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a Super Searlets Tom Thumb and markable instance of it, the Red Sea, which owes its Ist of June. They h bagged less game, and also 
— — Dwarf —— Ist, Mr. Pender, name and colour to the presen ee of a minute plant | less money, than usua I this year. “4 peer a retro- 
gr. to D. Anderson, Esq., for L. rinus compacta and | diffused rosea the water, of a blood. red colour, spective view of the havoc that has been made a mong 
alba, Pinks: let, Mr. Henderson, gr. to C. K. Sive- Royan Sourn LONDON —— July 23.— This Society | Nasps for the = seven year, — will show how 
wright, Esq., 22 Sper ote ce ye SF 1 * on pd Ig on rr 1 eee, the E * P — is to get rid of this 
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Rival, Morning Star, Lady n : on, 2 na oud able, and there 4 aa — ie attendance, 1 “The 8 Show — be eee ot a fiar e in oat SAS Glens, Oma 
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ble X.; 2d, Mr. White, gr. to J. Russell, Esg., for Lady | fully 3 ted 55 2 rs. Cole, Fra Peas zer, Br an Pampli plin, | 4 lbs. 93 O.; in 2808 not a wasp to be found; iis 1847, 
i Teazle, Queen Victoria, Oxoniensis, Lord Brougham, | Stanly, and Young. Gaye Heaths by — Rollisson, Fair- — only, w eight 4 0·.; in 1848, the estroyed 
a Whipper-in, Prince Albert, Pilot, Criterion, ae ae n . r Ea j; fens 8 1273} dozen, weight 4 Ibs. 7 0z.; in 1849, 8652 dozen, 
$ pia Steers, Mary Ann, and Alfred Morrison. Highest | Messrs. Paul and Franois; ; p Ne there was some good fruit, weig ht 2 Ibs. 9 02. 3 in 1850, 5283 
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Lauder, for Malcolm ee: Cherries : Ist, number ompetition in s e classes was spirited, | last seven years, or rather five years, as in 1846-47. 
Mr. King, for Mayduke ; ot Mr. Thomson, gr. to tinguis t psk Feige igs pae of ‘the judges to dis- only four dozens were taken; these dozens wi ; 
Captain Falconer = the same variety. Messrs. J. ards, Pio Amate Ist, M. Esq, the number of wasps to be 53, 5 14 — a good round number 
Di — and Sons p ze for Moss, 2 a ty French, fe T Cleopatra a Ophelia, tay), be (Widman), Print Prince | certainly in a circuit of ihres akili Now, if all, or 
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Perpetual, Chin urbon Roses, w awarded to Juliet (May), Portia (May), Viola (May), King James ‘Head. | —＋ one-half, of the prop motors in the Senn would 
Mr. Sleig » E. 3 * 7 wala for Mo OSS, | ley), Mrs. Barnard (Barna 3 Diese (May); ir me, bi Lockner, e the same means to exterminate these insects, a 
— ise Collet, Princess Royal, and Laneii; | Esq., for Goliah, Lady H. Bn. T r. Hon. E. —.— would soon be as rare a sight as a red deer on the 
Provins, —— of Kent, Devigne, La Sylphide, pee e Pa Queen Vistorion pot 1 pein Juliet, hills around us.— Edinburgh Evening Co 
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Common ; French, dissima, Belle Rosine, Surpasse- gusta, iawn Watain, Mite, Fatani Princess Royal, Enchan. |, Preservation of Green Kidney Beans.— The following 
tout, and Julie d’Etanges ; Perpetual, Comte de; Mon- | tress, Lord Douro, 1555.5 Regina 2 Coraelins, Mrs. Bar- is the process employed by M. Gelen de Montigny, for 
talivet, Duchess of Sutherland, Géant de Batailles, and nard, and Presiden dwards, Esq., for Lord Hardinge, the preservation of n Beans. In fine 
Comtesse Duchatel ; Hybrid ina, ‘ator s Mrs. van, M — — gee, Royal, Lage Alice — 
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polyan anthum ; also boxes of — blooms, Mrs. Barnard (Barnard), Princess Roy n to 
; ansies, Pinks., and Roses. Messrs. Dickson and Sons | (Headley), Queen Victoria (Green), Juliet (May), and Mary | pour in some salt water until the top is covered ; replace 
likewise wise sent a collection Greenhouse Plants, with | Mrs, B. Norman, Lord Nelson, Delicata, Duke of Newcastle, the water as it evaporates e ns can thus be 
G — endens, and 80 varieties of cut — ans nerd, * — = ingo i as 5 of preserved quite fresh. Flore des Serres. 
— Messrs. P. Lawson and Son showed Roses ö or Mrs, Bevan, On the — of Coffee in Arabia and Abyssinia, By 
and a collection of including well flowered — = .— irs, Ba — a — „ = ante, Jalict, M. A. d’Abbadie.—treat nutritive qualities have been 
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was also a display of Roses from Mr. Mr. Bragg, for Sebastian, Lady Dacre ——— Wales, | attributed to coffee by M. de Gasparin, in his me 
and: sies which we Hon. E. Beate, "Smilax , Queen Victoria 2 (Green), Lady Alice on the mode of living prag ued by Belgian miners ; and 
blooms of his seedling varisty, Duke of Perth, Mr. eye, „ 5 gee 8 and Rag oh wa Me. he quotes, in support of his opiaion, the en of 
Kelly sent Verbenas, Fuchsias, and Petunias; and Mr. | Cann main S Amatears, Eee =: lat, Mr. Reeves, for Prin, the French soldiers in Algiers, and of the Arab nations. 
S Cantua 3 sgh ate 8 greenhouse | cess K Rain bow, Brutus, Prince Albert, 8 Flores | Without pretending to dispute “aie accuracy of M. de 
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: Falstaff, Phloxes and Pinks; m Mr. Methven, in (May), Lorenzo 1655 Beauty of Woodhouse (Mansley), favour. hi is g e hws the sin bis, who dissent 
ö fancy and other 1 Pelargonimnas, e versicolor, 8 (May), nn Romeo 0 ay), rom Islamism, serupulously abstain from coffee; and 
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N with blooms of Roses; from Messrs. Ballantyne | Edwards, f 8 ata), e <P a ary I vont: lived with many of 3 T gns 
; and Son, Roses with Pansies and Sweet Williams; | Lady of the Lake, Solander, Harriet, Sarah Payne, Beauty | foun that they were less temperate or less capable 
from Mr. Mackintosh, Roses; and from Mr. Spary, of Woodhouse, Lydia, True Pajton, Poras auias, _ fatigue than their coffee-drinking countrymen. If a 
j Admiral Ath, Mr. Ellis, Ari illiam t : i A 
— double Panny. De. Neil sent epesi: | Fonnt, Fiore Carling, . . ,.. 
mens of Oneinium pulvinatum, Francoa ramosa, and | nell, Prince Albert, Hero of Middlesex, Lord Pollington, in T w 85 
Alpines, — a double flowered variety of Sagina Beauty of Brighouse, Pea Gardner, and . io b: fih, Mr. | drink 3 A imes a — pn? a fast with less 
ou whall, for Prince Albert, ora's Garlan 0 yron, | ease than the ristians. is has n times 
ee — a no flowered p am 1 Georgiana, Dido, 8 2 Woo ~~“ à Felt auline, das Ann, | observ: by m other, M. Arnauld d'Abbadie, who 
pre Princess, Regular, an pany of Brighouse. ant Ta ie i, 
Pentstemon e eee 4 eo cei Pelargouiums, 1st, C. Tur er, for Ad 4 (Bas s | commanded soldiers of both religions in wars of 
and Kal Garland (Brooks), Princess Bosal (Puxley), Bre oy —.— Gojjam. In the disastrous retreats across 
elargonium ; J. Se ag Esg. 1 Ses dling Pinks, an rep 3 ), ae ot eos Biri a bag 2 — — 1 countries, the Mussulmans always suffered more than 
. ety = Red ley), Ane (Ma 05 and Queen N ey). An e Ist prize was the istiaus, foot, ted 
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i : i . iana, Lady Gardner, Squire for three successive days without any other refresh- 
guson, Roses and Ranunculuses ; Mr. Reid, Ranuncu- Ranc! fe, Flora's Garland a, s i 
i luses ; — Roughead, Esq., out flowers; Mr. Aitken, row, and po Esg Howse < Se. n „Si . Squire ment than a little earth soaked in span —. perv 
Antirrhinums; J. Mood, Esq, Fuchsias; Mr. . | bow, m Queen ¥ ictoria, True Britom, ae Duke of — same soldiers will fight during Lent wit ou other 
M‘Auslane, Roses, Antirrhinums, and Stocks; Mr. — $ Meyn = Des Garl me Me * Coant Paulino, Ad. nourishment than a quarter ai poe of d flour, 
Ni P eniums, | _ | miral Curzon, and Harriet ; 3d, Mr. Bragg, for Brutus, Lady of | which is often baked in ashes, aad without leaven. 
sate elargoniums, Roses, and 1 Ranuneulases ; Mr. . d pees | ee ete a l pana naa 
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f dhe Saniah Garden was a Veroni 5th, Mr. Willmer. Class showing Specimen Blooms : 20 prizes prawns re reh, and y 24 hours’ fast. The 
3 feet in height, 8 feet 9 inches in eireum — the 22 1 were awarded = Turner, * Slough; Abyssini bo less ng and less tem- 
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: ference, and bearing 52 0 spikes of flowers, tent ourselves with naming the successful flowers. Some of perate than the „Gallas The — the e whole nb of 
3 the . u this = 5s we ma very See * speci . er whose existence seems to be ge prs ae = x — 
s Justice Shallow, in Carn a scarlet ’ suceession in the erts while 
Boranicat or LONDON, — J. H. Witson, Esq., — quality, Moving petals 8 3 very smooth on paps — as vsin prira enemies. The Gallas then fast 
in the chair. J. P. Norman, Esq., an d T. Dutt tton, Esq., dges z p ass, Canxar 3 ee Bizarre : dn, parate snom tror oe hich th oliot 
: were elected atn. Mr. Maw exhibited specimens res = s . at Puxley’s Em Crimson Biz for an incredible length of time, which the tray 
of Lilium pyrenaicum, diseovered by h m between Milton bin nk Bizarre : Ist, Hear Kirke White ; 2 2d, Bruce explains by their use of coffee boiled with its 
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presence of a minute plant belonging to the tribe of | (Marris)., Heavy Red: lst, Mrs. wife or (Norman); 24, of h ee 
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‘ i ie signt, awarded to Mr, Brege’s D Dae Wellington. 5 t bizarre, | fight such vigour that their enemies never 0 
: water, vate it is only on — —2 a e — but fo k dhas reas za woo dno! diseor er, for there are at Joast of astonishme: is well 
weather summer that 2 — 1 e ee | a score far superior bin ene class already. 8 7 dhat Sen Al 3 wm whether fat or lean. 
e rea ig een that rises to men ay sio awarded tó his Princess Alice, a small neat yellow | known that in Abyssinia, raw meat, e pakez „ 
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æruginous or coppery green colour, The aioe — R views. t 3 bh the aren „I heard 
water of en enn Botanical Text-book. By Asa Gray, M.D. 8vo. New | soldiers, ot daily killed net hundreds of oxen, com- 
time, but different — of it at . — ac- T ork, Put Pp, 520, withmany handred e REE p pak 5 in wt ‘onl 
cording to the strength and direction of the wind, Ts having reached its th edition must be | sive mo of <d porters gave u 
l Wee oo ren one fans 3 found | considered a fair exposition of the pen entertained i xtra pay which I oered 
j š 5 > S a S the United States respecting the science of which 2 him, because he = that he pam losing his stren 
present in the Kensington division Sige neo = 4 — dinss: treats. It differs in little from oc caged published from n want of bread and the constant eating of Taw 
ee eee sho 8 |in Europe, and will be found useful to students on itted as true by all Aby 
porte “pf we Serpentin e entirely freo f from His either side the Atlantic. It more especially merits | notwithstanding their gos liking for uncooked meat. 
plant. this variable distribution which, unexplained, praise on this account * eschews hard words An Abyssinian epieure w. ould despise a e which did 
| would be — to oceasion surprise, accounts for the fact daeog terms, but is clothed in a dress as much not, partly at at lensi, € consist of a good raw lump of cow’s 
| that the observer miny rome time visit the Serpentine 33 as such poiki 1 are likely to be or 1 el can flesh, still war animal heat — seasoned with 
f and not see a trace of the plant in garon, nk hence Criticism of such works is not called for in this pepper. On the — hand, my brother is satisfied, 
he might bo dan de form un en n enen as to Mas or we should have offered so — Wes by observation and by experiment, that, in the same 
the condition of ‘the water. Considered ia: iter; author's views on certain debateable e pointe, especially | countries, meat dried in the sun restores one's strength 
of view, Dr. Hassall is of 2 that the plant | as regards the speculation ee the absurd name of much better than raw meat, though not so well as corn. 
when actually introduced into as hen gguoublement or unlining, on which we Ae only | Comptes Rendus. 
sree to el bat — it as a test of —.—— ene, ft Grey does : r 
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there of the Serpentin ncn by ove 18. et 1 * e week.) 
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the colouration of 3 ön of Wasps.—The annual sport among PElanovruus which have e done Booming shld be 
Confervee is by no 6 and ited, as a re- Fiss sda Seiad of Traquair came to a close on Seturday, the | cut down, and the old plants set 
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