T PUE AS 
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| surprised and delighted wi ith Mr 
has borrowed freely fro 
. most of the best articles ‘which cm recente appeared 
. in several weekly j 
contributions on this interesting subject. 
JULY 24, 1875.] 
THE:' 
GARDENERS' 
CHRONICLE. 
105 
CARNIVOROUS PLANTS. 
THE illustration on the opposite page (fig. 20) repre- 
sents a group ofthe so-called carnivorous plants, whose 
Messrs, 
The 
5 leaves of these plants gives confirmation to the plan 
_ of growing Orchids advocated by Mr. 
Gaylard 
Hadwen, and carried out at the Fairfield Nurseries, 
_ near Manchester. 
Rotices of Pooks, . 
A Manual of Bee-keeping. By John Hunter, 
Heaney uie ш, British Bee-keepers’ Associa- 
tion. London: К. Hardwicke. 
Amongst the ааа of books which have been 
brought out from time to time upon this subject, we 
- have seen only one we should prefer to the present 
country—Zangsiroth on the „гу Bee ; but we as 
we p eae He 
wholly "e original work, he 
angstroth, as well as from 
does not boast of its bein - 
the thanks of British bee-keepers 
. Langstroth, after all, is too expensive 
for cottagers to purchase, and we have long wondere 
hy no one could be found sufficiently bold to take 
uP the subject of bee-keeping in an interesting and 
able manner, so as to be attractive to the working 
fem men of this country, and at the same time to be 
within reach of their purse ; but we can now recom- 
mend them to secure the Manual of Bee-keeping, 
which meets a want long felt. 
Some of the chapters in this work are anctor 
n which 
deservedly meri p^ 
for his book 
75. 
ter tesa “Ekes and Nadirs” is very 
short, and contain s nothing new, whi one on 
nci 
practical 
elf-imposed task, we trust he 
richl rves t 
o be, by a new edition soon 
ago. It was first 
iptay Dy the асаана of an I 
——— The current number эө the Лео Quarterly 
: Magazine contains some arti 
ct Lord Bute was a keen botanist 
horticulturist (Butea). Miss Cobbe's 
ais, d Half. ay Guide (100, Flee 
n M Mouse and the Country Mouse "—is smartly 
written 
Mr. Bak nogra 
æ, a pees ас numerous d of 
steer to oe ers. 
have before spoken in ore of the 
t Street), and 
can now only express our даров that so useful а 
book has reached its seventh editio 
Messrs. Groombridge have issued a little 
M ку Chapters Sound for Beginners, by 
C. A. Martineau, and w is an elementary treatise 
that La with profit be dutroducad into the lower 
grade schools. 
—— The Pomona Gardens as they are to-day is a 
brief a uen of the spirited efforts made by Mr. Reilly 
r for the amusement ep м = people of 
жы among which, may 
remember, was a flower show ir] gaslighti a ein ete 
last, duly noted i in our columns at the 
—— Under the erg 9 а Compendious 5 Statement of 
ewage 
2 @) the 
fficient 
neey = detention a te amie 
e sewer ans of a 
У yield all its кй saris when 
acing 
т; (3) the 
balore letting it pe 
salt, which can be е 
eis aed к ie removal of Bin! aye уме. 
o a manure a ton 
аве b bé made from het excreta of a population: 
—— The June number of ен contains ое 
of North American fungi, by the Rev. М. J. Berkeley ; 
and a note on Hungarian дя Y Pt Haz- 
slinsky. 
—— In conncction with the visit " the Archæologi- 
cal Institute to pine ury, Mr nt has published 
an interesting Caza/ogue of the а antiqaitics contained in 
that institution, Шатне with lithograp As may 
sd ex ection of үрде of all periods, 
pre p Saxon times ‚ is very interest- 
2i „ifn very extens aid Mr. Brent s description 
of ene is eminently erst worthy. 
—— Baron Ferdinand von Manier has completed, 
under ose ны s of great discouragement, the 
eighth volume of bi is Fragmenta Phyto гарда дм 
łraliæ, containing deere E. a lar 
new Australian plan g the tes тее the 
Normanbyana, C. 
эй с ces 
Indeed, Baron 
Mueller it hat we were indebted x the exceed: 
ingly pelto view ina лоч} forest that we wer 
enabled to cis some time 
volume of Transactions of the Сача 
Naturalist oin Club for 1871- 3 ‘is before us, co 
taining an ac of the several excursions, Lc 
Sense, oh and t сте of that now well-known body. 
Numerous iastatons of remarkable trees, fungi, 
r, Dicks has published a set of thirty-three 
x Henn from Sir D. Wilkiés Works, at the low 
Th e т 
ее 
aie | т. 
wort rth in the Shape god Work + of Alexand 
over seven hun 
- shilli a 
ight as well hav 
the publisher will be ard is enterprise in 
bri ringing sound Шиа to c door of the poor 
man's co atta age, 
second edition of Mr. Robinson's 4/gine 
лаза fr es lish Gardens ( erg а Ъееп ot 
issued is probably the best of М. docu 
NE and um present edition ^ been i 
proved in many culars. The excellent secti 4 
on the natural eras of rocks, with the accompany- 
ing illustrations, оре оп ће Ена за of M. 
Lebour, is, if w e not E: m tion to the 
present issue, in oy non it forms one of the most 
riginal an ble cha apters i in the book, The 
d valua 
Сар оп oe "еа БА 15 
; ontai restin 
details, gr pi di with pS meg to the M ey 
which Mr. Robinson was for tunate e d m A ME 
a wild state, where de orms a 
scale. The appen ontains a list pus species prid 
could not be vena: in "the коб зня tex 
Natural History. 
TRITON CRISTATUS, OR GREAT WATER-NEWT. 
rst 
eveloped his 
crests, and his quy" P gained 
an object of 
ho have no aversion to reptile 
life, and of much DN ёт з ѕ ре 
animal dotte white, and the side the tail of 
a kind of mss aed white tint of a beautiful 
lustre. The length is as much as 6 inches, and the 
d 
tion etween, so as to 
season, when the crests reac their full develop- 
ent, sometimes reaches suc to fall to and 
fro from inability to support its own weight, 
warty newt (T. cristatus) is easily kn 
other common English water-newts by its tuberculated 
, and from the T. Bibronii, the straight-lipped 
it much resembles, by the skin not 
arty newt, which 
being as strongly суйе V. Sd and Je upper lip over- 
anging the lower; the T. Bibronii (which I have 
never been fi idi enough to gre with) К 
given by Profess more фон апа 
more strongly tuberculated," and also aving 
“Һе upper lip реу me meeting the lower, 
and not overhan 
&c., are When the T. eta returns to activity after its 
giv winter rest it ound in great num in 
The тойы ды Croumbie Brown has published | ditches and especially delights to float near 
ga r on the Hydrology ‚ of m: e surface masses -weed or 
, whi 9 i plants often lying loosely e 
DAE wh hich wi ave occasion to POE a ording at once a shelter to the creature itself and 
greater эк ины Dr. Brown's remedies for | the ас, tadpoles, or other small animals on 
id condition of the country consist in the pro- | which it feeds. Ап old hamper, sunk in a shallow 
erection of dams to prevent the pe of a y y an excellent trap if specimens are 
portion of the rainfall to the sea ; the abandonment | needed for experiments, and they may be often found 
of the practice of burning grass, the conservation | under logs the neighbourhood of their 
of for € id the adoption of measures to of r also (when p le) 
регеа заде in France, during the ities seems to be acceptable, for on one 
with | a ee ad to prevent the formation of torrent d | occasion, when the stoppage of n e it neces- 
destruction of property occasioned ed to take up den n > a cottage during 
e cold season, a quantity ot n were found in the 
M. Axel Blytt has sent us two parts in little collection "Y water СЕ it infinitely more 
tinuation of his Flora of Norway—JVozges Flora. The comfortab! an the good w of the cottage at 
e work is in rwegian tongue, and there- the sight of her unwelcome visitors, 
fore chiefly useful to natives of that country. We The Triton десиз especially to delight in the 
believe, however, ре the work is а high-c qo small arranged in some parts of t 
of which indeed name of author, and of his | country for the use — the cattle, with water-tight 
father, Professor Biyi furnish 1 guarantees, walls om sides so a usually to have a few 
d water in them both апа | : 
fcis X2 has ge е en ne in Latin a е i y cleaned out, afford a 
Pure ye engin ad — growth of floating weeds and such-like matters on 
cognitorum аз s pum may genera 
de bed under six sections. А. clavis p © the by e gent slipping quan эне bag net wen s the 
detail bun spec les Per a Wie aee ing) newts may 
determine the Aue ке н full i index completes this pend n t disturbance ib their natural habit, 
brochure, which is of at сайат, the male ча perar dist ааг узор by his great 
Fina: Reform ssociation have lately 
issued their almanac ве us a v publication v 
full of statistical details of great value and im 
wholly independent of Pass cin considerations, which 
мемо ostentatiously brought 
—— 
dorsal crest pus swaying to and fro with the 1 
т of the water, 
he female newt is stated by Professor Bell c— 
de Bris bag pp. a to ss cape i 
folding a me aquatic 
