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are not palikely to find, unless they follow our ad- seeds on a small hill, no ar from the town of Tun-che, and does not agree with my plant in several important 
vice, ho wot i e it may be, that the “ little | in the green wuy-chow. While so en- matters. I have therefore named this species Berberis 
eople > will eventual] swallow up the “ great ones.” gaged I accidentally caught a glimpse of a very fine Bealei | thus deseribe it: A) 
y P Sr specimen of the Funereal Cypress, described in my next | 8—10 feet gh. Leaves 12—18 inches long, pinnate 
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pe ig be aera p ondi tion of — 8 termined on going to the spot where it was growing, to | cordate at the base, odd one ovate and cordate, pointed 
9 e present condition enjoy a nearer view. I desired my attendant to ac- |and spiny, smooth, of a shining green, and very likethe 
Sraunton’s celebrated Mane Andi W6 ardi somoany hioin ia ny ripe seeds might be found upon | English Holly. Flowers in terminal spikes, spikes 
happy to gratify their ext, Ai by 3 a it. As we approached the village we discovered that about 12 in number, each 6—9 inches long, yellow, 
following memoran modan which w to eer, Sco the tree was inside a garden, which was surrounded by — of a glaucous blue. Flowers in winter, Dec, 
gardener to the Right t Hon. Goutie “The a high wall. Naturally supposing that there must be a| March. From the district of Hwuy-chow, China, 
number of flowers on — large Mango Tree ean — gate somewhere, we walked round the walls until we Chinese name Shae-ta-kong-la. N. 4 (There 2 10 
8 uarter of a million. There came to p ru cottage, which seemed to serve the | doubt about this being Berberis japoni The 
pu ge. We — in here 1 all the Professor — did not know the 9 — — 
flowers on eac N pi g , coolness of Chinamen, no one asking any questions, and | a Holly and a Berberry.] 
2100: but mall p of thes per eer — : tree! mid ie a dlaidated old 
perfe garden. arge house whic en the mansion in 
8 p 3 le, even und er the most favourable former days . like the garden, in a ruinous condition. GRAVEL WALKS. 
FOF PERCE ae 7 e Cypress 8 in the middle of the place In the various communications which have yet ap- 
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ay season s D SEEDS of all kinds are to be N N 1 “had Wa 1 Its height was about | interest or impo 
sown in heat having now arrived, and almost every | 50 feet, the branches * Horizontally from the trunk, | cussed. The principal of these are the appearance of 
gar e ‘having bad or doubtful ‘samples entrusted | then curved u rr and were again pendulous at the walks, as parts of a 8 e and the 
to his care, we venture to Pe attention to an old | their points. The — — hung straight 5 
subject, anit ‘hich recent information has and many of them nearly reached the ground. aja ; : 
been gained, and which is — — a very im Having taken a survey of the place, we were on our comfort, it will be admitted that it may exercise a con- 
portant ane: way out when an extraordinary plant, growing in a Se ane ee on ta ae Wee, on 
Iti is now many 2 since Mr. Orro, of Berlin, pecladed corner, met my eye. When I got near to it nuts 2 is r 
1 found that it g rberis, | cording as a walk is not artistically treated, the 
t o belonging to the section of Mahonias, and having, of sean and — 1 of a "garden may be either pre- 
hidile filled. wick oxal; = 4 7 N course, pinnated leaves. Each leaflet was nearly as | Ser ved or m 
& ned Min OXALNG * , an remain there large as the leaf of an English . spiny, and of a In the two diferent styles of landscape gardening— 
till the germination is observable, which 3 fine, dark, shining green colour. The b was about the old geo cal and the modern English—walks. 
takes place in from 24 to ih ser ba’ — 3 | 8 feet high, much branched, and far 2 in beauty have, I conceive, ajr puy a very different part. Of the, 
are taken out, and sown all the known species of 2 4 — Mit 17 formal style, good bold walks are necessary and promi- 
Another way is to wet qaier ia cloth ges — — fault—it was too large to move ring away. nent features, by which alone can be sufficiently indi- 
acid, on whic e are put, and it is then secured a leaf, however, and ma — 1 ‘hia. 170 Best * cated the lines of which that style is composed. To 
folded up and kept in a stove; by this method | plant grew, a order to get some cuttings of it when I ag r oe 8550 ao 9 N of 
small and seeds will germinate equally as well | Was ready to leave that part of — country amare Peete AE ad roca DOA n sr 
as in the bottle. Also — small —— 8 Look PRD es ing onwa en a r the far-famed 3 1 eo 3 oe sere em >. * 
pots and pl * ; ung-lo mountain, where n Tea plant is said in teness, brea epte A or lawn being 
diluted, i ate od d y n * f thrice a, day til they to have been first and thy — * I took up my the leading — ne me 
3 to ‘grow Eee Nen nst be taken to | dumed Wang the arm-house which belo onged toa man Now it 1 04 hea ri tou & 
d the N one of my servants. Amidst | ceded, that raised walks, much rounded in the centre 
remove the seeds out of the acid hy soon as the leas en, oe ‘A will be alike unfitted to h ise with th al flate 
vegetation is observable. Mr. Orro found that = rowed which Tvs i ** 1 eee e 5 g ne pte eae ot e 
this m eds which ee from 20 to 40 years 8 introduce to renee T had Tenai kai essence of the geometrical style, and with the demands 
old — * the 3 sort, sown in the usual kie ants to procure some young plants from the of the English manner for the quietness and conceal- 
t grow neighbouring gardens, as I could not believe the species | ment of walks, In the latter case, it is true. 
"E is smid that — teas rived grea antage 80 rare as only to be found in the old garden thee I | might be wholly planted out from the lawn by shrubs 
om s plan, to dere our attention 3 been | had first met with it. However, they either could not of various heights and ers ; but this wo 
more i drawn in consequence of Mr. Va find it, or, what was more probable, they gave ro volve carrying the walk close to the boundary of a 
Hovurrs, a most intelligent and skilful cultivator, 2 n about the matter. Knowing the pote t | piace, or pk oly sens ry y one — eerie 
havin influence of dollars, I called three or four of the famil wn, an estructive of anything like effective 
g only a os months since spoken of i 4 ‘Ae Walks tha raised ahii 
ariety 
terms rt commenda ad preserved, pro dollar te any one of them | the surface 4 the gara T cpa — up — — 
Ih mised a 
á . have been also. used, with apparent | who would bring me a small plant of the same thing. ej consequently, 
vantage, fo ron same purpose. ‘As seed cannot | One of them immediately went out, and to my surprise | gardener, or oF capable of ERLE nicely a ‘adapted to either of 
ed in less than inutes with a 
eas premises be con- 
germi u carbon with which it is loaded | and. h utes with a | the prevailing styles of pa —.— 
is to a considerable extent removed; the removal of fresh df of the plant in question. That will do, walk, in a formal — 
this element is effected by converting it into car- said I, “that is just the thing I t; bring me a d "ot tness (though it need n 2 
acid, for which a large supply of young plant with good roots, and I shall give 2 level, or it will never be dry), to make it corres 
th ward. The held a with the ex d evenness of everything 
oxygen is required. Under ped ; and ev e 
the is furnished by the ecomposition of sultation amongst themselves in a low tone, ind else in the garden ; and a serpentine ware amidst the 
water by the vital forces of the seed; but, when at last said, the 1 bad some 3 medica flowing outlines of the more natural style, would seem 
De ae a 2 s and that t — possessor would part : —— keeping down more or less below a general 
E with it. me this one,” I replied, “ „ and} il] | tevel, that it may be as inconspicuous as 
priy oxygen by some other means. Hougorpr be able to buy a dozen with the imo do at i l that these re t 
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ncy does not want money, he is rich , 
enough, but he re- | allege that they need not be so, when the foundation of 
5 = liberty, and his report vas N 8 a plant now and An bhe . is the walk is properly formed and drained, and the gravel 
e. unwell, and therefore he will not ith i — * is used is of tly porous iption. We have 
In 12 Har v. „ Mr. Lxusonx, of Ki Imarnock, was very provoking, but hei the Chinese oa OE e Bee N aike in description : 
3 newly slaked lime with old Spruce Fir seeds, | their refusal, there was nothing for it bat © pot going u years, and I have formed quite as many more in dif- 
and he asserts that, although under ordinary circum- | another tack,” as sailors say, and trying my nék ferent parts of the neighbourhood ; and though the soil 
tances they would hardly grow at all in the second |in that way. This 3 determined to do, “Well, at is mostly a stiff clay, and the 2 of the middle 
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This result is attributed to thel a of lime for pect aan W. e eee ay down p agr og Dene — — jokes “a prar pi ace iia i 
carbonic acid; and it has been supposed that the ful shrub ps een A 8 . 1 
i btai os fee eta er. ao Ari Nerd ag 5 5 left slightly ay cea the surface. And yet we have scarcely 
from’ te to “ bloom unsee tried hard to induce the uncle | ang gratings to take off the ce water. 
germinating bavia halle momke 45 . th 2 with it, but could not succeed. It might be| Tue annexed section will show ne —— = vat 
OF pairs y as | that he really valued its medical properties, or, what : eae have walks made. It is to a scale of 9 
n ‘ R was just as likely, he perhaps supposed I might be in- | to an inch, and represents a walk 10 feet wale, 
a e ich amateurs | duced to offer some extravagant sum. He told me that 3 inches in the centre, 
try better than pine! pay to them we more it had produced most marvellous effects upon patients ) vi 
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care that experim not open } to small pieces and boi inches k. 
future cavil. To avoid which, it is indispensably and the decoction is taken inwardly, If the eyes are deeper cutting (8 or 9 Nidan below the bande 
necessary that each trial should be made against the weak, or have been injured by a blow, they are rubbed either side is filled with rather er ge sto 
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same number of from wn with a decoction made from the leaves, drainage, and should communicate, all nge 
the same earth and treated alike in “ull On the be f day another relation of Wang's came with the general land drains. The plan is quite as well 
xcept in the ; N p to me in a secret manner, and informed that he knew adapted for a private road as fo a walk, and with a little 
except in of the proper d f i i y 
lime, or chlori x proper dose o cies was procured, and that he | larger material a foot in dep dation, woul® 
ct Then 1 oxalic acid, to one of the two was willing to go and fetch some of it for me. I e wer fora public road also. The side edgings of Grass 
„ deed we 8 know what the pro- at once, merely stipulating for young | OF 80: ould a a ve gravel 
ste 2, and not till then. = a have | plants with good roots, as others ly, and quite flat for the width of from 9 to 18 inches + 
the value assigned to them it will be a mportant useless to me. These he promised to bring, and he after which they may take any eg level , e 
gain to our stock of 5 knowledge ; if they kept his word. In the course of the day he returned tion. When there are high 
prove 3 others will the necessity 1 good plants, which he sold to me, and walk, a Kand rubble drain in the flat 3 aaa 
of repeating the ere w z to Sees pag i wy in getting down in good 7 bank and the walk, will intercept the 
. * langhae, . corner. 
NOTES OF A TRA 2 Sir Wm. Hooker informs me P this may be the| Walks thus made have been put from 4 to. 6 inches 
An Acco VELLEN Na. x. plant which Thunberg calls Ilex japonica, and which is | below the pk level without 5 all damp. 
chiefly o Obtained from from 
UNT oF THE Discovery ö J 
dan nn D or a Fine 8 only known by a figure and description. I have mai But then, the gravel here bein 
€ a cand myself wae tal e *. — seen the figure, but the description ow before m Nane —— Miena Mr. Dak Beale, of Sbanghae, 
E collecting * See “ Ball on the Cultivation and Maputacture of lea” e have been preserved. 
