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950 THE GARDENERS’ CHRON ICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZI GAZETTE, LNovrumgs 96, tte 
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is often reduced to a weak state by so doing; inde ed, į The sides of s ema E a placo tere, m and Societies. . 
killed by over- eine dei is veda forest trees, which ; p aed down, before they g 
wnin a pot alf filled with potsherds, ehareoa i fy low. P 
chat | is preferable, common bri bats broken in pieces | to be 20 feet highs "but evergreen : shrubs, especially in duis. Dr dee der C Os nae President, & 
about the size of a hen’s egg, or even larger, according. ud r interfere with pe Joseph W e We pee a Fellow. 
to the size of the Over these place a layer of of evergreen Berberry, wou neve ns of x 
s pot 1 »gs which are yi athered in a new | 
brol railway, and in the case of cuttings g ocality, at Tilli 
ger eg cg er pok vin god 3 » do to sli im and larger ones such as the Yew tree and | Shalford, Surrey. The followin 
OR Mone vuoi raid | Arras ald hel pes. i aR to keep the ‘Ady in its 1. Description of a I pede Ma 
adit: nieces being very apt to git sour or sodden n the | Holly v p : of | insect cone p 
dn ge a ln water fre- place. But in these days when Englishmen talk ted by A. R. Wallace, Esq 
as ne daretur plant — in|the possibility of invasion there might possibly be | F. Smi * On the Zoolo iat 
pon atly the roots always die as soon as they oomo e b. Ek lanted; a railway the Mala pie elago,” b 
contact w ith t the m. Elevate the plant a above the rim another use in having them so p E N y pelago,” by A. R 
after which t 1 (such for instance, as th t between Dd ben ij dein db b Bane 27 50 
strong pegs, or what is n better, when you have bok | the "Crystal mex x pis th ai » por hag ia ding e no | mence by [) serving that tha Lo Se int 
pe ed plants or alee otherwise en of. thor | worn. M se, which is a beautiful plant when | pointed « out that the vestit isdande of ker 
e e fee after-cure isof|in flower, and Seg is almost al LAM the x ps ‘fing belong t t o the Indian, and fhe eastern i 
M dva unless the plant is made what it is to | only require to be sown broa cast, ab a Very i p gion, ta gy. His own r 
grow upon. By don means allow any portion "v^ the|expense. I wish that you would use your in — e 2 : x a ed him to believe that the same 
pseudo bull the peat, as the plant loves to| induce some of the railway dope to und e|would hold good in every branch of zoology ; 
creep on the surface of jr - hás 7 grow upon. something of the kind. 2n " deg nag Railway object of the paper was to PS out from 
There are three very distinct varieties of this plan nt in | Com mpa n weet "- money i p na vee 1 cl attent pracie e Tits o ; each regi 
cultivation, but all require risit treatment; th beauti eir embankments than v attention to certain inferences of 
the heat of the Indi £x or stovehouse, but will hd do have d if ty thein om plied, for converting a portance, in the study of the la Pn 
weli with much moisture gerer de d large part of the banks and jo in the neighbour- | tion. j 
wing season co and La | hood of London into handsome ee In many showing the 
Guayra, considerably above t d Peas "his m instances I should think that the occupiers of neigh- | zoological regions ab 
when in good health frequently makes two growths in * uring — irent — ee this be ^g ilway | these me : 
a year, and blooms are formed on both, often having as | companies would give them permis sion to do so at the islan y 
2 as five and six flowers on a spike. The finest | & Strickland, Hildenl irds all characteristic of the 
specimen I ever saw was in the collection of R. Han- Chrysanthemum Fence: At this season, when d in Malacca, Ja 
bury, Esq., it is lost to the country. The only | gardens must look dull, the mere supplies ^ | ess over to Lom 
other plant perhaps worthy of special remark is in the void — would otherwise be mu ave res u 
— of - Re ed, Esq, es of Durnham, w ich was | seen a ge of this flower in a kit arden, th e | occurred in Celebes o 
said last year to have produced = flowers measuring | effect nn which is versa. te ricis brian in | islands he had visited. taken in 
from 4 to 5 3 es across. Gleani colour, ens wer v from its variety. It is made very the fact that certain other genera have their 
Charred Earth v. Sawdust feo Blanching Celery.— — ipi —Plan nt a y nu nde er of (rinde — limit in Lombock, led him 
I would Duns: w * Mr. Tillery” the. e of charred | taking : eae parol vini of Lombock, only 1 
earth in t. eteren f the t for Behind — form ar re ire fence, which is easily rate wo of t 
blanchin, XH D "qo use sawdust in s 2 1 e with a few rough stakes suppor pen deed, he observed, the eas 
for king Celery is ppke to prepare the soil vim; to which the plants are trained out about Sep- as t iv 
or a splendid crop of Fungi to the exclusion of every- — ost espalier — but the br: pem 80 t in as| contrasted than 
thing else. Charred earth ook, an only answer the ver the whole surface. The result is, as I have said, | divisions, So e separa 
ur M as well as sawdust, but it vn singularly effective, "v. B: Atlantic, do not differ so widely as Asia and lus 
allow the water to 8 more freely to Nuts. Permit me to ask a question or two relative | —Asia with its abundance and variety of large mi 
roots of “the ‘pants, and would likewise be of infinite to the —.— of the avem. Cob, What w. 3 per and no kein and Australia with scarcely 
service soil o: eim retentive nature. Thomas acre has ever been p uced, and what m g i 
Gell, Bh Analg Veni | has an acre yielded ? P have my yl just planted, — Australia with its  dullcoloured 
Gooseb Buds fang Sparto s.—I wou pia i recom- | acres, and shall be very much obliged to any of your Asia the poorest tropical. region 
mend your correspondent to use scarlet worsted twined | correspondents if they wi ve am any information and Aus sae the o mus 
d | Gooseberry bushes. I always ind it — respecting them. I nes planted my trees half a pole Eger eristies being alm aired at 
ball of. " Migne — € em , — Pro A lapért, consequently it takes 640 plants to the acre; limits of their 8 reins it 1 1 
3 d 0 ie a ew yards Pbi ronde roduces Is., there is at once 32/. | passage an amount of di Xp 
each bush at ME. of, say a- foot s per acre, and if, Mas am confident they will do, they whioh w — or even mon 5 55 rof tr «vd snd could 
J. Edlington; & | produce 10s. per tree, see what amount of money may in of the g i 
St. Alban. Fasten o end of a piece of small be obtained 1 TM 1 acre, 3007. and upwards. I beg also | stated, i in the — or r physicals 
twine, from 5 to 6 yards long, to one of the out ter 1 the toe of one tree, 84 lbs. 
branches; then e the e through to ld for 4 guineas 8 ve ll be very happy to enter int ] characters 
side, and so from branch to branch, forming nd ho may be | 5 peces diflerences, There is, 
B net- athe through the tree. os have found | able to supply any: ii information than I am already in th he Arch 0 
ery few intersections sufficient alarm the | acquainted with. Richard Web great ‘volcanic chain runs trough Wo both parts; 
depredators and pnei a a repetition, of 2 their visits. Cottag er? Ki Kale—1 am (e to be able to b t of New Guinea, and 141 
Sume | WAY . you eas just app this Kale. Here, | and New Guinea respectively, the Asiatic 
above the ground 5 us protected. V. 02 d Oct., when ex 55 f frost, all the | zoological regions find their hi hest develop: 
In autumn about this time I prune the trees, N rie NM i and salading, Wallace then adverted t t cases of 
gather the branches of each plant together, and tie| was much injured ; a leaf of the Co ottagers s Kale resemblance in species i 
a at top and middle with a piece of rope yarn. I received inju » ii is LT with the view to bs that 
hen Stick a few Laurel branches round each plant, and | appearance —— as hardy ritish Oak. oni for | the proper sense the wor 
tie them at top, so that the trees are completely | me I have 5 of it this seaso As amount of resomblanose only showing 
enveloped in Laurel leaves. In spring as soon as the the Black oni urgh is the — — fiend i in the the abs olute and original distinctness 
m se sufficiently forward to be no longer food for Grape f: — s0 - the Cottag ein divisions. uli h 
3 a the Laurels; a few days later remove | Cabbage. J. B. — "Buck ucks. those of adjacent 
Ed 1135 al 5 m uw es d leaves are fairly Gr c — ssh f Grapes wa: and | to Celebes. 
Nees mara posit ions. I pre CUM iu ard against | 42 inch n —— 18th en September, SH m measar ured | paving nax b. Ue ig , in common. Y 
birds to destroying them. 4. Moffat, Easton Lod g e — hes f 4 Sager — "à inc ong; the Anoa depressicornis have no = E jiet to tho ^ 
uds sU judi gh tetur pigra ey shoulders of the bunch which are ver large had pre- Asiatic mammals, but seem ipo dr : 
ein. b hak E e of strips of cloth | viously been tied up but were let down before the | Africa. ‘A congeneric perhaps e g 
PEER 15 10 w eep off birds; always — was measured; and when measured the b | ani occ the little 
e mj T 5 uds. H. A, . nearly round and — rries hung as close toge- forms the extreme eastern limi 
MU ds p deca ; a ould prune his thee as they could well d e: bunch was measured mammalia. This occurrence © 
QURE bat Mio did aire the pui uisi ih. pcd ee 2 Fitzroy, i the presence of Aree e ge ss s v 
33 qst ae mE. ric ph sem ever as nsiti 
Bina dap moming; : dono this will render dinary. The vari — subida. Tokay. The| which among their numerous monkeys and 
i EAS and also destroy the | stem of the aed is about 8 feet long, m it produced | nothing at all resembli 
: — — Park, hear Guildford ize. T. Bur- and Batchian have t 
A | , th à 
Laima > Surrey. [But | long nasal bone, the dog 
Peas I always r tro or e iig or you é predacious habit 
NC . " eh - high and th He aia ern € gm — — E the p baboon Pa 45 
emselves above ground; the For reign a | than in tropic 
is e » Cabbages, Ce. oe I only use . — Sr. OMER p rrespondence ; n fhe iin 
Md T handy ever koow io M die ut ed € incident has Viana in — . this year Shadi may | rid his first residence 1n of 
at the draper's s, sin balls No, 1 procure | interest some of your readers, My Vin nes began to | to exhibit any of the western e 
ilb. H.W * 7 * best st geving at his the move in March, and I then began fire-hea po i A entical with species identical 
A thi 3 wash syringed on A paisa dent’s t my n ^ the White Tokay, which with th Bey eme. Chin andthe Pine Ier 
trees wili effectually prevent y fto apri VS Le t luxuriantly, but qun. ie. little "fruit. hitherto 1 ow: 21 
et time, and Ae erate When the p wood ha ad grown t 6 inches in į allied to a fro Cape. 
_ purpose, freein g at me time th and immediatly from distribution the si - be 
a She; 1, We trees from ast eye e» h ri said, ar 
Sprat MAT Park. dix the n p 2 ime S ab fies 3 pom re (ed 
ediat 
mediately; get some fresh Recs 1 bunch to each shoot ‘a thinned eae a hey i separated by 
oe s powdered tse Wi Glee T Y a oon te perfect maturity and but little inferior fey to | that it has come 
0 s rees. If|size to the first crop. I put no animal manure to the | distribution tat e 
es— du Fac 
enlarge M holes of a large t its sit | well de I 1 Egone f stable dung | tinuous areas." 
answer the purpose equally er Ola J, an w heavily common soda on the explained by a bo 
asper, Bou border 
ilway Embankments.—l have often thought 1 in in | geile, Apu or May, whi ve m t Me - te, 
m to absor ea 
Pec ^s xt by s puma at if s Celebes is 
ion feeding would neutralise its|now surrounding ! 
effects with 1 soda they would cause their Vines i 2 before they cam 
H. St. B. the time when a great eon 
travelling by railway what 
be to the country i ihe an improv rovement it qe sufferers from 
rad et pus enttings, and still m 
