4—1848. | 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
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penn vegetables. 
Fine heat of the climate, and the constant 
sequent 
8 
der 
tho ugh, when roads a 
ntleman above 
others, however, were 
mountains 
vegetables as Singapore, where the few Cabbages which 
gre produced are 
are. cultivated in flower-pots, and with 
care.” 
Poar limited space 
3 pon — the author of the v 
prevents our en the 
set J 
Mr. Low tells. us that in Borneo 
growth con- 
difficult to ver, 
om be found to 
er lands it is use- 
to attempt the cultivation of the Kere though, by 
, the sides “of all of ‘which yr covered with 
be 
t of 
foliage is also fine, be eing heart ee very large, an 
dense. This fine © species, which is cer 
England, I have n 
Bethune, R.N., h eo 
the greatest assistance to me, and w n his ret 
was nine ch in introducing some of ‘the finest of the 
Zona o plan When the Clerodendron h 
blue On the 
aon Ba different from these : there 
— * — the order Taxacem, resemble the Oprisan 
and Fir ur northern — rae — racy 0 
great be or are also N he dam 
rocks, while i in mossy places the ‘beautiful ödenek 
Anæectochilus an new and more beautiful Rm 
flourish. But of all those above mentioned, though they 
ase beauty, none so much attract our curiosity as 
various and beautiful Pitcher-plants, eight different 
species a which I discovered in the western part of 
e islan 
are found ae 8 — 
he genus Dacrydi 
0 ne 
return, 
Miscellaneous. 
“i api before Garden.— We have 
d by the Caledonian Horticul 
it carried 
e side —— of the spin. may 
erected at first, 140 feet in length by 35 in breadth. 
the heating is 
— 1 — u yield 5 —— ] ind di ings, y mate Dn i. — — —— 
daa il Roweren do w e them atte itive. 5 would be Ne additions to our sto „arrange the various flowers k ive te to the 
We must be contented py pte 1 scraps relat- sane unpublished drawings abundantly mii Con- different colours—a’ point —— little attended to. 
per 9 which adorn the island. —— one of them we have the following’ ‘curious In short, if this “winter garden” be compl 
in all tropical e sy tribe ee his y ing wishes of its promoters, and be properly con- 
inp an an: beauty ; the open ‘The Nepenthes ampullacea eee its green or | ducted; it will — 8 to 8 "w ae a reso 
e sun can ea its 2 ae: spotted short y broad — 9 in a different m 4 — the picture gal a in this city. £din- 
from the last : it is also mbing plant, and found in 
. em these eet de, 1 with 
oe a the other 
naked an 
and their white and nge col flowers futile, and become only pitchers, which, as the 
ingly delicate and beautiful. Several „ of — e closely imbricated, form a dense mass, and 
continent of India has produced so many for | frequently cover the groun as with a carpet of these 
nt of our gardens, are found here inferior to | curious ions. As it continues growing and en- 
none of those from India, m which are, by one | deavouring to become a a — —— of p 5 
speci i — ome 51 appear, small a ery ne 
serge 
y has don 
of the benni spare 8 or ino 
> #0. named from the m of the labe 
espised genus 
of the o English ex cultivator of these beau- 
Of , the Cirrhopetalon, 
and `i some ome other gener, aie not 
„ are curious, delicate, an beautiful. 
i "of the om and 
order Rubiacese peyton 
any 
8 other genera of the 
1 the most beautiful wild plants 
are fragrant.” 
plants; but apparently the first attempts to form 
- | leaf are 
of gu y» 
- nee which we N 8 very little 
— e ‘The old. “stems, falling from the trees, 
with leaves and v 
r veges j a 
tale matter, which — a poses of earth about them; 
; then throw 
= 
& 
out shoots which become in time new 
the 
the 1 
selves, have become are ally * on 
hen the 
8. 
288 
ralist, as, sam 
is prap in all of this 5 — tribe, the leaves of u 
seedlin ings a weak plants always producing the largest 
pitchers. 
e in- pristles 
in size, until — the “blades of the A 
are Nerddet and the pitchers, which, as es de- T 
bee 
bu r Evening — of — 
ow-fish.— We heard one any that a — — 
had just arrived in a montaria, and 
the beach. Hurrying down, we were justin in 
time to see the — before he was eut up, He was 
— ten feet in d, as he lay upon his back, 
ween two nif W three feet in n height, pre renting a CON- 
— of body — like that of a “ fine old English 
| gentleman ” om egs were developed into a broad 
flat tail. s ba * A covered sparely with hairs, 
d his Mage muzzle was ort sS 
here was nothing ser tien | to rege 3 ; but a pair pA 
flappers, as o tuřtle, answered his purposes of 
Lif 
as butter in cooking. 
— . between beef and pork in taste. “These 
But we must conclude with strongly Lic px itera 
Mr. Low’ s work to all cultivators of i nts 
mation concern- 
ds. We. ma 
a very interesting addition to their info 
ing t egetation of the 
add that to the gene ee a as not less value, for 
tthe curious: manners | 
and custom ountr 
informat 
as like that fish, cut into slabs and salted. 
however 
and are to the people What periecu is below, being, 
This form is, 
Indian 
An appe 
Borneo, — d to Mr. Low by the gentlemen of the 
British Museu 
THE 133 2 
is ferruginea, L 
h 
8 which ers in the 
not terete, and shorter 
d 
fro 
ali contains a meagre list of the animals of 
st 
seape being tw 
than the leaves, which Tas 
merly served the Indians for shields, and their jaw- 
— he Amazon 
55 — ly 5- tönen to’ th hofies as hamme Voya t 
383 Ae nae, eee 4 e — ), arisi fag Balsam of Copaiva.—The quantity of Balsam Copaiva 
from a short nearly cylindrical compressed 1 ght down prodigiou There were lying upon 
me smooth, 9 8 bracts as long as the the beach at Barra two hollowed logs in which Bal 
ovary. Flowers small, spreading. Lip — Abruptly dd de 
reflexed, fleshy, with an — te, somewhat had been floated do 3 
ragged and wedge-shaped termin 2500 and the other 1600 gallons, They had been filled 
This Orchid has been 3 from Penang by = eful ed ver; and in way had arrived 
Messrs. Loddiges, with whom i t flowered in Jan. tess. without loss, whereas in j l 
It has a 2 with small p uld ve 4 e Fe At krea Balsam 
Tiai wi “a rusty. brown lip. It is 5 near is transf to jars and shipped There 
much of it is bought up by hea J area who vho adulterate it 
ith 7 gums and yay It is then 
narrow stalk h of little t up in barrels, or a A N 
Figs ja + ir e ET a ' aya g to the market for eid it is Sete The us 
; th ity of we were vV 
1 * For the meaning of these technical terms see Lindley’s grows m 4 es — ime ae ery yet 
NEW GARDEN PLANTS, PUBLISHED IN BOOKS. 
1 
Ti When first - 3 
Whore Published. of Ga Quality: Nataral Order. of Pinen: of Flowerting P sat — 
B. M. Comp, 1848, 1| Swan River | G. I Proteads : Scarlet per 
B. M., Comp. 1848, 2) Swan River S. b Proteads we J > . gut ai 
ellow. 
B. M., Comp. 1848, 3| Jamaica a ae Waterbeans — paw 
ua 
Hort. Journ., 3, 76 China I. * Amaryllids Pale yellow August 1847 
; bulb) 
Hort. Journ, 3, 77 Guatemala $ w Orchids iro e September: 1847 
| Hert; Journ. 3,78 | California H. © Labiates Pale lilae August 1847 
‘ied r 
Hort. Journ., 3, 79 N. Chins G. 1 Crowfoots Blue September 1847 
i i tember 1847 
W Java Orchids White mn 
(epiphyte) 
W Very handsome, 1 Second rate, t = Third rate. Te Unimportant, 
