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AUGUST 28, 1875.) 
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practised in the neighbourhood of Cahiéres, near 
Clermont, Herault, which were first published by the 
Lyons Society of Industrial Sciences, v given in the 
rom whence bove extract is taken, In 
scu that, in aud а plan- 
ау the „іо аҹ bait of preparation of the 1 эл н 
sels is raised at the same tim 
to itself for th 
n 
sort of кишу occasional thinnin 
the purpose of extracting the fibre the young 
shoots are Кен older ones, and are cut 
uary or e twigs are collected in small 
bundles and pla nd to dry, when dry 
these bundles are rone together and stored away 
for future use; The amp day is taken advantage 
alle 
x, and finally CORE with a layer 
e whic sufficient weight of 
w hole secure, and pro- 
continued for about eight days e eb are 
ut, washed twigs beaten on flat 
stones till the fibres are separated. T bre is 
blea by the action of the sun, and when finally 
co and silky in appearance. A gre 
deal of sien is laid on the manner of maceration, or 
rott e stems, as practised at Cahier Its 
effect i m said to be “поё at al the same as that pro- 
duce 
vate 1 nor does the process -— merely i a expos ure 
in. Broom is placed in such con- 
usual methods, are eliminated 
stated, the plant is ie "rg са der A as well 
as for fodder for goats and sheep. 
BRITISH eaten А 
R GRIEVE, 
Wintti the оби of the Pelargonium con- 
sa nues the name of Peter Grieve will be a household 
mongst sip ai ut s and those interested in gar- 
гале for to him we owe those beautiful coloured- 
leaved sorts, of which Mrs, Pollock is the type, and 
which have for some years attracted so much notice, 
either as oe or bedding plants. 
ve was born in December, ie t Allan- 
Messrs. Di ns Edin 
į r upwards of a year, and afte: 
for nearly a year in the gardens of D ie Castle, 
the seat of the Earl of Dalhousie, From that p 
e went as foreman “ T omas Bru 
here remai one year and left, on g 
promised admittance into the Royal Botanic ens 
at Edinburgh. was the various 
epartments of vm for nearly three 
i 
HE 
E 
£u 
ч 
ч 
qo Mum lvaston Castle, n rby, the 
of the Ear ngton 
re er there two aie he writes, “I 
сака the situation of gardener to J. С. D. Batler 
, Esq, afterwards Earl of ena, ram 
his English seat of Swithland Hall 
^ dr oe Te the 
year 1847 Т engage my presen em- 
ployer, the Rev. E. К, Benyon, of С Hall, 
mear а аса ы 
I have en Tar 
ыг бн of Ке rious é 
tis 
this vm in gm I ha 
which have not been rewarded with 
chmitt, of Lyons, in Trance, 
еч чае white variety of little merit, 
fS n's large, well- formed čoubie 
flowers they = чета s been surpassed 
subsequent va 
"Iw жы successful i in ger quem 
the now well. 
T iai an extensive family of ornamental folinged 
as the Golde egat 
en Trico olor, or 
was called was 
of these plants. "This offer —— to the 
show several a many raisers y 
time in the eni I was fortunate атс ч to gain 
the Vari nro, 
* Some few years жый c this several adm of 
these plants in London and lude Duce Е 
to offer money prizes for the best essays on their pro- 
duction and реА and regarding these plants, 
as I did, with some of paternal feeling, I of 
course felt in duty EL as it were, to enter the 
ЖЕП, V 
Pan 
lists. Some seven or more essays were sent in, and 
Kensington, and I was the fortu- 
nate winner of the first c 3 н 
Я happened, been placed іп 
to exhibit - d 
get — only eviden f my su 
‚25 а enne has j^ famished b by | 
the uem which 2 have to 59 exten ode 
and which I hav о of my ability,” 
EE ÉL add, most successfully, the 
ecollect: 
Culford Hall Gardens at the time of the 1L Horti- 
8.8 
NORTH AMERICAN MAPLES. 
WE take the following from the Monty -- 
of the American Department of Agricu 
Maples are very justly ce lake mne d 
of forest-trees, 
are 
e temperate parts of Asia, 
the European species have been introduced into culti- 
vation to some extent in this country, These are ida 
Norway Maple, Acer platanoides, and the Sycamo 
Maple, Acer Pseudo-platanus. A few other ет 
species are occasionally found in public and private 
gardens, but the Maples of our own country furnish 
a very interesting variety, to which the lovers of good | 
trees would do well to give more attention, The . 
North American Maples are divided, as to range, ove 
first, the Maples of the eastern portion of the conti: 
eastern species 
are a and the western " 
T РМа le, Acer saccharinum, 
which has its home principally in Canada, New York, 
and the New England a sparingly ‘following the 
Alleghany Mountain ns as far as Georgia, and west of 
the Allegh 
11 e wn in ал 
broad-based, round- topped head 
clean, and usually free from 
taken all in all, probably stands at de! head of Ameri- 
can ornamental trees, at least for the Northern States. 
It is of slow es care in p 
ing until it becomes well — after which 
it = richly repay all th owed upon it. 
sre 
2, The White or Silver-leaved Maple, Acer dasy- 
is tree is found generally at lower alti- 
ers 
on 
ri gly in the New England States, 
more frequently in the southern and western districts, 
It forms rather a low trunk, which divides into a great 
many long br. av ‚ Spreading 
habit. In favourable situations it attains a large size. 
The un is of a pale silvery- 
green ially when tossed by 
the breeze. It blooms profusel in the spri 
before the appearance of the leaves, an Vo nds 
loss by injuries to the tr 
ft Maple, Acer rubrum, — This has 
a somewhat wider range of 2 mti than, perhaps, 
any other species, being found from 
more co ct. twigs are of a 
red colour. It ers and its seeds in early 
spring ; they ly about large as those of 
the White Maple, and ripen at about the same time, 
d - 
the white, A on them, are silvery or whitish on 
the under s an ornamental it will 
probably be fool ed durable and satisfactory than 
the tret 
triped Maple or Moose-wood, A 
sylvanicum.— This is a small tree, seldom atiaining а a 
height of 20 feet, but is well pore sore for in 
ards and shrubberies. Its is in 
New €— in the Alleghanies to PM : 
bark is green, 
tudinal "black kish stripes. = leaves 
with a rounded or plene emen 
bes. e 
ой, like that of the Sugar Maple, is not ripe 
au 
to a and California, It has 
h, roundish, three-lobed or бча 
bling those of a Currant. It 
an abundance of fruit, which is 
about the size of “that of the Red Maple. It would 
b, and is à 
rud somewhat rese rese 
generally prod 
Е Miren 
[ме 
e | & 
make quite an ornamental shru 
| eri rd 
| 7. The Large-toothed Maple, Acer grandidentatum. 
—This species is found in the mountains of N 
ik 
thence extending northward to Oregon. Dupia d is a small 
