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the Cedar of Lebanon, the Deodar is chi ew, a strong piece ot glass, so that it might be carried in the , the richest "AM and 1 have no doubt, should the 
valusble as an. element in lan composition ; pocket at amy time with safe 0 2 the top of the] Coffee leaf ever come into gene -— , the ripe 
ts character i - ^ den frame are two small brass plates with two sights | will be collected with as much e s the ripe fruit. 
think, not been pointed out. The extremely rigid habit | in 8 Lr суз might * lid any object at | The mode of preparation by the iiw is thus: The 
Cedar of Lebanon, its strictly 9 any d At the ack of t trument is а brass|ends of the branches and su аскет», with the leaves on, 
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remarkable in hier epeciinena (those at the Chelsea | req red. I pare found this "ers contrivance very | from 12 to 18 inches, These are arran in the split 
Botanic Gardens, for example), and which painters — in fixing frames, &c., any angle, and when | of a stick or small bamboo, side by side, forming a a truss 
have 80 much and so happ ily introduced into their | complete it ^ only 15s. J. Dunieh, Woodside House, in such a manner that the leaves all appear on side, 
pictures, eombine to —— it what may be called an Frant, Suss and the stalks on the other, the object of whieh is to 
architectural tree ; and the comparatively dark hue of Plan nting C RENE Slopes.—It appears that there is а | secure equal roasting, the stalks being thus exposed to 
its foliage contributes to heighten that character. It is, | great want of yá» ra ws and Osiers, for basket-making, in the fire together and the leaves together. The slit 
in fact, singularly adapted for associating intimately this country, owing to a qua — of the land being being tied up in two or three places, and a part of the 
with buildings in the Grecian, Roman, or Italian styles | required for —— ape. immense number of | stick or bamboo left аз a handle, the truss is held over 
of architecture ; or, indeed, with any structure in which | plantations has been — consequently apos y a fire without smoke, and kept moving about so 
lines inci i rods, &c., used in the о trade, are у and in | roast the whole equally without burnin 
the case is widely different. It is essentially a garden great demand, and prices will, in all а be|of which operation the quality and flavour of the 
or lawn plant. Its drooping branches, pyramidal or ой. _Under these circumstances I I would — article much depends. When successfully roasted the 
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alone and 1 . ot n ean be more Plantin would answer two purposes—the roots would bine the fre is smo * the flavour varies with the 
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with it, having nothing in its aspec bit down with a spade to the extent of a square foot, insert testimony of one who has been long perso ly accus- 
that would at all harmonise with any style ‘of [o^ the cuttings, tre tread the ground firmly round it, and the | tomed to the use of an infusion of the Coffee leaf thus 
Its expression, in short, is the very oppos of operation is finished. ay I therefore direct the рге pared, can be of eerie recommending the arti 
that demanded in an architectural ане. attention of railway managers to this suggestion. J. R. to public "notice, I freely offer mine in support of it *as 
and which is so admirably realised in the Cedar of, Destroying Mice.—Having tried Peas, steeped in bitter 8 an a agreeable, re — and nutritive article 
Lebanon. Of course, I speak only of such plants as | aloes, arsenic, &c., without effect, I was induced to diet.“ While I find the use o of an infusion of the end 
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in India would state whether the Deodar ever | Strawberries were eaten ofi, an this week my Peaches | I drin trong infusion of the the leaf 4a, with evident 
acquires a ter stiffness of habit, with more horizontal | (nearly as large as Walnuts), were eaten on the trees, | benefit to pon health and strength. As а restorative o 
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profanation of its glorious character, to use the Cedar |a fide of the killer on. Mn of км well buttered, | foetidity goes, and а solvent of the viscid fluids which 
of Lebanon in a а plantation, itis by no means un- | pass a knife over the surface, so as to mix the killer well | obstruct the circulation, often to the extent o 
wn for this purpose; as, from the rapidity of its growth | with the butter on the bread, particularly round the | i i i 
it having, believe, propias p eet scr 2 — ed i | 
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tria), and its 1 “om dica E 3 - ee perfectly e effectual, for mice were lying dead near every work for hours after he would be otherwise 
head of branches. ose when surmounting the res = piece of killer that was laid d That it would soon лн a most valuable article of 
of the plantation, ‘extromely yagi and strikin ng, and | first night. І can, t therefore W a with 2 diet amongst the labouring classes, and on ship-board 
becomes ry ral planting. The белон that too much cannot be said in its praise, particularly, if once brought into use, there can be no 
Deodar, however, as far as it | je known 6^ us, has no | would recommend it to all Ha are feoubled | in ie: way | bets The Coffee tree can be grown to advantage for 
sueh qualities, and loses nearly all its interest and I УКЕ been. E. Bennett, Perdiswell. e leaf in the lowlands of every tropical country, where 
beauty unless allowed to retain the whole of its 3 Coffee-leaf Tea. = ‘the india mall just arrived, I| — soil is hir € whilst it requires soil and 
to the very ee. permitting no encroachment from its | have received a newspaper called The Overland Singapore — to produce the f. t. An Old Su matran," [We 
out being seri ously damaged. — Free Press, dated the 3d ult. ; and as it ўе ша etter have omitted so 5 in the original to Dr. 
, Birkenhead Park. of a novel character, describing the use of the 3 G ices the late » superintendent of the Botanic 
i terested in the of the coffee-tree in the domestic form of tea, and cn the — ponies. e for him Dr. John 
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may have a fair trial, I would make the following sug- | many years in the Indian Archi pelago m some-| Park. As to those leaves, an infusion of which we 
gestion, for the purpose of obviating the objection that mA — liar - vi all the. valuable products of those tasted, the tea prepared from them appeared to us as 
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м nauseous as Senna 
ing the use a corrosive acid in glass vessels by but “ey pian genie f this beverage having been е4 Price of Mustard Seed.—One party can рр 
common lab ially boys and girls. 1 pro tained from the ar dul or tree before. Padang, | seed at 13s. per bushel, which, being reduced to pence, 
that the vessels employed for holding the acid be made| whence the writer dates his letter, is an important is something like 2d. per Ib.; another offers the same 
of percha, capable of containing the quantity | Du ка. pag " the west coast of Sumatra, about the | article at 9d. per lb. ; a third sells at 1s. per lb. ; while 
required —— and — be — 7 centre south latitude. I take this occasion | a fourth (a jobbing gardener) can furnish the seed in 
two apertures, e carefully secured for to tion i when engaged in a long voyage in question at Id. per oz. I make these statements from 
pouring in the ii, d, the — very small — — of the Red Sea an nd Egypt many years ago, I found among | having my ears rung with * our seedsman imposes upon 
emitting only a single drop at a time, like that of the the Arab merchants at Moka, Hodeida, and Jeddah, a us to the — of 100 per cent., re shall not employ 
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Preparation of Ground for Onions. .—Living near the | berry, prepared by a short decoction, and served up to you will veniet a се =” Veritas. {No great elucidation 
sea in a very damp climate, where Furze after being | every guest and visitor, as the universally admired Coffee is necessary. Go e tailor, the cutler, the wine 
ts from excess of moisture, I procure a few | of Mocha is made and enjoyed. [This is also the case | merchant, - any ж acf Pogue if you except the 
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Onions are to be grown the ensuing year, leaving the the husk so prepared, I was obliged to abandon it, for д» | without purchase, or pube барова Messrs. Bromley 
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in this condition until the time of sowing arrives, which | urine. Im y add, that the Coffee-berry when in decoc- defray, can ofcourse undersl the shopkeeper] 
is about the second week in 8 It iie receives tion. is is called Кат, and the mir 8 vei Kishur. An Old | | Stocks for Fruit Trees—In Rivers's 
а good coat of well decomposed stable and co t alluded to:— |“ Miniature Fruit Garden," permit wii me 0 B 
dung, mixed with at-il: And. ia. dps; dog ve the Coffee plat i 4 oum congenial eee gne climate | observations on the “working” and culture of those 
shallow, just deep enough to bury the dung ; afterwards | exhibits great luxuriance in its foliage, throwing out | very popular fruits, the Peach, Nectarine, and Apricot. 
it gets a slight sprinkling of sea or other sand, in order | abundance daane of sahara «nd Jalen) de ms, especially when First, then, I would state that, in whatever way we may 
to the soil from sticking to the shoes. Beds|from any cause the main stem ge thrown out of the һә рды, i eie ратй леі аена 
are then marked out 4 feet wide, with foot alleys | perpendicular, to which it is very "liable from its great|to get on on prosperously, more especially in matters 
Each bed is now trodden all over, the La ree: cumbent weight compared with the hold of its relating to horticultare + for so so long as we continue to 
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into the alleys with the back of the rake. On this 8 of this propensity, often give the plant a anten teca round and upbraid us for our folly. You must, 
slightly loosened surface the seed is sown, and the soil | considerable inclination, not only to increase the foliage, | therefore, pardon me if I tell all whom it may concern, 
taken from ith the rake, i but to obtai ae frui g stems, when | | first learn t 
thrown thinly over them just sufficient to cover the | ones uctive. It is also „ desirable | talk of their cultivation. That there is something very 
Seed, The beds are then neatly raked lengthwise. · In | to limit the height * the A by lopping off the top, wrong in this, the first and great principle, no man of 
this way Onions can scarcely fail | to increase the produce d facilitate collecting it, and | observation can question; and hence in no small 
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Levels. akin ing banks, &c., ese are y of ajo gum, 
found the following description of level very useful, 1 vegetation which becomes injurious to the quantity of numerous other ills, too often seen in the walled 
took a piece ‘of well seasoned oak, 5 inches square, and | the fruit or berry unless removed; and — this | gardens nma e the United . — There are 
' From the cen this I ta bundant foli b erted into an arti who really unders' 
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thin | must beco ——ů 5 and t ene — е — it. Some two years ago I re- 
) a circle of degrees was eee Cy g the leaf | member hearing it stated that Mr. Rivers had unfortu- 
engraved, In the centre of the plate I fixed a pivot for to emand for | nately lost a large quantity of the Stanwick Nectarine, 
four thin steel points or hands to move on, and which | an article they 9 in Голасна, e and which for the | fever lie being БЫДЫ орел stock the satius ok ial 
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nch moved the other three and yellow on the tree and fall off in the course of|think that it is something like Due de Tilly” in its 
he whole covered in with | Nature, contain the largest of extract and make | nature. Ido not mean ia form, sas, or colour, but in 
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