| рускивкв 25, 1865.) THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE 1205 
either hand, а u l Най Mr. | to eat we Would se parate through the fragrant woode | Apple" of the Mexicans ( 
Ке» Ww a written to the реја or Curator | іп twos ог thr alone; in c Case y d or | aia gh ge [T ре е буг I have sees о T 
st Kew he would have saved himself a great deal of | over i bcr. picking - plants and seeds, climbing |it are very erro are most botan 
trouble, and have found that it was a German who stole | Pine trees, or sitting for bours over a pile of cones UR, - Deom "de биш s ts who were eee 
tbe Palm, and not an Irishman. Itis well known that | with my note-book on н knee, meditating on Dr. | anxious ng picture than an accurate 
this young "man was dismissed from the gardens at that | Nuttall's species, or Mr. Andrew Murray’s synonyms, ue of the gal гес and appearance of the 
time—not for bis good conduct, b may Де. sure. | sometimes, more than once, to drop asleep in tbe shade. | objec 
| y. N., Ke. [The statomo nt in above Ав wet d along, P. Lambertiana became qui - (То be continued.) 
| cation Y with what we have сб ће гуи of "the commo, disputin ng the ground with „its ooge ЕЕЕ“ 
| matte 16 doe s not, however, ; follow that A. Mrs - unlike P. "y stately 
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| эү" say all Irishmen are dcs J portion of British Columbia, We had been iam 11у! Royan HoRTrIOULTURAL: Dee. 19.—W. Wilson 
ascendin, ng, but it was mot а the 27th that we ка Saunders, Esq., in the m Two new Fellows were 
ascades, south of Diam | elected. The. Chairman, adverting toa magnificent group 
reign Corre spon Peak, in right earnest. „The ascent wasa very easy grade, | n caste Skinneri and other winter-floweriog plants 
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я бошт BIA BOTANICAL ASSOCIATION.— The | though — lt th f the passes i - i bat t. 
№ oin y» extracts from the mecum journal of | the Las untains (е, J., the “South Pass, " where the 1 ena Li» aer t0 indlonta tbe hi b 
s E the роне, recently received by the Com. | grade is are be agre E th resolved to have 
]t is mw e Roaue wo Valley, | itself in the F ts in seed in the valleys we |a medal prei pared, to et uam at the Tues- 
cod Oregon (lat. 5' N.J, and dated 26th - : passed thro 1-4 n y hore re in flower. e Rhodo- p ay peor a to exhibitions similar м that 
August last :— rons were in unripe seeds at the base, but as we | furnished on this oecasion by Mr. Veitch. This is to be 
I have just returned from the journey into the nde on they appeared MM in flower, until ав | second in value to the gold Banksian, and is to E la. 4н 
country east of the Cascade Mountains, and embrace we ga ined the su e passed through fragrant | the Lindley Medal, in honour of one who had done во 
tbe frst opportunity which my return to the wl thickets in a flus of their. pink-blossoms, standing out | much for the Society, and whose loss it now had to 
Ке nts gives me to дирип an outline of the |in relief from the snows of Diamond "beg, giving|]ament, Mr. Saunders alluded іп terms of satis- 
" lts of that exploration. one some idea of what the ооба thicke F ti the 
20 the 17th of July the little vilage of Eugene, at|of the Himalayas must be. I fo 
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their departure for the “plains” and the Indian Here, also, were shrubberies of Ceanothus velutinus, | about to close. The Rev. M. J. Berkeley ала 
country, and on the afternoon of the same day they | Dougl, with its bunches of white blossoms. 'Che|attention to three new € which 
marched eastward. That Бн. оа І overtook cma 0 е - was 4441 feet in height, and | were shown by Mr. Robson, to G. Cooper, Esq 
them, and I need not say received a m weleome asa | Diamond Peak probably 10,000, and а T. south оё! Old Ken Road. Two of pm had yell m 
guest of the United States' е GOTRERUN roh РТ was duly | the 44th dud st north latitude. The в p^ жав | brown-coloured somewhat mbling 
installed a member of the io. — ыны was | splendid. The crags of Diamond Pe kw those ot үт llii or radiatum; the other, A looked 
already constituted, seated on logs, stum ocks, and гы left, and uf in the southern distance va snows | like a spotless variety of O. Alexandrm, evidently 
saddles round the military c chest, E t sip deofa|of Scott's Peak and Mount Williamson, while the belonged, he said, to the same category as Pescatorei, 
noble Oak (Q. Саггуапа ?); and what with the tents, | wooded valleys and — Du of the main chain of | pulchellu um, and m branaceum, but differed from all 
the troops of horses pasturing under mounted guards, |} the Cascades lay bene | these in having the column fringed instead of lobed, ив 
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trees, the whole ds ci quite a Tartar: trees of the true Abies Williamson "Newb, a tall value of Poinsettia pulcherrima for the decoration 
looking encampment, Before I bade good-bye graceful of conservatories in winter was next pointed 
my military friends I had got familiar б in its re Newberry found it, = attached to out; after which e" Pes gets to 
with that scene. The space at my disposal and the Pac ifie Ro ad MA e little n of this, above | а dried specimen of Li ich had 
the shortness of шу time will only permit ere is no doubt of the аат 98: | borne fruit Кеб: this, year ч баш "Lengerille, near 
to place the summi? of the last month's travels into a en I am inclined to believe that the Abies po: 189, terborough of the eed Marquis of 
diary form ngst others, I obtained seeds of the | which I discovered the Puntledge Mou Huntly. It teted t that e country this 
Mabonia abi. ЕТ tenax, &e.; and I noticed here, | Vancouver's "muere e s if not identical, is pnr | гайы form, a magni t тей p eti in in height, 
for the first time, Libocedrus decurrens, Torr., a stately plied, 4 scent "Vl the “ pu Әни а Us ав 8)! i with a stem во е 7 fee diameter. In ti ry it 
not un n gene uja жор ugh g 
Menziesii, but hardly so elegant in contour and in the red. probably the * "black "Pie" аз ой rg me | although M ойы, т refuse to root; ge nde iE it 
downward sweep of the branched, On the 18th we by the U. explorers as growing in the waterless shou ld p rove to ripen seeds, а point of — 
were off by break of day, and camped b tl hi importance Mr. Wi 1воп Saunders 
usual routine. We passed жа little us dene геа Before arriving at Deschutes River, we observed two | attention to nu bers of cut sprigs of qoe 
at the base of rocky bluffs, E the first few deii beautiful lakes in the valleys, surrounded by ded | fr. ragrans and epa us grandiflorus, which were placed 
- our march, then the farms t few wer d fewer, | shor orea, and ying бака glistening in the sun, Неге | оп one of the tables for distribution. This favourite 
the road rougher and г нан А. d th great abundance, though, as always [ax wall plant, he said, seldom seeds; the M 
middle fork of the Willamette, and TA all settlements beppens, sparingly in fruit, Taxus pin cades Murr., | fed n riety һе. Уна obtained from cuttings str 
bebind . We: rode alo: ong in sight of the Willamette, which | whi ch m might when Tang near the sea, be profitably ragrans—a singular sport, the true аа E: 
E bows, Abies Douglasii now which had, he sesia never yet been satisfacto: 
wooded ba TAN Pine ind RAS d yellow: lonyod Maple, tapped, а as pem most of the Conifere of the | explained. 
E itae cultivated valleys between rocky “b slopes. The two doslivities of the Cascade Dec. 19 (Floral Committee).—M r. nas челер 
On the 20th we travelled eight miles over а DL te t and the productions on eitber EN differ collection of plants above alluded to consisted of n 
trail, with projecting points of rocks and "eg m more vidi than do the two sides of t ky | f. than 53 well-bloo: deme. et y 
gulfs ^ beyond. I saw no tree of any great interest | Mountains— different soil, diffe zt оа "огеш, t | Skinneri, arie B which were exactly alike, showing 
with the exception. of Тард; though Abies | animals, p different species of plants. This bears |in an pis cua degree the great liability to variation 
ii o! = et. Оп |true until the termination of the range, though towards | which exists in this species of Orchi Associated 
the 21st we nu the beautifal valley of Grande |t vedi xcu of E California, where the climates approxi- | with them were — Barkeria Skinneri and its 
Prairie, mis camped on Little Prairie, | ma! is less marked ; but in Oregon, W: coloured ety called aai gi the 
where we lay Pu until е 23d. Rattlesnakes peo Tortor ай British Columbia, the most superficial Australian Dendrobium Tattonian the RE 
lucifer, ES d), and the western chip monk (Tamias observer pre fail to notice it. Rhododendro and Pri 
Townsendii, Bach.), began n toa appear in considerable | For en seven c» aye par course lay through a | Helena, the firet nearly pure white, the second bright 
numbers, ry san eiae covered with pumice-stone and rosy ч Thibaudia mac” сапа; geya pul- 
On the 24th we travelled in a south easterly cou ince or lava, krass на of f the many now M ree M of Aucuba, vizą, longifolia, 
mon woods of iz tim зай MEC Donglasii, Thuja volca: of the ыч range, and intersected Ъ by | japo на лы, all bearing bright red 
Li » den o randis, and streams d йоны from qe peaks. These st frui a p Ms yellow-b 
Ee y nd-I n а САН jm e so far | pres ze а curious Acad ari characteristic pes а a valuable eem plant introduced by Mr. 
[s tb, splendid trees s of "the slately jore Lambertiana. of t eeks flowing ‘from - snow peaks in the Veitch a year or. two ago, from Peru. From the 
ion of Сага California. І f f th 
e Southern shrub, e tanea ebrysopbylla, D. morning they were almost dry, py in the aftern gated Aucuba in fruit ; ; the bright yellow-Bowered 
e Perina Kellog), with a Lonicera, SERR by the melting of the snow under the Led sun, they у= minum nudiflorum, a useful shrub at this 
R an gu rom k to bank. Near Shasta Butte, іп | of the year; Musa coccinea, one or » Crotons, 
ea of n. piorar us?) І also noticed Alnus d N. California, travellers may be seen waiting, thirs ids Dracsnas of differen t sorts, one of the newer kinds of 
Nutt, and a smaller species, probably Alnus viridis. and anxious, until the stream соте down, which | Gymuogrammoa, and other plan 
By R stream appeared PAM monilifera хра poe towards the end of the season does not happen often P. у ‚Ду. gre роне) а. e dish of Tangierine 
nwood. tree), characteristic until 9 P.M., when horses and men rush to the stream | Orang m Mr. Hivers, 
and Cornus Мааш, with its BORY "ite bi адв to duenen X their thirst. The Coniferæ were limited to | and М М. "Сарае, "ot en тойым yia collection 
may here rema пк hat I have never found what s ree ntorta, P. La EN and P. ponderosa;| of Apples ai п гиа m n him last week at the 
Nuttall describes in his cya аз Thuja pio Р =, though ] i "believe that many of th e groves were of the International Баш б Бк Some Potatos also 
believe it to ón Шү а cd acids uja gigan 
Nutt, 16 was described а 8 being рг оп ње pes Balfour for the Oregon ME under the nam 
north-west of the Straits of Juan de Fuca, I hav e | of P, беу, It may possibly be а T. ташу ZOOLOGICAL or LONDON : Nov. 28.—Dr. J. E. Gray, 
4 a jes to intents poses), Р, pas in the fair cM Sclater made some remarks 
Ilan, and there I ШР вееп а Тһоја ета though P. ponderosais wr сено E ond afford some recent interesting additions to the Society's s 
smaller size and denser branches, but considered i materials = roc study. e than likely that Раша А 1 
nothing more than Tb. à fn htea, and in this opinion 1|P. bra ngl.; P. Engel: manni, Torr.; P.|in various derit gardens on the "MET n 
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also Observed thickets of Ceanothus velutinus, Dougl., | аге all yi, Mu varieties. Often on the same tree by Capt. J. л Dow, F.Z.S., оп the occurrence t rox 
Which is, I believe, what I sent in th ecollection of 1863 | may be found such differences. In these t лаз pecimens of а poisonous fish (Ihallasso- 
аа Üreodaphne, sp. No. 11. Ihad not then seen its| may be also found Picea mobilis, Pinus . sd pictae) a at Nou Rien were read from letters 
flower, It is a very fragrant shrub, with bright pra and ue pi "uut will search for later|addressed to а Secretary by Mr. ios гече 
яць leav : the rene secured = earlier | Н.М. Vice- in Formosa, concerni 
е were up at break of day at reveillé, saddled our s seling ones n low to bet itted t me Society's Menagerie. 
xw at 14d БАП ыйы у ыла el in the grey | Zucc. a tof Those ranges n koci mes —— Dr. Gray co on of the species of 
pleasant summer mornings on the prairie, Dou E with its huge cones, now makes appearance Golden. Motes КОЕТ i). ced upon an exami- 
ed бен through theopen woods; then b reel dt, in these асада, though Mr. tr. Donglas* з pine is зрада of e British Museum, He 
and the. q uartermaster, surgeon, an "myself wi ould go | not of the tree I have seen, but agrees better with that on [o habits of, the Kinkajou 
me 3-head and select the camp. Aftertaking реА, of P. Coulteri of Don. The Manzaneta, or “little (белер we notes on the aud on the exterual 
