Jone 20, 1857.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
439 
m 
The fourteenth an 
held at the Londo: 
. Sheriff 
EP: H. S. Tamar Brookes 
about 150 gentlemen, nurserymen, 
}ARDENERS’ fa BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.— 
niversary er of this charity was 
London Tavern on Monday oxy PW 15th inst., 
Mechi in the chair, supported W. Roupell 
n, Esq., Robert Wrevch, Esq., Dr 
Esq., Mr . Under-Sheriff 
, and 
eet said oe were proposed and responded to. The 
made a warm appeal to the company on 
behalf of Set tho charity, the success toi nding which w 
on the oceas' 
Wm Rou apal, Esq., 
Esq., 107. 10s. ; 
., 102. 10s.; John Edwards, Esq., 
Mae jun., 107. 10s.; Hurst and 
es Woodroffe, E: sq. 10s. ; 
OL; : ite, Under-Sherif? Cros ssley, 
arles Tanqueray, 
Bz, Mg Fo G. 
i Rivers, Esq. | 5 
5l. 5s.; J. J. Blandy, Esq., 5l; James Gray, Esq., 3l. 3s. 
Henry 31. 3s. ; Messrs. V sead & & Sons, 
31. 3s.; J. oe, Ee m E pe Dr. 
Behind t noble hey 
iums, rally y contributed iby Mr, T tir aaea of Sougi; 
e purpose o converted into 
into a 
Notices of Books. 
be 
A second edition of Mr. Bak Baker’s ct Ss and — in 
B 
Longmans) has just 
Ceylon gria ans 4s. 6d., 
appeared. Those 
ight Years Wand 
formerly noticed by us, will gladly make e scan 
with Aes Pp volume just o 
us to see vie passing 
f 
stalking, and camping 
y to make rasa war upon Ele- 
= a a 
os wera fon d- 
t peri 
pa do to express some 
tion of the “work having appear 
some years since, % was 
the wing anecdote. Only imagine a 
man in such a condition wi with nothing but poe tee 
may ath 
Shh hh oer hc a w I 
ii arrived at the on his intended 
» Just as reared from 
is death in 
k but steady idas a be chante at the 
on with the throat. | The smok: 
ill 
n from = following a = Pen ar 
| see 
h e 
- tend feelings on my part 
f being paper. | hour 
Seay as was justly asaid; turning a plague 
a profit. me 
J 
ho have read ee Baa very | havi 
6 My parton ee that Pe only on 
tance 
buffalo, but I cautioned B. e his fire il 
Rifle | bull should be in into me, gee ‘ek to aim at. the 
natural for the | ¢ 
The | have also issued a price- 
d closely print 
sics, 
so | fore useful rasan ih io y 
smoke of | fo 
Unloaded, without the ord = one with the 
nmr agg certainty of a char verpowering | 
brute, my hand instinctively ges d | the haladie of my 
hunting knife, a useless weapon against such ¢ 
at B of 
ch 
that I knew; wo 
of rage and fury, pawing the water, and sta aie 
violently vith his fore sues 
ery pleas I gave myself up for lost, 
but te me erce an posites into my featuresas I 
te uld possibly assume, I stared hopelessly at my mad- 
dened antagonist. 
mal before 
oney pyes 
Pith me in genn sabe coin for 
well home before the bull 
quick was it that 
and I 
full coc the oar 
a ig now within teak seven paces 
apa at each other, pung with 
I had faced him pl 
lessly id an empt 
w. se 
8 Fo o 
ae 
Keeping my iink opposed to 
“At this m 
ron te 
n the wile way to 
bullets left. ei we tarn 
1 the 
“The words were hardly uttered when, with the 
soniieakiehen rage of the last twenty m sponges: nt rushed 
i the work 
our heels 
hard Down 
“st the suddenly baeni “nomentam of his 
way wi ast a 
tog an over the plain, 
y us, thine ugh E on 
t he was not dead | but only ned.” 
e Poms is full of tales like one Y ich ae’ is 
a no means one of the most excitin: 
$ Catalogue of poe and Orchids se 
1897 is crf prepared price-list of a 
best varieties of these plants on sale in| 
the Nursery at York. 
E. G. Hender. 
son & n Š the ig, Welington Een, 
to sgte very rich baa es Stove and 
Greenhouse plants, Ferns and all sorts 
Flowers, which bean other matters 
ed matte 
Their collection a 
ie eon of | 
natural History and 
good deal of sound and there- 
gmall admixt 
“ popular” e let us take t 
may pipet pent 
been merely sullen, was now 
i as as motionless as a statue. 
from a wound within an inch 
ee T had siid; had it not been for 
him 
o “TISE. OF of ee TRE, 
OF tissues, which, being 
variously 
Of fibres, w 
and which is variously 
organs of the plants. 
l 
“Suddenly a bright thought flashed enia! my |1 
m 
N ays 
When they are thoroughly cle cleaned they shea fl bleached, by 
aan | introduced didrnitieeovely into Gardeners’ Libraries, 
places and t 
f£: an without notice, 
ery. 
me! 
icine r r i AA 
people, there is no 
a sso requntly tho ense in | en 
the | e 
nection between the veins of leaves and what 1s seen 
upon a cross section of a = ws 
The following note by the author to the 
answer we have last se oe is r Pre although usefal, 
wholly out of place 
“ * Skeleton es and seed vessels of plants form exceed- 
ingly amagar pr ao» objects, and serve to illustrate pa wonderful 
With sarian and care they may be pro- 
rson, and will supply an interesting pees. rg 
leas s should be gathered when the in perf 
— when some of the es nugae” Teawes s bogin to fall Fram Sis 
alec as perfe ae that they are not 
eer roken or in ajured by 
the water from time to time, taking care not to oom amage 
leaves. oiua N apres pea be examined more than once a week, 
and then only to that the water is sufficient to cover: them. 
| Give thet suficient time a their 
posed, then take them out, and laying them on a white plate 
with a little wiht wash away carefully with a camel-hair 
pencil the green matter that clings to he fibres. a chief 
to 
ects. Layo 
es and seed vessels sufficient time to 
ee of ee pe 
They should then b Po aa and either pressed fla’ 
arranged in bouquets for poseren under Ane shades. The 
result will amply r 
Brannows Guide to Poole and Isle of Branksea 
(Longmans) will be found a useful companion by visitors 
~ that town. Much of it is historical and gives interest 
things that would be otherwise passed by 
It is illustrated by maps and views of 
ge cara egam 
ormium tenax, or 
be ag mes 100 tons of merc 
y person, other than the} person entitled to 
the f rt ve who shall, by — process of his own 
and second rewards, o process, 
whether of his own invention or not, produce from the 
mt enax, 
Zealand, 25tonsof merchandise. The merchandise mu 
saleable as an a of export from the colony of New 
Zealand, and have been produced at a cost not exceeding 
= spn cent. of its value at the port of e org § from which 
is exported; and the process e fully made 
eae n a view to the discovery ad a once made 
the public. His sane oe the Governor 
from time to time appoint. 
will ed m 
ity in — of which the 
od i ; and if such ain be rendy, I he will 
that dated on the day on 
have ascertain ad the. fact, o a day 
pecan a? substances, 
secrete, and grow, and fulfil the conditi 
istence.” person 
of ge oc oe a mga gn grr aa quired 
we see numerons 
iy te mero menor and fro th comcast 
do shall 
to imply, nor ped geo 
the 
“1159. 159. Why, ibenrpae meee eh at ae 
of the fluids by which the: structure is} 
Te is not correct to say that Siew we cut across the |. 
bes in parallel lines. | has 
is | material to replace rags 
in the manufacture of paper 
ata haro paid attention to the aon I proceed 
