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the beautiful colours, having become a dingy bro 
throu ugh out, bgp yoy is about a undergo ahah 
chan ve o have steamers o 
and one i 
and B ae north. Nicaragua is in a hands o 
the Filibusters from California. G. aS he volcanic 
y Professor 
E. Solly, who finds them to consi sist poi A of silic: 
alumina, an d oxide of iro n. He ther efore does no 
f the effect of 
se mistaken “pte tee of protectionist governments 
sion, Thyrsacanthus waned which is one of we 
In order to keep alive a few 
és o ropean Russia the im- 
o! prohibited. The consequent 
state of the eini at a re mage from =n ay adries 
of tl 
Ingrami, a cross-bred os Ae por Mr. Togo of 
Frote. ln the greenhouses among Azaleas and gay 
flowerin ag, plants of tha t des ed 
“We find i li 
| cannot be better described tha’ n the 
author. 
ste 
provinces te nails taking ee pte ‘ce of iron j ails ; ; 
nde 
exp ect their pr 
upon vegetation, and me what effect ‘they do produce | fi 
d and 
Some volcanic ashes con- 
mischief ; buti in these Gua 
sol 
d that may produce 
temala ashes the quantity of | are 
who 
ongst easy, if not wealthy proprietors, we | 5 
ph nalia a 
deep ye ellow or rather orange coloured fi 
whi when produced in sufficient abundance 
s as these were, are extremely rama 2 a 
ith ane were Duties vgenoilis a mass 0 ofsi 
bl Mr. Fortu doubl 
mere 
metimes at barn t replaced by ' 
r-ri Hne i »y which the Fone 
g upon the posts, whilst their sey uname 
he s price 
Peaches, , the beauty ok which is not yet vafteioutly 
Jl mreana "the new large variety of np wn. whieh is 
metal article > grumble sa dly a 
Th h + 
Pere cerns aaa the empire lum meat de Gand, which with a 
r eine pote “and farm carts without tire ; axles are pl in flow me weer ag October t till 
Focieties. athe ints of hia n the ha merce er ANOT the Camellias, Stag 
ron, me in many districts the ploughshare itself is of | have been l in on beauty, perhaps the 
LINNEAN reich Aprit 15. oo pb in the wood with an iron poi int. Im mplements of that descrip- | most- striking ponte were examples of Salvia gesneri- 
EA _F. Cur Esq , M, A, ected a Fellow burg show of agri- | flora, which is to the conservatory or ouse at 
ide, cultural nD rcv in 1850. The partisans of the pro- | this- season what the scarlet Geranium is« to» the 
P f Natal, producing wax, and stem allege that in many, provinces the ey in s — viz. the gayest of the gay, In 
f f er to have fine specimens of this S the 
—1l. “ Extract of g" letter po Mr. R. & Syren. nese 
G of the 
oo would, from the quality of the soil, be Pine 
seless, i in fact, rather hurtful than otherwise ; : but. we 
ecm time the cating $ should be put in now, and 
after they have grown amt ts large 
neighbourhood of Ta, on in Pe: storms of it ones. |* think 
ion. 2. “ Note on Obolaria Beis coi = by Dr. = refutatio 
Gray. Some years ago, in a ir in which thi e: 
plant was fi and deseribe "Dr. Gray full 
gured d a 
po it should be referred to „the Gentianacee, no erg 
out of their se an 
anted where they can wore all the summer, ani wo 
‘ole te “article, The Tea trade betwe 
is ver 
w days, and when oom wesc to flower 
the conservatory, where any ll inet if 
t 
d 
plan t 
danger from frost is we te rec tae me in autum mn they 
introd! o 
beauty for 
Th his plant, therefore, i is a re ub 
ing a pecu iarity in its placentati on. It now 
its y pitsa on. Mr. Clark has noticed that in 
, the ovules 
of the Gentians oF ae United States. 
sh a 
im 
of mere vied The frontier town of H Kiakhta 
is situate in the midst 
oft two immense cenpited, and the Tea has to traverse 
R 
of flowers at = time of year. 
m 
c See or nearly the whole parieties of th in lish miles Pacen reaches Moscow, paa Tea Roses in the bed prms oo house will also 
ovary, es in nearly d nite rows, but more | which m may be oleideted fh he centre of its distribution n be in full blossom. The of the latter- will 
Fhir tein indefinite ely crowded over every E except Importation y an is prohibited in order that the over: | doubtless be increased by giving ines sie pa been 
the very sutures. This was found also ê pogo aià whilst Ten of a fai done, some fresh soil enriched with manure, by which 
Bartonia (of Muhlenberg), in the ovar to B tenella quality sellsin ' London for | they 009 apparently been impro rane vigour, and 
there occur four re- entering angles, which render 2} ro ae | are covered with flower-buds, While sj speaking = — 
cell cruciform, and i Timi the resemblance to Obolaria hr Seige = “the fact that ae erik Tevied | in ip land wes 
is striking. e only an ly of Obolaria as a true | and R +e ill lately, pretty n rear plants have thriven most satisfactorily ; they bid fair-to- 
Gentianaceo ous plant is the imbrication ins stead of the the sa "This enormous difference of price of course oe even finer if possi = this season than they w: were last. 
l th and in spite | LPe young wood which they have pushed is strong and 
b of the vi ilance of the police little else than sm uggled | eroras and they e xhibit no signs of mildew or other 
it is ‘considered i im] aes = is jet palat in Te Pola disease. The beds have —_ essay up and the house” 
i rm — M. = ens and M./ of Russia. It used to be thought that the Caravan | *together poe re 
rdedbontt ich almost as he requently present the| Tea was of a different and very uae quality In ranra e new plants sneer 
esativation "oft the Rinathide as that = ia Antirr- | to the — and that to this circum: ts hi igher | proved. which there is at present a good ma 
hinideæ. 3. A memoir “Q of t! price w: ferrible. It pears, however, l t (chiefly supplied by 5 Skinner), we eter Pe an 
anomalous development of ‘the “raphe i in sie and the | sorts ci e from the same ne plants and the same planta- | exampl Lof the M Water Yam (Ouvirandra- 
l s fenestralis) rag growing in loam in a pan 
of structure, especially in reference to Stemonurus periods s Ae the leaves are gathered. The author | 9f Water, “whieh i s changed once or-twiece a day by 
pa te nient zam raat remarks on examines at considerable length the probable conse- | POU ing fre resh. water over- it from a rosed watering-pot, 
that genus,” by Miers, sq “of removing the oe adept oa Bence Tea, sca giri rine 
on a a ll was read. but for fur ther det. i refer the reader to the | P ing the skeleton lace-like 
itself. He will find in in ch Appendix a a igen he = ines of this singular proat good rages Under 
is- treatment. it appears to be thri and in 
Protices of Wooks, 
Commentaries on the Productive Resources of Russia. 
By M. L, de cain In 3 vols, 8v0. Vol 2, 
483. Lon 
ae na: ng account of the trade bet 
and Chi 
“Englan ‘appears to be the great customer for eee ji: 
produce, From th 
author’s estimates it would si 
le ex 
in size. 
The eer house is the next point e ap atten- 
at present 
tion m y be deservedly directed, Thi 
ri 
that nearly two-thirds c of the who! nd tl 
way into this country. Our space, However piar 
pp. 4 
Of this work e one Soliti; relating to the internal 
sources of wealth in Russia, appe 
ed at so 
us to refrain from gue an any laa extracts. ppa 
the 
first, Ee Pee Ind 
° 
gs . 
but some of them with fruit already set. mins could 
possibly | g or afford greater pleasure 
to aiek than this house as it a 
| Alon 
vel 
pei like a just notion of the bier state of a gies 
is to be et and = wll a 
mien them 
resources of the empire. 
"n aea da. 
Soci Car 
The soins mais tender foliage andn newly develi 
goes on wel 
the -open 
all require information of of a more solid 
e obtail sweeping oanatinioae 
dep ee 
} : h 1 
ull crop. 
hie wall I they have “teen, or still, 
indicate | plainly j 
net oe ee 
shaven = ig, nme a 
the 
in which popular 
this to: mee 
— — that have mentors for the last t 
pet tan 
the 
three 
d progress. | ` This therefore i is just the time 
aces in = 
be most 
order must bestir themselves to have e, things neat an 
hare ¢ also answer 
purpose f rie a are —- padanan Owing, 
Boever, tothe iwan nei ras Secon tt one 
d |by mild wi aoe 
trim, 
and when a little extra labour 
‘acture, which is protoatdd pion 
ish rivalry, the eee shows —_ im 12 or 15 
ling for east 6 
short, oe Bin waar 
hat ground is 
ariani oS leet s ces 
boards, On standard and Sd eagair wes ‘com of all 
but ne so 
work of suliet hands might 
ndeed, consi some the ea state 
sedis. to 
find that 9 so Tittle fone Torii Sapas; and that te artiy- 
thing ora so thriving an -i well as it does. 
servati wall has received its s annual pruning 
trade ; 
time has arrived when a little moo ee ‘om 
piee ta generally 
dition and many of them are 
eer was one of 
have eal DAINGNE 
or seek sane 
are in excellent con- 
full flower. In the | 
white blossoms, whose fragrance scented the | 
ee > house. In another stove was the singular Colum- | _ 
abroad has become it only 
the activity and eee ot is of the the home no —— 
and to give: own strength | of 
rah iy wit = ted, gh sare by ao conouing to lean 
undulata, an East Indian species, with oo 
bright yellow blossoms 
jameni SA a hybrid Canna with 
flowers that are produced for 
