je THE ie €— AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [Avevsr 6, 1864, 
band of forest Jini "3 its ks, Rhi jhora, rring- | native loom of Botanical Excursions in| with the Poppy r amongst the Indian population which which 
tonia, Heritiera y. k p acer bi ith | the Neighbourhoo 3 of PNE By Prof. Balfour. | pours into y ico from the Lake :—' Scarcely an after. 
Leguminose and udi fe esie are Met retient; Prof, B. stated that Mr, Claudio L. Se rra nat d found hoon passes A Um t that the observer will not find the 
The delta land abounds meny gay bostloada of Indisss, pakiki 
å | within six miles of Edinbu rgh. Mr. Naylor exhibited | homewards from market, dancing, singing, strumming 
pole besides dint ihid many speciés of specimens of the plant which he had collected in } the guitar with wreaths of Poppies.” «T 
The Zambesi opens to the ocean by four Doth, i^ company with Mr. Serra, This discovery extends the do not,” he adds, ** Euow € hé origin of the custom of 
which two Daly ae are navigable. ‘Above the delta the| southern limit of the plant considerably. p Howie wearing this forgetful flower, but it is both a he yu | 
speci 
e m rom 
good for timber—suitable for ornamental work and| Wyvis. Mr. M'Nab laid on the table pes people of other lands after a day of toil.” 
shipbuilding purposes. Coal is abundant, and the veins | branches of uc tulipifera from the Botanic| Again, under Papaver somniferum Pie stating the 
conveniently placed; the best, however, are above | Garden; also a of British Ferns and their|uses of its seeds in making oil, and their employment 
the rapids, and therefore cut off from the coast. varieties i ina growing "itate Several gentlemen were | in Eastern confectionery and sprinkled over cakes, p 
Europeans, adds Dr. Kirk, may rule the country but | elected member: of its milky I in the manufacture of opium, oür 
will never colonise The climate is a barrier, and the ——— author says :—“ In the opium shops of Constantinople 
healthy lands of the interior are too far off to give A it is mixed with rich bho made of various fruits, in 
much hope from them for along time to come. Cotton Potices of Baoks. order to render it a meat ; 9 it i ps med into 
is the most important of the vegetable products of ozenges, on which a are ingren 3 the tts * Mash 
Africa; it has been Jong in cultivation among the The Flowering , Plants of Great Britain. Fh in| Allah?—the work of God. The od Mr who 
natives, and it is found in all parts within the tropics,| Numbers, ocieby | tr ravel immense distances with astonishing rapidity, 
Three distinct kinds are found, which, as far as this th Promoting Vos Knowledge tl 
region is concerned, are distinct species, although, | I6 may be a question how far it is wise in the Com lozenges. The celebrated Maslach or Mash pA 
when studied over a wider field, it becomes difficult to | sites of Ganern. Literature and RM appointed Turks is believed, however, to contain other 
divide them into definite species, the one being then | by the Societ IU w otiug Er. na K 
found to pass into the other. The Med A ig ane undertake extensive works like which | is We wid mingled with it. 
Gossypium M G. barbaden certainly set interire with cma publientions z ust ho wever gi ve. a specimen or two of the 
vianum. The rst yields s : pop staple Uhlig firmly | which 2f sums are vested b trade, 
> A seed ; : t s the worst of all, is of a woolly jae | profit is a necessary object, w en iti is a matter of Ls peii the number We will ee ect X first fr 
, an nd se s to be th bes oldes ti in cultivation, epi indifference to a body so richly supported thé account of t he common Marsh wr (Atha 
jociety in question. The attempt to diffuse officinalis). “The Marsh Mallow is a pri of every | 
The mie at barbadense, has fine long staple, ‘al is rA Meer li useful information, and supplying à country in Europe, and we seldom look upon its large 
known by its seeds being free from each other, and | fund of rational amusement to replace the foolish and 
the cotton "apis: readily from the seed, Tt is|often mischievous trash which used formerly to be | which the plant was plied i in, darker days, In times 
own on boy lower Zam r= Eos lupo end of the | dispere ed b tAn thé common hawker, was certainly worthy | when men accused of crime had to give E sapi 
yassa La Gos seien. per arge bush whi ich s not merely the dif- "aed of their Mines or guilt by hrough 
or ^ eóall ttes yields P Bs ong ‘staple cotton, and | fi p ordeal, pon of m he alth a po frame, 
has the seeds coherin It is ddl in the itl g peci ally mon and ecclesiastics, were exempted from 
centre of the Conti nett pe A the Rou er; also istration of At il also with pl } d and were required 
on the western shores of the yis | lake In the | efforts in an — 1:3 of view, which is yn no| test their innocence » by bolting bru iron in the 
mountains only are these plants annuals ; in all the d without it J g hand. As these trials were made the church, ae 
warm valleys they h used to mottle our cottage | | during the performance of mass, aid. as inspection 
than one crop every year. No better seed is required, walls, prints which are tolerably “oropronchable à made by the clergy alone, the suspected person, fhe 
i quality now cultivated being that most needed by works ot art, - A. LS in the hands of the ris hr had friends about him, was easily shielded by hh. 
merchants. With its cultivation the d r poor or otherwise, little picture | his hands with a thick ating of some substanc: 
well acquainted. Both the soil and climate of tropical [C pte mm peomes of design with | would enable him to ist the action of hea’ ee Ne 
Africa are suited to the tom for pesar = a sure plant, sobriety. felouing “and are ealealated to a certain|of paste used for this Neo n. dee cribed in thè 
enduring great drought at ne of ripening | extent to train the mind to the love of what is|13th century M Albertus Mag a Dominica 
its seed. The manufacture in i de pe is Eg | beautiful. If, however, as appears to be the case, more| monk. The sap of the Marsh Mallow, "the imf 
on by the same individual. Having gathered the crop, | ambitious works are to be undertaken systematically of a kind of Flea Bans io Mage were until recent 
it is next picked from the seed, d by atl of | by the Society, it is certainly essential that they should | in Germany by hatmakers and e ones togi 
bow, and drawn into thread by hand, a spindle| as far as possible tread in the si Brel with the white of n were combined poss 
g used to twist it. The loom is a simple|correcé information, and ithusteations void. y | paste cert Lee on 
arrangement; the threads passed over two bamboos glaring defect, and we thi nk that this end is to a great — a pmr of gloves, Beckm Siim 
thread work before us. * The use of x" juggling “tek i is i ol 
drawn “through by a sl huttle, the vid of the cloth,| If we were disposed to be hypercritical, we might | miy be traced bac ES a Paga 
each thread drawn up bya flat piece of hard wood.| point out the too great Msi werk of tint which he guards placed oh T the bad | 
Thus, cloths weighing 51b. are formed 10 feet long by | in several species of dec i hi d 
5 feet in width; but the time needed for the operation | same plate, and one gne red, in order to prove their i 
is very great. Universal as is the Cotton plant, and | apennina, where there i is rà tisoidt “failure of is uriúg; | cence, to phot " any trial. ‘We will, say í 
excellent-as we find its quality, more security is needed | but in general the grouping is good and the d "take ap red-hot iron in our hands or walk thro 
before the native will find it advant s to cultivate | correct, Mrs 1 it would be erede ki mark on fire 
it on a large scales’ Shub out from civilisation by the I o, as for example Lathraa squamaria, wher o there ie is S6 M ake, as a second, the followi ving curi 
rome claims of the Portngne se, this never can ore or hok ri error, As regards che ne Mir tag passage from the account of Dianthus Caryopby! 
; for enter yos such I I ly an thing which can compete M t, but we | which is not oo s interesting from being an exti 
ot. LUE E themselves, they encourage the slave|Should think this of little consequence under the from ai 
trade, whieh is the root of all the misery naw peculiar circumstances of the pubHiation; if the work * *'The resi Fat rent, « ays Mr. Turner in his pap 
prevalent, The growth of Cotton bas this advan Fid not rte res with P a proper degree of excellence. | on the. Hor ticaltu ure of the Middle Ages, ‘the 
er all ers yes e oil seeds—that it nea w turning to the text, which is, we believe, the work | clavi gariofili, which is ie jo frequent; oceurr 
Tittle sppekyieion of Europeans ; agents to purchase i f Miss Anne Pratt, we are really surprised at the| medieval deeds relating to land, meant Es 
if once grown in NUR, and security to the D Aes mass of useful and curious informa tio on whi ch it render of a Meurs pagi d L Pu 
being all that is required. Oil seeds rank next in | contains, 1 bot fhe pa 
imiigrtanee s and for Ground Nut and Sesamum—both | the stu dent may frequently consult the work with The of. this is pola ss t 
in great demand — the soil is well adapted. Both | advantage, while there is scarcely a page which may EMEN if we "scole “that the Clove was scarce] 
re enltented Am ihare well. Other wild seeds yield | not be read with interest. Where we have fixed upon | known in Eur n the 11th aa Eos b er rhe 
ils of value, b nly second in importance to the | certain spa bini are out of the range of common au, vin of ta rent was m 
ormer, TE the are pacar mar |a al Nn eading, , we have very rarely found that our titudes or" Sareea ind Mo bs 
d "y » e already exceeded our usual Timi 
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s abundant, and small qnani ew of oil b extracted The prts notices are of ‘especial interest, id à 
rom the Coens 9 and Si there are few matters physiological, medical, or tree of Plu pid Sinapis; to the curious 0 i 
f i pallid îs is s chil e fies wsthetical which have not met with proper mbrium Irio at Montelh confirmatory 4 
what is made into ce | attention. he old jog of its EU nins 
f an Ectadium of the 9 xs uL ^ of ect in Asa pha cna of the information which this work Grent Pire lee Taian And 3 ins of c 
ese are as st to and | con an extract from one or two yt, the | si a ) 
ight bo had in prt cie pe Lieu tidy yields | ear ceil iit Speaking of the Monkshood (Aconitum — 
another kind of — € making, and is| Napellus), a ii doubtfal native, wget a chien ment, adopted is aie 
also abundant. Of dyes th e Orchell a of the’ coast is| inhabitant of our gardens, our author says :—“It is dad de d method, to tbe exclusion 
exported in small quantity, a might be procured in| very pe on Bi gardens, bat ‘should not p m ted in Por “the genera and fami ll 
much larger; and a yellow dyewood might be had. It | those hich children have access, as its odour is though some difeult characters, as the compa 
: ecies 0) udra e, ar i 
TM 
s flower in th air; | been J 
Lud I oneri on touching the eyelids after handling it, | representatives. The price is so low that 
rperiene le pain and inam | 
* Under I— Rhizeas appears the followi 
ne, “Frói *| eher a rag ie who looks ù 
l are all abundant in the. Zambesi hydrographic fally p dr oy A M der OM i'n tit e year us, an 
EE eof use to the world. 1) 1 consequence of but a small quantity ha 
have brought xamples nae trative of the arts| been eaten in ata for Horse-radi Ya SIE 
the befand ence of Europeans. | fresh leaves € 
ot enel pe 
f apad i t bited 
SIE zs stir o been ex 
ae ee and nas scar oh 
" i the statement d flowara " 
are yellow is evidently uus the pen. 
fe, E fltoning mal 
