452 
THE GARDENERS 
ee 
the Catalogue itself 
le sale, we must s 
few of the lots. Lot 33 is a Black. ce niga 
4 yards deseri 
imen with several stems 
(Chameerops page oe varying in height from 1 to 
mirable beauty. 
are also aay 
fro = 2 to 
2 pg a very 
, the Altenstein Zamia, 24 yards high; 412, 
de —— (R. campanulatum), 2 yar 
3 yards wide; 1231, &c., plants of Nery ay 
4 yards high ly r yards wide; 2 056, Orange 
trees; are chiefly small specimens, none Ar them 
pear to exceed 9 gey and the majority are 
4 feet. 
MUSA OA TAAI: NDS. POLYNESIAN 
RE than 10 years ago the 
paid a short visit to Chatsworth, a order that he mig 
i i st 8 ethod 
ds 
it was visable to have them removed fi 
purpose ; for as that gen was about to — en- 
trusted with a mission to the Pol ds 
ing i e ing over with opie m, 
which, on its arrival i rove per- 
mission to supply the gardens 
which might be deemed or re the pur- 
nsulted 
plants I woul 
btless prove one of in 
habitants of those far distant and little known ands it 
the Banana d be safely 
a ere, as from its dw. art 
growth it might be cultivated to any extent, and in 
situation where the taller grow ing kinds 
on account of the violen adoes 
which at various times § wn nearly sieas — 
growing the im number of 
plants might n a very li surface of 
„and consequently the production of healthful 
and nutritive food a few y come 
abundan thus a very moderate attention, 
the lus might by exportation prove beneficial 
to the i itani y, encouragement would 
be e pen to cultivation, w ich would in a few years pave 
ie 1 of many other of the 
for the . ae Lise = scl preg Ge 
mar. 
oe in some 
yar 
rare species in great ra Niy many o 
e Rev. John Williams | w 
the health 
mA their 3 our hardware, cutlery, and cottons. 
benefit even more extended in opening up 
8 — 
« Of all 
i è hav 
olent gales, it ce of 
from 3 to every other rd . cultivated, 3 foms notice of 
refore, is worthy of re ord. 
— lamented mission — Mr. 3 
: 1 England in the ‘Camden,’ in 1838, 
race, the Duke of pavements kindly supplied him 
its his 8 
„ Whe 
ey a 
t space 
years a Bi * so extensively propagated. But 
2 we Sikin by geometrical progressio 
which will pec age but 6 ner ede a year, ar, will 
1 
of thei 
the foreign paea which have been introduced | renewed 
been more extensively propa- | i 
f 
+ 
the other of its 
plant, w 
eventually produce, the result is ama 
-TI 
10 Val 
of nutri 
e 
avo idapo e su The prod: 
Banana is to that of „ 133 to 1, and to that o 
Potatoes as 44 to 1.” 
on which th 
. | placed in 
| the effect produced on them by Mee air. ra 
and prod 
foetid odour, though different from that of ulcers. The 
disease is contagious. tho the symptoms 
external, I have on to believe that they only indi- 
the last stage of th For I have some- 
| times o ed the outer scale intact, whilst the internal 
bstance has been quite rotten. This malady aff 
bulbs more when out of the earth than at any other 
time. I have been quite unable to guess at its origin, 
Genus VIII.; one species. Cont. It is 
exh me ri 
happens, whether it be that — 3 2 
tra n th of a hum 
fibrous roots, corrodes — sides, or 75 their 
suckers, remains un d the other 
y both take place. In th — Pe we see that 
Mig suffers from the vicinity of the Erigeron aere, 
, Oats from the atula nsis, L., from 
— Euphorbia peplus, L., and Carrots from the Inula. 
If it be said oen this is owing to rka diversity of gro 
one planting having a more vigorous vegetation, robbing 
‘food, I would beg attention to another 
certain 
of Onions, Hyacinths, &c., among w 
contact with a 
sound one wil yen 
ILLA AND ek a GARDENING. 
kept in 
civilised Tse object to b view in arranging an 
1 Mr. Williams sent to Chatsworth his 3 r anting N I jedan is unquestionably variety. 
son, who remained here for a month ued from ven aes! empting t ch in any branch 
Gurus = de species. pon There leaves others either neglected or curtailed. It is true 
plants, {especially 9 , e all, Wheat, that every one has his own p and preju- 
which, from the vigorous state of N owth, »| dices, and these nee ily i ere with the proper 
these | ly turn yellow, the leaves twist aad curl, and the arrangement and division of the nt parts of a 
ots of = Jauo) one an 1 1 size; the garden; but it must be allowed that variety is the soul 
„and remains often scarcel i i in 
|18 unten in heh ad of above * is bere it Nein — aia mh e 3 the proprietor shold 
to have. This deformity giving i sight some | therefore, in som ure, be rendere rvient to 
| resemblance to that which is called rhachitis 3 in animals, | the amount of pleasure which his family and friends are 
— ias air, | I have given the th Cerealia. | to reap from a proper distribution of subjects. 
pry: arrival of the plants at their — The seeds are a mo cr flower den of Roses alone is admitted to be 
and sa — close of Mr. Williams’s merciful ers from ergot in that the latter has not the gene: beautiful. Few will be found to detract the 
| deformities of the eels. I have rises seen | liness of the Rose, but it would indeed be a morbid 
"Afton the lapse of so long a time, when the cir- cong aig peer paar ted, with excrescences on the tagte that could see no beauty in the rest of the 
cumstance had become n epee: minà stalk, but I cannot say whether or 8 they belong to vegetable kingdom. I apprehend therefore, that the 
by more pays rs, i on | the same as afflicted with 1 e of KA oka a delight ‘ in garde ens—and w whe 
I Samoan Chronicle (whic a laws — Roffredi is of . that the es does n Fe =a refer a ee succession of 
kindly — — from thos „the following inte- | a single one of the li orms which are gern blooni in e as to keep the eye always 
resting account of the — ad and great u tility of this — to have seen, but only their . He found the delighted, and 1 3 5 p ed. The busi- 
Musa, origin rom the stock then in ced—a | diseased grains en aer 9 of extreme tenuity, n. of the ener then must be to con- 
ment a fll Lede with my anticipations, and branched and i upo: oy he — a 81 = 
w 8. 
carried out in a most praiseworthy manner. 
hich has 
y courage 
ties ot rondanig Sa to do so; 
to further exertion in this way, 
iari 4 5 
amoan Chronicle says: He who introduces 
Dut a single plant into a country may considered a 
We look with interest on a oome: 
hich still stan 
. 
the cultivation of this plant has 
bad 
wit ared 
The bad eggs of the little 
worms, which, h e believes, as — are . attach 
crawl up the ste and then 
each 
mstant presence and bite of 
ved, the disease should 
But as the co-existence "ii 
e 
ergot is eee f and the careful separation of the 
diseased pipan from the 2 = is fherefore, in this | 00 
case, also a pre 
0 
con- 
ned by the worms in their ascent causes 
rhachitis. 2 observations of Roffredi were ivy p 
Sor e 
GENUS VI.; ; one species. “Aseurxri— dsphysia in 
. animal 
d the mission Se Title edda and ends of and vital po Something of the kind may be | eccnomis 
property to embark on their mission of mercy to other mra althongh rarely, in — prac by the state 
islands, tos bare a invariably a box of plants, or|of the atmosphere. Th continued dry air, | Srea 
a 0 an | independent! ly of the eetion of heat, will kill plants b, 
“It must not be thought that the islands of the pe aay pa of the ae Aton banka | 
are now the solitary they once were. A plant an atmosphere deprived | 
Pacific 
They are visited by hundred of whalers and traders ; 
of die. pie ay in en and 
ic acid gas w 
