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distant countries by seeds. In 1849, however, I 
succeeded in finding a sure a sure and certain method of 
trans ea seeds to foreign countries in full 
life; and as ‘his method will apply to all short- 
lived seeds as well as to those of the Tea plan 
rtant that it should be generally known. I 
seeds in W. 
berry p 
best Chinese silk is produced, I planted them in a 
sual way, aad watered them 
o or three days, when the soil was 
during the voyage, 
surface of the soil. 
lant aron 
plants were sprouting precast the Mulberries as 
tween the rows of young Tea plan 
ge germinated on their r way to India, and. reached 
When ge news of the success of these experiments similar exception exists or not in the climate of 
termined to adopt the | Western No meri 
e from India, I de 
were 
of | ra 
THE GARDENERS’ 
t, it is 
t is E 
eto perfection; N in poss Ba Euro 
in 
Sage a vast nu mber of the indi- 
a show the c 
ven are gt gg — of bearing oer jee 
severe cold in winter. In this respect they bear 
patem iior te orth American species growing i 
e rule, ‘and not, as in 
in order to exist in 
have the constitution suited to 
which they seem to require for comin g 
ope it is 
remarkable fac 
genous Talis 
was | properly so calle d 
more rigorous cold than they are ever ex 
In this oe they also resemble the plants of 
China, and indeed may not incorrectly 
abet of that vast tract of the 
temperate sels in which the seasons are Bia Srv 
hot and dry in summer, cold and dry in vie 
and in supp 
the necessary rains. This 20 eee from 2 
extremity of Sa Mediterranean and Black Sea across 
Central Asia China and Japan, 
States in th : and it may be presume 
that a well- defined change of See a strongly | B 
marked winter and summer, is the rmal character 
0 It wi 
ception to the general rule of the 
e of the northern oer oe ; whether a 
rth America does not seem to have been 
has not been long enough, „perhaps, to allow of acc 
cases were opened in Calcutta the 
young Tea nas were ani to be in good condition. 
e seeds which had been sown between the rows 
0 
enough for en to grow; 
take other 
wi 
eases. On end the Were the whole mass of 
seeds, from the bottom 
{i 
wee y 
germinating seeds were sp 
and covered with soil in t 
days the young plants vier e , ong the 
soil ; mer seed seemed to ha by 
y hapa, th 
thickly over over hho ec 
afew 
o| th 
furnish o 
botani ical 
productions, with reference to it. Iti ro to be hoped, 
eo that we shall soon know m 
s digression, though not irrelevant, will trust 
for ite excuse 
notes 
purposes, as 
ur gardens, a knowledge which can only 
be pained by repeated comparisons. 
CHICORY AS A WINTER SALAD. 
Tue leaves of this plant make a famous salad, a 
their value for 
before the public, They have everything in 
| to recommend them as a substitute for Endive, which, 
at best, is rataa asa bitter, and it is far more troubl 
0 
grown; and 
this simple plan about 12 000 plants were adden 
to the Himalayan plantations. 
ye sped end in disa 
th ea 
Pointment. Let them in Warp’ 
oma 
n 
8 did the e almost stro for the te to the following account of 
.. to a grant distance, | "saan mo Pepe 
they should be sown thinly, not 
ste’ 
ET us resume the remarks on the MEDITERRA- 
L 
NEAN CLIMATE E off at p. 212. 
thd into which the * of the 
‘sehen, SIE 
ies: and — 
‘arn 
ora Molle, and Pistacia 
e to expect to find any of 
1 ie of doors in the regions to 
: there ia a considerable oup of plants 
isale Medi a Flora whic 3 
to 
per- 
aks and Chestnuts to distant parts of the i 
oo Sona either i in a north- ot 
— 
ich, though | such 
; planted in rich earth, ho 
often — '6 feet high, : and form a large bush 
een heres: pe eae eae 
it will run to seed, The 
pa well d ae drills should be drawn 1 foo 
— being 
long, fine eream- coloured leaves, and sae ous a | 
inches long, I sent them to 
leaves 
stop 
= ‘a tower, or even 1 use of 
CHRONICLE. 
8 3 all . 
the same latitudes, tome however, the e ws 
sna I 
Sar to exclude light.. 1 also b 
be said to 1 
which — ng and autumn alon ly | al 
tonic bitters, an 
t 
a correct knowledge of the climates which | and an 
are filled with green s, vege 
pla 
on the 12th of May, I was su to 
early green crops, a square of ee sibiricum ready 
eben the just begun 
92 
f | as were 
ee are of the best description. Mr. Boo 
ry, a 
wi en 
of Se. of pyram 
| most commo nand are 
in se 
the The houses are spacious, some of be 
| and shape, fall of healthy pianta ye 
were all of an 
May I, 
a 
Nevertheless, our | ur salade were hese = 
one 
it was they so much lik co 
afterwards, 15 and every 
lanted 
five or pha 
er put 
TE 
Hi 
ime wi 
I gave up its culture, pityin J 
all for roan the finest of all ph 1 2 
and that too at a fair price. Tan MI 
le fo: 
which I 5 n — 
my paying — to o Chicor ory, 
I had been continually 
annoyed by peer and gentlemen who had travelled 
w mu 
and under sheds 
All these 
jam, has 
of seeds of Grasses fit 
es 
Cacti were in pots 
roses and A Lage 
northern cow untries 
us pit, A feet 
amids of Came 
winter without artificial heat and re, er 
they 
leaves placed on the *. — 
ly h 
h 2 d 
land more or less rich in vegetab rene et s at sat the ber 
e Flo m it is the 
— in —— 
2 Every 
lants ed in 
ere 
T 
T 
however, not 
complete. I was sorry, } 1 similar places 
of labelling, so 3 in extent. j 
carri 8 zeatine 
of labels, coloured differently, indicating. 5 
a and uses of ants, con an intelligent 
and gives the exam 
average 81 
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