47—1850.] 
THE eee NERS 
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CHRONICLE, 743 
Rebiews, 
Chubb on the Construction of Locks and Keys (8vo ; 
pp. 1 57, St. Paul’s Chure cigar), is an extract from 
(by rooceding 7 the ivil Engineers, of 
highly in ive and ovate sketeh, by Mr. 
Chubb, of = — of this invention, and of the prim 
ciples observed in the construction of locks an 
It is abundanily illustrated by well exec 
ma. 2 
rove, t sks, 
him, could not-be arte any known means, 
Sowerby’s Popular 
Mineralogy (square 12m 
Reeve ; pp. 344), is a 25 ecg Sian to be useful | A walks 
the 5 — . desires 
“ae teaches how to ie 2 
purpose 
The Illustrated * bf Songs ive oon pa * Orr and 
Co.), is a beautiful with 
churning woodouts ni, rita aa 55 ogrene In}, 
Songs, 
ee l 2 f e Blea Electric. Indicator (Horne | p. 
and. Co.; 24mo), is 
anger. whether from fi 
unerring warnin 
—— eee opence, and is worth y; z 
History. of. British Birds (Groomb 
Part I.; — is a renewal of a trite pubject, ae che 
ity being the 8 of four eo 
only say that — — a 
te t of th ue „ hal * 
rate account of the structure, habits, and uses of 
Borassus flabelliformis, illustrated by wood: 
by Ceylon artists. The autho merou: 
errors made by writers. 9 this plant, and enters into 
amented with Ab. excelsa, nea | 
* early growth of 23 fi 4 
escend a 2, heed flight mense Abies ote ee of 25 feet ; an . 
Dough —— ones, freely, but 
ni 
man 4 
A Description of the Palmyra Palm of Ceylon, by at 
guson (4to; Co 39 d 
deuts executed N 
cts 
eodara and 
e general intro- 
ö ark 
scenery will ultimately i its cha y giving 
warmth and variety to its other ze ralle 
oÊ; 
goniums,, pas some plants | common dia and 
a sanguinea, which see p- here, t 
propriate dard | des estruction se the frost. An account of the , er gar- 
Roses line the central walk, their bare stems being | dens will form the — A of another paper 
concea i i he 
3 
The New Zealand Moa, 8 in a 
Visit 
field-house a few. ‘Years ago. Descending an 
Steps we 
the 
looks the maze, “ wherein a Whose flesh he had seen was a d which they 
ver had found aceidentally, asd n had often endeavo 
eulogist of mazes, re. | to snare- them, without suc A m med 
he. gardonin ing taste of a bene George Pauley, now living i in Foveaux Straits, "at him 
maze. may, 1 viewed with, . 3 tia — had se wor Moa, which he described as being an 
kind of pleasantry that it ps Ha mster standing about 20 feet high, He 
appreciated now-a-days ; 3; however t be, = e se it near á lak nterior, It ran from him, 
ropriety of its its position he ere seems ee The and he also ran fees it. He saw its foot-marks before 
Fe 
Propositions. will, we wre be not, find 
bod — followers. The frontispiece is in his 
wal appy style. 
mer al es « Prior -= rent (Bradbury: and, Evans). is 
mped, 
98 ene undd * 
kind of 
lists =; E — ig sold by the tom whose na 
almanae, descriptive lists of flowers: ersand vegetables, ashore 
y and Co,. We 8 
that this proposition 1 8 calculated to, produce. 
discontent. and tment. than ad- 
— ; for paeis essays; the prizes are wholly inade- 
te; and when renner all such. 
Seale bien tionable, for no judge can. do justice to the 
competitors, 
Garden. Memoranda, 
Harrer Hovse.—“ Hatfield, once l 2 a 
royal house of the kings, which 
ght Ho Ear R 
delight and recreation, by reason of its parks and other 
Places of pleasure, which for. as sitnation, contrivance, 
building, i other acco 
E = es awa: since 
dna a Hatt What he honestly | » 
offers are intrin- |' 
e | fall. on modern gardening fancies, me hasselan 
between two = eet with the 
2 Eth he came to the river Tairi an ‘mounta Thomas 
Cc d, the man who i 
3 1 pr rs at 3 its boldly | et own coun 
masses 0 
bright open glades, studded with deer; a sheet of w. 
appropriately occurs, and lends an additional — to agreeable was 
the landseape, res 
d 8 at 
preserved. An arcade of market i is main 1 0 befo 
; of reminded Pot my my approach b, 70 che ret 
a * The thrifty housewife 
i under o — a . the othe 
side of the arcade is opened in archways, | moving wi witha k step; her affections 
through which the gaily bedecked flower beds are seen | between the Arnd of her choice, her: 
with i ed eee 8 ec hrat 2 ne which surroune i her. 
3 
be oie preset to the — 
wi work, occupies centre o en; g whe 8 Vent 
7 , : 10 er t 
broad 3 beds, of an 1 throughout, his affeetion and 
usversely across y| of his toils a fresh and sweet token 0 
oceupied byes dwarf, Bourbon, Perpetual: and China| esteem, was bearing home a less 
Roses, and intervenin 
then may ee psi truth be asserted now. The 
— a nil stil tures 
e house moment firm aud: p 
stately, — itl —— to the assaults of Aer or 
the mutable e e generations. 
he mansion” š ts ancient picturesque 
is the north ine south b 
p: 
8 of I 3 the majority e 
Ha 
pi 
uth or 
10 ' 
ieuous the crossed arrows and archer ree E 
arms of the noble l house of Cecil Two boldly abutting 
terminating in double towers and crowned with 
te, 
and ysis trained perne d 
vy Garden. 0 
vz narrow sleping pathway beings us — the < Palace | in 
a Eei sashes eee title, as 
h stood 
a propor scale of 8 the larger style of face the walk. The stalls, whieh were principales 
growth of — sort better qualifies it for a position where by women ; repast 
erag in fine forest 2 There were Oranges. 
amongst hp gg are a he large specimens of n M 
le 4 pee pe a great vieh = pw lth * 1 
eare la 
rge Lebanon, eyer- Marigolds, 
green Oaks, Hollies, Irish oe py lle | s6 
— evergreen trees and shrubs, judiciously inter- fi sion. 
certainly were not large; they 
in accordance wi 
The plants ge 
sppræd la Ei the pal ow forming s altogether a a were, rather close 3 com pact, sure with eh Blossoms, 
i se. on W e breathe 
r$ 
E 
leasance” strictly i 
paper, al 
ıt the whole reminded one 
HEH 
= 
th Conifers s a of the rest, so ni 
noble Deodar stands distinetive and promi d sø closely r 
the walls, From the terrace, which ex 
Pinus 
ds macrocarpa, 22 feet in height; P. ponderosa, 32 feet ; of a large flower 
I could not look on such a 
— sm api 
