APRIL 23, 1864.] 
THE GARDENERS' 
CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZEITE 
to th TE Rin AL ELL Woe ao ate 
if turned in m the. Loos writer does not 
eoa the the Meri droo 
itude of the 
Me country the species will live long and a 
cons meiderable size. s onl a presumpiion, en 
e 
vof mé — 
the late te Mr. Cunningham, ve comely Bank, ade eri i 
propagate nu iy in th “f+ The wid 
of these notes plan a 
churchyard near him hich h was rigtially a cutting, 
Growing at the height of3 350 bes v : ad level of the 
and 
it has been | the 
of the annualshoots* The |c 
sita pe siepe the p br | 
| Madeira show 
e, 
- established in 
pobre rin, Apod T it itis now ê healthy. though | 
rather slen ^ d is about 13 feet in O hal hah the 
same churchyard grows a seedlin 
g A. ce 
younger plant, eie is 9 fet high, fi ourishing s most | 
vigorously, and eviden tly a 
Silver Fir. here P also a 
r, 
all kinds of weather. everal other | 
mma int "apicc ie By in America and Australia, but | g t F 
ly ve p^ uid plants of these countries have | tl d which requires ; for, in em bo 
ve may hence i why | obtain P^ Euh as I ha many years, it is 
s that the indigenous vegetations of zat Bo na dnd | necessary to allow the plant to grow at fal &yedom 
tendency to increase, w European luntil such time as the fruit has attained t the 
and African tiia, shrubs, and rcm x bi covering | a it i 
those is c» nds. 
n the other hand, there are many reasons why a | The 
hole po pulation of Old TE um should "pecoine 
e New rld a rer 
Bo 
any sy ani oms of e a the pow s 
cted. The export of garden and field-crop decli nd as 
sell as of European animals and merchandise, favours | a 
the rapid p oae ge of vg. plants into the 
colanies, but re is no such i impor of materials to 
Euro 
bii 
e fruit 
onducted t 
the ‘desired position 
n it rests o sid 
by ourselves or o It is therefore conceivable 
that, had New Zealand ‘been cultivated for a thousand 
years, there might have resulted races of its native 
Dock, Speedwell Polygona, &e., which would, on being 
introduc o England, displace some of those very 
extraordinar A raj "n Ay 2 b 
anota which appear in the axils of the leaves must 
hen be checked ; and male Abie: hick will show 
shanties in great profusion near the base of the 
plant, a removed. 
* One 
J audptou AUI 
cemeteries and churchyards. J. S, Ecelesmachan | Impati ulva, Galinsoga, Erigeron nade ense, lay-|. ne the Wii oso conditions for success 
Manse. |to nia erfolinta, and other American p d- | is very dbi t watering and so true is this, 
ing in Yeu pe of whi ch some are bond y» weeds with that in 1860, viotwithatan dig that it was a rainy 
x nd may T! S erged A hag and th larged 
REPLACEMENT OE E es LJ HE | iei. Aimee as more i ng rusive forms of the species | 3 neh rere hours. ? All the Ytamily of 
AN . | 2o that continent now possesses. So too, I am given | Cucubiaces are susceptible of the above mode o 
sd R.S., 
» 
o 
b cuit interesting phenomena connected Me 
AMO 
with the Aran on of plants, are those pud m | 
—À rapidity wit ith which s jome spec: ies ntry | 
MÀ 
vida and replac “Cardoon in the 
argentine Provinces is one con spicuous example, the 
our own rivers is Mp ks neither of 
me 
case | of the plants of an assumed new nena ie ll be there required. Still it bes be borne in mind 
gt very t e o which A 
l tribe presents for evaporation, must dra 
Mai ka than that of ee ts. J. Haast ty sq., Govern-|a lar, rge amount of mielet s Pon the soil in ‘the 
ment Geologist, Oatiterbaky: writes as follows ^ ini latter; and when that is exhausted 
r | Darwin, MÀ on whieh the latter has kindl -|becomes unhealthy, and mildew iny: riably ensues. 
munica ated to me, transferring to me the author’s Je abe On n pud hand, whilst toe appears that the plant: 
not tr use of the facts recorded: — ma ed with advan e in climate, yet 
“ The n ori)saying is, *as the white ’s | bei soil is warm, it is 
rat has ^md di the native rat, so the European fly | certain that their a wo! hr 
i th 
are creeping over the surface of | T 
od. NA irgin soil, in annually 
increasing nw Mie species, and i individuals. 1 
VATES nt this stich a correspondent, W., T. Locke | 
bb ce Ms a most active New eae 
e dom 
r | wh dich he and other pom left with the papye 
m that i 
r Aa own, a oe ne Clover uu our T ej checked by watering so co sly ina: 
wil the Maoris disa white | vins here. ara pone ponies Lad unquestionably to 
himself.” It is wonderful i behold the ‘otanient ‘and be oide d; d e to obtain the fullest 
, we must Ex ve iu nai of a temperature 
not idol than 65°. ll 
ich have taken 
zoglogical changes 
Cap Z aoe 
tain Cook set foot in New e pigs 
have incre eased and run wild such a way that i 
Home Correspo 
Sn des The Moon’s erem p. 366, your 
~~ (aviculare), called Ras c where they reign supreme, 
uxuriantly, the roots sometim i 2 feet in ty and $f plo ploughed by their burrowing. i X MPEG 
Mieres spreading over an area from 4 to 5 fe of 100,000 acres have had to make Een for killing | “G. L? " , asks ers if there is any — or 
mem k (Rumex obtoli foliusor R. etei them at 64. per tail, and as many t Per 1 d the moon on v 
to be ‘ound cp every river bed, extending into oe run haye been killed adventurous parties without In a word, I howe is none reall gei i ew 
dije of mountain rivers until t hese becom y diminution being discernible E only are they | suppos ne, 'the result of want of better information. 
mere bc e Sow Thistle} Sead ad ta the | obnoxious by occupying the ground which the sheep |The moon’s action this globe is 
i eger hoods for his flocks, but they eee ie follow | waters and eads of men, in both cases by attrac- 
— inours when or lambs as | ti: It draws the waters into a heap, and is one of 
pies the so the. e nati k 
Foreign oan re Ay very peet in growth, Tis 
Gum trees ustrali a 
P Wi ED 
: -— hal eee rapidly. In fact, the young native | Nor 
appears to oe from competition with 
? more vigorous in! 
Ihave urged upon vió Colonial corresponden 
I z Scares A acre an 
DA subje t hit 
action. rit which ghetto us ru 
more "for the h heathen of Africa than of St. 
to animate the collectors in our coloni ies, 
h 
lower grounds on the eastern side where snow seldom 
t the advanti f 
surpris 
rto | a great egeo the ie rat away. Amongst Sire 
gs, and c l 
soon their a y do not- action; in the case of lunacy, 
rise ey muke 
exist 5f the western side of. the Alps, and a on the|I 
ie E that the explorer has no e. r gem: no py 
g by their nne. where is scarcest.| whatever. The moon has n osphere, or, if i 
ae are sometimes very large, eer with lon , it is so rare, that it is with difficulty "that 
black bristles, and ‘ite, enormous tusks, resembling | i 
closely the wild poar, E4 the Ardennes, and they are moon is not a fae nous 
equally savage and c geous. body, but shines Bc the borrowed light of the sun. 
* Another interesting fact is the appearance of the | The ray t the feeble reflections of the sun. 
wegian rat ; as thoroughly extirpated the nate — tad superstition attributes to this perfectly 
a fand is Ed ena everywhere, even in the v all the ills of vegetation which are 
art of the PA gro wg, to a very large size; Tis 
Karo opean mouse follows it closely, and what is m 
ing, where it makes its appearance, it drives, 
attributable. solely to - à 
May, the most dange radiation, the 
| moon shines rot ep of tele the atmosphere is clear. 
As there is ' obstructing cloud to refle 
ats are found in a wild | he v 
quadrupeds, cattle, d 
radiation on a cloudy night, 
The matter e stands thus: 
atmosphere or a very rare one, 
, and no chemical a 
is accused of doing : vegetation mischief w. 
attr iron d 2 need which is greai 
shines brigh The moon of 
m 
. | spa itg 
and hence no » damage. 
the moon, ha aving n 
n hou nother impo tation 
When it ve, "it Repa the ‘ae bottle of New Zea- 
land, which see tw to shun company. But the 
spread of the European insect so on very Jovi, 
tas Settlers, Eki its utility, have carr ried 1 in 
aia botti 
ust 
is efore 
T T 
to be perh aps t ost i E teresting impo: 
al! Biology, e as such it is most earnestly to 
desired that all Bir are favourably circumstanced e 
has been 
of ral the so s the vegetable Kingdom ; x but still still 
pursue it, will do so both ris on and very ca = 
Revi 
se — est innocu In fine we 
ttribute them wrong causation. Bifects ts we feel ; 
ew, the former are prepot 
attributes this to the age period they ced 
in UN — m they 
Europea weeds. "have established 
Wes met with this tree in the Lachen 
hes alayan Journals" as much res 
the 
eral Ne Gy but with longer 
t, though readily wood hite, 
Sonate eren is wild in New Zealand, and was eaten b 
y 
E-Ge cultivated form isfar more abundant 
and rire 
m 
Ts 
fully. Natural History 
s 
pini we do not see; or rather, won't see! W. F. 
Rushton. 
THE LARGE YELLOW GOURD (POTIRON m e little time before I came here, 
JAUNE GROS). 
the largest known variety of Gourd. Welg 
daret Aaii hea: M of its being Large be weigh 
0 lbs. ; bu’ 
- edd that 
er p one which d fally 330 lbs. 
> E ve Agree to some of ou 
mode of cultivation he adopte) an n this he 
explains in the iei note on the subjec 
“The prim f the indere be it^ market | poor ves If any of your correspondents would give 
purposes, principally for potting, a 
tained among o other things the top spit from the noigh: 
the h ; about for exercise during 
run mini 
a seri of ne ore six 
| the soi 
