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GARDENERS’ 
CHRUNICLE. 
[OCTOBER 2, 187s, 
. Fisu has forwarded usa Peach with a 
su lementary “els like кее at the base. Such 
a n n may remind the er of a Peach like the 
wi 
were produced in the flower instead of one. 
, the other is 
cording to Dr. A an bulbs of the 
runt. (Allium sativum) are extens wn 
used in Lha 
em up to dry pied people may be 
seen on market day 5 bringing i into Leh strings of these 
Onion patties for m T hey k "doa during winter, 
and make an excellent чайы, 
in а Panama newspaper, and from a recent. ibn 
the trade of C we learn some facts about the 
INDIA-RUBBER PRODUCE OF аз which is ob- 
tai aceous 
tree, known inthe countryas the Caucho. It seems that 
e 
arket. It is — however, тҮ the hos- 
tility manifested by the Darien Ind aS to their 
advance in that pe ee who lately killed a party of 
rubber seekers, return to sell what they 
collect at the Carth na market. Only a s 
bber 1 per wei 
tree aid in moist, undulating, or a рва 
tions, often by the banks of streamlets, and on hill- 
sides and summits, уг ере Арте пеѕ 
and a little soil, of this valuable tree have been 
collected by Mr. Cross—who co: Cinchona 
plants for transmission to India some years back—for 
the Pen ag of не та 
ung plants for future 
cultivation 
zu nature of the see 
largest to the United States. 
—— In the Monatschrift des Vereines zur. Befür- 
derang ee Gartenbaues, Dr. WITT escri 
and fi A TRAP FOR CATCHING NOCTURNAL 
Motus о insects, is in the form of a 
square Td the outside of the glass being smeared 
with a kind o -lime. Hung among trees, with 
t i be a 
ordinary lantern would answer the purpose 
iis on outside of the gumi is covered with some ене 
substance, 
several two out of three of A carpels were grown 
nother interesting varia- 
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dasycarpum ripens its fruit freely at Berlin, and he 
observed that it had probably often been overlooked, 
as it comes to maturity about the middle of May. 
e BREADFRUIT FAMILY is, perhaps, one 
of ‘the ae useful to man, as it great 
incisa, actually takes the place 
the grain of different cereals in the diet of the South 
ea Islanders, whilst the latter is the juice е a tree 
( aso: 
Venezuela. 
ts of 
As an article of diet the milky j juice or 
rnishes fibres and medicinal drugs, and the 
iaris saccidora stripped off, with a 
of the trunk sawn off for a bottom, forms capital 
o the President of the F мещ: Acclimatisa 
Socie viret mmends uction and cultivation 
А: река ремага іп es Sy as - forage plant. It 
rap with larg es and hollow 
asi, v which ch lat m M used by Dg natives to form 
musical шигер, һепсе the name of Aran cg tree. 
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leaves, ane ат is soon a very арене improve- 
ent in the quality of the milk they give 
—— During the afternoon of Wednesday last, the 
opening day of the ае т о EXHI- 
t the Alexandra Palace 
toge 
acce M NE the vice-chair. 
largely ed, and a unanimous desire 
i that s eer 
lace during 1876. To he special prize list 
eri A" the Chairman peni a piece of plate, 
ten guineas ; Mr, Wi GALE an article of vertu, 
ooh e two guiness ; and Messrs. J. Courts and ROBERT 
FENN also reel ыш, The 
were of a most genial and sa ory character. 
Y 
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nder the zm of Mezquit, or SCREW BEAN, 
mall сее. а No 
e lately 
etr rpus 
Prosopis pubescens, In a letter recently addressed © 
the Earl of CARNARVON, as Colonial Se 
as India and Ceylon, Australia and the Cape. 
is furth id that in the эд of Lieut. WHIPPLE's 
„Љо between San Diego 
the Gila 
i e 
dition, were expected to depend on this Bean. 
screw-li 5 ibed as growing in clusters 
of eight or ten on the same stem, 
produce many 
bushels. The Меш of Texas че to be the 
Prosopis gland osa of 
Torrey and eiu "North eria М, where it 
Auria A й el fe uses of 
purposes, e preparation 
mucilage, gum өй, јбг paste, &c. In id it 
was an article som 
12, I g been gathered in Bexar county, and 
as much more between that and the coast. No gu 
is gathe: t of Bexar, and it is hardly known east 
of Brazos, It exudes from the stem and branches of 
about 18 inches in o 
very у. ae and is 
the tree, which grows from 20 to 40 feet in height, and 
oodis fine- 
Mini -— Алек =. quantities in the dri 
of those со 
the A Une sar Dr, 
Déanzr gives a figure and descri ач а curious! 
ABNORMAL CONE, presumably of he common 
SPRUCE Fir, The scales on the upper third of the 
cones are distinctly reflexed instead of ere 
differing otherwise in any essential 
the ordinary scales, 
ct, but not 
particular from 
his p gives the UM 
art of the cone some resemblance to the fry of 
Raphia Ruffia and some According 
o Dr. DÖBNER seeds were me of the 
reversed scales, the — of the e ‘aking the same 
direction as the sc 
e advantage of the e style of 
pyramid and bush trees over the old method of whale 
planting standard trees, finds excellent Apres 
Beam arket garden grounds at 
Little Sutton. One large portion is Side bv 
of bush trees of ‘Sua Admirable m 
а com. 
Leper nb etween these and the lar rge essel trees 
m large 
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ometimes does them injury. 
of the least of the considerations to be put Knit in 
favour of bush over pyramid trees is that of a finer 
quality of fruit being obtaine 
—— Five large plants of ALOE PLICATILIS, each 
over 100 years old, mei — belonged to the late 
Bishop SUMNER, of 
at | into Бе жен of "Me T РЕ 
has added of them fine gots of 
Succulents id ey at the Aisin Palace 
em iie amateur prise has just given us some 
experiences of his 
past season to PROTE 
garden from the attacks of birds, living, as he does, 
in a neighbourhood much open to their 
attacks, He 
ial of many contrivan is experience 
taught him that nothing succeeds better for a time than 
th: f white ted wn for- 
wards across the so as to hav ce 
of a net or trap ; but this is only of service for a few 
days, as the bir to be Frightened at anything 
which might have been in t for hana 
eek. Among ot contrivances he procured an 
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pl 
come 
офа the soil, as “that i ^ the time when the greatest 
age is done, o add occasionally lines of 
eet of various soln rs, All scarecrows should be 
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f | placed in position before the seeds have germinated. 
passed into the iem of . T. РЕАСОСК, who 1$ 
exhibiting one of the plants at the Alexandra 
It is one of th t distinct Agaves in cultivation, 
having tri ked as if with c 
the margins, an id of s ex 
black curved one on the top of the leaves, By Ре; 
mission of HER Majesty, Mr. iy K named 
Agave Victoria i 
portrait in our pages 
—— A month hence and Tulip planter will have 
come me abuti of the time cap m it is usual to plant 
ti ith many 0 the 
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