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hose moral character was good, to be furnished with a had also been found in the greatest abundance in the conserva’ atory. The exhibition tents are to be placed on 
iploma, certifying as the case might be. An ordeal 8 of Firs and Y»:vs by Messrs. Stainton, | either side of this latter walk, to which the iron tent 
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by presenting themselves again for ko pit na a attacking both tk Pore foliage and young fruit; and it was with it, so as to range with the other tents. An en- 
th n made for me of the ravages attributed to Ditula | trance gate from, and an egress gate to, the Duke of 
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certainly not entitled to be termed atone ional gar March 4.—G. R. 1 Esq., in the Chair. opposite the ends and in a line with the tents, by 
deners. Obitur dictum. Among the donations 5 * — of insects from which means the latter can easily be entered in 
** Maxima est veritas e 9 >” Britannia’s Protest against | Demerara, presented by Mr. Dalton. Mr. Bond ex- weather. The strip of 3 which lies be- 
Dry-ro i 5 hibited a portion of the stem ‘of a — — tree, on the tween the iron and the “ Duke’s ce” 
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yet T still kranke to boat of three score and threo years fatl. ; lower part of which was a mass of the empty larva—and | likewise being entirely remodelled. As has been s 
‘vanity and vexation ;” and at this ge, Ihave | pupa-cases of a seed of Chilocorus, about 200 in the Holly hedge which divided it from the arboretum 
survived nearly -= the celebrated controyersiatiste that once | number, attached head downwards, gi 8 ing not has been removed; the shrubbery has been set back to 
surrounded me wi gps Ar ii neh f the He also | the boundary fence; the ground in front is bei 
ficient! th Ë foolinh-avst more than the 1 — of 4 inches o e als y 3 gr . ng 
3 ey be 3 — Sa a exhibited some o the social — Tythia | cep for a in which flower beds will dis- 
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—— degree, against which I earnestly protested in 1823 and sociella, which 124 hair pce’ between o deal planks ong the side of the new walk, intermixed here 
laid upon each other, the larve of * 2 having and there with rare Conifers, standard Roses, and other 
‘Admiral Dundas, Mr. Croker, Sir T. B. Martin, John Knowles, | formed burrows in the substance of the planks. r. | ornamental shrubs ; and altogether this will soon be 
nd Co. rei i i imens of the 
2 br Oak hb — of rom the above it will be seen by those who are 
— r This is exactly the the object I —— — —— the extre times $ of one of acquainted with the garden that the main body of the 
apes by memorials to both houses (“a plague on both,” a which the chrysalis had half 1 protruded itself. Mr. S. lawn in the arboretum is now thrown into the form of 
Shakspeare write. in 1823 and 1824, without any good e effect f Nocture | a large square, surrounded by broad gravel walks, It 
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publish a treatise on the “ Origin, Nature, Effects, and Danger fru Venezuela, sbeolately eama with the British | might also perhaps be added that it is enpagi place 
of the Dry-rot—Remedies, Ge. which proved the late John | species, N. saucea, suffus r- so a beautiful the summer. house, which formerly 5 on the lawn 
Knowles’ treatise (then Secretary to the navy board) quite wing spate of inin Favi „ taken the | in the east side of the garden, at the head of the broad 
— oh Ml Broa be HE pe nie B by —— preceding day. Mr. Stainton exhibited specimens of | walk which ere from the Duke’s peg 
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. N for me to wade through. all this naval mire | four species of Lithocolletes, reare d by him during the | Council-room, the walk being altered there so as to 
again. The object of my personi letter is to state that the | preceding month from the leaves of varicus trees ed | pass it on —— side 
the the larvæ * 
he fact is — ship was not t 1 ; 
built wien Oak eyes ty in the sinter, with "the bark on (when ti the | until May, their development having been accelerated Chea — 0 M. Gau A 
sap or the seed of dry rot has returned to the roots to renew | by being kept in an inhabited oom “a the winter. eap M pes ago, p 
the next a grow —— but with timber — was cut at bark Mr exhibi = sented to the Acade emy ee at Paris, cast lenses 
2 of crown glass and rock erystal, with which pions micro- 
sides side, that had | senescens, from the Island oE Portland, and 
Ses an See while seanding) t —— years 1 e, and then felled | Stainton read a paper on six new British Tine k ig t r Gon, M. Gaudin te rin A 
in the Wott T — when 3 ii wi in 1803 both sides ive proof | — these lenses to sore perfee * - Gaudin has a 
equally d An s pronounced positive proof In our report of the Linnean Society last week, P. 151, it last succeeded in producing an instrument which is 
against intern Oak pot > — wie, in vinta — the stated that the young Hete eropus measured, a sbot : a = within the reash eryone, ua d which perfect 
system ctised, contrary to the o 3 em o ing 3 ousandth” of an ine en is is a mistake: i t 7 
ourn y with Oak cut in winter with the bark on, for which | should have — “ sixteen thousandths of an inch.“ anewers im ee mary e eee . h it was ron 
former navy boards paid 7} per cent. . 1792, 1 believe. All very di cult to obtain a perfect glass 25 ere o 1 
one as experiments in building the Hawk, though ; 22 aaa een a ae requ uisite polis ish and homogen eit y, a and free from air 
— n oe —— 93 —— — Garden Memoranda. bubbles, yet M. Gaudin has learned that by using rock 
E 1 TUNBA oat "then 9 at that pet, — of| HORTICULTURAL Socrety’s GARDEN, ToRNHAM M GREEN, | crystal, - 8 meg y obtained which, though not 
whose aa teres before me, extracted in my treatise before men- | —Since we last visited this establishment, som i ntirely free from bubbles, give such pure images, that 
* a 8 3 was t — ‘on aan of = guns —.— portant alterations ha ve een made. r — one would carey en they were seen through a 
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(between 5 ‘sed 1779, when T} per cent. was paid as then | Of the old fruit trees in the middle 1 mf eaga refracting m M. Gaudin has also succeeded in 
equivalent to the bark), and she, instead of lasting 10 years, | within the Apple belt, more especially on the wes obtaining spherieal glass globules, without any append- 
like the N (a Ary ‘the present navy generally, on a fair side, has been removed, the ground has been all age; these form his biconvex len magnifying 
von ha I hein: Se 3 W 8 = aa levelled and trenched 3 feet deep, and young trees 
and afte rvi ion, ie ° 1 2 
no Soult ù upon these tects: Why do the Admiralty now have been planted. The condition into which the | low powers are obtained by plano-convex lenses, is 
allow 123 per cent., one-quarter extra, for timber hewn in the | old trees * fallen rendered these operations neces- to say globules with one half, viz., that by which d 
poent with — 8 . . soe ary, more special in the ease of Cherries and were sus suspen nded, cu ut a away. The ho: . ntal — 
O confirm a ese facts must mention at Ing games 
in 1603, made a law to build our navy with winter.hewn Oaks | Plums, for the —_ of both of these fruits er Bot down | being more simple soi less . in thee 
in the bark = (strange to record) was repealed in 1808, into the dry yellow loamy subsoil, and the tops were | microscopes, 5 to see with them they are turned 
t need existed ‘or sound, “Oaks. Ships then | in consequence ra int y getting into ill he alth. The new | towards the r e of light. The lenses are brought to 
Tasted 40 years, “instead of 10 now. I believe the expense of | plantations are to be divided into several compartments | their places by a sliding motion instead 
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* 1 plti benr ni repairs . e mater —.— by 4 feet Grass walks. One of these compartments is the former being quicker and less liable to — fi in 
for this cause, when he defended — system I always con- planted with young Pear trees, chiefly for the purposes | the gen an inexperienced o r. These 
demned ; onay now (if you will do us both the justice to insert | of espalier training ; another is occupied with Plums, | r ier ende 
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and have no — animosity against either, or any other formerly planted — e been rearranged and placed | Citizens of London, may be added the followi in 
. ,,, with a view to give them a better chanee | whichit appear that the Wild Cat isenumerated. — P. 
: which I trust I have always endeavoured to discharge, as | of of fruiting t than — would have had in their former Rotuli Hundredo 3° můr. 13. 
every 3 sober, and aa oiii is — to do, ‘well | Nearly half — er in the Item dicunt * Libertas ‘iva Pau Regis talis 
1 ) parallel withthe Peach | ast Quod ives ean is possunt currere ad 
: also recommended cheap substitutes for bark in! the tanner’s wall has also been cut off this part of th he orchard, for Lepores Wisa ata 15 " Marelegos [Catos*] 
k key. is in the better accommodation of vans which bring plants usque ad Pontem de Stanes ; et ad januam Parci de 
— of E aree goari; 5 — ign pe eee d j so that to the exhibitions. This is surrounded by a Holly Enefende, et ad Arcubus de Stratforde, et ad Crucem 
n 5 after an expenditure | Hedge about 6 feet high, which was lifted from the east de Wautham 3 aot ista libertas impeditur per Ware 
of above 50007., to my deep sorrow and loss, although I have side of the arboretum, and planted here last autumn, | Comitis Cornubise, apud 1 5 et Warrenam 
—.— learnt os despise all human honour, This is written | and it is ente pposite the tents by a wide gateway Willielmi de "Say, apud Edelmeto: int 
hrough the Peach wall a short distance above the warranto, “ Wild cats,” says formerly 
dain all 5 ; 
could l ede and wori * * 1 „Duke of Devonshire’s walk.” A border on the out- reckoned among the beasts A chase; as appe: a the 
shave compressed as much as petite $ k one sheet of paper. | side of the Holly hedge, surrounding the van ground, is | charter of Richard the Second to the Abbot of 
Sie transit gloria m mundi.” John Bu i i i l hunt the 
Sorieties, of chard of old trees, yet a large was uld use 
ge Pe Feb. 4.—The President in the Chair. mass in the centre still remains untouched. All the 2 apparel than such as is made of — 6 or cat’s 
Mr. Weir xhibited a | box of — D— illus- | young trees have been planted in rows 15 feet apart, skins.“ In much reo times it was also the object of 
gt specimens | and stand 20 n t the sportsman’s diversion. 
of separate species on detached cork-boards, for facility| may perhaps be worth mentioning that horizontally 
amg in tri cabinet. —— Douglas exhibited trained Pear trees on walls show bloom thickly from 
a new British Tor allied to tigmonota redimitana, their stems, and even on the stems, to the very extremi- 
which roposed to name Se, ps its captor, ties of — This may no cae “i ibuted | 
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OR Leh a da r ²˙²˙¹ꝛ1ͤ;dl.⁰¹ ] Z; ²˙¹ . te gone on eee ae 
e x pini- | to sys of ing w! i out 
colella of Zeller, to this country, fo ere. The latter consists in going over the trees at 
on Fir trees, Mr. Stephens ibi pecimens of intervals, gradually shortening ight sh 
Orthosia ruticilla of Esper, another new British speci ong the upper half of the tree 
from Y. re. Mr. S. Ste exhibited a fine specimen | those on the lower hed. In this way 
of the extraordin Eury: horrida; di 0 ts of the sap. 
0 Vario bea : Mr. Roberts s 
neighbourhood of Para, collected by Mr. Bates ; and a Strawberry pliit. Neti = nee as tay _ a clean 
of Lamia textor, which he had kept alive since | and neat ap of walks in 
last October. A paper was read by Mr. Stainton on | cropped ground form Sead dscns Ae 
the genus angie lp of 22 And a conversation In addition to the work in the orchard, alterations | in 
ensued relative to the supposed in . . He See i carried out in 
———— tiorana ders the arboretum, under re 
concurring that there ed but little ground for = omg A new gravel walk 15 feet wide has been formed from | nother” e 
‘on, as, except in the instance quoted by Mr. the principal entrance in the Duke of Devonshire’s racy ATA 
1e insect had not been observed to atinck fruit | sond ‘ep to ths irom tent, where IE anii in a circle sur- Sa eaten Vor. Felis 
the i by 
SFV rounded by raised beds; and outof the game eirele another Du Cange, v. Catta Gana, 4 |09 
-althongh its larva was polyphagous ; the perfect insect | walk, of eymilar width; leads up to the end of the large ¢ Ieleworth, 7 t Edmonton. 
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