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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
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of Mistletoe g etoe grew upon | ап Oak in the parish of Goitre, | 
in Monmouthshire. I have myself never seen it dn 
ів nowhere prominent ; i — indeed even mentioning 
| as as [pede forests, for. these ' * are only to be found in 
himself. He has made the Alps his study, 
set еб, himself the task a describing 
volume 
which were айкы pean it. 
йт I hare - ege 
was wantonly оуей 
as 
SEM under : all their various aspects, with their inhabi- 
To 
I plan 
C. A. cH 
Muscat алу @таре.—То Ње evidence у 
ейпсей in favour of this Grape, I жау. add tha de 
60 ; 
ШЇ this task he brings a keen appreciation of the 
Mii of Nature, with considerable powers of obser- 
ct; and if to 
pet Gi one in the autu mn of 18 cubi it dow 
I | vation, and an intense love of his subje 
Eng 
e 1 аф 
Vines. - For pot cultu ure Т considered it E quits iles a 
ne 
compare ed w 
| translato or, w who бад not sufficiently borne іп min 
— however 
I of. t 
nes indeed s so mu 
Ger rman paie not be literally translated, but freely 
ndered English. In consequence, many portions 
е bo ok. are nob only m but involved, occa- 
uch so 
Valais and the Grisons; and even there only in the 
territory of those communes which havo had a A 
mera e of wood, or whos e forests lie in 
ply sunk in inaccessible miera that re T 
2% 
Peck of transporting the wood when cut down would 
HN up the profit derivable from its actual market 
value 
however, are exceptional; in the ere: id 
of the word “every mountain village has ban- 
ffe if it is shut in by steep valley walls, and there- 
ie exposed to avalanches, falls of stones, or la get Miss. 
hese ban: forests are kept up from motives of pru 
t from 
хк: 
and to my s 
al Mu scadines did mc 
cing two lar 
or the. litte. S re. ent EY Splendid lonis | * 
while а t the same time the plant. looked pog sed 
t all 
t таза yii be best c 
us 
f the poetical but rather eiut гетӣ of 
onveyed to our readers by a 
few exam mples. Take, for Fes ne d his description of 
granite.” 
m neglect of the forests on небы; of 
superibuniior. efe ood. ‚ The office of the , ban- 
forest is to hin: 
aking M aud sliding dona of the vast heaps 
of snow that accumulate in the winter, and thus to 
prevent bx- puc x * ground avalanches," not, as 
supposed, to ho 
E — is a symbolic substance—it, 
strong. 
never fail to be a [TS ie ES. сд 
Alva.—I find the holstere tuffin ng mattresses 
with Ala n they ай i) ч ып whieh I ет а d. 
Will - Is it not x -— Zostera 
for stuffing ttagers’ cushions. If this is 16, 16 has be 
promoted in the social ра € 2 - [It is Zoste 
undoubtedly. rruption 
to bea 
of either Ulva or Аа; cen the Дайе, for Zostera 
isthe Alga of Ray. 
Sotíttíes. 
comes 
arble, is the Аас gm As am ongst beasts the 
is commo: ld up avalanches already 
tod. Til n 
1 ke a dam 
on Tanks a the representative of no p 
Oak 
m and weather т, So gra anite 
this nece сеп ago, and op ui 
particular [m ad har T * ban. 
declaring it unlawful to touch 
leps sch's descri ription of one of e скай. тау interest 
7 4 
in the 
dis. | 2i sist almost entirely of “needle” 
ou gh 
«АЦ ban- Pra con- 
necessarily in an abridged form. 
i , wood, especi oer! of 
hich 
tombs of their kings in those р 
т porcen of the desert, as the 
mightie ower—there the bold 
pn dir the дешн rock and thought that he E 
hei s aved a scrap from the 
verythi ng wroug ht by hum 
ought 
destruction that awaits | hi 
qm adi bus earlier | to, 
redominate i in the Eastern Alps, A rise in close masses 
ve the sea ; and of Firs P 
LOGICAL: Рес J. W. Douglas, Esq., to ШЕ ОА science co ted our earth's 
President, in the Chair. r. Adam White exhibited inquiries ed ite, and saw in it the gode of the 
specimens of a species of Mantispa, of which a consider- | whole miner gdom, and it the 
res mber had been discovered alive on cutting o “ Urgestein,” the primeval s eda Li Y it only 
X не of a honey-making species of wasp, | marks one punctuation in the пас of the world's 
Ше ra scutellaris, Dese received by the British рес эо an. unimportant second the cipher of 
ren d t was su d that the | ete ernity, a a thing of the past, which "will юте as it | self-willed and s 
tispæ (of whose habit ts in the preparatory states 
nothing had previously been КОЙШ had. parasitica, 
des e wasp brood. Mr. White also exhibited 
a new spari of the family M eris тоет 
us Anthax кше Fes from every 
th 
ries of m Sm myrna, and 
a ео " бекшш butterfies соода at Mysol near 
New G uinea, by Mr. A. R. Wall 
ау 
у 
«а аир $ н 
chap pter, which 
t 
«Тһе Fabric of the ANS. it * 382. ше, X the first t 
a 
account than the Pines agd Larc! ga of the 
M. Berlepsch investigates the e geology of "he different 
portions of the chain: indeed, th  prominence 
given to this subject, it mond xe z^ b the author's 
fite ed Even amid id дукен of granite 
limes however, Е" still an eye for the 
s are so god for i in a loving spirit, 
and found in most unpromising scenes; 
antry , the eue mtion and fixes 
A *a No "tells how the 
Schrattonfuh at Entlebuch | was once one of the „best 
and | the 
where a ШО exist, а УР ора of the 
tevens | peas 
lowlands. Very little of the *leaf-wood' 
the high forest-lands. Тһе P. od trees which are 
extended to some degree here and there are 
the mountain Sycamore (Acer pseudo-platanus) and 
the white-stem: шо]. Biroa аса Bes lis which grow up 
to 5000 fi ese limits, the forest 
warf form: ber.” 
of th the е9 and oves Текеш organisms of 
‘leaf’ and ‘liver?’ s, and of the on is mok 
teni дети i in the ese woods. Tar fields ot dis- 
who ruled over it in com One of them hav ving 
| become blind, they resolved t to "divide "bei eir possessions, 
see was Шише A ihe 
ontain 
llections of Messrs Fry an Wa tm SNL dn „Mr 
the 
T баруу, a 
ter on the capture of sev LR ipsa ч ооа е 
ie us in Ke D was announce d "n future 
manti and of the Society will commence at 
E х er This resolution is ана {о | 
pted in Glad uence of so many of the 
members residing in the o nedum of London. z 
TiS F Фс wg 
t лек кюч ке meo 
эше б} ENERS' FRIENDLY At 
of ti rene ү on Tue: БЕ evening last for ro 
ot the propriety of adopting а 
d vui wc diet at vious meeting 
2 the Society upon rad 
E. Gray t then E the um of the meetin 
peared а majority of 21 against the motion, y 
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“Translated by the 
This 
Alps d is а welcome addition ^n our млн of mhe 
bavo Yüited. rM w = перо read with interest by ren 
wi 
d ino 
th. one or other of these two ove ma 
Le. ое of us be ranked? 
aj. je 
ose who 
those noble Р ре ек e is a | 
t 
xid. 
be increased fr. 8. to 
his ор in а ЧОУ but statis an 
ual but в | 
d, and 
| adventures narrated; but 
t «xg k, as 
nd Nature in the|i 
covery of on tne 
backbone and watersheds of the ме chain. Peo 
x" scarcely a rient сеооа rof the iban fulness 
f the cushion, often swelli ing а a foot in height, ч which 
division, He however А XE nta atego of h 
brother, put the boundary stones wrong, AESA po 
him "A the Anon and bes ра of the | Alp. “Whon 
the blind man was told of this, he 
In "x lighter places and open forest glades the grey- 
green Bilberry bushes (Vaccinium Myrtillus), hos 
about it. The br rot M however 7 forswore ef 
e him and destro: 
stripped off all the t soil from the 
tain, and Met with such zeal ie envy, that the meni 
of his claws are still to be seen in the slope of the 
i es Whilst е» 
у (Cordus personata ?), the pter ng snake-like Earth- 
бй o | MUN соро ol 
(De T ran uen n os common Spurge 
um), bullet-headed - 
f Fern, t 
is broth ried off to hell 
— of peut ыа їз real 
d deep о qo e bottom of this lege nd. Тһе 
and of aem, which robbed ы mountains 
den so that the ground was left unpro- 
т А 
rs | of 
| ер to p^ ауе ге" the weather, - the devil's 
| fis h laid was 
e the mountain. 
The тайна viandes of the Alps, their landslips, 
avalanches, thunder and snow-storms аге vividly 
descri many fearful uec and striking 
for these 
they are mostly too lengthy for 
raction, are Ше more eful aspects of 
Natore dh the forests, сюй gerer sog the 
than by one who really understands, We e more 
раенах to the Sin of the glaciers, which shows 
o t a superficial knowledge of the subject. Indeed, 
aa M. зеза seems to have studied many 
Eva man works on the different phenomena of the Alps, 
ow much of what has been 
i to 
m 
ust refer our pie i 
though | > 
like Ае Bride a ith its s lene latos E 
many other "n а have up and 
dominate over 
e grey-gree gis Lichens (Usnea barbata) 
ад long rough tufts from the — boughs; 
DE dum of these lazy streamers m in the calm 
midia heat, M A ус? а -— breath zig wind stirs 
in the forest, it s aves strangely through 
he deep twilight, 1 
been 
b we сап 
but they are by no means exceptional instances; — 
oe or рал зы das in the book, but nearly 
fimsiest ar very name; and the slightest English ascents tions being chiefly confined | With equ ae vigour and pcc a the emp 
mre to bo ү ОЁ а few weeks tour in Switzerland is | to Prof. Forbes! work, and to such notices as he has idi efi are described. Chalet life is stripped of 
. Шеге itin - But the volume before us is not a | gleaned from newspapers. Asa f this, 16 máy | its romance, and depicted as i Pc Bt , mono- 
book of fed. * indeed it can in no sense be а 8 тобе that Dr. Tyndalls name does not once ben round of prese with and dirty 
one who M for though it aci quie written by | appear in the body of the work ! e goat-boy, th в wild-hay а Sen ; the timber 
UM rn ps, who must | | Of the ы subjects treated of, probably the “ Ban- feller and fonter, the chamois hunter, are all touched 
т vds К тоноо by | forests ? are the least. familiar to the.“ rovin, upon, and their precarious and peri d occu 
is is only left to be inferred. The author man y those few which claim to үзүлөт от” described ; Visi кучы амі peius o renders o 
