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pecul ir trades ; the cooper would not be able | falling sand will not be direct t from the centre to 90° 
Garden en Memoranda. to do ‘his ‘wor pihe the "cabinet-maker's tools, and the | will deviate from the sami — in proportion as is 
Messrs. Weeks’ Nursery, King’s Roan, CHELS mason woul puzzled to bg. his work right = the | object on which it may be placed deviates from being 
2 l “4 game the Royal Wate Lil surveyor's — level and graduated s taff. In che level. If it should be placed on the slope of a rafter 
Victoria was cultiva h ft 
—— — a heated open pond, in which in the ti 
— — * produced between 50 and 60 
: n d 
ieular e ter of tools, and as new branches | will fall from the centre to 20° from the point at 90°. 
introduced fresh implements must be had. Having — if the instrument be placed with its side agai 
d 5 dan accustomed to gardening from my infancy, I may an upright post or stake, — — will be seen falling in 
winter, an — he ' plant ded, either from having been bitten | take some eredit at this time for knowing what tools a line from the centre to 90°; if the post 
and eaten 5 the gold poe silver fish with which the | may required for the ordinary operations of | perfectly upright, nm the * * cular stream of sand 
pond is fur nished, an and which they b and horticulture ; and, not to tire the reader with a useless | will be seen to fall on points 7 or less distant from 
— - | list, I will confine my observations to the point at issue, the line at “90° J pra he e post is more or less 
and state what difficulties I have experienced in getting | out of the perpendicular Tn using this level for 
: things true to the horizontal and the vertical lines. | draining pu or for other inclined planes, such as 
e 
t 
n the ground by t ——.— in one month, viz. the level upon the rafter of the Pine-pit or other 
the m — of May, as 1 for Hollyhocks, Dahlias, inclined plane to be copied, and mark the sand-line, 
: d &c. ; these stakes, being neatly planed which we shall suppose to indicate 75°; then put the 
E — 5 stuck up — na — a forest of — level on the rafter of the Melon-frame, and prop the 
1 by Nymphaea * rubra, dentata, stellata | sticks, and they are contiguous to the — -lines of frame until the sand line indicates the same angle. And 
and others ; n i ang 
th en e 
not. ‘This is no fancied case ; I have tried it with good | madrepore marble, is expensive; but, for eof Onk 
workmen, I have it myself; it could not be done. | purposes, the instrument does very weli made of C 
: < e1 proved | I had to get the plummet, — = by — pole, and oe other well-seasoned wood. Journal of the H 
by f a kind of rustic cave in one side jof| first set it right from south to rom east | tural e 
T F: | to west, and this in windy doli r is wt avery straight- Fuchsia gracilis- racilis. vlna — 4 1 ay — 
1 in a inerensin 8 on th roach 
here and der e on the — weer which has now forward job. Again, in plunging mee te J pyre heen cold and — winter, I 
altogether good effect. The new stove climber | | covered my beds of hardy Fuchsias 
Rhaphistemma zom ellum is — nee 3 e. ri turf. 
flower in the hid oe Its and manne 
2 resem Dlefthose of Ste hanes floribunda, an 
— n first 2 being white, but press tact 
g to a fine lemon 7 ; 
scented aa being produced in e t profus NR ery 
attractive. The 1 ary k mi altogether the 
plant must be consi idered : an Te 
Mis STaPLETON’s, —— — in HENLEY ON 
MES. — of New Zealand Flax 
(Phormiam tenax), is — in flower here. It has been 
growing at Greys Court ae teen of 30 years, but it has 
2 er been — r before the 
t 
presen 
a — many feet in hei 
oy with — of a darkish brown colour. It 
embered that this Flax also flowered in the 
ieult — Society’s great conservatory this year. 
i FLORICULTURE. 
— ( — 
Crmerantas: H H. Treat your batch of seedlings as you wou 
catablished plants; but to save room, always important — 
— 
le, with white dar! — bark- bed sloping to ee even | which th are commonly applied. . in 
nable to name it, Sean genet ess for a ised eye to put th em level, aar Ta hey are Turner's Florist, Fruitist, and Garden Miscellany. 
same instrument, 
close for a few da days, and then treat — in the usua! {| that instrument so small as to be got into the pocket; two sixty-five one-hundredth d of a 
way until potting n arrives ith i i eather. i d as i rall ust three- 
2222 . set upright in any weather, and | weight, anà not, as ie, generally pappone, junt 
ed ; r 
SESDLING FLOWERS. | may be made e= this tool whilst the mason's plumb- | Poisonous ore 5 — * since a Belgian 
er- — — eons 
| family to 
Danis: CJP. A — i flower with wide and as, | be said of the — line, for it is no easy matter to | taking ‘and — his y 
which are deep orange tipped with salmon pink ; ae ates get the spirit-level accuratel adjusted ; and that most varieties of Mushrooms in large 3 
— — laue 1 — àes r from coarse- | valuable tool, the mason’s level, is miserably slow in its | dan resu e ~ 23 
/ and in windy weather it will | washing . 
MG. 
1 sport unworthy of endeavour. not only tells instantly when the bed is level on which | removed. Some doubts have been however, on 
Mr. taria amra, Ghat ee not th hig yoo Diis 4 lies, but e how dar it is it is from that point in case the | the truth of the Belgian doctor’s inferences by a 
Fuchsias in question.—J H. Much bruised; but apparently bed be an inclined plane, — * fall and a physician of Bordeaux, M. I arti and M. 
Desm 
a good variety; white at the tube, and sepals tolerably pure. | to drains, * — — planes wanted. The Corne, who have proved that a e of 
Gtommines BS. OF your 6 eedlings upon inci - called poisonous is not necessarily poisonous for every 
| level is constructed the principle P the hour-glass d poisonous 38a 
‘purplish È e your se m j ‘out, whites” * and, by a ae — of sand, the lines are locality—that climate and soil in 
> 
The rest are not so good as y others. | given very fine rá accompanying sketch will give an 
be Avery fine flower read A N white, Rieser — idea of the dial of the contrivance. No scale 
Preserving, * a * is ed, as the — is the full size of the part 
Heurrnoens: R B. Pr. Simpson, buff, salmon towards the The first was made three years ago; the subject has 
— ot the petals ; 3 — flower of a 3 Ao ee = Spares, | been carefully digested since, and it is to be hoped that 
in e — — patani it will prove a — valuable implement in the ordinary 
N Fus res et Wa . hand een tons o rhe gr wnt long after the inventor has 
* 
and been n appearance the instrument is some- | 
= F on Feu Gu: Roi; habit dwarf thing ‘ties a half brick. Its dimensions are P —_ 
Perosia: P. A ti Which “th le of the | X N Ig. The diagram represents the face of it, in 
— ng i i inched (ep 3 the thront), and i ies y piace which two cavities are cut out so as to form each a of 
— T of a circle, as appears by the degrees ~ 
Prooree: J D W. Nothing new. We have one from your — tine sand, like that used a men 
Rosts ; 5 enclosed in these cavities by glazing in front. esand 
CGW, A neat, small, Hybrid Perpetual, and very | falls from the e part the 
2 ———— — lower, as in the co that ey fren tn particles of 
sand fall so — at they fo appearance cope 
y j It th placed upon | rapidly 
1 horizontal the sand will fall, as a that it would be ‘highly wmf — 8 1 
1 from the small hole in the centre, to — — sot * — see 
90°, But should the instrument be placed upon any- — of owe — mount ns wh 
thing thet in not level, the particles of sand vin Hope) consists of a ridge, rugged mountai , 
still fall perpendicularly, in accordance with the law of are chiefly composed o eee 3 
gravitation; but the apparently continuous line of | especially during the dry season, the time of our visit, 5 
