June 4, 1859.] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 487 
— on of — ans e Island s; it grow ws in abundance on snowy white Calanthe veratrifolia, Aerides bogus uà et? Tha 
weet — or Kumera (Conv a Fielding Fox-brush, and A. Veitchii—the aoe ae E the Sa caltiv Moe, ^u — z^ of Pate; 
ivat s variety, with delicate pink-spotted wers, The that it is one of the many ways by which 1 ms of 
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Batatas) is The awai, or Sweet Yam, is another | Azaleas were also beautiful and effective. „Among them | humanity may be impressed on a child's you 
edible root. The root of the Ki or Dracaena terminalis were exquisita, lateritia, Iveryana, Per a, dilecta, in the pleasantest and most lasting pa iy id 
also yields food. It weighs from 10 Ib. to 401b. Sugar — e RU G * ue Leopold, the E with fine | affections are fostered by the means of Pets in those d 
e is eaten by the natives. The Cocoa-Nut is also ured fi , and o med E yes kinds. ariper age. Pets cheer the bed of sickness, solace the 
employed as an article of diet, especially in times of Heaths — pim 1 in great variety, and in fine Kars of * 5 to mind absent or deceased 
scarcity. ong other fruits of these islands are Tara- | bloom; those deserving of special eire kir Eo ra friends, and s and — more endurable the 
wan, a kind of Plum (?); Kavika, or the Malay Apple dishi, depressa, vestita coccinea, and Spence ana. p y and sorro 
ugenia malaccensis) ; and the Ivi le exhibiti He * well Wis loveth well, 
Spondias dulcis). The rhizome of Tacca pinnatifida was the Roses, which were magnificent, — elicited Both man and bird and — — 
yields a large quantity of starch, and is used as l There were Charles Ux wson, à ^d ti | : 
T acri t ed Xd ‘vid rose, large and double; Jules Margottin, Coupe For the dear God, wno loveth us, 
The root or rhizome is grated, and after |d'Hébé& Paul Perras, Duchess of Sutherland, — ir dee and loveth all.“ 
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ober to December there is — a scarcity of and others. Of Newt Holland lants there was Ho —— pp. 384) ì bd a really weed 
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of crops. "Nativ ve bread is ian tos ta. Tu to, new seedlings raised by the Messrs, Veitch, | *reats well, and it is oe ii them that the great mass of 
Banan ae Jen corsa and Tahitia Among new and rare plants were Cant s | cultivators requires to ntorm Amateurs in 
The roots an pe fruit are scraped and b Dampieri, with brilliant eri bl cular have — an T in a e Br may p 
pits thickly "ned "with — leaves fi ese are ea ilicifolia, a handsome evergreen cheb from J "i er, In short, Mr. lenny's vo me seems to us 
ermen X The bread thus pre- Rhododenaie m Veitchianum, a green — se species from t t y 
pared may be kept for * ong time. The material is t with beautiful pure white flowers, 4 inches ie appeared since — The author des- 
taken out of the p it when wanted and made into cakes, | a crisped round the dod Cyanophyllum | ¢ribes his object as being to give, as concisely as 
then athe org or — a handsome stove — with deep velvety D e em ctions as may be pen ur 3 
— * — general it "xd De said that the food o the green foliage ; — — —.— um, an pe Dues clas f th sequi 
nr Taro and | shrub, with h flo lowers of the —— rlet; Caladiu la * cnp daa — to elaborate upon all the —À: 
—— Te bra March to September, Chantini, with green er blotched v with purest v white | grafting ; for many that help "to fill up modern 
Yans ani Ndalo; Setar, Brenden; ; November g Queen Victoria, dis- | treatises are mere whims and fancies,—which, like 
December, Ndalo and B eat improvement | tinct kinds v also exhibited in a ls | | difficult pieces of music without ar "n tonishing 
has taken place in the habite « of di MEM — the | ona the striking UNE ew POENOS argyrsa ; also a instead of pleasing the hearer, serve to show the 
introduction of Christianity.—II. “ corre- ao 3r ——— with handsomely marked | skill n performer, which nobody wis 2 «t efficient 
ene fol from the M h ee j 
spondence i E 3 e gi 
Ellis, about the year 1765.?—III. “Notice of Narthex likewise co e wi ong other rare plants the fine | instructions for all the n ry operations in gar- 
Assafcetida (the Assafcetida plant at present in P: in|conservatory climber Lapagefia rosea, from Chili, with | dening; mot to i ntroduce the the “novelties which have 
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| Garden, raised from iii: sent home oh Sir John bso — curious Pitcher p ved "Nepenthes] hn, nsi is prepared, * Nobodys” the pe author as em de efend - 
| MNeill and Dr. Falconer, has produced a flowering | Rafflesiana, ampullacea Mes € others. The new those writers who put 20 B a pupil, all 
| a seit in front of v — e s marquee, whi ch was erected on this different, all professing to — re same end, and 
It contained 
a flowering a Dhttte, vet pe fruit, and also some prodigious | best, the easiest and most economi 
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| k- — end p 4 and sts of March; —— vegetables. A A great number of prizes was awarded on | deners, of all others, should have no puzzling matters ; 
| zn Bas large radical — iul cns their path ought > as straight as circumstances 
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axis shot up at — ‘underground | br us xdi room. will admit of, We should think our work but half 
— At the time Sus thi took 1 n of the | — — —uĩ̃ä—＋ done, or very ill done, were we to record the useless 
other 3 in the open ground of the — had | Notices st Books. ber me of methods adopted by as many different 
ed by an cov Y , uc e 
te n 13th April, when the thermometer fell ell Our Woodlands, Heaths, - de Hedge po W. S. character of some of our most popular works on 
22°, Mr. M‘Nab secured the present specimen from | —.— Vm mee rts is a shilling volume of — | ens ea. Acti merce are quoted, and all of 
injury by getting a — we frame, about 8 feet about = shrubs, very well done, and containi persons of s note heir profession; but 
high, erected aron — — — : with the in add dition to the princi ipal su cL matter, = 
moderate d. information on entomological su jects. 
-| by small — for i 
woodcuts . 
should have 
all thee quotations, the person "wholly inex- 
be bewildered, while the moderately - 
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8 dedicated to — Pets ate, Lone edition of * . 
its 
8 inches. 2 — ‘about 45 | Pets, a paper 
days. The last 1 7 ye of growth Dive Deut accom — Pests. By i ^ —— n 2. Knowled, English Grammar ies 
plished in 11 depo i pum cum April. The first | Those must have the English Mero ictu qud he Gazetteer 
| . — expanded at 11 A.M. on 7th April, and in the Who had pages, the Classical Dictionary of proper names 60 
| hat day the — appeared by hundreds. te poges, tbe — om Compendium 30 besides 
The plant has flowercd well, and promises to ts character—se h are various minor matters, in all forming a duo- 
| fruit. At present 45 pound umbels | jocular, witty, ad P t m anecdote. dene 4| decimo volume "of 9 900 pages beautifully printed in 
on it, some of eet en n dei a rrr A e esticated animals Proud of their D d meis 
note was read from A. G. Spiers, Esq. of champion little | tl We have also before us from the 28 
| Culereuch :—* The enc I took a a. Cryptomeria creatures of — affection. WE irou 62 pages noon is | publishes a new and revised edition of Man 
l Lobbii; they appear to be attempts to form es, and ng fire of stories, — told, as may be | Historic. nd Miscellaneous — in the form of 
I have not heard of thattree — in — cote Judged fiom x x nie extract :— |a small gelte of 570 pages 
i —Dr. Balfour noticed the flowering of Rhododendron et was a mouse, caught Mr. Bohn has brought out a translation of Dantes 
] al P Syme's garden at Millbank. i-i. — pet ‘highly educated. sai that p m inferno, * o Rer. J. W. Thomas, who tells his 
The p lowers, which are of a r school were all mouse eaders that his 1 main object has been “to unite with a 
white colour, and are beautifully marked with a purple | process was con ducted on the vater ore vii version almost literal the form, the beauty, and the 
2 inside. — Mr. J. B. Booth exhibited specimens of a breaking tl the original.“ In the first he has su 
uja, which he had received from British Columbia, | mice swim till they 1 i tired. After the e preparato ry | but we greatly pu whether readers will 
under the name of Thuja gigantea, but supposed to be immersion had been undergone, their education was | the apna of the other twó Lindley ities, 
the true Thuja Menziesii of Douglas. The specimens conduct: cvv es principles of ber kindness. Our The 9th Part of Prof. Li "s Folia Orchidacea 
were taken from a tree 200 feet in height, and from 4 | mice wou! gas to us like dogs, an 
to 6 feet in diameter.—Mr. Murray exhibited specimens | most docile em teachable. I g t | What t progress the knowledge of Orchids has made of 
umbellata from California.—Mr. M*Nab that in a moment of extreme e pover ty s "eager nee ri late years may be seen from this instance. When, in 
laid on the table specimens of the common Hawthorn | ‘admirable Crichton’ of a e for the unheard-o 8 — i vg M ee oduced “a the author into his 
(Crategus oxyacantha), having the leaves of 1858 still | sum of five shillings. : Toby” ^ (dat was p name) w. hidearum, only 19 species had 
green upon it, as — as the mature leaves of 1859, genius knew his name, o the whistle, let, bec 1 bis “of, which he hed only seen 15, Mere à in 
5 ikewise laid on the ran u les ned doo: pr ed arms, &c. ate of unexaminable 
p poles, open 
seco Cr Y Crategus r in full leaf, the course of their eincdion. our mice — en got 
ae and the pharmacy we adopted in these cases T 
t the least curious part o 3 The fainting 
* meu: AND HORTIOUL- sufferer was phlebotomized quad huius oo off a link of his 
— e learn Trewman’s with a sharp knife; blood 
this was in all respects an excellent followed: this ei 
gmen! 
da selon is for med upon 280 spec les, nearly all of 
which have been carefully 8 i exclave of three — 
doubtful species, and ni 
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to 40 of the While Bottan | ostium "im. dhe ul ion; die ont, it 
psis; Cypripedium barbatum, 5 “And now what moral can I draw 
