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He cine Nua that the shade was the most essential ; been great ; it is for the public to decide if I have mad l t gl > 
trees. Er iducing the bitie colour iti the fwen. "This lg E Ra he public to decide i ave made Lewy rae tn Ba s x w Ea Ovi bg Bh the 
Serration has induced me to refer to the plant at| “Were my book to be written over again, I should | assent to such a proposition. Who, for instance, will 
Shanklin, which grew in a gs garden in the lowest | like to deepen the colours in which some pictures of | compare the sweetness of the White ae or the Syrian, 
q , if I recollect rightly, it | Indian life have been painted; but the experience | or the Raisin de Calabre to that of a pe ] ripened 
ed to the sun’s rays in the early morning only, | which enables a man to write on the subject of Eastern rar gt or Black Front nper r Black Muscat, or 
the rest of the day in the shadow of the thickly goverment tends to blunt his sympathies, and in some | Black eetwater? Fortuna’ tely ji vern statements 
rocks which rose immediately above it. As it | degree to injure his Tiotal sense. Torture and lawless- | are nwit ae fe morrar . subsequent reasoning, ame 
jn the lowest part of the ine, and within a few be and the perpetual suffering of millions, are so gaya are js less 
an the sea at iy water, it was Spe exposed to the | familiar to me that I am conscious of not feeling as I| Again, it i erino thet the Grape during the latest 
sa breeze, and in stormy weather the spray must have | ought to do when wrong is done to individuals and period of development appears to have an individual 
reached it. It is possible, her ra that the salt from | nations. The man who lives in the vicinity of the | life, and to b independent of the plant. 
the sea may have had some effec n producing the blue undértaticr and ‘boiler maker is not likely to join in the j In this case the word comparatively must have a very 
colour, and this may also have Been the case with the | agitation aga ainst b arrel organs and street cri ies. wide signification, or else the statement is irreconcile- 
ts in Cornwall. The ppp ge A aa when I saw| “There is a malady ts | able with the disease so well known under the name of 
it (which is several years ago), ut 5 feet in|of the world, dont Pkr W es banger? It | “shanking,” and which is undoubtedly caused by the 
wee and bushy in en? and baing WA T provokes an incessan Peek lay, a species of food | want of vital powers independent of the plant. In 
with flowers of a deep rich blue in is | which fails to st the appetite, and which beg sone another place we are told that “ a Golden Reinette Apple 
dificult to conceive a ed lovely object. haps so e | the power of digestion. The East India Company have | planted in another soil and in another tem will 
of your correspon ndents in the Isle of Wight cot favo laboured under Sts Pdliches for a century past ; and t cease to bear Golden Pippins,” that i , we 
us with the megane and furthe eee ha Ki this | yet the disease shows no signs of abatement, The last presume, Golden Reinettes. Such a loss of i if individoality 
interesting plant, if still in bildina C; mail informed us that 25,000 acres, in the districts | we are unable to believe; it may be, in eed 
Dioscorea Daie —At your  cobrepenietdt * “J. Rs” recently assigned by the Nizam, had this season been | that gr gp circumstances the fruit of the Golden 
request, I give my experience as regards the Heath weg thrown out of cultivation ; and current advices express | Pippin los quality, but surely that does not 
of this "esculent. My first plant I received in June, | the satisfaction of the Indian Government at the | justify the pind ee that it Fon et dre Golden Pippin. 
1855; it was planted at Nei ir taken up, one s follow. prospect of new confiscations. In Madras, Bombay, and Pi erhaps that which will most e 
ing kirehe er. ith ard its weight when | the Punjaub, for every acre that is cultivated, at least | reader is the ore nc ys sation of wine, 
planted I should be sorry $ for o opinion, but when | three remain untilled; and still we continue to make | which we make racts. 
taken up, I had the satysfaction to find that it weighed | nobles landless, and to increase the sum total of Asiatic! “It is well saver ai ts quantity of Port ort aad Mad- 
fom 2 to 3 ounces, Of this I made two plants the fol- | misery. eira drunk, in England 3 is larger than that aie 
lowing spring, which were planted out in May and| “If Heaven had not a great work for us to do in the Gigs Și ines, which are not much prized in Bape 
taken up in the month of November following, when | East, the eevelty, the oppression, and the measure especially used for the manufacture of ieee vs ie 
they weighed 4 and 5} ounces respectively. At the folly of our rule would before this have produced its are sweet, ferment is added to set the sugar 
latter end of May in the present year I put out three | natural fruits, and we should have been cast out from | by which process ‘many val the aan aaie Ye to 
plants, which were lifted about the middle of last | India, a scorn and example to the nations. We have | Cape wines are withdraw Calyarm ourmg a nÈ prame y 
month, and to my surprise I found them to weigh been heavily punished, and there is yet a fearful blow ingredients are then added to the fermented liquid, and 
as fi ve 2 Ite, 3y “Ibs, mm Tbs. | to endured; but after awhile we shall comprehend thn Portuguese, Spanish, and French wines are coum- 
The two first years the plants were put into the soil | the nature of our responsibilities, and try to fulfil them. | terfeited. Madeira, Malaga, and Alicant, are imitated 
i this season I ha i i p i i Languedoc wine, 
ling l 
tuber Seiiiirated pct 3 inches below that depth) | Cawn will so fertilise the land that every corner of | known in our country, that it is universally acknow- 
and made good wi with plenty of manure formed into a | it wi PEN trop of Bless ngs.” ledged that we drink very little genuine Madeira, 
mound 18 inches above the surrounding soil, and as you | The author wee these grave charges by nearly | because there are snch numerous imitations which bear 
will observe, the produce is very considerable compared | 400 pages of e viden this name.” 
with that of the two years previous. I have had an “Some kinds of Grapes are dried before wine is "pe 
opportunity of tasting it when cooked, and it is cer- | The Flora of Tasmania. By J. D. Hooker, M.D., | pared from them, by which means an Ereng 
wo very good; indeed, I doubt whether any person F.R.8. Part V.,4to. Reeve. effected in the e contents, and indeed in the 
could distinguish it from a Potato if mashed and served ed pmo Part ‘oP this splendid work completes contents of all the ingredients of the wine to be ye 
with pepper and salt. Now, eee that the time | volum terminating with Conifers. The second | pared, and also that the same end is obtained when 
will arrive when we shall be compelled to accept some- Voitin will, Raion ga Endogens and Bari Grape-juice a partially concentra’ 
poor: re lieu of the Potato (as in some instances nine- pitts It is impossible to conceive anything more | Those who i in 
been destroyed this year), I would recom- admirable than the iatea in the e Part before us, especially | ated, because they are not simply ferme 
_ mend all who grow Potatoes to grow also the Dioscorea, | those of the ci Sa genus Richea, and of the curious | all Tinto and Malaga wines as adulterated.” 
with a view of having something to fall back upon in| Tasmanian Conifers, to which alone, if we include} “As to the effect on the bod produced by wine, there 
case of emergency. James Harland, Belvedere. Casuarina, five plates crowded with details are devoted. | can be no difference n wine containing 10 per 
Seakale “ Thongs.”—I have applied to various Sea- | The letter-press is, as usual, tich in botanical criticism | cent. alchol, and wine of the same kind in which 7 per 
kale growers for “thongs” (small roots), but none will sell and elaborate researches into structure and affinity. i cent. alcohol exist, and to which 3 per cent. are added. 
them ; they do not seem to know that “the trick ” was | Works like this will onion ut Australian ons in | The same holds a stronger wine, to which 
found out and is exposed in my papers on market gar- | a better ntry. | water is added to diminish “ts strength. At fat it is 
dening. My order was for a young m arket gardener at — perceptible to the taste, but after a time it poser re 
Hamburgh, who wanted 500 thongs. These roots make | The Chemistry of Wine, by G. J. Mulder, Protessor of 
far finer plants in one summer than those from seed. I Chemistry in the University of Utrecht. Edited by | no} er be discerned.” 
wish to mention this to show that if ‘Seakale Dr. Bence Jones. 12mo. pp. 390. Longmans a Aao with Neg. matters is very common, 
growers were to eh their surplus small roots or Mulder, by long investiga especially when from white wine 
plenty of customers 
James lence, Canaan gang a of Witte the 
Societies. hat weoinati¢ edients ar deij pitied lh 
Mel im e the mei bang maaien raa 
Dec. 3.—Prof, Bell, Presid in the chair. | 
tis, Eear, aon a Tetheby, MB. were elected 
Fee Erot en exhibited specimens of the a 
« í gi inl t which had ripened in pages ingen er a 
in ‘Richmond Park during the present pase fee ace the aa 
Several * 
Ask the druggists ag "neh acetic ether they sell te 
the wine In. try these adulterations 
have not yet epee to any great extent; m 
is- | England they er a tht beyond us. But we may prepare 
ne, | ourselves for a terrible future, for so. soon as day i 
| ance with oxides of rag ‘id other com 
occur in win agaed Red aw, a new 
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Fenelon somata ting de maturation of he constitu oe 
past 7J 
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1,“ Observations o n Entozoa, art erbedet in wine, th the malic, citric, and racemic id in wine; t supi il 
2 by Dr. Cobbold. This paper was illustrated | 810e tie acids in. wines | crit i wine, the only ment 
ip ye wr pom 2, “On the external ana, | ‘the albuminous matter in wine, the cnanthin in wine ; | ©% vine, ni, 
aaa History EtA Meehan rekap Palokis | Do Aimnooin or sapmmonises) salia in wine, the odori- | ation will be to, a o 
tay : mere ferous volatile alkali of Winckler, the sugar in wine, the e | already shown. im the case of | 
Ean a non-volatile > a wine, the incombustible o con- ps gop: d be 
is found i S : Ni Hea dl i stituents of wine, t riferous constituents J wine, | © 
y the "aati and as. ibaa a Talis tat |À the analysis of wine, bapa $e tests for ERES at pe po bgp ge gah ether 
Ess . : adulteration of wine, and fruit wines, t is Tagg A 
Spt a Ears arrap 57 1 5 ree ore a an appendix b bese fa on the acidity, pisri speedily darkens the wine, | 
by the natives as a dainty article iele of feod. strength of diferent win repiisted fom Me. Ero patee a pe ad ry pare i 
ceedings of the the Royal 1 ae and this, let us| the o =o wines the aroma © 
ing the least interesting chapter | — 
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x of 3 aks. observe, is far from be 
The Sepoy Revolt : ae r EA 
y Mead. 8vo., Murray. 
Pier Mulder lays down cer. | such w 
be the effect | or 
That- r of upon the 
ec mo n East Indi y is a master of 
yt bt. e is no dealer in 
so, are the arms 
We have’ to upon the merits of 
an Sans ‘ndian Government ; | wi 
ocates. We shall therefore best i 
Meee m A tar eaha and readers by admitting | obj 
ont columns Mr. Mead’s own language in opening 
