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Tes barst and each pod was seen to enclose 30) with Dr. Pappe, the newly appointed Colonial Botanist | Canaries, Ac, in a charmin iti à 
ress in shape like a small Bean, but enveloped | of the Cape of Good Hope, Jn the same house isa vigour, for many of which E ai ao Ady 
îs a ne silky fibre of the most brilliant blue or purple | AN the Kborality of one of Hs warmest i w. W. 
cobor. PA a Saunders, Esg., F.R.S. of Reigate, 
= But this tree has been most celebrated for contain- | “ a, In the Palm House, the arrangoment of which Bas 
ing, even in the most arid season, a large quantity of A been greatly imp 1, are fine sper! the giganti 
pure fresh water, supplying to the traveller the place \ Ensete of Brace, an Abyssinian Plantain tree, which, 
wells in the desert. Whenever I inquired of the natives, r A ~ although only five years old, already measures 96 feet 
always affirmed that such was the fact, and that i =, ` in height and 12 in girth at the hase of trunk. Been 
mp rar and pure , that when ; 5 a | the gallery the real dimensions of this extraordinary 
men were at work near the trees, they did not take y | production can be o ved to most advantage. Inm 
treable to go to the for water, but d | this house the hardwooded Dicotyledons in the 
and drank the water from the tree. Having y | seem to be gradually disappearing the whom a 
been somewhat sceptical on t, I determined to Musas, and other largeleaved Bn- 
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cessitating a constant rearrangement 
near a clump of the trees. One ba hiting of huge tubs, To this there can beno 
of my bearers a spear 4 deep into e dest g process is carried 
the thick firm end of the stalk of the leaf, about t the plan is 
Š inches above its junction with the trunk, and on the Palm House only such y as 
drawing it back, a stream of pure clear water gushed for the sake of the commercial, 
oat, about a quart of which we canght in a » and | ical Interest belonging to them and 
all drank of it on the It was clear, and well and display their 
perfectly sweet. On examination, I found that eristic features, Meanwhile the whole 
there was no filtration € ta nee Seer v have this avtamn 
of the as I had been led to suppose when I me over, Tearreny and weeded, 
seen water drawn by Sir William Hooker from one oi a vory striking ns well as novel feature has 
the specimens in the Palin House at Kew. There was a been produced by bringing close to the front 
kind of nataral cavity, or cistern, at the base of the a line of tall naked-stemmed small trees 
stalk of each of the leaves, above its union with the handsome crowns of foliage, which thus tower 
stem, and the water which had been collected on the above the g ) Ì prod volent 
broad and ribbed surface of the leaf had flowed down a effect. 
groove or spout on the u side of the stalk into thi The new “Victoria” House, which has been 
natural reservoir, whence it supplied nutriment to the found so ill contrived as to be enft for the 
tree, and refreshment to the traveller or the labourer. cultivation of the regal plant which gives its 
“ Bat in this tree en ce wa i name to the structura, 
be called the s Tree rather the o into a tropical 
Tree. Its leaves form the thatch of all the houses on dinms, superb F 
the eastern side of the island. The stems of its leaves mens of nol 
form the partitions, and often sides of the honses; and *apyrua, an: 
the hard outside bark is stripped from the inner and similar climbing 
soft part, and having been beaten out flat, is laid for coreas, produci 
flooring ; and I have seen the entire floor of a well- unique effects 
built house covered with its bark, each piece at ay and June 
ae eS Se The leaf light of the 
when green is as a wrapper for and of the most exquisitely 
keeps out the rain. quantities are also sold that clothes the sides and roof of the house ; 
it contains Salvia tricolor, a Mexican onder | deepest ye 
: w having a red lip; en- talves and 
p figures of 20 Gourds with a long translucent leaming like balass rabies 
= = eee varieties of that sn | in golden caskets, besi 
3 $ a small) orange Goa, Š y 
quite the apperrance-of a litle Orange praen aron 
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; a fine curled white Chinese Azalea with red “undersides, 
called Alexander II ; Pe aera ieg maae hanging to, the 
called the Vergine di Calle Beato: areen in the. grand elles 
Kew is celebrated im trait eno. of 
annie ets ae mend grent Jenven of which are slashed fall of 
to foretell weather 
re directions to little country gardeners. 
are furnished by Mr. John Perkins, Gardener ye gene called 
‘to Lord Henniker——Punch’s Almanack is as usual a mea en 
fall of fan. The best of its novelties consist of imitations mip oy oblong, 
es Horace’s Odes; but although they 12 inches a eurved, a deep 
erent arm yn onary a honngenal sneshes ne tae a 
precio fleshy and p eS mgr a 
Recervev.—C. Nobles ( Bagshot ) very ant w beneath them, 
Gaia p Cratamakptenieenceg Weick ore al are the a PO PGI R aoma f 
the novelties introdnced of late by Fortune and others. are removed the lower part 
which is the part eaten, can be de- 
tached from the somewhat woody axis over which 
rag ela a ate 
Garden Memoranda. 
Rovrat, Boraxtc Ganpex, Krw.—Now is the time; 
sammet flowers have petished before the 
cold houses alone contain 
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3 taati interesting and curious effort untr: 
nay ay eA Nr g Sonpavicane of the | spared no expense, to put an end to such an unsatis- 
botanical varieties, and Id rerom- 
mend to the Director their inerease by correapondience 
