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aae the groun nd, Zi feet: height, 54 feet 
pervirens: girth of hak at 3 fe et from the grease, 
2 fect 9 inches; girth of stem at 6 feet. trom from ihe grown $ them a haps, ea 
t 3 inches; diameter at 6 fi roun: hem y general history 
ae ae acho. height 29 feet; plenty of in ry system of the universe ? pta 7 still seta Society inat to ming Pruit Show 
it. G. Plumbly. "Essendon Place =a d, He onger r ar" di Straw- | hon en the Horticultural ‘Society is to ey m 
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‘Yaxodium j whole vicinity ? However minute Toa o jects may ey also have Caulif 
be, Ag aal merited my attention; as Nature | the season oe” es. ro d Cabbages 
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Mr. Broome says it might appear, that guano. is not a without say ay ad $ See great missin Duchesse a angouleme be. alow et in ts 
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t a a good entomological article once ‘a month, iss as a kitchen P, 
flowers, at an any rate not for Pompone Chry sant hemums ; paisdi anything ri has pa rtigularly presented P ato aaa th la ear? 
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the same practice two years ago, I have no doubt that itself the notice of tho tak : * i a otha Page Sey fast 
he is quite correct in concluding that the pn used inte at 4 in gardens and garde eni ing. “i keh me you ~ i ee there find it distineliy ae pth 
was the cause of the mis chief. Now gua f of cable the ft cats es 
powerful stimulant, is most beneficial when properly furnish you wit th accounts from time to ‘time of the of the fol a ea r. 
. But th Baty care should be taken curiosities at the time tas in the insect world. | Easter Beurré, and Beurré Ra 
it of one uni strength, on I may add that I rel picked from my trees two speci- ite Ri Mares pie event of any oth Mgt 
on it ae be rapa with due regard to the habit | mens of fruit. I shall be ga to hear if you consider Sata ous E eabove, ori ori? sha a 
of the plant. The great difficulty is to get it free from j them fine. arbur moes ? Anin aae a“ ie specified, Ae 
those dulterations | so genera rall sed to increase its |} lb. ; girth, 10 inches. eauty of Kent Apple, | ree: second eoon ME era 
` r k terate it with different’| 1 foot im garth J. ©. [Certainly fine specimens. ] mot ake tants shown in class 1 culate 
substances, and these in different degrees, it is ex- chard Houses. —“ sby has your orchard ed by meaning, any six other sorts din x oe sr a ora, 
tremely dangerous for s any florist tox rely upon t led this year ear?” isa question generally aske class 12. So again with Duchesse d'Angoulême 
ffered in the market. h of I shown as one of a collection in class 13, on 
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pe a 753 of the last week’s Gardeners’ ‘Ohrni le it im š iy ate Abaya, à y i, a oor econ variety ; dat es think i may bo show a 
that we! plenty o: eaches a » | the Crassane d’Hiver is generally 
so that if "fruit and well flavoured, exch 3s could w deene ebein than a'kitehen frait, ad a beens 
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this stren trees 2-1 fadats i in their decision, fiaola te i map ~ 
a from experience, soon learn the proper p Topor pot I took no fewer than seven dozen ripe Ra, | where they may deem it their duty to taste the 
tions to use. ate: tomeet this diffeulty, Í can with they were eee very large, I admit, nor yet very aitia 
confidence introduce to the notice of florists a concen- small. I weighed a dozen medium-s sized ones, which 
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Means. Dealey & Dawes, expressly for flowers and | the frit was much larger; some specimens of 
plants, eq I , | Grosse Mignonne and Noblesse might have graced Sir W. J. Hooker. ] 
and ehh may be. used with great benefit and|the tables of a metropolitan show room, Plums, H. M. Steam 
perfect safety for any plants under cultivation. T|of which I grow several varieties, fruit well, with viti, eh! swerpedi 
can produce some Pompones, whieh, for the last} the exception of the Washington, which grows too : 
three: weeks have been well soaked tiree times strongly wood, nana ‘seems a shy Aida Of Pear 
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seen. It is equally good for Dahlias. Mr. James {some handsome fruit, such as Beurré @’Amanlis, 
Beaseley, an experienced grower of Dahlias, of this | Beurré Duquêsme, Glou Morceau, &c. Ona small tree 
town, has grown a great number of Dahlias for|of Louise Bonne of Jersey I had 16 very fine Pears. 
the last two Berens with this manure. John Duncan, | Eugenia Ugni thrives well in the orchard house; the} and ti 
idbury, near Birmingham, Oct. Bay re as ne ee, ae I have seen it when grown out of) a 
did not intend to state that gua injurious to | doors, but to furnish a proper supply of its aromatic | 7 Sous } 
Chrysai nthe emums, nor indeed to any othar plant All that tame 
h ragrap h in question v was {teen culture. ay trees are all grown in pots, they areannu- 
of thes yeti d when ie plants were not in a which has laid some peaa and that has been well in- 
condition to be benefited by it. | capan, with d loam. During summer I water | con: 
-Bird ek > era PFD, of Sun- | at least t wice a week wit! th Tignid manure, oil ~ 
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account, I have no doubly 7 at of dle he sup- with water. I attend carefully to the ‘destruction ‘of 
posed to be a humming-bird ; but if he had adhered to | green fly by smoki ae a i with the 
his first opinion that it was a large leustistioat he saw, | syringe, not t remedia m et 
I think he would have been more + in hi Ju- | lime ‘and sul by r the of which i 
sion, I have expected that somebody would have| OSEA, Cho pe in a cspptied it) pi on 
noticed what has come under my own observation this | fruit aig leaves, s Dewar, Gardener to Admiral the 
year, viz., the very great oar. of our English | Bethune, of Balfour $ Fife, N. Be. 
moth, Macroglossa Stellatarum, or humming-bird hawk | Oreh —It is a matter of some sar rprise to | ration pred: 
moth, of which during ne months of August and Sep- | me that no tase are laid down and published a far as | 10 m 
I have seen many as 30 specimens im | IÍ know) by which one can estimate the correctness of 
one day fi ng pt the Verbenas, ty | the j Nes fiats of Ist, 2d, and 3d prizes for the 
the scented ones in my i W: mate in | class-of pla firs eo om iven to the collections 
securing nine fine specimens, one of which I shall | g most ra t or to those wii 
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happy to forward for Mr. Hamilton if he will| largest masses of | sea Is mee cultivation the best ae 
send you his fall address. Those I obtained average’ recommendation ? or is it the only means fp A. ainin g |e 
about it inch in length, with a —— „trunk f ants shall | w 
about the same length from i S is derived | be taken from the pots and blocks where grown, and 
Haxpos yAooou (long tongue); hoe ‘a tuft of aatri bipecte an a well covered a Moss, and this 
hairs at the = < ihe abdomen, which is hore lant grown in the sa eph w which s ae 
ee eaa terior wings are of a | like y AE on ~ pusle, altho ough produci wil 
ky b aed ie of a dark | good effect? Wh wo and more varieties iowa recon Us 
be pa selene yo te dusky before to be shown in t ay otk pot? No doubt there are | ang 
behin ; the body is the same oe terior good reasons to be given for the practice of the judges 
aan variegated with black and w een th doth ints not touched on, and should | pas 
sides of of the se segments ; the anal tat i is black. The| one of f them, be able to find time to state thei ir rules in| 25 
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of Teata n ct fame In the Journal of | myself, who write not P E Zi 
pierre ona be found an excellent pers e the tion, d 5 “gy ates ee e 
carious moth, I-think on comparing my | Stone to ee Heat—In reference to an article in 
account with Mr. Hamilton’s you will come the] the “ Mechanics’ Magazine” on “Uses of Cross ut Laari 
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A to e year, The night dews wi 
same conclusion as <a this is what | Stone,” I would ask oe of your corresponde rrr ab) ‘es wr Bae or rested the vet pi 
: ntleman saw and a genuine him- iet e what stone has be ya = resist a ‘whites asam al 
ming - bird. I shall be glad to find your hatt beat ïtisa matter of terest. C. M. 
Jour oftener indulging in accounts curiosities | Dick, 5 top "Poland 
among the insect tribe as well as the wonders of the mg Fruits and Ver cane 
> : etables.—T r Number 
oe and Fa a e world. | 7 do not mean to | of the 18¢ 18th”. September t the yremevation Te fruits 1 and | $ 
be a i R entomological | vegetables abroad is alluded to. Whilst in Poland 1 
seria died, — a winch. generally the bean to | tasted Plums in Jay 1841, e were of the growth | reach more than 
estru grub, rare 
kemin. Fp eg pea tiful | of the e previous year ; they still had the bloom on them, 
chronicle, oe an SA aie two. This Plum is of a hardy kind, dark purple, with 
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pletely recovered, I fear that sailing bro 
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Zambesi) will not be able to agh it, 48 
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at / mantel: Aine much better ‘method i 
ships by launches or boats une, 
ba interior” At, two-thirds flood, neap tido ranger 
as 13 feet water onthe bar, which 
oO to 20 feet 
gation = the water ` org or to-morrow 
screw steamer Lynx puri TE 
with the expedition, and p 
latest newspaj cing some € brent nk 
miee esta piei it Mariano i 
descripti Bernardin de St. Pierre, his | t se 
u our much the same as that of the early Violet 
“Studies of Nature,” as a Str rawberry p plant, in Plam it is good dried. To keep fresh when thoroü ghly 
which t farse which nestles | ripe, which is about ba time, they Break o 
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the ‘of the stem; th i 3 oi 
pegs 3 the ant which licks up pending them they h dated h like th 
om adie pagr anen umeration, the skeletons of Aasia ar o grate iya present pom 
eget _ a exe na the ‘hops are hooks on which the Grapes are | th 
Ta the | bung, care being taken to keep the bunches separate. 
