662 
THE eee AMAER ER 
| OcrT. 18. 
By so doing we should have all 
iked with, and we 
er freezes, and 
ar i is is 5 that 
to be {those 
on the undersides re of “the host, < d which of 
downwards. he stamens Ears. am 
the rt 
the sap therefore flow 
would also save mulching, watering 
annoyances, for in some „er. where I have been 
a cat must not be seen treading 
een notice 
planted after this fashio 
lay in the lowest parts e park, wher 
the earliest frosts in sia: yu the latest and severest 
in sprin t some will object to planting kp 
on the outside of walls, as they will be unable to * e up ge 
unnatural plum- pudding borders in which they so 
much 3 oat howeve great extent, might 
t ove well ks own fact, gee — y 
Chapman, “of Vau aah never made a as 
were merely slated . the 
an told me 
a 
trees | abun 
I} gre 
i a of the sea, 
> wholly im 
er as Read an extract from a letter addressed to 
th 
Augus h, 1851 
g pon gry of Pobich "abounds i n pla gee 
5 
Sokietles. 
LiIxxEANX. Meetings . our own reporter has 
omitted to notice. Nov. 4,1851—The Presipent in the 
ir. R. 
oe 
8 
B 
= 
S S 
in 3 Bay, between Pol perro and Fowey, con- 
regated in small gronps bane a foot or two from the 
where the waves break over them 
ing and 8 wich the tide, so as constantly 
maintain near same relative position. When 
mersed (in an attempt to preserve them aia 
id not survive the da; 
the President 
turalist attached to the 
i terion. dated at Keren’, 
* this locality, the n 
ucing fostid 
recommenda 
bottle of sea-water, they 
N „acting on 
ocured several different kinds, of which, 
$ plan ts producing them, he gives some 
Two of the 
and 
es 
limestone soil, he elevation of from 5000 to 7000 
feet. Large quantities of gum are also produced by De 
wild Almond, a 1 s of “Astragalus, and the Pista 
vera. 
and there i ia ‘moreover, a kind of Thistle, which exudes 
. . from the bud, on being pierced by a 
species of Rhynchophora 
December 16, 1851.. —The Spore in the chair. Read 
F 2 &e 
Hogg, F. R — 
that upon 
control, the berries are always ce 
i circumstances. 
su of my P co 
at present exist ; besides, th ers, if an 
the outsides of walls might H be . at least 
as afew stumps of Cabbages and greens are prs 
Thee wan James Outhill, Vive oe Soa 
an 
ing them very 
de ee 
argest eel 13 0 A 
sual for this Pear ? 
uite 
1 the diet etum confirmed which Lord Port- 
uarte 
ured than 
not, ee let 
ode 
a 
A. C. K. [The | A 
as large, but not primy 
d | has been done to 
n: h 
of the A5 8 Nes, the other in that river near Middles- 
ae aa person, a tig ati of Stoc kion. 
4 second, S. enn 
rsal fin — 
ays to — number of three 
n the skin of the 
tary, the r 
(or p N four), being inclosed wi 
r. Hibbert’s res W 
es of Shetland, to Dr, unan b Petes to its 
zoology, EN Mr. Dunn’s in its b 
d Mr. Hewitson’s investiga ation of 
the Kuti a of the dredgi arlee, M 
McAndrew and Professor Forbes, b y which so much 
nowledge of 3 living 
Capre 
and Alega 
latum, deseri 
ae 51 on page 629. All the Pear- trees (whi 
young) in the here 
this disease, 8 
Gardener |“ 
weeds cou 
; and while be h has able, notwithstanding 
or 4 feet 3 to Pal up nearly e one of 
ards rehard 
a First Arctic . in 1822.” 
before the n of 
€ y we 
| same specific name in the “ Appendix to 
publicatio 
5 proposes to name the latter 
rdance wi 
Monographia Apum Anglize,” he would have pref, 
the «so rim “a nt “a; 9 mt it 
simple notice of this 
| of 
rther a memoir “ On the ‘orest Trees of British 
9 sin their Uses in naaa and — Architecture.” 
B; ir 38 “pe burgk, 
memoir had been r at the 
Association at York, in October 1844; butas only a 
in 
j “The lake,” Mr. Mars 
the 
? | gault — sie not ge 
as 
A 3 lea a 
anus. | be tl wide, egg-shaped a 
his | m teeth, 
This | al 
ifht of the British 
the Association, the 
Schomburgk 
rolling over and over li 
to read it again before the Linnean So 
that an abstract might be publish ciety, in orden m order 
„Proceedings.“ i Published in the © Society's 
eee l 
Rediew. 
The New Water Te Sina ha 
_ Pampin, of it. W. Marka, Sen Some 
London, 
N this fourpenny pam hlet Mr. M 
abort of the 28 it ich the fete donn clever 
y 
can oppose no eae, 
ah oe — of n apse 0 tans as mpi, me 
0 ugust, 1842, a iA — naturalist, 
ane J —— observed th = 
lake of Dunse Castle, ae ace Nobody 
witnessed the 5 nding, z * ad 
ier 
of femal 
thought — ladies v nae do ay 4 
. to settle, and propagate at the 
turns out, however, that E 
too fa ar; ‘for inste: 
plying an 
to block up the Trent, 
and from the progress 
made in Cam bridgeshire, it is not improbable that 1. 
s” on the will be the Fitzwilliam 
have bee te of the river Cam, 
I am to at the river a of the 
aire been so blocked, that extra horses had to 
ked on, before barges could be got és to Foster? 
. — 
„ Sluicekeepers also complain that masses of it get 
into the pen, and when the slackers are drawn, the 
openings are choked, and the operation of letting boats 
go al is greatly impede n 
“The Railway Dock at Ely became so choked with 
— that boats 
Ely, Beirne was_blocke 
en complain that they can 
longer ply their — so 1 as they were wont; 
lines (ee that the 
ft 
have dis 
host 
r carries — aw: 
d 
erence to the 
ich cause teh om ae 
2 — britele, = that whenever the plant i 
fragments are broken off. Although, a. at present 
cannot propagate itself by seed, its powers 
are e e as 2 fragment pt j 
an ind roducing roots 
— itself eee in every 1 55 ie 
— ter e ari 
river or 
seen under water, either on 
le woolpacks, cli 
e enemy swimming in the 
