TALE: 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[JULY ro, 1875. 
own costs of the suit; 
and carefully considered 
view the case was again 
Dickinson, О.С, n Mr. D. pum were "for а 
defendants. Daily New. 
bsc cee 
CULTIVATION OF CINCHONAS IN ed Vus Hio 
BOURBON. ee’ the Yes nch Government 
hith erto shown itself indifferent t to the aclimatisation 
salubrity, has experi enced pice is “visitations ions of 
+ 
a task which the State has neglected. Dr. Vinson, 
the culture of Cinchonas in 
one the first to try 
Bourbon, recently addre a report of the progress 
made, and the probabilities of succ to the French 
Acclimatisation Society. The first seeds were T 
from Dr. Hooker in 1869, sah rai 
tings of the first seedlings have attained height of 
I2 to 18 feet i h isaya and 
officinalis are under Dr. Vinson's plantation 
alazie 
bers 300 subjects, of which about one 
high. Leaves of th 
native insect ene appear, 
= т it at tali in ihe form which it — and 
were nd the 
large leaves of some of our trees лег ы riddled 
and destroyed by the enormous blue-green cater- 
pe of the Oleander sphinx, 
n view of the en achie 
m 
the E ve failed in Mauritius, because the 
li conditions and altitude of some parts of the 
former more favourable, at approac 
more closely to the requirements of the plant. In the 
— 
y da 
e little risk, and probably Mes st profi, attending 
their cultivation on a large sale on a commercial basis. 
was in a prosperous state, and 
supplied Mauritius with a imi oe of pro- 
vistons, but of late it has been declining, and some 
fresh and —] industry ferrum can save it from 
sinking low 
тоати ON ROADS IN IRELAND. — The 
Larne tracti 
a 
consider- 
ime H we feel sure 
that even ou in the neighbourhood of 
Larne must be gratified that ‘the case has at last been 
ways frequently 
ran roads; and thei engines ome 
practically be sail for poise ,equall 
with traction engines, supposing uisances ; 
but railways run under Acts of Parliament, pem could 
nuisances. 
had 
id not gie a alien "I 
ose to р 
сеа es held 
that tractio е sanction of Parlia- 
— and didn not think that in this particular instance 
a nuisance had been proved. In particular it was 
еннет that though the engine was regularly driven 
through none of its inhabitants had 
giving a judgment which would have 
prohibiting the use of traction engines altogether. 
hern Whig, Belfast. 
ANCIENT TREES. — Ia the 2T number жы 
e Gossip there appeared a no whic 
was planted 288 B.c., ааста the oldest tree in 
t 
the world. been blown down 
ago but for a thick wall built round the trunk, and all 
us шаш Т чө бени чак ill 
leaves that fall off are collected by the Buddhist 
тее every day, and are хе in a holy part of the 
y are offered to their deity on festival 
ho 
isited 
Maingay, in Тм, Science 
GARDENING UNDER DIFFICULTIES. Vc, a E 
palings. The peculi 
garden is that every handful of чой that lies upon it 
en carried on T egeo ide ack across the fou 
Lydd hat is, pe € s Weir a ер as could be 
applied to a man's predilection € a There 
are a go y who to ae a bit of 
garden at the back of their ione. "Bat how many of 
them would eir tastes at the exp of 
ringing the soil on their Aires on * back 
stays" over tie loo: One im- 
AUSTRALIAN COLONIES.—Speaking at = 
Lem 4 o0 
xem. din hát ү” the MICH of of P ortugal, twice as 
те as that of Denmark, three = ы large as that of 
med ; a revenue, нетем N ee ште: only 
taxa 
i as egree It w chiefly 
from the ublic ems тез roit the устте railways and 
= «аба. T Mu tion was only a Aes same 
a pel head as d, namely, bet 2; and 
of the -n actually raised by tax taxation, otha 
Mes spent on public education, including not on 
mary "ips condary schools, but the University а 
Масаки, and schools of mines, schools of design, 
and other literary and — institu- 
ions. He went to Queensland as t Governo 
e the colony а бы Р 1859, and Sir Е. ‘Nicholson р 
resident of the 
ste: kè fo found th 
in the public ch 
haps, t that he had brought with him sum of m 
to the colony, broke into the chest, and stole the pea 
the first night саа vt uring his eight years 
ini d, that sum of 74d. swelled 
e of £800,000, When 
ustrali 
СЕ in arable land 
ае: ; but still Weatern А 
example of Queensland, and he ho that, 
years hence, some vernor of Weste rn Australia 
would b ‘ood an account vot the pro- 
able to give of 
gress of that colony a as is Мише was 
the progress of Queensland. People must not be 
eterred by = е unpromising a "pte which y 
a first explore 
id that Quem. 
the flow of pastoral occupation had gone on almost 
like the mafic vs the tide. Atthe end of every year 
some 200 added to the domain of 
Mr tianity pond ч. апа іп the course of five 
had 
Mere over Nature: not for En ркы 
only, but Ped ог а hr do world ; not for this generation 
simply, but for all posterity. 
. with the Colorado beetle 
Aotices of Books, 
Seventh Annual Report of the Noxiou ang | 
Beneficial Insects of the State of Misit 
for the Year I By Charles V, Riley, State P 
Entomologist. 4 
This, like its sp ca lh - full of sound, accurate 
inform pex m the su which it tr eats, These 
to " eir сопу 
gie een es 
9, rs in the State of Misso 
alone; the flat-headed Apple tree borer, the canker 
orm Mountain locust : 
hyllo Th rmation giv 
so valuable that we shall be doing good service to o 
ders by icing from me certai 
n the perfect beetle state, 4 on 
some vessel plying be d the two continents, ; 
* While the beetle, especially the non-growing 
season, will live for months Shoot food, the larv 
$ 
& 
2. 
e livin plant ; 
there is a bare possi bility or. n insect's transmission i 
this way, there i is little probabilit y of it, since the plants _ 
1 exchange, ag the Me f 
on account >y its liability to rot, is not, | 
with 
posted in the warehous f seaport 
eeting rooms of ultural societies, and a possibl 
sect will rather enjoy the more temperate clime ; 
while it thrives best duri ring comparatively dry seaso! onsi 
о) 
to it." 
It is somewhat satisfactory to learn that, = "Mr. 
ее ресїаПу silid 
out as having given too gloomy a pictu nyth 
e have said has been derived from the testimony of 
an ent itness. Mr. adds, ** It 
should not be forgotten that end American apu 
much master of the Doryphora. 
Garden Operations. 
(FoR THE ENSUING FORTNIGHT.) 
[The subjoined directio 
eral informati 
ons are intended to 
ments of the season. peci 
anagement of “ The Villa Garden” will be found in 
[тут мю А columns.] 
PLANT HOUSES, 
PLANT STOVE.—Any fine varieties of Gloxinia that 
there happens to be a deficiency of should now be 
—— by leaf-cuttings. These root much bette 
w than exti in the season, when they are soft, 1 
