—— E 
Jury 26, 1856.} THE 
and even the despised Mushroom has called forth 
classic works in its praise. But the crt Pec 
nes h for 
tr ee, W. 
‘t Nature’s rory o’er the 
reer ene e 
that the subject of 
my author Nace capri an br eee Sg as wel rl 
GARDENERS’ 
the volume is 
a profici sees beauty in Toe 
and difficulties ri ‘before his eager step. e per- 
SPRUIT 
will not be thought of by e 
reason ra that it contains no fibrous 
the 
vi 
503 
xperimentalists, tor one 
tissue, (For 
my and igen sie snd species, 
Be voy: he Zeitung’ 
minute anato 
de Dr. Spee erschn a in 
erage 4 April 
have been almost universally n eglected, nay despised. 
This neglect is to us the more surprising when we con- 
sider the facility with which they may be collected, 
preserved 
ot D ichenology to “aged turali 
KeA e or i 
a certai n poi d with } 
©, 
Sai EE ee 
i} and up to 
trouble. Nor 
‘The lichenological student requires no cumbrous or 
pensive apparatus : 
xe i 
with moa 
sificai or a 1g 
pre = especialy ig wil i aid 
W 
J 
scertainin "die names of the mmon 
Mr. 
nursery, which co ntains | 
Garden Memoranda 
Sxrrvine’s, WALTON, NEAR Lavsnroot.—This 
abou t 100 res, is 8 
of Fitch’s excellent 
a lai 
s a iid micro 
purpose of collecting, t 
th 
Se 
s comparative tabular form, so that 
exert of foreign ews is 
und him abundantly be sea coast ba i fe 
find them on every t 
may be collected at all adni 
weat thers and climates, at almost all ae 
g 
5 
=) 
>. 
the eye mighi 
the essential iai by which 
they are known. Tt is not too Jate to Alera this rir] 
Such a table, made to fold and face page 11 
— be ig to the copies in the hands of the Sea 
sellers, and given to those purchasers who alread 
J 
ure 
wy rary uly ae section = operated in some make 
3 for y minds are irresis- 
i 
The e following instructive account of Usnea barbata, br 
the common Beard-moss, which infests old trees in 
prin Aspe Ee a aie fair average aman e of Dr. 
are gathered together 
i- 
and expensive “astm or ped eag which it is 
adage the ‘gmp of the hum re 
Our e: 
on on our older forest 
e ich are 
choice shrubs pov Contes, which are left there to grow 
into specimens. In t iis way persons desirous of pvr- 
pp Dos 
cating ¢ om with a shaggy g 
even compelled to leave the walks, a great 
i eather, and the 
tage, 
aR ces of the 
chrabs removed can afterwards be supplied do facility 
from quarters behind the hedges. copay rs are thus 
ell st ars eed Araucaria 
venerable trees being ‘ mossed with 
this sense the . branches and stems of the 
imbricata 1 may -be found here in thousan nds, more espe- 
cially the former, whi ch, un ntil ely owed its distri- 
i r. Skirving, who at a 
e of the structu 
We shall have 
a in zegi 
seale of vegetable e life, thi - 
insignificant though i 
appear to z= 
‘Holds a 
Im the plan of Him sist framed 
This, maka of beings; holds a rank which, ae 
wit Sead the chain and leave ehehind « 
ture’s self would rue 
that ached = of infinite importance as = Bag samara! of | 
bourhood (Perth) are completely ssed ’ 
Branches thus adorned are ae Benes d for the 
purposes of the bird- stuffer, and must be vapa kn to all 
who have seen = rg ons of stuffed binds i in publi 
pri rivate museum: is very widely aA over | 
the world. In Tndia it is one of the m mon | 
t has also been found in 
Holland ; Tasmania ; 
atd is fat north as Lap la: nd. It is said to be replaced 
Arctic and 
Nature m the face 
ti Se 
a 
h 
Usnea melaxantha, which is interesting in a threefold 
own the oun pi 
—in covering with aie sagt park 
f the voleanie lava and tl ral let a 
bata pani trei Šet to a polar climate. It is one of | gre 
vege! tation ; a small section, which “furnishes 
valuable and familine dyes, gives rise to an import o of 
the annual value of 
ee 
assimilating are to the Ph 
ex! 
t! handsome and arborescent vom newer 
rogamia, Its 
normous expense, thre ugh the instrumentality 2 the 
ite D WwW aghorn, sleet the seed in > 
en the supply throug 
aus cane to the ee 
ame when 
Sy now 
igh to trees of as many 
numerous is ucaria 
in thousands, 
ste plants 10 pte hi, 
Eq page ted the 
ous which are sown h They are 
raised i a sie pits, wire they are sown badis ona 
Of this Conifer there are here large 
plantations of beautiful plants. 
The trade 
e con) 
at. T is in fact a gigantic manufactory from prod 
all parts of the world are su mar America al 
ane) 
sec ction a structure resemblin 
thousand pounds ; 
rm ‘C 
and shrubs, more especially t wo-year transplanted 
Spruce re and Larch, Elm and Oak, in the rearing 
more suc ecessful than our 
ds, who find it cheaper to buy them 
pits The Mount Atlas 
_for hich there is a very lar 
which stands salt spray well, and therefore forms 
Rhododendrons are culti- 
this nursery by the thousand for under- 
others, under the vernacular term ‘ Crottle,’ have 4 deen | disti axis sand a arson cortical layer ; and it is of whi ch Mr. Skirving is 
for ages, still are, used as household dye ag 1 ies, for in the land Islands, 
antry in many parts our country ; that | in Dr. Hooker says, it covers “ ‘the surface of the e quartz here than raise = 
many parts of the world they furnis q reat 
food not only to cattle but to man; that they play an situations, and there atiainiog its “gr eatest size and | sale 
important part in istory of Arctic enterprise, | beauty.’ Some varieties of U. barbata cave a more | Pin 
inasi nuch as they have frequently saved the lives of | limited geographical range than ot rei oe florida, weadieen sea-side shelter, 
Arctic travellers ; and that rca celebrated in the | for inst: eii is inferior in this respec . plicata ; | vated in 
history of medicine in this other countries. | this is e expected, when we psec vit these wood, 
= in addition to these high solenni we con- 
r tha t ; many species have a texture whi ch, by | an 
for which suar A answers so well ; for in 
+h £, thick 
hey form 
a thick 
varieties mt + Sieg age on br igi 
and clim Wha 
Bart 
th 
them a sense inde ependent of all climatal changes, 
enabling them equally to brave e polar a ed A opica! 
cultivated rt this purpose are of course not h 
common ot ig 
erg but a race of 
b y the tl T E T a 
y the older au sale “conse red 'diatinet species ; but 
zs are frequent ly found g g i 
such a way, that it is emma to determine und 
hich or name to arrange them, and several of 
them b in th nay, 
ie Sk toring ad & wel ost is a great farm 
grower as we n as an extensive nurseryman, and preo 
= in inseparable from, but even corrode or "disintegrate, 
all the forms the most neni eke 
ample provision has been made by ti the great 
Antor of all for their reproduction or ee 
Of 
able is that auaka var. arti s said 
sometimes sel sas du : our own 
specimens preading over the sandy 
spit 
under pease fatal to all higher vegetation, both by 
a oe plic a rset abundance of their reproducti ive 
prostrate, s 
soil of maiia Downs ; th 
ing his sehr i “and attending to a 
tion of croppin a piece of ground is cleared 
of bie stock of ‘trees it is cropped with Swedes, Mangel 
of Don It differs from the others no Sej es 
which 
he 
osel. 
rease our 
ed 
lants 
ei 
1) 
— into which its filaments are div ided, than i in "i 
more o Bogie under Mr. Skirring' no notice. To 
attaining 
e direction and one in the apr 
th 
this 
knowing it to 
be of the utmost “importance to the farmer r and to the 
applied to less rare varieties, in w. aya 
cation is also frequent, The economical pet er ot 
is cropped wit! h corn, or Gra rass, or peg iK ould be 
ropped with the = = bean seen of its kind 
for quali ty and qua Ev 
or 
of U. b 
and varied. In som e parts the ici it is eaten by 
wild animals, or is collected m preserved as winter 
domestic Bar 
| the best sort than the worst, and between A o one m 
the other there is often from 10 to 20 Be 
He goes through 
cag states that 
point of vi whe 
their pent Pear range, 
bs cepa to the position which t 
tation toy th rt th 
rrestial vegetation ica ona we Pennsylvani 
a a i 
itarian u 
f | South America. 
a naked to pae an orange dye, 
these 
fally day by day, marking and making himself in- in- 
a dye species 
is paad enjoyed great 
certainly not from shi 
was at one 
and diuretic ; a2 ar 
s its 
It appears 
ae in a ine, o 
hich i t poss 
t `A amt A J 
| real | advantages esses ; i 
used as nt, tonic, 
with their differences, not only as 
respec cts earliness or mR produ uctiveness or the 
contrary ; but also as regards their general keie SE 
or otherwise for the purposes ll ica hey are 
intended, and thus by = observ: sa always 
imp rts,” on Tas Brought: bore 
} F, 
Fa of Nature, 
recy 
It 
r | powders and pra ce and was 
name o arbor rei, seu 
“querui,’ was 
l 
ee 
‘M 
aoe as an anod was 
supposed to 
__under the conditions of season and 
also 
which rendered it serviceable in the 
ble mi 
of field crops gs fi d eve! 
knows what he i is sending out, for he has previously 
thoroughly pean “their value himself. We wish all 
The value o 
of detonat e or combusti tures, 
Tira ines es that it was boiled a beer and drunk i 
an 
catarrh me hes opey 5 t AE aplanders have used it i 
r eruptions in children ; and £0 
haa’ acres: of it, 
1.7 WH } 
rvng 
is pide horticultural, we 
of man oaks lower animals—and the 
bination — rw = of ay can angi ‘i 
variety of for e think w 
reupon to t bot si plea fo: 
premel in diseases of females. = central medul- 
W hea 
sown in April was in ear on the Ist of Ju 
thr ead has been recommended i 
when sibstituter for linen rags 
manufacture of paper have 
Y» 
with a view to ascertain whether or not it will ripen 
this season. 
rather long extract it will be seen] 
become matters of necessity, we fear such a substance 
In an out-of-the-way corner was what may not in 
