830 TRR 
GARDENERS’ 
5 
; [amusement of the Spani 
they shrug — their shoublars ir call them nae (mad. eat 
) 
aa ale — the roa 
coats, white cords, and top- rgs I will not 5 to the 
r they do not laugh; 
is not an absolute want of taste for these 
ek; M. Franeis one of the m 
ants at Gibraltar, has a beautiful garden 
to p Roque, 
with rare plants, to try w we * suited to the fine 
climate ; and one cannot but hat his own native 
rocks may reap the benefit of po . end 
og Sak anf ag Garden =e e som 
t would r untravelled readers 
BEB 
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5 
. on ‘the roc 
ea Webbiana is 
ever seen of Picea spectabilis, or Picea Webbiana, gated 
much more nearly with Hofmeister’s P. Pindrow than | 
with his iana; and I cannot but think it 
doubtful whether P. Webbiana exists in Europe, espe- 
of a triple-colour suit 
w in — yon) e cannot 
uiries, and t 
8. 
y a Snake. — A snake was killed 
t summer; from its unusual size 
ressing its body a og 
jected oe its mouth, The fr 
compressed, and covered with a Era 4 Lip 
— 4 slime. After * ae to the air for about a 
uarter of an hour, it regained its usual plump pik ge 
0 
. dead was e 
ng in a little i about w 
most ae seized ie prey. J. 
Gas H: I have of late seen several refer- 
out a patent for it, and I send this 8 
to you for the benefit of such of your rea li 
places where j 
adopt it as a means of heating. C. W., Hilo 
Gibral 5 of plants, flowers, 4 nothing i in 
the travels Ihave made gives m 
— wild old cultivated aequaint- 
wing in tlie open air 2 tenants of 
„I have 
> 
2 
aay often in Switze 
aS a new (to me age : of Cyclamens 
has often added 5 to = delight of the day. |a 
n led make a short trip 
r. 
had had else 3 received pleasure 
ces as Switzerland and 
TA emed 
damp s shores “of yeis 
some 
bre, and a newly introduced tree, with a narro 
ot wh eh wi bago 
eee one sheet of light-blue bloom! To thos e who 
can stan e fare, if they are 
as fond of ea Anòt recommend a 
more delitti i eit Wan six days from Southam mpton to 
Gibraltar ge on . F dee a little oe to 
or even n y the steamer, if there 
quarantine, m Gibraltar to Cadiz in 12 hou 
from Cadiz to Seville, by the steamer noD only 9 jons, ; 
Cadiz, th isbon by the steamer, 
=] 
2 
ntra (even to 
yellow Vine, and the other half e 
emerald green of the Have s- foot Fern, clasping round | 
ever y hranch 
erefore At them | peep 
E no absurd regio Why, the awal into Vigo | tot 
jage. one | b 
the 
eve, black Vine, and united them 
the troubles of the j journey. From Lisbon home, taking a 
at Oporto, and landing for a few hours at Vigo (if 
bay alone is wort All this 
without trouble or fa atigue in five weeks, Tho ath 1 there 
is no fine collection of plants at Lisbon or Cintra, yet 
ere is much to delight i æ the gardens, many of which 
e in the fine old Frene ae =" . box parterres 
of tke most migeen enia till I was at Cintra 
r Gue erate) Lilies or e Beiden 
mile long bordere 
2 in a dream. o mention 
fess d and hospitable Mr. beee. the Pentibully agen 
a good 5 Gibraltar, but 1 
An y do not hig rétaki bea English excel- 
> ‘ did head see the ma 
— elieve this : "X gentleman in the 
rtan of Oporto split a Vine shoot (white 
rapes) very carefully down the middle, manaig 92 
bud in half, and then split a correspondin ùg shoot o 
on gang, 
22 after many experiments su 
raft grow, and the produe 
black fruit oe the same bunch, an 
fruit. told cating 2 this Vin 
have fruited i in — m prom 5 ‘ion to send 
to the m f the Horticultural Society. Dodman. 
Spe = putea — doubt whatever about the possibility 
this 
Rain.—The following is an account of the rain pe 
has fallen at this place, from December lst, 1847, t 
cb a 30th, 1848. It very much exceeds ax 
verage of former . hittington is 310 W 
above the mel * the sea 
on ot h age 
Inches of Rain. 
3. 
ůä•——U—U— * — 
2 cot 
wa 
settee eres 
3 In one year 
. 9.) 
The rain 3 fell p W 
hittington in the year T 1844 
which is no 
ond, Whittington, apei W sai Y. 
Pyrus nepalensis. —À n has am 
year borne a fair crop of fruit, which, eae | in its raw 
state harsh and unpalatable, we jeak no further notied 
whiehthe is filling | t 
8 
10 meko i a profusion one 10 se 
rafted | ever 
Bat welt i — 
is bet tter to look at the stern rea 
sort for emigration 
you? Just lock a the 
peas s he woul osen! And 5 
master! Not a bit of it. He ight “a 
11 
into circumstances 
o have 9 from young men 
obtain that work which in other lands is 
: may perhaps, if they will ihe aoe 
suggestions to such of yon „ ; 
readers who are thinking of pre the stepat 
I. shal for the 
w suggestions: 
a adoption, respecting their oon on board 
‘Rough and Ready. [Pray do.] 
Tea Vinegar ave 2 a bottle of Tea vis 
r your inspection. The fo wing is as near as 
the recipes The contents — the tea · pot 
filled up with warm water; a little barm 
the proper temperature of the liquid, 
in a warm he only drawback is 
a gallon 
with a ele) yeast, in order to ma 
w | received Troni 
` Acacia-like, shining, green leaf, weeping almost like the Spain, ma * 85 2 
Willow, covered with hangin gene s: 2 pink- | of than to send a few to our pig ev ay after dinner tiéd è ie Pe prore 
red It is a South American plan are say | for his dessert, until one of the Tamil ily crops of Potatoes within t 
Sie ba it in England. [Probably Schinas. Molle] The “ Vexed at the brute's alone possessing: crop in June 
on one side by the rock, on the other hat ought to be a common blessing,” same ground again, and this morning 
— over the picturesque town towar ds the blue sea, | suggested whether it would not be hen baked. | for, the purpose of seeing how 
1 — 4 Ping, Ke. The garden is well kept, as The trial was accor made, — is most very fine Potatoes, four 
full of in reegt „ many of satisfactory, the. quality. bein ing nearly oat if not gite, Spanish. I shall be able to le 
fer art were oe ane new tome; $ others, ol friends, but in | to that of the pam St. 5 and other for some time yet to get riper, as our PF 
2 state of grat d prosperity which made them | known baking . Halesleig do not begin till about Christmas, 
hardly recognisable. The walks about the garden and} Emigration, or a Word to 2 oung Men out of Wo ie doubt if they would reach the tu tuber: 
the town and 3 outsides are covered with beau- e er — — — to, as I am, for assistance to ob- had the means of irrigating; 
tiful Pines of differen Thi eda and all the | tain s young: men ( garden- | nearly four months. 
are e late governor, Sir George la e “ ‘full of of blood and blue veins,” to use a of to disease here, 
I do not know whether he was a relation of sailor’s exp: „Jam often led to wonder how it is disease is in — me $ 
botanist, but he had the right feeling of old Dumbie- that they do not make up their minds home in | of northern climates. 
es; for whe e had nothing to do, he dropped | another dependent upon and forming a part of t Cullure of the "Pine-epple in the pen. 
Fir seed Acorn of some e eee British empire. Sinee there is no employment for their Spain — Tn who 
rock flourish under his tering. Of course | capital (their labour) in this overerow La o succeed it 
fi 
es green fos 
everything a be pomi ; PA might he et 
and some p 
b Gibraltar 
has 
he has no knowled 
e already there. 
and shrubs from — 8 Langage 
to mane climate, would ad 
garden, much to the 3 
bitants, nay, possibly even of the officers of the gar- 
I cannot help thinking that the study of these 
„Would be a fitter emplo; than ri riding fox 
ing,“ in the Cork woods under 
2 
regi adapted | 
o the interest 0 
ess am e of tha inha- | source 
hunt. is he lot of 
ent eelfidenial, 
I — that the 
of disappointment on t ose dissatis- 
, after taking this step, arises from the extrivnigent 
ions entertaine nit. Labour 
sae 
a ` Andal 
bgt wi — — from Lenser (a 
m gard m = bed; threw 
3 thriving ‘beautif 
hopes that Nature wil 
ina 
man. I can answer from ey that 
a sun, į 
e s 
o 
1 perience 
ales, nor Van Dieman’s 
i 
hed p plant thorns in England 
Truro, Bes J. [This is w mistake] 
