43-1849.] 



THE GARDENERS' C HROXICLE 



cb»nc< f i! ' >' ;:i cs of man - TW have compressed the 

 JJJU the Himalaya, or than the snowy mountains of 

 Stmagar and Ghorka, to impede the intercou 

 1- ti D ns,aud to place permanent limits to the ex 

 . milder manners, and of artistic and intel 

 dUfotion in northern Asia. 



w„d8. The pastoral nations of these steppes— Moguls 

 Jet*, Alani, and Usuni— have shaken the world. At 

 fe the course of past ages, early intelleetu il eultun ; a- 

 ..-,., :.,. the cheering light of the sun from the East 

 * ita Uter period, from the same direction, harbaric 



terrible to the Chinese power, a part of this tribe was 



fas given passed from nation to nation, until i; r< ',•!, ■ ! 

 tfae ancient land of the Finns, near the Ural mountains. 

 From thence Huns, Avari, Ghazares, and various 



Hubs appeared successively on the V< . .. mi l' :i i 



M the Marne, and on the Po, desolating those, fur and 



Thus went forth from the Mongolian deserts a deadly 

 blast, which withered on Cisalpine ground the tender 

 : .wcr of Art." 

 Fr m this the brilliant stylo of Baron Humboldt in 



kJTe it to be conjectured that such meteoric gleams 

 are all that this work contains. On the contrary, a very 

 ...:;•> .il mtity of explanatory memoranda is introduced 

 at the end of every chapter, and fills up the picture with 

 details which would only have ruined the main narra- 



and almost three times that of the Mediterranean, 

 exclusive of the Black Sea. From the best and most 

 recent intelligence, for which we are indebted to the 

 French Colonel Daumas and MM. Fournel, Renou, and 

 Urette, we learn that the desert of Sahara is ei mj set] 



the population of the fertile oases is very much greater 

 "»n had been imagined from the aw ulh ih> r cha- 

 ncterof the route between Insalah and Timbuctoo, and 



Lake Tschad. It h^now ^nerally' affirmed that' 

 sand covers only the smaller portion of the great lowla 

 A aimilar opinion had been previously propounded 

 toe acutely observant Ehrenberg, my Siberian travell 

 companion, from what he had himself seen (Explorat 

 i fntilime do 1'Ai^t-ie, li... et Geogr. t. ii ;.."■' 

 Of larger wild animals, only gazelles, wild asses, a 



S. Carette (Explor. de l'Alg. t. ii. p. 126-129 ; 't. ' 



PP. U and 97), 'est un mythe popular;^- par les at i r 

 Mies poetes. II n'existe que dans leur imaginatl 



i imperturbable sang froid, 

 pus il faut aux lions de l'< 



• Whereas Dr. Oudney, in the course of the long 

 Jw? J fr ° m Tri P oli t0 Lake Tschad « estimated the 

 to lv°u °l the southera Sahara at 1637 English feet, 

 wwhtch German geographers have even ventured to 

 ~J an additional thousand feet, the Ingenieur Fournel 



^ponding observations, made it tolerably probable 

 Ssea P » rt ° f the northern desert ' a be!ow the leFel of 



one 11 ? •' b °° k as this should le in the liands of ever J 

 natiJ rf lr 9 us of becoming acquainted with the great 

 «w phenomena of our globe. To schools and 

 ""^S rooms it is indispensable. 



jr Garden Memoranda. 



— W k S ' HENIiERS ON's Nurseet, Pine-apple Place. 

 Ja fl n G ob8€rved ^ the show-house here some nice plants 

 wer of Myosotis azorica, a useful greenhouse plant, 

 iTu T^ erVe9 . t0 le more extensively cultivated than 

 of;//,. ia ea % managed, and a good sized specimen 

 5* ur? £f f0Ur ^ iQ a Pot), covered with small 

 &Bd rU? . bIossom s, has a handsome appearance. Loam 



eontainlH house » on tne ™g ht of the show-house, 



»aose ••/° me fi nely. flowered Guernsey Lilies, 



Tivid pmk blossoms render our greenhouses so I 



, | tera, a valual 



Lescheuauhii i 



Ea house, as di 

 Among bright y 



blossom in the stove, where, thwu„''i j rettv. ii . ick i 

 brilliancy and display which it made plknted out ii 

 cold pit in the Horticultural Society's garden, as m 



which macrautha appeared to be a very g „ .1 uiie. 

 Mowers are nearly -J inches long and bril.iant tear 



. '"'w, 



■ 



■d by cuttings) 



as in blossom, together with Thunbergia | Hortkuit 



Calendar of Operations 



much to enliven this 'ho 

 ' colours, and the hand 

 Borbonica could not f 

 In the specimen house, 

 il plants, nicely trained a 



ink flowe 

 id 18 inches in length. Thi 

 lost useful greenhouse plants 



?T',S '; Jake advan., ...... . . , s!lon potting 



nt ^ 1 •H 1 ^' lad f B ^ ,al 1 ■' l 



though small, I water, as the 



■ 



plant of Miltonia i 



"i'.'.'i!. 



open ground we remarked 



Miscellaneous. 



macrocarpa.—" Leaves ovate, imbricated, 

 bright grass green, and closely Bet upon 



in an unhealthy state. Many 

 Geraniums, and other plants 



■VKTmSf 



d dusted with sulphur upon, 

 ranee of mildew. Keep these 

 plants as hardy as pobsible b\ ■ 



