December 18, 1858.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONIC 
LE. 925 
| will be found a Tran posed portion of the wood within, these horse-shoes, us 
sag perel riemer spis i- | The road now has come me sabe easy to t t ly th depth in the M ae 
2 a grandi- all external enemies. They ey will hie their way on it| ing d their position th 
ae ra jus Be m 4795. Supra 1854, P. relo ty A chon pul our | own | ‘pet pproxi ri ly t} g ht, the fo furthest ie sain 
which we learn that the ‘opinion expressed in the | tuous dinner at the Lord Majer of al | thi l bably } iod; but th 
ay te above quoted was correct, ed that it i z aeg a ape nment. as to the era val, still be a rude one and 
chier as a ne supposed, nor a Spire: ord, we may safely conclude that when birds within it, or even phelehy long ary E though 
e Gowers indeed are so muc ike thos e of t the mai insects find their way into the interior of a timber | scarcely before, it eye be necessar. low a wide 
last genus as to hav eai ustified Sir jam are not the cause of injury to the range. The skull o s A inton was 
referring it thither provisionally. rae tree, but the effect of a disease bd a has been lurking | exhibi the Sect g- au hen cited 
The fruit, for disk hich, in time, will | examples of the discovery of the relics of the beaver in 
of the Bag: rsery, consists of fi ressed | utterly destroy it. Charles Witton Walton Hall. ous parts of England, as well as in Denmark, where 
ene bony indehiscent carpels which bso firmly by as beco e extinct, and where Professor 
their inner edge so as to present the appearance of Steenstrup has i o! th i 
a han ody. In their centre is a conical torus PASTOAR IN SCOTLAND, PE TRAMON its . x fe 5 of: berari pended 
r growing point, betwe: ich e ventral ARLES Waan pre documentary character were adduced of its former 
xistence 7 "Britain, whithaab through the names of 
sutures of the carpels stand five erect placentary cords, 
only e enter the carpels near the > point of the latter, 
y Dr. Cx. 
(Read before fas Medico-Chiru ea Bainburgh.) 
W: 
Dr. 
cl naway. In the young state these cords are not 
ere: but Ki blended with a ee axis or to 
und which the carpels are at 
rus, 
pes 
beaver, as long great i 
physician and naturalist, and now evidently fast 
aring fro m the countries of Europe. H 
places, in pona mactments, or in the notices of con- 
ters. 
As e rey? Be rest of Europe, the history of fa animal 
was e Christ, 
that time closely 
wii en the ‘ovules: are two 
presi abe funicles, We have not seen perfect grt 5; 
but we find in their place thin, suspe: ende a bodies, 
a drug dignified 
jours and still highly ak pgi many, especially 
Therein nae ge Notices had al rin been published | 
of t aoe of the fo: isten e animal in | 
pretty 
bo ing, and contain ing a ma hacen ne 
whi hich, with i ts bidad” dark brown et might be 
taken bed that of Amygdalus. The free placentary 
hn ar rnal to the  carpels have pus gested t the name 
thiy-ts wal ned :— 
by a cel ebrity of more t than 2000 Sia 
gned it 
brchery Semti ia 
a classical petion, 3 y 
apelier Virgil, Ovid, kal irae 
tury, Albertus Magnus: described i 
mah writers of 
Plan us, Lucre 
In "the 13th 
peculiar 
ormer e: 
tl ah he was himself secede ‘add a poa 
from pay tere ne te in the morass of Linton, 
Roahasglanioe 
Pears Moss, it was st ‘agra pe Baar agg the body o 
n de lepth, and covers a 
rotors t 
in n mic, eet sg he had been anticipated by Giraldus 
Cambre WO country. It isn 
tio rable er undertaken by th 
thti Mr. Purves, b by whom ther relie of the interesting 
of t 
rious anim uba in the 15th anba _ Am mong 
many others, wal at er? periods, George Agricola and 
Bruyerin mention it in Germ Ertan Magnus, Pon- 
, Ron- 
rad 
‘ound in 
italy, D but been this, and. a r notion co Strabo, there 
ving existed 
ts ha 
Petala 4-5, Stamina 15; LR nena Carpella 5, su era, animal, d in the course placed in Dr. 
mul pera enna ne po om ‘sal woe tis, | W.’s i 7 iiid to whose inte! ‘wet ohecsvetion he was 
is suspensa. Carpelia matura ossea. compressa, P ogulik tn chiefly indebted for the particulars of its di . In 
ternis toro conico separabili adnatis, indehiscentia, mono- ging about 20 yards from the margin, after 
SU ae ets ey -tibrana t a a thickness of Moss of about 8 feet, the 
This hand Dera — rae ia mar ahd upon its surface was foun 
of a Phi adelphus i is sane hardy. Mr. Fortune’s first 
specimens were marked “A dwarf shrub, north o 
8 da 
excellent preservation, easily recognised by 
W., on examining it, as that of a beaver. Ei ther 
+} 
in that country, or in 
. Wilson fania t to show the dissemination = 
the name of the beaver, apparently ne an eastern roo! 
ty 
rope; remarking 
i s generally near identity, though with an occasional 
arkable div vergence; and presenting some details as 
A i td 
Siny flowering in March, 1845.” His second “ His its contiguity, or they had failed to attract the attention 
of Chekiang, May 1855, in young fruit.” Mr. Standish | of the workmen; the probability being — from the 
informs hat the flowers wi oe gerne er slighter te: exture of most the other bones, they had | 7° 
without injury. They begin to appear abo been | resist entire disintegration, oe 
middle | of April and ‘continue to the end of May, i in the | crumbled on e e. The remains of deer and other 
oF p animals were also discovered on the e of the marl, | 
above the branches. at about the same distance from the margin; but, at 
r plac ap = and bones of de eer, and among 
INSECTS ATTACKING TIMBER TREES 
s to aggregate aepth of 2 
d | served and e: 
Pee 
d | deer 
dim 
‘haa given origin in diffe ies. Having 
ire that ira di. pt s Kabita in constructive in- 
stincts rig ah were known at pern long ante- 
rior to the covery of America, he now brought 
o s aA 
these a low 
pr itself, py sti il “withi in its rine or at abou 
2 feet. Amon, ng t t 
ami wer bh horns of t 
bly exercised till a very recent period 
d, though only in 
ebakua Sanh also of ot als of the 
es, all Botoina dividuals of once stately 
i atin ES 
|a ha secluded localities: As to the range of the 
ay, he showed from Teche On 
r speci 
mension ; while the left nin c of an Ox, doubtless 
Ros vrimicenius th 
and then form i 
i § tf that ide bark and | 
become the prey of i 
k | of 7 feet within the m 
n | lo 
nsects | the sum 
arl, was ato te è be- 
easuring ft: ‘Teast 6 feet, ‘on with 
tire, fully half a foot m 
ed to an animal m 
the hoof and soft parts entire, 
mit of the “shoulder. The Moss, at ‘the part 
uffering from dibelise. 
esitat ile before J accept the 
statement “that agi fine old Elms of St. Giles’s are 
ing under i Sones of the Scolytus destructor, 
whose 1 en s hay e so much mischief in London 
I would f ones an opinion that the hungry in 
inflicts no ory great damage to the trees in n question 
three lay ers. The E of these, a A ut 
3 feet in Ythiakne; of the t 
consistence, and changed | ,. 
s colour of a greenish bro when moist and n ewly 
pede to almost a white pha dry; the thir ape 
extended to about ste ee ont in some places 
k, ining iin 
pen 2 feet, had a less 
but, on the contrary, that the sr neers end 
does good to the proprietor by w 
trees have already spent the 
fits 
and he riots on the 
to the self. 
ag a mae titmouse and the 
extract thei 
branches 
net health, 
woodpecker only 
4 
nd th mea 
o fell them 
ckn 
food ha ied whieh have Tae 
Pover ring a which. are in | part being of alm 
compara- 
tively fresh v veretatik the aadi paty measuring | in, 
firm 
a ng | 
rade along with n Tage quan- 
into m 
in E 
eerd “a4 meld Netherlands, and 
e 
he animal were then similarly revi 
whether with reference to the chase and its restri 
to its uses in diet, proofs of w 
been found in the old kitche 
l. 
ps 
people of the See or to its supplying a valuable fur. 
es Abridged from the 
Pharmaceutical Journa 
Americans 
A FLY 
aon on a ‘a ramble Arg po hw the 
y) } in their 
tities o E Bara, oa heap: 
from 
A 
the upper polaras; 
In some places gravel was deposi ten 
oss, bearing testimony hs the action of 
marl varied from 2 to almost 18 feet 
bow far sardota agrees wi Soh cc do. 
mean to say that op eae pg mysel be 
by no m neither do I i — that, oth ther ar ran 
eyes are m i Er 8 han my own, far That, 
is n i Be point 
ost microscopic 
È 4 43. tion 
what ontra period of declining health t in trees 
beaver had been ‘deposited, the marl, “however 
ter 
often 
e the relic of the | wa: 
» to ju judge lod 
tion, I slung my M“Intosh 
oy ve bag on i any Sains, “aod in inquired the nearest 
Castle, ae e I had expected i 
ar Aei hes with my old ick. If 
ive which was 
a 
the coli and wood present temptation to tl 
ea tree Sasa 
yee 
ai observ leaves less ae 
than those eof i ve reasol 
suspect tl 
foliage looks ~ as though it had 
N on 
ften a fi beon S 
a fung come from th 
through the unhealthy bark, and ripen on it, ere the 
lasts set in. ce indicates 
c 
e | Nitzschia 
helvetica, 
in- | the m: 
n largely, if not age atap of 
the wik tho dia of a 
dea, 
avicula 1 es 
f all, Himantidium 
het oils a ttn n contact with ‘the peat, indnding | cn 
never been made, so I had i to 
he “W 
ew brooms ” thought I myself 
gi Soanal the iong legged na enw which thor the big 
ouses will ere now gol a to the rub- 
something % very Dwi boch the 
id Lr la: 
r a ; vad rm tad ew “or _ might bi have 
the wih cage 
fallibl 
ke e ot iy ace certain parts of the “soon (possibly 
acquired eee tat substance : those deposited in the 
to be s TE and the 
seeking miene 
tainted “ame 
surprised when we see the 
tag W went var the Dass 
hrough to the full extent of the 
Near 
marl 
» fant A, 
ra ‘Medes sand 
ear | lordship’s 
an idea tha 
u — an his 
e of 
bited 
: h mad code 
for the government, o of all ‘subordinates « as 
run 
1 
e loch, and about 7 
iron 
were =e an arr 
long as water Tom 
ger gore 
the margin 0! roti 
Moss 
> noes = the latter of small dimensions. Could 
had just completed fhe hare of his plants in nthe long 
