editoe's table. 



bowel complaint." The application of gas to cooking has been made witli success in this 



country, and for heating small greenhouses, it is believed to be valuable. In England, neat 

 library tables are made with hot-water pipes beneath, which add greatly to the comfort of 



a room ; they may be heated from the kitchen fire. A border of high or standard roses 



is improved by planting among the stems mahonias ; the bareness of the border and lower 



parts of the stems, is thus taken off, as it is thus effectually filled up with foliage. The 



Emperor fountain at Chatsworth is of such force, that it is calculated the water escapes at 

 the rate of a hundred miles per minute, rising to the height of two hundred and sixty-seven 



feet. During inclement spring weather, many stocks of bees in common hives require 



feeding more abundantly than can be accomplished by pipes of elder and other primitive 

 contrivances. A good plan to feed stocks in the common bell-shaped hives, is to cut a small 

 hole in the top, drive three flat-headed nails around it, standing up half an inch ; on these 

 lay a piece of empty comb, the upper cells of which can be filled with syrup, and the whole 

 covei"ed closely with an empty hive. The bees will readily take down a pound of syrap a 



day. When not required, a cork secures the hole. The rose Isabella Gray, from this 



country, has become a great favorite abroad. It is tea scented, and they say of it, " a real 



yellow rose at last." At a late London exhibition, a gardener exhibited a fruiting branch 



of the Royal George Peach, from a tree fifty years old. At the same table were two glazed 

 plates of singularly beautiful anatomized leaves, prepared and painted on by Lady Dorothy 

 Nevil. This is a new process, by which the web between the veins is not destroyed, but 

 looks as if the leaves were first divested of the outer skin or covering, and the rest bleached 

 white like a piece of bladder, with the mid-ribs and all the veins as distinct as if the web 

 was destroyed. On these bleached leaves her ladyship painted various beautiful designs 

 and writings, which were much admired. If you have not a blind to protect your camel- 

 lias from the sun, melt some jelly size, with scarcely any water (say half a gallon of it), 

 and use, say half a pint of water. If you have not jelly size, use glue or other size, so as 

 to make a strong solution. Into that quantity, place about the size of a walnut of whiten- 

 ing, half a drachm glass of turpentine, and as much boiled linseed oil. Stir it all well 

 together, and, when very hot, draw it over the glass when dry, and, if possible, when the 

 sun is shining. This, put on outside, will remain until the heavy rains of autumn help to 

 loosen it. Placed inside, it will remain longer. If daubed with a dry brush as put on, it 

 will look like rough glass. A little soda in water will soon remove it when that is 



necessary. At the Duke of Devonshire's garden is an extensive peach-house, almost 



wholly filled by one tree, from seventy to seventy-five feet in the spread of its branches, 

 and from seventeen to twenty feet in height ; and it may, indeed, be termed the perfection 

 of a peach-tree, for its size is only equalled by the quantity of fruit it produces — from 

 seventy to eighty dozen annually. Prof. Henslow's Dictionary of Botanic Terms, com- 

 menced several years since in Maund's Botanist and Botanic Garden (but, we believe, not 

 completed there), has now appeared in a separate volume, published by Groombridge, London. 



The nursery established in Algeria by the French Government, at the instance of the 



Societe d'Acclimation, prosjiers with some of its productions. Three plants of Caoutchouc 

 (/•7cus e/as<?ca), brought from Coromandel twelve years ago, are now "nearly ten mMres 

 high, and eighty centimetres in circumference at one metre from the ground, and the 

 branches, extending horizontally, cover a great space." These trees were tapped in 1855, 

 in order that specimens of Algerine Caoutchouc might appear in the Paris Exhibition. The 

 Croton sebiferuin (from China) is also successful, having begun to yield fruit, and the sugar- 

 sorgho. " This latter plant," says M. Hardy, the director, " secretes on the surface of its 

 stalks, at full maturity, a white resinous powder, from which candles could be made. A 

 hectare of sorgho gives more than a Imudrod kilogrammes of this substance." As yet 

 attempts made to acclimatize wax and tallow-bearing plants, the gutta percha and 



