he must submit to the * of this trans- 
gression of natural he cares 
34—1852.] 
Home A e. 
—Your remarks on hybri 
THE GARDENERS’ 
which | shoo 
i it 3 is 
ee at period, except when oi fruit is Fron and = S spreadin baffling the wi a y 
en shut A the ag with a f sum heat in it, so as 2 ang 1 ing the wisdom of the wise. I ask 
ensure 
idising induce me | in len 
the 
ybrids.— 
to enquire if any experiment has been made with 
differen 
— a a grower, 
d to the at attention a some ne skilf 
majority which are on 
us Heathworts 
the late Dean of 22 failed i 
n 
ous 
cultivator of 
riti 
2 <r healthy foliage and 
I dam 
moist by Bee somes Pein de 
free 
a warm 
lants in a healthy y growing state, and 
p red | se 
spider. If green-fly 9 imm poney fumigate 
e. © treatment I} more than one-half ol e globe; and I asked also 
e grown, with uniform W tele quantities of h f the atm 
orticole, well flavoured "tt, v arie — from 4 to 5 Ibs. 
A 
tobacco smoke, no 
each. | sph 
ugust 1 
Pear e About a fortnight ago I observed a 
Jargonelle Pear-tree affected by an insect which 
to 
varies 
il nd 533 
whether it might ts of 
o- 
ere as to — in any way with vegetable or 
animal life. I think I asked also whether ozone might 
not be a new product from this source. yet to 
ipe 
e | affected, 5 e iscover. I observe 
nsect o objection =i paaa * tin „the leaves 
Pimm ina = fy 
petals, 
a loss in the north to pin strong Apok to pot early, as 
it is the end ‘of, July before we can get oh gee like 
rooted young plants. C. M'Intosh, 
emoranda from Java,—Of the noble race of Palms, 
resen 
e entirely confined to Java, and inhabit the dense 
ears are | i 
forest near the at series of voleanic mountains in the 
of a 
generally us used by the natives for covering their houses ; 
ting or pounding 
8 dyin ng, = others monthly choked with suckers. 
One o f the es of the Manetti stock is the 
ce, I think more 
ork, 
out. Heat 
Pine. We should imagine that most Van 
. | Land Plants would be tolerably, if not quite, hardy, i 
8 
the every care, pep aac mildew 
are 3 es Sir Joseph Banks was St ioe parte, and the 
e heat induced Mr. Aiton to send for his truest | 
mascots After trying it in various p the 
lest was found under the 
d | som: 
remember well the day, for in the morning of it 
sna! of this stock, 1 ha 
witnessed a most er * n of fog. 
ere lam nto his garden; in going along St. James’s- 
7.| park there was fog, or rather haze, so 3 to conceal 
all objects Pr a few feet distance. Su 
—this haze was no more. The sun shone 
4 . appears to os an Araucaria ; 
exce ee ep t the branches are not pendulo 
* i 8 
the midrib of the dried = greien This Palm grows to the 
eight of 50 feet and upwards, and does not uce 
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tification, for several months afterwards. The eged 
s ies, — ee is much mo 
ves, on account of its 
° t to 
the spall habit, its * not exceeding 7 feet. The leaves 
3 n ES 
are palmate, like former species, the fruit being 
ta- 
forth 
vari l indi to Java, 
Catechu alba and A. C. — The fruit a 
the first-mentioned sort is much used in Ja 
where it is eaten by the natives, both in its tnd 
well as ripe state ; — the former it is green an 
and su 
of | lent, with a small cavity containing a little milky fluid ; ; 
in the latter it is 8 * size of a N of an orange 
colour; the interior or nut resembles in shape, colour, 
n e 
to the mouth, the resto cut it ner —— 3 po 
add a gaf of Gam 
r of th 
| wrapped in two o leaves “of the Siri 4 (Piper ! Betel), v which 
| . been previously smeared over with lime (made 
rom coral or "shells, called Kapur), to preserve the 
reek The natives are con — it as 
eir 
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abroad I see amongst 
the growth of 3 
in Mangold, Turnips, Carrots, &c., 
Soe aia tan wane issue; stock may come next 
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