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— utvęt—ę᷑— — iches, giving it the appearance beautiful of all the Firs; : 
ma Le added, xcept for Keens’ Seedling, , which Mrd 1 m Macs or br ranches are ruis. ed e e straight as a line, te rises du the 
t these remarks of from the ground to the 
WAA ; ure. The ey are ted | lower ones 55 decumbent." : his uote top ; pee po 
Don, because there are e slight discrepan which are slim and cei = be 
fi: $ed — i — ied * ogether on rough pe Mr. Don, e sed bal s) m 28 2s 
i terial, but sun "discrepancies | e Wadi ou 1 — the bra ache 
— t ve red s sparingly until es — egin to pre jb regm eme those given by weg and the esp ivin 
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and p gd jn rows running mi. 4 — west and much | Beardsley, to be presently — »dey He goss iti zn e io Hartweg peo it; ^f 75 à 
thinner, perhaps 2 feet from row to row, and quite The bracts are long an gen 3 p : ui all spire with à pyramid al base onld n, 
clear of each other in the row. They are kept here, | changed from the ordinary leaves, hie 1 give jia a th mr er part of the tree; the yaa m 
metimes turning them round, until mo end of Sep- & cingular appearence The seed E mep aperi a s |in mats not give a mor regular shape than jt ai 
tember, when the pots c S pcs e up to the rimsin |a Lus qe i; thai angle of the reed, each a um | ra $ saw no tr a 
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he A left o that the faults may | peculiarity is to s ks 
rem ned gh ventilation Pall all t the protoclion neces- | A. nobilis and the allied ET ch on ià 8, that i it | m he branchlets re touch the be the gromi 
4 I kee only the o middle branc which bear — A m- | foun occupying exclusively the 
sary, = glass being put over them principally to keep P [stanes whi lar remark — by | sot a with ledges of d Lo 
We b f by plunging the necessary quan- | my b ‘expeditions, s egarding | marble. We encamped for the ni ht on d dr 
tity N riti with 3 of about ibn "tübereulata on » whioh he placke ed very ancient | ridge, the only place to be fo a3 d — 
‘0°, and ae. with glass. We ventilate round, growing on the main enough to make down our beds; in th 
until er begin ew foliage, after which stem ii a Pare trog The next botanist who saw this com menced raining, and increased imi a | 
more 3 P m holly at the back or wholly at | fine t s Har who was by on don riving storm. We passed. the m ak Tepe 
the front, never back and front at the same time, Horticultural Society 1 in sear arch of plants 1 seeds in that ever fell t nee wil E 
' except late in n the season; and even then it is better to | 1847. He dese ribes his various expedition in reports | unprovided,. as th here Was no appearan Á 0% Of ade 
have the lights off entirely for an hour or so in the sent to the London Horticultural Rega which were when we lay down.a short timea 4 
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its acha “Not the least remarkable thin, v 2 
ne foliage down 
back induces y. . ii, p. , he gives the great labour, a 
— at first, little water being toit until the 3 e of his attempt to obtain seeds of our necks, to keep from freezing. Wi 
plants have made some X new foliage. Wekeep A. brac 5 pas September the 20th I again left we kept our fire up until morni 
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frosty as to require coverin ak with mats. E the disturbed state o of last year, I could not visit before. | and in a state of decomposition; rocks from — 
As soon as a sufficient quantity of plants to fill the | As guide, I engaged the services of a man who bad above were set nt. li erty by the rains, anù as 
2 or space they are to occupy, shows their trusses, | acco: mpanied me on my last excursion he Santa Cruz,|tumbling down past us, making a f 
ey ar taken ont of the leaf bed, nfe of the yellow and who, from his profession of a hunter, was well among the trees, increasing in speed until 
les es taken off, the surface stirred and a top-dres ssing . with the intricate mountain koze of the among the rocks at. the bottom of the ravine 
old Mushroom bed or something similar I intended to es On the day of our | with a noise which sent its reverberations up am 
ex are then inserted into others a trifle MD starting we iad ed the m of La Solidad, an ill- the hills like peals of thunder. Thé i 
cee about 2 evt of similar material fo the construeted, half ruined building, situate in the Salinas darkness of the night, the howl of the tempat & 
dressing in the bottom of g the v alle ey, and ‘encamped t owa ards eveni ng on the banks of | c crashing of falling elne together with the 
plant na touches, ore ot in tl he cold rain, almost snow, ma ie nig 9 
outer pot. They are now Lose s to their places| By sunrise the following morning we were again 0 Wa saw a large grizzly bear Eo before dark, 
and as they are allowed to get rather dry, before nores and leaving the ma aim road on the right, | bs | plenty, of fresh tracks e eve rywhere, "isla 
being taken out of the pit of leaves a good soaking e — t came 1 
of water, of the temperature of the house, is given. s From San Antonio a range of and wit thit a clear sky, which T hailed with se 
For a few days before taking the plants out of pare “extends alon ng the coast, attaining a great geile. I think, than T ever did in n: 
the pit of leaves the temperature (top-heat) of the elevation, which, paite apparently barren, as seen | that alive. 
frame is made to approximate as near as circumstances | from the mission, I was assured on the western flank “Tha $; intexided tour rtion of 
willadmit to that of the house they are put into, as towards the sea is m. em by "e rge eget 2n collecti 4 Te 
the Strawberry w} very the mountain range, where he ^ 
any great — a - ie After being placed | goes on—* Descending the western flank of the great beaten: them p - a ates i this 
in the house plants inged 5 and mountain range, I found at last the long-wished-for| ^ back track 
, until S begin to © ies braci occu i vines. n 
nt ne small bree! 
few shat ered gones left, and obtained about a ll 
crops we syri fuge feet, and he wi presently find that Beardsley mates Tt it | 
Le iC 1 — tò cut off the top, but DIL 
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cient qua tity With late 
cr engine 9 regar dless of the heir being in bloom. at 130 feet 
As soon as a sufficient quantity of blossoms has set diameter.” This must be a mistake Fa 12 te 15 inches I 
their fruit, me uox gs is enb o off. have from | Dr. Coulter 2 that the Seat were only 2 feet i n | of voserre nem m Moers. 
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to ruit on a plant, for early TRUE the larger joer p "odia ead of 1 meter, which wo ud fter roe - ert po * had — 
Keens’ Seedling, &c., and from 10 to 15 on a plant for | of branches, and the remainder 3 an elongated ine four mth me 3 e 
later crops. After being thinned they are removed to | tapering DIEE» of which the upper part for 3 feet is | and seen two grizzly ain impo 
a warmer house, thus making room for a succession | productive of cones.” These must have been bad his account of Mr. Beardsley’s de hr 
from the pit. As soon as they begin. to colour they | specimens, for Mr. Beardsley’s account describes them — — euitivators in this country. indie a} 
require more air; great care is necessary that they as branched to the ground, and Mr. Peebles’s drawing, | ^? to a calcareous - er i 1 — 
never suffer gp want of water; if once they — | ait ugh it a one or two devoid — — — at would be well be well — — ur chalk et to it thana 
a ur y to th climate. 
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th vos of J their fruit abo and to Scottish h hills, n. th ; 
e "sun icai ripen their p about the | regret that the cones ware but half e , oat 
end of April. Henry Groom, Gardener to Sir John H. been frost-bitten. In more sheltered Rum. towards | remark that it grows 1000 feet m e ‘than 
Lowther, Bl., Swillington House, near Loos | the sea-shore, the same happened to be the case; and I | than Coulteri, it is ar ee Pe: arise 
, was thus posheieo from now yeh ing this 8 | inding — — Californian ves Beardsley 97 
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NOTES TON CALIFORNIAN TREES. a next attempt to EN n m of it va that made getting aet; bitten himsel not free from 
(From a Paper by A As o e ublis E in the Edin- by y Mr. Bis ia in 1856—(Jeffrey was not so far — it Sen in a climate 
: burgh New ew Philoso ourn outh)—and I e uinot do better than dote that part of vto f cold. collecta, I 
- Abies — ese e nan ds m 8 some his e fis ich rebites to thir tree He “inde his | © Met — Gee 33 a s efr 
s an ber dem oy in the m ee nd latte t of October ;— | visis -— e spot, bu -— 
beautiful Pine T interested my — in the subject ; „Aber finishin E collectio in né i-i vicinity Mr. Beardsley. He fo found that the e seeda t 
5 other ton ia, be 8 nted his ane T- oaa I set eat for the Santa Lucia mountains gm v P. cu m — t Vos al ore f 
imself, two di wd low the mission of San Antonio; eir green 8 
ein To : T Re! spia] s Bis of San Antonio; our equi from her g ay fr — dai 
dee three loose ani 
: à s à r by two horses, A 
à anima — ride and pack into the mountains, can protec 
d by by his old one D o etemas, oe E revolvers, Last gens Mr. Peles mu 
en rises; >| tw siet g utensi visions | more than obb's. i 
E his Other qualifieati W the task, Arr E days,” (a preparation which indicates fa t, how- | a month earlier than Beardsley, he was 
to possess much talent as an artist, re! = " to "his ases is s dopted 
native mount aic: this n on its mission the 1s ay; here we left our waggon and | cut (whit pur the usual method adopt 
e xtracting one or t Leg iti back ch of from the Pines in former expe at al pi 
ee T shoul m - r two passages from their| Abies N which we found on the second day, dn | seattering all the cones to the winds, 50 e, 
j perhaps first remind the reader of what | the e western slope of the range, about 30 miles Tom was obtained s climbing the trees ug dest | 
— mission, and about 10 miles from the sea-coast, by | ing the co This difficulty a remark b o 
e worst trail that erer travelled in this or any other the right time is s expla lained by a "A: 
After passing the divide, and descending to in regard to other plants ^ Being iat m0 2 
sns Bet sr wel I fell i xl with the tree, occupying the i die ding, and . 
e e mach of the aar n sides as as the ravines, and not exclusively 
He 10 : x coun eg as "n tia rd bee cee Ton as descri ibed by woe tie His I: was grea y | to m 
which (and among — A. bracteata) were described cha 42 i t in f 
Wr Mr Don in the *Li isis A upply of se top off; bat in 
m we ere my thse vol. px few strokes of the “hatch chat ttred the cones in | fat 
interest esting species of Fir w ed by Dr. Coulter pie h tion 
=; g plan was to climb to a tost dangerous height and pick ws the i ‘ 
preety ras of the E n range o of Santa Lucia, | off the few cones ium — be — They -— — 1 ape Tower; Pr i » 
trunk rises = the “hela ht a of al wr N The to pieces in my han moment they were touched. | will e until the country E fad 
slender, not give in eee md as The enes only occupy a e foe tome, "P 
remis anger of obtaining them. I have n 
Taig’ dh — The upper third of the seen any description that. due piles to this most | fi | 
