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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
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45°, is necessary to 
which they are liable to 
are equal to young ones, 
anda slight anit they would form 
season. 
a light sandy ra 
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may be added l 
al seen lend sail Alpha. 
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BRITISH Rene re ENOR ADVANCE- | Growth oe ) ig aes y 
MEN — thi 
TOFS 
whorled. Now, 
the le 
preserve the flowers from damp, by | whom heh 
reas, others, a num 
point, and the plant becomes, 
he 
aves 
unbranched to near the base (as in 
in our e 
—the 
&e. Ke. (3) “He yiri farther, that the angle a 
the branches go off from the — is the 
which the side veins 
go o the main veins. 
artes an 
observations during {the past pan had been ciety 
de the measurements b thousan 
directed to this point, and hie ma 
means of a graduated cir 825 ah a 
th 
species of f plants and tiene the angle of the brane 
of the correspo He produced a 
e of per 210 pa and — d 
attention of the Seetion to several of them 
Black and 
of the experiment had not 
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to the China war, sii | ell sent out to China 
koopia 
sean cee ar nares 
and pipet son oh as far 
the Thea viridis used in 
d, made i AL a 
bohea 
to make the two different kinds of tea; but Mr. 
Shanghae, and could find no difference between 
It was still N desirable to get 
the case of the 
e oe has no pans 
mmon 
that at 
A 
he took the angle formed by the 
B 
tabulated 
the special 
EE 
the T 
ia fe nora for making black t oe i 
Shanghae, he foun 
dis. 
seemed to confirm 
Thea being 21585 
took plants with him from Fokien to 
them 
specimens from the p 
d human being, bu 
n as 
owi past 8 an 
e 
nd green m the 
Gardens their black a 
hat “it was 
&e., in colouring 
ant from the 
Committe = eee 
— The . 
rie 
which had been doubted, had been re-investign 
there. se 
„thus 
esent 
ery ae P 
les ‘civilised nations of the "EN being so from 
bse of animals 105 le of domestication. 
e great Pen £ is 
um en 
2 
5 
now 
of Europe, e, 
civilisation compared with thos 
ustrali 
oping 
and 
sse 
of 
the | species that I 
ee ns peenaa I oN to the 
Dr. | Soc 
ns of the black Spe ret r the Soi), four an somew 
to hi 
s 
be 25 palmatus, yields 
emed n 
buried {for centuries, had are of w 
b pre when says ‘that th 
which are 
ad brought with him made from arte in the part of the pico It is, owever, io oer Raa, 
pos > Meare 
sed in so 
pay nae ca Pn: j 3 
ery 
ee (vie a — aperti ars 
r the = i ie 
hat 
own researches another 
by infusion about half i 
Accor u 
nder th i 
N F. 3 are occasionally eaten in 
A oe shor i is valug 
KN to the Scottish i islan as winter food f 
h it constitu 
e a fl pwr: 
mn ne of the 1 bearing the 
irk N is well k parts asa n 
nown in some 
and easily-digested food for invalids, 5 polled 
de> sugar, which, when cool, forms a beautiful 
2 the manufacture of mucilage on an exte 
Mr. Brown’ 
h yard 
into the antiquity of Assyria’ and Egypt prove this 
ad |p 
a nd question; and show that those nations h 
need to a power 
— been equalled, and that we are only n 
the same sta ith regard to ete that a 
1 der ag 
ofA 
ed, by the want of ie facilities possessed he 
ondition for eternity. 
ad foe gr the American bison 
might 
e to serve that purp 
ose as well as the ox, for it 
and possessed m 
merica: 
time were thought so useless that there was a proverb to 
that effect ; but now it was foun wine can 
es | be In 1 i 
e | opinions as to the origin of dom 
say that the A abe da of the — cat was that k 
in the temples of Egypt. 
SEA-WEEDS AS FOOD. 
nee and rich abundance of the sea-w 
ost every part of t 
ion nat 
a yee ven t En 
4 the e 
as manure, 
district where the 
actually 
the | yard dung > prodigiou 
sea-weed, 8 
am not aware a that i it s has been 1 ode "than i ina 
a 
remarks that the 2 of e 
merica 
rmer had is great collaborateurs | m 
which, in modern wae has | huma 
e gears Peg s by 
which p be * — gi 
useful | i 
of | so 
viteiol, 
m. 
regine a 2 pes 
2 on seei s 
ppt 
stem, similar to 
to keep them very aa 
to bear frui 
228 ok: 
is shortened at 
are very 
Downton square nut, 
be selected. The nuts 
Scat aae pa 
ct | be properly aa ot 
aaw-du 
saw 
and tsk bem as to forma 
Wee. valuable manure, transferable to any 
be taken advantage | 
j mba A jj 
d so | shrivelling: £. Bein eei over | 
Journal of last week, I find among © 
y | spondents, that my “instinct 1 
