allow 
this much-neglected, though ins no means 
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mast be injurious by closing up the p of the bark.— | servatory plant? I do not mean to b bring it: lities into | ter hit red oak, instead of stalked oak and 
—D. Cameron. ith th £ stalkless oak. ro Hiner of re- 
Gooseberries and Currants. —When these are raised } 
a. ‘of ‘this beogaropad beautiful genus; po nese it i 
“* pave we shall take the 
0 thi: 
from cu ttings 
all the buds, except three or four at the top of the cutting, 
Planted i in 1 the border of a aumayine (for there only 
lan pe ge t 
tempted to impregnate 
irom Seed.—In 1838 
amarque noisette Hy with the pol. 
Lae ved tw sy te 
I then 
Roses fr 
some oe of the L 
len of a bright x ot nase. 
should be eut clean out of the solid wood, much in g | - which Pyne 
g Pinon and peat rer Z h 5 6 fe t hig till a Fay gee 
“Vh thie +t Pp nd of a very pl ¢. fo sae Role + d 1 a nA 
to make cuttings in ayers way as I t to be called baad ea cha- | in Novembe er op and of the o ther in sn | 1840, 
usual aaa . only cutting the buds ‘clan off ib 
din, A 
neat 
racter, | well suited for re a neh eg and its event is 
ulg 
wounding the stem. the base of the buds are some 
times left by “the usual method the prea of future 
bud » Which in n time become uckers. Some me may be afraid 
but I have never seen healthier plants than ‘those treated 
. Cameron. 
i somes et readers may fancy that ribands, 
shai lnc, and embroidery belong to the loom and the 
ur-frame, not to. the field and the a age and they 
ens, while the leaves 
dividually are nearly ts flo 
e panicles very much resemble 
in appearance those of the Persian lilac.— W. Elliott, 
Mipia, near Caiterick, Forksh 
1840; of the 
August and Septem- 
ber 1840, though the bloo ms were necessarily small, and 
only ser ate th ,» and the 
ie pale buff ~ colour of the female Parent). I would 
ask whether mam eeds, which w ould otherwise ger. 
minate thus ri 2 ft not peri nder the orig 
rish u 
treatment, viz. —that of burying the seeds i in a co 
ity for As an 
they will excuse m ‘or being of a differ- 
my 
will explain the cause 
of the following ‘circumstance. In the autumn | of 1838 I 
border. I trust 
ent opinion, and for attem mpting rs convert them to m 
in my nei ighbourhoo d. From February till Apri ril, 
the nature of beauty, and | if I desired it ever so much I 
@ 80; _ besides, I would r ather 
1839, it was fed, _ he the end of rene it threw off a 
rat swarm t. In June of last year another 
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ductio tion of varietie ies from gule among brother amateurs of 
his most beautiful flower, reg ws as it n now does, , Such 
cee on account of t 
uriant habit of aged of the new varieties of Noisettes, 
leave it trong swarm and east were produce: d, the pare ent hive — Pasa and Bourbons. — dl/fred Whitiaker, 
that deter te ng I feel, and so do al ill th Fr 
is something i in the fo ‘orm of living hinge, “whaler cximal August. ~ Having “at that time had occasion bas visit the See 
or vegetable, Conti I know nothing further of their movements. FOREIGN ee 
mind, and constitutes what we understand by beauty. On e hives were closed up for the winter ffered food as Sydney, April ~— 
the other ‘one it is, I think, sufficien tly plain that this | early as December; but & untouched by the hi t parts New Zealand, sen, t ce met 
won of pleasure fades away in portion as the object | in uestion, it bod raised, when to my great surprise it w: ith many curious petites The 
tural object d dozen or ri dead bees at most | of the plants, from the mountai' ge in the ec entre of 
creations of human imagination. Hence ea found shout the ou tskir ts of the comb. The hive = northern = a region never okies trod es the 
the decorations, the architecture, the , containing not a particle of honey, bee- of a European, baie ithout interest :—A 
passes into the 
itis that the tracery, 
hou isehold ves ssels of the classical nations of antiquity are 
of co 
bread, om amahing else. Three years, it has been said, 
the natural life ef the bee; mine having attained 
f a - Chines 2 waken sensations 
ust all feel that this is so, 
ony that es would seem to authenticate the saying; 
1 wi 
kind of tree te with m from 
pod re high, and.four a mg me —— with es 4 
_ t long, is not rar ns - _— 
but it appe: gular to me that they should forsake the oe iand more unco' oar 
and yet how little do our hyena of patterns for dress | hive, tek ‘s the naturalist, or rather entomologist, it | an of the cent Page: the frond ‘about ‘ree 2 feat 
or ment consider t oe truth! Look at may be well * st year proved a very bad hone long, with me mid 
Sane ill- ioned devi of t the shawl-weavers | one with me, notwithstanding the ra oney-de ing about 120 Teaflets or more. The nym 
d lace-workers, for oes what poverty of inv: ptr prevailed over the limes, which I believe is generally onergmaa mn on the aad of the river Tham t rare to 
what p — won A = aoe And yet how abundant is ee re | esteemed an auspicious event.—4 Young Bee ee-keeper. e south of that ri It produces frond enty-two 
in he orm and colour, how bountiful i } sug- ritis: —I observe that a mistake exists in the oe in i and sight inches in circum ee at the 
gestio’ haustibl big iscussion on British ~* in consequence of the — a Se 5 k is rarely more than twenty feet high, from 
and hang tot contrived as it were on purpose to tion of the } seme term to two diffe rent things. _ You: eight inches in res r, yom ng a 
train us to a true perception of the beautiful !—and how 1 onds. The upper par of the t soft, | an 
Kittle do many of us profit by them! et ved a age d Mr. R. says that the ‘yea oak o t Hlertord ‘at they have bee 
prove that the common groundsel, rightly looked at, is in | shire is worthless for all purposes where durability is baked a ong time ; om smell like baked apples; but are 
itself a magazine of the most , of which ary- Now in this he is perfectly correct, but the cor sweet and insipid in flavour. The southern part of the 
many branches of manufactures mi; rofit, if we | of red oak to which he refers is in all probability not | island is pact in ferns in comparison with the eo 
did but know how to observe. I +] Quereu: 8 sessilifiora, but Q. pedunculata. In the extensive near the Bay of Islands. The only ferns that growin the 
ow about to illustrate my opinion nee to Pp p ope hr aig are the Pteris, by t tives, and a 
ean a weed; I shall endeavour to persuade the ladies = Huntingdonshire, red oak is f , but in = Botrychium, whi i the others are 
oread your Chronicle to borrow their from | th ese woods that have come bath my observation th od Podocarpus? Totara sometimes prod 
t own gardens, instead of buying the ugly distortions exist a single tree of Quercus sessi 
oe 
rred to is not stn ve 
yew, and it is dicecious. —Daerydium, nov. sp. + il may 
ee the oak here refe: 
y difference of gut or ‘situation, red trees being found 
a sketch of one. The lip, as 
botanists call cl iy—thowgh 1 I ‘pote coma make out why it 
ovat not have been call led the — chin, -—of the 
ith te t the 
aie isa * me 8 produced not Seti in the pagpcts but 
while ral 
tity 
| in the texture = the wood of the tree, 
6 
‘growing dite. In 
e progress of this change there “pears to be two or 
ion, 
moss, ‘when I first saw it on the tops of the b' dg 
tains. Its colour was reddish betag ext ms that ‘of 
Its be re about 
ew, and oe a tsk a 
colour. The plant seems to oa. feanenele us, as I never 
found one of any size without _berries, although some 
pa stages. nm a apelin s ting 
out, the timber is 
feet, but is ve 
| brigt olour 
very good to eat. A n ww species ar awe Phyllocladus 
on Ingadido, at an clovatilas re than 80.0 
I 
re 
WS 
Feat ant is not of a much 
ich reli ess of the lance-headed ed part ; 
r the base thereis a kind of knob or wart, 
th y on either side a triple ray. 
not 2 row of these a beautiful running pattern for 
the border of a shawl, or Drosh Would t 
id 
in the unten. when cut up, | ings dark strea’ 
or 
: d throu gh the harder 
th 
for 
them arranged around a centre 
star for the middle ofa screen? Could uat ey Woon s-| 8 
a uniform dark red pager and a thie seems bo be the last 
ce handkerchief, or or of an apron, or of a canizou ? | 
Ladies, oF eb preset mae 
encourage m ow you many a 
t to be used any purpose 
whatever. 
_ After ie the dark red colour § passes off and 
haying borne them. An aan plant grows spar- 
ere on org prae about Roturoa, that are not densely 
eav! 
es. The flowers 
rapid coos: With respect to the cause of this extraor- 
dinary change in the timber of the oak, I am not aware 
On this 5 part of the subject I shall briefly observe, that 
the great age of the tage aesey rhe country in 
us perfume. Two oa et 
‘armichaelia australis are efound, one growi mg inlan 
m. 2000 fee 3000 feet, and the aries : 
ry gigantic “dimbing ig species ies of Rubus, 
hes in on 
pot, spot nt a most ; delic’ 
of Carmi 
an elevation of fro’ 
the sea-coa: 
spines grows 
ce sini Bos A superb plant that Cenningham 
ur with which th the any 
ee stems are soft 
mgr gered Can this colour be 
43. ra 
a fungus 
use has 
The remarkable fact that the red 
na en i 
ponsess. B ut the 
ike a gos ok ie 
as box. Its flowers are aaa oat at vey it et 
with berries two inches in ¢ 
erence, sens Si on on diferent plants in colour, 
tipoda i 
thorough s rs minute examination ; it is ‘one | of great i in- 
would ear. 
hite or red, a variation that G. an 
third with ee gna os — but 
Fuchsia arborescens.—Will you nt out 
ry con | in 
fore, “a most worthles 
> eee 
a RRdee 
Se 
not to any central column. 
ith bide, white, blue end white, and Iilae aad 
white flo ee al € £3 
The grasses are all an elevation 
te ee I suppose, new, but Ihave no — 
ascertaining this here; I think several of them migh 
useful in England. — — New Zealand abounds 
rt of in 
‘ipient decay. —J. pesdinied, Min Saleabee to blame 
to plowing ‘our te engily the local 
correspondent Ji 
