_ 486 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. [Jury 19, 1856, 
Grasses which are growing * with the plants | I have | the & * indications” of the writer. Above all it should Mr. Rivers. It had the flavour of the Py pe 
to the princip = S pet ew tinge of muskiness, and et as ie if it w 
species of ban Hordeum bulbosum, and common culinary processes, without an atte nat Hoe for out-of-door c 
Ægilops triaristata, raora iiare kao relate to | whi will be thrown any: oT ere | he See Pee ei 
you a fact which will ome — se you i t English cook out of ten who knows when to! ENTOMOLOGICAL, June 2.— W. nders, Esq., 
as it has myself. Last yen hen erossing the me | the l, and and without such knowledge | F.R.S, President, in = chair. “he President fe 
Libanus | I 
ea: paies 1 " which " ced that the pyre my received the 
of gi ikoro thei a ae 4 : of — of | tion of Mr. e game the secretaries, ps niai ex- 
Aigilops as, aha e loss 
an to posed 1 
approaching aes wert ‘Do you know what it is pened Hoe is obliged to endure in his Sueatbens and doubts | tis election to take place at the next meeting of the 
have gathered? Itis the mother of Wheat ; if you do | whether these gardens will be se t Ih p ociety. Mr. F. Bond exhibited a remarkable mon- 
not believe it, open the spike and examine the grains, | them till certain works are removed. No one can say | | oaiiy occurring in Biston hirtarius, the body and 
you will then be convinced.’ Certainly the fellow knew | but that the smell from larg e egas works must be inju- | wings of whi ich were female ; but the antennæ were 
no more of the labours of M. Esprit Fabre d’Agde rious to health and vegeta The same ti Mr. S. S hibited sp 
the latter knew of the popular traditions of the | to some fine old d Eamibotin, asa proof of the injurious | | Petasia nubeculosa, Notodonta carmelita, and N, Pio- 
Syrian Arabs when he commenced his s admirable i inves- | effects of the gas works. I be eg t to sey that = pike | ee recently € Sy together with larvæ since 
P ted s0 
eum.” J. D. H. | commonly called caterplla They are commit vin k] pe i o "peantiful Coleopte ra and Lepidoptera re- 
Giant Apple Tree—tThere is at the present time a| rden; and I understand that | pone since the last meeting from the Amazons, cap- 
very remarkable Apple tree growiag in an orc ard i n | the e count: ry is, in di ffer a parts, i red by Mr. Bates. Mr. Dou uglas exhibited the case e of 
the occupation of Mr. Pitts, of ameo near | This, therefore e, can hav nothing whatever f Col 
This tree has own to produce seven | the smoke nuisance, In this opinion I dare say you will | | lao Cry pioceboaing Coryli, Lebia crux minor, and g> 
hogsheads of cider in a single season. People now in | concur. Samuel Broome, Temple Gardens, July 17. e beetles say captured. Mr. phil exhibited 
i i peci ou have il f the ingular Lepido- 
under 
pupa 
under this head at p. 452, en me which you have | pore us inseet, Awd a Bennet, ante _— 
of the i tants remem this tree about the mis 1 ae weenie s, was contributed by me. It was Limonium on the Essex coast. tain Cox 
e,| a piece of the common rend int which “a found its | cate S an account of the discovery pp a PERN A AT the 
0 way to 10 anand and thence into the hands of a friend of Lim Ha wk, moth u nder the bark of a Plane tree, 
every side and with ~ Seu in proportion. There is | mine, from whom I obtained it ; incl 
however no reliable as to its naa 50 years | the circumstances of its growth. It a appe ared to sesh particles of wood. Mr. Armitage exhibited various in- 
ago, and time has Sei toirin shorn it its fair | been (in its early stages) encircled very closely by teresting Coleoptera recently captured in the South of 
; ions ; still its present appearance oval argue | some Bindweed or other; both had had a desperate | France. Mr. Saunders read a notice of the transforma- 
that if it bore fruit in proportion to its size, its pro- struggle for the mastery, the one growing outwards | tions of various Lepido opterous insects observed at 
ductive powers have not been over-rated, e trunk |and upwards, the other pressing inwards like the | Natal by Mr. Plant. wry 
six feet the ground gi ix |death coil of a “boa constrictor” tightening its t he Wing Veins of Insects, and a paper by Mr. White, 
feet four inches—another tree apparently of the same | grasp every day, the other putting forth great vital | containing descriptions of some new Homoptera from 
kind in the same orchard girts six feet two inches. | power to overcome the same and vate: forced into the as read, ‘The annual 
Several others have arrived at nearly the same size. | unusual form which the spe cime ad i of the Society was fixed fe for the 21st June at 
Ta ere [What ie is the sort J the leaves also as will be Bi rout had b n forced Taste 
to use Pr 3. ft id that the into the alternative of developi e themselves jus 
d fi 
Ea ia h Baiia to his country who makes two where they could find an outlet be the coils of Prtices 7 af Books, 
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grow where one only grew before, and the encircling plant. N. Burgess, Haskn meh 
by parity of reasoning it ought to be a good work to Coun eiry sionn —I, one of the many, c: rrobor: 
how wholesome and palatable food may be pre-| the asserti of your correspondent, *Setlewells »| Fruit Culture. Under this name Messrs. Groombridge 
pared from what is pega thrown ae Soyer whose ‘startling revelations of practic ces at Local show have commenced | the issue of shilling pamphlets upon 
informed us some years since how good pottag 1 i The author is to be Mr. George 
be made of very scanty materials, and bey principles of honour and honesty. I have ample evidence to al McEwen, coves gandensr x: Arundel — and one of 
might be extended in many other directio ham than i cultiv: sr He takes the Srraw- 
heard something latel 
head 
y of good soup ‘ante from the | other known locality. Sree a competitor, I have had | | 
Suburban growers, |! has chars how to give it norak interest. DA 
shoot: 
of economy. There is, however, an m =e which | no in which a successful man achieves success ieee 
is almost universally discarded in this as fit | the commi ittee, and procurin sp xpressly to suit | indeed a subject of legitimate curiosity, “What Mr. 
only for the pigs, which is really an ered AA terial | their ees further violate the rules by pangane: McEwen’s general views are will be be gathered from his 
Ihe formation who 
French 
for the of pottage. have ere ing, borr and hiring, such plants as will o tain preiace, 
the miathils: ât a AA early ho ch ia: sglre ey E “ I cannot but think that. arae. s as yetimits 
see ee. | Fog mig eat tr hg misery of die > people | pri wai shis must nai a destroy the Society, aose infancy, and seeing that the opinion of Bacon,'that 
who carry cats ship Reh Pea-shells for pottage, | prosperity is even now de clining. Great Britain has Bhpdiees, is the purest of earthly pursuits,’ is vis being 
but might Steve thelr sympathy, and would d by a groning = who are entering with 
go if” had age of such soup as at a very | support would be saih, than Cheltenham ; but “| mind a and capital on the atronising of the-art, Tam 
cost may Na er it from the the article. d direction to 
fit it has been, ill d. that it has become a | these efforts, to inerease the taste, and so to enlarge the 
stances. They wi will, owed as they are ə pro oduc: would otherwise contribute | boundaries of human happiness, even in ‘common 
very excellent dish, Take three quarts of water in | el ‘ae its pee J. BD Hucelecote, | things.’ 
which | meat has s bee een boi iled the e prev ious os [We | bliged t il | It will be distinctly understood, that whilst I intend 
the fire I bly tł to deal with practical oe, rather than draw infer- 
larger of ed “if the broth has been h fresh eaae ences, or w causes, I have no sympathy with the 
meat), taking care, caer. ‘dat penne” ingredient `s is pei set expressed by so me $ ae enlightened theory and 
predominant. Add the shells of half a peck k of Peas, Soret ties. ps | practic re are at variance ; on the contrary, lam 
hat, sont in proj oportion as we advance M 
Att 
‘of T: ‘arragon Britis 17, Mr. Turner o he mysterii 
lq ty the latte: val be requisite. bee in the chair. This meeting was pa con- | nature, in a right spirit, the more satisfactory become 
When the Pow akele “are sufficiently boiled pour the |vened for the purpose of testing the value of some of | our daily toils ; and that the closet and the field w 
whole a colander, and when e A is | the newer kinds of Strawberries. First on the list was | yet unite in full harmony in giving utterance to certai 
strained off, pound the bets corre -= a | Carolina superba from Mr. Kitley of Bath. This is a| 8 unds, telling of fixed A a unvarying laws, 4 
mortar, returning jeie g ling that of | of the inexhaustible stores of wealth and nutriment 
urbeca what wilfpasscstlly. Maa. sow “asmall wap Tel the British Queen, or rather pehare that of the old | the atmosphere, on the earth, and under the eart 
| rag to be one of its parents, It is | existing for, and waiting to be unlocked, and applie 
the bi erl Sapon and a |an abundant b r, has a rich bright colour, and as ard pratt by the minds he hands of inquiring ¢ 
souple. of f sprigs of Si Mine and y a soup which | regards size we sii mention that some of the fruit | industrious men, for the grand pues. 
would not disgrace any table, “epecily if a little fried | measured five inches in circumference, Its perfect | the p of all tha ab a 
bread is added, and ay oe 0 hite sugar. Ifathick| hardiness, and whether it will force or not are the hree woodcuts, one of which is adai; will render 
soup is preferred -a little ie. and butter or pron only points ,about it which have not yet been| the number attractive “4 "Phiose who p refer exercising 
thickening oes a It is not necessary to have satisfactorily proved. Sir Harry from Mr, Underhill their eyes rather than their understanding. 
anything strong: ought under notice ; but as the flavour Black- 
No one who has partaken of this soup properly ~ of the geo was spoiled by its having been —_ Memorials of his Time ; by Henry Tenry Cockburn 8vo. de 
pared will owed eas of we wisdom of the i earar |in Moss, it was recom — that it should of the same mind. ee 
mak mosi Provide: end | again n brought forward on the- of August, when ‘the lightful volume | before us has been recet ved with a 
placed before them. van at tempt was made so sti time | os next meets. 1 all varieties of work 
since in the Finch ley schools at teaching matters which Ar. Snow 5 it is gaal and "ioy, but too acid to be Iti is tere ee the book of the season. Of a 
might be p z kerra eable ht, however, t been large ly quat ated in all manner of 
are BBE 
and theman fit d sort for preserving. Some of ‘the berries mea- | journals, erin newspapers, it would be suport 
meritat leastof rising ex aar amusing ad ar they arenot | sured 53 3 inches in pesca, iy The same exhibitor | say more in this place ge z hot that the horti itis 
perfectly adapted totheendin view. Itis enco meee A A to | also showed what was called Downton Improved, and | tastes p open Cockburn e been ager” iit 
Bat anch dt 
see seedling, is h of which were recommende to | eviden at he was a at OF gardening ; n0 i- 
Unripe fruit of e i i man witl i highly 
persons for whose d B agusi tly 
the subject are eagerly perused, and it is a fact that i very ‘late Stra pben came from Messrs. Stewart & | va te i nd such emine: 
i Ekip the proceedin age Nairi nese the Nelson, of Liseard, in Cheshire. Em miae. Eugenie | in his childhood, as he tells us, he loved “ 
ae conversant, the which | from Mr. lane of an: was show i = ad mire the blue and yellow buds of Crocuses ? = 
= meng greatest sale after r Bibles and meat Booka isaja very large kind of "> inet “fru th rth, in the first days of be 
~ cheap T. it measuring 6} fechon. ‘cam ts flesh is bright the garden of old Dr. Monro.” And wie ae? 
— subje seni ithe men of bodu senso and actually | red and tender, and in PaA pera to thai t down these gentle reminiscences of former an 
mean: wa 
ian of | of m 
at ordinary wages with a cottage allot- | his mew Black Grape with a Musca t flavour. tt wes | his days. 
heege alse tory exten sale. Such a| pronounc 1 rt, andit| “For many years alm: straa sai ) 
“book should comprise what is commonly called Sick was stated that it “ripens ‘otnfactorly, in the same | and holidays, were passed at Niddrie. 1 sigh oe d 
ith H cai Part of —_ 
Cookery as well as that of H lost th 
hints as to what should be in the allotment to realise | Muscat Hamburgh. A new French Grape came from | is a very old old, Ďut it never had any por 
