baa ee 
1842.] 
THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
Pearson’s Plate is a very fine sat bth and although 
scarcely so highly 1 cen as the Golden Harvey, it is 
pi 4 
h 
é€ Orange, Waltham Abbey 
melow’s Shes, by plated Foundling, 
Alfriston, Prades t Bellefleur thern Greenin 
iffer 
not so good for kitchen purposes as those already cod 
1 rey not included it in the above selection.— R, F, 
: HOME CORRESPONDENCE. 
e Sweet Cane of Script ure.—The “S Sweet Cane’’ of 
ep it in the pas the authoress of the 
vt Berner re Herbal” refers, canno the same as the 
Calamus of Exodus, if we are to rely upon the Septuagint 
Poroh of the Bible. In the M 
t 
aye R Presa a foreign production ; and the ‘‘ Sweet 
Cane? vt Fala as > Ae vi. Bi 20), ** from a far country,” is set 
dow on. The LXX, omits all men- 
tion of ‘the peg = Ce Tyrian markets (Ezek. xxvii. 
19); b t there i is one other instance where this word oc- 
inn: 
Although the richest aromatics, and with them 
the Calamus, may haye been brought from Arabia, yet 
or want of sufficient accuracy in 
iF punting out its localities. .‘* Moreover,” 
in the words of the version of old 
e 
r sea. Por ween 
thee mountain, of no acc ount, Ai a 
s, he Ca 
crossing the Li vee ina little valley & oh the Libanus 
and a certain other 
ut 
~ same time before our era, had probably peragee the 
ountry ree and thus dese ribes the m i 
Shut through 
nslation. ‘! From Laodicea, 
aromatic reeds, é av 6 pupebuds Kelper 
The sides of it are sec t fortresses, 
the one of har is called Later and the other Gerrha, 
pt, and was atest to abandon the design. The next 
i towards Coelo Syria the same 
before had taken, passed eliiush tit the Vale 
of Marsyas, and encamped near the fortress of Gerrha 
ich was situated j extremity of the valley, upon 
the lake that covered the de ; giving orders he 
generals to sieg! ronchi, the o ss, which 
of the defile.” ritish officer, en 
events in Syria, had opportunities of examining these posi- 
tions, of great interest both to the geograp nd botanist, 
and in a letter from Beyrout, dated Feb. 6, 1842, says— 
‘** Further down, about ; ll rsyas, or 
the Valley of Baalbec, becom 
rowed is a little lowe n the lake 
._ Its rapidity 
e bridge of desobs about half- 
and Tiberias 
highwa ay 
entleman, upon 
- | inspecting the plate of the C = aticus, as 
given in ‘* Woodville’s Medical Botany,” thought he re- 
sens it as the Flag he seen in Syria. 
these Flags, and trodden 
ing the assemblage of Music os 
urs not unworthy of those of its Easte 
——— on the spring shores 
Avs by the blest.” 
Pleias.—[1f 0 fA ge paces, will favour us with his 
srs, we will fa nd him _ 
ing by Hot Air. jae y form cation 
Hule. pai su a of the | failure 0 of “the "Hot-water 
Apparatus, bec 
—The Conse reamespids being ornamental, we wi 
of keeping seen 
ere _sesirous 
tirely out 
e iron pi agree in — paths 
path nae is 6 feet w sages 0 grating a at all. 
there been four pine es, g , the 
agers ond 
that wi! 
r wou mtg o dou 
sonics to the fact, 
gratings in the bac 
obje gb atc not attained at the b-expense of 10 
: ae re 
to the econ t both 
wstove. The fo 
the 
8, Was about a bushel in, the week—not 1 
f | selves as to t 
being kept up night and day. This stove can’ also’be 
erected inside entire 
or Hothouse. 
degree of temperature than ~ produced with the stove 
outside—all the warmth in back being 
wasted when a building 1 art 
e 
been silver pedi regey’ the learned will satis 
expla- 
5 in Je of the 29th ult., sald so ya it 
er by on bricklaye t 
giving ita fair trial, as much nicety jis re 
in our Cons 
doing, I must pegrire 
originali iy, in order that the con 
of any 
airly up the c chimney. “ 
im the 
, do sk, prions 
ection against cold, effect this 0 object by ge- 
nerating viet pe t by heme. its onan va Probably 
from rough its 
preserve even fender rey: mn 4 
if the natura! heat co 
‘radiatic 
. 
—Hair and wool, bad big ooo 
retaining ai 
ve, 
sree te A waialie pe sudden eme 
m to rags is destr 
mniddle ‘of ie: night it be 
€ heat in the 
ing indlpensle, in very severe 
em efficien part of th 
ust ved during 
uring winter, a heating els 
roblem offered by gent ener corre- 
| when pruned in autumn om ‘dé! spbr geen, tie aa 
fos tive or six eyes each, leftat con 
oldest branches: throughout the vi vind! The 
