34 THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRO! CUE. 
an amazing yaan which 
und either 
domestie and rural yi F 
the purposes of ligatures, cordage, ropes, kets, a 
fastenings for ngs. Th mon Rotan — 
whic 
rd and enve ire ed {by a firm white pulp, 
1 
egg; ve by a 
covered with thin seales , in colour not unlike those of a 
li pwi les two or three yellow 
kernels, having a strong odour, a mealy and acid flavour, 
a he natives, 
8 ually flowing, or 
es on the shores of the 
La 
es 
collect in clusters on the — while — inhabit it the ver m * 
untain The * extracts $ which — 
forest and m ns considerable height, an 
where the “el is sensibly felt. The — — of 
Palms exte the equa to 
to south o 
about 30° intitade, N — at 359 or 40. vation 
re for Flower Borders. — Will any 
artificial manure ee 
has found most satisfactory in his ra r garden; I w. 
produce blossoms, and . the growth o 
e ee, occupants of my beds and borders. = 
Dev 
The Paton —After the =— heat of July a period 
ecrease 
rain to the amount of 5.14 
inclusive, whieh is a "e 3 a fell in any oe 
ry w eee of — 
oe — — 
rain fell in . seme 
een very much laid. On the 
ery severe gale, the crops in 
e were almost threshed on the es 
iest ears were broken o 
the night of the IAth, upwards of an inch of rain fell in 
e for 
ms are e near f| of mountains, asee 
springs; — 3 seh. the Cocoa- nut, — — 
favourite reading of circula 
ating libraries and 
* ie be perused at a glance and — ten in an 
he h as 0 n’s 
cord of researches a 
ms a subject oi = ee referene 
its value w e to mes 
h iina dge 
hour, the 
horticultural i st, will s 
before him. He escribes 
sign e — awar. 
day our journey was a short one, mo more 
I 
than ers and a half miles, to the vil 
bark, falling off in large patches, so 
nea — smooth. 
rom Wh 
w hours, whi ne sheaves , and 
he mountains across the river, was s 
receded from the 
1c 
ak wood, t 
E 
4} 
with his regiment 
ere 
n the — of modern war, | ar 
Beyond the crest 
h the view into the Sutlej valley, and towards 
—— y lose 
physical a as 
e 
at 
e to a of 
ru, a place in the 
lage of t 
oast 
uperb, the road on 
river, entering an 
ersall 
— 
2 
in 
8 ; 
both the uty » and ens of the crops will be — — | 
affected from cause, 1 $ 
eather —— in very 
quickly. — y much 
— the H Po in gardens empened to the: south and 
As it may be N ng to compare the 
aer of rain in — ith that n other counties, I —— 
here insert the daily amount which fell is place 
at Buxted Park, together with the ——f of the 
dew-point at 9 a.m., and the amount of humidity, &e. 
Fall of Rain in Humidity, 
Inches, 
1852, 
Be 
Uckfield. | pn — gy 
a e st 7 
ae of mil 
which we enca 
this delightful elevation, i 
io 8 0 
extensiv 
and facing t the south, so that it has 
the sun's rays to mature its grain ero 
E 
» 
or 
© 
TEERLER 
WUOMONAQwWoon 
most 8 villages of 
nly by R 
becomes too 9 for bea: 
and fruit, * mos 
chides to perfection. 
ver, are lower do 
Kunaw: 
in autun 
mn to ripen 
Werung Pass, on the north 
“From the 
1ern Si 
about 500 feet, or ra more 
hei fi 
Or 
* 
— 2 
NES οο e | 
ae 
S33 
AAD 
È 
ee 5.1 
—0. Leeson Prince: 825 te August 17th, 
Western ae d Tibet; Narrative, of a 
a through the Mountains of Northern — 
By T. Thomson, M. D. 8vo. Reeve an d Co. 
Amone the m list 
remot 
t unknown to 3 the author of this work 
deserves orem men Ope 
ile Dr. Hook 
a 
ation respecting climate, vegetation, geology, a 
phy such as would have been worthy at Humboldt 
8 ; and we now know almost as much 
et ra, Balti, — t, as of Mussooree, Kun 
e recesses of the Indian “Ah ps; and brought us | 
oe with the climate and vegetation of countries | a 
al 
r 
of — 
w. 
that 
own to which the road plunged orien to ase 
— as 3 on the other side; N i 
nt of u e led 
at an elevation of 8500 feet. 
and 8 beyond which 
Th 
han a mile, but soon — to ne sipia towards 
tom 
ie p 
u, a large village in 
ae full benefit of | o 
Miru 
e of 
oan — rivalled 
the 
Mi 
and 7000 feet, at which e the sun has more power 
the Gra 
Still further northward we have the vegetation of the 
crest of the pass, ae descent to Lipa was 
long and steep, the distance being about five miles. 
ther 
At 
8 the © student of Alpine vegetation, under my cir- | had disappeared on the upper of the ed som gt 
cc einer ore haat to him —5.— 1 learn what t many were missed which had been common, and 
ms — ee vast regions beyond i it to the | general aspect of the vegetation was strikingly altered, 
— rth-east, miai „in Short, who desire to judge | the diminution affeeting at once the number, the abun d. 
ee eee Indo- ad ossiblein the cultivation of the anee, and the luxuriance of t ants. Juniper was 
SE now so e ching | pho some af ds were 
interest, Unike going tooks and e aa | part ofthe doseme be {Tame a 
0 
within the mountains, 
— 5 
the reader t traveller 
manner Dr. arran — “the — ta c did 
è thus d Mir 
At Ar 
erpendicular | 
eip 
little n 
ds and an impoveri 
rate 
of, —— et pee the vegetation o pone Fe 
66 In W 
Ori 
banks of the —— — has cc — 
nd more recent] . Stock 
abundant on the wA — he Tad, fi 
It oceurs ee at intervals along the vall ley 
ears 
common, ses to “confine itself to hot sand 
several parts of Nub d 
‘a 
oid and coarsely to 
The leaves of “the 
ed plants, 
00 
are — the tree being much. — for fuel are aliy 
rrow 
Wild Apricots occurred in the severe climate 
Iskardo, — the most — Point a 
m ensi of the Indus valley, even it thie 
rugged and — spots, I noticed cecil pr 
— — — of Apr 
ai 
places vess: the 
they had never been "pian 
h ve existed. 
ew 
c 
universally as food by the inhabitat should 
— vegeta at a great distance from their usual 
— of gro 
The Walley 5 ——— by some Bh to have 
been the site of the of Eden, hardly realised to 
Dr. Thomson the . which bani ous accounts 
had le d him t o entertain. 
* My first vane was to the lake, and to the ee 
ardens on its northern shore, which were 
e Kas 
rge patches of all 
Typha 
Ante the eather lants. Three or 
f Potamog 1 were ee in dee at 
> 
a — J 
arts, while the main av 
" ‘Although the chief bea 
— e country, 
ps 
and the 
n the —.— of t the valley. 
re 
shed —.— 
The i of of — „ 
rom the 
* 
icled Rheu 
Umbeliere Silene 1 
2 — were abundan 
