606 THE 
matter—is no —.— Le by that nice balan mers 
forces or conditio ich we term “ — — is 
ready to be acted on by any chemical agent or by fungi, 
GARDENERS’ 
sjene will doit. It is not correct to say that “all snakes lay 
s” ta ke birds. They do not; tbe ova are formed and the 
oe mes to maturity within, immediate. ly before they y are | 
| born, a nee alive, each enveloped in its 3 
— is — tured after a few minutes; D. S. E 
Wien 
human teeth, the heart-wood of trees, and the re loaded 
sto ) of plants after long- ued rain; 
S. P. Woodward, 40, Upper P. . — Islington. 
[We not £ e that the statements of our corre- 
spondents will be taken for our own. No nat t will 
quir old that we do not share the opinions 
our riend ; upon whose g eg shall 
have a word y next week, In Mr. Berkeley’s 
bunt” was misprinted “ urnt.“ 
Potato Discase.— Having a garden of about a quarter 
2 attentio on, some time ago, was tani eted 
awley, 
tha s has been 
of saving yw crop. Im ada that the 
I had the seed, — —— om planted 
e, has "gearcely a sound Po- 
in and in ei gardens immediately | ? 
joining mine they are equally bad; John Barber, 
ellington, Salop, Sept. 2 
The Anatomy.—This m gust has been very 
favourable for the settlement of the point, as — 45 animals 
y bank in hot sunshine. Should 
a 
only 
er * suffering the young to reappear a 
the will or the pow 
wn, they e 
ae fol * anatomical description 10. the 
ro n old 
se 
—— A* Whi — a er verified, some years ago now, more PEPPA 
- | make off with them in her, a 
r3.—** 2 sit by the fire and “presume to know.” 
9 s your viper correspondents seem not to have 
taken the hint you gave a fortnight ago, I may perbaps also be 
Henslow cli ings to his unbelief with such 792 —— prene 
I do not enclose you an enceinte viper, but I send m wers 
to some of the speculations of the Professor, and the vere few 
e his side of the subject. To begin, then, 
n dis- 
er is this 
A 
her, I — her opin 5 — og — 8 turning he ‘r head, sne 
then I s the young ones run from where they were lying, 
some by her side and some behind her, and go dow n her throat. 
sija 
fd esides, would shat semaines which 
88 them to run from the danger of m ence teach 
them at the e same tim si — to their mother’s Jaws s to be de- 
„Oh, lame and impotent conclusion!” Instinet, ste 
Nature, has assuredly — es no ak mistake. 2d. Is part 
s with the viper that the young first a 
the parent in case of 
nt no mg our sere — 9 — for 
the assertion, 3d. Did any 2 èr see the young return out 
of the mouth of the r 2 Now, I think it mond 
be difficult to discover is in a state of natu — As the s 
them there—namely, the pre 0 Proved 
would also keep them there; then the only plan is ee catch the 
old one whilst and place her wave ity, and 
even then I would not admit my self in error if she never gave 
ain alive, for fear might panee 1 — to keep 
1 — the 
been = 
5 2 the ane of a viper is 80 akri as 
—“ mislead the imagination.“ Tell the Pe 
and of t 
ie rman on British . es, takes the pezis 
caution 18 aay nothing at all about it; but although it is men- 
tio uralists, nthe og of none who has had — 
"ie truth of it. Mr. Blyth, p “Loudon 
«Magazine of 5 — History,“ says respect ing i “I hav — 
infor mec of this by so many credible aye-witnesecs. that 5 
t. QIE 
bert White says, * Several intelligent f ＋ assure me that 
they have seen the viper open ber o admit her brood 
‘down the throat on sudden sur edie A aa same as a female 
“opossum does her 
gencies ;” and yet ttere is not one among ou 
T who — proved, nor one scientific man in this very scien- 
s5 
been 
but the: fact is, we have t many fireside naturalis „ who, 
phil — j * e not much tol be ‘depended upon. 
Ho w often sone — a little ere in 
our writers to speak confidently of their wn know ledge,instead 
of.“ aes So-and-So says in 8 — on 3 a thing, or Pro- 
fessor What-do-ye- — ae — his s talented commun meation ki 
— a society assures,” 
“ hear-says ” are worth ime ‘a — court ; 
mouth about what you u have heard said, 
once open veel 
and the judge will 
‘stand down,” or confine yourself to 
immediately order you to! 
ophagus i is situated at the end ot the | what you have seen, and this rule should be ind observed in 
gullet, onthe ien side, e ngs and liver, being joined | writings and discussions thie and similar subjects, In 
to the stomach The former is —.— of a ingis pasanin taking my leave of this p ected subject, I 3 a hope 
very soft, and easily e to great exte It eng that the pore of bona, e or zoologistic science (which in 
any animal that the viper has first 3 with its fangs m and this case has be ig Pages ory), will soon make all persons 
deglutition, owing i «Skane 8 interested * e the subject as mee be 5 truth of it 
enou wide enough f of commo — te Phe as Page, 50, Chapm reet, 
a frog, or an eft, for ins stomach, gor h i olumns that if 
g always much 
seems to be only a 
i composed of 
of | — and sun, otherwise the cure w 
tance, The: succeeds 
organ, appears, as it were, sown to its base, and | th 
continuation of it, bein 
already drawn att 
way of preserving the Potato ere p, and only > ge ——— 
do so, because I see that ones have proposed m 
pensive plans. The most recent is that of pulling he Sialk 
Rom the tubers, and paat ing the ground —— s to exclude 
p as the dis- 
CHRONICLE. 
veolens 22 Ne 
eim W 
s award 
ae, d of — 
ayes, and Co, 
a spectabilis in stp the — 
purpl 
coloured Å ag 
the epecies w were exc 
— the flower what is alen self. 
. Gro 
ibe peciosum 
gnificent t Lilies, wà mida 
d that ig 
Be 
lis fine —— — these ma 
now in flo t Clapham. 
Belgium — Lilies are „ in * 
garden, and = g — — — it — 
they wou n find 
tho 
Bs: Cuthill, of Ca — pre 
tty 7. flowered Cyclamen, the J 
; an a 
| =| (pra eee ; “had i ad | shined 
utiful r rior—one, the pes aller, two halves, 
ea, a 
pu =a wi “me a white eye 3 however, were 5 
ured by iavellg, th ri — Ba 
med.—Mr. Wilmot, of Isle 
Cayenne 
Pine-apples, one oth „ Weighing 
4 Ibs. 15 oz; the other, ‘he prickly weighing Te son, 
arded to the latter— 
ill be 
ase; but it is well known that trampling on the Potatoes turns f 
—— black, — ma matter how sma e bruise may be, it ha 
consequently ren dare * dnit for human 
gia acid, the cost is a mere trifle, vote “socal of it 
being sufficient to steep a large ey, ight 
be effected in . them from the ri 
Of the medic: 
It checks fe tation ; a 
. and it is a valuable medicine in — febrile aasee 
— — * cam . From the above testi 
hat, t r Potatoe 
2 on. 
ndent refer to an e ent in which ta 
acid h successful, We tried it tedi; 
without the smallest advantage.) PRESAT 
Sori 
eties, 
5.—E. Branne, Esq., in the 
i reine, 
S! , quite in 
€ — — parturition. “Therefore if the | 
lite the latter poin 
HORTICULTURAL, Sept. 
chair. Lord Rokeby, J. G. Lye, J. Vere, and J. S. 
— Bedfi ord, Esqs., were elected Fello subjects of 
estine from whence the 2 me ont echibition, M y gr. to ucker, Esq., sent a 
* 1 ja 2 0. z” „ that the | sm llection of Orchids, consisting of Phalænopsis 
* * ings. m — 3 (oniy) should be tied i most beautifully flowered ; a capital speci- 
pute is not whether youn, large blossomed ee 0 onia candida 
ihe body rf ~ parent, bens in what part, and mak mel carte 13 flower 3 er ium formosum, equally 
— et ——.— 3 out again. A | Well managed; soe “Onc n macran- 
f 0 
passed u th 
into the keep the apparatus 
Mr. Vexley, of on, was a 
proofed by some oily or resino 
stated to be better adapted for covering 
and frames in win n Russian 
was ted by a gentleman p 
which Sak 
sinaki, mentioned at P 559, ee Spatho 
a Hong Kong species ; also six varieties 
of which one name med dida, a small, 
of 
m formos 
um.— A se 
0 ý —— a 
jebb, 
oe 
