detion in 1846. 
Eei palace, the v 
THE GARDENERS? 
CHRONICLE. 
87 
more interesting than the apocryphal tradition 
viceroy’s Fapt e, or 
e of Cypress, 
the 
as soon as it was 4. citi tearing the blankets 
fem our very bodies. The 
the spot where they had been 8 a ven if there 
had been Grass, they were too exhau ted to ery ae 
stood part in the wind, ‘ohne "with oo 
ae Su A night I never passed, = ‘ope 
ver 741 w agai 
wehe matters, * which touch upon our objects 
gt als, a ger 
man, concerning w refer 
the r r. Ruxton's work, with the single ob- 
e 
a 2 s that it is not exceeded in interest by any book 
age. 
in our langua 
n which hav sed away thes 
Pie trees is upwards of 17 yards in girth, and the THE LONG. PLOW ERED “HORNBERRY. 
noble me tim st nobly ( ere ah e . Lindl. 
pea a and at E ) SP. CHAR.— Bra anches hairy. es evergreen, coriaceous, 
2 855 f: : 8 ’ 
a ed tree, it is ase pe yrk ee ee a 32 oblong, sessile, 4 Lügntir eee at the edge, quite 
de sky a perfe et pyram lage, om r entire. Flowers in terminal loose clusters. Flower-stalks | 
branche: s hang pendulous serch "estono v of an inch long). Calyx-lobes nn. gp oe 
1 mossy parasite 
tands 
ress, sta 
on y 
re conspicuously grand. From 
ath winds through a 1 h 
pew a = view of the prais and city of Mexico is 
the unding mountains and 
to which a 
3 California 
Speaking of the d 
ng graphic relation of an ight 3 
animals strove in vain t 
with cold. Pa: 
followed me to the edge 
Were at last b 
top 8 6 feet o 
r ascent, ad fag 
with all my w were nearly 
time, and my hands were perfectly 
ch so that, when a large bird of the 
ew up in above my head, I 
€ to cock my rifle to shoot at it. The mules 
into the snow at every step, and their 
Wel s hanging 5975 their eee but ‘to attempt 
them was ou a the q y 
which m 
PA exhau 
escent 
en where I w 
e N 1 down the mountain all ee. 
i howev wever, we reached ee 
Sogn at 1 point, but it w. 
est toil and di th 
many other equal 
and beauty, but this ais which, I pe — is 
tezu isolated, and 
mit of 
more 
the sum 
— that the vag — of the country 
xceeds in rigour 
we should 85 eee in so southern a 
g om the rocky 
eatin to the plains of ee a we wie the 
— 
and, 
e sterns to the wind, —— ite themeeves 
i nchito, whom I was leading by 
of the plateau, but 
oe ae but plea- 
558 
tr 
—— to 
m this agen! we i once 
now and an almost 
top and fei 
nearly smooth. Corolla cylindrical, sharply 
oothed (nearly 2 inches long), Stamens eee the 
points of their 1 a little beyond the tube of the corolla ; 
with smooth 
connectives.“ 
with Its 10 
mals nite moved from 
somest manner 
are as nothing sina with the e ee e et 
vnge 
; friable 5 een the 
Miscellaneo ë 
e of W to he lionel Du * e Ar 
wil 
e regard 
does much —.— to 
the 3 — Dublin Soe 
Detection A Free poe 8 Acid added to Wines.— 
hen a piece of paper which has been touched with 
pure wine is dried at a gentle 1 the epo t 
is pga ng Pek ow one pps w 
with which a v 
acid has b N redden 
rtion 
ih moistened 
ay smali quantity of sulphuric 
becomes brittle and 
ngers hed ied ae before 
the e paper e, at all co wine, to 
othing has been a 
eee a violet - blue spot; 
a a small q g 1 pr achte acid has been added 
to detect ih its s one 
in eh -paser most proper for the experi- 
ent common ph pepers containing gree or 
msie This kind of paper is well known in com- 
merce 5 vl it is easy to discover er it by the blue colour 
which it umes when ned with an aqueous 
yp hae of “iodine Lasecign i in n Che mical 9 
2 Lobster.—L are taken m vario 
a rae reac 
supply is from a ae from whence 
There is often in vt a 
Fee nt — cides to whom I hav 
3 ere pen Senate 25 ‘they 
| shoot hei a dpa ially after a thunder-storm or 
the report of cann hole e. are destroyed 
by me if ti ere given new claws would be 
for „and does not injuriousl, 
y 8 
un 
' roach o e fisherman, 
shelter — the rock; this rattling, no 3 was to 
at we eee the 
seta amped shortly after near e the alarm. ve heard this i ereh 
nd caret vats, or rat s | very A ngee: to. thn without ince 
iad slipped its p n and as a n er of, rse; and they 
5 the girth pinching her al veined i in essrs, Vt eee . e | readily. believe. . C t a. . + 
ng the creekat full gallop, | ing half-hardy evergree Fruit Gathering.—The niig n 
ined to the four winds of ‘The us derives iss Latin panin, from the 2 to fruit growers, or rather to negligen 9014 n 
utain eme horns whioh terminate the stamens, represented at that although not exactly in AD and 
them in the dark would have a of the accompanying cut. The Bnglish katir 5 — passed * the ble pare p no whiele it is 
upper. To shelter our- = may be taken as a fair translation of it. All the Fruitist,” in allusion to a valua distri sg stg adie — A i 
Ser cn, [qe ome Sees | eee 
ut t oer TS RER PTE, a * For these details I am princip: . in e 
emae a 8 as: ng EL the meaning 5 of these tecliioal terms see Linde” Saunders, the respectable fish-salesm 
NEW GARDEN PLANTS, PUBLISHED IN BOOKS. 
SOS new ebeseseccs 
—— eens 
es tie teak om 
—u— 4 
ws Borneo, p. 68 
Pfeiffer, t. 16 
Pfeiffer, t. 17 
Pfeiffer, t. 18 
Pfeiffer, t. 19 
Pfeiffer, t. 20 
Where Published. 
Gard Chron 51848, 71 
1 = Very handsome, = Second rate. 1 Third rate. 1 = Unimportant, 
1 Ti When first i 
of 8 e,, een, of Den of . Flowered. * 
Borneo | S. % | Nepenthes 1847 Hugh Low and Co. 
Mexico G. B Indian Figs Vellow i 1847 Fennel of Cassel. 
Mexico S.p Indian Figs Pale purple ese 1847 Bot. Gard., Munich 
Mexico G. 2 Indian Figs Brown. November 1847 Fennel of Cassel. 
| 
Mexico 6. 2 | Indian Figs Purple : Germany. 
Mexico G. h | Indian Figs | Rose colour | see | 
E. Indies | Orchids Xant =w November | 
(epiphyte) | i | 
