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NovemBER 8, 1856.] 
‘Autumnal Raspberries. — e had prama 
cropof these alllast month ae up to'the sgainn time, f gami 
even now the canes are full of fine fruit. tha 
| question whether their figure is due 
to a mineral o: 
to an _ organic cause. , These masses were motes 
f a basaltic 
words about ba be useful 
THE GARDENERS CENONE 
ee 
in the following spriug Lywas surprised w see 
the surface of this aes cue E entre 
perhaps T 
re particularly worthy F _— 
t 
F 
Th : F a} : g = 
four 
Rogers’ Vietoria—Merveille des Q uatre Saisons, 
= 
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a k 
this is large, sweet, 
entirel y exhausted 
Saisons, red ; this is about the size of the Red i Aneen 
and ve 
y 
curious in the neigh 
Flora 
by the quay was not only found “otal distinct oe the 
it, but it 
of this mud 
i 
bourhood. | Dr. Seller, by the a of a friend, 
n his s possession, 
yery go 
French name, “ racic oisi 
specim en 
— which did not grow within many calla of the 
pot, and one which was probably foreign to the 
r de tous | 
fruit.” The first is a pe sent out pe ‘years ago 
of Kin ng’s Road, Che Isea 5 it is 
the place, to inspect the a where the discovery 
va! tment surrounding the mud quay was 
made. The cavity from which these bodies had been | 
washhand 
Sa, Salicornia, Atriplex, Carices, &e., whilst on 
er dwarf, av 
y all i September, Th id k 
basin, 7 of a perpendicular wall 
o- 
r culture is very s as they merely ai 
in "the s aks way as the 
Brough October, a Ps destroyed ty the a4 
I Tinh 
Pg eleo go a t a hundred 
The cavity in i aeaio is something near 15 feet 
tine below the mit, and there is access to it by a 
w ledge running = a few yards along this 
cipi mA side of the hill, When the face of the rock is 
in 
— wie oe little valley | below, the basalt seems: to 
Š ` 
a } 
of Centaurea por scm and multitu: ee of vip 
hirsutum ; and besides these there were other pls 
which I did not recognise, or whose names I h 
forgotten. To my mind it conclusive, 
the seeds ~— etn this crop of Vegetation m 
Ho 
the 
sf th £4} 
found, 
roe dicecton Tes more of these bodies will be ri 
mud at 
shore by the lighters — the plants Ih 
named as constituting part of the vegetation of 
oe 
e four requires a dif- 
anti yy for unless the soil is vay rich 
s to n the autumn if suffere d 
+, th 
pla ce, , seems not improbable. | The — la Sagi isa 
should therefore be taken up every season ny time 
during the winter, but not later than or om fe ta = 
planted on a fresh piece of Tanie 
ground w ell manured, and t 
land,—they none m them grew iw 
neighbourhood. The Ce reals, which constituted | th 
eminence of moderate height being eee 
i farm of “ Hanging Side,” the ten: 
- Robert Thomson, and is between tw 
1, 
It is on 
this pote ent they, w 
Linli ithgo ow, towards s Upha al 
Sel] eee! 
a mile of t 
ant or which is 
and three Aaa 
SBonaRer ah 
r Fak 
A e s een led to refer the figure of these bodies t 
5 T 
organic rather than ib such a purel 
| orystallisation, or any other form of m 
The 
n arly of charred stems, 
bl 
© Taia 
ird ourth eniya this 
Fy d should bed Loan into 11 or 13-inch pots 
bruary, close 
into water, that minute particles of it 
ol in Septem mber ; the saps 
serve. to pte the of ag of the 
River: 
Peters ripen Yeats re 
admirably, and 
byegone days of Raspberry-tide. Thos. 
Societies. 
— N 
Entomoxoarcat, October 6 E 0. Westwood, Esq., 
uel Qi, 
and above all, 
hree and Centa 
aggregation, | is greets known in the coun ty, and certain! 
Ss ima facie evidence is, — their substance is within P 
that it ice ist th 
under the | be oat Seay were e ika 
my: Re of fresh- -| land, and 
t 
ten miles of Poole. Now mee 
an shore 
N 
grew either on the 
le occupants papers - 
th at the ordinary shore e aay peoe 
made harom, tha! 
uite Femail: the sama 
nly a few feet from its edges, were 
3 Tet 
= aracter is q 
vial in the ex 
whil ile eac ch body like E itself 2 very ne: 
contained cyl linder. He i 
markings present due to crystal 
tinct arran; 
the ordi 
co ‘that there were 
isation, and that a dis- 
inary y ki nds of si s had not t been made è out 5 | 
ent of the component textures of any of further sustained becau! 
| suggests itsel. 
sacha Aa the Pry and that idea is still 
very 
V.P., in the chair. 
wn 
p 
z 
S 
ot 
® 
A re Carabus intri- 
ina wood near Plymouth, 
found i in an old Ash tree near 
Liquori 
specimens 
had tent bly been subjected at first to 
heat, and had afterwards bee 
eral matter, 
Bi 
an excessive 
nk Ane countless 
yaa ins 
between the head d and the mouth of the | 
altere: bh “that he con- 
tended ari > that these carbonaceous cylinders are 
more probably the eno y individuals of one defi- 
nite species s of the vegetable ramp modified by the 
DHS AMS MS 
© 
hén an a mere 
derived bar Te ira at loge , changed into 
the figu organi body by a signal pro 
ich; fan ey have been 
exposed during long ages, t ee 
Sart te 
into it, the river incest and the iver F Piddle, ‘These 
rn parts of 
f the 
pens Epilobium) py in profusion. Is it 
too much to sup that the seeds from which these 
plan 
o hibit age eir colour 
ade bse nd yokes of 
“pli 
Gammarus s, taken in deep w wells, and whieh he. con- 
be pron jesta tured t 
= ce that it was stro ongly 
d, kesy the 
cite or to siliex. 
in _favour | of the 
E 
Gammarus subterraneus of 
Dalen exhibited k 
matus Adonis, very 
markings rns di pears 
aa recen ord 
rete 
He go ood that 
rved Nomophila nage in great 
Eanboure, n near Beec hey 
Head, but | 
ch bad so com fi i 
s 
temari > ing, d r ge 
with the 
wi iai a ord’ 
| production of steme, but wholly 
the pato | of mineral bodie 
poste 
55 that as far as ho 
pose 
ts As ng had fallen wo the rivers in various 
with their waters into 
ed 
AT | nature of a force capable 
lt na 
ge to agii b 
could re 
he of producing | probably 
ike cjindia fob in indefin “st number ; that to 
No 
to the stalacti 
belong w prea of tim 
"A - 
to and 
healthy vegetation.“ is a 
tad 2? 
produe uction of cylinders, aai a little greater, som 
for th 
and interesting insects ine i i. 
Prof. Ansted’s — Elementary Course of Geology 
hi Birini has eached a second edition, It cone 
Indi. 
boun: 
to be one eran as 
bodies, 
to carry an 
however, —_ should prove 
remarkable and desery: ve atten- 
are sa least most 
Sooty, which is now e cary into the ay re of the 
wo rk. There are also additional illustrations, The 
aa by Mr. ee He also peared ee 
specimens of the small Wax moth 
$ 
mmunicated a 
. Yarrell shortly PAETE to his d esth 
Pima to the great sarc of the pect -fly =. the 
t parts of the country d 
e 
_ 
seven Zoological an 
a kind eee 
of mineri aggregatiol 
Hrotices of of 300ks, 
ompl 
| extremely useful to the general reader. ` 
Miscellaneous 
t-M Peat, which is a product of 
arises chiefly from the annual 
Ip, 
al of the Linnean Piensa Bisco No. 3. 
pina ate he and the same number of "potmi 
moian. and decay of marsh F B poet 
like, 
ee cs so Singapore and Borneo insects by 
of 
alker ; 3, among the Botanical contributions the 
being the main pore dere. 9 to ios mass, wh rah i in pro- 
e becomes cro crowned and augmented by the 
and from two to three 
of tim 
P a nearne a grees i ee yoni Loganiacese, ee ra 
Ypono ate reared from feedin <a of the results obtained by Mr. r. Darwin and | moss has a A aini swamps ant 
pon Sedum GE jerin Moore | hae the Rev. M. J. Berkeley upon the Immersion of Seeds hallows and wherever t water prevails, there 
i f Lophyrus rufus and i Salt Water, parts of which have appeared i in former iti mings e lakes, ST aa toe river courses, 
. Syme exhibited specimens of the larvee of Deile- miraba of Ubi On th spreading over every 
i eal; the larvee when young were |a note = Dr. Salter, from which the following is it 
green, and 2 bled those of Macroglossa | e xtract It oceupies considerable areas i mnan, ri 
sitions, "ade Mr. "Smith described a new species 1843, th though rapidly disappearing before drainage n a 
bee from South Australia, remarkable for its beautiful | shire determi: eepen the channels rig por plough ; i simt i 
bipectinated antennæ. Harbour to jae eiie navigation, For this a| ireland. It is found largely in the Netherlands, in 
paa — si parra eg were employed i Ri and Finland, in North America, and in insular 
3 € op Epinsuncu, July, 1856. | iio i the bottom of the channels and | positions, Nhe ab E iaoiai J, 3 ty Paps 
si of free agg al anA piers eiA e but some of 
fossil stems, found in the interior of the Trap ll quantities. Dur riog the winter ci 
Craig, hundred square | geol icali prina the Tanais a may be formed 
Aies x Toni 1M + Aoi emir con be Aste i thie eae anA Pope accumula- | Am heii that one of the mosses eana is 
pre jong an 
of cylinders exactly resemt bling the pipes 
of refined liquorice, took occasion to EE the situa- 
tion where the bodies were found, and to argue the 
Le aoa aanp es a quay was 
was made of the So takes 
me è 
f pien shore. quay 
a one mud fæ ve ge ot o Se a ae 
permet near the mouth of the 
0 leagues in circumference, 
Loire, Eine Dae a 
