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A figure of it will N in the forthcoming, and, grown as many Cucumbers upon one plant before the, on the other hand, it improves arrack, as it imparts 
1 believe, final number, of the “Garden Companion. >| end of May as she has cut from three up to August 20. some of that peculiar flavour which people affect to 
Romas Moo . Mine are growing upon a trellis 2 feet from the ground. relish. The medicinal qualities of Teak are an infusion 
Manetti aed have read Mr. 8 * = Cucumbers bear better on trellises than p -| of the leaves drank as tea in cases of cholera. The 
nee seen wise, and they are finer flavoured, on account of the free wood is seldom used, although it imparts to water 
plants he there alludes to, but my 1 of this Rose circulation of a a 2 taste, somewhat similar to that the 
as a stock remains unaltered. It is suited to special I would advise: the lady and one who are growe rs of |] The native name in Java is Jattie or Djattie, 
rather than general use, and that in a very limited Melons and Cucumbers to build a 4 or 9-inch walled the. call Teak oe ie to British India. The 
. The Roses he mentions are certainly growing | brick * even if it were but for one poy e back wall | superiority Jak has over Teak is in the 
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r. Rivers is one of our first horticulturists, and if he | of strong rods of hazel, the stronger and rougher the |producing timber of extraordinary size, perfectly 
found some difficulty in its cultivation, so much that he | better, in order that t they may not bend. Then if the |straight, and from 5 to 7 feet in diameter, ao in 
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Can any amateur or * gardener afford e time (leaving to bathe in, and place it in the pit. Let “Mary” take my —— is a fine tree growing to the height of 
out the au p advice, and tell us the result next year. James Cuthil, | 100 —5 inhabiting the dense forest at an elevation from 
ship to Mr. R. to learn how to to grow Roses on — 5000 to 8000 feet above the level of the sea, and where 
“gaunt which thing, when learnt, is not worth the . Effect of Heavy Manuring on the Potato Disease.— the cold is sensibly felt ; consequently, it is yen: met 
T trow not, On one point Mr. R. seems to me to argue | I observed a few weeks a letter in your Paper on | with on the plains, The wood is of a very texture, 
strange L for a man of his ractical —.— He the Potato disease, by Mr. Cuthill. I have no wish to | fine in grain, and varyi ng i = colour from a bright red to 
says, “ Is not the Manetti a hybrid China Rose? and | dispute the position taken up by that — — ar j i nm rose, which makes it valuable to the furniture- 
not 1 Roses of the same race! | that the s occasioned 4 th i i 
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thence that it is better ? to the following: On March 6 I I planted a quantity of | entirely subsist upon them during the greater of 
e Irish Cup * me — ry raised by myself, and | the season in which the trees are in bearing ; they may 
affinity of the stock and scion the better? Does | perfectly ee from d n a piece of a B rhe be eaten raw or roas i i as the 
the Peach thrive better on the common Almond | sandy soil, which had lan lain ‘for 50 years under wood | natives are in no way particular in respect, 
than on the Plum? Is the seedling Apple a * Fir chiefly). The only manure — was | quality of the timber is regulated by the age of the tree; 
better stock for the Apple than the Crab? Surely | 4 ewt. of Pe 1 guano per acre. The crop on this if cut — om very old, a is of — use, but, at a 
not; and numerous other instances will doubt- ground was very luxuriant in appearance, and the stems m Oak in 
less occur to him in which the advantage is not in the | remarkably tall and 'green till about a week ago, when durability for r. The — range of 22 
io i i is aki ud or | — > a i from vel of the sen. 
van wires y require a more philosophie pen has been istri 
than mine to grapple with them. I am content to deal | years in —— a quantity of the same kind of the forest at an elevation of 9000 feet above the sea 
with facts, Certainly I have too much love for my | Potato, and prepared in the same vg pe manured with | level ; two species are lofty trees, yielding an 
Roses to wish them transposed where they would have 21 horse loads of farm. yard dung per acre. This plot, | of resin, while the other two are dwarf, and planted in 
‘to undergo such a combination of hardships as 4 poor | although never so luxuriant in foliage, i a as yet perfectly | gardens about eyy The Agathis loranthifolia, 
thin light soils,” “ reeking atmospheres,” “ murky fens,” | green, and free from disease. Ano act, 3 — igs —— and Dammara, are one 
and “ withering 838 apo I would entreat that by a neighbour of mine, is that in 1846, one part of his | same tree, which — * extraordinary height, and 
portion of poor manity who may be Potato field was overflowed by the river Spey, — yields a 1 kind of hard pitch 2 cm that exudes spon- 
haar are to quiver oe ake such circumstances, if they | while ofinu P ani which escaped was much affected by | taneously fro m the tree. There re two varieties of this 
cannot themselves escape, least to place their | dise nt wed was entirely sound. in commerce, d by their colour or 
fav 8 flowers beyond such — William Paul, John © 98 Ys EN orayshire, N. B.— Five years | consistence, and by the name of —— batoe in Malay, 
Nurseries, S Herta E I took a cottage in the neighbourhood of Edin- or Damar sella in Javanese, meaning stony resin; the 
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wasp a fly trap, a wide-mouthed Gooseberry bottle ee i 
with a “tin or other funnel in it. Try, and you will | entered, the ground was very, very poor, and I manured | is known by the name of Kibiema latakki, 
recommend a transparent bottle. The difference in the | it strongly; the crop was excellent and not a diseased The Antiaris toxicaria, or de Jpas tree of Java, 
T 8. 7 — La opaque anda transparent bottle | Potato. Having a cow and two horses, the manuring |is one of the largest trees in the forest: the stem, or 
surprisi reason is evident; in the opaque | was of course very heavy. In the first year, 1846, trunk, rises perpendicularly to the . . of 2 feet 
bottle the Tight, 9 which the ca tives fly, is up the where there was no disease, at least one-third went before sending out any 28 which a ſew 
all round stro 
treacle. 4 olo, A Render f 15 the nearly 
. American ies, not above a dozen of diseased 2 inches in thickness. In the Sundanese, or western 
N — of the Erigeron canadensis, or Potatoes were fourid, after bei ing about a month in the part of the island, it is very scarce, and is only known 
Canadian Fleabane, will find plenty of it growing in pit. I observed thi i coll i equally 
‘the triangular ey which is now being fast built over, | dishful for dinner, and for every two sound Potatoes he dense. Nor is it widely distributed over the 
md of 0 ha vin i e basket, i 
Rss in the tran t e the t is wrong in 1849; and every year since, the ng t horizontal ones wi race oh 
m, thi ther ba so A Aying el they can fy y, no longer, manuring being continued, the greater has been the dividing into smaller —— and forming an un- 
1 e liquor beer and ' amount of destruction. I tried this f | com ead. The bark of the stem is of 
year the 0 of tl a 
lifting early, and in a small break of about four bolls of | colour, bursting into longitudinal furrows, and 
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as next season there may be no open ground left. is spondent that over foreing is one great cause of the the eastern distri oes it alten & wes distribution, and is 
is now a rare plant; but is spoken of by Ray, as growing | disease. I observe that Hollyhocks piam maa f are | found in Malang, Pe, Pagar, dawasa, and 
plentifully about London in his time. I have learnt | affected, also Apple- trees, and that Roses are unusually | * hapas In the 1 mentioned it is eye: | 
that the place where I found it was at least 50 years in mildewed and rested. W. K. 4. in the deepest recesses of the forest, 
occupation of Messrs. Cormack and others as garden| Memoranda from Java (continued from p. 534).— | sides with trees, shrubs, or climbing „ 
ground. The high system of manuring which gardeners | Among timber trees the Tectona or Indian Rak justly stem, and occasionally Orchids pe fon ts branches; a 
would find necessary for their purposes would probably takes the lead amongst these Bh the east, and that of proof that the Antiaris is not — eed other plant 
not suit the habits of the Fleabane ; but no sooner would | Java is usually considered to be the finest in quality. | near it, nor is there ed ground about 
neglect reduce the ground to its naturally sterile condition, | Like the Oak, the Teak taken from 70 to 100 years to it which sorb g- 80 much spoken — The inspissated 
than the seeds of Erigeron would begin to germinate, and | arrive at maturity, and even then it requires a good | juice,or po ark,or cortex,and when 
Fret may be the pmnan supply now found there. In this strong soil; the tree varies in height from 60 to 90 feet, — = a — it flows from it in form of a milk-white 
found an explanation — the Rene sr and sometimes it is from 6 to 9 feet in diameter. The | sap; w e to the skin it produces an in 
disappearan a and restoration of se ting | Java Teak flowers in the dry season and ripens its fruit | ia followed by a severe pain an — 
plants in various parts of the elt William Ilott, 3 November, just before the north-west monsoon | The liber or inner bark of the tree produces a 
. It is one of the few trees which in the tropics | texture much resembling coarse cloth, which the 
Carrion Crows.—Some time ago I was riding in the — its leaves at once, = those of more temperate natives of those districts wear round their loins, and 
country. I saw a carrion crow (Corvus corone) fly out | countries. With respect to physical distribution, th ke a kind of hat from it. In its 
-of a barn with an egg in its beak ; it flew about 60 | Teak abounds in Sate € Ceylon, Malabat, Coromandel, | the bark requires bruising, a long immersion in water, 
yards into a field, laid down the egg, and went for | and especially in the empires of —— and Pegu ; it is with repeated washing, so as to free it from all particles 
another, I then disturbed it, when it flew three or four | found both in the plains and mountains—in the latter of poison that it formerly contained ; Ha not properly 
‘hundred yards, with the other egg, to its feast. I | not exceeding 4000 0 feet above the level of the sea. The | prepared before using for the purposes mentioned, 
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‘that it could carry so large a substance notwithstanding | found clinging to its branches. In comparing the | spproach it too near, more than they do the 
the saw-like edge of the mandible. The general im- qualities of Teak with Oak, the first is by far superior ;| the distribution of this plant p miig mats e meer 
Pression is that it pierces the egg with one mandible. | it is equally strong but somewhat more buoyant, the on the island ; it is always — ohh : The 
Such, however, is not the case, D., Pershore. durability is more uniform ; and it demands less care or | irritate the buffalo in his com SEA i see Bh 
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up to the — i hyp oe pr set ~ hal „„ co Ait 9 sree uke e the’ time to destroy life; but it must always be 
Mr. acts 
8 an amateur, living in the New-road here. that acid, as in the Oak, hich s d dest i 3 first b iled, then it more 
‘however, cut 62 Cueum from one h t essential oil which system and brain, and : e 
measuring 14 inches long, which beats « oo ran a poseen an ia oia adit foe ship | sudden effort, If taken inwardly instead of introduced 
This year | most 
therefore, upon the whole, “Mary” has done remark- | ‘easks to hold ee, Aer 
praise. I trust, however, that I | hich it imparts to 
. ee the lady when I tell her that’l have of dg end dl * 
