185§ | Ocroser 30, 1858) T 
e w 1 on the ppo- 
se n thro’ 
I ob uld, 
wa 
1 
reastwork of them on the outside oppo- ; say ao race on the coast, sodne never visited by Europeans, 
to the selection of forest trees, Ihave baited 
ugh the h ee Of the | the King and his people, an 
a was | o 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
197 
h many have been ecked, 
ined so 
en unde: 
on its shores. TM remain Mos 
red, and 
ys wi 
ma “ 3 Ty 
e 
N 
> 
ON of endless 
y qunti could be moet 
ented a ea er. 
ê slave dealers; one 
Bess Enalicht man, a Frenchman, , and 
he Toad, rae least 
make pte tree SE the mo st 
choice of for yer 4 the i sad 
aie of March and April. 
an elem said ied 
some of the sye aloes who are a 
race. I did not get back to Gambia 
February and March T 
d Falls o 
ine gos & the 
m the 
and wel 
f Barr: 
d Sanding C Creeks, which 7 fancy connect the Gambia 
A 
Fibre +“ 
h vitally: texture, ger in ma 
pr the 
rered, a m Biar 
t the factories, zem cs cee g 
a beyond | 
a, penetrated the Vintani 
co 
British tesr: adjacent to Ca 
“18. Jibbo —, from the Run 
| The block of w is the finest 
pa e hot 
e place; it is therefore 
g would not ha. $ pre- 
experience in some paar Ss ein 
at it would; but as the trial w ac? Rule 
“rae I do not rage myself: at ye p 
on} that the instan 
principle 
n the spring, per 
air is mos tly 
Ted, v bi pr ay be si 
aj|I met here the wande ering ‘ *Iolahs and wild Foulahs, 
treaty of friendship. April = May I I was 
| bles a 
rich bad female Run 
clusters of nuts hanging lke Grapes “about the size oa 
made 
i Adag pe Upper and Lower 
the cag on ae the kin 
nunkees,” 
and chie 
ounded fag eunthhe Fi in ae 755. orea enough, he 
arched out oi aa hsa = ae people to m 
hv gg pith ilt, ae pi, sy wate tche 
- | liquid milk like the Coco-nut. The natives live on the 
Run nut. 
e | and 
It abounds over Combo, 
as | T} 
irae consider cordage mi ight 5 be manufactured from 
t. The shells, barnacles? in the s mall tin on case, if 
en I went to ms or pats pog 
sae ms Bre th three Tyr 
neh id 
he ‘inaster is 
tribe b 
to deal with on removing it to the piantati. 
sooner it can be plan etapis te es from the | 
the bett tter ; and i seyret 
uring the tr 
oars it z” an Ban r IRS man must vo well 
in A n character, ipat and habits to ven- 
e safely indig them; they are fickle an ily 
an 
their sassions. 
having only a wife, who aon 3 joins à in ‘my expedi- | wa 
acute bap hav ve destroyed the buoys, but in no 
Bran 
ns from the him i goves 
willi in all coma onii us to determine the scien 
t | tic W. J. H. 
names of all the above Kaari 
FERNS FOR THE MIL LION, 
In the cultivation of botanical specimens plants bor 
sorts and conditions are usually potted, and I reco! 
er 
3) right well = reggae age = I i, ur 
ed fi 
e m bed to preserve "E Si the old m en, Aleadis, Tunias, and ys rule over the | plants the botanical gardens 
; this part of the business pati e | multit: ie, at Kew. It was evident i that ‘their foe tment was not 
oa oi Brgy: of the gets thes. e The King of Badiboo’s content messenger -to me is | that of ge plants. Since tha i time I have had to 
r failures take ought | his vga eepe who eats from the same calabash, and | modi ctice of culture eal, as I saw 
` ood the pri Planting Fee with | sleeps with the otek occasion, aes in marp more = than i in te fariei z 
‘ fst ih ve been twice transplanted, with which, “On i ast ramble I looked out for the woods ac- | Ferns; for exam the flow Osmunda 
- | regalis in a pot of ¢ arth or p out ae dry land 
toe wh have been only once t lanted. | cure other specimens. ‘Lam collecting bulbs and plants, lived as a botanical specimen, and to all ap; 
the seed bed ES the 5 ‘plantation is is a pa and wi to convey them to Old Englan tally women’ tiis flourished, but when I saw Osmunda at home as an 
; buti h | aquatic, I found I had t taken in its habits; for 
er, as there it was evident its taste was for the water and not for 
procedure. A- “ity health is indeed much spi No ee dry land, as it had grown 9 feet high in a mmm y 
necessary I Afric: and I had never seen the plant 3 et hh on dry Jan 
lants but one in l oes n well in the sun 
ising. “N, will dwell in peer shoe very near dark. 
esigned prin- | near Cape St. Mey. ai river Gamia, æA to the ate | ness “wah Fs is moderately warm ee tae moist ; 
idedly recommend a t will, there fore, liv ve for ry long t a living- 
i 8 el an occa- 
+ 
n- | 
of & ek rede oe of Kew. 
a ve 
ed í 
Pterocarpus erin ‘ Rose 
room 
1 $ 
e 
ed | ground. her ang for ship- ering ? thank s to| 
but t 
net rg are not always so easily 
us). — 
and nee durable quality, ae bors butting 
bridges, beams. The ‘bug-a 
og that will destroy a Deal plan 
not attack the Rose Wood, 
“44 
got os it, a 
too clumsy 
S] therefore be! noop io is by far 
te ok roota of th 
invalid or the w mp th fair em 
work ta Broidit Ù 
elegant crosier of what the 
rtain. | Kanı 
Poir. 
es 
br ý : 
} sd pall th 
i jrin ya vernation of the flower- 
x ve Wolo.—A very hard wood used for ip and boat 
Iaf 
ess fern. 
o these then, : and to such as these, let me introduce 
bits, 
ey derive great advan- 
in a cold frame for a few weeks, 
more generally a few “fiches E me the thickness im 
ches 
Which Varies oe 2 in 
ut used for "boat: building. 
like those of the sons 
rdshi 
neem durable wood used by thenatives | 
ir huts and several other purposes. 
in 
o 
rock, 
sed for posts, rafters, fire. 
The e bark as a medicine, and it 
es an a aleat lye. 
fal 
have seen 
v 5, Ji ibboo-Goong, Black Mangrove.—Hard, durable, 
“6, Jittor, N Monk rhein tree.— Baobab,’ the patri- 
E seemed at aiie bat its most 
tit e was a E ar rising above a arinn 
Should this be the case mhad Shanti wn ‘s thon ao 
or’ eto thef up the lee nd n will prove of 
K erefore Kaen that 
the Sone 
14e 
a little soot ca ae inju ‘ad tt be this just the 
T} 
z virtue that I wanted 
wall, ober ma: ecom 
to the consideration e desirous 
Phntaton = the coast in that part of the 
rm n Loudon’s Gardener's Magazine, 
Pith raise 
kingdom. 
eae 
TROPI ICAL AFRICAN WOODS, &c. 
accompani 
Soa 
£f city 
-|in parkeli When visting t te King of Bar-Sin, "the 
Tuaric otis go tribe, in 1856, I measured the great 
Gre-Gre t Ival, and fo and the circumference 87 
feet. 
«7, Jibbo Colono.—A Fan Pal 
i oes mbo.—Used by the natives or making charcoal, 
HA is much stronger and gives a far more intense 
heat ko ony best coal; it is ikad gi the blacksmiths 
all through Western Africa. It grows to 2 and 3 feet 
“ diam i from bark of Monkey Bread tree used 
b 
clea: 
adhered to the creeping 
ka H bank, they mey aid 
h forth their new =e 
such ent 
goad over them or 
coloured 
these “Rave no glass shades 
14 
On a little mat of 
es wide, 
ithe and other oe products from that 
ernment House, 
y dear Sir,—The St. Kath. 
«y ahis July 18, 1858. 
ing for London, and conv ake ai 
ca 
sailed this morn- 
tainii 
Palm. 
ra in geographical and com- 
in Nov., 1857, 
J 
. R 
W the natives to, tether their cattle, and by 
m Dwarf Palm, in ag use 
soe 
meee orn: 
bab. 
4, Tengo; a valuable fibre from the leaf of the 
pili tree, aaah eae to any quantity. 
«15, Bark of 
n said, the bold 
of |u 
which assign tothe prom 
—. early in 
the present ye year, all very —o i 
the I proceeded i in my stea: i 
a coast, going up the Jeba a 
tivers, visited the B Bijugas, passed 
me not laid down, and landed at Nan 
and most fertile of the Bijugas, inhabi 
surveyed 
go, the. finest 
ted by the most 
EE IS a A a år a ÅA TE hh UL oe 
A 
* 
es ee 
ording to what parte 
d Perrottet a aking 
by sen ‘oe et a 3 the 
e ©) 65.” ——' “ae 
re oe on Humboldt’s 
Aspects,” vol: 2-5 P Lit has been measured—102 
« th of the Senegal it has 
‘ahs ‘ Fn the mirisi "Humboldt, p. 90. 
to 6000 years, 
building vot the ought to 
The New 
“A Nurse 
with oonfdenos iS 
lace = 
the names gien baa Beaia 
rar- Be v gA yay, bad he spoken with lesa 
