20 THE GARDENERS’ eens. 
(Jan. 12, 1856, 
mixed with straw and earth for}! In oe of Potatoes and Mangel Wurzel DANGE o 
their vegetable ero s, and on a very large scale, pets fal in = dodade d xà ~ lowest ehar Aa i SA pr DWE wae SLAT 
without any inconvenience to the produce. net ag emplo n, an A a" The Wi Bees 
the other hand M. Payen stated that in Lom- children, a efuse is Fia for cattle. These ae as = publie salle re me nar da 
° . . > 
ed to give up using P 0 r a where grain cannot, and thus mo science of Botany, recorded, a short time since, th 
drette (Cloacine mixed with charcoal) in the pas- lash now unproductive may become profitable. eath r. Bi f Mr, Bids 
i taste to i i é 
i e 
of the cows fed there. This, he sai , was ae additi recommendati here, by the force of his chai an 
eg as some ag thin k, Ta an undoubte d | been extracted it is said to i eld 4 tons an acre of a | superiority of his intellect, he had attained to offices 
rath. TH added m i p trus ighest degree of influence 
3 correspondent in em tely acquainted Deny cantons one his career was so ther to 
s of this nature ir that the com- | native cou we devote a eee e to his memory, 
parative Produce of he cane from an acre of Tad 3 may | His father intended him =e mercial life, and edu. 
Wa ry ea a 
crop acquired no bad taste. M. oe confirmed | question 
this assertion ; whe en, he said, he at the veteri- 
rv school p 
for 
ARAN an e AE e ntific pursuits, and expecially Botan , Showed that! 
clo oacine, hat ‘he pn actice | Comparative quan is: EA? of Ws life was setting into another channel, 
Quantity | Quantity | of spirita at proof pa the pagase me ustralia, and the ilei variety o 
sai on | of sugar calculating 10 lbs. of iy ts, his di haustible tr 
acre. jobtainable anes zea Saa ce s plan found inex! AUSHDIO. treasures; 
| was a t ee pein alone into the interior o 
EILER pe E New Zealand—of which arduous but i ae gjo ne 
a p | Tean F galload he published a Ld and unpretending a H 
r ther A C ME i rnin and talents were speedily a oprcelennal in 
on slopes, are Nes this ied by being banked | Barley  ... ap Ai 30 
wi inal 
anure 
was gi be 
tables grown for the use of the tallain e 
rh 
pore Sta O ET F colony, where right pA and energy ial acte 
Ve have no means of ascertaining the cost of are the only patents of = lity. The Council offered 
raising the Holeus, nor r of knowing what descrip- | sw Sub Me ra oyal Pap ‘Garde meee 
e tion of land is necessary for its successful cultivation re =? i i is cent 7 yhewasappointed E esioneeay 
. Payen was of opinion that alt ough the corn} on a larg but it is probable it could be grown tae. distr’ wae Wi airman of the mere i agistrates: 
ted, ye oliag i a 
0 1 r 
e sess at w O gallons of spirits could | ; hich d belo der 
leaves of absorbing by their skin both scented |} produced | fro the other Articles, or tou sugar, thee 6 iiite a? ponkaisi 
and vap and th r: is- | h d 
of dis: g 
i as under Bay to the adj i is 
agreeable taste. Bu Potatoes, at vi per fon £6 6s 7 friends really believe that botanical Livst was. 
liquid cloacine more used than in Lombard dy ; as Mangel, at By "6 14 7 | | the master-motive that sent him fort e fatigues an 
lan it is collected i ina canal the water of which i iS| Barley, at wey per quarter. My. 7 10 4 sufferings of this Kerg were kip wed by his tended wi fatal 
f . ot thhied and tena 
illness, during which he was 
that the cows are pastured from whose milk the Sugar, at.18s. per heal ost actionate ool citude | by his saat HA 
cheeses of “the country are made; so iist "a x elear In ordinary years, in Seat land ana Tiina Potatoes | trates, who in og by his bedside, and in 
would probably be procurable a lower rice, iosi resence he died. Every mark of public respect 
that liqui ane cloacine, sufficient] y 3 P p ry 
= effect as the poudr ette Fo Ag pE e an tom the cost of the material in the case | was pai goes his M by the “sp population S the 
TaN aoai ended by a remark by M. Paven | Of the Holcu ni ae Mangel, and the Pota alo š con- Wide B distri ess h was spoken the 
every thing depended on the quantity of water | siderable dedetion a be-made for ties press as “ entailin ng a great loss to j fhe colo ny of "No 
used in diluting the cloacine. Earth, also, by virt Formerly the precautions and rest Sa neces- | South Wales, as a botanist a naturalist. Sir William 
5 ae i 2 sy. Vir Hooker and Dr. Lindley, who knew him well, paid his 
ofits porosity, and the peculiar property of all cla ays, | pass errno the ide venue d epites i i in hi 
iqui etains gases and t 
hronicle. The — which was written in an 
interval of pain shortly sto to his death, shows the 
pro y correct. d calmness with which en ag met it, 
entirely satisfactory we should like to hear what matai in the case of Potato pes or S3 W Bu filial feelings of his heart 
i s s i e Hole u 
į | memory very flattering s—the on j 
s “ Journal of Botany,” and the other in his Gardeners 
complete disinfectant. This seems to e baon e aff or the net of char pegin E a A preaimpiive ie rae h 
“Tinana, ent pias 5, 1853. 
r we a ught it would give my dearest = pce pleasure to re- 
ine hay for r argument’s sake, PE ean diffi me ze longer exists. W | oot 
eu 
t a piet yi = aie nad salad ie manage my return to you, Could l 
orane has shown more unmistakeably the -æ while they prote ted the revenue, woul t | epee ae oie ih to ally rere alt 
igent feel feeling which actuates the present Com freedom of a he distiller, and oo le | the Redeemer be your lot hereafter, and may it Please the Great 
of Inland Reve tha: t 4 j free jaa ere ees ph ese Hl rp Disposer of Events that we may hereafter meet in peace, whe 
` sione eii ei % ir antie y x Eas to use up a a Din rge amoun t of field-produce, at’ all the cron of this world shall have depaied Doni us. 
é : | present of little value, such HY the refuse of O | have been ill for about a week, but was too restless and i 
n be effec ed without serious | fields and roots of Beet too small for cattle feed: g, g, | pain gti Men otf I have a : rranged Be. world it affairs as | 
T as am able; ani my vel ear paren my wor! E 
to the revenue. This, which has led to the extin be 3 rich in sugar, and grown in land which hitters! thoughts will be of your ja a goodness: to your Jonge | 
tion of the brick and glass og: uties, has lately bedi | o practical man would have occupied with such a | absent son, “Js T BD 
` manifested in a new direction n, which may advan- | =a week oe ore ere pr ne ov ant o! ya ital p power, G 
} week since the stomac! s refused to perform any of its 
affect rural interests, It has long been a | All in fact tur te distiller would require would | duties : I have been unable thentorew drink pe The vomit 
S d be charged on the spirit in its ing has i passed, and. I thank His goodness I am free from pain 
5 f ished Fa i she on the quantity actually pro- | “*” pee 
f a is, we believe, mig e carried into| The tive of his journey was written on the — 
Sere oe on the effect with little amplification of the existing laws, | couch of ines. It eye the intellectual vigour “which 
cleohl. or “ spirits ” indispensable to such trades; |" Since t e foregoing was in type a pamphlet has | 2uimated him 
le 
Hey 
, and is of general interest for the power 
= a in cit BEEE =i = iret ce heap limi DER reached us, on the Distillation of Alcohol from privations. dern Ra ‘conveys ot the. difioulties aa have’ 
o foreign trade, for among ourselves Smugg’er Field Beet, extracts from which will be found in ; : 4 
d step in and supply one manufacturer with a 2 another column, p. 26. ae ad, dergo whilst threading their way through the — 
raw material to which his neighbour had n = : dense foresis of a vegetation Thich hag pos been 
access. Nor has — duties bes be New Plants. of the Creator S wo give it hie ri of 
fined to the manufacturer, but it has been felt b; 159. Canna LILIIFLORA, Warczewicz in Flore des ; 
the cultivator of the sail, who ‘il lately has been Serres, x. t- 1055. Bitten pr NG IN T. ae fe 
growing materials pr tm distiller |‘ Nfost cultivators’ o e plants know that one| «y Sony mah i mee ir eee ae 
rohibi ayers regulations which in fact of e mtr ei huest 3 is ‘shat ea Cn : Toi, ee ees between Mar yborongh a a i 
conspicuous for its tall gracefu it, and its magnifi- | bane; at p ce by iles, E 
A great but little known change has, bwiru cent drooping spikes a purple and crimson flowers, | pianto, 1s 120) as the Sk aia a a vL 
“taken meta e in the mm laws, Certain descriptions | When Mr. W wicz was in the sta Veragu: s on my part, and heartily have I since repented of 
irit are now permitted to go into consumption | met with a kindred species, destitute indeed of brilliant wate th = of m my wa vor the B's, po aien Peta en pretty i 
-diny free; the condition attached to the > Privilege E eie a r | Cone E aed eaea a a 
consisting in thei g . | graceful for “This, which he called C. liliiflora, | mo re to the west Hin I wished’ i T then SARIO the boid (as I 
~ Such it has ived the aus oi bi b se of the resemblance be its ms and | thought) of the Mary; it a large ri ectly like what 
n Ter ’ | those of the hite 7 he river was much lower down, and I supposed it to be the mai 
pure candidum, has bee 
im consequence of being mixed with wood-naphtha, | 7° sd b Houtte of G! ith wes h , or rather that there no other branch. I crossed i 
. or methylic spirit, a substance so nause: aang! Tha: f ent, it has | after a good deal of trouble, nearly drowning tl 4 
bane P ar ld lt at it.. Th lately flowered. t skilful cultivator gives the follow- having them driven away and | y the blacks, while I 
T cise >. a would revolt at it. e ling account of a hich he o tained in making a crossing-place. Near Durandur are ® | 
immediate ‘this may be expec be an | successful. “As soon as we ived th s they | Curious group of hills, or conical rocks—the highest about 800 _ 
immense de for spirit from cheap sources, and | w were sown, and when the seedlings appeared the tey we re | oct Bigh which are visible from the sea, and are laid down a9 i 
. sa 
: Py E re | the “ Glasshouses,” from their striking resemblance. to these 
Madat mess cannot fail to profit. a uildings. The Gtasshonso nearest to Dursager is pana by g 
urzel, , and the r recently intro- | specimens’ were put out in a very airy but tho oroughl y Leichardt in his book owan; it is the largest of five, 
ich i Il d to be the enti ber. In 1842 — 
duced plant “ Holcus ssccharatus, ” will shew sheltered place in the wads air ; but whether owing to gota Foar mde Leea the top of Beowah, and | back again to 
- now enter red into consumpt or some other cause, only one of them } Durandur),in one day—an open level country. it was iny intention 
< the law has ni adm itting POR aE in th autumn, ai r aA p therefore, to steer for ses on nee vo aati bein 4 
was s g, ug $ Peretii 7 of these pass 
the last n trong, though d rong! plant | coatwiird:of “Beowati, and p Paeh about ten miles 
2 i iat Pi the two other roots rapidly gr w 1—8 fi t high, and flowered, but | south-east of Durandur. When T got to the top of the long — 
may res oF id with any other material, tac in bias, so ase it ripened no seeds.” a ew te nes u en oe a ; 
E: a 2 m mej or e argest, Ww rossed 
` there is said to be a difficulty in their employment M. Van Houtte adds that the plants turned into the openi | hiver suppoied myself to be onk ADONE tein made Aon norte al 
- because the wash they perin cannot be success- om yy ia they aahi a by the middle be distance of's day's journey from sing place weiet with 
R ra s o r; that then repotte party of bl means of had with 4 
= a converted into alcohol without per addition | ap ae n maak oe A from Maryborough. Ti T maniro ed how far i twas. to Beowab, and F 
Š É i i £ i E whether it would be there? said | 
at the most, eI aon porary Feen cto m | m aii i in 2 some other way exposed to a brisk | phat we should get thera Yn t bee te s! Kr apa ok as à 
+ | bottom-heat.g blacks, Minni Minni by name, led me to the top of a hill, where | 
