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h per full of| de Rou emont, 4 Due de Rohan, and 10 Maurice ; the Cinchona as a thriving plant, well repaying 
7 Xd ye * fusing one Sho Lolo at Dui, ap of the Sera all first-class, beautiful, and pe — its cultivators. Tea estates might also be well repre- 
dod d fab ied oe ait n empty super. From one straw Rose Their blooming has been wonderful. sented on the lands above the Coffee estates; and 
hive treated in thi carried off 181b. of honey a d some of the stalks, new shoots from the Sm. ee e E iia a a nenced on 
th thi : ht dd th t|of these three sorts, and they measured respectively | the Neilgherry Hills, and the s on spot a& 
dese To 2 or up a oo v f sim 3 feet 24 inches, 3 foet 10 inches, and 3 feet 7 inches; ar 6d. a pound. The hills of E erian a 
sheds, accessible from behind by means of ties that these have fine buds forming on them. None of the | Wynaad, Coorg, } Mungerabad, and Nuggar, where the 
let down. During the winter I cover u these five Rose banks have ceased blooming elevation i iss ufficien ent, seem to offe er fitting lands for the 
the sheds, each with er, and thereby [ keep them sine sog 1. They are blooming fin finely now, and 
TW. r^ the petn pitir EB give the lightest an keep on till winter sets in. Rose gr glans will be a sive, 6000 to 7000 ran at Ooto — A i 
occasional half-pound of barley sugar. This barley | new thing, when this mode of Manett Madras Presiden, one kind of Cinchona 
sugar I get at Kilner’s, in Hanway Street, Oxford | adopted. Moreover, four of the banks wintered their | plant can be grown. Where the elevation is not so 
Street, before it is mixed with. scent or lemon acid. din nts far better than others here. The a t A rtd E great another species will thrive. It wa s fear ed that 
is of to the b n now be viewed by a near resident reader. 
e -— Mmboat i » insect, it. must have bee osed to min 100 plants taken from pots on the banks; with | the Cinchona plant grown in India from that grown in 
a ag of 300° Fahrenheit. I had better Adda fen er the exception of three, which e on a a seedling ose, ota in , and that terp aim NE be in the former 
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very Aan ag To ave heise AER swarms, 3. Peaches.—My three trees protected with sheets | which gti rt nearly allied to quinine 
filling each hand with clusters of bees, and rarely have | have beautiful wood, lovely foli iage, od 560 fine heathy cis in Petia os ag ig le ight, from perhaps an altered 
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entered end homes singing a a song of thanks. ext year I would undertake to a a Peach "e mai of the young forest nt home from the Cinchona, 
They 1 ve severa al bit: enemies be sides the wasp. the. reader ewe » feos a Se k mark. They Ne eilgherries, is very encouraging in this 
I used to ing to redden, will look wee the flocks | respec The grand question to be answered now, is— 
board, and only r nM iaa discovered they were there of 8 sheep dl for Weyhill fus which come across | Will a uae cu tivation pay? Of the profitable 
* seeking whom they could devour.’ On one of these | the om and go up my chalky hill a. ey the | nature = E nba A in India we are certain ; 
ugly visitors pemg laid open his maw was filled with | turnpi 'hes Pa ches have been kept well| Europea rgy and capital have in India, in the face 
bees which he had sucked into his ugly j Dp The BALA adequately supplied with food, and Ha ao, oA bse difficulties, within the last few years opened 
tom-tit, also, is rches| watered. I have only seen four blistered leaves this | out many thousands of acres of what was before dense 
on ae Tetidin gg lace of the bees on a wet t day, tl ‘with year. When will people learn that the young leaves of forest, aa grown cent. for 
his bill, apparently inquiring after the health of the | Peaches require as much or more protection than the| their money. The prospect of so good a return has 
inmates; a watcher bee comes ou reconnoitre, and | blossoms ? Glass or sheets are the only things that will | induced many men to risk in the backwoods of India 
is instantly snapped up by the wicked hypocrite. The | effectually do both. W.F. Radelyffe, Rushton, August ?e | their lives and means. The Coffee planters are now 
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sisi gen y the warmth, occasionally we in. They have changed Ms into Coffe gardens, 
The bees heiii attack him, but find their stings Home Correspondence brought Jud to the poor of the crowded villages d 
blunted and broken by the shell, as shot is by n^ iron-| Seedling Clematises.—Can any of your "Adi tell| Mysore and Madura by offering employment 
sides. Failing to injure or remove the intruder they | me how p^ it takes to get a see ding paar in | thousands of men, women, and children, who might 
have recourse to a plan which indicates more than | flower from the time of saving or sowing the seed ? In otherwise be batts Pee to- apply to some Em migrat ion 
instinct. They cover him up with propolis, a kind of} my simplicity I had formed the notion that "the work the 
i toppi ices, not i tw d done much to bri g the poorer classes of the 
nly does he die from want of air, but he is ted nd that it would be good work to ee last | Madri Paiet face a face with English justice. 
from giving forth offensive odour by the air- tight case|to pro marta a weakly or at a ho of, say, the although land suitable for Coffee, and emiren y 
or shrou second year, If by tuy chance a stray seed or two | cii to roads, has been in places pases 
“The most attentive bee-master occasionally get t e first year, I iad a notion kem t| there are vast trac ts which o nly requi S EN 
stung. I have discovered a cure not found in the|at least it could a w flowered — key ring 
oi eeta Press a wate tch-key hard on the place secon nd _ year. di begin to fear beei and for Cin chona aleo, if the latter will reward its 
any fits have not vey Ade with the cultivators. The cost of f forest, 
ay then apply moist snuff or tobacco, rubbing | t mes, my ri o for entertaining this suspicion being | planting it with Coffee, and bringing the plants into 
well in, and in wo nutes all pain is gone. This is founded ona le tter - NS a few days - in a| bearing—which happens from the third to the fourth 
a never-failing remed of your oeniemporan es. A|year after pia niiet the young nursery plants, in India, 
“I have entered E iss. details because. it. is | Mr. ona Yo has her in shown e seedling | may be ered from 10. 202. Th 
evident that a great inte y my | Clema this su speci, - like others | avi yield. good Coffee estate in proper 
communication, and because "t is of great social impor- | shown last agg! Wr Mies G. Jackman & Son, iug is six to eight ewt. per | : ue 
tance. Man ny a poor curate and ill-paid vicar, and Woking, as to have suggested in the words of your | of mr Th the foi English market is amus of 
pay p f thei “ common or in,” ves some ears, (0s ‘Os. die i may represent t he returns 
may may thus ade te eir income. My bees feed over pla ith the vi ein ke 4 EIN. 
of six sai improving every flower they touch | consider t of thi and 
and robbing no obody.. Tu abridge Wells i is dd d the he says pr pora c iae his large graece — si NERO cai m 4 ; 
inglan d thi raised were sown by himself immediately Crop of 6 cwt. at 70s. per acro ..  .. 91 0 0 
. of its being a healthy district. Bees never get on in | after Christmas, 1862, ind that some of the plants 
unhealthy places." July 27. bloomed ** last year," that is in 1863, - others have | This yo anm] margin of 87. per acre as profi 
| bloomed for the first time this summer. This is certainly | the year's expenditure; ud on the outlay an cout of 
a go-ahead age, but unless the opinions I have learned | Production a profit of about 284 per cent. There are 
many Coffee estates in India that yield 50 and 60 per 
1, Digfating be por of Siroelerry Runners. | been pie ‘by doni — € wn | cent. The edit € pred 20 good management a 
:d that ou destroy led t tatementa: kijer | ei not | long time in Indi increase in Sh be as 
indi uce incipient fruit-büde. tà to become runners, which | without importance, , and I shall Erg to profit by the it gets older, dac Gayl lon it pi is though gm as a rule, 
otherwise would remain fruit-buds. I planted Eliza | experience of some of your readers, A. the Coffee sixth or 
rue — Aa os Mra onth, and disfruited it and| A few Words on Coffee and Cinchona Cultivation.— | seventh year J. 
oe pendens cut off; and the| The Coffee plant thrives best in India s a madid rd v. Cat.— 
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Pr sial ms th d rs respectively of the main | elevation, and it has been cultivated with great success quindi pe Tom "Qui, w who shows such a great 
stems of 12 plants, im 58, 49, 43, 50, 37, 56, 46, 32, on d feet and 4500 feet above the level of the | antipathy to the blackbird's note ¢ of ‘alarm, that one of 
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fruit: front these plants, together with Wonderful dnd | on of € he sed -barked Cinchona, although it bears a | from the cat’s plate at dinner, all the time flatteri 
Empress Eugénie, supplied the déjeüner at the m Jowi altitudé than the latter has been pa at in | and c crying, s whilst reo cat little dist 
Gardens on rne of DN I had titoa before me | India. Thé two plants, botanically allied, depend cn tl td 
three pl mpress Eugénie and three of two vegetable alkaloids, somewhat different in paci Have any of your readers ever notita. a similar 
Wonderful Memilérly | treated, and of the same age, and | sition from one another, for their effects on the hum | instance ? C. D. 
they averaged fi 18 t main fruit ster er | fram he sustai oe: influence of Coffee is due m m———D 
plant. I also had shianted Miró plants of Wonderful, | cáffein, and the qualit of Peruvian. bark as a febri- So ieti 
two years old plants, that had never been allowed to | fuge are due to iain’, a octe "y 
fruit, but had been kept solely for runners. The result|is 16 of carbon, 10 of hydr ogen, 4 of nitrogen, and | BOTANICAL DINB July 14.— Professor 
was similar, I speak not of branchlets of stems, but of | 4 of oxygen. Of the latter it is 40 of carbon, 24 of aad in the Ma The following Ressriiisees- 
Eng into the beart of the plan t. Eliza, | hydro; gen, Sof nitrogen, and 2 of ox; gon, he culti- re read :—1. 4 nt of the Zambesi District, 
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planted plantations of the foli following sorts dram forests ot Pu the English Government have exerted | features of the regions recently explored. 
been treated as the above, viz:—Eliz a, Frogmore Pine, | themselves considerably to jutrodubé the plant into a the only river south of the equator 
ei ful. India; and their attempts have been crowned with | on that coast, and in [dp iie. ere. irr 
In critical seasons, these dis-fruited and dis-runnered | success. Whether the cultivation on a large scale At uvial delta 
Spring-planted plants will be sure to crop well, if|pay, however, has yet to be proved. Should the ‘tending, 60 miles inland, d, with 90 aie “of sea face. 
supplied with sufficient water. As these have now|Cinchona cultivation prove a profitable investment in 
become strong plants, I ill 
ndia, there is every reason to hope that the hilly tracts | vegetation; trees, singly or in clumps, break her 
runners from them, ee ee WE of forest land which partly er the upper dr of there th the monotonons landscape. Such genera as Fica 
2. ers i (us on Raised Banks. —I described the Western Ghats of Southern India will soon ae Co a oe and Acacia are frequent. Borassus ane 
gro tt y r^ Nothin te by the Mere dem 4 where i "peres E sies CIO, PN 
wth an point of the | few years ay be able to rom one cu! tieni ín its tall eylindrical stem bulged in the middle ese 
looming still We fine. eure anew sak another in cendi the Western Ghats from the plains | plains tosia of horizontal beds of clay, sand, and 
fom the “base of Duc de x to be | of India, and ride through different examples of what | vegetable matter. In the older clay beds are fossil 
STiinches, There are plants Perm er exhibiting industry L^ do; for immediately above the ae vel of existing Species of animals, with indications 
Igel rain and en of splendid Dio I made | the Coffee , estates, and perhaps shading the roads of |t i 
new bank this year, and planted i it with 10 of Alfred | those over 3500 feet above the sea, we may fi zm th fthe negro The seaboard presents a dark 
