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dish of Lycoperdon Bovista, slices of ch in their | 
virgin w ss were fried with egg and bread | 
ike veal cutlets. pr nced to be | 
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most exquisite and delicate by all who partook of it. | 
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—— M. HÉNON, a correspondent of the Revue | 
Horio йаг from Japan, gives a narrative of a 
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ododendron, which he 
rid ie dine woods of a Rh 
They are at ап waltitede 
believes to be R. arboreum. 
this species does not thrive out-of-doors in the north | opening, as formerly supposed by Mr. RILEY, the 
of France. This is doubtless true, for this s 
pecies e s are actually conveyed 
some others succeed pretty wel in the south-western Ee The fem > ale for {ype M xa uis 
cie of the United Kingdom. In Himalayas R. | load of pollen from the contracted and cur le ж. У 
oreu ometimes met with at an altitude of | in ovipositing sh ways st s herse 
; ; d R. campanulatum grows A between two and, puncturing the fruit with 
9000 an MU p cv p level of the sea, and | her ovipositor, conveys th to its destination; 
therefore is har t parts of Britain, although | This egg is very narrow and elongate, and of 
the flowers are en injured i in rd spring. xact colo rm it lies curved in the 
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r. WILLS, of the Royal Exotic Nursery and 
en dissepiments, and wi 
Winter Garden, South Kensington, asks us to state, i ? d 
ith t end 
poem close to the placenta, The operation of 
Fic 96.—EXTERIOR OF WINTER GARDEN, IN THE FLORA GARDEN AT COLOGNE, 
я about 5000 feet, оп а he n fully exposed to the 
orth, There is no soil on the porphyritic — but 
thye about a foo decine of ap leaves and moss, 
hododen ноет were deeply roote e 
ts of the rock, Within a nicks v about 100 qus 
there were from 500 to боо plants, large and small. 
va larger specimens were from 15 to 20 f h, 
and the one tree measured 73 centimetres 
(about 28.7 inches) in чынан. The clim з of 
the locality where these 
Severe, — 
than 7 f eet t deep, and large din were found (May 
11) not more than half a — rom the spot. 
e mountains = ementi enveloped = 
fog, and the writer thinks. Н nm be the cause why 
been exten- | thus consigning an egg lasts but — бесе 
in consequence of various re 
sively с ах that his is the тесер! West-end | the yin pod n wi pet x 
bus — for sale, stopped | runs up to the top of the pistil, unco oe olen. 
paymen n &c. „ һе ^ S tion whatever of | bede cked tentacles and thrusts them into the этет 
Senos! ng of his ree and that he — er Р | tube, working her head vigorously at the same 
th branc 
at W i rera насо m í | — One of the most — of all ornamental 
| trees in Greece, says Dr. X. LANDERER (Flora, 
| | —— Mr. RILEY gives some additio. риба ars | August, 1875), is MELIA AZEDARACH. 
respecting the OVIPOSITION OF THE A Мотн | contain zs 6 E м to IO per cent. of oil suitable for 
in a recent paw of би Transactions » the Academy | ing, and purposes; but, althoug they 
of Science of St. case analogy has | might be collected Mi the hundredweight, no use i> 
proved a false guide, and th d curious cy reme n made tp n The ghe e t Ырюша кА, , 
| o the anomalies whi ong to large 
| mq tne being thrust into the stigmatic | fl owers, render it е нае for the winter garden or cone 
