a 
paprovenens oE POPA Sae , and apart from 
5 a ening, I think this idea incorrect. | 
What is y lan ning is neither 
more nor less than the improvement of landed property 
by the formation of parks, pleasure grounds, | recently-discovered electric lapte Benin- 
ensis) by the dwellers on the old Calabar River, which | August. An early so gal of the Bellegarde; ; flavour 
ws 
tations, roads, drives, gardens, Kc., as also squares, 
i ke, i m with large 
Seprauser 19, 1857.) THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. _ 641 
employ the living z00-clectric machine at the present is 14 days earlier, 3 and not b qaii gio ap = peci- 
day, ipd ra referred to the remedial application of mens _ oe ip ot having the 
the y of the gymnotus | retarding so ly rly York. 6th. Pêche à bec. 
&c., in connection with towns and | flo to t The native Calabar | not well developed, fruit not being ripe. 8th. Belle de 
cities. embraces not only the improvement of | women are in the practice of keeping one or more of the | la Croix. End of irg In nice condition, flavour 
natural Dii, Neg also the lay ying out of iayta, from | fishes in a water, bathing their children in | good, full, y y ¥ 9th. 
that adjoining th e palace to the gardens and grounds | it daily, with a view to strengthen them by the shocks de Savoie. Middle to end of August. A Peach 
attached to the villa and Pree Although.we rae which they ocks are ce ly with serra’ edium-~ vers, “flesh 
times find working gardeners and others stepping out | ful, for living specimens of the Calabar fish are at pre- | very in the centre; promising, but not quite ripe, 
of their line and attempting to lay out property, it is sent in Edinburgh, and a single one gives a shock to the | This is the largest of all the early Pi i i 
done in the one case without any guiding principles, and | han ane r even to the shoulder. | Early Nec r. Rivers, is an 
in others with only a smattering of first principles The to a have groans among | early small yellow-fleshed variety, desirable in 
without practical know] of gardening matters and the er ae ‘following them f from time immemorial, so gardens for e same as the Red Nut 
short the land designer in the | that t f quity as well as of the | Mr. Davies, of Pershore, sent Jemmy Moore, 
same relation to the working that an architect agri ractice under notice. The author variety of Plum, which w idered like Denyer’s 
Í by di aokk o ii the attention “ naturalists to | Victoria, with which it also agrees in its reported great 
r 
does to. a working mason. J. Lothian, 
and Surveyor, Campbellton. 
DUBLIN: Thurs 
Harvey, ect Te the g o met Beanie 
ati refi to the fact that the arny he then > 
He | 0 
occupied had bee ws to the late Dr. Ball. 
proposed 
that e meeting should. "adopt the | discove 
put in action by a powerful a of nerves. He read | ed. y the eon ye Tg ath stocks, 4 years 
m rom D iki g 15 
resolution :—“ Resolved, that we hereby ex- 
rinni h b 
Dr. Daubeny, of pakai, read the Report of the 
ittee appoi estigate the Emap 4 of 
Seeds. — He = parae to the pret cr hich called 
the in and iati that after 
The author stated that, in prosecuting researches into 
early history o f the dikilo machine, he did not at 
first contemplate going further back than the seven- 
ith “ig 
century, or co r i - 
ment than Otto Guericke’s sulphur globe, of 1670. His 
: hal eee 
the employment of the living to: al 
a rem 
reek and Roman physicians, and 
he now felt satisfied that a living electric fish was alike 
the earliest and the most familiar electric 
BRITISH POMOLOGICAL: Aug. 20.—Mr. H in Mraig Geotrear of Tet we f. B Ea 
the Chair. Mr. Rivers furnish gan e EEEE 
the e probability of additional kinds i elec 
disco 
to the importan 
. Patterson read the following note of the quan- | even for culinary pu 
ty of? periwinkles (Litorina litorea, ) a) egret at Belfast | to catalogues. J. Biggar, 
ears 1 been ki Dumfri 
py ” 
ed to him by Edmund Getty, Esq., Secretary to y, said to 
Harbour of that port :— e, 
Commissioners 
Tons. Bushels. 
1858"... ae saaa AOR Conse A 
es. ee - aoj i 
x 
—— 
i been pea e . 
br fag exited, anl sojeagen aipeble Of-0n Notices of Books. 
plying the demand. The quantity of periwinkles mw t carpe ers 
from Stranraer to Bel 
illustration, that at Belfast on 
fore a court 
um ti 
r led to a eneral conversation ing an E Prea 
pape ag are possessing 
rical fish being | productiveness, ao Noll, also a local variety, was 
ining w a great bearer 
repo 
the cae of nay natives familiar ¥ wit! ith them are in nae kitchen Plum, saar -l Gage. The fruit of this Plum 
to the source of their power and to their thera was too much decayed to form an accurate of its 
ent.—Sir J. Richardson stated that t wat merits; but it was considered worthy of asked for 
i of fishes known that | in 
n every one of _—— an gare us had been apps ee e and did not seem likely to attain 
of epe anic cells | rem Rivers also exhibited hn trees 
about 
now engaged in | 2} feet hi 20 fruit on each, of 
entleman stated | the following re ne alle Aout of which Beurré 
ec in Fernando Po, | Kirke is a synonym; and Beurré Goubault, showing 
ardson believed was identical with | the prolific seer of that variety on the Quince. Mr, 
pterurus, yE sAN had been described by Dr. Philbey, of i 
as d Calabar 
The natives | a supposed 
“looking ‘int, but 
ggar, 
ndly ries, sent specimens of a Seed! 
m 
soa soua 
oa worthy of farther examination, 
fast, and | Mensur Plane Solid. By the sak 
term in the|  Sidne went pe pe 1857.. 12mo, ; 
The 
he “buckie.” By € the aid ee rahe te: = any intellige ent person 
stated as 
shermen swore | e mployed in buying or selling e 
ees, and 
of law that flat. fh deposited their naa apaiia notice, inasmuch as it is beset with eee 
ual 
gra 2 sorts 
so that he had obtained fruit from 
ere ready for the table at all seasons 
or even 
the 
vith re electric 
f the practice of 
= the shore, arenar an r y swore —— o itself, and which an unins 
t th t out to sea deposit their spawn— | would not find it easy to overcome. The soles all gene- 
cause of the ployed will be found in the Gardeners’ 
pp. isin ae Oh. 
the same 
this tree, which 
n Me 
J. THORN’S, Bre Sanat 
—Mr. Hamp, who 
Peaches, of which the following din|y our gren 
the order of their ri . bas t End | some r 
of J The earliest of Peaches, a very old, but little | acceptable. He makes it a 
known and less grown vit a “a first Se but | under his care about the end yf January or 
00 
kes it a sort of February; t 
f and 
variety tes th 
as cane um weak |e i flowering they are placed 
A ne ee variety of the | on the back shelf of a stove or Vinery or in a pie that 
M which it resembles, i it | ean be kept warm ; kayara Cha wn watered and syringed 
