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logy t nformed that they were needed by the] tions it occurred to m, 
ge Gaga E ASAN ar kaga ei oan because the general p ublic asusa | to take a portio of the fred. 
assign insects to the E ical Society, birds, | many of the kilar in the iby Few things) and decaying te es and ras ol ae thee 
peaks, &e., he Zoological, 1, shells to some future} are more requi n 1 pm Ai i 3 
Concho adel. “Baak disunion threatens destruc- pam etal store e could always-be con- nig been arrra sparingly i = 
Á ffered for the | sulted in case of need.” Apoia 
aah nonin i ze Natural History niatorial | SOR whee: e a — a shade, and that the soil is too dry j ve oa 
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ing belo: ing nimal | Oaks a b as prepared as 
s ex- | kingdom. This is a plain limitation, about which no | likewise ee found in it, but owi ue 
- | doubt can hee and would include all extinct as alterations the Oaks have en E 
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qui 
ment pacity ) for some e original 
p i i p were first found: has lik 
oor to be entirel true. °We belie $ ewise 
Atay Great Russell Street indeed it Je no connectio cal g is not i no surface meine 3 feet thick with EN 
Hi ake, so es n end of their being 
altogether unsuitable to Natural par objects | included by us that sit itot 
which will not bear frequent c cleaning, in some | because a public co collection at 0 a 'Delonging to 
y ¢ vhatever. rop ; this country Se as the oa, in copite, or te a ka 
remove the Natural History to some other situation | by circumstances so asig th at we must reserve | shady, to succeed in their a AMS ok tag 
is compte in itself not na here oa but judi- | their consideration for a future notice. places ought to be s elected. ha soil elt mt 
cious. hat is very different from carrying rall ua wh 
its various a artments to as many places in’ the We should like to show the ee a box idl liable to erkak 
y _|of fruit now before us from an ORCHARD HOTSE |leayes are not disturbed they + SA 
| CULTIVATOR of some years’ standing—excellent| 93) to cover an a pred ta Tram 
that the majority of working naturalists would |: 
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fla 0. 
we can ’ ay: -lea 
good situation of easy access, nealy See among the former of which is one specimen with the soil, the whole trenched 2 fest 
i erence, T amour s m oa 
e 
hes in cireumfere he cl that has|large stone put up at one corner to 
complain, ar tee beaded rner 
if a been raised o; part of a few wrongheade arge ripe Tru es only ought to 
~ cated eg Ss mae they ould persons who have fine old trees on fine old walls | ball of the original soil they grew in attache to thm 
Pinay eat sig shts i istoad of on against wpa fn Orchard Houses by those | the Truffles not being the least disturbed when remord 
hie H if Wak t i it G t R 1 who have neither e old trees nor fine old wn It will be three, four, or five years Lope 
‘any nich Ageng ry is to qui Tea usse. has so nearly died out that we should y e | young am is produced in these beds should all pe 
Street ar or is it Hy A good atmosphere be best retur jas to te subject had not the pe beore. oe tion at least I ate ee be the case here Ja 
secured ? a show. conclusively than ever be rally, the artificial making of beds for them and 
7 ore grows 
Regent’s Park has been mentioned, | done ‘by aie skill operating Aes ey Fado the over-ripe ones could easily be Aes a, andl 
terials. uantiti i h esteemed 
the clay soil of that locality a most co i 
obje: it th resting | place o We read in the Times a letter from Dr, Cmax- | 3 epee Š ap a eri 
History collections, one of the first conditions of | BERS, Physician to St. = ’s Hospital, announc-| «mrut vers a is 2 ie re, Of the 
servation is era? t Nor is it well sy ced | ing that “ Four boys were brought at the end of| h a po agree y. a BER d ‘for Fence hon a 
Truf 
for access from all parts of the metropolis and its | last week to St. Mary’s “Hospital, with symptoms | this ony. ‘The following is his description of te 
vicini which the house surgeon o ei: Sa: pears <hr Truffle fly, taken from a translation of his b 
There are serious ipni s to Burlington rightly conjectured to arise narcotic | the “ National Magazine :”—“ The P ET 
One is that i ady occupied to a poison. One was but slight ta affe ss tals and was} may be seen in winter constantly flying about th 
of London, the} not taken in, but the other three were severely ill, | Truffle grounds and around the Oaks that produce the 
f rs 
ieties, and for other purposes. | and two were saved only by the readiness with Truffles, pe enetrates into the pedis o 
; even if it oftered space enough for | which extreme remedies (such as electricity) roots t 
History at the present time, it isincapable | made available in a large hospital. When suffi- | its eggs The yik ak r r p o iy t 
3 hird and the most he lad 
Lip Ge midst o 
ost | ciently recovered, t s confessed to having |007e out containing an azotised 
f ations te es ens, some fruit chia slowly enlarges through the “ced we 
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thrown awa a Of |* yes mate? 
T |timber. They said they” had been told ‘it Sond hio te adh ie n the sir ay cial be 
and was good for making wine,’ and they rather | of of this milky fluid. touch- each other ag | he 
i 4/liked the taste. Their description of it as|form those la large Truffles of itpoga a and 
may | resembling —— Apples’ did not much ‘ities whose size varies according to ‘ae 
itted to sea dn of Ba upon this corms Sees its nature ; so they were sent to| Truffles thus joined. The Truffle once fral Bi 
t was only indeed because it is not a “public” | bri hate in, q with an ampl doned to itself and grows and expa 
‘ e ie A $ atu ishment aff r 
in placing its valuable herbarium in a place. | one pA the Moit dariana droge in -= Phar Ravel likewise states, as part of his 
open rooms, amidst London ia throng copes. It perhaps may save a wo if yoti | the naturalists who have most carefully 
aily wita sight-seers, would n ecessarily have ae were informed that some hile find the | Truffle have be A 7 i fater 
PTA Sita has be ap aga te of Sa seed Eii e enoug hem to eat | Tdi perpen tes 
en suggestion h en Kensi onja apet kat s quantity, and that it is gt n s it will 
3 a in the Sidounatch of the Onido, ners safe to Bers it in public places. The proprietors —- ie seas hapten: “trate Å 
Great 1 Exhibition of 1851; and to this th se Sern E tator? 
e| ought to see that all the fruit are either bur ‘a that 
sa Rev ‘te ee 8 relation to the Aphis vastator 
Guarery e think | or burie s the cause Se the Potato mildew. Wiliam 1 
ter proposal can be made. ‘Space i is} Is it possible that children will eat m pe Welbe ck, Aug. 23 
ame, he. a is ay as the Br sot prickly, and nauseous Thorn Apple, the m 
t-generators viting of 
; pallor it. Tot cally it it may be ressò fom all | could have represented it to be good for making 
FILB ipara 
quarters was sufficiently proved in 1851. Hereall| wine? And is it not possible that Belladonna is|__ THESE are usuallly 
_ the Natural His story of the Museum might be|the plant that produced the ry ief ? ye os sci = er sand mak sh a eae Ma 
_ readily displayed, without the opti o hong hima narcotic with fruit of tempting aspect, ta gine planted in, nurse i 
= stant to ‘or more air, ich is the sequent cause fe dangerous ccnicteaite shortened to 10 or 12 inches in me 
i more light, less soot, nas less damp. A lib ikier o of G Bérce’ s account of it ai 07). in the nursery for three or four 
rosea mig omer pany it, specially provided slight pruning every season in order to 
vn ay use of wi naturalists, the curiosities TRUFFLES. form strong lateral shoots. Inf 
o aual History i teats being co pe tothe} Havrye been partly successful in the artificial culti- | tions the ground should 
pr of wn a mone itself; and thus one | = of these, m som Ba aara of m my experience | manured. In Kent Filberts 
f the alarm morialists would be effec- y be interesting to your | ma anure Ga gon SY Aspro rags often 
tually disposed o ry “Abont 16 years ago a pag ‘fine sp specimens of the com ae Pe 
i: The morte SS oe aoe to ramnove from | | plantation near the lake at Welbeck. E soil was of aj in nursery iaie aie roa wre 
Pe Musani Car ret ene tone ks, ot a aa raato fou here th e to remain, and after 8 
Hist ~ pin Ge. Hive Ee fone Natural Truffles had | formerly [nag eg WAE AM | to grow Withoat: restraint f fo ters three eg vi Š : 
x sere apee this point in n he stated | erap D Tad eek a intro weed was in sth raion wate eae oe T ias p 0 
noki B Pan = ras tached to to the Jardin — the parings an ripe Tra jes f the| five or six of which todd be ag 
` There is no difficulty P kitchen had been tared i in a this ariet RA PE the foundation of the 
à À gge four or five years after first finding them I often | second year after cutting down, th 
Mection, just as the Museum of Geology in| used to get 5 or 6lbs. at one time gd Octobe er; but | shortened ; PAT one 
n Stree ipe ones, great | t i 
ry o 
A po having no Tru fe 
e description. ar as | quantities of small unripe ones were destroyed inj hoop might be 
for them. The squirrels were our principal | they pice treme 
an argument at all, itis in fayour of | digging for them 
ration, The library in the | finders of the large ripe, fine ones, and by watching we | would cause the trees to assume th 
w to answer every conceivable | 091d see where they commenced scratching, and a sin for priva ie rd year à 
The same volume is often wanted by | eaten rally got the tubers out before they ha a been awo re bad sho ald be e 
3 and, on observing in ti when th 
he returns | Ey sl 
of saya dry the erop was deficient, and found | Erma a | following Sirro ey 
ib Brith asus mm et ek eral sd nd al sig de saree 
ie and erin: for them. t 
ng the anasini E ata aed aa ee ee aeae Tna a aN a te side 
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