E 
Arn 2, 1859. 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 
stated, 
r4 r pe ue adhering to the trunks of the trees € € " is proposed i to issue in shi — 
Societies. like I — were al s pecora L. den i an tt shilling num rptu mal tin aa 
droide pecially so, in loamy "wg and L. Phieg- -| fron om m dis eys dow ponges; the proveniens a 
Lomm: Mare 22 —'The President in the chair. | maria —— and hanging down a yard in length, — denn y “wooden uts from designs by 
Blun bi tol a Fellow. e valuable col- | was very beautiful. Mr. Barter 1 that some artists of kno on. et us hope that the 
E rom of beautifully. preserved spec died en sh very goo ood Ca bb: ges are grown both at Fernando Po mistakes w whic 1 tie} into so many of the ublications 
lectio i: 1 to popular will be avoided by the author of this 
— 8 was presented on be in F of A "Fellows of Water-cresses abundan but of introduced . work; an observation already called by his state- 
— ty, who had — -— a ir pur urchas -— Has M er observed "that d Po recently ment that the sava orilla ape of bern Africa 
the * SUE qup rom "Mr. Barter, and referred t abits the same eountry as Bushmen, a race of 
i res of - x. e cer da ted fen in the earlier et of this communication, were the found only in the Cape Colony. We would also remark 
1859, e W. J. Hooker, and containing finest ay to MM - wer * in » t the attack ev rds he makes 8 ical 
: o re tin information anying ngu age of science is far too nnmeasure It is not 
Prince "n e the vegetation viu M r which "es ever reached mes edit fom Tropical Africa. enough,” Mr. W ood says, ** to accumulate f. misers 
nglan = d the plants referred to by | 2. Letter from M. Bourgeau, botanist to Capt. Pa d then to put them away on our bock. 
iis Barter a as bein ina livin ving state were two Expedition, dated Fort — Saskat chewan, June 7, —— — by the bars and bolts of teehnieal 
in Africa —— — to Sir W. - Hooker. This was a brief | phraseol ogy. _As coins, the. fac i -— — circulated, 
a nuts. Dem een — of these nuts, it was | acco ef. M. Bourgea he — and no matter 
d by some interesting 
aiiin 
observations in 
Hoo oken, 
interior, ng half the 2 year c 55 ba 
the earth, and 
— or 15 — 
m. 2 > Pe animal the on tree AS duri 
E 
about 50 Ibs. w — 2 are not very often 
ied in 
carri the eth 
bnt as it is necessary L3 ie should be kept moist, 
the baskets are well cted with leaves E z species 
Phryni 
um, which se moist, and d t readily 
decay. Steamers running up the river, Mr, er 
observed, might take some tons of Ae from the | 
3 A 
i the forest en, 
See 
es, irkso 
of wonder Sat the generality "s neben — from 
works on the natural sciences, look u ee them as 
— un- 
utteran ids aged ember. 
entific libraries m are filled with roving dead à nee 
ng the severe and almost arctic säte of that | Our 
region. 3. Observations on the growth and time of | dry, 
appearance of some of the Marine - cd J. Cocks, and — libraries of | the past. But te ee 
Esq., M.D. Dr. Cocks had rin ma U ee 
observed, 
years he had devoted to the collecting of t bun plants, 
many species did not — € o in the 
had bee t 
that m 
locality where they 
either -— — 
nope 
of them w 
a calle 
Bo 
a few oe were never found * 
after 
ized, eing wor 
ue of cowries at 
4d. T 
r its medi- 
iai; t 
ingent as is 88 common Cola, an 
her price; the fruit is about a Pea 
and - pretty. Prince's Island, unlike 
ernando Po, has no very elevated land, but papiy 
om Be 1 sea à peaks, 
wards low- 
m 
and vesiculosus, while the m —— grow 
al d been 
had 
ing altogether, or sisse for sev 
abe eyance, meanwhile 3 — in 
He — 
year. 
author — how — irre- 
d disappea 
The gn rowth of these plants 
usly met with, 
eral | ca: 
rved that | 
in p spots, 
— t. 
of zoology with poetry — Spiri 
constantly than ourselves eaten to tue vehe 
ene of eae language. But surely Mr. Wood 
Pence 
it altog When 
the — of s 2 Ren unusual become indispensable, 
. technical. Or en words are 
rance were to be 
encroachin 
be met wit 
PORBETPERE 
ERESIA 
3 xist. The soil is ric 
Ben 
the fruits ce for 
of shi islets "which lie “detached 
ucing g eu 
much grown, and —— of Sugar —— 
Bas 
It was 
pos 
—— at —— — the 
meaty with 
rter, but 
— 
water; covered exclu 
an Quee Crea O. no 
described as ub-like, 
e 
as being 8 or 4 feet oh quito & de 
not that Ee: — 
italy ii 
usssenda with con 
amen; . a shrub with 
E — Tike a a Ver ronic 
of 
ia | Mr. F 
pikes of | * 
new 
Peru,” by Mr. 
coarser — - — 
di 
e deliente Mads 
E habitats. 15 “On five 
"b R. S 
anguage, 
— 
man 
talen pacing he desert ts his “ease, e, hauls diam 
isappea: 
enr "their 
Plants from Eastern 
eee March 
xcroft, from Loch Ranno 
showy , Aspleniums, 11 lapho rre were 
there, and ile eremo Em € "t 
i ich and almost buried in it, gre 
'homanes crispum, particularly idol 
the exquisite beauty o of the Water i in the qu niet nooks 
| been forwarded to him by 
7.— The President in the 
EM us 8 of Petasia nubeculosa, reared b 
ch, were exhibit 
re- (gii of y useful Kinds s 
seco: 
E 1 from Ramboddo, 
» Ceylon, injurious to the Coffee plant. 
These consist 
es "ie such frui 
his fl 
ia declamation of the silly rank the ignorant. 
Lindley's Synopsis of the British Flora. 2 reprint 
x the Third Edition has been issued by Messrs. Long- 
It differs in no respect 7 the third edition 
itself, the letterpress having been stereotype 
E Lists RECEIVED.—John Scott's (Crewkerne 
e ee - 
e ORAE of Fruits, ꝙ e. 
with 
o his 
NS goe of 
rim in enttings 
pos ii « t the expense of pur- 
ssary Le i r that he 
ome oder to so small a value as 1s.— 
Tn. W. , (Panmu 
ihe surface of the leaves in vast 
fect with ease, and discover ering an irregular peu 
the boat at one moment M rye over 
r- 
ix the 
fly thes omyza, sp.); t 
hibited sey y . zol 
nu sel 
e genus Gracilaria, and a 
the larvæ of both o 
* dio exh the leaves, formi ing blotches a them 
als 
a minute 
minute 
which reside 
He 
E 
insects whi ch DE 
60 
bottom 
coral. Mad rock on which b 
lines might be seen, and at the next passing over 
—— cavernous depth of v water in which 
visible, unless a shoal o f the beautiful fishes of the 
d might b The rocks exposed 
pes decken of ze tides we "vere covered with thesmall 
= 5 and A. paniceum, the 
locu 
n — qum pi a. = x eee 5 
is Actinia, and t the common chin Mx. star 
Ji 
ved from 
: habi ts 
Specimens of the larve of a s 
e 
Bodden an library, EA two s ecies “Of jdn 
Mr. Gloy e, gi Jd p account of the | 9* 
of the mre 2200 of. beetles. 
: of which 
? 
usual stock of belii; plants, this catalogue Lore 2 e 
names of a good many desirable Lr 
greenhouse oa. as well as Con aifer: 
randa, 
& 
Co/s NURSERY, 
den Memo 
ARNOTT, 
very predacious Uo» Keding” upon the soa : 
acts from a a letter | or 
Meroe a 
now nea 
per 
feeds.on Popp pé d 7 5 received 
Jejeebhoy. A Potter from Mr. Wallac 
ands of t 
was thought dis 
S three times à the size of 
-æ ngu 5 the 
1. eins uniformly — 
s they re nd irre, 
others erect, Of = Ferns noted 
Platyceri ery 
anson mentioned 
2 European Sea e A box 
rved by a n e process 
8 5 arene, pie. red 
oe m 
answer to M: 
He had PA det one youn 
The Pres 
sl 
given to 
= of anew pas tt birds o S Pa sadi, wa 
e * of a 
ee had been 
fested with 280,000 of the larvæ of. this destructive 
pea qu announced that in future t 
to them at a reduced price. 
hom Sir Jam which f. 
giving an aceount 
of the discove ery. s rid new Bd splendid species of 
e New a nea group, | 
ge Mr. 
ata 
of siters pos 
was exhibi vari they | 
ssful ain Su. 
Lepi 
ng t 
members inste 
