Jory 2, 1859.] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 568 
planted —.— — — Kee eedling ripened some | sprung the green interlacing arches which shaded. me | tears, and even after the lapse of £o many years, retain 
three or four before — See — and were overhead." » Oft 
decidedly infi —— in flavour te about half, it was stated, is taken S E ce If w ing judge her by her lifo, sha is the Bro. 
te this lack of earliness — — some pecu- Para, ther half goes to Angost the Ori Semiramis; casting herself, before the p of all 
iarity in my soil and there — —— nded my th the Indian villag t i Europe, into. the arms of the assassin of her husband, 
opinion. On Thursday, the 23d ult, Mr. Turner ex- | present a very lively app from the boat-building she had thrown into civ it 
hibited a considerable quantity of the May Queen and rope-making which occupy the inhabitants. Besides | wa: 
Strawberry at the meeting of the Pomological Society. | the use made of the beard of the Piassaba, Mr. Spruce “Her dire eae € 1 in the death of 
The berries were like mine in size, colour, and shape, | stated that the pulpy envelope of the sarcocarp i in the oung hae has been denied, and nothing in 
^ jet unas 8 $ 
h rr ep 
unced t erior dr in | actually 
the whole collection. On ing them I felt inclined "e aud taste. *I have wed he — T im crime; but that she had attracted the victim into the 
d r. Nicholson to return — P eae fortune to` taste it, even to see snare; that she had given Bothwell the right and the 
- money Thad paid = for 100 plants, but on — t Midsummer, bu bui like hope of ding to the th ter his death; that 
n your Paper for June 25 a letter from Dr. Roden ri of most o the r em is subject to s s or she had been the end, the means, and the alleged prize 
pa. skilful amateur erer deri highly eulogistic of this periods of intermittance, when little or singe is y of the crime; finally, that she absolved the — — 
— er inclined — * that neither Mr. Turn ured.” The fruit appears to take about nine mont y wing upon him her hand,—no doubt ean be 
lf have received the true kind, or at least the * ripen. Mr. Spruce gave as follows the dimen- entertained regarding these points. To provoke to 
mh Roden as ‘the. ay Queen. ofthe: of — Tn Im uA he cut in the forests | murder, and then to absolve the perpetrator—is not 
— AH n — — t. f me n 
Hybrid Veronicas.—l send you — of seedling ti f 4 feet 8 inches ; pinne , 63 pairs * In fine, if she be pati by her death—comparable 
Veronicas raise ed by myself 22 — are and bari, 2] inches d on young plants growing close in its majesty, its „piety, and its courage, to the most 
dec ussata, which may g — by it was as much as 4 ad 9 inches 10 ong; spadix 
do of the — ‘of both parents. of | 4 Pint Another bearded Pal g the horror and aversion wich which she had been 
the — batch of seedlings, — is perfe —— . with the n roots of the Per es, Mr. 3 described esteem, and admiration 
me, forming a very neat Evergreen shrub, 4 feet high, to be true Attalea, distinct be. A. fumi- As — ng a s there was óg expiation she remained a 
and about 22 feck in circumference. The others are | fera. The beard of this, which is deciduous, not | criminal ; e beca ictim. In h 
second crosses from decussat ta, and are smaller plants, persistent : as in the  Piassaba, makes excellent brooms » | history b eems to be washed out by blood; t 
1 
uilt of OW; 'ere ler 
floriferous habit. A. Dev [No. 1 is extremely | the base of the petiole of the Cádi Palm (Pyles veins, with the crimson stream; we do not absolve, we 
handsome — as Weg pA and foliage, the | macrocarpa), bat nos the Sg parenchyma requires to | sympathise; our pity is not absolution, but — 
beaut ifu 1 arrangement and shini ing dark of the be — — — res before they 1 : 
latter p thi 7. “Noti ~ — "the cultivation of (Dm duct in the ferocious and dissolute manners of the di 
excellent advantage. Ph bush even without flowers | nuts in n Ceylon” the meis qu ig corsi ina — that education, depraved, sanguinary, fanatical, 
it must The leaves 8 the others are lottar to Sir d The ic i er 
smaller ad — conspieuons the flowers had dropped | tioned the 8 kem t all preva 9 cultivation | youth her —— her love. W. 
before the specimens reached us.] of this tree by the natives, remarking that it obtains | with M. Da —to — -" feel — Mom 
= 5 i etg ne Eat | — eer which ha ve guided us— we judge 
its mountain si — — late.“ 
Socleties. N 7 computatio on estimates the t * etapa 
ts of Ceylon at upwards of 20 millions Jor this | 
. ENTOMOLOGICAL : — € . J. E. Gray, F. R. S., mode of cultivation alone. The systematic cultivation * Memoranda. 
Pr — in the c Mr. Stevens exhibited a i lusivel . J. Dox Esq, Purwex HRATRE.—At few 
number of vn tifa) battens recently received from | devoted to it, however, dates from about the year places a 58 as d Chrysanthemums grown in. 
Mr. ace, A whom 8 wa collected : 1842, when it was i i eg with very san- such foe ion as * id Ln by N Mr. 
Ternate, near Guinea. . ead an extract guine hopes of quick and largo returns upon the Doxat's gardener, of his of 
from a letter by the same, alen, announcing the | capital patet. a — d. ey bo t time | managing them may cue not os PSR In 
capture of a new and. gorgeous species of Papilio, | thousands of a ungle leared | the nu; 2 I ren jas, T" paid t down after bloom-- 
as wel asanew ew kind of Bird of Paradise. Specimens had | in different parts > ‘the a iE d — ah ing a cold fra r pit is a north wall 
been forwarded to to England. Mr. Stevens also ' mentione d | of half a ' million 5 has been expended on the is preferable and dade cw the midday sun. As: 
ta on e pushed 2 to "we verd 
including 8 clematidis, Stenolophus elegans, , there are in the ofise oved 
| to be 1 
3-inch. 
2 Hetzerius ius sesquicornis. Mr. Janson exhibited a the. 8 provinces, which occupy | 
; 00 2 
n him a small species of East | to wa. cras i we have 22 millions for |. 
Indies which resi M fe i ants’ nests ; 5 qu eni of trees th — sar the island, and assuming | but still M 
F Si of dull colours, and i are peculiarly con- | each tree to produce annually on an average 50 nuts, 
Es — for r its mode of fe. x Westwood suggested we should | have the enormous number of eleven hundred. 
f Ceylon. size 
| As all the — 2 fall bearing, this must be 
ac n | beyond the imt. and yet since fifty nuts to each tree | th 
etle, C isa low av for dapes nu tdi er ar 
- merdigera, an lustrations of ren habits | thirds of the — number would probably be a fair ant, or otherwise, as f" be 
of two der Fi Micro- 8 — oe: . — g to the though low computation. Indeed, one estate in the | requir a By st opping them again the size is increased, 
g bid o] western province, with about one-fifth of its trees in full a se it prolongs the time of — into bloom. Those 
| those | bearing, is said to be producing at the present time ave no stock by them in fresh 
of the genus Trinodes. Mr. Baly es Trama 600,000 nuts annually on acres. The estimated tl 
some new exotic species of ene elidæ. er of the Jaffera estates alone for the present year | Nursery, so as to obtain nice little pl 
000,000 of nuts, on 9000 acres ; a small proportion which will bs fine specimens for ;u rests fom à 
s5, pu 
LINNEAN : June f. Bell, President, in the | on ly of the trees — in full bearing. The quantity A. inch pot up to a 10-inch one if required. The soil 
chair. E. Bradford, pm the Ven. Archdeacon ^4 of Cocoa-nut oil expo — Corlu dn 1857 (the last oan Shrimp m uses js tariy loam and stable dung,. 
Rolleston ad D. W par ersteen, M.D., lm Llewelyn, Stet Tullo e return) was 1,767,413 gallons. e paper gave an | bulk for bal Ik (laid together 12 months previously, and. 
IWS. | interesting account of the management of the planta- val turned at different timen) with sand, the latter to- 
ead: —1. “A revised tions, and the author co - uded with the following cir b eee soil, and good drainage. The 
ri for 
en requi 
“On thestructure of the genus Nepenth “ lls on not the eagle : Cin are "S subject to the attacks of aphides, 
tions of new species from Borneo, * N pony) but 155 = not the rain-cloud : which r must be destroyed as soon as perce NL For that 
e mc reri i of the — species z db die but it is not Siva" aaf fi km been found effec- 
patiens ; » e w genus me . viz. tobacco and 1 Ib. of soft soap to 5gallons 
ala rem! 5. “A ede of the genus | B. Clarke, Esq. “9. Notes "On he s dere pne e, | of soft he get E A 9 iy nS S E tho tobacco 
ropiera of ir —— — oR — — 5 nities of B 9 Y 9 bà tho ftiuctbre and di issolve the then stra’ t through a p 
poldinia ace, ? h, 
p "ito Palm producing Ia ae ve the rd pese of Vochysiacem; and on Cassythex,” by the plants. Carefully us p HE rs 
i re ter known of Para, from which e It will not t opiy. 2a destroy but p 
crt We Oai da va quantities 40° Kurope cad à its appea Should. z 
orth America) has been supposed, for want of sufficient Notices of. et Books. : phur, putti ng i 
ata, to be identieal with the Attalea fumifera of next Wel a 
artius, which furnishes the Piassaba of Bahia. Mary Stuart, by Alphonse se de Lamartine. ` vo. Black. not harm 
Mr. Wallace PT d correctly referred the With portrait, Partt gi ec manure 
— a genus Leopoldinia,| A graceful translation of one of — — most beantiful | y 
correctly, for see Sli Mr. 3 = has in lity | p li 
before the b» — ished. The we can ont plese: them w! e prais 
mat ditto of the Piassaba Palm, ves as this 1 60 most abundanti; the PES always us 
where the ui of Ronsard. | dow 
ght depth in rainy weather, is from the ves We may however extract the concluding passages by | are 
adauirí a large tributary of the Rio Negro, on the ine, in 8 dici ieu d eondenses 2 bere I 
i to the Orinoco on the 8 the true character of the 
near Queen. 
: eue tw — S 
south side of. thi Moser scm the author M y PME agical ed over all men are am 
; here I pen deep into the forest, 1 who vin e her s E e be called the r orem 'es; this 3 pec ec 
a : Piassaba, and nothing t|the 16th century. pra erh devel a and frequent ars a 
e seen ee eee, dwells more Beta: . was verias her keg ye those eauses the plants to grow healthily and 
jleasar on my memory than my walk among | worshipper and f and teacher, possess piste renders them ornaments to the garden, even when out 
bearded columns, from whose apex | bined with a quaint simp i 
