Decemsrr 24, 1859.] 
letely shut in with clay-capped hills. 
is comp J under- 
THE GARDENERS’ 
will, therefore, 
pu — Jay Chater, S. — 
—An in was 
quiry 
2. rj the Mistletoe was ever — * LA perd 
frost t has been equally severe, but —ͤ—ͤ— E very 
m o 
P 
CHRONICLE AND eee Ramee T 
[igh approbation, Tt 
m 
from 7 to 10 lbs. 
1039 
ore than 20 "lbs. of 
a The anthracite alluded to o by Dr. Gygax * found in 
range of hills near Nan in close 
QR 
g 4 ce 
proximity to rich veins of plumbago, which 4 largely 
and I h ave kept a good look out about 
gt ansactions* 
trace — such Abele ng the fact. In searching in Lam ey 
Park, PES — beloging to "the late much — 
Robert Windso und t 
Tr 
include in *. * 
worked in the same district, , and the quan ntity of the 
laf 
—— 9 his will very soon I 
pleted.” ere — ig — e. Meda al and prize, of 
effect 
„The common opi nion respect ing the of this 
the same other one 
T Clive, I fo 
stan 
the past year x on the distinguished geo- 
logist, Sir ‘Roderick —— ^ * meeting of the 
Association at t Aberdee September 
British 
likewi: 
ini in England). pomo ver, vm a attention — 5 drawn | 
one of the —— by the rt ear- 
of the bra 
: I . — like m 3 and covered with 
n oes and grey Lichens ; and the roots bulge 
The 
ese en- 
tering the ground like a buttress. 
g * "dyin . py sr — in fact by these 
circling — of Mistleto 
y life's blood eos of — In another treo of 
ind 2 the knot 
f the branch, the 
ng a 
llow space the size of the — — * the Mistletoe 
knot then died. Two wer are mooted in Loudon 
Arboretum under the head of Viscum: firstly, w — 
the Mistletoe can be propagated by inserting cuttings 
the live bark i in the manner of buds or grafts ; and 
——— 
| Coton an Account of the Island, : 
2 vols, 
this should in the space of a few 
indes 
the old B Bots 
- ud e n — 5 
upon Europeans is materially corrected Ma the 
3 whose experience teaches him that “with a firm 
adherence to temperance i in the dee. ment of stimulants 
moderation in the pleasures of the table, with 
— to exercise and bon resort to the bath, it 
may — confi m asserted that health in xe lon is as 
eservation 
— pable , and life as susceptible of enjoy- 
nent, as te “ay country within the tropics.” It is 
| however added that very serious fevers break out. 
ed a high — for the 
plants 
iety and importance of the egetable 
produets it naturally e To these =i now to be 
added aie K. lan py oa which, ten years 
es fro le tree in 
ited as 
nic Garden at Co 10 ES, are se hoodies to thrive 
s| readily, y occasion: iy appe ar at table, rivalling in 
cy of flavour — à have 
arded as peculiar the Straits,” 
The ne Tea pl nt ha 
e been 
1 fh anii tat 
short wn have reached a third edition was 
ht have be 
al ylon 
T whence King Solomon obtained his ivory, apes, | | 
1 of the —— Worms, at Rothschild, in em but 
any s 
the want of any skilful manipulators collect and 
prepare the leaves carpe it hopeless V attempt any 
arge tance can be 
secures 
peacocks, of which ie gone whence came gold and | 
| silver, ea port, the great emporium of Eastern com 
erce, mine once 8 countless treasures 
for Portuguese and Dutch adventurers, and now the 
fairest Asiatic possession of the Bri A ee ite 
“ben t c found an historiam worthy of its great reputa- | 
2 on a lar cale, ong assis! 
d from Ch condu 
And Hes ipo is understood to — n Vine 
has ued by art, although some of our 
Eu W anon fruit trees still refuse to be productive,. 
changi ng the ir natu in a goed remarkable enough 
f Mr. 
m. We might even 
of that colonial history, which oper ata wri riters 
shri 
win. 
tainous anne of the east side, we are PM that 
y the learned 
nk from undertaking, has been made } 
* Pen ach es, Cherries, and other Eur uropean í fruit trees, 
in 
| secondly, v freely ; but they 
de tree on which it t grows, after that The 6fficial position of Sir fice enn Tennent climate, and exhansted by perennial excitement, and 
vented from producing either leaves or pe The gave him no greater advantages than his predecessors | deprived of their winter repose, they refuse to ripen 
former experiment I have never tried, and it would ve enjoyed in collecting the materials here so ably worked | their fruit. The Apple tree in 
a great thing if som wou ld do so, but as to u , whether they neglected to| seems not only to have become evergreen, but 
query, tbe state of one of these —€— * is avail themselves, wd the opportunities remy eye have ao. its character in meh particular ; des 5 
E pretty conclusive, for it is a complete she nly | reach, rred by the culties nn-|is found to send out numerous runners underground, 
one arm, and the insatiable m: still clinging to — rares "Ml, left — behi 14 0 euin of| which con hee rise i tems and form a 
that remnant, sucking t the park of Y ife o of it, | importance enough to be cal - "vn rical. Sir Emerson | growth of shrublike plants around the parent tree. A 
Tennent’s work is Md more welcome, espe- | similar failure was discovered in some European Vines, 
m Mistletoe when it bas d drained Aen -— of sa Sap | ci ally since it embra ev io subject upon which | which were ja iv fn ffna; but Mr. d d 
o die from inanition. A kind friend has — * for . Geology, climate, | government ent, whose garden they 
Mh one e of then 3 which I will get . zoology in all its forms, the ancient | conceiving ‘that PE activity of the plants might pU 
isseet who ope sink and ile history of the island, and | equally ch sing them to an extr 
han „ yon the result if t e e ve In the ena ias fatin to 
rnm great forests, and the cities, | his 
Societies. 
—— 
are all elaborately described; while v. 
one of the 
3 carefally 
d tables of contents and indexes 
prepare 
E URGH AND THE NEILL MEDAL.— | with which we are acquainted, render every subject | tree, are now brought 
the opening meeting, on 9 — the | easily accessible by the reader, inferior n favour to those at home. 
session 1859-60, „the Neill medal and prize was pre-| As the Natural a of Ceylon is that which will] The natural vegetation, of w we have a most 
sented, th t ers, so it is the part which | interesting account, maintains its reputation 
for his “Memoir on the Spermogones and Pyenides of has probably least attracted vd notice of reviewers.|even under the serutiny of a European S eer 
y 9 fruticulose and eee Then à We therefore P r nai tn to — ph “a tion, Sir E a 1 
during the last session. addition to | portion of Sir jhen picture nothing more wondrous and; charming ; 
iris this prize, the Society is Es a * Ceylon, although not ving — and opal, has every level E is enamelled with verdure, forests of 
siderable sum of — ar equal or always been celebrated for its gems, the principal of | never-fading m cover = in and on; 4 md 
eight times the value of t "mr are publishing which - the ni and sa re Of these a fall 2 the wake tige gtow profusion over the 
the memoir in — pA E forthcoming part | account vi aie beer is their abundance, but in com- deli — K tle 8 in ie shelving 
_ of its “ Transactions,” engraving the relative | minu! that alm — i aay valley in rocks, huge festoons down the edge of 
ustrations, execut the author, dich consist communication with rocks of the higher ranges con pies hoy 
12 plates vat 55 by i: 400 and 500 draw wings. atem cos pk orn ee The source of hese mid the forests of Europe, in whiclt the excess 
The Nel pri ill, of precious stones appears to be a stratum underlying the | of so liar trees ux a character of monotony 
Canonmills, p y | prese of the rivers ; ts although wu —— to and — ness to the outline and colouring, the forests 
the natives they seldom work it, because it is from a Ceylon are singularly att; — — the endless 
ed 10 to 20 feet below the ariety of their am and ow vid contrast of their 
ya The iron is also little worked, although it — e em woii ins, | sant lly those - 
g three years | be among the finest that is known. pon x, a gen- the east a uth, abruptly igious and 
tleman y the Cingalese — to almost — Ls above the as plains ; the 
tish | examine the mineral 7 products y mig Ser, report woods below like threads of silver 
of that in addition rer magne etic there is another throug! green e embr oidery, till they are lost in a dim 
o | description whic brown her which conceals the fur horizon; and through this 
li 
ent of 
ho ae "upon to examine and decide. 
The 2 - one side a profile | r 
ite fonnder, a 3 n Ne Hi pcc ma: 
he Natural 
a hag? interest, 
Council to Dr. Lindsay, a 
f tremulous hight marks where th 
and compact, generally us Ex state of carbonate, 
ill blended wi a little chrome, and | 
and v eins, one of 
iles ; 
Som 80 to p^ msc 
e ore — a 
2 rye eoal ; g 
seo 5 we in ithe proportion 
and the cost 
furnaces are met with in all 
tural | of t| 
| ae Mist: 
“Remai ancient 
found | Paradise w. 
cem Dau 2 or pages 
Wail may. Serendib, 2 name given to 3 
Arabian stories, have been E P À E 
ese 
— peo like rays from all de of f the trunk : 
are Pn tion 6 to 12 inches thick, and advance from 
5 feet outward ; and as as —— — m cene 
they 
5 to 1 
Paat fr th 
Ho ct 
10 to 201 E : 
in natives, The Si in the ore pr om | 
from the D" of em crown, by 
amd protecte uprooted. Some of 
hich they would otherwise be 
inghalese obta ^n 
ve 1 trouble of E m ing a s 
the so been Joosened ! py Ux nd rains, they 
