THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, n 
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— — the Indians * * muck- | Douglas, who found it in in Oregon, is the “Pride aan 
tables € rk and biscuit cuit called b yt » a drin k of of the Alexander qe j = Ash” 
ence. uck,” topping out with a “horn, anglic? a enzie’s voyage. 
Correspond — mpm n las states, 
b ; tales of fores hat it is commo 
sup F hen t uere ios teams A omi Ister ating 3 th . Re experince in the Gulf of] of the Rocky Moins "nien the he Hend. tle 
eatly o o any of your re egular round of song Scouler met 
fog relative relative . ex subject ; red rie ancient oF Turín ary, and dec. old at glades ring again with | Queen Charlotte’s uu “The entem led with re 
any ewe 2 t. The dusky sons i ^ 
n f August of the | sounds of unwon ted merriment. 1225 i à great i y 
samo se: 2 inserted in prier ‘of another Vine | forest who e for and with us, go ow * — thy to xo Tr paths ods of N. "e 
eti cu fruit the next season; or rather is it prac-| a-muck” and formed another et not far Jatt tili Lo abl e db sen d home: cas ofi correspondent will 
ow. E for udi (similar to thos se Ew in budding and sot the night drove E with songs and Sopa gd esf e ripe se amen it, and of the 
s) to b hat will f forgot all | of British Colombia. Old Westminster pe . 
August 1859, to be inserted in an ober stock, and praye er for d — raS — — alia dx ay. its neighbourhood some of the pro oduct e — 
On "y "er i ng T "eiiam plc t rai cd vids me br oak fast — , the same as — 1 ; then “ All] Westminster, the name which it is intended to ned 
‘oul Ponds.—For y bend den d by navvies | on boa Td the cry, a and we em Our canoe, | the capital of British Colombia. 
bed at e ; xu we Thad pea, | 
d planted wit ellow * ST TED S 
plan with w , 7 t 
and other plants. The e has | took all the e of the party (excepi bw : — 5 
8 ducks sent ad gny y throughout- i e dee Des days Loo run Mili. irri 
Í ^ cently been s | the Indians by some oversig i . —— 
1 ail the p es but the water is We pus ushed ov er Nem. d and big "pe I ™ Crystan PALACE HORTICULTURAL Exmpmpr. 
uniformly clear by pumping plentifully from the well]! ge ev ssh yards, aes d ki Y|June 8.—A fine day and an E 82 
of the house. A Subscriber, Toxteth Park. thro ough rapids and all sorts of impossible looking | bought oa on this c occasion a 
Bath Asparagus.—Could a favour me with the | places, crashing — been till all at once we came | 
name of the enclosed, phahi — 5 in our market in upon a huge tree Moe was particularly difficult to * an ge: Gre use Plants were again furnished in 
wnches as a substitute for As p All got on the tree, the voyageurs and Indians great quii, 19 in beautiful condition. Indeed 
* vegetable is very good indeed? [NE is en » strove to get the canoe across; to help “them m i passed | n nothing in their way could possibly be finer than the 
thi meighbourhoo od, and has a root not | B— on the tree, his indian- bber boots slipped, an 
like that S the double white Narada J: Smith | bang poker t into the river, emerging like a drowned round table in the centre of the principal transept. 
Bath. Ut Bath Asparagus, or Ornithogalum cold and shivering for the rest of that up I| These were contributed chiefly by Mr. Dods, gr, to 
pyrenaicu opened. — eyes wide in the hope s of finding sand- Sir J. "Catheart, Bart, and Mr. Whitbread, gr to 
Ea args Tour A ccm agerem « J, C. H.” Essex, | stone, limestone, ironstone, and conl; ang n the "broken f. Collyer, Esq, of Dartford, between whom 
h tter try flower pots as traps for these. The plan | banks of the oe and also s bed, I at last the struggle for mastery in this class of 
is to get some No. 40 or 60 flower pots, ses fill them | covered sandston m a at at shale, preliminary 1 now principally lies. This time, as will be sem 
aout px a of perfectly dry — then turn the — trust one da ay to which must in my opinion be by an advertisement in another column, their merits 
on the th ere regarded DE the judges to be equal In Mr | 
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g th y Thence Vier full of hope we at length emerged | Dods’ group noble mples of Allamaniss, 
d kill t Moss | i beautiful lake 24 miles long, which we called . weten anong hich gis 
pots. This is an d — * en "but I ‘Burnaby Lake,” a of that name. | macrantha rosea was 
iw qu it isthe best yet. H. Smith, Darley Dale ies is situated seven miles fron T with fall | and Muere both still i ne rimasti? pot as re- 3 
Nurseries, near Matlock——About two years ago a xum — to NUT a any amount of water for the new gards bloom; the fine Brew of Cape Heath called 
gardener told me he had a frame full of Cucumbers, wn. The ere are lots of game, swans, duck, „teal, Ko., Erica nem Wilsoni, Coleonema rubrum, Erioste- 
which were fay oe destroyed by earwigs. I told h y S| m Adenandras, Boronia serrulata, and some very 
to get as m th ery | e Ixoras, more especially a plant of the Willow- 
alittle ashes y left i in them, and to put them i in the frame. 555 camp i a e Ww the side of t he lake, in tho sexed variety, on which were such heads 
ur way across the next day to of bloom as one rarely, sees on this kind. 
his frame. But for this plan I could not have a Dahlia | « Bovey Tet, eich from its great depth of water | It had been grafted on I. coccinea, which appears to be 
Bloom ent ire. Ro bert Ashcroft, West Der rby. may on e day, i e of war, be of the greatest im- | an excellent stock for it. In Mr. Collyer’s group were 
i dododend p to Q „ protecting its rear by ships of equally fine specimens of nearly the same Kind of 
of Canterbury ai Ea eg Lam and the fire — a battery of heavy guns on a plants, collections of Which were also contributed 
— the most ost beautiful rake's island" in the All along | Messrs. P 
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s^ blue Leschenaultias, 2 reflexum,  Allamandas, 
— up at Boro: ronias, hae flori [pori A 
Unfortunat n 1 flower, Everlastings, Cape Heaths; and 
— so we had but poor lodging after all. My A L 
Foreign Correspondence. boots and clothes —- never been quite T since. The -— Lo — for fine m e there was 3 ; 
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Camp, Queensborough (or N. i lake rose and we nd built | large Messrs who contri- 
s Maren 20. 1850. meme our fire on logs jiii inen ter; the sides of our | buted a — * ngs of Dieffen- 
y Of by camping place we stuffed with brushwood, and the Palisa pie picta, Dracænas, Palms, ipic $ 
We started from here four days ag loring | bottom was thickly laid with branches of the Spruce | Ma inte be: ta and zebrina, Crotons, and the 2 
expedition up the [nee The stream at first was not Fir and Arbor-vite, which latter gives out a most|go ta imperi rials and some Tree Perms — 
thought to be of so much importance as it has since | delicious We laid it a ti thick, and added | — decisa & Cutbush m furnish ed good oie ; 
turned out to be, but as we got a mile or so up it to the bed as the water rose; however it beat us at last, tions, as did likewise Messrs. Dods, Colgate, — 
sco greatly and widened, the current running so we decamped and made the best of inst ay down. | Summers, Oubridge, Rhodes, and Hamp. oe] 
ity, 5 or 6 miles an hour and more in the | And t nt. The Indian at asd | were the handsome Maranta capitata, fonoa — 
hich we had a continuous succession nearly stern gave the word to another Indian at the bow v us; Caladiums of different kinds, Cissus V. 
i of | glided past point ver tree and snag, eating Palms, Ferns, among which was à magnificent 
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occasion 
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flexion, and round we went dn of the 8 that this year. Messrs. Veitch had a splendid puse 
threatened us with destruction. was perfectly | contained among other things beautiful 
wonderful to see them, so easy, composed and — White Butterfly plants (Phalienopsis), " ; 
ome- in 1 the most — situations. We had Mossi, one of the handsomest varieties E sc Y 
ming up, and were now rushing "barbatum; vari Aerides, among jii. 
P É llis, of 
Cypri a. finely in flower; 
ead foremost under, and had | the beautiful rep ore Devonianum, 
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pepan gin us experienced 
was over. It was quite a little ex 
dition 
Coa out oe pgs all flying down stream, they saving them- Clow : 
į = - med EN and he e and s cmi th le scarey 5 i hold of | gala of diferent RE s kendes, ad of on 
i going through a real pleasure, At the 7780 ng themselves by main force ashore; | From en, gr. t d r 
canoe "eyed : bei and inI went; but I go : racemes me Da 
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. re, but had to s sit ali | shinta and coats warm off onr bodies and took them a — Clowes pe rege flow 
At length the shades of evening b to fi hough with a double load and ei ight men in our fection; and Trichopilia oyee oga 
we busied n felling t g ce Soe all, and | canoe we got safe over all difficulties ud returned to|a good d as had also Messrs. 
r “the | t nights ph — ae anxious friends days absence e — n and Green. In wg -— 
: or the | amping ou intelligence of our discov Saccolabium curviflorum 
tier some 2 — foet h high, A t wm with a a ent a vien drobium aggregatum, Las 0 Cane " — E 
* iai 5 to 8 — in —Ü r (as n near as we could Jointed, and covered with “sharp poin AS big m. n ere roga past th „ 
1 Azaleas were d ro 
low saplings serias were preparing to take fhe. p — onfined ncn te 
t ME S e which - con i. 
^i the 1 N On scraping away the snow we an tell me its are from Mr 
most glorious moss you * e ; — my friends and I TI be very glad to know it. A — if possible, i iow 
gee in a circle — the — was probably the orm. ard rr zs and " for their number, 
a handy spot r firing| Sir Wm. Hooker in the Wit 4 volume of his A os Seedling 
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