Norxunzn 19, 1859.] 
ndoce xplore: A1 such difficult ground which 
"^ d pom y e noù. 
Mr. Peebles zioni 2 
resin ^ the tree E incense. 
the padres of the Missio 
THE GARDENERS' 
: 
CHRONIC LE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
t, which I have tried, an 
iful photograph of the cone 
a one of the principal photo- 
‘ets | in San Francisco, which suggests a 
nvenient and a mode of procu ring oan 
; to species es fro the 
expense and 8 2 c id bulky * "whieh 
may — y be of n 
Torr ica, „ Hoo (C aaan 
ting genus rg fr co 
t — it present basis „Valter Ar in w 
1 
Hist ge series), Vol. T 
Californian species: one, the T. taxifolia, | 
— are bay 0 
note to N B. Tegetmeier, the manager there. , enumerated by —— 
Shirley Hidderd, Stoke genius 7 | counted by Ls 3 — — ML 
on| Transp ey d large Evergreen  Trees.—I beg that, where the Christianisin elem: nt Jus t» curtain 
My bro ther sent inform your e * correspondent that he will find the onward progress of e rati tag * 5 
d fi the tree | limits unti i Ar. r 
ed, and the whole modus ope erandi in Mr. Barron's | cate its eas — ode man should vindi- 
ve “British Winter Garden." From page 31 to 48 the | dominion.— Dr. Anderson in Geol pniversal earthly 
whole system is as pe uf — as it can be in | C. Lyell agreed w Dr. Ande uu tion, Sir 
writing, with figures of the different sized machines and | of usin treme caution in arrivin oh ghar 2 
trucks employed. William Tillery, Welbeck. to t 5 ssi ary — » mel founded on he 
2 y c 3 bor ti ee nth human remai: 
it was impos ‘le, from the data 
acquired, to pretend t a geni 
e "thought the der bade was very s 
very high a 
papers were 
Societies. 
et ing 
Hon : Nov 10. a of che rong in favour of 
Floral | S held on Jis od d Me- ESTS. un TL » as would be seen when oth 
exhibited — of the hybrid yog nd raised b 
their foren vl is iny. Hef had been produc TION OF BRITISH BUTTERFLIES.— 
ed Ox 1 Dr ISTR 
very hand. Among "the i insect "tribes, the “scale- wings“ or order 
Ceda 
vest 
nd v 
some, the Wher ting large, blush coloured, "with a 
ned 
3 — North in nerica ; E. other, the T. Myristica or | veined lip. It was awarded a First-class Cer- of attention, The variety 3 beauty of the Butterfly 
Californian e = t te. ad also a dwarf vari ed-leave ter of oriety. The order r Lepidoptera 
the Rocky. Moun Tt recava Aa rerna cnin? appel- Orchid, ith dull c ry tinged leaves, named h — es two ys divisions, butterflies oths,— 
lation, 8 T qualities, nor fro m possessin g En PDT d Pid ee the former group all by day, wh 
a 2 = epe — alia RR ne | moths are nocturnal in their ha! its It A —— 
sve . Sieboldi, a noble en calcu- 
its cone bearing a ery c close external resemblance to | di met variegated plan rana * a. lated that tl 
that fruit, more expecially in the ramina peas ear om Me * teb peste vga: = my ed the a species of Lepiñoptera Pos — lobe. Mes bes tee 
ance of its seed. Although known to my other from Messrs. Veitch, as did a young plan ^ the beau- specios of bu tte rflies are abeat ¢ ut an 
several years before, it was only first sent home by E beet -rilibed Dracæna indivisa, of Nes Zcalan d. ly known, an it has been 
Lobb in 1857. and described by Hooker in the he met uin ge qm nitish flowers Yu da country 8 neri 3 
* Botanical e No. 4780. The fruit and leaves | in um els resembling ti ose. of the vy and i is an orna- greater, being nearly 30 to 1, but t Ee "d 
th red, b the tree itself. It grows , i rk- 
a height of 30 or 40 feet, and it will be seen 15 it From Messrs. E. G. He nderson 1 were two Pelargoniums n 8 t Europe fe our poverty in butterflies. 
Larch, of the horse-shoe class named Novelty e vx ES ctos ded Lege mter : a 
z of these only one 
£4} 
This M per is accompanied LX — 325 Name 
repre 
bright 
arge, Mi rue 
en inedia. outline, 
They b. 
ble for A 
pé Both beautiful tribe of insects. 0 
„ I Mene promising; — pi loomi pen JRE E of rmany, 186 species of butterflies have been —.— 
Gooseberry V dt of y the remaining 120 Eu n species being peculiar to 
correspondents infor fa I dii ind effectual BRITISH ASSOCIATI Spain, Italy, Greece, Russia, or Lapland. Of the 
means of tg the uds of Gooseberry trees from | ON HUMAN sonis dx 8 Tyr — | Enzls d. th ate secar indo 4 on 65 in 
the attacks of birds? We are here so with | Undou cases exist of human remains incl in which e een po; 
-€— that they attack the buds even epi th d creti rocks, buried deep in the butterf iE in En es à, lgium. All the British 
rees have entirely shed their leaves. f our | silts of rivers, a high up in caverns associated with (only 33) Ii in Sootlan — 7 Tittle 3 than half 
iren have already lost. more than i their i We 
wi of fruit fro 
and up 
the bones of elephants, lions, tigers, hyenas, and other Ireland, 
op 
hes are r rendered us seleas, 
One i is startled at the idea ofa North Briton inhabiting 5 
eryw 
nn 
, ‘th, erg ir 5 as is not 
localities w 
rud eir the destroyers. Fonte each t; 15 or a huge Polar bear, ae all apparently co: - 
straw has been suggested, but I fear that ich wold neous nadie according to their different. e limited, and that where “they find suitable! 
pps the buds to swell prematurely. Perhaps so f the British Isles Sir Charles Lyell’s remarks in] them from Norfol o Killar- 
r readers can enlighten a hint on the ^m opening address, not only deepened vastly the ney, „and from the Isle of Wi — to Caithness,—some 
. GE, Ford Abbe. importance of the subject, but added fresh ag hg frequent gardens, some mea e heatha; some 
ers Kale.—Awidst t Viola Which he 1 woods, and some " hedge- rows a lands. Twenty-five 
oceasioned by the = frost, i is some ow bs to son) strongly ierra As to the in eis Osea rin other species, dae all occu the ` south-east of 
one v etable unscorched. It d seas, and 8 | Eng’ gland, thin out a 
efore, I think, on in | mineralised, he 2 that ** fox w warisi- only five of them oceurrin 
mind that the Cottage withstood thy fost of of | months, often sufficed for the f ation of « compact | fourteen in Ireland, 
_ 28d Oct., 1859, when Severe p^ of. calcareous and — toek, in whieh | common in che mountai 
appear par! e in this place, though peated Snap: eerie eri pottery, coins, and implements occur at all in the 5 
in a very wet ret and retentive soil, are si as fresh and | were im ibedded. 1 referred l to a case betwixt Aber- local to particular limited 
strong às e frost, already clothed from th land, few | Counties or the south 
aa. | ëfitktioli w forming of Oceurrence in this 
; and scien shoots. H. S. T, — Buck- [great de ap — in which are imbedded land shells, | {zepslers from the 
of trees, d tiopa, 
with st.— Having had some | cliffs, t of the —— trees are becoming entangled pe Dunbar. Twoc species, 
Meer in ‘the v of TUE in keeping r hta Celery — the diede s The Rev. Doctor J or quoted the | — English localities, now appear to 
from rotting in a new kite en garden, where the soil | case of a 9 32-pounder- esented Bos — perma Natural History Section. 
was very retentive and damp, and the plants earthed | to him by a fell Sonik —deeply inérusted with | — — New Rep 
ap in the usual manner, I have since used saw for —ͤ— s mud, and com — 9 whi ch w tó — cei dd 
the purpose, and find that it answers perfectly eue lil on Big’ indie itr thë. beat of Copen Mw per reip — 
winter all the late Celery here was earthed up wi d, Be doubted —— — identical bullet of — naval th Ri à W. A 
samdust, and it kept quite sound till April, and durs attack. Es The skulls of Amiens and a m al he A from 
9r, — it und pne the heads being | Abbevi rns of Torqua: — and -— tta River Worth, at the place 
Not solid, el and eins d well flavoured. I had | those i m "Sicily, the fint * in rhe: pe — where t r € ah » is not, more than 
some doubts that Hie ust from resinous trees = in —— and the —À —_— with elephant rema 42 50 foet ai he the Severn, which itj emen at Bridg- 
Celery a Frid flavour, but on trial ere then ssively brought under rors H : 
[A this not to be the the sawdust is in Ne — polation’ of d — given r e x 33 of a basin little above bc 
taken indiscriminately from the sawpits, where differen being, that from the -— of petri rifying hills ie à the fet "n Megan oras cu 
kinds of trees are sawn up. ore the late em the subsidence o tra ts of country, the fallin — p a d of the beds of New Red Sand- 
I just finished the earthing up | in of the roofs of caverns, the undermining of cliffs an ramen ibo icem h 5 author of the paper likely, 
of all the 17 7 Celery lI: —— and I find it is now eed the vem soil is inerusted or buried late Y TAL r: Hi s previously sunk on the high 
not having penetrated far| beneath the strata on which it was originally super- ilu cune eremi oic Me Opror 
a eav the surface ‘to the hearts. This s practice of | imposed. . He saw no evidence deducible from t the for 
bs the difficulty Ld eer ie 2 from rotting in | accepted data of man's very recent introduction upon 
ied and the sawdust may be d oeme — ril ore positive iere that his 
a ef advantage to other gardeners ens E» myself, have appea: was characterised b y proofs of 
v. and damp soils to to manage. William Tillery, high intellectual G which our — beliefs 
i Sinh, origin, and that he was not prim c See the 
Ens ine Borders, — DOE Nu Blom pend — — eatare that rere de nd flint-knives 
the ANM to say w it is 8 to cover an ossiferous ca (eu 60 lamentably indicate. pics 
outside Vi i r dur tera spring | mighty dire append over the plains eat river EB 
months with any kind of waterp: 4 € ater-sheds the East clearly i his Ori ee 
2 ‘Pauling or roofing of any kind as the | eradle-land, when i juncti th the traditions of ues 
Pus against, the snow and cold rains of hs?|all nations in the remote times, he dwelt 5 xx 
Ye covered the border with e litter; but of in palaces, luxuriated in gardens, Heri dion — Gr ie little 
. be forced . 22 pde: E Me fedis d wi ich à — j ste ; 
: ore Februa: ing as the s from w h they were|^ AH Big : 
xai bs glad to know cori the x The arts € —.— Vii eee i ON s 
y on Grape culture. 05 ied the progress terrestrial stot bring: d ; : Ees fs 
[Sanders on the Vine, published by Lovell Reeve.] Le in their train the elegancies, luxuries, and perfected ee oe vias — ie expected to be inexhaust- 
“CW on Bee cor implements of defence or attack which the highest fble with P limits of which is due to the 
actos S> is informed that Mr. Eaglesham, of Ste- stages of civilisation imply. Races of the hu pl: oe at tin alt pen the collecting area, Mr. J. 
X who first introduced the S n Bee Boxes|have perished—are hing; and, as if it were a law F. Bateman i in Geological Section. 
felle D and who man of nature, where a race cannot rise r^ maintain itself 
m to the American crisis yond rtain stand: civilisation, instead 
enl after to his ve. I believe there com be tiie, ont Tends 3-3 more rig extirpation SovrH EASTERN CHRYSANTHEMUM: Nov. 8 and 9. 
hich pine sets at the apiary, Muswell Hill, respecting | from the face of the earth. . Certain it was, that islands | —The annual exhibition of this Society 1 the 
hich information ma may be obtained by addressing a jbesin the Pacific, which in Cook's time were St. James's School Rooms, Bermondsey, on y and 
and tr 
