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they will 7 ail anything; and with care 
phe may keep them. 15 : 
ur, particularly when 
of th the. blackbird. They like plenty of room, bo 
width and height, and they should be pa ace Ep 
rately high. in 3 the ey may be left out all night 5 
ore 
boarded, to exclude all dra 
arranging . 
A aiin ti 1 a 7 V 
heard to pour from every 
We have now said all that is 
t 
f this noble bird when in confinement, 
especially at 
“ See! the Spring 
Is the earth enamelling ; oe 
And the birds on every tree 
Greet the morn with melody. 
Hark! how yonder . — Shanis it, 
Whilst his mate as proudly vaunts it!” 
It will be said, that iti is not all our read 
and we name done our part towards 8 — 
object, e have done it beeen “under pro 
William Kidd. 
3 GARDEN GLEANINGS. 
Bonzula.— The magnificent 5 Saran n 
to Count 05 Thun is situate on Elbe, ope -< 
vision, the flower-garden 
and 3 which last is so 0 beautiful by Nature that 
but at * P. * added by 5 755 The gardens, which 
r’s edge, are y ually 
sloping pin Fas ching fron iio Elbe to the foot of the 
2 built on the to a granite rock 150 feet in 
height. T iful ; enormous 
3 
set off by the cultivated ec ghia 
are shrul 
ect and prevent a monotony of colour. 
of the garden, an the 
eut in 
come whi 
apothecary’s boanie garden i in tins Peters 
too, I saw the stro t stems, t 
of truly monstrous ; * fol- 
e te 
vessel 12 of aS Snag S 
Each p 
dry. | labelled — 1, its botanic name; 2, the name ‘of the 
marked, oe side of the cage 
lat 
. Tose 
needful for the proper | is as fo 
al | green 
esse | habits, Free — ao 
umerous 
— 
genera and more than 600 varieties. There g 5 than 
30 varieties of Cattleya, 40 of Dendrobium, 45 of Maxil- | 
laria, 60 of Oncidium,25 of Stanhopea, 30 of ieee | 
cies, of neat habit, with massive clustered racemes of — 
and purple flowers. 
EvcHaBIDIUM GRANDIFLORUM. N neat, compact, 2 
ing — 12 inches high, with aves, and n 
Wray markably fine state. 
person who introduce dor named it ; 3, the place fro 
which it came ; and 4, the date of its ce into 
rrace is the house 8 ee c plants. 
Glox xinia 
first-rate varieties, 3 — 
terii, Rosea alba, Youngi, Cartonii, Crussii, 
* 
$s 
8 
2 
8 
E 
ing as ye 
already applied for * . of . 
Close this house is the small one containing 
Nympheea cærulea, gracilis, Lotus, rubra vera, and ther- 
malis, with the finest collection of Nelumbium in 
Count d 
and pelt and | 
added a ‘Tittle “finely-divided N. This 
oe r 9 n has 3 
rawn o wi 
5 the —＋ of a ve dark h ir is renewed 
— * and where there is always a little damp 
essential condition, which should by no means 
Such is the superb 8 3 to Count 
de Thun; 2 where else i Saat 
any thing to — 
ANNUALS ADAPTED FOR BEDDING, &c. 
1 
ee r border, an 
slightly. with nel, old . or friable * soil. 
CLADANTHDUS ARA plan 9 ine 
to 12 in. high, 5 a rr habit’ mib dark 
green, n d leaves, richly contrasted with wee 
go Na tee ols poliai Chrysanthemum- 
god do wide. 
m-like flowers 
— One of the neatest species 
ofa —— — ogy It g * ot. 9 to 12 inches high, with 
on, an 8 large conspicuous purple 
ana shaped 2 varying in seminal varieties to rosy pr 
rpie. 
purple. 
APE MARYGOLD.—AÀ dwarf 3 — 
NEMoPRILA pose GRANDIFLORA.—A ver autiful trail- 
ing variety wi mparatively light 2 and studded ae 
with thousands gr brigh 5 Saner Saiver-shaped fi 
thr ree-quarters of an inch b 
NEW GOLDEN e An erect compact branch- 
ing e from 12 = — — — with deeply-divided dark 
aves, and n ear golden-yellow Marygold- 
like 8 each i to 21 — wide, beautifully contrasted 
in colour by a rich olive- meyin circle Ore —— 
CHRYSANTHEMUM TRICO eat, * fleshy- 
stammi plant, from 12 to 16 abis high, with narrowly- 
divided leaves, and a profusion of large, beautiful, clear white 
blossoms (2 inches wide), ornamented with a yellow band 
towards the base, and picturesquely diversified by a rich olive- 
brown centre. 
LARKIA ELEGANS ALBA.—An erect and compac: branon 
ys 
n the genera | 
of the Mar 
Ay cet on 
mall ovate lea 
, Clar kia-like l blossoms, 1 = inch in 2 
Ca —— CHROA PLATYGLOssa.—A slender-stemmed annual, 12 
inches high, with neat linear —— “a — nepicuously bright 
yellow, close-petalled, Chrysanthemum-like flowers, 1} in 
vac LANA ATRIPLICIFOLIA.—A neat dwarf trailing plant, w 
a eee aie ovate, dark 
e-b 
EUTOCA Viscip act 8 an nual, 1 
habit, rising — 12 to 16 inches high, with notched pea 
shaped leaves, and nu e-lobed salver-shape 
of a rich ultra- ma —.— Amap tint, 
8 CROCEA.—A highly ornamental a 
— 3 from 12 to 16 inches high, with PF 10124 
glaucous leaves, and a profusion of large and brilliant orange- 
1 * Ale N 34 i 
CONVOLVULUS MINOR ATROPU A decumbent spread. 
ing ‘plant, attaining Hota 9 to 12 inches h high, 0. ornameuted 
with 5 Tr lish-blue 
expanded funnel-shaped blossoms, 2 inches wi 
EPTOSIPHON DENSIFLORUS AND poe Rep Both 
Samar cath —— dwarf species, with narrow, dark aS 
needle rch-like leaves, and furnished with num 
— ——.— of variously shaded pale rose, pink, yaer] 
vale lobed, salver-shaped flowers, in July and August. — 
server. 
: |RATEABILITY OF A eaa STOCK 
to IN TRADE 
Mn. EDITOR, —The account in your aa at p. 165, signed 
by T. Finch, abet a umn on in reference to 
the app al o tainly the can 
churehwarden without "the — which one would expect 
* For the — of 3 
netly oe hat the condition upon which the 
appeal — s decided — — r 2— meet me surveyor of the 
wns 
cove — — = incrustation of gravelly matter, is, parish, an to re-survey and assess 
pos „ | Messrs. elas rater pede e 501, ‘tenants’ lights or 
I think, urpose of oe the water in rights“ bad boen ‘disallowed, and that the — — 
— n ene of the roots, and, absorbing borne, like thos paon = * 
A an “inevitable f ntation, to sre den a view to s u d journey 
92 — tiem — being taken up 17 the spongioles from London n, I stated to. M o Mr. Day, the solicitor, that it aoe 
1 the plan t If attention be paid to these points, the | court, and, probabiy u — Ar. in bir b pae a, — we rought 
require no amn er care, — flower r ba and ths ord t le or parish be’ made to “had declined to meet me, 
— er — — on must e board of guardians 
1 m June to Septe the flowers are white oo OF | ot thei an A —— — te” 
teat.” yellow, all beautiful a and deliciously attendee I saw s0 wes — 12 * 1 8 Mr. 
2 lks petioles a re pay regs rats = the condition was comp mage as 
ong. I was all shade should be carefully rather ar 2 self he of faith paper — woot: 
ri plea 8 on of Ta n extenuatio 
voided d 1 od of v vegetation, ‘sang et 1 fear there is h pique and personal feeling in ‘the 
. would be iy — and shor After charge made u è r ane for the matter to be settled in any 
ater i her way ; therefore the’ mortification which — Aero has 
ot 
occasioned had Ba be endured in silence. 3 Pe sg 
We cannot ad further statements respecting t 
the material taois of which appear to a now before 15 ae i 
Home Correspondence 
Sikkim Rhododendrons.— Whoever reads the glowing 
of our ow 
warkey a and of America have become 
Í : 
= 3 a l 5 
ish ; 8 — liberality of Sir Wm. J. 
Hooker; of —7 Royal 1 at cr E was 
favoured wi — pr —.— ny ot 85 
pmo aor “rite to their — 
cultivators, my success has been but 
not germina mA — co some freely, and some but par- 
ially. ces the young plants were 
scarcely developed, and the the i signs of death e pain; 
fully obvio in the seed pans, and 
m rie bed 
— others warm, and a degree of li hit adm 
fi e, dense ma elegantly lane’ seo 
flowers, 1} inch wid à A 
av Ee ree — Geoana i species of ne: n nee more carrying 
growing from 6 to 9 inches with narrow, strap-shaped R. ni ee ape seruginosum, 
leaves, and numerous brigh ed, 3 flowers. 1 latter plant has 
LASTHENIA CALIFoRNICA.-—A compact plant, rising about alpine variety “an ii ee This p 
i Bees higħ, with narrow, ht green A T and 
of 28 nspicuous golden-yellow, — like 
ers, three-qu of an inch wide. 
88 ALIs.— A neat 
om 12 to = berg high with Bit beer 
and n mehing e of clear, 
erect eee 
dwarf, slender annual, of branching | W 
SILENE PENDULA. — An with a 
: Ader i 
