GARDEN WHEELBARROW. 



The Screw Pine family, many of whose remarkable plants are natives of muddy 

 shores of tropical rivers, have aerial roots, which descend like buttresses, and pre- 

 vent their beinp: washed away by the currents. The leaves, as may be here seen, 

 arc manufactured into ropes, hats, &c. — Here is a basket made from Typha cle- 

 phantina, which is probably the "bulrush" of Scripture, of which the basket was 

 nnide for the infant Moses, and such arc still in common use in Eastern coun- 

 tries. — This room contains the Cerealia and their products; let us pass it for fear 

 of detention ! only looking at some flour buried by Captain Beechy in 1824 for the 

 use of Sir John Franklin, which when due; up in 1849, proved perfectly sound. — 

 You see there the peats, condensed without pressure, and these having the charac- 

 ter of coal, jet, Szc, are capable of being turned into inkstands and door-handles, 

 &c. — You arc horticulturally inclined and therefore a tnvimer; in that case is 

 contained samples of wood cut through, showing the effects of injudicious pruning, 

 and the various injuries and decays consequent thereon. A most important study, 

 indeed. Don't look at the wasps' nests and such matters, we must get to the 

 plants; and the Director led us to another and even greater treat, our English 

 lady still brisk and determined to see all. "We soon discovered that she was alive 

 to all that was said, and understood the rapid information so freely imparted ; we 

 must say she was " a good specimen," and above the average of English ladies 

 for intelligence on these topics. 



Before we proceed to the gardens and hothouses, it may be interesting to state 

 the gradual increase of visitors since these gardens were daily thrown open to the 

 use of the public. In 1841, the number admitted was 9,114; in 1845, 28,139; 

 in 1850, 179,627, and in 1854, more than 400,000! The place is now the best 

 of its kind in the world, and probably will so continue. The Crystal Palace at 

 Sydenham may have drawn away some of its numerous visitors, but it must 

 always remain, from its multiplicity of objects, the great school of Botany. 



(to be continued.) 



GARDEN WHEELBARROW. — THE WHIMSIE. 



Tnis barrow, although light and simple in its construction, is composed of 

 eight different parts, which may be used as a whole or separately. We translate 

 from the Revue Horticole. 



These parts are: 1st, a tilting or self-unloading barrow (d bascule) ; 2d, a hand- 

 barrow ; 3d, a roller for settling the earth of platbanks and seedbeds; 4th, a 

 plough for scraping walks; 5th, a rake; 6th, a watering-pot; 7th, a single ladder; 

 8th, a double ladder. 



e garden barrow may be used for carting earth, sand, bundles of straw or 



