r Reed. 3S e the Greek alabastron, 
e box made of alabaster, 
be hung | by a string across the sioulder. 
little seen, but A is EN inl 
at first a 
primarily pe ited to 
came latterly among the a — Orientals to Sety 
any kind of box employed ^ contain a fragrant oil o 
h 
the east, where it is Xo in elay a 
convenient water M essel. For actu aal plight the "hollow | 
In Europe this , Vegeta 
or chief source for edv 
t€ is 
Alive is the re 
ing it. By 4 losing ‘the 
mos — Á-— ughly pulverised ; so loc ned 
bie nre, m Ad Lus ne 
t the food with 
fac ility 
ointment c of hi iigh pr ice. In addi tion to the name, 
Fist 
copie Both, how evi er, are used, in illustration 
modern and familiar vessels which have been long i in 
wih two small eg in figures of Chinese 
}, 1 
of 
en i* air and dews of night, which ine 
" ped at once 
use among highly civilised nations, in obser rving the 
Ww wanderi 
mode in which nations of another type o 
than ourselves, or little adva need i in civilisation at all, 
The third, and perh aps 
y iti is the most nov el, r rela- 
imile ir 
with the ammonia E — es the 
material of their food, and the moisture, combination 
whieh is probably — to its . 
by the plant, 'This, however, sxe all other 
gar rden 1 a, may be performed wisely or 
No set of rules will allow the cultivator to 
supply the absence of such vessels 
those points in view, it would appear that our modern 
clay 
the most ¢ eurious, as certain] 
1r h vessels, is as the 
of the cupping glass, The author was led to — 
hollow and tubular vessels have been mainly 
Ist, the stems, leaves, etas 
bo : 
small Gourd for the Industrial Museum. i had been 
sent to Dr. Greville by M 
all | the 
of Old so ym — was N to have been used by 
nativ es for upping. The author was led to recall | i 
two last heads, 
ts under the first, the relations of "ihe oc 
— Cucarbitula Ly and to surmise that the name 
cupping-glass was |] 
lay aside his judgment and common sense, and go on 
to succes 5 
found useful in praet ice :— 
Ist. In the early arden 
1 r- be frequently A ni ind d; r^ is, 
fru "- bear mbe: 
w be considered. 
an summer hei had — 
Jo tribe of plants appears to hate: yielded so many 
Gourd. 
opportunity. of 3 Mr. Her ho is 
1 * 
ar Kati 
* d they 
ost crops, too, will be 
ds. p swel 
to|i of an 
benefited by bein 
E hollow vessels as the Cucurbitacem or Gourd 
ill be c 
amily, with it ho nm it wi 
— de ‘the bash trees, yielding 
ge ge This — * dy arisen— lst, haben 
nre over the piche, Side r 
regions m of | 
are indigenous, -— Sragi ey are ensily 'eultivated in 
v cuppi: with Gorda is common in Wesen. "Africa, 
9 negroes in RS 
ihe 
ng p- ghed or dug through 
— the rows, whereve is practicable, at least 
graphers Ba — ined the Latin 
3 referring to the en Lag in shape o 
atter | to a Gourd ; but it does not more 
| should be — ert 
as will 
F 
* 2d, Crops, when nearing maturity, if hoed at all, 
unless it be at such a distance 
e larger roots entirely undisturbed. + 
ll leave 
this eie the thrust hoe may be used to 
d i ield fr 
it in certain 
rinds ; 
poss 
3d, the 
" ze rendered h 
be som 
are easily 
dox ; 4th, they 
extent posa in 
and t a "their Ace N are hard, 
are easily cut and perforated. des i to the hollow nd 
of the mammalia, the Gourd, representing all tho Cucur 
bitacem and the Calabashes, yields the greatest variety 
fe essels. In illu stration, ‘the fo ollowing e examples, 
deprived of their al 
whilst 
re as ancient as the ** Cucurbitula" was the tip 
122 rn, perfor: rede at the apos, so as to allow 
2 d 
E accordingly infers 
ucurb 
advantage. 
» 
Mess srs. BRU NLEES & WEBB, civil engineers, struck 
with the manifest impossibilit 
Mons. de Lesseps' plan of — the Mediterranean 
— poe Sea: s bya ship canal, or of maintaining it if 
that at alike the Jatin, Miri ta, o itula, 
k Sicyos were applied to the E Wd mainly | 
because originall iP pae a S end 3 sony 
secure red b 
y the permanency o of tl was 
b Ww hich sh ips 
— re from sen to sea. "They purpose erecting at 
each port a pier upon — ree dik or screw piling , run- 
ning h to 
the siet) d epth of 
been reached, a — 
were laid on the table, the m M 
taken E fro rom the Botanical and Indu strial Muse 
— t with 
- West 
5 
cupping hor: e prese 
ài » Gourd: shaped 2 S Naa in th 
e f Here T A 
rith the Gourd substance. The de rd was thus 
twofold way the prototype of the cupping ins trument, 
In illustration of these points the author showed thre 
— eu pping Gourds; a Sh — 1 
at the 
. = — 
g on their cradles the : ship's 
ilii 
a | harbour 
hydrauli li Yi nic 1l be raised on eradles 
the lifts to the level of the — and — ed by the 
same means at the termination of their transit. Whilst 
hulls can be examined, even 
and Pom brief a allusion | 
£ Moro 
— cal p abar, 
flask ae bottle, Er - “owas pilgrim’s 
ve tle, euppi nstrum ld Calabar. 
sides ees mes was is made on tio a, of 
x A. H rof M adras, to > the construction b yt the 
Gourd i —.— Y: ho 
one sea to the other; and if 
— wer cradles ean be 
The railwa 
needed, the 
uppi ng 
the earliest artificial vacuum pr 
of the air- 2 but this subject ^ ca par vel ‘for a a 
pecial investi Remarks were made on the paper 
— a Len of 20 m niles s per hour v 
with — and — eed since a ship wou 
able m ake of her sails on the Tail 
tila diel 
ange flask-like Gourd ; and to their con- 
he same gentleman, and also 
ita: of the Old — iin to 
C: 
iy 
that ofa 
animals. and baggage 
- A single Calabash, it was arte gra vik geri Big: to 
and the Africans contrived to balance them- 
— * in a very 
n 9 The auth 
pom mein tha a ing to a 
uthority in whom they 
faith in their peta days, Cinderella’s friend 
the iy made her à splendid 8 ut of a Pumpkin 
e Gou He e was afraid this was a lost ai 
It pparently be pra 
+) 
ractised 
to other, and 
applied — pies with the stigm as separate.—Mr. 
| MN b exhibited specimens ms Helleborus niger or 
— —— d or th 
. 
Notices of Books. 
4.800 „000 l. while De — projeeted can nal, 
fain it is — to frame a correct estimate 
so precarious an —＋⏑ cannot be we — 
30,000, e details of the new scheme are giv 
— Shi vena across the Isthmus of — 
pamphlet —— by Reed & Pardon, Paternoster Row. 
P E 
TRADE Lists RECEIVED. —Hugh Low &Co.’s Clapton) 
sly, e 8 co 
trade lists, 2 d its extent extent or the. 
variet: 2 — things it includes in every 
hring — Alpine 1 up to 
pe 
Orchids. Vilmorin n & Co. (Paris is), a List of seeds for field 
The American Home Garden, by Alex. Watson. 8vo. 
Sampson Low & Co. Pp. 581. 
A long account rican way 0 
Ne dec er it mor — mE prote d pleasant 
columr It will ther re have been tha tw 
story contains, besides tion of the | fi 
manifold uses to whic * s Aa dics e industrially mation, nm ing A n the way of cultivating 
applied. Without insisting on this, the g ted States "eg La to be considered. 
with confidence r ving n in both Bat tii is ely gia ted for the peculiar climate of 
3 the preeursor and natural model of the cup | that part of the w and must E be taken as a cer- 
or la hii = — clay an — E tain guide on this eri the Atlan 
c aei however, it w. prototype 
n 
pages 2 nei of bortieultoral precepts which all 
es; ai 
of the Ame f Strawberry | 
growing ig. ya lately — from this volume to wn | Pro 
inferred 
ande culture, qu'il convient de 
semer en — 6 contains several new and im- 
ved varieties of of "Trifolium — Rape, &e., of 
will be made agricultural. 
quelques ei spl de gr 
cette s 
which — 
column: 
Mr. 
Garden Memoranda. 
rage ind entra Hirn, CAMBERWELL.— 
Strawberries have ere 
n good her thi his season. The 
tinued cold north-east ennt which prevailed in spring ;. 
hollow The first is thelonga necked b bottle, with may follow in all places; and therefore it may be re- | but still bore a fair crop. Cuthill's Princess Royal 
an pel ere body, whic! x - in d hardier than the last-named sort, and 
from a Cucurbitaceous by the Chinese, the natives | on ine About 15 50 pages are filed by an account | abundantly. Ii isa e eneral favourite on account of its 
of India, the ancient Egyptum ans, and various African | of American fruit tr known tha 
‘tribes, as well as by the ancient Persians, to mention — jo et information regarding | His Prince of Wales, however, is the kind on which he 
others. The similarity of the clay bottles of tl th of the Ska es, and to this part the most depends; it suffered less than any other this 
to has struck all and the [Engin ruler vil most frequently turn. A good deal | spring, and as a proof of its productiveness Mr. Cuthill 
botanist, by the term Bottle-Gourd a mm the bao | of spac is occupied by descriptions of insects, there is CERE us that he gathered several hundred Ibs. 
one parti plant, has implied cogni gi ex, and an abundance of woodcuts, ight from it in one week ; s of it he sent one 
— — the best marked — boil yj of | some of Thich have, however, been engraved from ex- 2 (30th of June) iat e Wanstead Institution, 
the artificial liquor flask. Recently Minton has pro- | tremely bad drawings. The following i is Mr. Watson's in addition to that he gathe s. more on the 
duced a graceful copy of the Bottle-Gourd, in yellow | advice upon a very me day, and all from a ver gmail plot of ground. 
Eire with om date p and leaves i n green, | “ Hoei — The directions“ so often repeated i in this of See dings Mr. Cuthill has , both of whieh he 
vod 88 T to 4 ma; ea class e mong Strawberries. 
has followed in all countries for ienced TUE it may be p bought 4 that | Of one which N 
the transition is read is useful eds, | a appeared in 
— er as first ic The dire uo tai au on A make a greats 
‘been constantly imi . Secondly, mistake. It is admitted as a Pod nstrai 
page: pres Gi ho Gourd is the accepted or | vegetable 8 that plants receive their food 
traditional bern drawn by our artists principally, if not entirely, by the spongioles, or 
as slung by its Ow waist over the oo extreme vessels d i fibres. Now in the deep 
of the wayfarer in their ill “ he extending roots of the plat are 
- « 
Pro- | hoeing of crops, t| 
e | cut, and every tender growing root thus cut t will 
— 
by 
and hi hour-glass form to 
the eff. t 
252 it while growing, kA — A pollens 
necessary. ga ede the eyes 
RE a wales eral — in Xz Botai 
Garden here n Mr. M. Fab, spontaneously prod — 
fruit with the useful constriction whieh « ie it to 
ed | directions, and some of these being cut by : subsequent. 
hoeings, pur ramifications of the roots are greatly | 
in an equal, or perhaps even in a greater | w 
— their “pole or mouths are multiplied. 
science has shown 
eee ori „ 
that ammonia i is wat support. 
supporter of 
rides 
Piesi and feeds the plants at a time when they y most 
n is greatly 
system of putting onn straw or. Grass between the 
ce 
