: Bahia arwin had an opportunity of studying 
pabits of ia creature | which one | of | the old 
entity in ‘his Rite a in 1601, narrates 
THE tdci echt a 
| used'as a refreshing drink in fevers, and is 
| ponsable i in preparing a sere —— pink pac mec 
ood seasons tle tree is 
in full flower i in oe os the altars of idols, and 
of pols 
everywhere decorated with its 
e three orders 
cen tinge by the Sowing s characters, 
nd 
return of para on blossom of the wild plant: is. 
pre g t there cultivated varieties, with various 
» bet 
colour be tween white and red, and’ some are 
the ground, and sinks oie held v ver hard. 
ked up, a great worm t 
e groweth in greatness, à 
; and as a Ss t rm is en y 
MT. th oe 
P This tunsforsaation is one of the s trangest 
t I saw y travels ; for if this tree is 
mes a ha y y, much li 
jom: thus is this worm twice transformed into | 
atures. Of tliese we gathered and brought | n 
to 
he. foll i 
author g t g interesting ex- 
roy mention one other animal, a zoophyte C : 
airin Patagonica), a kind of s sea-pen, 
sof a thin, straight; fleshy stem, with altern ite 
=a As 
ightly yell Doublé varieties are in 
ost reques nd dwarfed trees of 
panel "everywhere near deli nd round the 
temples these nissa said 
to amount to several hundred is, is'in the possession of 
Prince of Tsikusen, to whose kindness we are: in- 
re bted for drawings of some of the rarest kinds. The 
passion of the Jap: anese for dw arfed trees sis iuconceiy~ 
it growing i 
vation of the Mume is one of the most: common and 
profitable occupations of the co country. The ey graft it aR 
approach, and in this way 
| hadi to the ground like ae of a weeping willow: 
dealer offer hea us in 1836 a bush in full flower, phe 
searcely H P iigh 'Yhis prodigy of ens was: 
ps a 7} ee | } like 
} 
rai In the sae step was agon “Mume, the next s step 
as oceupied a Fir r tree of similar smallness, and om 
} 
a this extremity into a mere ves essel | filled an 
matter. At low 
> projecting like —_— _ ee 
few inches above the 
y this vested ine soa elastic 
| high.—Fiora. ca Bl... These details, 
ads 
rren, were ci a to: me by pe ve Siebold 
n-| Dr. Mon 
himself, when he was at Gher at i in 144; he did not, 
haem Hl th 
r reasons it will be stationed bape with Drimys, vos 
ual n atural orders d, t en, 
manner by ave lv the Japanese succeed in dwarfing: 
ee It is said cis 'theyse — the very smallest 
se eeds, tal n fro m the v est plant ants, tuo cireum~ 
t be bent at the lower 
ily slightly curved and I imagine it is by this 
alone that the zoophyte is enabled to rise again 
thë mud. Each olypus, tl 
polyp 
brethren, has a distinet mouth, body, and tenta 
m 
that ar ‘ener and must be protien as an orie the 
av 
m: of chins Salaiin, and. the 
paaa Glai Sauk the separate indivi 
e be wed to ask wha an 
isnot the mere natural history of the east 
Ea Mr: Darwin has recorded. Unh: 
£ 
: i 
befi Take the following sce 
of s pling of a Spanish pete res. 
‘on "300 7 mem arrived from the ns 
ieee or of Carian dant Mir 
ing to the tribe of ee Cacique Bernantio, The 
» They 
ed the ni night here, and it w: mg og to conceive 
more wild =. Savage n the scene of their 
they Sear intontenteds others 
Se cing blood. of the cattle'slaugltered 
= suppers, and then being sink fro m dranken 
cast it up again, me 
in simul expletus dapibus, vinoque sepultus 
"icem inflexam poisk oe i per Antrum 
a a oe tra cruenta 
able to a the facts ee to us in connection with 
varieties of race. No doubt, indeed, exists, — the 
peration: thus far; but the following assert 
m 
that they afterwards: paint them with a camels hair 
| pencil, using the same material, and that they after) 
a 
1 E 
the little box, witch: « snevening 
f li 
“pp aon i and tha oe active 
ie | lony ek panaga aha atig running g over 
| the plants; mhich, although apc have really n cone 
e plar 
pa na the Hoste ae to which ete 
lap 
eners know 2 i, well 
| that aphides, sea’ seale-insects, the cocci, and. other vege+ 
table leprosies, í do i in fa et torture and distor plants till 
s 
E 
sects, which are pai ruming over every part of 
ha plant, 
ians (mansos,.or tous), |! y 8 
5 mg 
| sehtor ten heads at once of ' beantiful white flowers, 
by dark gree 
pro roducing the state of dwarfuess in question 
that is what the Japanese: say. The Bir of whieh ‘De. 
S paragraph abo 
{Sie 3 inches high, and rerai on the second pie 
n | the 
box, was the Pin i the Wo matza of 
n | the: Sapances, or the ‘Kok sio of the Chinese. Thunberg 
| mistook it for the Scotch Fir. Its hi 
and is-also given in the ‘ Flora sim (p25 rok > i) 
Of all the Conifers we: generally fo 
iust that the read reader will not rest paa = 
inane 
cet where it doesnot grow wild ins boat inasa a 
pm tivated. It a great reputa the: 
falles, maar stories, and idle tales of all 
age up poop its: history, and is-a-religivus pgs m 
ceremo ca ii festivals of the people. e Ja- 
ponese cannot possi ibly dispense with it, and takes ea re 
AN 
e 
ournal ; 
perfectly indispensi nsible ac 
ustory. 
jee Acer SE (Ever- m 
olygamia: Monds ia.— 
Be whe np made known in De Candolle’s 
red ere it was dese ribed tök ecimens 
are planted b before the residence of Mik it ecm 
ting pert sae round the ~~ ple of the Suns ye f saints, po 
Jof holy men; and it oversh adows all veo ie le ie aes 
gard 
gh ro 100 1l poe db the 
course of every highway is marked by jinsia prine! 
| with this Pine and panies of Nettle trees. The art of 
the Japanese gardener is exhausted in the pike Pome 
of these Pines ‘They are clipped ee Sa = y all sorts 
ed on Saga io mountains of Van Diemer mr, specin by 
tm the country roun 
ieh 
pla 
$ Chinese eall Tai. This t tree is is menil a er in a 
> of die mugs, or mie tal ie in 
ideas of aga pe 
oi . or hori- 
zonta 1 ellis joss and us fashio i hesg a sort of 
e | flat = Tn this kind eet adie er 
he trav velle er is astonishe to 
to touch, and t ai | speei 
| tle most tiny dimensions. While staying at Olmos E 
Naviwaja 
| Tea house, the brane ches 
| out into a 9 circumference of eer reg Ou naar i 
pogi hind Pa s and very coneave,.and | 
. tears ‘San Sapa 
eo: 2 square 
ies. agis even know a ro geatt Can in Japan; 
mens on wih almost an 
esaw ¢ dwarfed specim oer: 
AE 
: promt pone ce! 
ae it is Saeco looked upon seeming iy “Ti 
have. rested, and sarian paneer or | gad to’ stiti 
ue nang deel Gardens. —We ara 
» th Mr. Mearns, the talented and ihs 
f th xdens, has re-elected: 
Jue alu throughout the none biseri p 
in Ju of his m 
a ae —_— iat a Eee sb one candidates, bears t 
ing testimony. 
arnın: 
Ee pnting Sw ting, w 
been: r 
cuttings | Mr, Mearns: has been connected with the Gandens ever 
i ‘od of their formation, andef the efficieney 
anagement, his re-election over a pode ga 
Swarming of Bees. ge 495, remarks 
when 
adiniruble provision of 
