742 THE GAR 
DENERS' CHRONI 
CLE. Noy. 19, 
the рони gna been grafted upon 2 Juniper 
3 and is still none immediate! 
N 
y а" wa jam or on the Tanks, 
on thing in ud of the Rio Negro. The vers, the Curicuríarí, 
: uS t aft i the Yanga 6 е sp * the great river Uaupés, Rs the 8 though all pos: k 
Chinese fruit tree) up v uad fincas, AM that үч so | water, have non e ; while further o in the X3é, it n 
g the fruit of the E e beca e much larger a pears ring Venezuela it is found ne 
and Teri in flavour. Having sai en m in proeuring | banks of the Rio N and is may Ea up to 1^ a 
ang-mae trees, which 1 0 arms nt of In sources, and 
some 
anxious to introduc 
e to the ibutaries of th 
better informed = this e ihan the learned | northern limit, and I cannot heat o 
inaman. It m the fine variety g- eli 
old. hi ariety of Yang-ma | ing 
was grafted upon the wild kind, which the Chinese call | tribu 
art of 
in the Témi and айо» black- water 
e Orinoco, Thi 
the Ama 
ар шау 
fortnight, or placed y frames — 
degree o AU nd in this way a su MEL of or lesg 
be à ned a the month of November — 
pril in the eaten eur 
25. PODOLEPIS CHRYSANTHA, тучы 
eitun, — 
A 
L4 eri Boton, 
8 et lf- -hardy Australas’ 
very lik odole . i 
rugata, but with brighter y yelow ir 5 — 
ones Paticlel flower-heads, and a stem nearly free un 
1 
the cobweb coating 80 ge ba = that etia - 
taries. It is thus entirely а to я да rict | seeds were bought from Mr. Carter. of 
Sa h iety (Myrica sapida) ; and further, I | about 300 miles from 5. апа an equa nee said de be wild on the South West те f 
shoned hm sume pant ich h 243 ae ed, bt 4 to W m enabled so exactly to mark t. Soc. Journal. ? Хе аш, 
as e ince against his will,’ its ra e, from having resided more than two euh | — à 
di n firn 1 1 ;]ieves the x -mae is usually grafted | qs d of the Rio Negro, among pepe, w sow | б 
ч ine. BJ? : К oh neipal 8 consisted in obtaining the fib | wi — i i 
dot Гь. Camo, Aug. a After a very бй, y covering of this tree, and from whom no locality for it that in ihe progress ofa in tata d vum LI] 
for Italy „and disagreeable summer and spring, the ho tle ave re arbo undiscovered, assisted as they are Sa m day, the w paper g Mess 
е set in ly, and still continues, We have | E: 15 ndians, whose home is the forest, and » we 
no rain for nearly two mont hich has sadly | almost as well acquainted with its trackless epths 
burnt up my garden. M y water plants have been my with the well-beaten roads por ay 1 therefor ^ теши - de subject, pot on only i е n trier t'an 
t amusement, so you must excu if I continue| The fibre imported into this count ry h sup- | bm vien remarks on subjeets not odii 
to preach about Nelumbi the with me I. posed to be produced 17 5 by the Attalen ens Inst — First, then, in passin 
iful. One of the large circular basins with fou species not found in the Amazon A 1 the 8 
tains in the centre is entirely covered ith these pitts, Lendon Journal of Mus 849, Sir W. Hooker m —— — 1 
$ gratissima, literally 
with flowers red, yellow, and a new ety, which as it | gave some account of the material, and of the tree pro 
ch, I have called Масат mutabile ; | 
e one as it is the first day, 
the Water Lilies I have many, a me furnish seeds | 
Pendant), especially e NN a and N. scuti- 
Xd. 
ame name an 
folia, same country, were naturall se — 2 — i 
mur Um cmo ore produced by the same tree. The greater part, if not all lide evident | 
Notices of Books, f the Piassaba now imported, comes, however, from itid nd of arif k 
e Rio Ne еро, ere several hundred чн ате е аьан 
“The Palm Trees о the Amazon and their Uses, B nually and sent to Pará, from which place scarcely a | 
83 Wallace, with d plates. 12mo. Van Voorst. "adi bes vessel sails for England vitant t its forming a part of а —— А MÀ € ru Sipa 
Mr. Wallace has here v арр с а most useful 1 her cargo. Р P rds the top ef the house were still 
RUE upon Su E Fa te Globe Prepared for Man (12mo, Adams), is а fusion of wy flowers, which displayed in this n 
All appearance of а scientific берау he m carefully useful little unpretending guide to geology, apparently ‘iets very effective. ** 
avoided 1 210 has produced instead pital | intended for schools, for which it is well suit Allamanda ea vat 
es of Palms i 
n their natural aspeet, чем the manner 
e s clever 9 95 of Malay 
ach plate is accompani 
of hg abi of the spec 
8, but on a 
Dee by an account 
ies, of the districts in which it rs of —— buds ten À 4 
New ша 
24. CYcLaMEn 1 . ip sion of т gay orange — 
> 
Occurs, of its economical uses, and of s by Serres, t, 841; alia d 
which, in cases of doubt, it may be distinguished in the f this re А-У вресї d we “following — nm а 
forest from its allies. Upon this point the information account in ne evue Horticole :— — which it i 
collected by the author is particularly useful ; as al: „This is a native of Algiers, and allied to C. hedere- roofed pit was <i 
are the accounts given СА ш of е purposes to TES folium, differing Írom it however in the unusual size of collect p ion of Cine 
Brazilian 8 applicable t of his | its leaves, which have ека одних of 42 inches. The 
‘work he has found ER to correct, Ф е more | leaves are supported by stiff, erect Pee as in бе ‘lke m = —.— — 7 
eresting of which is that which relates to ihe fibre C. persicum of ens. The leaves are generally | tthe iene plants, but they had been liberally fe 
we ‘observed мре 
the gard a e 
now $0 largely employed in London in the construction | green on both sides, cordate, roundish, slightly erenated, |, 
coarse brooms ү е bein а 
x ro We quote Mr. Wallace's account of th outlin occasionally some angular or | 1 mme 
this valuable species, the Leopoldinia Piassába. simply sinuous xi ey are d vive fro fe end of (houso of West SE Peter's just eo — 
fibrous or hairy covering of the stem is an | September he end of October, about the same time and they promised k colour perfectly, the foliage 
extensive article 80 commerce in the countries in which that the flowers co ut, or Ше after. They en a ra T — i s hic 
it grows. It seems to have bec y the Brazilians remain green during the whole of the winter and part manages to have des "m his stage at 
to form eables for the canoes | of the pring. The flowers, about ten in num sup- |p me the Vines ow of the Nem orem 
It is well adapted for this ported on. ere uncles, are ne rose colour, ic — m outside until they | 
nee it not дїр changing to carmine towards + internal base of the " — dueed into the house and 
. fma the mouth of 
group of rede allied 1 “i 0. 
diffe. неет 
іп 
т um, С. шасг го on 
ropes 9 are part aite 
ts time of flowering and — dui 
8 e in the size of its — T bes 
; i res of for ‘ d А in our our conservatories and gardens, the —.— ‚= ye — — АЫ len 
r 2. for every inch in | Cyclamens wou ord an uninterrupted. в cecssion of n fine floured fruit 
ms long, which is the flowers, at once agreeable in form and delicious in the | aana — large, нт — — kr ing the 
* ж to. eee . 5 which fill Lik apy other | sh; ately ing them from i 
Brazil, government plants, yelamens have t of 1 hi pro , 
factory at the mouth of — "акан гу, one of the tribu- this, it is. euficient oopen t fs уез; Meam. 
taries of the Rio Negro, for the purpose of making these wards of species or may be d :—0. 
cables for the use of the Pará arsenal, and as a — | Antiochum, with a pure sia nali And a throat of 
ment monopol il within these hoes years carmine violet; C. -white 
was all manufactured i dage on the den but ibis, е variety from which the ancient gardeners obtained | 
mow taken down in long coni tation the do P Meise c туа charmi 1, 3 
from Pa | din where it is cde pes lie жое. ste excee Y, nete in height; C. 
1 ping an se brooms, and — 3 E 'ореитп, аг Ха, naturall n the. mountains of 
dur | re im пиеле * purposes. үт ent with Switzerland ; to which that singular ano: bal 
е. ve only the old and hal ties vith white, " ed 
1 = жй napa o | wi purple, or streaked 
NT. етгй by М. ym Houtte to 
ca) are propagated b 
