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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONIC 
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f parents over their children, mortgages, | t 
So, feitements wills, trustees, lay the loss and | 
y by lapse a 
| record “ 
in six days Jehovah made the heave = mang the 
main Ha sea, ai all that in them is” is to be interpreted 
— Spt t otherwise, 
and as as gree one 
while all the ollie rennin eon the wall are quits 
denuded of foliage. The seedling came up 
plants received from Madeira three years since. The 
soil is the same as that of the whole of the border. The 
garden is open and is 4 ac extent; the sapiens 
south-east, an you accoun this? GS. W, 
| Hucclecote, near Gloucest t is some “early 
leafing kind. We kno thing of it.) 
_ Asa proof of the mildness x = season I send y 
* Real or landed property is either held in fee or for 
an estate of freehold, 
Bei ing writ for nd i for the learned | The er in w which the au athor sets about proving 
n the ‘law, situated phras es are avoided (alth hi s, as far a t t, to the fo llowi 
bl erhaps quite so much as they might have been), effect. Althougl itti d skilfully describing the 
and now and then the reader is enlivened by an amusin 2 facts in geological sci Mt - Gosse — 
illustration. Take for example the following ace tl k f usa 
+ 
ock contains bones spared or ny if se pecs 
_ extract of a letter fro’ r for a term of years. The fee | P th nd ther 
of Abernethy, een oO Bes, AL urrie, Sq- | or fee- ahs ine lds "all rad interest in the land. A exactly i in t the same way as the s of a recent reaps: 
_ Advocate, regarding a second crop of lanbasa on | Jegal anecdote n, transmitted to us from a very | But let was 
_ the Cairngorum a of mountains :—“ Remembering y period, walle udge d himself in the | that the bones ev er were bach joined. On the co one 
my promise to send you some Cranberries, I tried all I| euphonical phr ases, Td art rian and ‘Pd | he maintains t the rock with the bones scattered 
could in the proper season to do so. I was however e you to see, > asked a learned s erisa ant pie he ‘had eri t within cy was created e red as we find it 
unable, because in e extent of the Forest of| peen abse nt 1 his presence is nd the reason why he does not believe that 
Abernethy there were none then to be got, a frost! excuse ws e bad b i «Cok these elétons ever belonged ie living animals is— 
early in summer having completely n EE st hie Littleton’ into vers “The judge called for a a bee Tha z nobody saw them ìn the form ofa 
blossom ; but by a most PERRE 5 a of Nature jai ing being ! 
r of an Esa hipe nage on a a te mae? “This strange a he supports thus, We take his 
hich we are now (11th Dec.) slate aa of which pon eta opal pe own words : 
I have forwarded to you a few pints. They are neither For I'd have you to know and tos See, j t le „1 do not mean the 
so no arge nor so well flavoured as those gathered in the "Tis to him and his heirs for plan T 
season, nevertheless they are Cranberries.” James ment ee ies, ane: ra, ties ond cs s as maine 
Tac 
Stark See. gros eeeriase patie LF edie “dus ond 
ee. send hia sample oi e Indi of t 
ie is another anecdote prena dee rh drier 
ma 
7 3 MEET EPT 
th 
ori 
53 grown AEREE e I so 
aip on the 15th of E ma saty it oe to "be 
high was told it seldom came to pe 
Was) wher It Toe ripened perfectly here ‘a, South | 
es s, less warm, and f a hill 
Arati s procera has teir ite (pi this 
i 
is | enjoy hie own stata 
his 
alias on Tom a shilling’ to a Fia | 
—‘I give 
a a 
ng hi mami with? ‘God grant, said Tom 
had li 
e 
noting concerning them 
ln of wae , but 
which i 
igs to han 
sobbing “like the Test, ‘that my poor father 
| enjoy it himself. 
_ Su ch instances as these, however, are rare. The | 
ie 
The plants from mi I gathered berries wer 
Sikei some five or six o on the north mà 
is written, and of the practical information contained 
in it :— 
“A word of advice about your Fire Insurance. Very 
a against fire are so framed as to render the | 
any legally liable. Generally the property i is inac- 
t is a slender r twining stem 
e3 fos t oe beset with uate es, with a oun’ a - 
oe one in and with the other Peai re the eart 
| What was it a th ago? A tiny hakera 
leaves per a e 
mont 
from Hetwosn two thick fleshy 
above the rib und, Am on ath before that? The thick 
appr 
fl 
eshy closely ressed 
face to face, wit r tho gy “plamu ale between them, 
the whol losed in unbroken, ti ghtly-fitting, 
spotted, Youthary coat. It was a W: 
cumstance becaus 
= cent level have : 
same mo gts wens gh ‘ee eke: 
pooni vie | free! a being the first time it has done'so |” 
may you insure. They are framed Dy the company, 
n, 
t of its Aap j 
essels, which swelled — hardened and seemed 
the conservatory rendered it hazardous, and if so, of 
months earlier still it was snugly lying, veral 
0. Winchester, O. etary a Eiling Wiara, adaga Gotence pepe like itself, in a green flesh: a ar, a the pare 
on b a they intend ts: pay what they 
" Nelmbiom Wintered i è o t-of-Do deem a just claim, without amit advan! of any | Of whic ich it was orgamically attached. A month before 
year before last I warmed a pond with hot-water pipes | technical objection, and to m use of their defence tha t, 
and steam for the p ng Victoria Regi only inst what they may believe to be a fraud, scarlet bu utterfly ee flower, the bottom of its pistil, 
and other aora water pe in the open air. Among althou h they may But äi not within which, if you had split it Waid you would have 
others Nelumbiu specios m did we el, flowered, and ne tate i ood moral feelin of the directors. Asc discerned the tiny "Doane. ben history we are a 
t a | tai tha t gs, backwards, each imbedded in the soft green tissue, b 
rooting itself in “il directio The hea ing apparatus | py å mpany to look over ‘pd a ewe md eye of a adkor er But pies 
being of a temporary n: nature, the experiment be as not | | your r house Petore the insurance will not save you, w s flow It was one of many that glowed on 
continued beyond Fe oer of that year. The tender | jess your policy is correct. To alestenbe this 4 ati tl my eris wall all through last irra each 
= “so pore ned and oved to a stove, and the | you what happened to myself, I h in | SPX a bud — “ cad pore. Pate which 
eft unwarmed and ong ect sag ev oe — was unte.: o ith which we com» 
tudes of the weather. akai a aed agrees gain of ‘age ee be a of which pen n from menced this little life-history, And this earlier stem,— 
_ the pond was covered ofer with a F thick c coating of i pe Wha one Thad tea g 3 ayh gl what of it? It too a shoot, a pair of cotyle- 
ee ere oe peat in it. ime Tbuilt it; the other tad TASA ri A gi Lage svt 
_ the anced however I found that plants of the years, from the ieat E ia er wea rpel, which was a part of an carli wer, ex- 
Nelumbium phe had su ld of the winter | When a Gee broke. ae i the latter, ja mE re rong) ne grew out of an earlier 
4 The ey grew with great vigour, | I was then told by the office— hly respectable | Sem, that en a still earlier seed, that 
produced many perfect flowers, and two or three heads 7, BoT ao nd backward, ad infinitum, for aught that I can per- 
of seed v y P one—that my policy was void, as the opening kisa pe net ug pe 
These rat however since shrivelled isp 80 much a ~ 
ment. J was ‘prepared to try the ro and ewer gwd a 
loss 
now fear Pe. will n 
record of 
, and my loss was paid fo: 
Kan renewing my policy, with some alterations, I actu 
point 
of ‘te 7: Se can you | put a Singer, and say, * Here i is 
wd 
) po hanging down from the ret =r pt Spe cani 
arhi has been kept, and ouldy 
mister 
it has w! ih 
hen mixed. 
Notices of “ot Books, 
‘andy Book on Property Lavo ina riggs ga 
St. Leonards, 
Price 2s. 6d, 
a 
law. 
# 
er sticking to | 
_ root—that is, not eh ye epopeel of the. Maranta- “bet it sonal tro 
; IRLA which is 
e ttle book, written = Akoy or 
surveyor, report I never 
saw, and the piia kea hreh * ry were not An 
Of course I a. ecb or Be it report struck out, 
and the e Ba 
> 
the Pea of the favourable conditions of the a blank; here it began to There is no such : 
past season. J. lpn; aiid Sissies. | had some difficulty with yee clerk of bn paso A tol 2 | point; 80 stago iid da eE waa re 
gure, | induce or rather to force him add to the descri P 
Pan ri Bri ia will h obli «J. S, Lie so stage, h this stage is inevitably and absolutely 
a if he can tell me where such lights as he Ph treating, ae r period, | depen: adent. o : 
mamen, 12 as fe ty tele for T are to be procured, | a a wiley with ini company, I required them to | And so he on. over above 200 pages, multi- 
as I kap S.E. W. ; | Plying ample ser example to prove what no man 
he course of Nature pa bi — 
4 I beg to enclose a | and everything to which objection could be taken of science e denies that t 
specim $ h | But what then? We think it would puzzle the 
celiumof some Fungus in biom se rable the $- My- shown to him. _ The comp aed then prepared the pal eer t EER peN 
£ 
Omphalos : an Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot. 
By P. H. Gosse, F.R.S. Van Voo rst, 8v0, pp. 376, 
uce in’evidence the possibility | 
ing combined with a 
well written volume | 
We Tae afton had the ple 
r. Gosse’s natural 
sure of recommending M al history works 
Sabie Aero mado from the, Mandiea| Th works but ono fst and it îs a great one, viz, | can strata, a a or 
bein epared by no index. As it is, however, there can be no doubt that ies , eit RE be ts “Conolly po 
or Sine rther tment, and this | to all persons zon raged with landed property, Winslow who tomed to the i 
f E pi A; d. Tt is excellent fresh, a whether as ts, or nape the h all 
bes quite = tn a good many BA ears, alae sata “Handy Book ” ae will pror invaluable; ; and we pes 
grains of starci en that those who or less acquaint Gossi: the pe ent t 9 
Pride there eae an abundance of the delicate with property la Hag T not be eng time by perusing periodicals si f anion io Se pe on 
e spawn of some Fungus. ] this un Peel anil ri volume. conductors ahi og added this one. Of its e 
num 
and some time we had 
ea it has been under the 
present editors, a 
onary of Daily Wants is a twopenny periodical 
to or our readers, as examples of 80 
y Law. 
no is no question which can be raised on that sub- 
3 
i 
Fe 
ag 
fe it treats is 
sad by tno mamo oF, dhe writer The 
na 
ae 
than what} 
if we are obliged to speak aiis biana di this, it is 
from the arg 
i Abe ve part, which is 
is 
citing the entanet, 
sre 
“ahha rr rnain Spears 
sign w 
| bom from a mother mat rn 
eft 
umentative part, which is bad, | no other alone Sire of the che: 
descripti or Ground a wanes wi 
issued by y Holston and Wright. We have mshi pi 
For instance, al 
en of 
say in i 
is left out, th 
š s 
The object of the author is to prove that the Meee maintains 
