_ SEPTEMBER 5, 1857.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
wtb oe on 
eal manage a: nor cause me to ; ¢ 
re tthe ti me and ar E hav tupon t 
Remember, my Title ee A 
Ga are man minds. 
bus una. 
Facies non 
to one fiar m not 
ys 
by Ovid that 
omni- 
mn 
approved o tin are informed 
even the Im 
took up the warlike club, ber that, w one party of 
them advanced to th ttack of a town ma cr myc 
om up in its defence. 
“ Mulciber in Trojam, pro Troja stabat Apollo; 
ape fos us Teucris, Pallas iniqua fuit.’ 
march steadily — stumble | 
inthe e jo road; whilst others fall apone: faces, 
erei aie mon ‘of thy 
aone A vom lo re, and ve y 
i gall 
so amusing a volume it is “probable t 
Pamer on peresi and Humming pame fall a as vines 
are of good: sense and practi hail tea ther 
with a amem a deneg on of mere cabinet authority, will 
find most fa with ‘From the form 
select a oit iias of what are ai 
aian” Paes ters prefer 
living on terra firma ‘to swinging noord athe limbs of 
trees, the former habit being in the author’s opinion 
of their feet clearly shows 
hear 
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and a howler or preacher monkey; though 
most probably a hös mak of displeasing ‘scientific com- 
pilers, and of in pier ir monitory censure. Still, 
methinks, it lost 
toms are 
ca- | nutriment from the 
the old saying, that | the trees. u 
meea e in isla om no 
ormer we | he must 
8. perce 
reader. It will tend to 
animals hitherto but imperfectly kno 
“<I thought that you inhabitants of the 
howler,” said the ant-bear, ‘never troubled the 
“I thought so to0,? replied the preacher ge 
very lately. = I fancy that I must have got 
one night at 
senses sufficiently to know what was. 
my teeth sere za his ugly Toos So he threw me down 
and left m was pure accident ; but 
ee I s T an, w eas my we broken, and for ever in- 
wrathoctaiioh habita -0f. twò 
me 
Mr. ie its wants -with what the tree 
the humming-bi 
until | food 
| have s retired from them, one 
opposite in the extreme. You 
ground, whilst I 
draw your 
one, 
you, we Fs bs awkwardness itself i a ee, 
f down again.’ 
conversation 
e is more 
at of the sent eee 
of monkeys in -his 
ealled peste of hain ng birds 
ry great doubts may be entertained as to the 
ee bore nt birds. Although 
c 
ot less na poai the so- 
of hum ynie: I never rh eard the 
Aara French 
ummin, Berig t-I imagine 
n wrongly i le as th ne perea M 
P 
irds of whic 
of the know that = prd both in 
man a tes immature for the production 
of 
nota pordi Ha in eden bird-melody. If it 
do per it mus erto unknown ; 
and wi 
an eye-witness) v ae ciy ri Si birds, a few ilies at 
cate in birds, 
examin These 
alike in the shale eve fanily — 
t the scarlet fi 
re one call < 
been -see 
owers, for exam lean ed p aae 3 
Immortel,’ those birds will have 
ith 
ser 7 formation qu qite different ne that | could it be oth 
or Shikin oe a in mrs” 
- egarious in th museum 
nd r incubation is is aimas solitary, 
and although many see of them literall 
wing 
ims in an open pa which was close b 
if ‘the he simpleton had covered them 
for a eri T left one wing of 
w; and it was. this exposure 
prey expose 
n this case, woul have cn just as much 
as — had exhibited.” 
ixed with frequent allusions 
the are of Rotman f Catholics i in this country; is Mr. 
8 new volume eR Ee i) he himself being a 
zealous matty of that:ancient faith 
arden Memoranda. 
y appreciated by our 
adon ri n provod by the increasing numbers 
which annually v Last Sunday no fewer than 
‘one by 
S Neither the mo 
accomt-of t 
ds i 
he monkey sits on the branch, : 
-bird must be o 
flowers; and never can. it 
seen to take nourishment whils 
ing from the shade with 
humming-bird stops short at the e, 
apparently myc pes itr Hapni itself, and ary departs 
as swi ly as it had ap 
arrive one by one at the flowers, andyto | 
one, when t 
on wing whilstiit extoaets pin 
possibly be | 
al 
the little flower gard m stove are 
m showy blossom, ~ g me ities i 
to be at ee peta dem -a effective. Of these Verbenas 
of different kinds, Sear ms, Petunias, Caloeo- 
ilk ad er aoe the -staple ; we also 
renege d . ke, 
ba T a ej . Z 
tomentosum. These looked neat and dressy. Geranium 
h ked a acco 3 among 
Petunias few looked better than the old Shru Rose, 
of V with white, had a 
effect. Mangles’s vari , mixed a 
very dark purple Verbena, made a ing mixture. 
We also noticed the same with a 
k Verbena ; but this ety p to match.so well 
as the dark r just menti ures of different 
mts in suc Geraniums, Verbenas of 
Ped Pence 
ore ert 
tolerable 
by the diferent mre thus aes teat into juxtaposition 
uced a 
chiefly with Scarlet Geranium 
Miberii 
nitive hs Daa ‘I see ag venijoa th “ Authors -are vided as to the exact. kind of food | cases ermixed with Fuchsias, Calceolari nd 
you are out of your element; _ NN. . howler,’ con- | which humming birds re wala and round the edge with drooping blue 
many ler monkeys assem “In all the. species i L have Pe mar (and I | Lobelia a Nierem “Th __ resemble 
together, when have i not a few), I have insects, or and, as they well 
the « agos; amd. oo tobe 
cok 
were I. asked i at 1. ae 
i the principal food 
f thi — ee gta age ea 
discrimination. enough to: distinguish truth Insects form their principal food. and 
will just as ionally no “The ma ma frame of these birds seems to require 
doubt,) offer husks left b swine d . something more sonda 
one not refi his readers to a work, written | dew abstracted f geen ey a, i 
bya m he styles “an ic writer,” the birds do principally exist on this : chow | 
Public would still be ignorant of my true history. Now, | it is that. they p itp own, hot 
ric writer,” disdaini mn acq hs ; and then, b: Ee oe 
in the closet, dashed boldly into. the heart of our tropical | vey it to the stomachs of their gaping little ones. 
t convinced one soli But the schoolmaster left his closet -and gone 
ey eee broad. Perhaps ‘he will clear away a good -part | doors at the top of 
all those astounding sounds which naturalists have |of the mist which still oon ithological 
attributed to -a whole bevy of monkeys assembled. on | section of natural history. ope for the best.” 
the trees to howl ‘But you, Mr. ant-bear, Not less Den are our. author’s opinions the 
Teports' be Š said to get your dail from | fox and his habits p unning 
ants’ nests, high up in the forest trees?’ ‘Mr. howler,’ | is wholly. denied 
replied the ant-bear, ‘if wri i “ seems COED itr abe ros 
uto the ground the tops of the’ trees, in order | the fox of a 
zo may Ra your daily tT daw x hy the cunning as mi 7 still, I t pre 
& trees in | this prerogative. rA pe fox es oe peck heap 
quest.of Iam acquain many other animals capable of 
a Non, god Me howler, peey-lo look at my hind feet, | disputing the prise with it. Perhaps the ; and w 
and. are just wiere those ofa th y other -the 
dog, ee oe pEr mg 1. ae a SRR ee |, y shall. ? " nt to rais 
and face, which, “pana earners srr ‘them eo | form handsome = 
gnomy, indicate the powers of eunning.” | objects, tropica striking ag ea his kind 
Ds ] ee eee of Palm is, as is now pretty -well known, tolerably = 
the author when, as a whom there was no keeping |} : Sh ies 
terrier come AMAN rete i arst con- "Of hardy ornamental trees 
stituted him rat.and fox catcher abli . |may be mentioned K 
“Once i ypened that ‘(and possibly |: men of whieh is just 
other bers of his family) had made an ‘excellent | has some resembiance 
pper on an un flock of fine turkeys, } ful deep green; t 
role | about half the property ot the establi . il eee the end of 
exist. | Eight of t avere mii e morning. va very pretty 
seems ‘that after the four- thief saben Se to be better known than it is. 
call of hunger, he naturally bethought himself i i 
remijalopr : w klagan iee of turkey for supper | two ‘noble specimens of ‘Soph 
tern ornare so he AEE A with blossoms. 
