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bat dangerous in practice. He protested strongly x would have been called more correctly, Fir Passing from this temp : : 
against it an all occasions, and his sense of its dan nger o Botany, for it is 5 more. "Mis — dere Lot d Vandas, Acres and cum "era. you ain 
bje he utm host a very simple filling a house dex ted e entirely to thei 
subject ided t ants in every stage of growth a glowing 
E: 1 2 Charter was an iron ship of 3000 tons|too much. we would —— suggest that Dict tyo- health, whilst the air is s filled Sih a de! i pion z vi 
en, and was built with her head in the direction | gens — — no business in a child's book, and that she such as the beautiful wax-like flowers of these Orchids 
x 50° W. (magnetic). When newly launched, there does not — ways seize the —.— m = — distinction. em give, Another turn, sar you are among a 
— — a 22 tende e int of ea is good, but it is not qui ccessful in|swamp of Pitcher plants, looking as healthy and 
the pass to the port side; the blows and strains | e — muc — at home as if in the thick 
which [^ * Charter experienced in her voyage Under the name of the Fern Collector's Album Mr. | native lands and it is quite 
diminished o or, so to speak, 3 shook out that i inequa uality Hardwic ke, of Piccadilly, has produced a handsomely anging from > 
t that ortfolio bound in scarlet a nd gold, with — that Mr. Ve itch has found out the exact manner 
originally early 20° to the port side | blank — on which dried specimens may be glu nw Y e ed. 
when the hig he e = wom A had this deviation | by the collector, and short accounts of the structure, | same — noticed some 2 ti — 
i 22'on the ship's return td Liverpool; habitation, and. cultivation of each species on the|Lyco pods of the Selaginella class; a the — 
while 2 1 e mpass, w. originally had been opposite page. When filled by the — it will | conspict den were poe a ella Lyall, Lobb Si, and 
rather over corrected, r — with an. increase of be a little — of pleasant souvenirs to beguile viridi is, e Ure of erect growth, reminding one "ot 
20* 42'; while th i y hour. We think the — — ininture Arbor, vito with a hind of polished — 
under corrected, ret urned with a change of 19° 23 | bears — th arks of a lady's hand, on which folinge e. "Lai ing this house and cross 
This change shows the complete failure in such ajaccount, as well as because of its intrinsic merits, we | path of the nursery to an opposite door, 1 found a 
"mec the correction ly recommend it to those who are looking out for ouse filled v vith ere without speck or blemish, 
difference of inion may corpse fron ship ca acceptable presents. 5 
compasses of iron shi t oned, 
hardly admit of question that every iron ship shot Trane Lists Rxc —Richard Bradley ane Den 
fom por ona: Mà a atn ed te much a vos (aan Noe, near “Southall, — ), Calalogue of | Eu. 9 — — y — d other parasiti ical 
. inning al treos and shrubs, with the addition of a few usefal |” | natives from tropica i fore sts From this house s a turn 
examples of Tree Fe 'TDR, ad Orchid requ iring tom- 
he — treatment. Here I 3 d: iier 3h Hos onto- 
7 glossum grande, a perfect pent 0 — y-like ma ai 
length and — fond interesting ac not ner 192 — . — of —— ts — — - the finest of the kind I have Among them 
meral reader. The following m relate to the | greenhonse am — — 5, and floriste! flowers: I noticed some variation, seve fai pe ving large a and 
ing of whales sea-serpen Wm. Wood & Son (Woodlands M Maresfield a Deserip. | ch more handsomely mar rked flowers the 
In a former part of my journal, I have remarked on | five Catalogwe of Roses; General | atalogue of | Ee? eral lot. 
prev: nd persuasio: ing of | Ornamental Tr — 3 may here 
water by — a persuasion which in one of my] Roses, Fruit Trees, Orna al Iron a hrube, de. 
earliest atural History I —— was | ge. "hee three lists — together cet; one of the | great deal 
founded on m ee e, for nothing like big ee Pa h less | MM of country nurseries ; alone 
fountains and jets of er, is to be seen in the "respira. | oce — exclusive of unenumerated old sorts nd habits of the plants in their native coun- 
tion of this order of —.— Yet the error is not only which 2 stated are also kept. — Croux (établisse: and assimilati ing as much as possible that 
popular one, but even to this day is suppor ment wien i ferme de la Saussaye, Villejuif state a e,  instea of jumbling them up 
many of our eminent naturalists. In again noticing | Seine) Extrait Priz-courants pour Marc. hande; toge ether k often done, tö the utter ruin 
i urpose of adding the ex- | trade list of trait trees, fruit t e — s, and orn ction of many valuable plants. Leaving the 
perience, gained in this voyage, of the blowing of mental trees and shrubs grown i use last-me —— ne Moy a kind of ey — 
V IN which is a somewha cal arrangement 
ew n Oc South. Pacifie, F standing on bigh podestat, filled with Aloes es, Bona. 
of the South Atlantic, as well as of the North, and of oe — Memoranda. parteas, Yuccas, &c.; and a dg. as in parterres on the 
tropical regions, the ‘spouting s but the respiration Rovxan Exo Nursery, Krne’s Roap,|greund are "vant "numbers raucarias, Azal 
common to animals breathing the atmospherie air, a. — — — many sights to — in the mellias, Ilex, variegated I by, 185 a host of things 
except mel being more dense and steam-like in its expi- | neighbourhood of London, few can e exceed in interesting | ‘Thad not time to note. 
nuing along the centre walk of the nursery 
, nd 
E uncorrected — correcte compasses, "t any) Douglas Firs are red, 
printed at 15 feet.” cs 
I ma; remark that 
kindly showed me over the er, dee e me 83 
of the success tha t attended the eir r Orchid 
the climate 
1 ntir 
rer. —^ Sometimes the manner | nursery of Mr. J. Veitel ch, jun., in the Rowe ‘Road, | came to another house of glowing merge Op Palm 
ae — dringin d swimming i 1 g Chel No high- domed 7 or architectural — in w me sh are some rich and rare objects of those 
à 2 5 m tribes enables us to d th lay calls the attention of the by monarchs of the Sapient forest. This house is varied 
ose leave Were of flowers, 
eh on | ord of treasures oninia 8 "4 " 
the Atlantic to the re ae tia OLLI se li 
States, the —— of the rs was called broad commodious promenades, on | bab fin E^ 
very striking assemblage of the whale tribe, pursuing a ir Wade of of which are stages filled with the hardier | An «ine dedit 1 LO 
sportive course nearly parallel to that of the ship,|kinds of Palms, Ferns, minature Orange trees laden e iar be mistaken for a monarch too—it cer 
though they. were afc, considerable T Odo | with golden fruit: fine speclutens — — 
series of society was arranged in a ht line, ex- | whose — oy i leaves and finesymmetricform | 1 cannot follow correctly 
quarter mile as in Indian fil lipse the brighter hues of many gaudy flowers; here V whieh T wan shows bt n passing through 
in a straig 
d bey nao fo Us —— i — ^ 
and they rose e surface much about the same time, | too in every stage of growth are Araucarias and other | — Indian Asal 
rsued istance a somewhat systematic tender beauties of the Coniferous family. On the oticed ner H. dow. wered: plant of t - 
undulating course. This iar manner and aspect | columns and supports of this conservatory are trained |} 1 
the conviction that they were of the. gl. t festoons climbers of various hues and 
cephalus species, the Delphinus 4 described in sheet jardinières, s from the roof, filled On entering the stove, although these n: 
my account of the Arctic gor] ; in which species the | with graceful droopin droping pini the — forming with not been built for showing off plants, one can 
cq int in line, or following a leader, is a characteristic, their glowing e | bein — with " mass "x hw 
and was suggested by my friend Professor Traill as a | ensemble rarely, if — — men Paring the | here presents itself. . plant, 
ey esseri trait in the habits of the animal. | centre promenade of the above-mentioned conservatory, Cyanophyllum » magnificum, with leaves length 
: e aj struck me as likel gi d bri filled 
impression of i lined, interlined, and fringed with qoe of parie and 
y dE the sen-sorpent, 2 Y vot lower —— IN ape I. ie Ferns " de MA white, A plant o ‘of this 12 feet high an early as much 
at TM 83 De dre mo Ma: 15 a ff. tirely devoted to fi dee gel penta. 
igious magnitu been seen." | plants here brought together, denizens of the t is stove is entirely evo ne-foliaged plan 
are sorry to see a work like ts published wit with: | forests, swamps, hills, and plains, by the indefatigable | and gend ow ngs they are. Here are Begonias that 
Bee L. It has however an excellent exertions of — Veiteh and their collectors, the would r a greater connoisse ae than pgri to 
brothers T. & W. Lobb, would be a work of too — | name the c lifferent colours in their ve aves, some bright, 
We have received the following since our last :—No. | time and space; but for the information of those some dingy, but a 3 lar and e "Tan 
6 of Moores Index Filicum 1 AN. - may mo ot have an _ opportuni ty o of seeing themselves, Crotons, of golden yellow and bright r red stripes 
table of genera as far as Marattia, will endea and blotches; Drac: pesca, with bright red leaves; 
Index wat ome beyond the middle of — genes ment, appearance, and effect, as well as some of the Theophrastas, with URS Keris, thick enough 
kabl One thing which — — a buff jerkin t for a Cromwellian. 
— 1- of okers Enume Miet more than any other in the nu rsery is the successful ong these zs ee pee minor beauties, 
— i G in tha are seid the grea t and effective — iy e the — are arranged | such as the golden and silver striped leaved Ansecto- 
and Cincho and cult ivate d; cordance to their varying | chiles, Marant a € lineata, and vittata, and another 
— Composites are eat The follow habit fecti , from its, adaptibility and easy culture, 
mg account And Composites Walkeri, a Mes nilla-like | to which the art of meri has monia many becom a special fa p urite, na othos argyræa, a 
plant, will we trust secure that ni r gardens. nno w dificult subjects in the untoward climate | pe that may — ite habit be trained to 3 
This is one of the most beautiful plants of the — of E assing over innumerable objects ects of ertiga " 
AE HI ane forest trees wi line of cl ve 
mantle of the most lovely rose. colour.“ - "species eva iic — mention. p siegis most and o ow oes all active with busy | Bee 
inhabits the central province of Ceylon at a kind of hardy Teri. with w 
tf 8000 to 5000 feet, No fewer than 15 rrr hr L should to mph Han. M perio 
y genus are also merated. a lants of Gieichonia — — tae folia ejth n T ^ : 
Present rate of publication this very useful Es 2 ? Ts — v ie Ganie Fernery is nged on q te anovel 
soon arrive at completion.— Messrs, Rout] have | gramma lanata with soft downy leaves, a thing of quiet- | at least so to me, and is formed with a 9 ok 
Doy out a shilling edition of Moore's Handbook of | ee whilst —.— Nothochlenas, Stemio- | the e g north and sou r with th ps 
rig on po y the author under the | nitis, and I i truction just in aot in d e. ohjens 
and the eir f ti view, and is about a! — fix 
is formed with g wing ‘thick shading 
simplified th Bera dus ch 
e original so as to render i RE E Whet e Mr. Vol hs a je Mp ines ic 
and has omitted the endless varieties, oe | si ick . — at firs to | inside to obscure the —.— sunlig * ‘oa a 8 
i forms, which so abound in the eyes of the Fern inquir — — appearance of. Py Hers roof only being glass. The angles DP a WAT 
collector, There are plenty of characteristic wood | i n this a rin dt vni not wap y he would ever|Fernery are made to work ge 3 rs ica Ae | 
VEMM whieh will assist in making M vim many on the sick list. means of a cord and pulley, and 
— — posee: of. the ee a a stru , ction t 3 any — paw migh 
: 8 Botany One of them, Lapageria j t simi 
isa very small shilling pamp! hlet vey ) Vitus and md Co), | some towers of tig ag marbled witi with white; a climber no con [ees A donori piire power will fail to convey to the 
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