JANUARY 8, 1859.] 
THE LET ER LS 
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led with roo: th 
1 represented i in FM e awing as 1 
mre ce large quantity of | fil 9A hich pot y 
executed, , the imam ered v Be — ii ls actu dried specimen 22 us, measuring | may rem main d their final aut Let the pots be 
really d — 1 miliar form. "For mir es | | something "more 2 J drained, oys ster shells will be four d the best 
— an — but think tbat the teachi hing b. f inferior deities tl the train of Flora. Un- material for this nd broken oyster shells ore — 
i rinary conversati ionsis a mistake; tely the sp tri are greenhouse, not bei y mixed with the soil during every s 
1 which lerabl t | their r gro owth; the soil E should be porous but p 
a 1 concur, whatever may be the case o with mere bris y the same as the splen fet mw r rich. the object being to secure a strong cy growth; 
and pup! We must give the oria T Bootan, on the ascent to Chupcha, growi ng this period to induce a 
uthoress; and select 3 elits to Cardin al in A WO reed Tm ilicifolia at an elevation of 8000 t lux tg th. ae a general rule, shift into their 
3 wi Villas “histor ry is of co " pe bl g qu by the middle of July, the size we 
that of Kent:— 8, p. 192 9. g ist t of tl 1 are 11 inches, deferring till the last the 
Mrs. Leslie. Some of the things I shall have to pen in the Hants — early blooming varieties ; two- thi irc le ON, kgs 
tell you would appear very odd at the present day. At ft with brok 
the period when Becket was in the hi hest favour with plate e forms dimer of the vay pe —— shells or sand, will be t d the pith suitable 
his sovereign, y the Second, whom he rivalled in 5 — of of Riedle odendrons made in the and ompost ; thoroughly drain the 8 as the plants 
the magnificence of his 3 his biographer, | Bhotan mountains, by 1 - J. Booth, by ite m they | a remove all laterals or side bran noa 
after qr. 5 — splendid han old and silver were sen * Thomas Jeter y of Rainhill, near 
v uxury of his tab e, “gi res a fur ther ive ject, R. Nuttallii, forms a | can resi te kept i in check byt the free use oft sire 
tating that ‘tl r; if this is ne eglected, the result will be blindness 
b e 
ments of the cha 
vered with clean 
rushes 
or ume lest the gentlemen who sue 
€ 
bys 
— were every 
t 
rpool Our N lii 
| robnst growing, sparingly branched tree-like shrub, well | wate 
ns ltu i 
= 
hay or straw, and 
ny e 1 — — of the grea 
om to 
the 
pra 
Becket s style of tuvding was even 
han his sehold appointments. 
vast retinue of barons, g 
vei 
efore it was wanted 
y 
on, nes. 
[^ 
day in winter suited for e greenhouse cult The | in the plant, which will be fatal as regards the bloo 
in summer t deer nt is green, 3 in the of many varieties; use liquid manure at all ti " 
cond ; yea ader side of the leaves, to a rich | sparingly. If the foregoing instructions have been 
cinnamon re, hom ultimately passes to a pale brown. | properly attended to, and the plants are in a tolerably 
t at table, d nr Another peculiarity of the species is that its young vigorous and healthy state, their bloom buds will make 
floor. Kate. gre een soot are s dotted over with rusty brown their appearance about the middle or latter end of 
llen manu es, ately disappear from the stems and | August; in most places laterally, but in some cases 
e|the a wad of the leaves, but are retained longer | (especially if the plant of weakly habit) terminally. 
on the lower surface. The leaves are for the most part | The lateral bud will be found in the fork of the newly 
covered like disposed in nearly ite pairs along the s, | formed leaders, which leaders should be pinched off as 
ad Leslie. arranging themselves in whorls or flattish tufts at the soon as th sree can be p med without bruis- 
ostentatious | extremities ; they are ovate-oblong, with a small pro- | ing or otherwise damaging the bud; — however this the 
* bene he ent point, ee bemng, almost or quite oot in | irst bud should set before A „ ntioned, *a very 
o 6 inches in width, the mid.rib and | on occurrence wi i ly 
res, priests, huntsmen, falconers, and a of the A surface tinted red whilst young, and | par rt of the season,’ th ved: nip off all s super- 
men splendidly attire gg rV ; they are thick and rigid | fluous shoots, and take his chance of a later and in all 
was n in bum large waggons, drawn by e, and wrinkled with raised bo ita n the upper prótubity a vastly inferior flov he terminal bud 
gon contained the fur rniture | of ie se corresponding depressions bene here the the tips of the fee 'and is the centre of 
al rib. The |: a cluster of smaller ones, which smaller ones should be 
fourth his flowers are „produced in colossal eee heads up- ible, care being taken not to 
1 —— 
his iture 
able, or as 
called a 
Les 
ty isle ri * 
T — 
— 
icd 
with hi 
— the care of the kitchen al pa Yos the lot 
) 0, from 
d 
with . and any one guilty of a dis 8- 
ressed, 
on 
ein is As son during FF cr pat of his life.— 
ecket 
vermin, 
Se 
oved as soon as 100€ 
w 
course the 
was under the a of the black- 
! What can 
ust what I — Katie. I have 
v rien cs medius Trench on the “Stu ady of Wo ae 
n the 
wien 
s | ful, bei ing bell-shaped and massive, me 
din 
ten blossoms, which are individually extremely beauti- 
asuliug 
of 6 i hes in diameter, and expandi 
compact, marginal 
a rich golden tint i in We! in- 
gradually disengaged fro the lesser buds. As the 
ng into 1 a graceful. taking o the bud i is an element of the ut most import- 
lobes; canno 
too strongly impress upon the grower the absolute 
terior of the cup, and ieai suffus 
the outsi de. The filame ents of the stamens are tipped u 
pente of Er ction $ to car 
m from one castles + 
of his servants, w 
it was vulgarl 
blac gariy ex 
quisite fragrance of its 
- | the de of the gen 
| made from a specimen which flowered "a spring in . | 
s Ori men ei —— Sos — Forster, of Aug: 
who: 
ry arge capitate 3 stigma. This magnificen 
TE may, on acco the wonderful proportions of 
its parts, chaste eie, and 2 ty of colour, and ex- 
s flowers, 
us. The acc eidg. 
figure 
e Bavaria, 
arkable 
ond plate is occupied by a very good figure of 
Tritoma ESSE that gorgeous autumn hardy plant 
ich h as , recovered its long-lost reputation i in conse- 
0 
y of watching — Peri more e tuit ever 
after the first w ki and for this reason, 
however well is Y he voit whatever 
time and atten e bee d 
all will ultimately rere fail if the proper buds be 
not taken at the pro 
ma hie fon n grown 
>H 
irme mem ine i 
cat, 
of — most active — e in "the 
But 
ou have to bout the 
Il: 
ave b his oti sy and 
e at Osborne. 
The —— of the remarks accompanying 
the ama makes —— of Tritoma, and three 
varieties of T. Uvar 
t third plate is filled. wit h huge flo n of four new 
Indian Azaleas, from the pencil of a 
viz., Tree - fore Duc de 
much alike; ile d 
8 
tens all at once the most austere 
Nothi — coul. 
ian artist; 
Brabant, nel and | i 
i f pots 
d 
with crimson, the cap y rather coarse and too 
is ene in i Hindostan) has gone by the name o! 
Cyr 
m * 
on the 
atic | 
s must find it the 
1 cultivation. nthia. The — is a different s species, living 
penanees; he w ugh sackelot th Tue las ast plate tnde a variety of Gar rom e Ricinus. The st udy o f the spe ecies by Gué érin n-Méneville 
his a sin and S tempi it so soin hat it was full and a very faithful gepresentalon of Mes 1 
dirt an His usual diet was bread, and his beautiful Torenia noticed in our last 8 volume e, | cocoons and x “habits of the worms. The 
x pur- | p. 800, and now called. 9 without exaggera- | carded give an excelent flock of sera whieh i is pane in 
He daily | tion. China and Bengal for very firm ti mes. The colour of 
his bac — silk is e lothes made of it are 
it was all Walper. ers’ Annales. Vol. 5. , fasc. 1 of 2 compila- not injur red by the rain; R^ oil, a nd wear lon: ong. 
and — by Dr. Karl Müller, has just a ed. that the — of v silkworm i is pee 
over the road from — 
. atalogue o 
r$ tive TE a good 
FFF 
eat 
'd Bouquet, published by a —— should be 
ea 
he’s (Edgehill N ur- | 
sery, y ibang) Catalogo ue s of y. Choice and. Select Fi m 
S an ; the difference, between choice and 
the n of it industrially. 
—— proposes for this E the king — 
Chiysan 
prom e and concerning the eben Fa ry he| 
ig Pre- 
es the fo! 
the 
ccessive a . Avery 
Christ's. | good — "i well selected E 2 1 useful | w s November 1858. Annal 
remar cultivation. lmes (Well Street, of Natura al History. 
Bow d. Hackney), 2 Descriptive C: Galaga dee santhemums,| The Mithridatea of the | Mauritius.— One of my 
; 4 Fi be Da pe k Nursery. A 
scially of | amongst the „Ferns, and near the und, on t ihe stem 
— € mums, afons — ers etry os of a — . arm, 6 or 8 thick, 
ws —— 
— i fleshy flowers, and a a great many 
—— a a Fig. eine wth à Vandyek i 
Pus sve i 
pack he folowing m 
d plant be Had either 1r 
| receives a check, which I 
jor in such pl 
in each pot 2 
