Srrrrunzn 24, 1859.] 
THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
VEGETATION AND CLIMATE OF THE ANA- 
mile to the left of the 
other 
ath, similar to those found in 
e pa 
parts of Coimbatore, 
a | me Y p as their name i impli lies, they ar are the Jords of 
e 1 
MY MOUNTAINS IN THE MADRAS TER- and consisting — ſour they will carr 
im mense — the upright slabs about 5} feet bigh, | favour, and are expert at Lm d Pes zt 
ie 2 vas following interesting account of this ine 11 feet by 5 feet. te the | offended if they are called cooli wd — 
unknown country from a report made to Government b encampment is an Erooler village of 8 or 10 houses, | trustworthy, and obliging tribe, and ` 4 
Cleghorn, Conservator of Forests. The party consisted of W. with a patch of Raggee (Cynosurus Coracan .) cul- | inftuen Dd Ma PH „ exercise some 
Esq., Acting Collector of Coimbatore, Drs. Macpherson | tivation The day f t ihor kat tat : ahars an ulcer Small in 
and Cornish, Major D. Hamilton, 21st N.L, Captain Fane, | bre Hore Brera r at | stature, their features resemble the African; they ha 
Lieut H. Beddome, 42d N. I., 11 B. French, 8. L. Koe night. Blankets were necessary, it became cold | his curly hair tied in a knot -— and they file the 
W. Fraser, civil engineer, and O. B. Irvine, Esq., towards mo Very little dew “fell and at 6 a.m. | four front teeth of the upper jaw to a point i 
Collector, accompanied with seven epum ants, ‘Ketenainay there was eremon Pali & point à$a marriage 
lies in north latitude 10° 27., east lo longitude 77. The: started “J dy W. y aliars are ch v herdsmen and mer- 
at 4 A. M., Sept. 15, 1858, an arrived e Anamellay ri h, 9 a. 15 e now ascended a steep rugged hill, chants, wh ile Malcers are cultivators of the soil. 
at 20 minutes past 5 o'clock. ] impassable fo Nons these tribes reside at a higher elevation than 
A deal i in the - 
* Bx the light of ix dawn, we distinguished the 
Candelabrum- = stems of Euphorbia antiquorum, — 
the drooping foliage Sa dics which in 
stack, about ‘<0 feet dieb. D ru commit pee) a 
Rattan chain similar to that described was suspended. 
h e Weeping Willo and here e attains a| We proceeded t 2 — — sholas ie three mi — — — rode e., &c., for 
la e, the “trunk being 10 nb cao in qoe the middle of which bya Rice They are 2x expert in climbing 
e ye à e river, whic i rapid porary bridge — d'a a — 2 itis: ‘felled * trees, and recipitous face of rocks in search of 
in leaky ob boats, we traverséd a. n de — for the pu rpose. Rubus (B — first — honey. To EE the eiker; where there are no 
fields, and entered the Bamboo and tree jungle, which I y After walking six miles round the of the n they drive i short Bamboo spikes into the tree 
in the ho etw the ri nà ganga, wiuon Dey wis ee, we emerged from the * i run s of which they ascend 
ar 2 i e river and the ascent to pues — of elephants, upon hill. m r 
1 The hilis, ice i Tooracoodoo odend: first seen here, the the elevation ascer- | means of ove [m by rings made with Rattan, 
38 The — — Neilgherries and tained by Mr. — to be al 5000 feet. We con- which being secured to a point abor — down the 
— ba $o the" sncheinarelide poeta Solas af BED | tinued to ascend th he steep side of the hill — | face of the rock. We observed some of chains 
spar and quartz were cot TP * fu of Fel at the huts. | full 50 and 80 feet in length. The upp MET gos are in 
lar; — the foli: te à at right : — ‘The afterwards. f wild t a herd of 
ge generally. oi - — —— 8 be E — ef “Sanday, 19th. Nothing seen. Thermometer 54^| bison, elk, and ibex in numbers, and — (s « an 
png is reddish, No crystalline 1 — minimum, 9505 maximum. Elevation calculated to be | deni nts, TI of these fin 
sais fo iated with the gneiss in Coimbatore — — Cold vind whistled ^" — 8 the | tains i oe feet in depth, and covered with ric e short 
was observ s hut ;/ Streams of water are numerous, and appear 
“The Fleer e prepared three huts and stabling 
ink — cam 
ss. 
if they flow ed 9 the year. From the € t 
these 
nitable 
e dow 
“ Monday, 20th. Tt — all morning. 
1 Ta ve they a 
for us. were admirably constru re suit 
much su ee rat — eir own dwellin A and promote were unwi ling proceed. However, we started at | for the cultivation of Coffee e scale, and for 
tight; the uprights were nade o jasle trees tied 10 a, and in an hour reached a 3 dee colonisation of small — irm of. Englishmen, a 
together by "a of bark u shooting out from the base s Ukka-m — ; measure oye h — be attended sey bud happiest 
ec us indica n. | resulte, as -— at toour militar pe 7 and 
“Teak ther c ist — in course of pedo give us the — a certain 
eams — — ven we did not | extent of — — our arm 
knolls,- 2 or 3 pe ad ae the poe — on 
— a mo of the basin n to the ri iver. Bei na A in 
gl 
see much of the « hl The previous afternoon some 
of the — yanar ascende = the shoul dë of the Ukka, which 
r; unfor tunately, owing to 
i tain J. Michael, pi dos of the Anamallay 
rests, further reports—' that he explored the high 
ran ge o of the Anamallay 2 lis above Poonachy, and that 
i 2 
vie 
the aren country. The rocky Ukka 
of 
mountain, which is probably y, ope wards of 8000 feet, i 
— 
than Teak, whilst do Wich es (Ga onocarpus kd ed 
of „great s size, occurs with the Teak or opone a lower 
new 
of —.— The p other new form observ ym 
a curious Crassul ulaceous plant with fleshy peltate — 
above the sea, are v very d rich in 
The followi wing are a few 3 2 
servad Sol enocarpus in called b e 
haders Palle-ille, the leaves "of which are 
ms monoceros; a new species 
ooringee), with a delicious fruit ; 
bylla ; Pierardia m 
of 
mist, we turned to the — east. s 
j cleared and we got a ois of numerous Ibex on the 
g Balsams 
very Ee ndant on — — Impatien 
was ing 
s Balsamina, | 
The v 
at night Dii very 
A benutifal v valley about 6000 fet pr ama the level of 
the sea the same i intellige ent officer f. ound covered w ith 
1 
al 
— albi mpan — fascicula 
to — arc sg epp, Kleini, filiformis, 
j | tenella, and rivalis. — proceeded se = 
along this range, the — Maden 
* 
which was 
The mist 
| tion as are ap | found on the Neligberris, or rather 
at Coo "— A strea Peers 
| was fringed with the N Ferns, Ke. 
Me. Pedic ularis, Exacum, Salep Misree, "ue 3 * 
white eL ilies pt in great abundance ; the thermometer 
n the m 
morning, and at night the co old was 
. 4 vo AREE 
. . — 
- 
^. 
guttata ; 
onymus, two 
one with h downy 1 denyon and the ceous 
a new species; Euo! 
miles long and two Mrd wi 
3| other 
h large sholas on the 
side. The wind and 3 increased as we pro- 
The y been 
ur attendants fatigued, and our ons exhansted, 
it was necessary to retrace our steps. Some of the herba- 
plants observed adorning the hi — 
b us 
new for 
likea Lim me tree ; Acrostem hree species, 
hioxylon 
othomorphe 
Kingia, 
&c. podes uh rich aroma, aa 
yn Pant big at * these 55 sholas. The rocks in 
he beds of all the r to 4500 feet are 
on 
us Fiora to that around Oota 
niensis, RET Wightiana, Ly: i 
‘unfavourable, | ex 
ver y intense, 
The coldness of T nights 
— 
HOW TO GREEN. ee e e PLANTS. 
— Utriculari 
mies This list might be extended, det the 
sufficient to show the similarity of the 
camund, 
Tuesday, 21st. We left early; a favourable change | $ 
lace, n)? we much regretted our inability to 
remain another 
K 
i x 
and Fraser descended into the gorge | to examine 
Major Hamilton and Messrs. pe 
rdeners are famed for the skill with which 
ts which are naturally of some con- 
n rest 
en ented 
ith living plants, induce 
river. The day of our departure. was fine and bright, 
to imitate — Chinese gar xita 
ce, and to raise plants in tiny pots, genera 
higher 
4 v, expecially one to bo f gure 
ne Tournal. of Science, * Impatiens aces! 
KE Me 
the lower valley of the Tooracoodoo. (A About a 2 
after, Sth November, Lieut. Beddome rode up in 
2 à zv hich itis easy enough to obtain 
very £ small speci 
at 8 A.M. ; after two miles came to a 
body of water ra ^ t wide, 
mediately below 
n of the river was 
tha and Adelia neriifolia. At 
bivouac and rigged up temporary 
after crossing the river we made | 
ich descend t 
or ie knife. 
ed Purse 
cutting à thro wi 
wood, ae man deus furnished with a bill- | i 
In the bed | Dod: 
mit. He | * I ascended t. - — eda 
which i is very "ferent. i in charact 
the ascent lies throngh 
1 below Eo the re appears io be table 
first nica 
count we borro 
Boekel, from whose ac 
which phe atta 
and | be very difficult of access. We had white vá in tha) 
ca 3 
The. pride Dr. Macpherson's views on 
f this — a — and for fu 
. epa 
. | of these en . 
ot Th 
the Neilgh erries, Herea re thesam 
il heir 
-— tais curious result. 
mentions a plant 
its 
As examples of what he i 
with 22 leaves, . 
mos ipitous scarp 0 80 feet 
ong securely fixed above. This chain 
ego np o of the Calamus stem, connected by 
1 
her 
cable 
was bee gal 
d ceasing abruptly; — hills and 
rich Grass ee 
eim Exacum and 
ians), — excelsum, a 
e opa; ; ;by means of this * Khaders descend 
— 
huts n 
cairn or cromlecb, a "e of a 
—— 
— * 
| Bently th eg 
, | fell continuously du ges 
ions. 
Rs, they are denominated 
ulcers. The Khaders will perform no 
fe Cinchona, family,and other productions 
t found th — Heavy rains, 
upper r 
Anamallay 
Paliars, a 
with 
— sul 
d 1 
Dicks or dies Y the 
nier t2 to arn — ec 
to 6} wide; for ‘other plants he pots 
Ta aet =, broad. These Pen he 
pots 
"x 
P. til d ji of very small 
a adds a third pa 
cation sn be pots a are filled up to the brim, and 
d 2 below, by placi ntain 
ing water, or in à tin vesse 
1 made expressly for that 
