ur seasons 
sing $ the three years Fateh 9, the following were the 
mpera fi som 
is 
a garden, or rather ' park, of abo ut 40 acres ; 
| disa appears under a fre: 
January 30, 1858.] THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 69 
pre to only a small range, its mean height in | Alexandria ; and I int to give below a jand very useful. ‘he latter, though indigenous 
Senne > bei ing 5 57°, and i in August 80°. Accor rding to | list of trees mr elite a culation i in Alex- IT tatters in Eeypt, is very  Malichio, and suffers much 
gardens, d dilate upon those | from ex cposure to the sea gales, whic h, in a few hours, 
at Moharem Bey’s, or ed to y | give it somewhat the appearan aving been 
p! 
bitten ; but it is so vigorous that a unsiglitlines soon 
sh growth o! ost 
it yee lately been sold 
ved mie ) sma all ots by numerous unsightly “walls and 
g pl sg rooting aiy. at every joint when 
invades everything - Ons, 3 is near it, 
t nd literally 
lay ered, and i 
Í rmy 46 ahak 73°.81 
sot 78°.34 Winter "585 54 
y The m temperature for those ama years was 
1 69.29. uantity we i rain during that ti 
"The ay 
oop be an pst “wed 7.507 inches, of which 6.247 inches 
ter.* 
sho air is never unpleasantly hot, 
5 
T} WPN If EET 
E- w EAT of "E he Sy camores” 5 
y; } 3 +} 
g them w ith its luxuriant mass we fol iage. 
h 
T+ 
vhich overshadov 
3 3° 
\ U 
+ i 6s 
sey and 
ge fice and there is a ag 
freshing sea breezes pigi 
wind (or “hamseen >) 
ths in the spring, mate a 
depressing and pA ii effect on the human 
iapa tem er 
as it is ae org j re 
summer ; but t he hot | desert 
] n 
along 
avenue of it ay up to the country residence and 
or of Mr. Rose en = hire Sycamores” contains 
aah aon procured a t expense and trouble b 
they eventually 1 reviv e uninjur ed. The violent winter 
sea-gales, however, do much he; they greatly 
r proprietor, Mre asking who laid ont the 
gh 
l ntifal y-purple 
as set off be its grace plated Tears of — 
green, pete 1e a kr everywhe 
glauca, ano indigenous (? Pang pring seen 
here among bbs ~ a useful plant from its 
constantly in flower ; it gr TOW 
t growing 
igre | 
rs rapidly, and its long 
stoi wile “with much good taste. Though many 
shrubs—at one’ time not to te seen ee here 
2: blistering ie leaves of many plants. “Though | ™ 
h has been d in Egypti in furtherance of horticul- 
le scope for improvement. The 
ad a greater taste for 
d 
r. Trail, an intelli- 
lish gardener, S he sento 
kaats collection, I am ‘old, 
d of Rhoda near 
zS 
Q 
5 
rawbac 
the dust, the kipov at and 
wn gardens reassume that natural stom 
de: on which t with pleas 
psides the inconvenience of unsightliness and andines, 
è dust hastens the deca; 
that th 
rbr 
ir pores, and, in some To this 
pame do zh attribute t the aeea a apparan of 
mse those in garde 
ks to successful gardening it 
> when ust be daily. In | Pt 
uc biti "is only or on go setting i in of the Doaa Minter 
y of the ao by clogging 
es, kills the plants. A 
4 S| usually m 
hich 
P 
trees ih bs yellow flowers, render it an ornament in the e gard 
—ha w found their way into other eaa I may Casarin equiseti tifolia see s to thrive very well, even 
antin among other specimen: is WOr thy of f admiration nea: r the sea, and its light "feathery bene beast in 
at “The Sycamores,” Bamboos, heig Lawso' nermis, 
burnianum ?), the Caoutel hen in fi loads tk nth itsfrag 
Banyan t: Proll gp rlii tely fond of it, few E 
indica), (a 
piae tree aA or 30 feet igh, constantly anes with 
ts fine violet flowers and Apple-like pendulous fruit) ; 
some ‘estas gave americana, with 
long; Crinum amabile, Strelitzia reginw, Magnolia 
grandiflora, &c. 
eee garden, 
e 
eaves 8 or 9 feet 
no 
take | kind 
tees of rapid 
be sed 
ced, is one eraon within the. ‘fortification ons i o| 
>| Alatina it was made by ei late Mr. Casati, 
and hippy not extensive, Il laid out, 
of se 
nd hers 
the 
o died, % 
or teasmslanted siewi 
wth, with a 
trunk almost herbaceous: in its na ature, for r the | wood is 
bar 
is is hard and fir rm, the tree yields a ho ing iar whea en 
struck, and I doubt not it could be felled with a very 
few iwa of an axe. Itis StA haret sep feriat nd 
its tru nk often attain ms a diameti of 3 or more fe eet, 
garden is be the wreck of its former ceed still it ye 
Safina g 
‘occolo ba 
ugenia efor deny porum 
vars sdb Pinus halepe 
prone 
ag pees racemes of bine 
Rosemary is plan odnie ; it can be 
trimmed to any shape, aed forms a dense firm mass of 
keep 
insect), 
5 
rae | 4 Tht a A 
coher (abounding with the Genina. 
unapproa 
Y 5 
3 
Enn ree ey A +} 4 om 
n there are formidable a 
Aloes, and Agaves, tastefu ally 
, and a grandiflora, 
adran: olari dail sie 75 tr ifene 
ly forming beautiful arbours | w 
now give a list of plants 
me 
et with in the garden ns of Alex 
= See so 
ps be 
4 
1; jad 
F 
rage re vermin consist of sn akes, rats, mice, scorpions, 
centipedes, rey A sie pader tenants, it is not to be 
ondered ai t Ro iscarded from 
formed. 
a Julibrissin, Farnesi 
Trees.—Aca Lebbek ; | is 
Ailanthus ope be Frinton ridik a 
essus 
pets, and an RER, it ven Siliquastrum, Cupr pyramidal alis _and pend venomous. There are other kinds that are comparativel: 
y accidents to carriages, “ Be sag ” is the favourite El t harmless e Arabs pretend that snake-bites can only 
classes of and Leva ntines, Berar tal, Ficus elastica, reflexa, ‘indi e hte their Priests ai a snake charmers. The 
speci: for emeas iei =i sim Je religiosa, Carica, and Sycomorus; Gleditschia tria scorpions are formidable fellows and fe to be trifled 
“ces sion of vehicles of every deseri ly Gan thos, Lawsonia inermis, Melia Azederach, Phytolacca | with; they are occasionally reek gel and I know 
e let i a horses arc ae dioica, Robin: dacacia, Salix babylonica, Schinus | of nothing more ha swear than to be haunted by. the 
pried for a trifle ; but donkeys aa a ov ep 
onveyance both in and out of town, and i 
resort of 
) t; it E gors -into a lo a and is fre- 
iakon en first seen, ri of Pine. 
ens on the oct sit of 
molle, Tamarix orientalis; Thuja plicata and orien- 
talis; besides paee and bes ee Gree, ber Olive 
| trees, Vi and M n Oe e an Lemon 
N, 
ear ~~ finding one betwee: 
ines, comm 
tr std ® ibl 
D 
Date 
‘Shrube, —Abutilon tet Agave americana, iskt 
citriodora, Bi Brugmansia flava and 
arborea; } Bud eya a TAERAA Cassia Sophera, Cratæ- 
gus glabra, Cuphea platycentra, Diospyros Lotus, 
Duranta Ellisia, at ibe japon es AA syriacus, 
mutabilis, and r is; Jasminum Sambac and 
revolutum ; opel ve Teata and Cammiara ; 1 urus 
nobilis, Ligustrum japonicum, Myrtus un: mag 
Nerium splendens, Nicotiana glauca, Paulownia i imperi 
Pelargonium inquinans, uercifolion aie 
and fancy va ; Pit m Tob umbago 
capensis, feria bicolor, Poihi mg ear and 
alaye neir Poinsettia A po at Polygala hi 
folia, Psidi Russellia 
Grahami, sabe 
Ses! aires: ec bicolor, |i 
Sophora ee Tecoma capensis Be us-castus, 
bhem osa, Zi us spina Christi Go Boi of 
olium italicum, Cli- 
eager it Hoya carnosa, 
inea, and Bone 
ne. i ‘Ma surandya a semperflorens, 
Qu aisqualis indica, 
and Creepers.—Ca) 
hylla, Dolichos 
purp 
bed, or feeling one crawling in inside a shoe, or in the 
sleeve of a coat that one has just y on—circumstances 
„That the scorpion’ s ke is 
some spéci es less dangerous i chew clues 
Euonymus rinra does not gaen ee 
Fuchsias Scar fail, and no even of 
perien an gardener, can pinnae: the ive of 
these plants y or a year or two. I have 
; 
Camellias, but I am told there are some, whic 
served with difficulty. Apple, Pear, Cherry, Goose- 
berry, and t trees are not expected to succeed in 
so aclimate. Their fruits are imported from the 
Archi Trieste, &c, All attempts to culti- 
vate the Pine Apple have hitherto failed. Vines do 
very well, but or. ey were attacked Bor the 
good n cane e price is ae Dates 
arse are ease we to ality is P » > good as as 
those fo from other parts of small dar 
emk soot herd resembling a aeit 
ost 
F 
another ; 
any places in a way calculated | 
er development of the treesand shrubs. | Į; 
rary 
eias thi 
ues | si 
e tasa Plants, Bathe, ae —Artemisia _Absin- 
thium 
latifolia, Bryophyllum calycinum, Cactus 
ca, Centaurea m 
nense, pr sand um, and dron fra- 
grans, ‘astuosa, Esc 
imperialis, Gladiolus pe Page: ones ee 
Linum trigynum, » Lobelia ramosa, M 
triangularis, is 
ener ot errand 
ritillaria 
ae de 
€ Sis 
native iti is infern iy wal ko kept; yet the critical 
m European can find much on y erra eye 
information is derived from the 
nifera ; 
aAa 
Mesem 
Portulaca splen: she rool ome candi 
mosus, Ruta halepensis (?), reite ere: (bl, | 
atarida in the Stapelia bufonim, Tigridis pe 
inds o 
Flowering naman as ‘thet do “throughout the 
ime during 
Ped, are shorn of their usual sp rset as many of 
above meteorological 
ecco acral as 1852. H.H.C. | year, Ipomoea Leari and I. palmata make a great show, | the plants are resting from their labours, and during 
