the Kew Museum of 

 1 Economic Botany .-Hooker's Journal of 

 I Botany. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM MODELS. 



Pig 



Mr. Holt's Cedo Nulli. 



Some of our friends h.« asked for a figure ; aud .l.iu. J'", fetched from on. : of 

 of a .eandard Crrsun thenju,. u, a gu.de | j» onn *-*%££ ™ , 



in training their plants, lhe one on tne very u A t 



next page will be sufficient for the purpose, | which had been J™™™ November 

 but is not to be considered as an example , cu ting. To make hue neaa , 

 of a perfect standard, the head being poor '.cuttings are necessary, tney 



