20—1853. | THE 
urhwal, beyond which a careful examination failed to 
er “ee , the leaves a which 
— e trace of it. 
bear of Corypha 
resemblance 
and — a very omen — forms dense thickets, 
rescent form. 
and never attains the aan ng the stations on огын ra Зимма in, 
3. Chamserops — a (Grit, of which a — Kem di de most 9 which ur 
raised from seeds sent hom — 1847 is before the meet- hitherto 8850 observed.“ ies 0 usa (Plan 
i first met with and deseri ` Griffith ^ ana) is indigenous and abundant s a sped ater 
in Khasya (or — Hills, betw the plains ele atio tiie n feet) in the easte aya no a of | slo 
of Bengal and the Burhampootra river. As this emi- | Assam, and n to the Um level i in Sikkim. I have ried d 
tanist remar comes near Ch. Martiana | observed it —＋ in one spot the Bylehheena 
of —— a native of Nepal, at 5000 feet elevation; 
and further researe 
— that they are 
species. Mr. 
or Arenga, dis 
GARDENERS’ 
south-east Gurhwal, he very kindly furnished me 
vith, cens any memoranda on their occurrence in those! ri 
re too I find roe qeu 2 
mentioned in ie locality specified. Hen jus 
more abun ort distance, in 
the valley of the Kalee ; but as I had not time to verify 
Griffith’s description 
annie ue Natural History ” is appen 
ns of my own, to justify the opinion 
— identity. As defined by 
— is nar ore ‘hat 
nesian limestone mt oor A on clay slate, in the — 
extremity of Kemao loftiest — attaining the 
elevation of 8221 feet poe Calcutta base of the 
reous vegetation, and | 
— where 
flourish luxuriant — 
and — — les, Pavia, 
dromeda, Sym aplocos, Taxus, Berb 
— forms; amidst these, in damp, shad ч Tine on 
the north and south-east, but chiefly on the north-west 
exposure, the Chamszerops is found in great numbers 
forming —À and mede the trees rising from 30 to 50 
feet high, each with its superb crown e flabelli- 
form 2 ing loudly to the breeze. At 6 feet 
are 2 3 denn kene 
1 
Тһе ар Ар 
e fruit, which is of a s dark — oo 
in and at 
period of my visit мре 20, 1847), ny strewed in 
abundance at the foot | 
siderably higher. 
them, the mean annual 
On 
undant, both in its and arboreous forms, at 
4000 feet, while Hasina forms extensive thickets i in the 
river Baal at its base. 
Khasyana appears also to occur on Dhuj 
AL. a few miles north-east of the eget on the 
Kaleemooudee Ra 
tai 
forest at 6500 feet elevation ; and on me Berchoola, a 
spur of Bhutkot mountain, considerably further in the 
about 8000 feet elevation. In neither 
I find — m examples with —— 
high, this circumstance, 
ce, 
Alacananda 
of the Ganges), he came pi a forest of 
Pinus longifolia at 6800 feet ; “and it is very remark- 
able that the Cham: rops 
immediate cem tact with it, some tall s 
in among the Pine 
| 
i es bad Travels 
in Ceylon and à India," English калчайт, P € But 
in 1849 I went over this v сен pa most 
rom it, an enormous Mass 0! - | are 
— үйрө nata, | T 
dode 
| serra mas ble 
m that the third E fourt! 
inquiry and investigation failed te constant an 
ex to t 
artiana (Wali is vita — і 
forms — flourish there; 
t; | equally TE 
y| 
tended, me хех € 1 
the same year (10457 that he made his j а 
being then engaged 
= 5 — МЫ | having never then 
d n 
Chin 
researches on the C Coniferce sively cold, 
visited Kemaon 195 AM 
— 
ala” in о - xm lowest ары їп 
the vertical sec rundinar 
second is 
ы, which is below ome 
of the four 
n fine clumps of m шву slende 
ura 
terwards, second visi 
Wr the stems which had fallen and died 
n that season were still perfectly sound, and I believe 
species are nearly i 
ether as durable, but they never attain the 
the Deo Ninga 
The bearing of the E facts on the phenomena 
obvious little comment ; 
the necessity of great caution inferences as 
vo — nature of climate from the presence of oP 
orms in ancient rock formations, the 
faellity with which we can now account for the en not 
M ае ftn With ойе ef kobwa te 
regions 
CHRONICLE. 
n Kemaon, na | f 
ass, at и t 4000 feet — and was told that it | 
growing from | wit 
sea, | 2500 to LÍ feet d, like the ps forming extensive 
The rundinaria | are 
se 
Mr. Edgeworth, the D v "Ningala E wn be p 
m 700 
priori a presum 
the regen Аай эм — the existence of 
organised as 
4 not alto- 
tature of | a 
309 
rivers and nts. The Khasya hills, linis Griffith 
first met serops, rise like a wall from 
of i and in many parts of the ya the ex 
rior range rises in p ces to the height of 6000 to 
8000 ) fest, elothed to the brink wi ak, Ash, 
Pine, Cypress, Siberian Crab, &c. ; immediately beneath 
are 838 mind at once in 
such localities as Nynee Tal Station in Kemao 
But we may safely extend gx view to the lower 
and deltas of the three great rivers which ulti- 
ges, an 
e floods, the gre rs bring do 
Hi imalayan 8 whieh were the country 
be carried o the sea x n: 
phe 
ropical families, so 
where seve 
tropical ps with few, or even solitary 
tending far into the arctie and antarctic 
species 
Extracted, w (a a 17 omissions, from the 
Magazine f 3 ur fe for May 1853. 
ome Correspondence. 
Propagation of t the Heliotrope.— e plan is as follows : 
—At — end of July I select ong — of young — rom 
nches in le t them i 
Here Palms, Bambus, Bananas —— amongst 
and above — Firs, Cedars, ws, Oaks, | 9 
resses, 
and pen * Ash, and almost all the —— trees 
proper cold region о the globe. During violent 
Y» 
pen 
and buried be 
e 
ting excursion, 
high & as 10,000 feet. Now, it is not at all impossible 
t one or more of should perish in sto! 
be buried in if 
&e., — th quim = — problem greatly more compli- | 
—— 
h for the — B sub-tropical 
the same result will be 
t about in the enne ra India by the 
A e hamerops, called Hemp Palm, has recently 
disco * Mr. Fortune in the ai thorn пирон 2 
a, Ch — and Kiangnan, where the winters а 
Plants sent to Kew in — * “braved — 
by any sort of ne quete winter now 
850 (Bot. Mag., uoted in 
oe May TUE If pr be C C h. "Martina, it proves 
ness of that species; if d 
corroboration of the line of argument 
Ш 
floa: 
rent, — of the rivers that the m 
— and 
square, i. e. hori- 
bottom, close under a — taking a few 
3 to 
zontal, at the 
rt them in 
ower leaves away ; 
loam, rotte 
rotten е eva a little sand, 
Г d p^ top them. I aeg і pe from 40 to 50 
diee shallo and place them in a 
* 
cuttings in a 
| cold frame, - 1 
May 10. [We have only seen two — poor fruit i in 
vent Market year as yet.] 
The — in Scotland. — So unsettled has been the 
— (Renfrew) ge weeks, 
| that we anticipate our fines 
— although Apricots vede Peach 
have set A well with us, and are 
C d Pear-trees 
— wil s scarcely esca nights 
as w n Sunday the 8th and Monday the 9th inst. 
On Sunday evening it snowed pretty freely, interm i 
* I can speak from observation a: ber 
idi pos by the Sutluj; and as long since as the s 
Alexander the process must 7 * been the same, for 
ic descended to mouth of the 
— * f prin nea о 
structed "There isa ar business in 
ting trees „and not a very safe one; . 
: hooks) into 
of them. 
hanes а: ЫНЫ Et. apd 
anny MM: 
