714 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, [Avevsr 13, 1864, 
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Gelmerhórner are seen the right bank of the » | of their o organisation and their habits. Avery important 
pie, and the path Pareh eed a forest "m | branch of manufacture depends upon the rearing of |t ree mo -— the "wy m E completely repair d 
A distant roar, gradu : growing e distinct, | sil worms. y rg are made in France by She; culti- xis the pd INA coni li only istinguished from 
i i [o e its lighter co ve 
ver tas by Bonnet, Scheffer, Gerordi, and have bean 
Handeck. This is certainly one of the fines in the cochineal, and snails, brings its reward; 
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for want of wat The r, after flowing rapidly for | turned to account, and indeed the whole practice of The Handbook for Travellers in eig nd North, 
some distance Sheree e & narrow channel, suddenly pisciculture promises to be a great success. Dr. Phip- canteen (uray) is b Jet the kind of guide which 
springs over a rocky Jaa and descends, a thinks, that while few people with MONA means ns bent on our northeru Wu 
bound of 200 feet, into a dark chasm, — clouds | could hope to gain st ge by ing new | f tl n their "wanderings, It g 
9f spray ceaselessly rise, as if driven up by blasts from varieties of the dog, cow, horse, ass, or pig, an “immense 
some subterranean cavern, = are two ie vf which are set down under routes such as the travel 
view which should not be missed. One of -— nn os to the utilisation of minute life; and he i is never weary |: ay follow. In No orthumberland w we learn 
below the “fall, reached by a of remini "e reader of the want iti e river l pro 
path turning to the left. from the bridle- track ; "the world of a vie if a OD could produce one from parks that hae trees will be found, the rest bein 
other is from a wooden bridg i ab d. blasted and parched by the fierce winds that sweep i 
immediately over the rs The effect here is — The ss st lupi sot be. little book before us is} from the sea, “ Among the largest trees of the Aes 
impressive, rather too powerful for the nerves of som iind to the ce qim Ty" and it is stated are the King Oak (its trunk measuring 14 fee 9 inches 
vis itor rs, who cannot bear t o] ook dow en on the rushing j tha t 801b. weight s the av erage produce and the Queen Oak (14 feet 5 inches} 
y ldly into the fail Probably the produce | at Netherwitton; a Larch (13 feet) in Hartburn Disi , 
The eflect is i ager p the pee Aiah inta that might | be iie: M increased by adopting the French | an Ash tette fee e) a s tec bt a Beech (13 fee 
her but mu ore — — aids aos th 5 inches) at New 4 feet at Capheateny 
Arlenbach, happens Pa join the Aar just at a Spanish ‘Chestnut ko fes inches) " Bywel Holly 
Its c clear. waters spring from a ‘lateral cleft into. the Cot al the s colour producing insects cochineal is ie trees are remarkably fine all api and are 
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here lad ith the fi illion poun eg weight. of cochineal arrives in Europe those in the old Trench wood at Netherwitton m 
ofits parent g very year, and 70,000 of "the dried insects, on an |7 ft, 6 in, and 9ft. Tin. = 1 yard from the 
In the Pi Gott iani e na Spee Alps, - | etd go to a pound. den pu pae of ‘Teneriffe The book contains a —_ map of the two counties, 
the Devil’ ene sometimes | were — destroyed a s ago, the inhabi-| With the hk for Travellers in 
witnessed by P vn pem ies idis €» way in arr tants turned their attention om the ics di which a | (Murray) i jh estin “who would - not spen md the vacas 
that aeaii. all that = fadgicstio can Ropa to | gentleman had — papine duced from Hon uras, Isle, and especially 
itself of the fury of human warfare. A winter storm | It — admirably. acre of land ec with | when the whole country i is laid out before him to be 
in the gorge of Schóllinen is an aif never to be Cactus yielded ra 8001. to Ib. of cochineal, | «done? in some three dozen routes, beginning with 
forgotten by one who has be ehe ld it, 1e howling and | worth ier to th e grower: no bad investment by way Kingstown and ending with Bantry Bay? It isa very 
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roar of the torrent to reach the ear, and t the surrounding | _, 16 seems that - new — species »m been pee A a companion, for our guide is to tell us 
c" ch feeds upon the Mimosa, the] al) about the Physical Pad oi po Geological a 
swept along Heg: s cleft of me valley. € such | other on of Eucalyptus. m insect. named Botanical points of interest, the antiquities, and the 
times the „country who have need toa end or | Coccus aa which een: n Beans and Sainfoin, has places of interest to be met with in these wanderings, 
escend t gh the g g deg uth. of France, but it is X 50 | Flax, we are told, is the staple crop of Ireland, and 
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above and beoe the Devil's C edge 1 when it} g as the. cochineal. A Chinese turf is an institution of the country, “ No tourist can 
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knees, in order to avoid as far as a hare the iherodibie i of wax, boris spermaceti, but it is land 
fury of the wind at that point” 4 eee ms like i whether this substance is the product of 1 the. insect or pent or with ris universal one of eade 
snow fields, crevasses, avalanches, adders, and scorpions, | of the plants it feeds on, which appear to be Rhus] with respect to the turf crop, the success or ill-success 
all which may lie i in one’s pathy ‘only ] he elp t and Pease Bahtim E initis of which eA ngs comfort or bbuain to hundreds and 
Alpi locusts, and other insects used as | thousands of poor families” Of course a book oi 
travellin ing. nd “breeding and, počuliazities ed lobsters, d Pind without something like a “bull” would bean 
Not only are the prominent snatches of scenery | cra oblige and crabs, refer r. Phipso maly, and hence we read of a fine waterfallo 
indicated as Aes are passed, but facts = historic | interestin book. Mac buses ovidontly EI son feet at Glenear, which runs wp hill—at least so the - 
interest connected with „Various places alon: the di f- great favour in = eyes, He says:—* The P igo, this being explained bythe — 
colour of lobsters and their allies "Y - curious fact “that wie the wind blows strongly from 
has se = he choicer aite of natural history eee in a chemical Les of vi eed the south, the water ented from descending" | 
pointed out be io favoured in this | red in hot water at a heat of 70° Centigrade. Th Then of 
way, h botanical attainments of | co matter can be ex from the betont mischief as causin sion to be Paine j 
the sd come in as " g who put | shell means of alcohol, in which y ai soluble ; but | sand? Yet $0 dd is ta the Edv Elle ET AM nå at Rosa 
i 1, | during the e operako the colour turn Sulphuric ** A line and country Ms ots the M 
Thus i du ‘the ‘Bernese . Alps, on “the route r= Bex to e | nitrie en turn the red sobole “ation to af into the pete exhibiting one wide waste of red sand} 
Sio H pe y which the alkal again | for miles, not a blade of Grass, not a y pactibte of E si 
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MM a uos extraordin rily ri ich i " e plants, | desideratum at this moment in the tinctorial world, Miity dust ate, Lie hee ing the s wate the 
The bota may y find tolerable night qua ers in one | that the discovery a ; new (dye of that description | surfac coe m hue Fifty yen years ago t 
of the chalets, x he should take mom ni as little is | would be worth thousands of pounds,” eat Wie es Highl y i mproved as up opposite d 
to be found here. Ranunculus pyrenæus, Violacenisia,| The formati ation of — € — on the coasts of f France, | of Anis and contained the comfortable mansion of Lord 
Crepis pyg nasi, “Hieracium bre um and H. specio- | under tl Boyne, an old-fashioned manorial house and garden with 
sum are amongst the rarities of this locality. The | wonderful success. im “oyster is supposed to] avenues n rraces, surrounded with walled park& 
geologist may find many fossils of the Gault period." | produce from one to "- millions of young; out of| But now, not a vestige of this is to be seen—om 
On the route from Thun to Sion by the Rawyl Pass, | these not eye than 10 or 12 attach themselves - common mound of sand covers all. The cause of all - 
** the ee ngs through the co om al is carried for | their ape eu ti: nt rest are dispeticd, perish | this mischief appears to have been the carelessly M 
about! miles above nk; the way voured by fish. Now, if | mitting the rabbits to gnaw the roots of the “Teni 
lies = height ahire: the. cos oe a faggots ot “brashood boi let re and secured he | G Arundo ja ich when pro 
very benutifol scenery. a ontana is here | oyster ks by weights, the young oysters will, on|as a sufficient guard agai deb the incursion 
unusually abundant.” Further on, “in the descent issning from the parente — Mk fhemselves to sand.” » A little more care in regar ard to the names sat 
to Sierre, the nist will bò pleased = find | these ts, &e.;” *'after six month: ascine was 
enista radiata." The rough ground at the foot of|found to have no less + n , "1 p^ via oysters - Willacy Fern, the aes rarity of A 
the Rhone Glacier, and t "e adjoining slopes “afford | upon it.” e place called Trichoman iosum, and another 
Achillea viles, ‘Gases ey Keeleria hirsuta, and | Pearl fisheries, escargotoires, leech ponds, the murex T. Amet um t of the names 
many species of H | dye, corals, sponges, and a variety of other things are | plants too, is often faulty, Melanopsis, for ex 
On the No rth S Alps, “ Epipogium zl treated e Eyed in the loose reme _— that is so | standing more than once for Meconopsis. Such 
Lathrea squamaria, phe some other „uncommon plants the present day tho: pee ivi however are not very numerous, and the 
aro on the slopes of e Rigi Sch the nam information on general n of interest which the 
Lake of M cerne, and th e besutifol Dianthus superbus given "n Tis erae from im infundi. is book, e ontains, mast m ake most useful companion 
is plentiful on the steep “dagen north of Rigi Staffel ; ” pe amei bea is i er a little work of scientific merit | h tow de a good index, and two 
while on the Pilatus the naturalist may well make the ins much information that is | capital mapa p e scale, 1 
Ru crane : Inn ra rw on sate by um siflciently eur curious: "Thus, spe speaking o d regenerative m 
as the moun E i in condam aer - facult; of r anima 
the Rigi offers many more objects of im o | Ut 0E GRASS dion, De. Phipson ga "Sella Books . RaanYAherilol iday Paperi Y3 pa 
f tl prese zani, Bawing cut off a snail's recta Poi that it | Harry Jones, are sad trash Curt 
perse may find several rare sean S path began to bud out again in about five-and-twenty days, Magazine 1 br August xeu à copia: figu dd di 
Papaver alpinum (in débris below the peak of ti Esel) d continued t til it 1 he otl Corylopsis spicata, the fine new hardy shru ! en 
ampanu m thyrsoidea , Andr rosace | He th | 1 of tl a leaves of a hazel and long yellow enansa the colour 
diei: Festuca Scheuchze i, e? li When | Cowslip, introduced by Messrs. S 
the head was cut VALE off the . detail vt from Japan.—— Of the Ul [om wle g Scotia 
other districts comprehended in in the Central re áre | m failed, and the animal died; but more than once | Family Atlas, part X. (Stanford), nn "ust ape 
indicated; and as to the mode of — pees what w head grew again even in this case; at the d. of (3 sheets), and P ncient P cA] E as] id unapproached 
to do and hat to avoid équlif be ttention, r few months the snail appeared with another head, in| The work, a re AT OHGHAD nee gem Ba tinh Atlas 
The young and adventurous a irem of ae inte, who in | every e similar to the lost one. The snails thus | in price and execution by any ot A 
their aspirations for manly exercise, coupled with the operated upon retired into their shells the moment 
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determined to scale the Alps, cannot do better th th thei 3 eek den Memo Phe GRO 
take Mr. Balls handy-book as their Mentor, and pe even mone. When fred ont cm examination i at —— bags & Co/s ANNUAL pion 
Excelsior as their motto, the end of 80 or 40 days, some appeared without any | DEDHAM Be, Onan, Recah oie E 
aii is hh dha arks of ‘Sessa but in enm aw when the se ay they ot dee aroy st Siin, rr i 
Utilization Minute By Dr. T. L. Phipson weather was warm, a fleshy globule, o osii aloes, legree, e whi large 
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