16—1848. 
THE GARDEN ERS“ 
CHRONICLE. 
penn eae 2 — 
other’ outh. I have several times met with a kind 
mirmallserpent, mostly inthe foot-pat 
igor 2. p nse — length and v 
cco pipe; the ground colour 
l wih brown and th i 
sole el y n the e ommon v 
ung a r. 
man, en 0 young vipers run 
down the old one’s throat. and . he killed h As 
goon as the young ones all safe, the old o 
e, Two othe 
ath ung one Moi et 
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‘when! it was 
cut it 4 and seen or r eight young vipers, not one of 
which w. n 60 
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throat. Mr. Blyth, là “ — 8 Magazino pi 1 
History ” for 1837, p. 441, says yA whose 
word he could fully rely, told him Eho. hed seen 13 
vipers run aon: the throat of A old one.— W. 
Sorie 
e April 3. 
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Member of the Society. Mr. Douglas e 
— moth belonging to the genus Por 
hood o f Édi 
bius s picipes, A 
to rie — 
‘of the cholera ; and 
e remarkabl 
rep bur of the Rosebud (observed 5 
oth (Tinea granella) as 
those of the Vine moth, 
Reviews, 
in Expedition into the Interior of Tropical |p 
to the 
in eee. ů — 
entaria y Lie Sin 
hell in this his last 
cal Ae 3 he desired to 
y of a eue ern land passage, 
pentaria, in order that 
may ‘be established to India 
own words : 
an easy route 
To use his own 
attraetio 
her.— J. Potter, W. hitehedswood, 
m 
k is 
information on a horticulture that we must treat the — 
B. lik 
aor Florist’ ’) of burrowing ve! 
in order would be saved. Abridged fron add the Shefield T ris. the 
of the Indian Ocean, westward of a dangerous bag it 
was e of ths A an 
ek 
was 0 overland route Wand Sydney to 
the head of the Gulf of Carpentaria. 
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less important to the 
ales, made it very desirable 
ee a ve should 5 pre to ies. shores of the = 
T as already co nnected with 
0 — 
To mention a name of our 
that the object of the expediti 
and 
these most important qu i 
n 
mplished 
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that of the . he 
omas Mitehe il has brought home in- 
His indeed, such a mine o 
which he has 
than is 
we 
peen z > at a lesson is — to 
g Zamias, 
ry i Cape 
e, the tents were frozen hard in be 24° 54“ S., 
at no higher an elevation aat 1425 
n Memor 
Sheffield 
dens possess a interest at * 
au The 
Banana and vide spreading nt a te th 8 
ries seem to hav with improved cultivation. 
The Acacias, the Norfolk Island Pine, a nd Rhododen 
. | drons, are in perfection, while som , 
are loaded with forthcoming fruit, 
provements in the gardens, w 
bear pit i 
rea 
ution. This is 
a ect muitum in parvo, containing m * of 
1 of various kinds. The e eee to the gar · 
s possesses th 
aneous. 
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gallant friend is to say | in 
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po „an a 
t. them, — possible, * — a fact beendete in 
rabbit another when 
it is concluded 
food ; indeed, their eagerness to aoe 
that they must often be 222 — by hun 
rth ass 
G anda. Spo 
Botanical ene "O These delightful 0 pun 
favourite | food of — de 
ark roo’ 
illumination as 
re red-hot, parti 
beneath the tubercles. ‘When 
world : ze —— we may oo 
more o 
unt not fewer 
esolate regions 
north, where, amidst 1 perpetual snows, it passes 
its solitary life. W. in perfection, its plum 
wn; but 
we have wt able to collect — e 
us, that itssnowy plumage 
r ed upon the „or on some large soli 
stone projecting from it, feest whence, without attract- 
ing notice r, they could look 
ee, ee A 
r swallow. a4 
case of one shot at and w in d of Balls, 
—— on being approached, 5 diagorged — ans 
en hada 
— — 7 — 
uent]. want of 
tha they — the hunter's 
e of 
carry off spoil in his presence, is a 
ortsmen in the no 
skimming rapidly down, ome the prey before the 
8 | shooter is able it. P 
st rat 
— on the er — 
orax is very visible even in broad meeen 
quite ies of a dull 88 we; but on being handled 
ss- | they ignite, not sudden! ually, 
tubercle 
centre of 
—— 2 ol ‘ght, which d ina 
moment spreads to t and increases in 
circumfe: 
intensity till it blazes eng a — almost d 
azzling. 
— colour of the thoracic ligbt is a rich yellow-green. 
room, 9 this insect gives so much 
a definite shadow of any —— 
8 and when held 2 2 inches from a 
k the who! 
left alone, he ge soon 
+ 
ell 
The Wood A cl man, velling i 
Turkey, was ee quarantine in a . Turkish vil- 
lage, having passed N = a district in 
was 3 oonfined = a Ke 
4 t, and had n othin ie tb interes 
during a tedious imprisonment, dioi keeping at a 
distance, for fear of infection, when one —_— 
a bird of the 4 1 e E 
at the window with, s own wor 
i ld friend,” g "ho in — the table and piek- | 
raag A of an o oping o It had belonged to 
ing u : 
young girl dat partéi, pi by a I 
f the and flew into his room. Its 
the house of dead, 
ations, <id 
which the scarcely 
ther total, or redeemed ‘ie % by a ‘snark 
perceptible. z had been familiar with 
or some week 
