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The spuikom flora abounds 
ast on 
w 
e number of Fer nd aan than t 
a eee — an i 
is oy Ferns a 
— scarce; Loranthae cee 2 Coes alp inewe ane entirely 
Aon ocoty 
the —— of New South W Van Die 
land. In South — a ‘Compost form an 
eighth of the whole 3 — Composi d Legu- 
y — — of plants yet remain Whi 
th Australia, 
urrants, Raspberries, Strawberries,- Goose 
» Pears, STE Medlars, Plums of alk * 
om, for ueen and Peaches in abundance, growing well and luxu- 
Our forest trees, too, thrive admirably here, 
alnuts, Filberts, and Hazle-nuts are becoming 
For 8 finest flowered Chinese Chry santhemum i seg rot, aspects, but 8 Pigs in m 3 
here were three competitors summer: frosts bs which this Ppp is liable fre- 
j which in wn 
inty. wee pes ain * distriets, 
ry | reer us crop 
cept in prix ons near ‘the sea- 
olid Whites 3 305 Mr. 238 for Seymours 
ae grea em Re ad; * b Thom 
pl ardens he * 
to be published from Sou a, not more than t eym ur's api a saa White, with those at Sydne 
1300 out of 2000 being yet described. Nearly 100 Onions let Mr. Nisbet, for 8 Keeping, Stras- shore 1 ze 8 1977 — 
e growing wild which have been — burg, ae Blood Red; 2d, Mr. Lees, for pre and shady aspect. They are t again repeat 
Europe and the Cape. The author concluded | James’s Keeping, and Blo productions | my oft- pf praise—they are Znglish-looking 
with some picturesque acco of the vegetation were received for exhibition only, and not for gardens, not rich in glowing Oranges, scarle ome- 
from the mudd ndy, an y shores of the petition. Fro en of S. Esq., were good | granat d golden Loquats, nor stored with the rare 
auth of Australia. introduction of European] Black Hamburgh Gra Messrs. Moffat. exhibited | and go blossoms of India, but full of sweet 
culture is changing the character of its tion. a — 3 anra was stated to be a homely faces perfumes. Great trees of a lovely 
Naturally unfruitful, it is retiring before the plants | be and well suited for ag tc situations. wer full bloom at the time of my visit 
affording — to man, and = — he rears. Not was eel worthy of high commendation, looking so like the Rose-trees of olden daya, at 2 
only has th e European vegetation changed the features | Was rem i to committee. Coulis. * — = I could 2 believe them the 
iis lnsidecape; but the culture "of the soil is changing Apples, Pears, on ts were exbibite M * pr of the world.” 
the nature of the seman and rain now falls where none 
did before. 
Extomo LOGICAL, Dec „ Esq., 
FP. L.S., 3 in the e Vari 
the library fr was the Royal Society, ta eit 5 Arts, 
were ann well 
British Lepid opters, presented ig Mr. —— 
x of rare inse als ea ee presented b 
Mr. Weave aah the 
E ihora 28 reared 8 the larva 
in the solid sapa 12 . in which i 
alindrivic eel b burrow „ thus d 
habit of the gen ‘the larvee of which piy. war 
inthe 3 detritusof old trees, the female of 
C. atrata Ange ay: er eggs in erer ices in ap 
À letter from Mr. Crook was read, offering a number of 
tha 85 exchange to the mem 8. 
d a number of beautiful beetles and 
thou, cal wi 
iro, yet ‘generally exhibited 
minute cite in e a diversity in their 
geographical range; likewise Monohammus Sutor, 
taken on “the banks of the o Regent's canal, probably 
ana which had abo 
ikewise. (on behalf of Mr. Buxto 
s, from Ayrshire, Ponti 
Fen, “Hunts, and Bt remarkable | 
e Edw. „ 
all 
reared fr 
latus — 1 in ‘the w 
of a cask ; 
. Wes 
eoptera, pa an Ceylon and Hong- 
8 by Major Champion, 
ae fees Gade and Cebrion 
of the e, having = of the hind. 
ed; and a fine 
Pe 8 meat be 
ay dae possessing 16 feet, 
salis. 
ortunate able to 
— in the natural 
avali 5 these anomalous parasites. 
history ‘and 3 
Carepontan HORTICULTURAL, Nov. 2 
Members and office-bearers for 1853 i 
Ca 
shige eue de to 
on vt Dessert 
rms | fin 
itoring from the ee 
9 5 oz? read 5 
rtain 
chiefiy Belonging 
; Mr. Grant |t 
E 
But our space ob 
volumes themselves, 
us to refer the reader to the 
Calder, Seacliffe. Mr. Maule, cig Pg sent specimens 
of liges will amply repay perusal, 
a promising seedling Apple. say, mar 
loch, ell- Spot ieee, with Walchere 
Mr. Bogie, 5 
n Mons. Leon te Clere | Longmans), 
n, Auchterarder, a selection of | articles inserted by 
; 154 Me Pender, Moredun, — 
Broccoli, ae Mushrooms, Young, Archer field, 
Cer- 
exhibited w 
Wittich’s Leiters on the Income Tax, &e. (a pamphlet, 
), consist of a reprint of some i t 
able showing 
Friendly Soecietie ~ and that ir 
n exedit has risen from 13} rr in 1826, to ma 
than 32 millions prey in 1 
tent Magie and Witchcraft (Chapman and Hall’s “Reading 
apparatus for 9 trees, shrubs, and e for Travellers“) pic 5 n in the same clever style as 
ceous plants, The een ts of the trial were highly . the “ a Roads n Tately noticed by us, 
factory ; and a co e was appointed to repor he author seems 2 — a most oli rary, out 
the merits of the 8 2 which he has kno mayor agg follies and horrors. 
nough to satisfy — ife. The details 
pre extremely curious, * no doubt new to most readers, 
m.—In the Report of the eh peat Rockets 
Meeting, one 791, Ws a, line 31 from top—/for “Mr, Pav —* sen 
a capital smalierowned Q Queen Pinc-apple, weighing 4 
4 Word t in oa 3 Tenth ag s (Ridgway).—There 
r farmer in England who en not 
— this — res —— apr his table. It is full of 
valuable „ which the intelligent will ap 
bad by -= the munen may largely profit. The , 
present edition contains between the 2 
tice ak! Lois- Weedon — that o of Tull—a 8 interes ie 
Protices of X Books, Xe. 
My Home in soa By Mr Mrs. C. Meredith. 2 vols. 
ray. 
A cyarmine Christm in + Hook, beautifully illustrated wi 
woodcuts, and written in tha pleasant gossiping ber | 
which none but an woman knows how to 
e well. We recommend it to politicians as the 
est all ans incessant cry that Van 
Dienen s ra is utterly ruined by the curse of convict 
Mere dates these volumes from her 
residence i in the colony, July 18, 
— — 
— 
2 ORTCULTU RE. 
Cunture or Roses IN Tor, —No person possessing 
beauty or fragrance can be insensible 
has been 
coisas of 
rene 
colonists; in her “cheerful country home 
n and at night thee 3 is neither shutter, 
he windows; neve: ess, she met 
ess intrusion,” and is evidently SA eg. at 
We should were thought more 
to k 
plants inte fo flower house daring winter and 
was not so much as dreamed of ; 
obtained we 
plants, cep = not fit to 
ex — ne gp as the plan 
tected 
— the civilization and securi ren Britain as 
Mrs. th’s is in = midst of “ savage natives 
and“ ee ” convicts 
From among the many agreeable bits of information 
Gai 8, our own obj ects, with which the pict 
select the following as more lly | 
“ From int I visited, Mount Wellington 
or Table sm gre forms the crowning glory of the | at Ch 
Rising immediately behind the town to the 
height of 4200 20 with its summit of 
with snow more t 
is one of ever- "varying, l * ee, 
Whether it was wreathe 
especia 
vapou m ve wel 
t cle ar = sunlit against the specimens at Christmas — Arx must be previously 
never weary of gazing on thi ed with a view to t 
magnificent object. 
regards subjects of exhibition, the 
ears, 
Crassane, m 
s: Ist,! 
ii Marj, i, 
p ere 
Pi 
ippin 
= 
Same va 
for 
cut blooms : Ist, Mr. Laing, gr. to the 
——: for Beauty, Warden, Queen of England, 
or imme- with water, turning a number of m 
ourse. 
Alley Sup 
* stream flowing from the mountain mencing this kind of culture evil 72 have —.— 
stock of plants, I will 
e 
J 
ills of various kinds | 
To a botanist } 
ntly 
is cut up; and ipen: 
Pik the the yen may be about an inch apart, 
