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to what we should call a ladies’ = thus giving two i 
ing vegetation, he seems disposed to adopt the theo A stay there is ig? m so dangerous. 'The natives 
extra теше iile, а day, : ar at usual university | which refers the origin and dispersion at ge of the country who have independent residences 
wor we shou ay Ы a gentleman | diseases to the minute spores of the lower microscopic | 0% here in ранам to т other places in their c 
well on to 70 years of age, if not beyond it, organisms which, flying through the air, find a nidus trict. In spite of that St. Nicholas remains, as 
The lectures so delivered have since been published, | in the animal frame—a hypothesis which for some shout’ mare pem which эре at leas 
and, on perusing them, we are not sur iie ised at und en- | years past has been greatly in vogue among scientific ry pe 
thusiasm with which they were received, for more | medical men in our own country, but which d twill only add hen, that in tin сан of aN UE 
рень rri teres. € agreeable prelection it would ing to our views, is onl А of th say Ein Caucasian monniains a similaniy. she. quM MEME 
hot be easy to conceive ; and, ple Газ еу 0006 | mai Ee ^ > on ose ipie exactly where a thickly-wooded plateau is divided into a 
peruse, we can gen АЁ ‘ily i i Г at in delivery ii чи eine present rere du ra To гы here id E ey xe чь e; T 
they must have been still more delightful, for we all rofessor Bastian, in an admirable address latel er diers T have seen with m) Wh eyes a detach- 
know hon much it adds to the interest of a subject delivered t to the Pathological Society of London (an me ment o men, that had come from the nort 
when the speaker is giving the result of his own ob- hich haát-sinee bee n published in the Month? Micro- in a fortnight before they had marched against the enemy 
servations when he tells the ма A t he pine атта Гуе al), h e over the who of t ? its strength through мекеш, Зони 
s seen, or incidents in whith на, ибо f is of vrbes ос subJect, | derous is even a short stay in these notorious w 
part aking of окси в porem Koch i 15 | say ho ak convincin cm er ed ill take, B Ces ee Mss ern ae 
probably better qualified so to interest his audience | what doses of proo oof, inference, and argument "d снн, — у Ше ime adum eie er rice 
than any other man we could name, ere are men | swallow without ен г operatin ay at iners бте canes aoe sa s e e od ains ix in 
dnd have Ping the advantages of farther travel in our own conviction e erating, w Bastian has as prov ved books, that the pede Au marshy or swampy p i 
EI 5 ers distant regions of botanical | his case, shown t the riz and other | Out of which the waters cannot fl T he unhealthy 
м 9 аг as regards horticulture no man | minute organisms, on the pr ich in sputa, | nd ills of places are, on the contrary, hi 4 
ving has had such opportunities for personal obser- | sores and excreta of patients the spore theory of con- and even hilly, lying at some distance from the coast, 
ns м em 4 ё In аа to his early travels | tagion is based, are in reality produced by hetero dt open ped with о ар valleys through 
1 e ast, in e aucasus ersia Kurdistan the М en z up ro ling masses of earth, i n which the 
Crimea, Be e as for the last twenty years а and u MM pte ааа у Sag ат Б ae DG is Ge Py cock ie G cons aie 
war may say, o vend present at almost ЗЕ prevailing h ng hypothe Баат [o whethe rit бы tius et Let dl. prr ere Атта ча pet Bene 
all the horticultural лара throughout Europe, and | no e facts whi h h © ds B iss: тли scat uin via БИ МОУ 
has had occasion, in the execution = gen duty again T a. їс em tions or reminds us of in epe and the accumulation of earth and débris thrown 
and again to visit all the. grea e. oci of horticul- " а! Е v nis Айну VO ould e"; ааа ga regular ош. i 
of ancient and m ings rked “Тһе Васіегізе ог Schizomycetes pay a very impor the stagn 4 ant waters in those valleys.” 
contrast with the treatment of our г horticultural: i - е man's economy. They are the певен and 
botanical chiefs (at least by our m ntroducers of contagious matter in "all our membrane The third section into which he gute his lectures 
Government), the Prussian Са: e: Зон аа as этр ui urere Rond fever, d ihre жө сое sea ene д hg те 
. Since recognised the importance of encouraging the finally гаң their share in produ ae iuter 1 ills c p a s zu M imis fic would to ali bu for азоо, ыт 
acquisition of information by their public teachers, termittent r, di htheria, X Е Whether, ‘ in the the in C seen baee er Bese Fe talem 
| to as to keep them always at the level of i hot aed ауа ааг та; illness, Ha eri Mister in тез һе T каны с interesting to the 
. of the general tide of knowledge ; and in the case of | in "rr latter stage, science has not yet determined. The аннат ре у diera peii conclude ye die dd rdialls recom 7 
horticulture has done so by if not actually insisting | last appears most likely. But the Bacteriæ always con- | mendin the uy Ld n 7 
f their ны, at the principal exhibitions an pes to = intensifying of ау a ending the work to our read 
| réunions at least si i ing their attendanc : w they themselves are nye ties with — z 
there by providing for their pide by suitable | miasma we do not know. B pue apr cto» gregem obe 
- money grants. his i em part of Professor tagion, we understand the produ «xe agent of certain lem— Oversigt et Mus аа 
. Koch's work, and in consequence he has seen the сопа times un 1d man. а е bes pP Mais 2 a sf Colonia (Viitor ‹ оа ihe Hansen 
: whole of what many men have seen parts Ot. When, pid mic appears. "To our a the ken an т iae "ps dcr 
_ therefore, he speaks on any point of his larger subject, UE of these miasmas, spite e Gf alt mans | 00 POI RED е еси landsche ppm 
- his audience had not only the guarantee of his per- | scientific researches, is still involved 1 in obscurity, but we ter Bevordering van Nijverheid, or Dutch Society for 
1 sonal bn = for his accuracy, and the advantage ‘ave an almost intimate conviction that it has one and © Advance ment wm esta blished a prar 
of individualised locality, of which we have above | the same source as contagion, and likewise st in | of colonial products a at Haarlem, and already in 1872 
em , but ner and natur: some connection with the Bacterize. The sepu must descriptive en 9 wood collections 
eloquence added to his other acquire E be settled by the exact study of наре diseas ppeared, edited by the curator, M. F. W. Va 
E. He paa mimea into three heads. The first FE die ссе giros wo aeos | increasingly - Ue ers à of t followed bya general b ire 
B ue füsory of card А : is going in nitrogenous | of the contents of the museum, as a guide for 
| 7 gardens, under which he includes | Substances. Woods and plants of "i kinds, animals | visitors. It is only a small pamphlet, bet it pos- 
о 
е eks а 
the French, the Dutch, and e харна styles, &c. | and the i i i 
z ue the warmth with sufficient moisture the ; 
Of this a brief sample or tw suffice. О! more int id wi i Eastern Dutch colonies. e 
p е, Of the intense rapid will be the putrefaction that first to attempt the cultivation of 
ancients we may take his edle нЕ. the Roman love | takes place, end ss much ter the incr of th : SS ^ 
for Roses. s Bacterize. : peli if y ill, stay in &c., for their ucts; but for a long time it 
Toward the end o tho Kimhi R hi à ts favourable for the generation of Bacterize they are I Government «e 
маа ih = hole t gcn © pice n to w = most subject to the danger, and will probably be seized. | however, is a mere outline sketch of 
subj pject, 1 st the whoie or the + no orld w Before I follow the subject further, and try to point out | animal, and vegetable products exhibited in the 
. Subject, luxury was at its hei ight. The riches s extorted that our collective epidemic maladies apparently originate | museum, which is located in a building that was for- 
‘foolish w way. There was no knowing hat undertakings eve two in oe E s bog D - merly the summer residence of King en Buonaparte. 
га ла with money might not begin. The poor nightin- coast of the Black Sea, from the mouth‘of the Cuba, in 2 e isha зе also on Map - cos — of == 
gales must give up their tongues to furnish a ragout for inti i n 
.a Roman gourmand. A Roman fine grated injured Э свега Azon, to th > ны PAY dd Ae tanec raat Ne and it is well worth a visit from those interested in 
his standing if he set before his guests at the sea, sea | thick that in them, even on the clearest day, a certain the development voi ы. resources of our Eastern 
" : d in the interior of the country, fresh-water fish, | amount of obscurity always exist e sun is never | Empire and other co 
я Aii e cost sea fish had to be provided here, and | able to do more than throw in a ray of sunshine on the 
esh-water fish there. Not less h was the custom | tr where the i ins end i Ге have leid from the Rev. H 
of sleeping on Rose leaves—the couches were heaped | the south onward to the Pontic Mountains lies is Delta | Moule, a copy of some Harvest Hymns, to which 
Ea PCM Жи жее en с Cicero must | of Rion, the Phasis of the ancients. „Here the water has | we beg to the attention of those engaged in 
р i evi á ? rite n^ ) $ 
buried in them, for in that case, as he sings, the earth — t€ in the hot summer E organising harvest wee vals, gp ge and the tone 
| ces lie lightly on him. An effeminate Roman com- | miasma is engendered, whi ch brings out the justly are admirable, and they are such that any one who 
lains of the folded Rose leaves on hiscouch hurting | dreaded fever of the Blac NN and makes has a sense of grat itud and reverence may cordiall 
1 m. e Propreetor Verres in Sicily was carried about | the sojourn of man in the forests de erous, | assent to them quite —' of any sectarian or 
ina litter resting on cushions filled with Rose leaves, | At the limit of the Russian Trans-Caucasus towards dogmatic view he may happen to hold. 'They may 
Th y : u r a R z to be Par ^ ке hi - | Turkey, and see lylying in the middle of the Rion | be obtained from Mr. Ling, of Dorchester. 
e supply of Roses at Rome must at that time have | Delta, when I visited the neighbourhood in the 1836 
_ been very great. Pzestum sent most, and after it Egypt, | there were only some = abies en h od hich The September cornet к Flor cA — 
Where the Roses of Cyrrhene at that time were wned. me Cossacks of the Don and custom-house officer i Pomologist contains two coloured plates, опе o two 
. Great vessels ia to Rome, which were only laden with | lived. Upon the map also in Russian was. lai nal" f Cherries, the early Lyons e О 
Roses, This e mania, for by no other name can one | fortress which bore the proud name of St. bd: em a | Beauty, the former a large; some erry, 
- call it; contributed ,not à little to raise the position of | name illspoken of an because of the fever. My the latter a yellowish red. Both are said to be worth 
gardener in Rom rst reception in one of the best езшше was in no way | а place in every garden where Che prized. 
| т pep he | inviting. They par me into a room m ere a ее Mr. W. zd potio an n ren. dud ss 
. passes many of c gardens « = be under i2 ofthe Cossacks had such a violent fever that out system in preference to pot culture, and no oubt 
апі we may note ez passant that although not in all kai cox um his lite, it is only from motives of convenience that pot culture 
А ever raged there in such a way that the Сов- is still p Some ts of Japanese 
Battersea Park the frst squid фе ie act sacks had to be changed every six weeks, Horses а evergreen Oaks are given, with descriptive notices. 
: n there 5 а ; 5 
of a subtropical garden within his knowledge. Не is еа E Au Ж ad aa ae & sbort жыны they = The Botanical. Magazine for September con- 
_ ever blind to the merits of any urist, but his | are not quickly taken T men without ex- | tains and descriptions of the following plants : 
"ésthetical taste leads him to dwell with most enthu- | ception all of a pearance. St. Nicholas | — Pri a native of the Moun- 
- Siasm on those who turned their special attention to ae lay in the midst of УОЗ not far from which, | tains of Colorado, describi d ps th 
pe gardening, and in that connection he natur- wards the interior, began the thick - unhealthy corem Primrose ever — except Р. 
ally dwells upon the excellencies of Prince Puckler е, Towards the sea one met wit ackish water | japonica, as we pre quite hardy; 
_ Muskau and the ga E ns that he with so much taste | ins arts, which was by the аи 5 tropical hea heat | Draba Mawii, a pretty dwarf Kis sowed geni] 
3 autified ne hat prevails there 2 pe gee continually sige aang suitable for rockwork; Croc s Boryi, a de lica: 
and soon might wing in miasma wit -flowerin end нете on the mainlan 
е The а. division of his lectures is not less, | breath, Fresh storms were continually bringing down au — се нЕ эл aa a sland 
perhaps to will be still more, "interesting, than | fresh streams, so that the ill- smelling, brackish Y water was cee lant oe 
the preceding. It treats of the growth and life of continually renewed Wahle enbergia Kitaibelii, an alpine plant from 
lm C: relations to men and to climate. On hen L went through th ibis 2e eighbourhood ja Croatia and the Banat, 4 M сераш ке 
these s he touches on many s subjects of great Mer fura uch had been done by lin eaves, and purple -shaped flowers. A 
Goverment Jio pes St. Nicholas gin "healthier flares the plant appears extremely attractive, 
interest. | брок of the miasmatic effects of decay- 
