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opened up new races of Raspberries unlike any ever | | once to have taken place, it has not, that I am aware | And so, 
produced inourgardens, How орде и is all sen I— | of, yet occurred. С Не 
that one np. pun has through accident w. m А few years since a variety was raised at Bordeaux | Indian sun ‚ fo 
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has produced plants with little or no variation, І Боге freely in the autumn, and one almost fancied | the gentlemen of tlie India B 1 
Ыл also raised many hundreds of seedlings from | that what had been said aoi it rus true, for its | | would be benefited, БЫ? This gentle “Сарп 
wn & n ieties, the fruit in September i upon to explain his 
berri i в іш оп | conduct.] е m i i 
Quatre Saisons of the French), thinking that as the "iw нна bearing іп the autumn soon ceased, and the A the 4th of April, w 
Ohio Блаце had i such chagas in my | sort—evidently a seedling—proves to be much like | without sustaining any injury. I ha 
rry, i t would from bloom- the Prolific Hautbois, gay more vigoróus and | read ffective assistance from the Deputy. Collec- 
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А sorts, and growing meke them so that the bees | variety being a Ten because I have found that | vided eve for the transportation of the case 
would fertilise the flowers—it is very remarkable to |seedling Hautbois Strawberries on o Dd two erred had to be taken up a river that falls into the sea a 
find the flowers given by these autumn-bearing Rasp- | have a great tendency to produc and fruit little den © the south of Calicut. About 6 Р. м. of 
berries in лар. апа September : most attractive to late i in autumn, and then relapse ао Rog "habit of the | the sahe day on which the cases were disembarked, 
bees, which swarm on b em—and h | they were placed in the canoes, and we proceeded up 
dinary given by the October red and Feeling interested in the Belle Bordelaise Straw- | the river. The night was dark and silent, e pii 
yellow sorts. was sown, some RR. of | berry, I sowed the seeds of Men all sd wl crop, | |banks of the river were lined with 
plants were kiled ^an of which have borne fruit, but | and raised hundreds of young plants: trusting, as іп went about from one place to another, T. enetig - 
can be found at all marked- “ш | the сме ы m PPM UM Eliza, to ture or chance | | flaming torches, that now and n dd up с тане 
rodage i fruit ike the uet sorts, varying a little makin n. Ip and | foliag е of the lo ofty ii forest behimd, and pre 
size; leaves and shoots are all alike. inted forin the midst of a tioni of scene which strongly reminded ше of f those exhibited 
e ol owing fact seems to give more interest to pedis nt ү кейш, ай "with the truo Hautbois ЗЕ s d = eT fires at night ез the banks of the Guaya- 
my hybrid Raspberries, and to make them appear to character, I o ay ва cluster of magnifice п Bo uth Am 
be of a distinct race. They do not put fortlr suckers | berries peeping od the тёз of its neighbou u 
бош AEN рон n mm common sorts, but, on being | They w e largest berries of this race I had e 
hey form “ stuba,” like those in a | seen. On lo скар more closely into the bed, I found ; 
bd. tut рео йу, with but few and, in most cases, кше т cluster of berries nearly as s: all the rest coolies from this place to а 
no sucker; the fe t plants gave berries of a very inferior | jo urney was over rising groun d lon dulatin 
ав Raspberries from the Yellow Antwerp si ^: and were destroyed. The first sort selected I dis- pl lains, some of which were partially світо iid 
produce, for th part, yellow fruit with ped yra tinguished as No. 1, the second as No. 2. No, 1, in 1862, | bore fine aiie of Rice and Plantains. Here and there 
variation, except that a g^ wil give red frui | gave very fine fruit and hore abundantly; No. 2 proved aliit the sides of the ES were обаа of tue Banyan 
israre to find any variety worth perpetuating уы | а failure, being late in ripening and inferior in pud | tree, Fiens indica e wide-spreading branches, 
hem eedlings from t hey from the Seedling Eliza retain the r ust | d у with fig, ESI nicae from the 
also vary "ut Title. In France the hter d is said to habit of the parent, but their fruit up to ds esent | fierc of the sun. This day I saw one of the 
have p rodu ced. both the yellow an ber Rasp-|time has not been fo ud, equal to the pare É stock. situs cunning raten prio А4 mendicants of 
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seed. with but little variatio a Strawberries are most interesting, but the was observed a little way in advance Jying under 
TRAWZERRIPS— There Е е but few horticult ural | | raiser must not have high hopes, for ы, is necessary to the shade of a Banyan tree, with his knees 
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eee ro from s If some ripe berries are pics zed TM d ma some prs that are of high excellence. | groaning 
flat, laid on the surface of some mould in a flowe 861-2 a large bed of мала some thousands in | possible Г 
pot, а d t he fla ta ened pulp. covered with a covering ot nu мнт all raised here from a few choice | s 8 
fine ear piece—if all this | abundance of fruit; their vesla tion in growth was most | torted. When we came opposite to where he lay, my 
is done i in Jun ne, and the. surface of ü the mould co vered remar rkable ; some were dwarf and compact, some tall | companion dismounted, and taking hold of a small 
with a piece of slate or tile to keep the seeds d ànd the variation in A A -= NM stick whic h I held in my hand, was ábodb to deal him 
being disturbed by x2 rains or vermin, a large crop | of their fruit was also remarkable ; when he sprang to his 
of young plants may be expected in April or MY was scarcely - f Strawberry 4р Fy arie no ot feet and ran off with a rapidity to which even very 
following; and these if planted out thinly, will in the | one was superior pas our well known nc popular | active men in England could make no pretensions. 
following year bear a full crop of fruit, some of whioh varieties. Thos. Rive Early next morning we reached the ascent of the Sis- 
шау, in the opinion of the raiser—for do we not lov here we met by Mr. M* 
ines e. T i fth para Ghaut, w were d L E ina the 
our children e жогу. о! bearing t e names o Superintendent of the Government Gardens at Ootaca- 
kings, queens, and PLANTS ОР tree арен m who conveyed us summi he same 
*' Time flies away,” as the church clerk at. a village X from p. 101) The vegetation of this Ghaut is very fine, 
in Essex once transl ated and КБА to x s sign.| CrNcHoNAS.—On the 28th of March is steamer ойр several kinds o Palms an ree Ferns 
board “Tempus Fugit." than Mice reached M iPod the cases were disembarked, | some о Йен attain фа altitude; and І saw 
since that my brother, who с addie e t n Н: all, а nd placed i in а position where here, too, the Angiopteris evecta, Pteris argyrær 
Turnips, and other bucolic matters at (a variegated Fern), and several kinds of Tore. 
gardeners are apt to look with lofty eyes M a e s ate abe os about s the wind, and from the rays of the | nja. wo days’ journey mor г the summits 
contempt—for n. Early next morning, Dr. Birdwood, the Curator | of the Neilgherries brought us to the scattered 
selves, and are they not patted on the back of the Bom MBR Museum, made arrangem ents s for getting | village of Ootacamund, where I arrived with the 
men, and have they not см Society with in the cases put on board H.M. Steamer Dalhousie, which | fifteen cases containing Red Bark plants on the 8th of 
resources, and are they addicted to taking was about to proceed to Madras, but would stop аб Apri, Оп reaching Ootacamund the plants were 
more pleasure in looking аА а flock of fat “ship,” Calicut and other towns on the c on her way to placed i ment Gardens under arge 
аз шу old neighbour used to d Ds n x: us that place, Тһе cases were accordingly carried to the oy the Superintendent. Next da ey were counted 
house of amer ог Grapes, much пау by coolies, and put int boats, which conveyed p. Mr. M“ ho stated their number to 0; 
—well, та er sowed а КРАЕ quntity st еа A the steamer. When they л been all pla: iüdiüding iix cp altenvü tak Kew, whieh 
the Bein of Myati^s Eliza Strawberry, an | on board, D" Bird wood, , who had == perintended | were still alive. "Tbere were, however, a number 
plants when рой о out here formed a A к. it the operatio was engaged pen. that had lost their leaves during the voyage 
was interesting to see such a level mass of foliage, The іп shading the cases inl e captain of the steamer between Bombay and Calicut, and these Же ө 
Second year they al. or nearly | all bore fruit, an d then сате to me and p. d ir I was going to accompany aiuda 1 in the reckoning, bat on srasspnting 3 
ith Т em to Calicut.” І replied that І was. ''Show me eme that they likewise possesse! A roots and 
comparatively large leaves, and forming a robust TE if. | then," said he, ** your Ше; for I мы -— in- Ж erefore the entire num unted to nearly 
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This воть gave large fruit, ve different from the | structions to take the cases to Calicut, but n 
br гине анте of the са tain of the steamer Dal- 
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parent sort an ethren, all of Mess cerning you." І said that it wa s probably an oversight | M 
partook largely of the stock they were raised from ma, g А Ы of Dr. Birdwood, put t that I believed it 
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many of them were more worthy than many new kinds | signifies MT; if you eannot produce an order r you а Боп abiy and Сает i; 4 кы part of the 
ed. i , must go as ore."—Very well, g Xd * y to the fierce rays 
named the Seedling Eliza, and has now pn its way | the е ashore also.” —“ No, no,” was th ie answer, “I | | ofa tremendodss Ja yeh &., Streaming with salt- 
to a high place among Strawbe rries. I mention this have or rder for „them, but none e you, and so, sà | Walok тинт жерт, bin dragged o er them ; the 
remarkable do ff quickly, I will send you ashore i dod 
. of others, because it reminds me of pa. p E. ʻi 
E Бе g Roses in France. Tu. in therefore, to avoid confinement I went 
are sown, and ihe sower is often аса i shore and proceeded to tle Town Hall, to state 
by а fine variety—one in 500 or 1000, perhaps— | my case Dr. Birdwood, who, however, v m i 
g its appearance-in the t ofa crowd—a | to another part of the town on impor rtant bus оп | etw, 
specimen. of * natural election, and worthy of|reporting the matter, however, to another wer en 
cultivation. was advised to go to Commodore Welleslcy, and 
M. enn 16 Strawberries to break into by | relate the matter v soa The Commodore's residence 
deck where the 
n fruit-bearing мом 22 way. And аз there was no трей be lost we set out 
Rhe. ге ет DUE ш sorts е. ар qe - A a very h s ае eme 
i in the size and flavour | clouds of sand and dus ial T= direc- 
yis woes th he house „Ашим he Commodore, I 
him, bt " reque: V оттан ит, e чону та уа Е ад 
Seems as if it would not be unnatural, looking at the | the cases under ап aw I was arg nd Malen berries in in different ities, соте 
mis iie vid alo; Барр id SR DR formed Њаё t! 
