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Avevsr 27, 1859.] THE GARDEN ERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 7" 
fica: awarded, and the last three were eom- in teresting co collection was contributed b by M Ir. N& n, well as their officers. In this will consist — — 
mended” run — ju A dte named Dr. gr. to G. J. Graham, Esq., — Chase, and Sha should it ever be necessary to send them into 
ey D Rp: recei a First Class Certi- | was awarded the | fir: st pren iium f Th hree s. | They will ^t riw of a most f — wang dm * 
em a large rosy k — with a lemon | In the varieties were con- | effectiveness of which . ever greatly depends — 
eye. ^ [e 1 Phlox, white with a well defined tribut Museat of Alexandria, a good bunch, vell the individual it is To 
0 amed Mrs. Standish, came from Mr Standish, 
ticed a Seedling 
— el, a robust- 
e 
grow: ing, ‘plain -leaved sort, gc o» not different 
pda rtr Prati 
y 1 
n + 
cuitivation. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL: August 1.—J. O. W. 
estwood, Esq., 
— in the sme Mr. 
r MacLachlan erer — 
Brit Lepido 
ed :— 
ripened, w — served for 
f 
Zusk's pages we may n 
varieties scat of Eschcolata: this variety “in fuel essential matter, 
| Horticultural Society’ s catalogue 5 as been « 
with the former one. t is, however, unques 
—— xem better, 22 examines the various ye *h-lo PE Aje arrangements, 
vidently "€: temperature, | which will —— by degrees put an erar 
a bunch of Horie Victoria Hamburgh from the | muzzle- loading ; ther enters into minute details 
|sume house — scarcely so ripe; in every other the manner and — 
| respect the v. ieties are very similar. A Seedling — with valuable — pe meus on drilling and 
cat, raised fron m White Syaani aud Muscat of. Alex- training. Upon n the subject we must allow Mr. 
— appeared very similar to the peak for himself. 
all that relates to this 
He erp the vagi of Bos old 
1 the rifle out 
— 
founded 
druide 
Vaterfor 
m of 2 it taken 
re, in 1856; | th 
and Mr. Mitford exhib 9 —— traria and other 
e 
recen E F. d exhibited 
larva of a curious of beetles, Drelus flavescens, 
taken on the Isle of Wight, craw 
natural h habit is 3 ever that ofa parasite with the shells 
$6 a cool hous 
i- | and the exhibitor affirmed it 
ggin, a kind 
ling upon sand; its to Cornichon Blanc, but in form o 
appea “At the e present important crisis when the 
the berries -— very sweet and good, jardin of these islands is preparing to arm, 
a better setter than | work on the rifle N ould be incomplete, which did not 
ired m furnish simple, yet precise instructions, whereby the 
ng visioni may roth taught the new manual and 
toon ees meo. ud by all British light 
berry about half.“ “It " t mistake to su that profici 
fnis ween — t * Muscat. It was a 4 im- — ie all tha that is requ aan UU oim isa — t 
rom Italy, and, although sweet s thick- — er. It is absolutely essential that he should, in 
e other - ki 
tas 
with. 
rare beetle 
Lu ccombe, in the Isle 
hib: 1 
destitute of organs of flight is also to be met 
Mr. Lewis exhibited specimens of the 
Chlenius Schrankii, from 
Wight. Mr. West 
of cocoons of the social moth, Hithyre sociella, | taken 
out of the stomach of a cow. 
— i and of nó value, Allied to the * ts was a additi act with precision in concert with others; 
fine and. well. -ripened bunch of the White or Genuine | should Mata that implicit obedience to his officers 
| Tokay. This Gra |n barer, without whic eh r p man has any pretension to be consi- 
l without it he is worse than useless 
a sweet and thin. skinned Grape, it is worthy of ae in the field. 
th "had 
oons into her mouth with — Bier tf food, be 
bees ome. 
ioned a 
— humble the Black Ham mburgh sec 
taken the mass | usual v: 
- | nea: — similar to be considered = net. bete ots Black | 
guish e ber 
* Any b po 
site cher’ ior ii OO tab might be, 
variety; also one called Coventan, which was too kam me the tiae c thet. — 
feet to act Eure endently 
imself, would d 
€ — — ane Hoe! their skill ns shots 
Ham mburgh, which is ries being | h 
m 
of co 
neath w ap tam had m e the . He also 
arkable i — 
umi 
p 
beetles. | 
n sojourning | 
itte 
y 
r ahd Brazil -: the purpose of collecting near 
mber his ret to 
A 
e | Morocco included in the 
Of the St t. Pete r's section was a bunch of | the originai 
rhaps, not unfrequently suffer 
e of ue friends as their foes. 
* Rifle in- 
y „nighty coloured approaches very stitutions i in 1 their way, hr thei cir members must not 
eh if it is not MM with the Mill - imagine that, even after months of mere practice at the 
amburgh. d v -set bunch of the Black | target, t. vd can a N "weh rm 
lection “They tis true, lea 
E their. duty, but they 
nort branch 
are then pets fit to be drafted 
Tegetm 
— tin ——. . 1 bee- —— recently practised i 
for obtaining a hive of pure honey unmixed with brood, 
in n D month of July. This was effected hy dri iving the 
que and half the bees out of the hive about the 25th | 
rifle corps. In i 
— have taken 
traini ng 
ct, until they are so enrolled, 
prescribed oath, all drilling and 
A large MÀ -— that tlie 
is illegal, and subjects those concerned in it 
: 
‘the 
s of dene and Hamburgh,. with 
solar zzl 
zzly Frontignan 
“All drill for volunteers should be as , simple and as 
T— wen fon, quee comb „ by which | 
all the o renani Ù as hatched. The bees 
still p in the hire « with the new queen were 
as en d another hive, 
n the old i i 
e affirmed his variety 
ised fr porn ot Prespos Hill in 1851 den Caroline [A 
Pine impregnated with British Queen; sown 
soon d ted out d foll 
ing o — cells R 
à Old Dutch. - 
but in Epe, sweet, and v Of the 
Front an, a bunch — p and handsome, 
though scarcely ripe, was included in the — 
Of the eee section were a bunch 2 ters em 
Royal, RS -nam d White 88 
Griffin's Roya M which P 
Wet 
at each individual ee “have sufficient 
knowlege er every part of his rifle to enable him to 
to pieces and put it together again when 
appeared to be a eri E thicker 
eon | Bap er and — recognised. 
na sc not 
ack Beedling, a said to have raised — 
Back — oa White Swee as a 
ould be practised in 
he ordinary range o 
be should be able on ki occasions to take 
up a Postion in nai will be enabled, 
s, Esq., and he 
selected Omar 
Me: deseri 
g in bunc h, small in berry, 
full o f seeds, v very t Fy dud deu, and utterly worthless. 
Mr. Ivery exhibited a bad Tn bu — of rit mre 
170 K med his body teady without constraint ; 
“To be careful above all "nt bs wird his sights to 
8 this letter b by 
a copy of the cireular whieh ¢ paene their opinions, 
to show that it was not sent out without a pm 
He further stated tha H he pel — kn now Myatt's EI 
Hill ¢ A hi ta in T was t| Also thi 
een, ica "that Mr. x 
It was further 
by a alae —— 
fully co mpared with Eliza 
Li 
sess was considered by the 
cercle from any knowled; ge of 
ghton 
find 
E in port the re 
uM it *o fully mai e ES "n 6th. h whe en pressing e ‘pinching’ the trigger in 
ii it € previous y the act of firing, to fe particularly careful not to 
en ye erange his aim 
„These few sim imple rules are all that are really neces- 
sary to enable any man to attain the maximum effect 
with his rifle.” 
st however rema 
was that the — had 
ich it had 
RRS. OE Ara t one point, altho 
Notices o of Books, 
r 
The Rifle and How to i aes it, ce. By Hans Busk, 
First 1 Victoria Rifles. Routledge; 12mo. | l 
Fourth 
Mr. Busk, the alti of this little work, possesses the 
merit of a ectly understanding the rifle question in 
all it; s bea ings. Het herefore stands before the — 
burgh Grape, the 
i gut inserted on the 
in the chair. 
before the 
ing.. Mr. Hog 
pO. the past year were laid 
unani 
showed the ree 
approved. They | 
IP and 
Milanese 
the attention of thinking men t. t 
Notv "mj: E general belief that Gov ernment | | a bullet when stated on its end instead of bein ng per- 
was no est in sanctioning ood leaning to one side, owing to the base 
ids * ry eem in the shape of Rifi t being at right angles with the e such bolle 
teers, and the doubt — ll felt upon the. idle due oi s | iid deviate from aright line a full y n 100 
lem sufficien ong ae Another cause of in 
mg conviction —— that our hom iron cups 
from i bullet. 
insult. And, notwithstanding the unfairness of cal g | ever so Ii 
Pane men in “discharge of a a great ; public duty to vim: 
year, the 
uo the list s was 232, being 80 more than 
mber reported at the m. — — 
et 
E 
E 
2% 
er, J. Cath ush, W. Da vidson, 
> 
R. Stains, and E B. Haig, Esquires Messrs. J. Fraser, 
: Paul, J. Spence 
Vox n, J. "Trison, ^u Asie. andis; Milne, 
t th what should ne paid 
the org population, it seems — that 
body of riflemen x soon be mo 
air 
'To such — s p^ 
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"9 
ia) 
E 
a 
rese 
tay 8 * made ne, Mies 
erstanding adn . the routine of be ade 
is being th 
€ offered for collections of — a very — and 
an einer field day. The ns who now | bullet ly à 
wa cu ed bullet fired from a rest is- 
1 * 838 intlizent che and the is — only abe by a practised shot, strike four- 
