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Ocronzn 29, 1859.] THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL — ET TR. 871 
beautiful species captured by himself in South Africa, give the experim a fair E for, if the lt that for R than the i i ber and 
Mr. F. a exhibited living specimens of the cater- | should be the — a vari ty y of Cotton—hardy | lecti i » ian 
"e: e Eria Silk Moth of gal, and of prolific, and of superior A he benefit would be up a over — country. . 
ybrid — it and the Chinese Eria, which had almost incalculable; whilst, if the experiment should A or ee 
been fed upon the Castor-oil plant. Dr. Knaggs ex- | not end in so "- . — manner as could be desired, A 
hibited a jes of Ino, apparently distinct from the|a problem of v interest would have been Garden t—À 
recorded British species; and he curious cluster | solved, as to the affinity ‘the several v varie ties of Cotton DRUNMOND Caern Ganpens, N.B.—Drummond 
ef cocoons of the Microgaster alvearius. Letters we r to one another n I sho uld | C astle è distance of ak 
read fro d —— Esq., of Me dras Pre- | recommend being ado! pted in carrying o i to Dun! 2 
sideney, giving an acc unt of the insects injurious to ment. A moderate — of each — — several |: and | is approached from the hig gh — . un 
— Coffee plantations, "tbe mae of which — varieties superic Cotton should be planted and out ld F 
species of llied to the mealy bug. carefully cultivated; each kind being kept separate. | the dim of of which are enormous size, 
treated wit. tial: tar and — The n » Cotton should be planted in a certain — from "this — the "- comes suddenly 
g number of rows, and of so many of these — — os 4 ato view o the Je! ft o a ee A -— passing under 
crossed by r is obtained from 
Mr. J. Swann 
A leiter Sen read from n, giving ‘an 
account — of the extraordinary tenacity of life 
larvie of t 
of the 
ical 
g 
this point. eel 
direction. 
iet should have their flowers 
tion o of s superi ior Cotton ; —the plants of s 80 
rior. Cotton, a 
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ex- 
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plan should 
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, nothing shows plainly the 
re agent more very 
peri * paper read by e, on and ea 
— babits of Sitaris humeralis, a beetle parasitic in the E. a — piece of coloured “twine s being tied to its 2 um these ^e a terr ace is reached which 
ests of mason | third Pt of the current | stalk. The ripe seeds obta ined f these | wh h 
— of the Society’: i be sown 0 r 12 feet. in "width 
just published. | ose resulting from the. — * miris . mt ten 1 ai te a isa a border f filled. with 
BRITISH ASSOCIA from in ru — m the New Orleans in another, herbaceous and bulbous plants, whic hens 
Tun — TION o LANE "0 — on — 25 ſor the rest. ‘the ts raised in masses Among, these "" 
— jhysical characters of Aberdee able > fi " * to bearing, a div particularly noticeable a la e patch of Tritoma Uvaria, 
T introduction 77 —. of ite Flora Th “count t 48 — be exhibited by them respectively, i aree es of its an cen orange 
berdeen ong ition between 5 gi P oan | healthy . — prolificns ss and the qual ner t he | so arlet flowers m full bloom, Two f 
57? 42’ N., ' W. long. ; it pt di, m staple. The inferior ones show ald be ple up and very highly coloured Gladioli - tended — give much 
surface of -— — a X quare aha. A The drawn thrown ay, — the 4 kinds retained and brillianey t o this part of the garden. The wall at 
from Culter, on iba borders of Eu d a Pang d numbered and their comparative hi alities well | back of this border was cover — w vith a good v 
pm t e borders of Banffshire, divides it into —— and rded. If it should be found that of Climbers. A plant - A be sn — — „ 
two D in nhvaiea] real — bee had * made towards prle » lilac flowers, ery : ractive. “Among 
hades C7 east of this li de the native Cotto — im — em of crossin g might ! 
ond tog + amg ie E gend A int face, the ig still farther ca rieka ing the plants of the already | tionas a hardy or nearly hardy g mahedam —— 
900 fi 1 Ín * and m CE this sectio bat 2 imd E yt ae * : uei origin — Sowers exeeed the beau aty of its very delicately coloured 
sta , 
The m inla: — 98 — the v * German Ocean. €— on for several | generations of plants unti jon. In the middle of t the terrace 
menti in genera different aspect aximum improvement should be cons sidered to have — N tbe 2 fight of steps (which is le 
there being a gradual rise of the * towards been realised." one, the nf — on either side), is a large 
the south-western extremity o of the county. This The Committee considered the foregoing pro- M d in which a re pl ed pieces of spar, 
is obvi on tracing = levels of the two position as exceedingly ingenious van — to good the and sides bemg — covered with tufts " 
principal rivers, the Dee and Don. The former |* n ving native Cot! to pro- the — Spleenw wort | (Asplenium | —. 
has an elevation of 1640 feet * * 70 miles duce from it an article of good s n Tat rec g ly wl ttl 
the Don, about 55 miles inland, is 1240 b muss ie Chamber of Commerce, for the | ing in profusion as it is here, and d it is occasio nally 
feet above the sea. The ne Muick, in th s of opportunity afforded them of perusing Mr. Thwaites’s | but rarely met with in its wild state, can — y idea 
10 miles only, f from | its sou at Loch Muick to its oom eter, e Commi ony determined to draw up a by 2 of the extreme beau uty o of its “appearance x et, 
t Bal llater t moran ndum of the best n E p spe sy a shade "M secured of which 
jun Ta oo | 
le than 500 feet. These fact make inquiry as hov fond), — pens = 
singula: rly in ‘contrast 8 made on far th e resu sits of the peach oa in Cotton Y Dr. tablish this pr a task by n sy 
the course of P» 2 he hic din “tof thé {Ca can be made known to, and rendered useful to, | plishiment with many of our British Tess are cially 
more eastern at 22 miles fro mination the public, those which, like this species, are usually found on old 
NOSE VENDER IRS TL V alls and buildings. . — the * senor the 
of that f the f el y is a steep ba lanted with various 
another illustra: Se at th poi the me glen " Notites of Books. evergreen and deciduous shrubs, the side towards the 
the path on the east shoulder of Mount Battock, 28 rr, boek of Geological Terms and Geology. B — - ing fled v pave in: "Denton mM ai iter 
e ic erms a oto, and 0 ter summer ers. escending agat 
m Aberdeen, is about 2000 feet, while that 9^ | David Page, Fas” Blackwood": imo. As yje e — ded wall viles p 
iand, attains am. elevation of 2400 fi n, led with flowering plants on either side, as straight 
ula quisi inna the heights of Hie . mliet to its 7 ts. KC — E EY in the” 
peer ufo f elevation, till ais * cae Bonny of roni te n ge TL 
ly increase of elevation, till we a zone in students there 
3000 or 3 than | arani — in MEE ES 
elevation e of Ben Muich hai vit a about | formations at h d 8 itself * ro — vie f pen 
Neri 1 a — ng is ep noms A pim 3 Cay SAT OK every i ust was tn, Sen 2 w 
ane ittin, , 
re line, prevail ing — 2 more sought for, such full and clear explanations of their | "ique direction m down in 
Sii the following is a summar: p srt rii rupit. d as to leave nothing to criticise. A book like | of these Grass st is a border with masses of herba- 
ing the vegetation :—E z upwards this is as necessary in a library as Johnson's Dicti | ceoùs sum flowers, mostly arranged with one 
— 3 — ha itself. kind of plant in each mass, in a sim similar manner to those 
doubtless — — en the terrace, and backed by evergreen shrubs. A 
pase te indigenous flowering plants amount to 635, the 1 * ep — — my 
these are bnted yl — — 4 of the of Shakspeare (Black), wo a is an "interpretati the fine 3 of Irish Yew, Siberian Arbor-vitæ, 
former and 11 of the latter. The Fl is | principal characters and plays on the principle Y races. | Juniper, green and aT e ame a mes 
not rich bers, j] „The autho: It at all regularly 
prokandé mang? eg of prom ini bea een it eom race, Hamlet of the Tentonic, 3 oe of the Celtic, | into a pyramidal form, and from 10 to t feet in md 
Natural Hi: Section. Prof. Bali called atten. | and Shylock ro Hebrew. whole — ith are placed at a distance of about 15 feet apart at the 
tion to the exceptional character Flora on the 2 dissertation on the supern LL machinery of the | bac walks of a con- 
Coial Hills, and n for it by the presence of great author. We if he tere 2 the effect of so many plants of a 
tine in these He had revisited the earth, would be rather surprised at the | p r CO form is very striking, and imparts 
* and "the same pin on the — — of Strath- | f his ingenious, an and dare we add fanciful com- | Lon 1 — to the Whoſe garden. The plan of 
don.—Mr. Babi tive | mentators and illustrators. — Row s th n is a regular parallel , and in 
poverty of the pide: Bil with * e fenny, hr History, part VIL, is wholly occupied by à to the six walks alr mentioned, 
county of Cambildgesbire, where double the number o | dogs and foxes.—The Climate of Brighton, by Dr. — is a straight k at ench side and end, with 
species of p! existed. bell (Long ), is a small volume of 130 pages several narrower ones at ri les to these, which 
(To be continued.) devoted to showing tl of - at in beds of 
and pointing hat cl t c form. These appear to —— used for spring 
IAN COTTON. th The author is a resident . Ws M . bulbs. At the eas west ends of the 
Tuan that st the flowing, letter ^; been — and 2 A. trated k for 1860 is a thin royal Svo of 44 garden is a circular Grass lot, having a fountain in the 
— re n of the Agri- Horticultural pages, containing * addition to the usual contents middle, around which are disposed of hardy Heaths 
of an almanack, woodeuts of various kinds. fountains ha : 
we each a fi 
the day, especially | of marble 2nd 
modi p t the events of 
It only costs 6d. basins is 
From one 
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