ich cannot be nm much ren T seen a particu 
THE sawn rash sible sin CHRONICLE. 
[APRIL 12, 1856, 
| Single pseudo-bulb can be found without i ts base bein 
open and as full as pe ean hold of these i insects, and yet 
hat tever ms 
in 
*aud all this in ‘spite o! me that orchards naa | no inju ry w to accrue to the o pian nts, for 
‘or a month past, dries bas over and do o bare, | May open as Broccoli, Cauliflower, &c., are more ey luxuriate throw 
which I cannot account for. |Tiab to in njury in an as pect of direct sunsbine th an t int with 
Trade engin toe wish Pre ould denounce, ex d | bl The Epid. borne i is a species I have 
cath: dré. Ae the practice of m serps piii in | by Devoniensis. | observed attacked in like man 
g catalogues plants that. “they } have not dive and JË Y Poa- le af Snp: zi a ery our cook to give this a From San —— to edie oceupie ed us about 4 
often never have had. Some names seem to trial, and after h = miles distance. 
_ The br reeze having moderated 
much at sunset, ff Ysabal about 
d d, the com 
making it, kit g giving her materials for the purpose, 
and to get sa; t 
aia peas it equal to that 
e with green Pens i in summer. Its colour was, how 
lever, found i to be improved by the addition of a Tow 
3 
ware sent a rt on board for me, the regulation 
a. t no person can land before the vessel re 
at the custom house. I slept on shore there. 
apd ? 
Sen Dials. Will any of your correspondents be kind | Lettuces. 
enough to inform 
me whe;her those rt oan im br 
were TE a pint of en one Aart of pir: leaves, two i 
n 
20th. ae all ay chi my luggage and 
most useful articles called Patan still mai e Oni tea, zed, Th 
st wear hed H The 
vaJ lisle fren 
factured ? te lately to rded soup for 
in London on the subject, bee's my inquiry seems to have | employed were Stu bb's warf Martow the 
been regarded as a voice from the tomb—no reply | ae bgt Early Prolif, sown in December o 
whatever havi ving been vouchsa afed a of d Mak? s Steuart, pong es B 
rticle on this sub- | son, Witching m Hall, Nor, orfo olk. 
ect has set my thoughts anton back he ‘the pe | 
when the Times c mer in Irela _ related such | th insi follows 
bipi e sort $83 
riod | 
He h iai plan 4 ee o 
of this immense a on very barron lake, or gal, as it is is 
more properly termed. On its banks grow in great 
luxuriance an infinity of fine Ferns and mk 
former trees of 20 feet high, with 5 or 6 inches diameter 
Ra d tops ocoanut trees. A few fine young 
with me last year, and haye 
selected. again some of the finest and large to take 
aa 
commissi e of which eight 
wonders about the immediate fertility certain worth- | 4 feet 6 artic? Benned at rod of. pot, 5 feet 2 pes 
++, pits ts dee 
‘ 
less land there, ep, or | It is at Vite ompletely covered with flo owers, 
as deep as practicable ; the trench while open being | proof of reidizea vitality in seeds, I 
broad to admit of the workman hee ing the | the seed from which this plant and others were rais co 
} pintr off | a sown July 15, 1855. 
think to put | 
upon this level a ias wks hollow titer a = might be at 
hand. Land wori maa 6d. s in the next 
year worth some , but T pont T am writing 
Seer: and wish re could refer to the account. hen 
gat 
produced “beautiful pote Bick ae are now in flower. 
A, Barclay, Middleton Hall, Carmarthen, April 8 
tect gn 
—I Eva at the 
0 
rocked: and } fro’ We 
ticks. I got the e riv ver, and re emai ined fas t 
1 eet i an aat 
overhan ing the lake are T E ‘of ‘Orchids, 
Se nc Cartes he ridum ed eoan ee 
drum alatum, Stam fordian cochleatum, great 
quantities of Tri gonidium Egerto anum, which grows. 
in Mang of some 3 feet square, and is really in such 
ace im epposi ing plant, for it has lon 
eo whieh tain he Zi 
amona 
hunting, no more of the 
popainias than the solitary 
specimens at Mr, Veiteh’s could I 
he 
get. "Tis no joke 
Livingstone, so named in 1835 after the Minister 
pa Foreign Affairs of the United States. 
` altitude, 
the reflection on the water aiding, it is next to impos- 
a popu ulation of Carib I indians | he ni Bot some 600 or 70 
it is difficult tt 
except as 
can be found in the bush, while much danger se 
vermin and snakes „Attends the hu untsman 
your Lp ‘fine 
Ash-lea’ tatoes I found “Yedeibeiied, I ‘admit, like 
fori Ao E This clay the first year, and I have never feckoned among the inhabitants : having their homes 
bel I dog badiy” 7” for two or three } years. Tam indueed About 11 o A Dec. ae the sea breeze came 
e few 
Ma ae ha in ioe various raging pases may be | 
any difficulty, but at the same tim 
onfess that here I = aay r I fancy this place 
| the hottes test on earth. I left he: eee ane of Cissus dis- 
color which I brought out with me, and I om sure ina 
o find this 
I am also » obliged te 
tly in, and carried us with the Perverts of fi four 
heavy sweeps ny “that most beautiful of all tropical 
caution which Mr. Smith says is necessary in bringing 
J be 
scrambling over every } bush and tree within, a mile of 
up the clay: 
i 
where the staple is 
eo secre ten ge ley to deepen it a at once | Crystal Pala ace can i mpart any i idea 
much more ath It is evident th h 
of unusual tenacity. None bu very 
could be brought up with accuracy an inch at a time | T 
tines h i di 
with such a vegetation as only a visit to Kew or the 
of. ab Palms, 
il out of 
an infinity ‘of lovely evergreens, many covered! with 
pomæas a! and other Conv volvulaceze, brilliant i in the eir 
21st. About 9 o’clock a.m. start ted 
yards from 
a ao 
es nom, an yet I nev r do so w 
qa 
ah 
of a fork. 
with ir | forks three and four mass, and er re here and were eB bare t 
d m my rash 
CS A 
digging. 
of Mr. Smith’s earliest page. = W., A for one to bo 
Red Larch Cones.—In your "Journal for 
e following Paf a akoy n, if y 
singi t a field is here 
otanize, but it has its eee: = the | 
lat at your re dis- 
tale “of ‘Divine tr uth. o, in be sed, ean look upon 
Nature, such as a pny fore presents, Pigs and not 
be impressed at least with a But w as tended 
THS 
of Mr. Billington :—“ As soon as they? ” folly, : as they would term cu tting bushes. What a sigh 
i he 
, Lowe to my ‘friend Syst who first ealled 
do 
ja tI ds asund 
: rness of loveliness, 
rank r perfect, never yet intruded on by human foot, | 
ld be 
trip of paint all those with white- | 
for science, by teling 
me to open my eyes only as I travelled, and to the 
correspondence and friendshi ip o of a Jan; solé am d other 
innings, as the red- blossomed trees produce th flat, a e Grass y have gained a footing. ed Fe 
what 
der eee 
ing pleasure and amusement to voters 4" as at last 
e best 
timber.” J have ap gem diligently through all the | you find om i Baoa hee ceatee, a species of tort 
subse: gns volu! umes for an informa tion fro om an nother and y ator snugly ensconced, and calli ing | 
att my to the real. ’ Should you, 
h , Which is not unfrequent, by the force of the 
current in one of these creeks get run into the bush, 
and is |a topsail yard fouling c one of the Mog = branches, 
but I e find none, I find, however, in “ B 
Forester,” i 2d edits. x 216, “lhe miei is the variety | 
ttains the greatest dimen of ti imber, 
the sort most generally cultiv. 
now S ver any cou 
very se 
pelling the ennui of the 
complain i 
i never allow idleness to gain a fe for hav 
+h. nt a 
sed | a eop cope with them, A skin 
e not u: 
is observable in every plantation — [ike aay of a REER 
T not always at hand a a pastime fertile with aioe 
does ; and this in smal pox 
the two FREA ound prs together.” Now, | the result ; for travellers in 
engaged in busines 
I am, we are isolated from the aa of dail 
his climate 
s| laden with clothing, the thermometer 
below 90° of Fabr. We to the entrance 
if Mr. td s — Larch” 
the « with white-blossomed x of the | in 
is exactly eon- Lagu nita or Golfete about “half. -past 10° o'clock at 
So 
a t a 
never getting | new 
onthly. Th 
a a 
inateed ef, ‘ting o _ er is in in days a | capa rey in 
oe 
Sg 
< 
=e 
Rae 
PRESAR SES FATES 
P 
th the I 
Larch plantations now comi ing u up p, for e thinning, 
their SaR is a prenter r than I shou to thi er, perf 
well, , | consider I a sate = i pa 
v 
the vessel i in her position. ` Next morning, the 19th, 
à us alive on this broad sheet of 
ectly becalmed, Towards 
away wi 
visible. Great 
some 14 or 15 feet wide, and perhay eg 3 yards 
l ; but 
d (3) is 
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T 
PA 
EF 
Ey 
pE 
a 
p 
A 
the Preez came down and a 
; her w: way thro ough shoals of P 
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es 
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istia stratiotes, 
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ups and dori ar 
the same ae 
th vegetation is prod ech ade 
suspest syfa be, his authority on any sues of Saiph T Ts through these i gu 
mai on 
th _diitiance of air and ventilation. Lovely 8 spect 
er to ih esteemed. Qus Ae ee ee ; 
meliora. nana i <N ioie the river, I never saw one carrie A to pay peac 
Pea I have often searched in this charming Golfete for 
Nymphzeas or Victorias ! !! bu 
South Devon — W 
pi oa Paap on the south coast of 
Devas the finer kinds of Pears will not fruit at all, t } 
whist App bear abundantly, I have observed that | flat banks, th ne te t long its ed, 
the cause he has attributed is is probably the correct one. | Orchids, the peincipal a le oci 
Pakan mild winters forcing the s purpurea, a a few Brassa- 
— enustas, and E E a ns of the Am iglottian 
a to protect the sam Polycladion family, pid Tig 
order, so 
with 
covered with 
le Sal 
leaf is potions 
together wi with the well- 
piyee 
a 
ELEAL] 
by Feras 
then 
MIDI istos of the atm mosphere in 
Re hierom 
tee 
Lec Su might be preven rf ng 
tender sorts of Apples 
An odd bg. >] 
5 I have many | 
| all these phate usw BASATE by tho tea ant; not 
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