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1018 THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE.  [Dercemser 17, 185 
however, le erii e x He wning that 1 of r that 3 of real utility : ty in human life. If Mr. Forsyt th makes | as a favour, E. W. Andrews, Grenfell. St, : 
allowed uL gave two wd to cool before I used ow. iem | the British leaf beat the celestial he may be set down as | Oct. e 
made what I considered a weak decoction of the Due one of the benefactors of his species. P. Mackenzie, —I have taken the pow fopi. you 
the taste was tole- | Plean, — M! — of Scotch Leeks. They 
eer but it was not long i 11 the stomach until I bega Dioscorea B as.—I am — snecessful i in the go in Berwickshire, and are eee a in Bet 
to think of the Ilex Vomitoria in your leading fe of ibis em and the: way webakorubonkgos Sus E = A 2 le Preig nor Chas. ander. 
ct geet me : is ie cel ht strange thou, — — e ng Fia est Register Street, Edinburgh. [These Lecks 
will to the T récollee cted | TO ibl anched upwards of inches, and one of 
Tr ey ng er Boney 0 e ait rations being | Run the as down —— side the tubers; then having — 7 inches in circumference. The four 
wanted k of Common Prayer; and t eugtt ie removed any earth p t may still ibas to the side | wei n^ 7% Ibs. 
any alteration ever took place they might add with all | Mom lift them o e the | ground without will find Gooseberry Bus Rats, and Rabbits.— — My ma i 
sincerity and reverence one petition to the T ny, | trouble, and so con atin gr nd | Fr viday tel sticks or that iti is better to stop rat-holes with 
viz., From the Tea of the Jesuits, Good Lord deliver perly trenched for 2 ofaj chips chopped up into len 
us; but w headache and the strange feeling in er op. ay Bertin. 3 ha d rammed in 
my stomac! to wear off, I was convinced that, Windm ills for raising Water. icu des MIN yuen werd an to pour it into th He covers gy - 
the H dergo some other chemical mation from your readers respecting s small w windmills the mou ths of sti noe alter being stopped with sami 
ope 2 a | for raising water to a higher level to supply a pond ? | or earth as ore convenient than mo My 3 
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“ erabbe d? handwriting ha has 
he have been Ya -— in your Paper, but I have 
| failed — find the adve eti 
of those who have ded. ieri is 
t intere — point, in what i ated and | 
e use i 
nd 
l history o 
of the Tea w mode in w chi ch much wis vished for, merely the sdvertsement v 
be sufficient in nformati ion: I saw ral i 0 i e 
it is prepared for the market. The —— adiaka. jos "Old EU Notices of Books. a 
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The Natural History of the European Seas, By th 
late Edward Forbes. Edited = continued 
Robe 2mo, Van 
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through the me dium of y 
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of the där or Hut of the ‘dried md the plea asant | 
taste and delightful natural scent for which they are 
applies ation is ticae which will il aal deter aga rt Godwin-Austen, F.R.S. 
ing which s undergo in the process of dr ryi ng. The and hares from ring the stems of orchard tr Pp. 306. 
details of t cess have been made known to us at the same time be quite harmless to the trees e learn from the preface a Mite more than a thi 
through ur investigations of Mr. Fo rtune. oe imagine the uestion to be of great interest, 5 the part of this eee volum m the hand of 
replies may late Professor Forbes, who w: eto by death 
Fortune in his endeavours to introdu t d James Brown, Che | he had pr UP ai forties, The "- iy xp os E 
into the United States, but at the same time you state Monstrous Mushroom. —The Mushroom I cb Mr. Godwin-A It is but 
on a bed in the Mushroom house here. The | editor is in aa way eas of the ution and 
turn it io mu bon That their ages will be bed was made up in the usual manner, except that J | he has worked up his materials with a degree of 
found f the vast regions of which proves him to be a master of his subject, 
the | ti^ me can To em median dou A But merely ds spre ead a little of the Ma manure over the The object. of the volume is be how m 
growing Tea plants will not make commercial Tea. The i» Jovia to „soiling, it. Sheep ung makes . bed t the present day through 
difficulty lies in the preparation of it, an more produ he sheep | the seas that pr y de shores of p from t 
which às conducted in China demands am enormous | manure should d* gat thered in summer and kept ina Mediterranean to the Polar ocean ; dr s i. * 
intu d of labour.” I think the same statement may | dry shed for use. The bed from as to which 
applied to the Holly Tea; there are difficulties to | ing specimen was gathered has produced abundance of | have l in the [ras of ages, indi e E - 
overcome in the preparation of it, but before much is Mushrooms of good quality, a and all perfect in form, occurring at the present day. 
done » the way of preparing it we onght to kn now its | except that I now send, which came up P ike the others, Forbes was an advocate of “ centres of 4 
cal composition and nutritive value but had a k the in the centre which grew and his ruling objec 
searching a Ab. for the chemical pests of the and gradually expanded to a per rfe ct Mus hr oom mad of such centres, 
comm olly le with its | changes they have undergone 
it. can a ee ed by some of your readers, | stem pointing upwards, I should, deus like na rovince,” he wr 
and if it has never confessed its pro- following chapt i 
perties to any, some one well skilled in organic there is evidence of the spe 
chemistry may make it do so. We are informed the Creative Power; thatis to say, within 
that in manufactured Tea there are at least there have been called int 
three active chemical substan viz., volatile or protoplasts, of animals or plan 
oil, ros and tannin; these are considered become mixe th emigrants 
ihe ve ho qon * the leaf, vinces, even exceeding in the 
as it is usually employed. t is an i t- aborigin: Be call them, of yu bas 
ing fact that the Teat 5 oat arge proportion hich migrated. S 
of the nutritive ingredients of plants, to which of the * mi from the invading popu 
the name of gluten is ; this substance and the — of the ca which 
forms as much one-fourth of the weight of the produ directed the invasion, a man 
dry leaves; so that if we choose to d em in he prol 
mass they would prove as nutritio Beans bution of animated creatures has 
or Peas. We are told that the waste of the body to solve. a 
ie ce be oughly investigated, the 
that is, by d: use of Tea, and if the waste be . on of the individuals of the 
the necess is — to — ate that the manifestat: 
proportion, ^i in other words by the consumption of a energy has 9 i 
certain * of Tea the health and strength of the that in some 2 of it, and t 
body will be maintained in an equal a less the genesis of ne 
smaller supply of ordi food. Tea therefore saves intensely exerted than elsewhere. Hence, to 
food, stands to a certain extent in the place of fi a ce diagrammatically, we might ¢ 
while at the same time it soothes the body and enlivens space, hich the int 
the mind. In the m iki gi it serves nother mete towards the cen "a vw 
purpose: in the life persons a bon arriv nter towards the circumference 
when the » quee digests fois of as . if such —— often seen. T. Bethe ott the o fos Pa and botanical provinces gives rise 
arl of Ashburn rnham Place, Suseex. I and others have 
ordinary go s food to make up for the natural| history of t bly s of creation, which I 
waste of the bodily substan s ee TS E ndo ro probably that when in e "eos 
weight of the tons: nae begin t to 3 more ome to hie bah $ — oet 3 dee iih ie awe Of such centres he reckons six in Europe:— 
or less 8 5 - Thusa as forn Then| « The first and northernmost is the 
at us extending throughout t po! rtion 
à falling a avay so fast, -— diu reper a i Dio cen of the the — à Mu nA den $us of the soii | | seas ineluded within the Arctic — 
powers of digestion supply as much as is Pau qe E A he Boreal province, in 
— 1 5 of the solid tissues. No ^ the Norway, Icelai 
should be a favourite, on seeing in your co! nin v" June 25 à — —.— icle in | Zetlan The third is t 
poor, whose supplies of substan- which my agricultural and 'hortieultural e were which rank the British seas, the Baltie, 
e and on the other he | quoted and commented t you will excuse my | of the continent from Bohuslan to the 
and infirm especially ud inem entioning that. xm ue ten into a slight in | The Lusitanian province includes the A 
and w bodily ag arm and the Peninsula. The Mediterranean 
fail; mor is it isi Garden, the fact being that it is published in Adelaide, own explanation; the Black Sea is 
2 has barely the chief town of South t B also a | Lastly. — Caspian i is a region 
; what called me ero n E ning: din I 
on necessaries. of — "ou yet spend a a portion | V. toria, of which Melbourne i is the apil I only call ow eac ese provinces ipd 
of her small gains in purchasing her M of Tea. Les your atten tion to this as some doubt — possibly | it passes em qae which touch it th 
can live quite as well on the less common "ncn to in|from the volume itself, Upon such 
when she takes her Tea along with it; while s tralia has for years} must necessarily be much difference 4 
. * t the time, more heer rful, and chiefiy p Viri with Whea a our, the | there can be none as to the sci 
for her wo ause of the lge carryin h forms the principal occupation of | played in their examination. 
Now if Mr. F orsyth can e the mmtritive e. the various hes ee Aonar * vessels running between ; 
of the Chinese Tea from our common Holly leaf and | a nd Melbourn Victoria is now beginning | A Mamial of the English pups vis 1 
prepare it in such a nm as to M a the tastes of the i o grow Wheat ex tens for her own use. Gardening | of its Rise, State. 
people, he is a wor! iting 5000 years for; he | !5 more * ita — — stralia ves in bow Rowland. Mu Foolseap 8 
ha’ 3 and dur rray. 
may have many difficulties to contend with; he may ing the s ind is In this work the rise and. growth 
have political obstacles in his way ; ve moral ms 5 — 1j — Adelaide to Me — stitution is first — down to the 
untains to sur t he may have passion! ranges form the exception. Our plantations of rights, duties, and i mutual 
fences to cut down; tif he put a ot Le : 
ha 
y bea from Sy dn ey (Ne 
of Socrates th ath d pre = 4 — M and 3 — in — Land). m 
I hope you may sometimes find other arti icles of mine 
8 of your o 
VE seed the A 
y 
fiction - conjecture about ho s remote fi 
rom the form 
of man, and taught her bject of those gere pers lives to 
the rise and progress of the English 
rden, I shall take it | 
