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tity of co Ahad germ and Neetarines, 12 Melons, Xe. ET presence of the snake. ont me roused from its, ceedingly beantiful. 
e Rotunda until the close of the antes —.— the hedgehog gave snake a bite, which was with my own han 
and vere page at the behavicur we witnessed,! repeated; the third time 1 broke the vertebra of the | which I submitted on my arri 
which could not be compared to anything except to a sna kc It then n passed the whole ee — body — Chamber of Commerce at’ Mi à 
parcel of schoolboys let into an orchard. Some of the — . 1 and breaking the s, by which the of the highest et 1 
ladies and gentlemen close to us were asking each others ered motionless The * ane, be sem trade in Glasgow, elicited opinions ia a Cotita 
how fruit they had got. The members of the ed itself at 00 tip — the spake’s tail, regard to its character er and value of — 
Councii seemed very liberal in their distribution to the “as one would eat a Radish,” till Half nthe: emake raging’ nature. Now it appears to me that $ ene 
company. I am convinced gardeners 9 not continue was devoured; the Winder was finished by the presents at this moment à noble field for the 
to exhibit fruit unless the Council r he same. morning. In many houses in London, which are in- horticulturist in connection: with w a i 
ecessful or not, would it nde beh more credit- | fested by the blackbeetle or cockroach, they are kept Cotton and other tropical productions, in en 
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coats ; these kept as sharp a lock-out after the fruit as readily eat Bia hie d or reale 3 it is families and individuals of the class of h 
if they had been policemen. 4 Looker-on, Sussex, Dec. 6. the root of the Plantain, so great a disfigurem dvr to in the United Kingdom who find it difficult, if nt ig, 
Contributions to the Chronicle. As an amateur de- Grass lawns; it will bore under the plant, and, eating | practicable, to obtain remun 
voted to the culture of plants in general, I have great the root, leave the tuft of leaves uatouelied. (Whit ite.) T would earnestly direct the attention of such 
pleasure in joining you in thanking Mr. Leach for his As to the absurd and obsolete notion of its sucking the | families to 3 Australia. There ig 
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letters R. H. S. attached to the button-holes of their farmer and gar r. In e of e e it A pressure there must be many indust —.— rl va 
valuable and interesting paper on “the Cultivation of | cows, the most superfici al observation of the small of emigrants from nited Kingdom so l 
leaths.” If your opinion of his talent needed th vill sh ight to be pla succeed in that country as 
any corroboration, I would willingly step forward to t lit fil aturalists, | especially who have been accustomed to 
award my testimony in his favour, which would not be euch = vase valcke and barnacle. geese. The e hedge-- | of hothouse plants and exoties gen 
the less ete in . of Foe — — Mr. L. hog is easily tamed, aud will soon lose its shyness, and | would there find all the plants of 
is a perfect stranger my knowledge of | feed with the other domestie pets. Professor Bell men- regions growing freely in the open air in g 
him being merely through his ats 3 which I have m nore tions one which would lay opened before the fire, and perfe +e congenial to the Eu ean 
— * once had an opportunity of inspecting. Permit allow itself to be handled and its face rubbed with A practical gardener, having U farm on 
to express a ho de that no long P period —— elapse ere | much 8 enjoymen s far as hedgehogs are | bane river, in Cooksland, in Tatna could es 
. — from him again, an may be assured there | concerned, I hope your“ Subscriber” will be satisfied | vate a few acres of C Cotton and have it 
are scores of amateurs, aye, ad: ractica P men also, | that they are er v~ friends than his enemies; and Hasik mill or establishment for the whole 
whio will receive him with unmingled satisfaction. The | that he will abstain from, and discourage the cruel de- I am confident that its cultivation: would, 
importance to be — pte to papers of such a character | struction of one of te prettiest of our Fauna. For his he had children to assist in picking i 
depends in a great measure on the bree and experi- | other visitors, the its and hares, I have not so un- handsome return for his labour; and let it not be 
ence of the parties n whom they emanate; and it | blemished a aden wien every field and garden posed that the distance of Austr is an 
has often occurred to me that it would be a most whole- to which they resort. They are the plague of the f cultivation in 
some practice if you were to make it a rule that all | farmer and gardener, the destroyer of the hopes of the for ih = 1 seasons, sheep’s wool from Aust 
parti ing on the cultivation of any particular ene a. by dev 2 5 en small produce of his aay sells in England, pap far more kr 4 
object should attach his B 2 nd address. And when | patch o — 2 and by the demoralising tem — 5 — cost of s long voyage: should not Cotton 
such na reen, Donald, Mylam, Barnes, Bruce, | his leisure hours. M. È. 285 ffon tells us that Hege the same? It is the ee quality of the artiele th 
Kinghorn, cum multis aliis are remembered, surely | hogs “eat ach caterpillars, ‘Bey nape es, and are | ensures the sale of the Australian wool at a remuneriie 
these gentlemen if they were disposed could very quickly | also very fond ei i pr which they devour’ greedily, | i es 3 fr 
set us right as to the correct and successful modes to be either boiled or i w state.” Tane observations | and certificates to whi 
observed in the cultivation of our different fancies, and | prove that they at also ‘tio tender shoots of almost all | Australian Cotton will be a very su 
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cultüral world is at present inundated. IfI should iit | they find under the trees on the ground ; but I imagine | be got ont to make tl 
be cons ae intrusive, might I suggest — very that they cannot do much injury in this way, and that themselves eomfortab 
acceptable would be to 88 a paper from Mr. | your correspondent will find that rabbits are very much | soil aud i lendid e 
Green on the cultivation of Azaleas, His plants, to my | more destructive. The manner in which the hedgeliog | quite sure that with tk 
mind, are as near 5 as possible. Then Mr. eats the roots of.certain plants is very curious: the which Cooksland enjo 
Donald might spare a leisure moment to — us upper mandible being very much longer than the lower would soon — able to u 
how to grow some other especial favourite. Mr. Mylam’s | one, they bore under the plant, and so eat the robt off “niggers the European 
hints o aceous a would be 8 with | upwards, often leaving the tuft of leaves untouched, | the . Ta, Coffee, oppa i Indig 
aust beurer by the numerous and daily inereasing When very young, their spines are soft and flexible, and | root, &., can al produced with perfect 
nc gt tribe. If Meee ae Nate: should | quite re and they are unable to roll themselves into | Cooksland. The Sweet Potato, the Pine- 
respon anks of all a s will be due à ball, as they do when fall grown for sel aaa Banana, grow luxuriantly in that pe 
oo — ag 8 phiva to the een beten S, he a Pry destructive to game during the breeding | Indigo is indigena; and the roots, faita 
: — ason, as ae feed on eggs, and will also peta ng 50 rope fraternise harmoni 3 with those 
Bern. —I read “ A. B. C’s” statement at birds. Indeed, we have an account in White’s “Natural zone. In shai’ it is of all others 
p. 734 very atrenctely, atid’ i occurred to me at the | Histor ory of ‘Se elborne of one killing a Nyereg 8 fess beyond seas for a hortieulturist 
n e r they bury themselves in a deep mass of in the northern or 55 a 2 
were rendered dark n the honey or by the trafie of lave 2 moss, but do not store up any provisions as should rejoice exceedin i 
the bees. I e say by both ; and will not this circum- | some animals do. H. C. Chester, Ashtead.— have had ing to its ample and rp „ a numerous body 
ce change your co resonan ts opinion as to sugar | hedgehogs in my garden for oun RL abt and never | of men of Qar class that coul asily and 
impr 8 the quality of honey, It is needless for me | found them to do mischief beyond trampling regular fully develope its vast a oe a transform 
to repeat t teeding bees with e no more to roads in travelling for food. 5 believe them to do wilderness and the solitary p i 
the flavout 0 honey than mixing the honey with the | good, rather than harm. A. S. Slindon. ould any considerable number, or any socie 
same quantity of sugar by hand. There is one way of The Ni <a Bowing Cereus Facet iflorus.—By a series | tical gardener: Fe or around the 
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during this- sap weather, ae . — — fe d, or they ur for a week, bringing them cut freely in the light London, Nov i 
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worst sort of sugar, whic ataih mixed with water or | This is the mor is known ee with my brother, we saw a viper % 
beer is little e better than molasses. Such is apt to give | to exist but a ig — plant. It open when tlie Grass in the sun, and with her what I toc 
bees dysentery. Honey after all is the best food, and surf sets, and by the time he rises on the following | The old one opened her mouth, and we stoo 
will go as far as two and perhaps three times its weight | morn ing it 3 its Mae closes, Tas nd dies. H. Bowers, | three enter; the viper then went into the! 
of sugar, and is perhaps the cheapest in the end. Busbridge, Godalming, Surr rey. killed her, and we eut her open; the yo 
J. Wighton. Cotton Cultivation in Austr alia. —I am induced to found in her belly, and came out on the Grass 
Haubits of ihe he ted (see p. 799).—I am enabled | trouble you with this communication, in the hope of | we Miet three. You may rely om the © 
to state that hedgelrogs are not my partly, but: sone directing the attention of some at least of your horti- | stat T. N. Luen, jun, 
erg . ana that they may be numbered | cultural readers to what I eters se will, ere long, prove — pea ia which I chiefly 
among — — t enemies of young game. Some time an important and remunerative emp yment for British | reviving a subject which had 
ago a hen of mine, which was brooding over young  industry—I mean the cultivation of Cotton in Australia. I have received the following “from. 
pheasants, wast killed and the whole of her inside eaten. | Towards the’ —— of the year mal I visited the settle- | scientific phy sie He wri 
Suspicion fell upon the rats, but a trap being set, the ment of Moreton Ba ay, or Cooksland, the northern- a kind of Beetle van a species 
men culprit proved to be a large hedgehog. This year most of the — settlements of New South Wales, he himself had — the same 
T lost 1 part of a brood of partridges ; they | with a view to ascertain the general capabilities of the = 
st carrie by the ee Se ‘of a hedgehog, | country for the introduction of an agricultural popu- | light: gree 
was caught by a trap in the very act of burglary. | lation from the mother country, previous to my con- kind of crabs 
B. W. R., Dawlish.—The hedgehog is one of the most | templated voyage to Europe. In the course of m 
‘interesting of British animals, vee like attest other crea | visit, I found the Cotton plant growing vigorously on And this 
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— — only — ae sefil ; its character] the banks of the e river, in e 2738. 
nas been much maligned from e and as an ex- and as I had pre 3 ascertained, from personal 
. ne 2 * of the hedgehog is observation as well as from extensive e that the of life ; and when 
very var arious +3 by preferen carnivorous, but, in climate was perfectly salubrious and well adapted to the seampered 
2 e nees, it will readily — at vegetable sub- | constitution of the European field labourer, the circum- | to the viper question 
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e z gene 3 with the new field of employment which | her ones 
— cts, worms, snails, — 1 * N e . for British industry on the one hand, of et Nie 5 0 
3 „and riment, ch was and the prospect it afforded of eventual freedom b to get a stick to kill t 
made by Professor vi the mode in which the for the African slave in America on the other. The — But he killed 
: the latter prey, appeared | Cotton grown on the Brisbane river, in Australia. 
is too long to transeribe was grown from American (black or Sen Island) pe 
words, A hedgehog C tn was to alla appearance health 
in first and vigorous ; the pods ‘were fully develc 
