a 5 
CHRON 
(ICLE. 
13 
neluded 
i ad of hybrid plants wbich t ny in garder 
gen nerally too much the si sp ondes for ns atu ure. 
he 
— 
z 
in the enumeration those Won wer never have do 
n 
itin. * Thought I to 
m self, th "e T 
y de ar wife use y 
in 
8 Y ed to say, “I shan’t have a lor ong 
d work 
beyond anticipation, s since s any plants were received 
name eless, or under "erroneous s appellations. 
much 
For the 
had a ve 
, anyhow ; for we w 
up the China any more, but 1 it and prune en n 
0 ps so happened that wi 
no fri 
Ł 
me 4 + m n 
loped for an mou 
p TT 
vi bust extend 
limits of ow 
led with laying out the remainder of 
he fat 
will ferie n means of measuring the progress 
our establishment in this 1 By the chic 
S wr nsti 
p groun 
We also proceec 
garde n walks, 
1 
some of 3 however, 
the groun 
tnt} 441 
Their continuation 
utions in many p 
are atminal supplem a € 
of, 
corner it had 
arm 
ud y an 
weather ape the end or N March : 
hing but snow stor nd hard (eii atn 
of the globe, and by t 
by several of the grea va nf ts in botanical iren 
oped — the ee patronage and e 
1 ae 
any friends of our arden, we shall 
he new sho rd 0 ina were 
bl: acked as x they'd been burnt. pu I d ‘ought 
r looked v cros 
n distributed 
"which scarcely any gar 
- 
provadly a 
he seeds to be gathered dor us at the approaching 
a 
ith d eiduo ous leaves facilitates their transmission 
from distant countries. Both for int m d and for 
enriching our own — E seedlings of the re- 
mar 3 nd rare of the Gra e ians were 
| secured a 
Mr. Dallac chy, 
part of the service, is now 
us from the Murray da só “those 
arden yet possess ^ 
A botanical collector has rli employed periodically 
in the Moreton Bay district, and esi have also been 
cal treasur 
and 
to perience with foreign Roses. 
o 
be dar for having them cu 
ome Correspon ndenc 
Ave —I am much obliged to your corr set mden ts 
e and «C. NW. Strickland" for — the name, 
which I found out when too late. Acer platanoides, or 
taken to secure this season 
the „si ege ding 
in — shed Western Australia’ than 
the year, hi 
publi ic. 
f 
as no countr Y, 
the Norway Maple, 3 is the eroe Lintend to recomm 
and which, whether suitable in all respects 
not, is one of t 
e prece 
South h Afros n pit Uma ^ "greater variety o 
f| highly orn: mental Plants calculated to resist the dry 
vr 
Tam acquainted with. The Ul 
my former letter, i is bape name given 
m e malty à 
; | Amongst Mi Ye 
Nettle rad 
aridis s Spi c 
s re 
sheltered passage of. aight may be es 
established wi 
ithout speci ial provi sion 
whic was figu 
Dampier), the Bottle Ike 
oth enagerie, 
for conducting it, suffered from 
ion for the 
a scantiness of e a 
Sir 
Hiat tree, the Cherimoyen, t the Banyan tree, the tall 
Pam rass, the prolific Prairie Festuca, the 7 5 
— and therefore sustain 
e kai 
Ite 
2 English 
native — wal- 
ve companions, black 
fovea the Gunyang, the Staranis, the Ra 
the Cam 
t. | leaves, the late 
rser 
with — but it is “certainly not 
the c ommon Ulmus * abra. ych—it e — 
to 3 It affords — Proof of the — k of 
Dr. Lindley, that this ge nus is in a state of conina 
One thing is certain, eon 
retaining of leave : 
supplied o on er to n — 
n, Cir 
of ae or grafts m 
m, Mather 2 Bart 
= 
[Our ' correspon 2 e us ma 
Ulmus — not "glabra, is the Wye 
raguay a 
e Chinese Tea, t mphor tree, the Tulip ees 
Wa aratah, Bananas, the American Sarsaparilla, 
nae the Giant Pine of ua the Coe hineal 
the Cork | to U. 
6. actus, the Chinese Grass-cloth plant, the Australian| Culture o, of d the Fuchsia.—My_plan is as fi 
The The hitherto only flock of Angora goats in this colony, and Indian Rotang, the Coffee mae the sy ain ap place my old plants in heat Jing the latter end of 
aa dane un * 3 sacrifices by E. F. — Esq., | (which now without protection ripens December, and a as they have made shoots about 
ven in number, * been red y | pods), the Red Ced r, the Kaurio P Pines. p t Aus- | an inch long I take off cuttings close to the old wood ; 
parca f for “the “Zoological ical Gardens. The p — ralia, Polynesia, and New Zealand, Bog Benn, Acorus, | I then fill a sufficient n of small pots with a 
mportance of these fine-fleeced — — d future dm or Sacred Pioneers Bean, any medi- | mixture of ! d leaf mould to within an inch of 
rural ge economy of Aust w be- Mo the top, adding the top of that half an inch of 
come more generally patent. From pend: ion "Thee tended. erection of a larger building i in the|silver sand. I water gently to make firm, then I put 
of the Botanical 0 e ee ifold in tl trimming off the lower leaves; I 
advantages are likely to arise, of the — Ate only to deliver a regular course of phyto- give another gentle watering, and then place them in a 
W — for the ea healthy T- ogical lectures during future seasons, and collect gradu- mild hotbed. As soon as the cuttings are sufficiently 
of most animals, than the low tie dits on [a y rooted to bear handling I I pot them singly in 3 inch 
Be opéra bank of the Yarra, ori emal à granted f for tal laboratory, thi bl ducts of the colony, | pots and keep close and until they are fully 
the formation of a Zoological Garden, den, but which but tl tablished; a temperature of from 50° to 55° will be 
becom: e hi ighly valuable to us in rearing ; an arboretum | uy rut ae Dm xd cletions which he ce |sufficient during the fi t nd kept free 
gh they have absorbed of his | from insects and properly supplied with e and a 
side í of our area. vate means eisure M teas r the moist growing atmosphere maintained r progress 
ar 
it lay not within our means to ascertain t 
number-of our visitors during the year 
within the last five months 51,000 were “com 
pri 
ea being —— 
ac 
; but since 
nted ,as | plants 
will be very rapid. 
hei 
If struck in January the plants 
th e 
tes, notwithstandin ng 
E number of visitors during the 
— — . e fallen short 
— "publie institutions in the 
as 206 priva! 
iR 
vllt w we furnish hed o 
sing benevolent 
n 
eipal ga much unfavourable | abou 
weather during that — it may be e — the 
last Xon sb have | laneo 
M 
colony 
— ang 
a promise an 
t secs] 
enhanced in 
tm ds 
pecimens, and exhibiting i in about 15, 000 
equally w well ism c afternoon. 
end of March and 
hift into 6-inch pots; keep them rather 
en 
which euttings have been supplied to = rdens ; 
m 57 occasions bows flowers 
pA Re = festivals or 
| tion of the ate 
d 
MR. GLASSE'S pn uae i ned BOOK.—No. V. 
25. A Pruni 
HEN I was an apprentice it was a sent to all 
sorts of ose în tho had w eather of winter ; [1 
ay ha 
+ 
coo of ‘the He Horticultural Society 
id 
after the 
constant ad 
means of 1 forcing and rearing 
omnet tii in this direction 
and a 
rriren Yarra r e School fund 
d exhibitions so 
s EE hooks and its inate Wall, we pl 
warm place near the house 
fot — e ear to do 
and as i goth 
— 
might have — 
useful 3 Ukely to be of more 
SE 
1 
under cultivation 
of 1857, since sei peri 
ore than doub led. 
vinter, pos pop 
a it had made we shoots 3 
[almost blanched for of li 
dwt ve signify m much, bes ES — 
cut off it shot from t — and by the 
i uM air. 
blanched shoots were 
it e 2 eet p 
When i 
country Le expect, till spring cam 
It was a very mild winter that, ated when we undid the good 
ches fla’ 
But it of 
stopping of the side shoots after 
secure well 
the middle 
a good many persons — 
once * the p 
summer had become a — Sak VA a good many 
| flowers, not with much sme! ell, like e our, r old ones, but as 
ugmented ha 
Garden Varieties, although often of greater 
turist than new and distinct oi is "- China went on flowering and flowering as if i 
ou 
would bloom after July; but tlis 
would | t 
ue old Roses never 
it was an could no 
Turner and Dr. "Linde ¢ Eun 1d Fath meh —.— 
r kept to my own opin 
ving r. Torn 
could not afford to ma sas ome eae a worthless 
thing. I have now tasted it, and others who hac 
