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upon 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
655 
eo 
e Forbes, 
sea, and “illumi nating “it 
rather aston: ished 
ness, it is easy to imagine ho flame is thus 
hat spreads. for miles, giving ted a dis nce the 
ght, but w ma closely 
bright 
evoked t 
es), th 
rers b 
à? says Mr. P: atterson, 
Ivable like the ain ir in the firmament, 
ent stars. 
1: 
1 lec- 
our ran know that Sea er are 
mir them appear to be so: 
q 
Aie 
wka 
S 
two months, each containing 10 sheers of leterprens 
and five plates, with the text nm poms Germ 
nan, Fre 
and keie t is well known to a otanists that a 
giar > has made the Eu uropean Oaks a prot 
adi ll ferni e has dis- 
| tributed many mtean ini new 
arkably unlike our own. 
rae 
species, some on which are 
The publisher is Hölzel 
1 
of Sea-Anemones, I would 
; being ras some time in 
ei consistence, 
They are of 
nce, ght Aare texture, 
or pia aa hue. Th ar 
r the tabl 
os | 
A third edition of the late Mrs. Marcet’s Conversa- 
s on 
The e volume, ‘which ise 
properly tran: xtremely 
e 
nat of warm aus or lobster. n 
sam ctinia crassicornis in 
is mi unli 
tius, Pe obably Karie the s 
aA a careful and compe tent editor, and bri 
sub 
manure on 
feds, 
ire quantity im 
ounds avo 
‘ilz Jh auent fort é souuent puis la fricassent legiere- 
ment en la poele? Actinia dianthus also ‘is good to 
eat,’ according to Di eager we mor cus directs ts the 
he mann 
r of dressing oysters, 
‘ly he hot and 
wey 
eate 
pery 2 Ar ae a s praise ; from it they prepare va 
dish called Rastegna, which 1 is a favourite in Provence.” 
Our last extract shall be from the account of the 
Hermit crab (Pagurus), a creature which row have 
em cline ed by aul who have ever looked after marine 
me 
pep 
| Pagu urus Bernhardus or Hermit 
himi whose a must b 
sea-shore. 
reader has only t 
take advanti ow pon 
some shelving tides in seen to gratify his vis a 
h situations he will doubtless be 
puzz 
of turbinated shells eae 
hei 
the 
ect down to nearly the jo esent abled including th >n 
inte: 
ipot and most interesting s 
telegraphing. 
Trap wi —Cutbush & S on (Highgate) 
Bulb Cat lari 1858, including nine sorts of Cycla- 
m ee Arnott, & Oo. (Vaux shall Nursery) Cata- 
int j Lock 
Fu an Abridged List of Bulbs 
‘oots, Se nine ki: inds of Scilla,— 
Joep Baumann Niam: ri 
; greenho stove, and hardy plants, especially 
| Rhodode sea and ei Azalea 
x or 
HORȚICUNTUR. Ga TURNHAM 
GREE roe nia the. una dryness of the 
past: summer the arbor etum mri eirs ks as fresh and 
r meta may be ent, every Me some aeons ne the sands in all dir as if of their own r we tanio: ber to 
on approaching. it the brilliant ph ut after a ion eae rsa | different pear wh ok in more Prenat gi lone The aly 
Lees nei 29 inctly the = ha of the creature’s | would be aa owners of me aea whieh iain io in excellent trim by means of m 
dy. This light, when the ane twilight is extinct, | ments. Sri a + oe of s dime machines, is delightfully green, at and th have o t yet 
oy ity Shite, whic! th e even when | others Sun sian all seeming to be wandering about put on the “sear and ye fae les mae nd the _ cts of 
hore te ' “ed feet belo ik surface. As the after their individual pursu vs Pa Te not apparently | the great dro ught we have exper need a scarcely 
1 rom place to place, so | gui any mon impuls 
mien haa Si ith ion for a these sag bare rss shells be in’ in terrupted, they ab once|now brilliant with blossoms. ra hisar since they 
or more; but at|stand still, and then each of them: is. foun a have been widened and other improved are now 
‘ished, and does | EE ation to be iii JE of a Hermit quite an ornament to brag Tl r 
We are| “To comprehen hape ofthis animal, ‘iti is neces- neatly rolled, and n a weed is to be seen on tent 
a great number ‘of curious | sary to Copa it z tt meaner It is t The y Conif h a few y ed 
erat upon this part of their. Tias: „That be form o dist "bg covered wi head and ajon | the east side ott the m ha — 
refut observer ascertained that co wer of m of the body om ng covered with shell, li} 
ps shal limited to the large arms or tenta cles, the pias pa of a lobster whilst t e hinder, or „tail flower est her The 
oe umbrella- “like disc, and the poe he “basen tratant val ‘caaing Arens the 
the muscular zone 
of 
pars defend its nether region S, 
= had pii ike » to the 
Wav 
ery 
side at a PA distance from 
tisto appear in 10 
- stomaehal reef the rest of the animal only shining | S the crea 
by transmitted light, He then endeavoured be find ee is > alge to have recourse to the strange expe- | gay appearance. On either 
out the cause of this hosphorescent a earance, and} die nt of making an extempor ntry- -box of any shells the grass verge is a row of variegated Ger aniums, 
Ee pko pp ums, 
ascertained that it was owing t tha s may 
oe duid which pe gt fone: Ah a of a es and which the occupants are compelled to} ooo ee eine eee Behind teea her sown a 
above-mentioned. o circular é oe 
ird ~ sae eiher i Barmen to them a The fish fo h other by bands of of scarlet Ger 
_ degree of phosphorescent splendour. A M he ejection a the sare pet . | Calceolarias. TI Js had eflect this summer 
squeezed into 27 ounces i s milk ne d it so mary erie the s cn seizes ‘the. Era — otherwise there would ‘es os no flowers 
_ luminous that it was ible by the light which it magn Be behind the head, and, now however replaced. by Hydrangeas, Fuéh- 
_ emitted to read a letter at the distance of 3 feet from rps thus killing or disabling it, at nates sias, paar nae Geraniums, and thus a more mare brilliant: 
of om bpm. the “resplendent mixture. Even |it out of house and home, then to appropriate | and better sust: has been kept up | 
ving animal. will unicate to the fluid in affording thus a striking illustra- | the pie y — obtain 
which it is pe ed its q| tion of any other arrangement. s fee 
HR puch nore rane r bllaney 1 pinced =e = “wa ater l t they shall tak ee. power k : yi A er pR i 
of salt.” ee” ey sl e who i is one very. y pa 
And they shall keep who can.” Pi = 
a Sreo he shine amid the waves, and giv «When feeding = 2 watking about, the f : re it struck from 
their undulations. The effect of phos- thorax of eee oa Aone Gaitas e E S g ae A AEREN 
5 ahan the shell; when they - effects 
selves in, closing the aperture of their domicile with one of most other sorts. For small Ver ‘ain 
= —— upon these minute | of thecal aws, which is much larger the other. | trice Hae blossom also wort! al a. a 
is indicative of the remarkable faculty that | Th hold on so firm ly to their retreat, that they will | deep lilac blossoms 
ee of. im itting a brilliant light. When a fare i be to Ae than qui jači their attachment ; of w aam render i gaitian be ine 
with sea-water, cro with. these little | peyerthel be ther increase in , they are obliged tive, wever, it wants well saa 
" placed in a dark chamber, the slightest | to change their habitation for a ; aa ey colours. ee : 
; ae to excite th Osp and the way in “which they do ‘this is is very amusi At garden has ai pt on a spring. “the Smt. 
ated by lumi y may, on such ions, be ently observed A7 rom pla ad e ee S ust 
pe: very eem te of | craw a line of empty shells left by the b gid tay ss f „E present one of the b 
ten wey etry vith Leek se goog oscope, eng AORE f unwilling to part with their old domi- eglaning to ee: ten Co 
A o: igh t given pt is not | cile til w one has n obta’ they slip their beds'¢ 7 
oo t meere of its rien of the old house into the new one, speedily | Keep in beauty till frost 
bear points scat- | avain betaling themselves to the former if the latter is viigi E very 
= which make leiss appearance in | not tound errei In this manner they not unfre- | been p ala “a 
ae, and as sudde enly v anish; so that quently try agrea number = shells before they: fi zias uld not 
Byun AeA the, Eriam one to their tiko, betel fiercely for the posses- | 
erred, as in the case of the of a promising lodging. 
f we Ta phosphorescent. creatures. In ir arate crab is wee and very voracious 5 it is, 
largest of them. et onsen alm s mi ic, the however, of a peace eful di on, so that several speci: e i 
‘ ea bend: exceedin g t imensions | mens may be placed in the same iniri where they a We dr par 
they ered thao the amazing numbers in which | live for a considerable time'on terme of a t friend- | paratively dry, wero, back 
“Rew; at) es up for their minute- | ș ; although, tru h , their ami is like 
mid; that seasons indeed it ma - literally babl: f; b: ing 
n nen R: of every wave contains one or | their neighbours, except upon thé R 
belonging to the brilliant host. On draw pe Leaner ae 
