— THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 175 
ualities of Tea are obtained in China. we have no information that can be depended upon. leaves are remarkable for bens being ed lower 
ig opeet, indec it may be said to have ex-| We should be more inclined to refer oy minor dif. side with a bright brown wool, on —— it mà 
d the su e The author adopts the opinion ferences in question t locality, or to cultivation, than amed d 
e both furnished by the | to peculiar varieties ; at least there can be no doubt THE CINNAMON BEJ ARIA. 
— fiat che two qualities depend entirely | that they, especii y the former, must influence the Eanes —— Lindl, 
the leaves are n | quality of Tea in a marked maunet. It is conformable | SP; Oman. — Branches. downy an hispid Leaves ‘slightly 
man a 
we have the — statement, to all experience that the leaves produced in high windy ed Pe covered rminal paith thick ferruginous wool, 
ions i 
Bee wers in a close rps anicle, with 
Tea, we bland, fragrant, and situations, ard in a comparatively rarified atmosphere, | hispid stalks and ea alyx Dr 
astringent fla vou a slight N of will be of a different quality from those found in lo ow, ee a oe eee 
and both sig and 8 of a naii e er, 
of chemical change in its o; a 
close, land-locked valleys. The — fess rene sought — den ae randa. 
y indicativ eir drugs i 
ta: which | change has now een — ** a 
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th in ee place: experience | Mr. Morris’s, Deptford, Kent, —Being desirous of 
— them, what modern physiology explains, —4 ees testing — 1e of the Polmaise system of heating 
of the leaves previously to roast- their virtues were yc ater than in the 0 it | to a house 30 ft. lo ong by 15 ft. wide, Mr. Morris replaced 
Butif we attentively observe the flavour of Hyson y be expected to be with Tea, i shaman’ atts te a tank and hot-water pipes in use in heating this ho 
ay be wh blended with | coneur with Mr. Ball in his opinion that— with a stove = imaga in eve ticular, except in 
and highly refined sugar, it undeniably pos. It ig impossible to foresee what im mprovements may | its having an additional aperture to extract clinkers, 
3 ay 
be made in the plant, by the novel modes of cultivation | like Mr. Meek’s 5, published at p. 573 of our volume for 
which science has introduce d into ian 4 i ae al- a ee, 
u 
> 
i provement was effected by -m Chinese in ithe’ Single brickwork, and old wo:k, cost just 77, 
hs much of its original colour, Tea by an e mode of cultivation, by which its The system has use here both experimen- 
and yellow Thus, leaf | value was enhanced ins es nearly threefold d practically for four months without any 
on seem to indicate little change in the con- And though the Chinese cultivators of black Tea may | alteration whatever us spe 
he process it undergoe not have received sufficie couragement to attempt experienced, and a temperature of from 20° to 40° 
simple desiceation. | any great amelioration of the „ by i ved A the ex atmosphere can 0 
robable, as well from analysis as methods of cultivation on an extensive seale (the great With ease, not from burning 54. notes, but fi the 
of the infused leaves, | profit on black Tea ] een engrossed and refuse ashes twi passed through steam e 
he flavour, that green Tea re monopolised by the Hong merchants at Can ), yet it furnaces, The house been d to require but 
nal vegetable properties and 2 n ans follows, wh rior activity, enter- | twice firing during frost hours without furth 
k Tea. Hence if there be prise, skill, intelligence, and capital of Europeans shall | attent good circulation is obtained, and the 
narcotic or deieterious in the plant, as is gene- be brought to bear on tl points in our own colonies, plan oniunis, c , are in the t 
s may s explain that such efforts may not be rewarded with eminent healthy condition, and not at all d Vin 
erf lly an detrimentally maye 88.7 which are trained up t en well 
ner vous and irritable constitutions than black . add — this work is 1 acceptable ar rt jointed, with no appearance of scorching even 
be remembered that green Lea con- | to he orticulturists, on account of >a e information it con- | Within 4 feet of the hot air bl r 
ti the essential oil than black veys respecting the ahaa of Chi Opinion that it will be found in practice that large cold 
| Tea, which Mulder ee of a highly eee cha- 5 5 ins with a gradual fall are preferabl ing a 
| : it also contains more taunin ; an green Tea is i 7 en descent of the cold air i ve 
7 * in infusion than black Tea, the THE CLOSE-HEADED BEJARIA. opening under the stove, communicating with the ex- 
employed being regulated b measure, not 0 ra coaretata, Humboldt and Bonpland,) ternal air, has ound of ; and, i 
ITnis charming species has been raised from Peruvian | secure econo fuel, he says by all means provide a 
I . know of the effects of slight fermentation | seed b Messrs. Veitch, of Exete „under the name of good draught away from the fire, and admit as little air 
supports this egen about the aceuracy B. grandiflora, for which Mr. Lo b mistook it. It has through it 8 this means A trouble of 
ara fact no longer room for doubt, hairy branches, woolly fiower-stalks, and a smooth calyx, | attendance upon the fire is avoided except t charge it 
the same with the Tea hak Some with seven or ei smoothish, blunt, ovate se „with fuel. It may be added in con clusion that a six- 
believe only one species exists; others that | wh es are a little woolly. e flow ur- tg pit heated from a boi er p gy toke- 
— not three, distinet species are employed i i ple, smeller than festuans, figured at p. 119, and been found to require much mo fuel and 
ation of bs Teas of commerce. Mr. Ball more close y arranged. 1 ee of seven or attention ega 4 Polmaise ove. which gt the 
ts the first opinio 15 smooth petals. The 8, when young, are | Vinery in q 
‘ineline, then, to orth belief of Kerr that there is woolly on the underside ; ied “fall grown are perfectly 
: i 3 by which I mean, that there smooth, shining, rather convex, ie sessile, and n en 
natural difference in the t. Whethe any whitish, not white, on the under side, Herons.— We cannot take leave of the heron family 
erman in the soils wher 8 . our readers on their guard against a 
pable of propagation by seed, as ery dangerous instinctive e faculty they seem to possess, 
to be the fact with the Honan plant at Canton, of depriving their assailants of eyesight. If wounded 
the Ankoy plant near Amoy ; or hey will allow a dog to — and then, though ap- 
its, found in the black and parently insensi ill in instant, wiih un unerring 
i ch other, and äre more suitable aip dat at = 3 with a y — — rapt, an d certainty 
gy manipulation adopted in e ch, is a ques- which it t impossible to guar against. We 
can only be 5 8 a by ex- — ap lamað who nar ped ; he had, 
and experiment on ihe s as he couceived, killed a bittern and deposited it in a 
ament can be held upon Hen question until the large pocket of his shooting-jac hen fort 
If by spe is | walking on, happening t, oak something in- 
a genus, we assent to Mr. sinuating itself betw s arm and side, he, just in 
m is to be understood in ime to save his eye, ong sight of the beak of the 
tation then we are compelled to differ bittern, which had been only wo 
if the Fir, Pinaster, act of laneing itself, with the full elastic jerk of its long 
Pines are called varieties of a species nec ds ace. This fac owever, is n 
then we may acquiesce in the three kinds entirely confined to eithe the heron or bittern, it ex- 
oasa alias Cantoniensis, viridis, and te Species, a8 appears from the 
ieties of a spec led Thea escape of ficer on the of Africa. 1 
really so y species, as winged,” says he, “ a beautiful white aigrette that was 
that case must th r head brought the when 
regarded as naturally distinct a picking it up it struck at my eye 
y that dried specimens are with its beak, and had it not been for my glasses, must 
ys. bee dene but that does not really inevitably have red it to tual darkness.“ 
f use it inually happens hav adds, * who, under 
at species. : was so fortunate ; 
Ae e 5 ia lives, and I shall feel pleasure if, a 8 inei- 
* ‘aie we unless c 
That is 
it sav thers’ from so 
r e a cireumstance.— Bishop Stantey's History 
wigs Bir 
Calendar of Operat Operations. 
ving at a conclusion upon (For the ensuing a): 2 
hree Tea plants as found It will be a babs evergreen, ae the eul- SERYATORY AND AND GREENHOUSE, =~ 
Th y be seen by | tivation of an Ind zalea, 25 “the variab ther, usually cha 
r diffe: and r -| Messrs. Veit nae also in possest ion on of a third terises March, e attention must be directed to 
died 
f this toa with urple flowers, found on the | the conservatory, that an uniform and moderate tempe- 
T — — f 8000 feet. Its | rature be pana The violent showers and boiste- 
flowers are ver ey — te in thie a specimen before | rous gales which f. 
us, but soaps i be eee than in the s species Row | ceeded by 3 — of m 
at this season, suc- 
pemeran brilliant sun. 
3 but upon this point figured, and arranged in a close panicle. The | For the meaning of — — s Glossary. 
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N. B.—* = Very ha t= T = Unimportant. : 
a o ; first 
luridum pur _| eects gee a d, Quality. | Natural Order. | op Hong. of — heats 3 
he P „Gard. Chron., 1848, 2 S. * Orchids Purple September 1847 Loddiges'. 
= es Gant 159 oe (epiphyte) E 
8 Nepal H. A. Prim worts Yellow = f Summer | 1847 Hort. Soe, Edinb. 
2 d. 1 Indian Figs Yellow June 13847 Bot. Gard., Kew. 
5 Panama D L Gesnerworts Scarlet Winter ; 1847-8 | Bot. Gard., Kew. 
Bot. Mag., t. 4360 New Grenada S. h Mallowworts Yellow lay 1847 Bot. Gard. erie 85 
sa Bot. Mag., t. 4361 Tropical Ame. S. h Birthworis Yellow brown. December 1845 Bot. dies Hew.’ 
5 Tien ; ; ii i — 
