. or benefit has been 
апо other. 
THE 
SEPTEMBER 18, 1875.] 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE, 
367 
vocan formed from the oil present is, as a rule, soon 
wholly or partially as ‘building material ; ' in those 
n the other hand, it is previously 
7. Li too weak to cause vem of 
chlorophyll will produce heliotropic curva The 
light intensity, under inuous action seed- 
lings in on de elope normally, is less ANE that 
required fi ecomposition of carbonic acid by green 
plants.” Der Naturforscher, 
A, B. M, 
YARROW, 
HAVING read with pleasure the articles which you 
have given on this de I still feel th 
has certainly been sagem beat 
culous tales in ancient Herbals of *'vertues" in 
certain plants, gathered at the nick of time specified, 
our forefathers and their loving consorts "s a good 
deal of e physi- 
cian to the French King had never heard of, mm he, 
ountry 
The country people had their ашса, 
woollens clean and free 3 5 а 
tons of fuller's earth have иы diet 
| seem ei med nit rage but no other article has 
ing purposes, yet they are said to 
bran to make s f good results, “Not en prac- 
tical men like the woollen manufacturers have t 
medicate the water "wd use, there is nothing wonder- 
ood 
ful in matrons s housewifery using cer- 
tain herbs, бтр тие zt some recipe, unwritten, 
handed down from age to age. As the plant in ques- 
is mon weed everywhere, it has the rare 
f cheapness to recommend it, for it clings to 
; 1 
botanical name (Achi 
and i 
Tom the Flower of так. Alex, M. 
Salford 
FIG. 79,—SPECIMEN SPRING-FLOWERED CLEMATIS (FROM A PHOTOGRAPH), 
made the sno cot the means within their reach. 
Thus, in the absence of soap, wash- d я ede 
of the ashes o ry ; and such 
that ‘‘deil о’ чө ——À emi and 
Tor 
Mezereon root to ease the pang, and in кыз a cases 
it did the work well d cheaply. 
ing with a schoolfellow бе бане of 
m nshire, 
shor ~ was, Whe 
mi 
d whose presente ind power there was too much 
sen ato of, 
When a 
, ons of soda, so ре 
Strokes both colours may be р 
d 
White may come out pure, Pin order to get 
FHE ФЕРБ ЫЕ. PALESTINE, 
^ (Cenc?uded. 
pm) 
IN former times numerous forests appear to "have 
stood in different parts of Judæa un 
invasions and sieges caused their fall, and the bad 
government of the Turks prevented their restoration. 
All this vegetation must have re-acted on the moisture 
of the climate, and by preserving the water in many 
aravine where now it is rapidly dried by the fierce 
sun of the early summer, must have influenc 
parts; Olive trees are to be 
they are ттн cultivated for their frui 
Olive is not a ds to пезоса 
scape. А few v Cutis are also met with in such 
richer spots as the valley of eed but ot all 
other nec thore ic Ses It is this 
hich side of and 
the ark-like scenery of the adjacent slopes and 
plains so remarkable. When compared with Europ- 
ean timber, the trees are but small, but their abund- 
ance is in strong contrast with the ess of the 
neighbouring mountains. Besides the constant de- 
struction of trees there is another cause in the decay 
for any improvement in the 
country y авї they have been first re- -established, 
oa M from England whilst he recognises the 
Oa , 
rry, Strawberry, Currant, C 
northern kinds, which are, as it were, replaced by 
rn and subtropical fruits as the Date, 
Banana, 
deem e, v 
Me Gourds 
em Fennel, Anise, Sw 
Colocasia, and other т and tropical field and 
garden crops. 
The Vine is abundantly ipi orn raf genie the 
country, and produces, as in the time of the Can 
es, enormous bunches of К Thi petisti 
the case the southern РСА those of Eshcol 
being still €— 2 famous, The ches pro- 
duced near Hebro i editis so Jong that when 
attach Lt d p ic sup the 
hristian: same 
зилин y of our Saviour's triumphal entry into 
Jerusalem 
a Oliv e has become inseparably connected with 
one of the "earliest records of the human race, and 
r in the i 
NC омы, needs an educated eye to appre- 
of its silver-like ал; but it must 
ve bo 
and oily berries. Of all ug te trees the 
nor is the crop dod 
fifteen years old, 
continues to yield fruit to extre 
little labour or care of an 
it. is extremely ht. 
old age. There is 
the most valuable species of property country. 
ason, will Jd С IO to 
of them gives a crop 
1 
{ 
] 
up in a quantity o of paper-like leav 
is co yr ee Early in 
dn 
t 
once or twice, 
vember comes the 
alive with men, women, a and childr 
of the Olive, which is always pores with much 
noise merriment, is the severest operation 
Syrian husban particularly in the mountainous 
egions, e rainy season has alr t in, the 
he s 
