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OCTOBER 1, 1864} 
I imple open of kindling a fire inan ol 
be P a mh ere he places some galena on the 
charred wood, and meis. " Saaai and when it cools, finds: 
the metal at the, bottom of the ho llo. ow— S to the elabora! te 
methods whieh are adepted 1 and reign un. 
January, eight in February, seven in rta, four in 
ay, again two nights in Nov and five in 
- Decemb er, while during the day ! time in n tat year it | 
THE GARDENERS’ GHRONTQHA AND MIRISUUTGRAL, 1 GAZETTE. 
a ich ~ From ese it appears that in 1863 the ther- | 
mometer fell below freezing on only five nights in| 
943 
Cedar ve never pre vi viously been made, for ales 
made on pen of the same age, and which pene d 
under exactly the ae dap yenit n eae aoi to 
draw hem We know that 
er rots a — vei sto a a gm [21 ere xtent lon. 
mult titude of othe 
hat this 
Dictionary of Chemi stry is i admirable v 
randa. 
Dr. Farts’, Bo MOUT PE Aii, it need 
arcely rema: > hg "ranks among the hon 
fashionable of English ter laces, an nd i stly 
valued for its delightful quiet ead 
inim 
E 460,5362., Sape agan fros 
t occurred only on one day. Need it 
onered at therefore that half- org i itio 
Mes Min in ai pits, covere A" with m mats, over 
which is anli threw off wet. 
chief 
last re Passos: nearly M 
being abou inches ,, than the 
at | cu 
to 0 cus but it | 
Scotch. Fir: 
m knots, and as s sim milar to 
western ikt of | is 
wever, xema tly it falls ; any quantity | 
he 
~ bendi and about two miles 
estles snugly in the bosom of} 
Fir and Pinaster, and t the 
sta st do among the trees at irregular 
distances apart and at different edis ge hav avery 
retty appe m especially when viewed 
ealed by their perpetual, mantle of | 
The clit ; too, whic 
is | immediately pcm and no sooner e 
copious fall poured down from a thunder storm ceased, 
| theme tha ground becomes almost as as ever. 
hart 
1 inches 
distant, and we ights - yr*r suspended fro 
the su n the specimens ima about a 
and placed exactly in the 
breakage w was as follows ;—the Cedar of 
ight the Deodar 
Toh tom 
rasses, ‘urge, 
land autu — varieties, cover the country 
for tiled round im mmediate neighbourh e 
also along the grea Pour of the pw of railwa 
Southampton to pre tahona 
ay from 
The hanc "4 
may men 
the e place eis therefore limited ; we on, howev 
finer k 
worn Lon innumerable crevices, Aire ravines, and 
** chines,” is not without its attra ctions; it rises high 
above the sea, and is “crown within a few yards 
of íts edge with Fir woods, through which are 
innumerable walks and driv and shady, | 
even in the brightest and hottest weather. 
Rhododendrons, Laurels, and other er evergreens, clothe 
the sides and basin 
^ ner inds 
of hardy fruits acquire great perfection here, especially 
Figs, Pagers in aE Ti ke which Le ripen - e. 
n. andard in the iory Gar 
Chris d. 
that under 
——————————— a a 
Miscellaneous. 
| Duchess of Buccleuch Grape:—In the course of a 
| short visit to Edinburgh, in the middle of September, 
under a — of 448 lbs., or about one-sixth more 
than, th But the deflection and mode of 
fracture i PS more evidi The Cedar showed 
scarcely any deflection at al; when 
224 lbs. it e -1 
378lbs, it broke in two, wit 
Beinen i that of a carrot, and ^de light defection 
Nis MM = pool back. The Deo 
eed ^i id ni aga deflect y a weight 
en put on * uro broke the Cedar; but 
at 364 lbs, it deflected a "^ re inch ; at 420 lbs, 
inch and a half; and at 448lbs. an inch and 
b quarters — — nearly 2 LA It then broke 
in tl three, with a sudden fracture and loud | report, short 
shrubbery traversed by tapes pleasant | we paid a hurried visit to Dalkeith, desirous of 
character, $ addition, ‘hos ja Se favourite places nM ose magnificent gardens again, and ce teer t th t b i h, an "d 
of publie resort, nearly every house has its private tho new <p is the Duchess’ of Buccleue d ti which rem 
garden of greater bia) = renty . Thomson’s management. n June ^ ge saw | “or deflected. The farte to be drawn Tom 
Paco g the latter, e most charming i oe i that naki bunches of thi is M at ye York Show, and | this experiment, 
of Falls, situated in fou called oked like a good Sweet | concerned, is very favourable to the Deodar. It D» 
Taped and which may be vr iy Vaes d Du the Grape, ^ bou n a Frontignan fr "du was sd ea vt greater preàminary toughness, although 
neat conservatory ent r-t j beo mpressi g -À ? " 
covered way w hat hn r lit, The y gon m d no tle qualiti wholly wanting the tough e 
with the public road, This i& neatly floored with character, Seog confident Mr. ¢ Hoang was “about oi fibres which i iu timately ble aded 
different coloured tiles, and is tastefully ornamented at last hey will scarcely bre y but 
the si ws g and flowering plants D will bend or tw 
n s 
“Duchess” was doi ing there 
every way rud than 
Break "Gamperallte trials with the Oak would indicate 
n! 
we saw 
Around the residence is a well-kept lawn c 
a little ki tchen garden 
grows luxuriantly 
, as do iy 
ut off fro 
and ee, m a go dA or two was left, w 
a "a to convince us that the ruri mà à Pis 
w 
cause is 
an 
by a Laurustinus hedge, which iioa 
e its place 
acquisition. 
amongst our best 
It must do so, = am 
factoril — "e en perd some M MA e 
suitable for thes and similar rx peat-loving planta. | colour, -— ts most delicious Frontignan flavour. 
One side of this pretty pao garden i is screened from | The fla Ng and free cropping qualities | 
poor observation by an e of Pinaster, the stems | will pun " this Gre through. But the best 
of which in sere mit t wi ith Ivy; on|test of what the va is doing, ant pe the 
another side is a ides paid planted on root ted in which it is held at home be 
terraces, a rated in front with ioi bn x Sad joms in the good dix, the Scotch A aee are 
interesting. planis, _ Arbours, rustic flow n vitat who is a send it out—one of them, 
d Mesembryanthemums, ail bur p 
en, having o ered 50 planta. There is 
e a | information as jad e casera e growth ot 
differ ent tr the: th 
trials from whi 
the 
e defective in guea 
in of : LH Z4 Pe ci imd e a 
terga a es papers state that on — 
Friday week, after a heavy er of rain, the ground - 
in and near swarmed with myriads of 
place is, however, a tree the 
Verben: 
"nt features of yi 4 Selighttal ipiis PERU SLT RN y 
" A of 
Ey ander d Apple, the fruit of which, in point 
xe Mr. Thomson x it the Galina Lady 
‘ore 
was that they had 
descended ith the. rain. Mr. wn Eni ight's 
Downes’, a name which very justly describes it, We 
a 1 
£4} 
peror 
of colour, b " su D P tt. of d ones Apples o 
Sons ig eem as e. tii, as it is 
tle Geranium. 
ree tong fo sedis me to be infused into the red 
streaked geniis — of the Emper 
penes dg MPs feo B I + “one stroke 
poverty an Oak f circumstances 
has doubtless ok: to ‘ring about 80 o favourable 
a sur The summer here a | elsewhe as been 
, and t 
m. 
most superb bune bane 
r 
ene m and ety it will be sent out in due course, it 
aon oy ‘Talking e of — Downes’, wo 
eb ar ot oe ne kee trim just no: 
and ies W 
that i erally 
—_, nd after a season of viuis that thes abet 
- toads have made their appearance, and just such a 
me we have lately Mir jenc ced. On thà “contrary, 
describe an 
houses, the plants, Vinee 
walking thr through t the — o ee 
yan t nor a vus. D o — i" Le 
N. duda tt titie 
f small fi 1 vessel a after : a 
Pies pem Tn heavy shower, a if this peri E be err 
t the thousands 
It is awing- | R ide, & seen at Eton : College were dar preeipi d 
oom garde: en ii and beauty, aud yet. ther 
heavy rain that had fallen in 
MES 
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reasona i a. expected to have had muc dg: 
with the matter, X that asit mays M tree, which 
stands on nt open lawn, has born crop, the 
fine appear: of which h: 
tion. The pea r, not all; | 
superior to 
are in short as good 
deal, for finer fruit 
mperors 
ordinary fruit of that kin ad. They 
ag thou 
vy 
has elicited wil admira- ja 
ver, 
laces, and ‘he er ne is grand! cast "e 
a 
sand sha 
plan 
— of Ceras 
paper addressed to the 
Ferrare d Finem M. pos one of the — 
M. Pouchet’s theory of s 
th 
superior 1b. 
rer? we question if fet is one je all the lento tes and microzoaria, which, he says, 
y theway 
Florists 
than those now e notiee ha 
been 
and Pears a 1. 
Baron de Mello, 
y T especially: Louise Bonne of 
| mb ve to the Royal 
Tillery, gardener to the Duke of | ri 
Hortieultural Society a 
of timber, being a a longitudinal section of a 
ow.) 
| tree, the over hl -— egre RR 
e had been 
Deodar. imarched upon 
rries are likew ise stated t n 
monly well here; € come in e d sro bighly |t ly | 
vo n this warm cli " 
is indeed a a ight regal s DET : PEE 
equally 
E a ‘theltered corner of this well cared for little 
31. 
ide. whi 
Relatio Strength | of Deodar and Cedar of. Lebanon, | vine experimen 
when jns Ó “after growing. until the tree had | organisms, 
ch he is be epis out by his vem M. Pasteur, 
show that in th» higher 
germs, or 
tend to 
etae ti 
pe act ules of any 
microzoaria are carried up - 
rear eg: tha fensanation ied 
MA 
, | place tere gen fermen 
a. deus S of-& imber, which sand w ^T a á— i 
ith this view M.A Lemaire ac parse 
Wi 
| wit two * tubulatures,’ connected by means of a tube 
te pe tly traeed. nce, however, 
in the wood t ‘Under the micr the 
ipie tubes of the Deodar 
aud more aa d than in ke 
its amoplh 1 
a | difference is sli ght. n 
Oscope 
m a little more open|the bottle, containing 
Cedar, but the|tation, emits gas 
oceurred to me that this was glucose e befor 
sweet principle of fruit, honey, &c.) i in distilled water ; 
matter in a state of fermen- 
pts must pass tbrough the 
e it escapes into the atm osphere, an 
A 
the mora a 
its associates dy 
trees blossom p ere ii Mein ptofialon and Fuchsias 
grow with a vigour unknown to them in less favoure 
localities, 
Falls i is a keen mete eorologi st, an t 
Fett of the two diffe hinda af 
indirectly of rowing some ligbt upon the 
question of the identity. of ns two, trees; 
‘timber, and may be 
much- | series cf Pe. ae was m 
th whieh it 
in viet solution, “The — 
with y ; a quant 
of cells of the Meet ‘Corevisie e werd 
harged behind i 
of eour rae, if the str treng th of the tim 
ylindric es 
lhag: Den c^ te smalles 
Dr. F. 
Sets of pe bugga irent i in his wn 
rea oia ie rin TS S 
against. this wi open 
£4 f+): 
o comparatio 
Es 
nd of the Atl. 
guahtity of these was obtained in au experiment in 
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atmospheric air was excluded; the largest in 
