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lant known | of the best quality alon the whole Pacific coast. For | varie ty, and illustrating t the world’s ve etation, to that 
L^ MEAN "à "pedi io. shown for which | its successfi al cali vation , Coffee requires | a peculi ar of * » farmin ng" * certain avidan ples e and thereb 
it as been sometimes mistaken; it differs in | climate; the e mean y equally be autiful ! So great 
its longer, narrower, and more shining leaves, „and oF and the thermometer shoul! never fall below 55°. | is yras demand for specimens to illustrate the lectures 
he best situations for its growth, therefore, ben 6 not giren in the | garden that the > arrangements already 
In | sultry alluvial plains, but mountain slopes with au | mentione , are quite 
D. " ‘lia "-— E —— 7 ing. sob of abont 4500 feet. It is said id P - — hn meet it and in « consequence there n a con- 
d i on soil which has been covered for ages with primeval|siderable space devoted to growing in quantity the 
= vta reed - "What ok ike — Ly jungle. Large portions of the t eniin m of|annual and perennial plants most required for il t 
ad broad leaves, | ‘Mexico fulfil all the required ren and, judging trating the natural Pung parts o plants, &e. Of 
igorous ed red margins. | from the great success of the rece penc cult ivatio on | course each student is supplied with. a specimen, or so 
H i a, had | on the Neilgherry Hills and other this purpos 
— er a i pM. " PS MERE y a zs | loealities in British India, Mex ate supply hain od A large and special compartment for orld bulbs 
rian D ffenbachias intro- haat: some of the finest qualities which have g feature iori wash. ph og 
du y a o s, uS d and early summer months; indeed, so mig roi the 
velo ed to| Co "rene was found by the Spaniards among the|garden must then q e hue ro e 
Zehn D. pos - with its | indigenous plants of Mate. un Kc of the number and size of the beds of Scilla, Muscari, &c., 
i woe T s idribs s, was one of them; and | people was made exclusively from Its cultivation | which are in it. This mode of accommodating spring 
D. grandi the pies. mottled, was the other. fell off after the conquest, bu I there Se teas en | bulbs by giving them a position where they ma 
Both will Aha a ‘erat lants| the export of Cotton from Mexico exceeded that from | remain unico is of course the only satisfactory 
of their class, A f Mara nta called striata, the United States. The plant still grows in almost | way of growing these Matt) things, which one 
intro uced | from the Philippine islands, was remarkable |every part of the country, even on the high lands, | rarely sees well managed, nug compartment was 
for the profuse 5000 feet. above the sea, but the fines ^ i devoted to ams of the best herbaceons things, such as 
peine Fin m may th moist $ toed regions. It can be grown | the finer specie of Aquileg , Helleborus, &c. Alo 
Verschaffeltii, which was ^ emen ym severa — has|to an almost unlimited extent on the banks of the | with these scarce, unnamed plants, 
rh ge its distinctness—as a broader-leaved and | Bravo del Norte, and also in the state of Vera Cruz, | such as ** Himalayan Wheat,” a fine hardy Cineraria, 
vigorous variety doubt] less—fr om. the . pla ant and over the whole extent of the Pacific coast. The | and um Caryophyllaceous E Labiate plants which 
own in England last 1 --- lant of Mexico possesses the valuable property | had p ornament tal. Alon ng some of the borders 
of Eranthemum rubronerviu w, not oeil injured or checked by frost, but continues ef el p t Hell , mixed with other 
The display of Rer wal flowers, which took place in flowering and forming pods until it is found expedient | good herbaceous ; Pa, and part ic ularly associated 
the ry ne m, comprised s very commen ndable to mor it up. a of the varieties are said to be very with several p^ varieties of Orobus vernus—great 
im mitatio wax, paper, an ga materials, and | fin ti which is raised on the west coast | favourites of Mr. M cNab’s, oigh he grows in 
t episode "i this first great exhi- hake ween dore. ani Columa, where hok MS, 8oil her quantity. These borders must, w he plants are in 
bition ^ mA pei e are hi gnly favourable to its Vas diia? md such a display of r hardy species as 
gions on both sides of the Cordillera i "deir ably P pare pe opportunity of seeing in the neighbourhood 
d nodes that the Brrumnauam RosE adapted 1 for p: cultivation, as are the tales nds id of 
Snow = ‘the „present year, which will be the third moder elev my e labour might be ther In [s pond a “water weed" had gone wild, but 
3 "a ihe lands = beyond the fortunately it it was me ordi Aponogeton, which pel 
place in the ma i all, o e 7th a f July. ee pri malay and ihe pian is pur) BUE covered the water with vim leaves, sprinkled h 
This wigs gathering had po hitherto r* pl It was with con ae surprise ced the pte gs with its sweet flow The plant, I andar 
ful that it has beco come one of the established floral Pere made by M iors. in ‘io aoe dob ate on ru m Mr. McNab, had peed i in the ‘pond for many 
institutions of tl We heartily wish Mexico in the F ^r» egislative Chamber on the | years coded al 
the exhibition of the Pet year as full a ee of | impossibility of cultivating cotton by reason of the the winter through. There are springi in the bottom 
success as its riy Xr have raai sed. The schedules | pestilential climate. Such an opinion can en no|of the em na which rerent the water from freezing 
of prizes may be had on application to Mr. FORREST, applica tion to the districts above referred t The | except in very hard weather, and of course this accounts 
Queen's Cla era. rre "2 Minagi: ble, for * the plant "doing 80 well, “Would it not be possible to 
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established i in ari country, and does not much ex E of England by the this plant, 
the e 25,000 bales ; but no bos m can be | fit LA act as maid of DP to DUUM White Water 
MEXICAN grim pi pud d of ‘the capability of Mexico to produce | Li 
VEGETATION in Mexico varies with t b banperskure, | sufficient to supply the v if the requisite labour 
From the imd DES A ors Cruz d an sce to | could be obtained, Quarterly Review, April, 1864. | were to S seen in front of the houses. pia the front 
the o icy summi etl ther ‘thre ee 1 the at range of glass which runs across 
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to as many P^ a regions, na ET the hot Y tem- 
perate, an and a traveller may in a single NOTES ON EE —No. VIII. 
day pass from the US of Jai ler snow to the p Rovan BOTANIC Ep 
and io m z - tropi AST the nce gate, ac ts pu 
richer flor Cactus everywhere displays its and very unlike that through which one would denen | nee than are afforded by the exposed beds and 
gorgeous dle E M 6 oer irm sri enter a great national garden—by the curator’s | bor € Lilium bre speciosum, a very 
bees from ro rocky crevi paw the sandy | house to the right, and the visitor finds himself in a | favourite ‘plant with Mr. McNab, was planted at 
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in such wild profusion as sti fle ries o growth even of desirable appurtenances E a botanic en, First, species Të icio: da, &c., &c., were finely and plenti- 
the sturdy. Maize. A p assionate admiration, whi ch there is a very useful m established and tr ay en ca n in various m of the garden, planted in 
m I buliev chiefly iir the exertions and liberality of rcular beds, or ingle gi nia the soil 
blended in the Aztee people “with a religion of blood. | Professor Balfour who presented his own collections, being covered with sphagnum pai 
* Six [igitar human victims were annually immolated | and jd wor! up the ae to Ra present very 
on the altar of Huitzilopchtli; and at the inauguration | creditable ue m EFAA aid from th n t, | Rose groun and large aration of aepo 
the gran Pe e god, 33 years before the | Geological botany, particularly that of the old red and | drons apd jest plants; but the space, about 
Conquest, 7000 were slaughtered. The p i bonifc periods; the plants of  Seripture— | 16 acreg dóes not permit of a complete collection rot 
Rue to a length of four miles." (Chevalier's | drawings and imens; fibres, woods, and medicinal | hardy; and shrubs being grown, though there 
Mex co.) and economical products of the vegetable kingdom; | ve llent selection, The collection of Conifer visi 
Of all the vegetables which furnish nourishmen | Natta of structural botany, &c., are all very wel is, I believe, as complete as any in the country, though 
Man, the ana is the most prolific. A nie represented i in this suae" though it Son been estab-|some of its chief ornaments were destroyed by 
cluster often contains 160 to 180 pods, and weighs lished only about a dozen years. Then ther is the large | the great frost of 1860. There were good specimens 
from 60 to 80 Ibs.; ; aà piece of land 120 yards — class-room,—a very ae one—with the of many of the older introductions, and very thriving 
Humboldt says, produce bs, od ments for both aatia and pupils. In 14 I "had a | plantations of all E recent ones. I noticed one 
of fruit, while the same area will rarely prod of diagrams, fully equal particular! Y. pretest ellingtonia, about 12 feet high, 
than 30 Ibs. weight of Wheat, or 80 lbs. of Potatos in Quos med pr to the other ie amongst 
Maize is, however, the most important of the cereal |f; pa Td possessed by the Edin ai garden » for , The principal ona of glass consists of ten fine dires 
Productions of Mexico. It is indigenous, and thrives | teaching of botany. t pecimen rooms, gardeners’ roo 
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even at an elevation of 8400 feet. dti is the principal vm r Balfour's ba is edd; A rey 200 | and such like offices, Ther a Spa ce in the centre ot 
food alike of human beings and of t the range that was Kehl int tended for a Palm 
the luxury of the rich and the necessity of the poor. - Probably the houses should form the next subject of | house ; heb that, for good reasons, haying been built i Si 
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Ma another part of the garden, the site still remains— 
0 for one; e irrigated has been | o oy he oat of - ater department, the | doubt to bes filled hed tig oe: ith a useful atrasto. 
to uce 500 for ome, In the hot region two poi is of Thig cha and so varied, that | and thus complete the alr v very i mposin g range, 
n tometimes three erops are raised within the y hly during a | William inson. 
being yet extremely rude and imperfect, angie visit. will oe little time for the rest. First eme 
sad Water being the only fertiliser, this amazing | there was a natural i i . 
ust be re. he: hesoil The economical e Linnean| 
makes holes in the ground with a stick, dropsin garden of hardy exotics on sandy soil; | u 
fheseed, aud in 90 days he plucksther eri ears; andhe and next a still larger garden of hardy exotics a kind letter ks ile stem, 
hw repeat the process throughout the year, according to |arranged according to the natural system, the veil GL : RT memet 
"C Of all the indigenous products of America, a heavy clay. This difference between fho poils | ha darad iy tdt T atonta Niks fo 3 my band at 
the one which has proved of the|of the two largest Quince stock. 
arrangements is 
greatest ner as Europe. The gold which Columb nd of the clle, plants | Feri cde gen with dicens are = p ied 
ipud to his sovereign as the most precious produc- | perishin garden from the peculiarities of a | of them were planted March 24 of this year; and 
tion of a coun in precious things, did not eiae i iy M othe’ wee. de. ad Awfal| six. more (including a duplicate of Josephine de 
typify Ee Pen wealth; it was more appropriately ri relate there were no Calis ? no“ “Tom Xi ” | Malines, which, with Beurré Superfin, are his two 
by the golden ears of Maize which he o “Ver ben ias?” covering acres. Nor did I at a h|Stervarde The) arrived, and were planted 10 days 
brought far To wee distant land. ft d The trees are beautiful specimens o 
tree grows wild in many parts of Mexico. | are abundantly placarded b possessors of f ids an ushes. Their fruit buds 
Excellent. Coffee pi been atomi d n the states of | windows ag reeves Bi Pm itechap Lr "^ the shores of Clew | were formed but were not expanded. I planted 
Jalisco, but the best is grown in the state of Vera Cruz, | Bay was considered bene ath M dignity RE hs ind 13 of them 16 inches in advance " my south 
Put ofthe vend, du n et pro oduced in an y other | | garden. May a square yar surfac: wall, and seven of them in 2 yard, in front of 
part of the world, It is grown in I purp yieldin dativo a la wall east aspect. I put the latest lm in front 
