THE 
GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
{JuLy 10, 1895, 
if the householders in the neighbourhood have their 
ore for our n han 
ae 
ga 
merry ind,” the er. gaslight, and the 
sound of the showmen didit ы to the rustics, ** Walk 
up '—roll up! 
On the score of cooking I need not say ve 
ts are eatabl they 
as e as lie under 
a | cooks serve аюы р „> 
One thing is certain, and that is that they quite 
used at the tables of the rich; 
eda, 
and that recommendation ought to silence the peevish 
and the grumblers, for both ri 
i h 
M CULTURE IN CHINA. 
has been said of late on the cultivat 
— the Md. 
t the various 
on The prohibit 
ts growth is, in apr cases, a dead letter, the action 
of both the мара = local authorities being very 
and u ions are from time 
to time issued p* bidding its growth, while, on the 
other с existence of the — drug has been 
recognised a at N ne-third less 
than that levied upon the foreign arti article fixed n: = 
In spite of thi 
derived from ene: 1. itus, it still re mt ins an erre ыз 
hand e, and can be purchased only to the extent 
of one uS (1} 1b.) at a M Small quantities are 
ас concealed about the 
in or other pro- 
These occasi 
a oes Eee 
e large, 
live in the interior, far away from towns, or from the 
principal arteries of traffic. 
Many smokers begin sag the native н. but as 
become confirmed in the habit moking 
y 
the t that it 
- a bitter and di exclusive 
к by some {о be dunes to health, 
of the s boils, 
А said to be cured by 
the use of Indian Opium for a few great 
deal more reliance can be placed in the — of the 
Indian drug than in that of the Chinese, which is 
almost consta t 
A EE бд io ei wad and climate ; 
| е; 
but и! it can be ени for by want of skill on the 
producers, or by the practice of adulteration 
amongst the dealers, it is evident that improved cul- 
on and greater honesty must in time render it a 
serious = rival to оа. гент = 
жы ч tive с is smuggled 
from na to tes may be mentioned 
the fact that in 1873 үт triennial examinations for the 
А. course 
examination—consii 
With regard to asa — of Opium smoking the the 
nee e 
following notes 
i So may be of 
ed as invariabl 
ermining the constitution, destroying M Be. =ч 
and t the body for — ain 
extent, - led me to form the ла 
that О im smoking had, for the M рас ma not 
invaria 
special yopi e the subject, and gadhis nary ЕЕ 
tion ha chiefly attracted Lid эу | 
amples, а M case n has s with 
sive t th injured — by the 
practice. But и е my tour on the Upper Yangtsze 
M iM into the closest relations 
= ret perm sailors ors and others, almost ul 
or less, and I was much struck with 
hes mper d Their work was of the 
hardest and rudest, rising at four and working with 
hardly өзү" intermission Ш dark, having Rad to 
strip and and this 
he most dan =, s. The uantity of 
food they ate was simply prodigious, and am this and 
their work it seems fairly Б be inferred Ск their consti- 
tution was ro two most ted to the habit 
were the pilot and the ship's соо t 
y nerve of the former the safe 
of the junk and all on board frequently d 
while the second worked so hard from 3 .M. to 
IO P.M., and often longer, and seemed so independent 
of ‘sleep « or rest, that to catch him seated or idle was 
a 
ood humoured is latter 
had a conserve 2 opium and sugar, chewed 
during the day, as he was only able to ihe at night." 
= the Szechnen drug differs sufficiently the 
t for in о 
; nor, on the other hand, does he wish to 
express it as his opinion that Opium i no 
the 
the hout detriment to 
Ar capability, ur арале a solace and a 
еее eee AND 
ORAT a 
IN ља y ibas ша es ё 
World we read, ** About Ni 
which grows, like Pompions, from. 
bushel, of 
th 
jii 
M 
is as old as the 
по 
takes, is of quite ы and contemporary applica- 
tion. 
In speaking of Gourds, a little liberty must be 
allowed of including with them the Cucurbitacez in 
int 
one normal o to another. 
Cucumber may grow on the same pes precision of 
language no more exacted than precision of 
form and kind. On.a botanical chart the frontier 
line LR Cucumbers, Melons, and Gourds w: 
mewhat . If a Cucumber is sweet-fleshed 
we have Cucumis 
‘at < Mie ms = a ramified branches, 
r ee ea 
AN frais the si =a a май 3 ра 
і fecundity and whose sweet 
render it a great ks d during 
EM heats с Dx | desirous of 
us, produces a spherical fruit, varying from the size 
яг гч a Plum to that of an Orange, turning orange-yellow 
hen ripe, — варе ог streake rf 
ong smell of Melon, which is 
is,” says Sir Thomas Browne, ‘‘that 
the Israelites, having long been acquainted with the 
noble water of Nilus, should complain for water in 
and barren wil 
bers, and ps La varieties thereof, as testified b 
Prosper Alpi many ye 
The best of those varieties, the Quee 
Cucumis Chate, is thus 
“Tt gro | 
inundation of the Nile, and not in any other place in 
any other soil. It ripens with er 
Imost of the same substance, but 
easant lod yes find, and that from which they 
M least to apprehend. E. is the most excellent of 
this tribe of an 
E бут» of Con curbits is, perhaps, more 
icted in our islands than in ope country 
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gathered in too advanced a state 
tended purpose—boiling, and quite past the 
of cooking them — namely, frying, ктт: 
whole, halved by splitting down the middle, or in 
butter ; certainly, if. bu young enough, they make 
a delicate, if insi the 
palate, are still better and quite asy to grow 
besid g much handsomer—which part of the 
resent, Still, it 
subjecto however, is not in hand at 
m the Elect 
the Е 
ran abou icumbers, Pumpkins, iid the 
majority of its ету а forms а tuft, consisting of 
or in a 
lants in vogue 
emarkable са nor edible pro- 
Elect 
bottoms ; indeed one of its French names is Arti 
Turk's Cap, E. senem Gourd (also Giraumon 
of French seedsmen's es), does not run about 
several su may 
before the world comes to 
To our working people res in large to 
cooked Cucurbits may be said to pe unknown, wil 
Melons are completely out of their reach. The 
cultural labourer has his Pumpkin pie as an o 
gro mpkins quite as often for show and 
the е pleasure of gro m as for 
г п ontinent (the more 
the further south we go) n: s are A in every 
market, during the 
slices, for soup-mak 
Gourd 
very convenient wal 
variety, called Pain du Pus (Poor 
an's 5 Bread), little peas though ancient, has solid. 
