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THE GARDENERS’ 
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my essays, both in the Journal of the Royal Agri- 
the age ied ale ect has 
authority; and 
not cavilled at if knowledge is to 
pa instru 
2 the economy of Pemphredon or Gemonus uni- 
ie was publishe n the above Journal, as well as 
three other ins sey 55 store up the aphi 
for their larvæ. They w will avail themselves of a 
n to very r 
Mr. Westwood, in last week’s Chronicle, seems to thin 
that no one, from reading the account of “ Ruricola,” 
the 2 that the lar arva of — moth 
tself, or tha 
baa: This a ars to 
Ruricola” has so äistinetly shown the 
extent to which the caterpillar has ed on the rin 
ea 
Mr. 
wood suppose n a 6 exist for three o 
four months, if not on the Pear, while erer. in a glass | t 
— Surely this would not be in accordance with the 
“ ordinary economy of in 
any doubt upon the seth ect, I beg to he 
does feed upon the rind of the Baar surrounding t 
which convenient den he retires w 
i d 
Mr. Westwood 1 
ye ous hich I 
trust these particulars will remove. Mr. wood is 
also wrong in supposing that this was merely an ac 
during the las yea t Mr 
scruples not to eos that if this were 5 case, the . 
been long since sng he 
= re: s argument infallible. of Mr. 
Wes 5 e the last 
might set down as mere ec- 
ick up facts in regard to five species 
of i in ee the economy of which ea hitherto remained 
unkno The sna 
— 
Curtis, to my own knowledge, was acquainted with the 
at least tw ore this; for I found it 
5 P. i 6, and sent him — 
of it; m rip- 
des 
Royal A pb car ih 8 l 
is, therefore, — b 
ve source, altho not 
: certain 
presa Cc ledge from Mr 
Hardy. I may add, that no ag a is more icul 
in citing authorities than it is 
oto very Tay. contribuia have 
been levied upon the stores contained in his unrivalled 
pi without the slightest acknowle „ F. d. 
Half-hardy Plants.—In your answers 
— (hich by the way I must own you Biew o with 
5 laureola 
Top us all 97 it. 1. The — to this inquiry I — 
gerly the last y 
Lond. 
Horticultural Societ 
n of the 
y, from seeds sent by Dr. Royle, 
who found it on the tops of cold wà — mountains in 
the Himalayas, where 1 Rall: f 
snow. Isita ing panes, with fragrant | 
blossoms f L No. 1170, l will be a truly valuable addition 
es, Many of! 
to to our shrubberies 
— — mum are dam 
may be ee for ding 1 
one but 
- | selliana are u 
o- | really belonging to the genus Ski immia. 
est- | celsa, Pinus i insignis, brutia, nee Palla 
or — With 
| spilin 6 1 published 
ct life.“ In order to remove | fectly agree with the Leadi 
! | a thirst for i 3 scientifically i 
ally 
say a few | o 
wood oe oe — Curtis bor- 
of thi m Mr. den 
probable 
his information of | the 
h I do 
cent 
they strive for advaneemen nt, 
though a few small 3 3 from New Zealand 
have lost their leaves, a 
ct 
Ags 
4al 
ib m o 
that the readers of 
har 
mate, if a trial b affor 
the trial is making and has 
the accra Pinus Hartwogit an ; 
ed with me, and Pin na, 
ASE lg ‘ilifolia, 2 longifolia likely to succeed 
equally w ye the evergreen variety of Taxodium 
distichum. N name 3 = few good — 
plants of striking rpe ador. by side of a 
rass terrace 600 feet jong; | sa — length of which is 
open to south-west = and sit high; the 
other halt i is a by F —— assist me ? 
as is the 
on too —— a scale to gather hints from. 
A De- 
vonian Limonia i 3 
It is figured i in 
æ Asiaticæ We want to kno 
Wallich’s “ Plant ow 
Among the w ame jezi 
it bears the weather. 
8 
faudbita, Abies Deodara and Beeten J: funiperus ex- 
eee us tice Fees. 
a.] 
— J will just 
passing glance at ents of yo ur e 
orre- 
— week. I = 
ing Article in the previ 
the palie 
by 
nd ca speciosa has ok aa 
ood | srt ots gt tg except where na ailed close to the wall, 
2 from the false, 
y | the great pr Ag we personal visi 
? | the port ase the 
ed 
nless the best spec 
| pi aa are suited to their Wr tion. 
— et, and none having the skill 
0 
a practised bot a skilful 
ergetie E N con to solve 
very 
where “barks” are collected. In Nae words of the 
bee, committee, which was entrusted with the pre- 
liminary examination of his collections, “ — traveller 
accompanied the bark peelers or Cascarilleros ms the 
vast forests in which the Cinchona trees are seattered, 
distant 2 a league tip 3 3 Days and 
nights he lived in huts men; he then fol- 
lowed the barks, from — to ein till the 
nab} 
tween consumption a 
sorts are e rt with rapid des r does 
there appear rere that this calamity, 
for such it must surely nae consider arrested, 
need i o European 
is — 
t un — oo ce be Nee rat shed, for the finest of fat 
Ca lisa; been raised in England from seed co 
— rés ‘De den through his friend i Mr. — 
— and have no intentio n to defend the — and we o believe that these gentlemen have 
of the “ blue and green sai ’ notoriety, leaving | also placed seeds in nthe hands of the East India Com- 
them to your correspondent, who seems to understand | pany, in “aj pa ast territories the plant 
their “natural history” so we I — to say a few is certain to find A suitable soil and climate. This 
ds in respect to quite a different class of men— | Calisaya, ‘he. 33 of whose real origin is entirely 
gardeners. I view gardening as a science, and a gar- | owing to Dr. Weddell, is incomparably superior to the 
dener as an intelligent man, an peetable man. others of the genus. It is the great source of quinine, 
There many such at the present i = your 
re 
e | propositions for a . tely high prem 
prentices is excellent, and that no gardener oaii take 
p of the wag an for “ improve- 
i o be hoped 
n the 
choke up "occasionally the more useful 
I do not pretend to say that in 1— — 
0 Tega” to take 8 for a profit without 
his employer’s eee It a 
saying there are very * 
ven any note, that 
es in pa nga 
certainly not i ry ; that parc be about che 
same = Mnr as * — a lad to a flour-mill to learn the 
baking business. A dering a gardener's time, it 
is no such thing; the apprentice follows the routine 
until he becomes sufficiently acquainted with it to cause 
into its objects, then 
is the time he cea ge will require mne 
explanations from the gar ardener ; this, as 
matter of course, is gone into in a -e I ‘would 
by the way, tell eee that 
falt se 
ag ardener i on sense, 575 ere Follows hie a 
aa set of rul be a really useful man he 
must dive into — particu ularly, those ar- 
dening bears directly on, such as table pat n 
chemistry, &e.; and, in fact he gored study an 
ence upon which gardening does not bear more = 
I can im, too, tl one of the businesses 
or “ professions” of the day present more scope for 
the mind, and that he must not rest r the banner 
f ignorance, but ind than a common 
Labourers w a certai n sense, but employers 
are generally aware that ta have their places properly 
and economically man: y do best t ploy an 
intelligent man, not a mere labourer. 1 console myself , 
plan 
present ens of a botan 
t would 2 any f to it | com 
every 100 lbs. of its —— yielding from 3 to 33 lbs. of 
hat 
p- | the sep ate. 
a point in the structure or economy of these 
8 been neglected by the author. His detailed 
observations upon the hitherto ill- understood anatomy 
of the bark are full of interest and important facts ; his 
ical discrimination of the peculiarities by which 
at part of the subject; an 
feos ae 3 climate, soil, and 
ing the range of species, are 
ke “fally without the prolixity so 
ellers who are 
such a sth si oe he e our A 
at much 8525 the vi views eet br. Weddell u upon this 
question, 
| omit the following conclusion to his examination of the 
clima 
Cinchona climate. 
e trees or — plants e 
Cin 
chonas w 
a catalogue of a large part of the — 8 
of western America, or, if you please, of a 
hi the e time produces Wheat and 
extent of this zone, an places 
principe 2 i ar foresta, whioh pnia — 
moreover b 
e tropies; and d that, excepting the in- 
equality of the 3 I found resem- 
ween —— forests of Matto 
Qg 
“3 
tain points of Bo a 
s e the alae inhabited by the genus Cinchona, 
now limited, extends ¢ 
vy thinking 
and xesponsibility d devolvia gona ge in addition to 
mony I priva has to endure before he is old 
U 
enough d eee es generally 
By? is five or six years more t than th at of ordinary 
j trades. Neither do we find them on the whole a dis- 
ted but, 1 course, like all sensible men, 
and, I am happy to say, 
get it. I will say no more on this subject, fi 
assured you will spare no pains to p gardener i 
his proper position, no matter whether it be a trade or 
z e e J. N. [We have many letters on = 
subject, but we "e it needless to publish mor 
pe apas ing opinion on the subject s 
another 
Rebirws, 
Histoire Naturelle des 8 Par M. H. 
limi over about 29° of latitude. 
8 ts a which W bends 
Te represents a curve, following the direction of the 
= of the A , commer with 
na Se and eoinei with its 
re it maintains an elevation va- 
rying a little’ according to latitude, 
within the limits ee eG The middle 
We forbear to 3 the W details intro- 
into Dr. Weddell’s 3 opportunities for doing 
hereafter, when 
Weddell, M.D. Paris, Masson. Folio, Pp. 108, and ifi 
34 plates, engraved on ee works 
Ar last we possess in the admirable before us an 
authentic and complete history 
importance ma; id to have 
ee old favourites 5 
een visited, 
