t 
Norxunxn 26, tal 
Chag 
— extension eastwar to 
what is now the "I 1 
las 
u remains e 
group 
fragment c of the now subm erged land o or ara som 
acent islands, indicating its peculiar origin ek its | 
lation, and by — — a mark 
The great 
bsequent to t 
t southern — and t e soft 
— = 
th ava, and 
has been the last great Fia das. — these r 
have e ondergone That this 
really taken place the 
the 
1 
of its 
e 
As temporary President e — dinde gd Associa- 
THE CARD ERED CHRONICLE AND _AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 951 
| very re verse of thisis, s, howeve „the e case. Such 1 phenomena } v widt th, and when finished and “furnished with the 
;|are the logieal re sults of walk — laws of nature. description of plants just indicated, it cannot fail to be 
The regular and unceasing extinction of species and | highly attractive. In —— of coniferous plants 
their replacement by allied forms is now no hypothesis | rumung 3 allel with t the house just named are some 
but am established fact, and it necessa — produces such * - er - of Araucaria imbricat ta, measuring from 
peenliar faunz and florœ in all but recently found or |5 3 in height, very healthy and beauti- 
newly disrupted islands. These and — views were | fully — in growth. Of the ome 
argue din much detail, and supported by a, goodly array | little Ti 2 aurea there 5 aie also some 8 
of f | examples, gether with pretty plants of Cu 
upre 
| Lawsoniana and Thujopsis bored Of W. ellingtonias 
we likewise noticed m many thriving specimens in pots 
3ebietas. 
The Archeology of Ber hd — the Earl of Car- 
narvon. (Murra 
Tn cool bore was a beautiful assortment of 
Eid s, some of 
and of be Henths Messrs. Lee } 
= Among them the cheerful- ves pere 
was literally one mass of round 
Newbury, Lord Carnarvon found him 
—— 
ilis 
self called upon to — that body, and the pr esent purple Soa not larger than common gun shot, 
ite pamphlet 1s a report — ker speech. as it was deli- -— in ornamental point of view  hiemalis 
red. We do not t pr resum was rely less — iens two kinds, common 
+} 
— Not more 
than 90, probably a smaller number, | 
2 of about 100 land birds of Celebes at present 
way wort must tted to , are not 
5 bot we may a at least re 8 cans no one inte- half s so iie pte D they par e e 
1 the year. p pom 
or 15 mammalia. 
Borse however, at least three-quarters, probably 
so Java, Sumatra, or the peninsula 
a looking at the direction of the 
gixths, inhabit 
om Malace ca. 
má remembering me they lie in the dist 
eady S.E and N. xi wind blowing a 
nately f about six months enc 
running nearly north and 
Of the mammalia and birds of 
trict of the 
five- 
south 
rested in the History of Berkshire, or for e deco A small gr 
as instruction. Adverting to Stonehenge the — — 8, i » for t f cool houses 
author spoke thus :— in winter nay 75 mentioned tree ponen examples 
* Who were the builders? bae they wanderers | of which we sàw just coming into bloom. Among these 
from the Phonician coasts, or pagai n Anglo- Saxo ons, or there is now great of colour; Men are "-— 
lter- 
y of Britain, or a 
skilful race? Were they architects of a ti 
that — or that followed upon, * nd. Of e New gerent 1 Godin A = 
1 + 
Pre 
Sirna e are questions as yet unanswered, which a full — wi Kh — ound at p. —€— arked 
island « to receive stray passengers — sean, whether 
pon P 
wafted tne — air. 
TEG 
iu loss f] f the 
The 
large 
swerable. None but those who, un- multitudes f young p s in small po — like 
—— by y . prai se, h e ^ 
study to.a dark. à perpl ex 
subject can pronounce an nie and meanwhile 
» bewildered and doubtful, peii wur in ra 
Met aia 
which m neh rescue many of the w: — d 
of fresh ^em after repose. — Jav 
th of sı 
Borneo the wid 
render accidental — icai catio on N the 
if IE 41 1 1 
facilities for intercommunication are gre ate est, the 
peci 
number of s 
and 
which 4 — "idi p of that deseription are found 
ceed. Be t t as it may, however, it will .cer- 
sea is much g 
, the 
islands are gem and ids onc of - the 
Java Sea 
did 
inter- 
— the Spec etres and ng phantoms | tai nly 
* But it may be — d no e acas — i| Of Horns Messrs. yu possess some rare kinds both 
fa avour of Arthur, , the legendary hero of Britain ? Did | ae at pene 3 = in a . imb d in an inter- 
Zealand 
two 
f British chiefs at — elect him | small group of New 
the Basile leus of Britain? Was it not at Winchest ber | Mos 
ies common to the two islands is 
or 
sses. 
that he built his castle, t. ee he instituted » my nd; In another house was a bateh of the — 
s knights? e | Drace 400 o; 
least, | 
the 
i i different from that of the western 
consisting mostly of genera, or even of entire 
families, altogether foreign 
— r 
| 82 identity is indicated, the present diff 
arisen from their iso HN os considerab! 
partial extinction 
xem 
mie N — 
tion of this view, These countries are, in fact, still 
we 
l most part proba Jl the 
Saxon period, but which two centuries afterwards our Kinds saat to be met with at our great exhibitions, 
ev 
turous W or e for his existence? Or must | nicely set with bloom "buds, and among them were some 
2 Glas u 
tonbur 
King — never lived nor ruled, that his. his Sound On We observed many prett y plants, well 
Table was but an allegory,—that the Seat Perilous, forsished with. fruit, both in a ripe "va unripe es 
which none might take, was a mystic representation of Of Eu ugen ia Ugni were numbers of plants in um pots 
m agio i y^ om which all but the wise hierarchy | t j 
xcluded that — oo. was but a myth, — young wood, but no e mel € had befallen them. 
— hee Was ‘veiled a si e and monstrous revo- | Faini is the less remarkable, as e mmon Laurels in 
lution of religious faith, dm dein Christianity for have suffered pee 
awhile ished, m ies eee. 
— 
nu n excellent — 
strug- | Pinas, E ELE there is her 
tas, Begonias moa 
Among 
assortment, 
© Celsius, and all 
Saxon ancestors attributed to the work of the — to which Messrs Lee largely contribute, while on 
an nd we know of their origin or history nothing bu — roof * Clerodendron egen , on the . 
re 
: that so completes that | an 5 cleat hia of | 
. only 300 feet would nearly double ‘the extent of cet" x 
Asi Over the whole 
of the Java 
— — 
the Gulf of tite d and the | 
— 
egend may arbre ie some — the entrance Ficus ta pens, 
nious conjee! eeture suggest. We see and we wonder; we latter fix —— to stones like Ivy, pad on 
— that the men Who constructed them have passed | € clothing them with small green leaves, ag ainst which 
"de their lives of action and advent d, |t 
bered, asour own . wooden s v: — MÀ ouses 3 numbers of 
e generation: and we Vari Geraniw only of Golden Chain, 
in les t . edbunirige p 
ate g the e ‘disjointed Tub f 
ical region, and a op ses | 
an w — 
lain 
e fut ariegated 1 o 
sum 5 all | dat we “ean know or or feel i in the mournful | — of the Day, — Mountain of er and 
; but also of kinds of more recent da Fi as 
The 
ago, 
the ‘ook for ever, seeing that — now is i 
* madd 
wth, and to near t f the M 
a he Straits of 
are no further from 
they do not geek xa 
9n the north, to the Straits of Lombock in — 
of 
Y | Beck, which are offered at from 158. to 31s. 6d. each. | Jung 
| The last sum is placed u — 4 3 Lord Ji a E wr of pp were quantities of Geraniums e ne 3 
tent scar well as — the late 
ore 
poe o a ed Cinerarias dm = 
s. range rom B eiit : 
5 . are d cultivated in this nursery, 
Surely this is true eloquence. — within the last three years two new . 
have been put up Er thei 3 
houses u i They 
hares Turners (Stigh) are efficiently warmed and ventilated, and other- 
Sasa alcatel 8 : 
; wise well adapted for the employment to which 
[omm Gr i: ud 2 ee "pem o | they 1 devoted. They contain hundreds of 
Cinerarias, Azaleas, jc. A carefully Meroen jist ot Vines in pots, strong, healthy, and in pen. oon- 
all the best varieties of florists’ flowers, filling 20 Svo dition for — a next s ae id d en eon A: 
pages. Mr. Turner possesses all the finest novelties of jus 3 d with vx nq n si idi s ire rnace, e 
such growers of Pelargoniums as Hoyle, Foster, and | covered with Sass, so Lat m. ifting and repotting the 
Bee as the bri ack and bre certa of their en: 
*$- goniums. A gare of - is is giron 2 the 
Garden Memoranda. collection, and on 
MESSRS. Lxr's NURSERY, HAMMERSMITH.—Since we bestowed. | Finer 
| Bays, 
| trees, all * — have of Inte — — = wes 
have ive bom —— By the 3 open ground. Of Figs in po 
- the en 
ing th eason they 
— prasa and, to be a kind of winter a most interesting feature. Both this year as 
other plants fine specimens of ented aa and E ; — — 
a Z us, Box, Hollies, an 
Miscellaneous. 
n demand for e decoration terraces and for for- Mr. Peter Wallace, eee. y the Government gar- 
dene: 
on, has 
Of these kinds of plants Messrs. Lee have an excellent] the very important dee the Gardens of the Viceroy 
ejs 
This house is Se ee at Cairo. In addition to his knowledge 
UM. 
