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find hit better acqüaimted with the subleat chan aan eee 
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in their mother’s ished 5 — — — — howe * — — 
ptiles, from the paleness of their blood and the small | of i advantage the’ Mendon or tenae 
amount of exercise the ergo, respire very slowly, — K age over the Hassilvoninn —— 
require very little air, and can remain a long time with int I would first dra: 4 
out renewing their supply of A M 1 as 15 ine-apple produce, N of 
uid capable of acting on a living animal or ing t ted. larger fruit? Should this 5 
texture, but the moment d tervenes from some | answered in the affirmative, I should sa ise 
—— 3 cause, — > er ice begi This is well seen in | size is the only 4 ag the plan ought to be J 
5 41 8 —＋ A 3 after life On the other hand, if results (of which we have suf. 
5 0 ng membrane recent impedes 
the remedy experience has taught me to | from this cause. There is also at present befo an — swelling of ‘be 1 
to dust the parts affected with . authentic account of two vipers by M. Andry, a physi- the question the necessi necessity of the two ro departs — 
ts in a dry airy situation ian of Paris, who caused them to be thrown up by a * system), we ought to hold to ww — 
one, two, or t ays ; it in ountry girl, down whose throat they had passed while | Hamilton nian plan. The latter, or LA; I term the anti- 
ed or blown off. When large Specimens | sleeping on the Grass ; they were about 9 inches long. memgiing system, is successfully adopted b the best Pi 
done blooming, I take a pair of shears and clip en vomited, one was dead, but the other came out | growers round Manchester, and is full 5 tat 
over. The free growing sorts are then placed | alive, and was creeping across the floor when the child’s | this place ; s 4 4 
doors to make their growth and set their bloom; ha Bag it, by cutting it in two, and bruising its — A oud par articularly where eco 
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tet on pots or blocks so ase the contraction of the oviducts after parturition, | are all planted out, and treated 
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r in ; I make it a one therefore judge for himself which view is cor-| Those plants which produ wo frui 
e idé tt bbe gti ik it eae rect, and not give way to preconceptions or pre- frulted again, and are — T — ieee ee 
carefully, dake for to give judices. It is stated of the rattle-snake, in Hunter's they were. The size of the fruit, too, is not excelled by 
rieties as aristata, Hartel Memoirs of a Captivity among the North American | that raised on any other system in the neighbourhood of 
e sudden dall c them; but Indians,” that “when alarmed, the young ones, which | Manchester. I am satisfied that plants treated on the 
erer ca path Westphalingia, are eight or ten in number, retreat into the mouth of | Hamiltonian system may remain undisturbed for 10 or 
require -appear its givi i i 
co een P stated, 
air, at same tine, at back and front. | eggs in little "rE in the skin of its back, and ag you ng and called Pine growers to witness, that he will cut two 
however, allow the pipes to cool before I close the | remain there till they are fully formed nis eo to shift | fruits every 12 months from this one plant fur a period 
; for nothing is more injurious to Heaths, or, in- | for weten ves. Merian's opossum carries its young | of 10 years, or 20 fruits in succession, weighing at least 
any other plant, than a high night temperature. ones on its back, with their tails twisted pot! that | 80 lbs., and this without ever disturbing the plant. The 
[never fire at night, unless there are 12° or 14° of frost; of the mother, which she curls over her r body on first fruit was cut in August, 1846, i i Ibs. 
' pei frost will not injure Cape — if the purpose. And the young — y springs into the In 1847, June 20th, one 4 lbs. 8 oz. ; ditto, on July 30th, 
ditto, 
has been properly Wers, in autu I have maternal pouch for nourishment, repose, or security. one 4 lbs, 402. In 1848, July 23d, one 4 lbs.; 
uently had Heaths frozen so hard that a a knife would Moli. [With due daterad to „ Medicus,” we on Aug. 9th, one 5 lbs, 8 oz. Thus in two years the 
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Bot penetrate the soil, iod. they have not received the | must say 3 50 he does not state the question cs ; | plant has produce fruits, wh ined ht 
beast inj Damp will d e misch arep the slightest proof that v was 22 lbs. 4 b., and the g~ * eta wis Jonker to pro- 
‘among Heaths than frost. By Sortie the above sph wet their young, ] duce three fruit in 1849. result be ob- 
K Ales, I am satisfied that Heaths m wn from Fruit Trees. Obe soil of the most productive part of rory Wd any other fo John Hooly,Cheadle Heath, 
gs large enough for any exhitition, in less than | Kent is locally called hassock, or stone-shatter ; the 
years. . surface of this is a mixture of sandy loam, largely inter- "idles —If your correspondent, ” had read with 
i the following varieties of Cape Heath will keep a | mixed with small pieces of light-coloured Kentis rag- more attention what I said at p. 1 he would have 
small seas or greenhouse gay throughout the | stone; it is from 6 inches be: 2 feet deep on solid stone seen that it is the comb and not the honey which 
. This land produces great quantities of Hops, 7 . ees à ane * fi e 2 ratr 
a ; ~ i pples, Cherries, Fier and likewise good Turnips, to a remark made at p. 702. e in Ker 
— —h Name. Time of Flowering. Potatoes, bokdi 43 a good locality for 
rn; also much a hay on miles from London, not at all in 
Loo preamp mga d Grass lands. * trees of all sorts flourish and | bees. 4. B. Be aly . 
RL om pips reer na July. Sreli abundantly, even Peach and — trees of the Viviparous . Beetles ! ! !—Mr. Wilkins’ note (p. 750), 
—— ng most delicate kinds grow with the greatest luxuriance, thereby sup- 
Jasminiflora alba. and are free from disease. To what are we to attribute pes to be given to the vee rinse is another instance 
zuleberrima .. 9 August. | such results? not to the climate, for localities . of 
ricolor coron ata. : 
—— rubra 
ee * then resolves itself into the fact, that the quantity and | be the young o of the large one; but the young of all 
oE koiak. 3 Ganz fer ; sche quality of the fruits are due to the soil, being | Species of beetles are grubs, and when they appear in 
poco in that state best suited for their healthy | the beetle form they are of the full size of = parents. 
ld ind to apply the same The e e 1 . the little ani 
following are 50 of the best varieties: Mundula, gr rowth ló pea at aora re der! . sg. other | acari, which b dislodged from beetle, and 
> principles Pi sores A age i in their hold on their vist 
a iy Easonii (Jackson's), taxi- | i nation: Fruit trees — in the kind of soil just were 8 regain their hold on vican, 
major, inflata rubra, Bandonii, Aitoni ribed produce short-jointed wood ; w the roots J. O..W.—Permi i 
iana, Duleinea; propendens tubiflora, ave winulited by manures, t luxuriant} W 
fasciculata superb, Jacksonii, pranches when they ylindrical 
are p 2 h 
rosea, alba, coccinea; Tem- | beyond the N ben ences of the atmosphere, they 55 Whothor he used his finge 
ps carn obbata zie mpli bb ta (Veitch) | 7°? 8 tic 
D ea, ik a pli nyo ata (Veitch) absorb a large quantity of Fiera tap 124 . are | cracke ghee Medea tho grea 
whole 0 be : 
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such trees continue to grow to a late period, when the | P mt . 
lowness of temperat a and the absence of sunlight, | plates; thus there are ar pie 8 z to ; 
render it Besar for them to give off their supera- thorax, th the abdomen, g sb f J Liga 22 
1, bundant water by perspiration, the om means by en, necessary to N part 1 pos 
trees lants are enabled to part with it. hem he S badd inside. y own suppositi is, that 
eri — — es small ones were either parasitic insects, which are 
are 
b n. He is one of the best Heath 
1 and states his practice fu lly.] 
the d become short, and t i thé 
5 Home Correspondence. declines, the motion of the fluids and the action of the 2 did the other day on the accidental explo- 
ete to be some difference of | cell pnn ly ee e. n | P! : : ‘ 
your co correspondents as to the fact of | unison with the course of nature ; 8 ti j 
running into their mother’s 8 ra almost erkene the branches are oe nts pranga and wot roz 5 r al 
sere fue I find a number of persons who | ripened, and all are prepared to vie spring ful of lie | from the inside of the larger one, it will certainly 
assert their having seen this done, and on —— of ate weather, and to awaken in the spring full of life Deita vlads Wik te fact contained in the juvenile 
ery intelligent and incredulous individuals and blossom. William Keane, Gardener ee nyaa t e  Fourand:te ty blackbirds.” Medicus. 
to fall in the way of snakes, or if Tomline, Esq. Orwell Park, Ipswich, Nov. 14. iarian| Pond Weeds (see p. 766). — a? near my house 
more suxious to provide for der Prefits of Hee keeping da r th ee = an | being covered with weeds, it occurred to me that i all 
the juvenile — themselves, deny | correspondents, who never destroy : as iron chain was dragged the bottom I should pull 
acco 
of themselves ; 2. That it ern fancy ;| mended to keep the hives on separate stan 
SA —— could e ae il? mothe rhe piei ngri miima 1 0 
to the t if t Though as “ Ap 
wid cata — 8 — burning the bees in order to take their honey, a tie pulled the ropes, a 
rp to co an what | means follows it is not pest pian i She ent. til was „ his ¢ 
Positively tone been see * he | Cottagers, who must make 3 Am has not been seen a single weed upon the pt 
eee e. 2. T admit that it is a vulgar | invariably pursue that and I very much ter | Tho pool ia part of the castio inga. 
it is | : ir ; 
3 Are coun le whether 8 gon . . tark ius” 
0 usement. of i like & ; 
mie i han we between a field, | that 1 am much too fond of my own bees to think of „ fehing et. C. A. 4. Lind W histinglon, near subject 
p i na 1. 18. rami 
eee difference | burning egen and Meudon Systems of Pine|weniry -I have, two Fonts ad (aro 
Ween Couch N Growing.—It is eee, 
