Aveust 16, 1856.] 
THE GARDENERY’ CHRONIC 
Fah nee a ee e 
LE. 55L 
that I have seen is to be found in the 4th vol. of the Spice Islands and of New Guinea, and its n eighbouring | s dards and dwarfs in — abundance. It is stated: 
Journal of the oa Archipelago, written by Mr. T [scaats, b Archipe lage In the | that there are above 20 a of Roses, worked on the 
. Thomson, “The habit of this tre Tii this expe- |M alay countries it is the only food of the wild tribes, | Briar, 
enced and ire Tm writer, ‘is on the sea shore | and | is hardly used “is the ee petra Tn Of a brilliant Géant des Batailles we saw in the 
ringing the beach. Ins uch a position, s ania ld t by the shape 0 Sepete and half- standards no fewe a than 
loose riable, thoug p | in Java, 7 nul tg “Lambo, fertil on Riek, it is | 7000 plan 
and a j shells, it grows ly | alt an article of food. inl 
uch as sea-s: a 
vithont the AeA aids of cultivation, mannre, | from being 
It is 
oy so aain or nutritious as it i is 
r the pany of Posy: bited ge ye 3 but thi: n where i y 
is only | prolific, and is preferred, e is ai 
These tw s od were gr growing we ae Pde and 
although the uousual amount of ‘sun we have lately 
n wit 100 200 fee f the beach. Its abundant, to Rice. It has the obvious disadv: 
causing its fruit | priog the lowest mad of farinaceous food, and living 
wlan REAN ived into the bosom of that element, appea In 
colours, such largi ge P lantations of them made a display 
The latter 
o | over the first of these it possesses a e advantage of the 
Ene ar +. — to failure ; if, sour ery to it 
all, ing is certain, that no of the 
ese, it neither t 
ston 
early spineless R Rose, is well wor rth atte ntio on. 
nha! r 
n plan Kai in other localities than thes 
be 
, unless i it 
Archipelag ‘of vim it has been the 
die qui 
as ever ac f 
on rich soil o 
in the proximity of lings, and in average soils i 
requires rate en able manuring ae cnltivatio 
og 
fiend tio 
ay a so, , who had attained the grata 
of it, 
makes an excellent t pi illar dly be t 
sions poi of Jules Margotta w we have on form 
Toc 
orn itis > as at 
owed Pac advancemen 
in these commodities, bat even 
ra "calendar nor a written language, 
metals 
ing spices, and the Sag 
ap ed they es 
e had neithe: 
patra en yu in full bearing wili 
yield ‘140 A 150 nuts per „It commences to 
n dam mp, low, 
T ik tiasa 3 
year, a nigh rid ges in the nati_ns of | 
the | the m 
and their clothing from | ex 
st free pik: | Roses with w! 
seem 
and oi 
or the last, , though slow in miiy are mre soe ‘good “ The senate ‘oa of Sago, of a dirty brown | 
used 
to bos exported fiom A Archipelago in in 
ti but 
elapse h — the — o _ fruit, and t it 
onths re to come to full growth, th 
hana more ieee righ yall Be 
moi onths before it drops. | 
do trade 
1814 e Chi inese of aay be; 
“with Europe was fires 
gan to 
pak alo other 
Thus 14 months elapse | 
flowering, 
that 
t of its class, and the 
e Leon, a compact „bri 
the ee 
Pri 
much s inal article, known 
ape name of Pearl Sago. Of this ony of $ ae 
is kepo- 
me or the mene stare! h, Singapore 
sent i the chi ef place 
23 
“The accounts usually given of “the almost innu 
merable — to which me different a of the Coco- 
and Melanie Willermoz is a g hite rere! 
Re Foes 
Palm erated, anufacturers, and he raw 
material being ete s irom various neighbouring 
n | countries, but chiefly from aa rth tern coast o 
sap, | Borneo, d the mre in 
| adjacent islands from Sia to Ind ragiri y 
ie 1847-4 oa ae of ra wen from nape 
was abou 000 cwt., worth on the spot abou 
inhabi 
earth may have Saso th 
that those of w. hich the 45,0001.” 
Coco-Palm is a n aanse had 
oars both of food and drink. Its pane on the 
f fish, 
A more di t tas 
important facts relating to 
Mr. Cenwfurd’e work extends ao 
o dete rmine, from the ie first, that maritime character undertaken. We therefore must not 
whieh still belongs to so many of the tribes e the | such i subjects as 
Archip elago.” Gra , Caou tchoue, 
is been omitted. ~ 
the i 
SIN h B, plement or the pages of a new edition. In them 
t e have a most Valuable book of per ia 
of ho, ae ea en sagu, 
ot ork o languages. of the eas Piei is, a 
e farina or ray, for, each species of the 
in 
The Stepping Stone to Natural History (Longmans, 
12mo, pp- 191,) is upon, a, go ood Hun, but psd Ei epee is 
the little who 
A “ stepping sig lh be 
be five, the most fre- | 
deat pima y 
as Gutta pake a, Coton, Satin woul China strip. 
mg t 
ood rariny 
with buff. Madame Cambacères is a fragrant, ver} 
fi cupped variet; and Em mpero: 
Laray a A 
rthy additions to the class to whieh they belong 
Revei Sime Vorace are od Bo rere iS pope 
nE EEA 
formed. 
Nh and Mad: 
Aieciatiins Bache i ith 
colour of Rob m of light i Hybrid Perpetuals few 
a ivers west ney e Vidot, both excellent 
of their aah; 5 new light kind 
Jonyaies Ledechaux is sad th be good, but this we did 
not see in flower. 
Of Standard Roses worked high 
We 
>| so 
unsightly objects quickly, and also for forming weeping 
o, 
soil fo = eed od this soil consists of a marsh or 
bog, composed of deonyed; lang yegptahipa, ne near the sea, 
but excluding tidal ac 
the e 
an 
blackbirds and poultry and 
do no a wp x and disgust anam with a 
narwhals, M 
of the 
tries they are believed to 
u and the Malay 
te 
“ The Sagos — from all other Palms in two i ak i tg pad 
| permen 
worked on it. 
Mosses and Hybrid Perpetuals work orked on 
Manetti Sra in the oan ground in April this year 
e, havi Spee large heads for 
They propagate themselves by egies AE Tea Roses in pots are. grown here extensively, and 
lateral as well as by LFA to Banana, an Hd Eyen Mr en to Ag an however, ita s in eii tie of ipiseli 
they die after producing fruit. Fro first of these blishment. A new pao is being erected 
properties, a Sago plantation once fo is perpetual. Sole ie E It is Tis 16. feet Jong, 25 feet 
The trees are cultivated in small pate and aman Garden Laron saan de, and 12 feet high 5 ; it is to be with 
and his family thought, without aie care, to be| Messrs. Woop & Son's Nursery, MARESFIELD, rer ge late glass, an ted by means of hot water 
to enne ofa pains of 100 square | Sussex. ~ ie a pleasant journey of some 13 miles rr houses two were 
fathoms, which will co The are | from mpo b. Herth; o — and Brighton | with (a Se of pecs 
cut down immediate! Sy tal Mare fruit, which is | railway, at this rated Rose nursery, | for whee as Fallows : The bo oe Phar 
usually about the age of 15 + When,’ r. which is “delight presto on rising ground, with h h ‘the, dep o Ths placed 
Logan, wh d fullest t wn Fores on the one hand, and a deep valley then a in which the ge are re plan 
f the culture and manufactur È wood 
| 
ne | 
facture that has 
published fs ~~ has sed arrived at at y 
there constant, harvest, because the nai | ing rr shige on the other. Here ran oma 
d they are thus more ely px 
ang ‘oildew while growing. „These e Rose 
mee cpert 
mode of Seve ih cures a continued mapoerpión pak new | the termination of the battle Sg me n after 
plants from the time. those first planted ha ha e begun | many years of active service 07 
liberally 
eas 
to extend their roots, and th | settled down to cultivate the Queen of owai: and 
lated -by the knife in any manner the planter pt from that rt to the present. » by means òf energy 
conveyed there, where after 
iti isa a cylind er 
15 to > Jeet in gar Assuming 20 
pias et as is height of the bake ihe, con- 
bushels, and allowing one half | 
ET miss in remain 13 bushels of starch, 
nant inches in diame ates, and from | in importance. 
dtn GO 
He began with l4 acres, which havo 
magined, these ar 
not all covered with Roses ; trary, 
acres are occupied with general nursery stock. 
Queen of Flowers pi nevertheless with, justice > 
use, and skilfully applied 
No fewer than 6000 Tea 
= y very clos ly with o 
may be me! 
in tl this oa 3 
ply their 
of 700 Nee fon gach Sean or 124 bushels. It may give ment, Here we 
hala 40h 
dard Roses in Sussex ; Mr. s Wood i having | T 
ith their beauty an 
zm ee with France had Tat 
seni m hi 
Sago if cut down at one 
yield 5220 bushels, sap as much as 163|a 
so according as we allow 7 or 15 
equal | 
Archipelago, vol 3, p. 312. R stoni was soon got toge 
to this 
ea salen ds oe “turf from the forent, go be 
e: other vegetable refuse These 
a 
e from escaping, ai 80 
has become charred. 
is 
R d oth 
en a ee 
y ults. 
"Sago i is the sole bread of the inhabitants of the| duces them annually by the thousand, 
