jra 17, 1858.] THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 315 
native of tropica cal Africa, the ong 0 other plants “may be noticed S moun ything “was at the lowest point | of the 
be sttactorily cleared up by the reliscoves (es) te Mig. ; ; Rhododendron Emmas social aie “Te en ‘years before’ the author’s visit it had 
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us by ee Spruce in the habitat originally | Re ; Agap etes elli iptica, Don, &e. A number then reduced to 
ite exhibited on lage pe of Sir 0 by famine and ho eD dians. Nothing, indeed, 
weg Jardine a o of Zootoc vivipara, and mislia, Don; À. myrt oides, fem.; Myrsine avenia, Bl. elf Se arks oo rthlessness of the gie 
agilis, found in Scotland, a ae tiful Albizzia montana, Bth, a social plant; Masten character than the inability of the peoplé to 
Lacerta observations upon them e following | aea montana, Lesch, ; and C. junghuhniana, Miq., | make head against these savages. Horrible stories are 
pade some n. 1. “Contributions to Organogesphic Lar n the outer part of the region. We find also here | here told of their atrocities, relieved, after our author’s 
pny.” b Christopher Dresser, Esq. arf Epil ilobi Some | manner, by 7 ae anecdotes and amusing descriptions 
X Phe Pama twining fi th f manne customs. A doctor’s life 3 in this place 
ty the gymnam hors, BL; on some varieties are. Polygonum must be dchgttfl if at all like v. Tempsky’s picture, 
rof. Balfour, V.P.. | corymbosum. The order Ericacezis the predominantone; | “‘If i the time for my being dragged 
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a ery i The kliring pete were read:— | we fnd, besides the species already ment tioned, Rhododen- daily ots ail the suburbs of Durango, to see 
is the the ees of ee to dron a m, Bl.; Agape etes flor ibun da, » Don other patients, he said, ‘they would come and see me, A 
J. Esq.—II 1 | prescription would first be asked for, gratis, 
Por me g of course. 
mar! n the Genus Orthotsicham, By repens, Zoll.; Gaultheria punctata, BiSa an iont ous | Then a scene of sobbing and sighing would follow. If 
ton. =m Recent B pla: nt of “great beauty 3; G. leucocarpa, F 31., and others, | I inquired for the cause of such behaviour, I wo 
The egenus 
Sire a Percha of S jga is well represented; E “hat they had no money to pay the apothecary. 
Si Bleckrod of Delft Academy has one Dodonza viscosa, Andr., seen towards the| Unfortunately I had a medicine chest, amply provided 
anotice of the Gatta P Percha a Surinam. Altho ough | eastern part. _ The Orchid that boppe aches — the | and had. thus to furnish medicine also. Now and tlien, 
Boi Pere ha has ese are the more | I would flatter myself that I had done with the 
A coher tt ic peng of the EROS members of some family, after having furnished 
and u and more r them 
Lanie iy te “done reine it, both as respects its par parse of Java according to M. Zollin nger, | with medicine as well as advice ; when, on fambling with 
sources. The rofessor ee = Fin 3. The Lotus or Sacred Bem of India By Dr. Bui the door- haee; Neat ft Me: turn a woe-begone and 
= is y | piteous face o they s alk from a new 
non Lichod ; for last ye phantom of sone wane O or pie debarring their e 
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t took vaii “to : i to e al i he manœuvre, @ 
cultivate it in Notices of Books, long string of family misfortunes would come forth, ‘as 
y a preclude i real eakfast or 
Blume gives the name of | Mitla. oar a sone Lge and Personal Adven- | dine yei That rig practice was not an T 
juice in every way | tures on a Jow in Mexico, Guatemala, and | improve my finances, you ma easily im still 
Tt is probable that Kiela: Fa By YG. F. v. Tempsky. 8vo. Long-| I wait pavs shut fay. eyes to all that, if “hinge fad 
natural order may be found| ma p. 436, with coloured plates, woodcuts, and | stopped there. One night I was. called 
;, Achras Sapota, the fruit} am: case, as hey said. It was s nothing AOS o me oa Arges at 
West go as oe also | Readers will search these pages in vain for natural | any hour to see the ir sick; so that time a thought of 
milky like Gutta Percha Sapota | history, of which we seareely Ë find a trace. But they | refusal never onterdl my head, although it was a dis- 
fof Blame i is s probably the tree called Bullet tree a have in exchange a arkably well written agreeable ni night. * ae ot dark and dirty lanes m 
English, a wood is k fles using account of three aaa ra, 1 in the regions d led and Maro prr t al 
, sielding in iinne a —s quantity of described. The author is a naai = Berg teller, had a | at once, I found apirip sass The 
It appears that u nder the n of com- | copious budget to draw y from h his anecdotes | 2 knife ain ra bp my eyes, and an 0 ctl A idee 
p> entertaining a| asked fi This new mode of demand was a 
Lucuma mosa of Gærtner  Marala alade narrative as we have sales seen. n Whether the narra- step eyed “the extent oF j my good-nature. 
Mim s it Schom rest 2, the Whit v. Tempsky’s or Mr. Bell the edit with my surg , I had put my Colt’s pistol in my 
hich is the oe S N of Alph. | mentioned ; but = can scarcely believe that even an | pocket, from an old Californian habit. ‘The click of the 
s known in Jam: a regt 33, the Au istri ian Pole can be so perfect a master of a language | cock changed the tone of the supplicant, who at onee 
AN Twr — acknowledged his mistake, mum mbled a “beg pardon,’ 
tt rtz; and 4, the N oon nails tl ded fi | and vanished into the dark.” But we must pr eee to 
Achras Sideroxylon of eterlet’, beh yields o one in pr t of Mexico, thence pr mA, eas i z itla. 
tihe best of the Jamaica woods. Sa Muller 4 REN pe which city he advanced peat on a Mitla is the name of a place in ee where stand 
abundantly on slightly elevated srostions H southward till he Tohoi Sa port of La Union in the f Montezuma’s palace the road 
milk the trunk is i 4°N. lat., where he embarked | the traveller visited the churchyard of a little bap ia 
i edges, then an incision is for Europe. The sae he gi ves of the social and aiic Tula, to inspect a won nde Tfu 1 tree (Is this 
the bark as far as the I The milk istichum ?) 
fons ont immedia ately, and is Collected in the clay reser. d from others; Mexican society s “We did so, and found the monster-tree in’ the 
. wit, The juice resembles, in some respects, the milk deed Pe are itself cake four classes only, Banditti, ikier in front of. r partie church. The elevation. 
of the cow; it forms a yeiiidle on its surface, which is | Cowards, Gamblers, and D ebauchees ; a state of things of the tree did not seem y, although the 
renewed after removal. By the evaporation of the | that seems likely = a until the Ang Jo-Saxon seizes | church a of it seemed 1 but a hut; but the 
J 13 to 14 parts in 100 of pure Gatis the country in his rasp: spread of its Pane hes, each of which would have 
volumes of absolute aleohol added to avid the Me exican military we have the following flat- | formed a large ed and the girth of its 
t, the scene being a cattle estate on the trunk, gave it he character of grandeur fame 
r acts more rapidly porn to Durango :— endowed it with. I measured the circumference of the 
is oe “peagiteited by acetic acid. alos buildings are situated on and| trunk, and found it to be forty-five yards. The bole 
att i sold at Am- | are surrounded with a high BA Danlea be pa sar was not round; its section would have been a narrow 
price as the best Gutta Percha pis an srforated by Joo holes The place, com- ellipse ; the surface was knotty, with innumerable 
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ns that around voleanic | kept there nominally for its protection. The hungry | ee was different, This tree was proba ; 
han 60 of these craters, | and squalid a of t warriors made me | POrary My the earliest Indian inhabitants i ° enico; 
0 ast virgin forests. | doubt a little their capabilities for gi effectual |d t generations had a e after 
: Archipelago are characterised | battle to Comanches. In t: h, it is no wonder that susther, “while this patriarch remains unshaken a 
; oati all parasitic or epiphytic plants, as | their enthusiasm for fighting is on a low standard, as mysterious monument of Nature, a silent record of 
wining plants. Woody plants | they are mostly pressed into the service, half starved mote ages.” 
distance from the craters. | I Dyami t iving their miserable pay regularly, an mit to OF this Mitla we have plans and elevations as well as 
h the different regions—1. An all, treated ees by their officers, who a short description, of which no idea can: be pua 
ntre r koei sok ee greater cowards than themselves. In this place ‘Sais by aid of the illustrations. The reader 
had to buy their victuals at: exorbitant prices, at a ita look for himself. le remaind 
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‘one.—This atit eee smal als tore belonging to the owner of the %4 a (estate), |Y me is occupied by a relation of the political events 
Scattered here and there, sents. a to the loner | for mans benefit these poor wretehes kept there ; that have lately occurred in Guatemala, and of the 
ep a hw ing no corolla. Among | yet he inhumanly cha hem so high for the sim. | final Ea de ss of the author to his Pla ce óf em- 
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ri g.? in| plest necessaries of life that their pay di always barea 
, Hoff; and Ba- | suffice to appease the cravings of hunger!” oa a aS 
; some fangi belonging to| “The uniform of the soldiers, for every day’s ser- The and the Word, or Geology for Bible 
antia, two or three | vice, is ragged; that: for parade is of a faded, gaudy msta kathy Longmans) is, as its title indi aa 
Selliguea eric which aca with their bare feet, the oddest view of the su ubject from a pu rely reli point of 
uetrum, Bl; Asple-| possible contrast. The infantry is armed with — view. Mr. Pattison tells us that he endeavours to eon 
Jenium mucronifo-|and bayonet. The musket: is second-hand, and seldom | sider geological facts and the Mosaic record with 
a, Bl. Among | serviceable for sharpshooting, the only ner om reverence, as being of equal authority. W: 
multiflorus, Steuds tual —_— the ppe The red man: feels reverence | P*ZeS fulfil his intention. 
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any e ep iers whic might be partly bettered by their anpes 
e ame tr Sheet fae t part small naturally keen n eyesight, is increased by the little prac-| PREST E SEAT oF E. L: | 
u becoming good marks- | Of tl dite ba seats in the 
8000 feet ; Pierii rae Bl.;| men. Ball-cartridges are never plentiful with them, of Maids tone, this t poi of the pore mera Ibis 
; erruginea, Bl. ; |a md they are economised to be almost entirely th ground in the middle ef a 
copodium y+ samen away in aetion. finely unalated piri ber ia wi in a. noble 
f timber trees. 
and I; multiflorus, a Carex, A species ot Anten ia dition with: that of the arasa “at times’ a little and Chesnuts, — o 
m the estate since it has come it into the 
insis velate beggarly Cossack, are armed with lance, sabre, | hands of Mr. ~~ The mansion has been 
helia Jav: ;| and carabine. Some the use of lance and sabre every | rebuilt, and within the last 10 years ne w gardensiand 
erum, BL, th e | Mexican a natural talent, agility and quick: p have formed around it. Imme» 
linger to contain | ness of sight: p ali blanche is his ae cara- | diately in front of the house is a small flower garden, 
— BL; bine is a wen popgun, ia: oeiia es, only to | neatly o with on gravel, fountains, vases, 
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species. | the bearer of it, as the sign material is sin, ao and Standard Bays, set out in tubs soas represent 
on gra aval aes itself | and hard polishing have given ita tendeni capri- saes trees. A broad strai — terrace walk lined on 
appear Some rare Mosses, | cious explosion.’ either side ag standard Rose trees passes through 
at. the pr ea Bia oft ofthe} At Durango itself, a considerable city surrounded by'a well-kept lawn, tastefully furnished with clumps 
