mat TH 
E ae CHE ONIGEE. 
(Octoser 30, 1853, | Octo 
to believe that 
e affection a 
the par onest productions of countries they do| has been officially provided in illustration at any | not always arise i before 
not Sori to teva tes seen. In this way ty - | one district even of att prodigious ia re ae i eve 4 howebet! Sue the ie 
tions lose half their value ; or if, as is sometimes | What in detail is known to the public hadi the | the eye or cavity of the calys we haye 
the case, really accurate reports on such subj regions torn from the Duasi or 3 in 4 or of | turbed, In some instaan the Pre = less D 
are furnished by competent men, the results are | the north-western provinces, or of t 5 o ee on | been eviden ly eroded by a MaS x 
lostin a recital of the traveller’s pi or ne — ween cate pe sal, pa bet spins its web within the vigil Pia et 
buried in official papers where the fruit eep|familiar countries walls seem entire, though it ; Eer introd 
knowledge, indefatigable industry, re no small Pema To the pu nublic nothing in a a the presence of the insat a a boss Pes oe 
personal peril is smothered in dust, or left to rot — thy e late East Tadis Compa TEN indee bes influen nce on eighbouring tisstte lip soch 25 
forgotten in oo > unfrequented v. vat, formit here the to sable k 
A ho ob r information from y er i of pa s in similar in The sea 
entific at of ‘the ghee Arcee veh a in nt dered the expense of a few magnificent | the Pear, the walls of the ti : 
eoinatry should be among the first cares of an| works, and we believe of Roxpur GH’S obsolete the ha dened conditio; s 
ghtened government; that properly quali- ra Indica, distributed its herbaria Pear tissue, and indeed k 
fied officers should be employed in examining | great liberality among working sts, ¢ of galls im tely in Ae 
ry branch of its natural history, and papers of GRT FITH to be rendered unintelligible | sites, The slight deformity, ble, ar 
porting on them systematically ; th y editorial incapacity, and then for a time sunk clearly attended’ by an un a 
should be w Perg- as to be not only into aa y. Wh rs. HOOKER and | cavity containing the sin 0 
within the reach commercial men, but|THomson, at their own charge, published the first | arisen apparently from s de up 
made perfectly intelligible to them by adding volume of thei ir Flor ra Indic ca, incontes tably and | to the pistils, either from th ded to 
in every tl d|the insect, or from clim unted 
the native population. Every | of any tropical country ad and in which | were sufficient to in se 
colony. should “have its own Flora and Fauna, as | the cet st on ne ously amassed by the/after setting had taken tok 
7] pany 4 were incorporated with | sufficient at once to destroy Piy: just ay ariy 
and animals. Such works would of course be in nirpardllcted skill, "We T of Dire a refused | kernels of P s may be injured J d du 
the first instance imperfect, but new editions wat ie small me cu: HN ha which was needed to | without the immediate destruction o less in 
ring the work to a conclusion Consequently no} The deformed condition kely to ; 
Such works might be prepared at the e expense | n Pub an Pall the re layishe nsects, combined with external i fro 
of Colonial Governments, ‘ahd copies should be | the collectors of WALLICH, ROXBURGH, BUCHANAN- | able to decay and therefore the agp punt to 
furnished gratui tonit to every important public | HaxıLron, GRIFFITH, WremT, and others has re- | fungi, has then, we beli wag hg 
library in the British dominions. By this means | sulted in the preservation, scattered through a p in gamion and if i i Serv i 
rsons about to visi olony would gain in- | few private and public a large quantity | only remed ri tho 3 desta y the it ; grea 
valuable information; commerce would know in| of dried plants. This was t the ore a pa abits Bii les draws 
what direction to extend its inquiries, gardeners | because, pia refusing to their own countrymen | four mmi ar feted ina nr way ik p f bres en 
would learn Se to eal a new plants to culti- | the aid of a few thousand pounds to enable Sher arises fro e general cause rath pity : 
vate, an should ave a new i turn to real publie utility the ee soe pay constitutional peouliarity, i we are gah 
pulse er to the mercantile community. hich it ined to believe, from conti 
| accumulatin during more sar ke our iriterprekitiði is not far from fhe ot ce . 
tained We pry r Colonial Ministers seems to be shown the ton Fi Direotors ania shoadlon b vate an| M. J. B. t: 
by the many so-called botanical rae ns which | operation wi example, as we think, in the ewes ts x 
have been established ee and there. But bota- | history of br e. Faé all that British | ON RAISING PLANTATIONS NEAR miik | 
cal gardens, important as they are under a wise, Semarh ee ota Bass done, the Court sent out some} Trp in nquiries that are making as to the best moled two i 
conscientious direc in; oe eans to an n gentlem the brothers ScHLAGINTH- | forming —— exposed ae is a dange 
end; eyen if well managed they convey no informa- | wa ‘vi an ain unlimited command of| the agit g from “Gard ne Maga However, 
tion to singed, who are able to visit them; when | money, to redi mage what had been discovered, to | Afte: 7 poin ting o í, it “fw erly Oa “Oak trees bea ot 
ed, or converte orant overnors | prs er n angra India for the purpose of seeing | near horizon y 
Sit nets stot tablish samp as well known as me Tham igas eportin | to t he nthewest™ and n north-west winds in plant „For al 
they only reflect eects. a = Bpen that | climates familiar to every Indian officer, recor ing | that have basi raised yb ne sort of a ibriy | cally fo 
supports them; and hen ene hg ere | berumbi is Mais ba heen long before recorded, | the Pinaster re ficken AE t without mies aig 
ye e paaa gi a: Yow | eee monento, moun had been m Lome th ud the winds on i ot 
of sterling public advantage, — anic { aries on ea history co ore 
with the indispensable rage of a |e garden |to | which “had ins years yia safely Aai Ei in in Alje o wittend m pron 
and library, is a workshop full of i t eady lay rotting in the cellars | p lb the i nae eo tatic 
out A ne th geid bota: of Leadenhall | Str follows the | 
ose books, 
a 
the necessity of which sit ji is 5 tl 
object pA a present asite to point ot 
Our experience tells us how 
formation by needed which Colo 
n 
uch th 
er Fora wie British ibun ew 3 sacrificed to ti 
BA as 
snd 
forest trees on 
ig 
To raise a deep antai of 
above counties, x fall; 
e for better = from Lord STANLEY | 
a Counce which are to be found 
i I would 
e support of | intended 
d willi the to pevai tie Aatun of 
what we cannot in our conscience designate other- | should be for every plantation, in ‘be well t 
one, Wo is much consulted by they able of SAM | wise than as a flagra ntj job. $ the depth of at least ser Nite 
firmation of get statement. Where shall I find in- Lge a ned ohare Tess than three i} and kep! 
formation on which I can depend concerning | | ScARCELY a season passes by without complaints | Baai th P i t trees are introdu tical in 
Mahogany ? sigs one ; the tanning barks ur fruit that thei es will a ct ead cording “the latter _ 
colonies are very little known; be so good as tell | not kee eep. “No doubt this frequentl arises from | This ah observed to be ae in utmost ec 
what lca produces, says another. Am I carelessness on the part of those ps complain. if the forest trees are plan the same timer teh A whi ge 
ely to find at the Cape any wild p spread too thickly « on the shelves, it | the Fae wind aey of the bie p 
TEN th my trade? In what part of the | is not ¢ one fully oo over when stored, and then thew | ploughir 
est of Africa does Camw My | no attention i apy oval of any speci- | necessary protec tion; ri ever gO ay ¢ essential 
son is going to Mauritius— ted | mens which m Y deó iy. Where proper proove injury from which they ich % replanti Thea 
in the gum trade, or the oil trade—is there a y | ar e ta ken, and. panel’ tae as 5 -x is place hide the effect and exp 
Sk w pen - ome inf n on re Will i in made aw po Hak- 
ose ch is the ki eis pir t d to the | account of the e i 
sent to ourselves, and doubtless a E eh ton i ey, ‘a tt g (that io see. in| es 5 thse mon T 
th e unity; a ye Aaah vt fe — pepe 25 in the natural order of aiina sted; the earth 
is too often ‘‘ there is no book. n ings, in such species as are subject to the peculiar pha hilo ies a be ho 
4 It ran. be alleg: eta that the want thus referred to | condition so g > e On 
vie ù a — th t to be much alleviated e case is, however, very different — bë lopped bant and we Tar. 
asures ; that ady have excellen da the before th as during its i 
accounts of Western d Briti i eet a Apon See: DONS ee Ti i th odes 
: yea and British America| time of maturit This arise from various | assist the growth of the 
by = . Hooxer, and of the Falklands, New auses an nial pn: Se of the ise o- | is naturally ae ve Gambis 
Zealand, and other stations by Dr.| sphere care must be Hooker 
ER ; that the same experienced botil i Tiel Fertil raea or "deticincy siiret eana pone, 
nearly completed the Flora of Tasmani eat oe insects We have D now two spe said F ; as instances volt th hithert 
Prof. GriseBach is at work on the Flora of the ale oct pa Bef pa jare “different oat | attention to this rear near “the 
British West Indies, Dr. Harvey on that of the be ‘an = ne ae ry ver wat They the plants ire or ts to bei we 
n ave ro on ranche the age ce i 
= pe agaaa ope, Mr. aeia m Australia, | are sugary, and well-flavoured, but each shows t apk’ growth, and raerly aged of ais 
ning of a aey- waloable eystemsnall e onegin-|near the eye a little dark, har prominence, | from the seed bed, ar ng cheapor than grids 
the plants of Ceylon* from Mr. ho a i nisa e 1 are pateh, ere studded, | git A Pare fed, but pi me. 
doubtedly this is an important fact filly cone ihe oe OT teas oofioe ntrio arrangement arse oe ferenc 
idering the eminence of the iE AAS ae litle fungi, which we Te gerie ire foray 2 of or “pte iy the we 
undertaken such difficult tasks. But these orks | Gla seman ee Nee “ak les. | have been twi i 
are not prepared ny uniform plan; much i deee ce bre iarten o Pears Pin a will amply repay me May 
Reta arer a ie Whee oe piae a. pi similar arae s, bat without” thë same fangs s. prm W asteri most 
ion of Singapore ?—of the Mantili? eed bare onsider ie py eT Bs | sidered of secondary it torent 
= the <tr governor of Hong-Kong do a — acciden hay have nt. the ; ae 
Bruneratio Plantaram coe | Tt nenene me ns, amongst vegetable dis- be taken to proven Pinasters, ei . 
intarum Zeylaniæ : aes nije -] the i mie 
= ea ram bered by 
oin Basi Hg Bawara, P.L.S, “assisted by De Dr. | tian? as in human maladies, that the sam latter, or by taking 
E, small Svo. Paur, Pp. 80 (22. 6d.), noticed | tion may arise prim distinct causes or from a| latter, or by necessary; at 
complication of two or more, and we are inclined | it may appear 
