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NOVEMBER 13, 1875.] 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
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THE degna pid ve 
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n Missio dary 
island of 
inclosed зл bordering chains of hills, which run in a 
direction from north to south. Ankay proper is at 
least 180 miles long, and here is about 20 miles broad. 
The chain along its eastern side is not lofty ; it has a 
height of only 365 feet. It is rather like a lip to the 
plain below than all; -it consists 
Vast buttresses of rock project into the plain from its 
lofty front, and deep ravines and valleys run in behind 
- them, кше. to the scenery a rich variety of outline 
and of deta 
d be a level plain. It once was so 
s, floods, 
waterspouts, and steady rains e ee pien of its 
surface, Itis ploughed and scored into little valleys 
in all directions ; but the scorings all find one outlet, 
. and pass from one to another till they reach the 
central drain of all, the valley of the Mangoro River 
alley. - Naturally this great 
draining valley, with its river, runs, like its ME 
walls, a course from north to south. The Mangoro 
eventually makes its way through the eastern chain, 
hills b es of Pe and 
r о observe that under the erster 
à hills, where Aeon id waters are most abundant, the 
plain is 100 feet lower than its eastern side. 
The people who have occupied this plain, appa- 
com 
led an isolated life, till, conquered by the Hovas 
subjected to the demands of the Hova service, A 
numbers of the men were made bearers of Govern 
ment cei and travelled to distant parts of the нен 
: S. They have suffered much from their 
анса: and are still very uncivilised and ignorant. 
‘Their conse сешм a brown complexion, with liquid 
e very simple and hospitable. The 
clay soil is нан with thick coarse grass, and many 
portions of this country are gay with t eva, or 
Buddlea mad agas dem cov e магы ei pee of 
erange-coloured flow Ther 
sio corpse being wrapp and corded 
White cloth, borne by two men, It is the universal 
for every one travelling to be armed it 
NO unusual sight to see the with 
А fi 
the seep and slippery pe ‘though the great 
t 
tae ra, The machine to be notic 
DOE d of the sketch (ee. 131, ^ ччы isa 
sugar crushing-mill, compos 
p e a ce ee 4 eavy wood—*''z shana"— 
dles to roll it with. 
n pe 
SE Oliver, Pal allant Thin Havant, Hanis, Nov. 5. 
end, use “asa 
_ Foreign Correspondence 
T 
ABD other aban you ‘tied me in the green 
houses there were 
he tops 
ocks, where e 
ps for centuries, to the distance of 20 or 30 feet, 
and the roots are very straggling. On those hills it 
ws m ny with Galanthus (?) ternifolia, 
Grevillea rosea, prostrata, &c s lon 
. racena; but growin 
older, and being subjected to the periodic bush fires, 
it loses its leaves with the exce 
a letter of А. Engelhart, 
^. Rotices of Books, 
The arden: in Div ^ 
William Paul, F.R. H.S. Fifth edition, gite 
Kent & Co. 
ls Rose pone is well known in the horti- 
of flowers mus App familiar to a wide ci 
of individual rosarians, since we have now before usa 
fifth edition, which, for beauty of type illus- 
tration, exce that have preceded it, and places it 
before every other Rose book which has appeared in 
this country. The imperial 8v -— no pted 
perm the introduction of eral excellent 
portraits of some of the best Roses ; - dnd its text has 
materially benefited by the + grag experience of 
which have passed since the 
po 
of the insects which have been found d to the 
em is given, accompanied by wo t illustrations. 
appendix also contains a aper о n new Rose 
briefly soring the advances of the w years, and 
giving s pels descriptions of the tte of the 
рер ud. 
In orm and dress Mr, Paul's book c 
гавай ie to a prominent eem in the drawing: 
room for its beauty and and to the most 
accessible shelf of the garden library on account of its 
Tobacco: its History and Associations, By 
F. 
W. Fairholt, F.S.A. Chatto & Windus. 
A very eree book has = ust been issued by 
Messrs. Chatto & Windus un the above title. 
As might be “expected from t. title itself, and from 
author, the bulk of the book is 
of rire includes quotations and references from 
works on the pe ге, whether in the form 
Dey ctc aste "' raise gg: 
chapte Е on kane: -pipes, Cigars, an d the 
smokers’ Lag recie ," and that on “Snuff and 
snuff- bo: 
contains much that is interesting ; are | ot 
‘nate ery am description is BH эы, ogether 
with an illastration, of the old фа snuff - 
which msists of a flat, plate- of 
g stick, qoem. P thicker at one 
These т pus es ey 
Y hat, b th 
— the pestle 
bably the p^ iem of som 4 
or double ends are fixed tw 
Office ,giv 
tion, accompanied by illustrations ; and А, 
fo a 
ostrils, which are, of course, perforated ; these kno > 
are often made of the hard endocar arp of a Palm fru 
such as Astrocaryum, rounded and smoothed, but duy 
are sometimes made of wood. 
e snuff is carried in a mull or box, sometimes 
formed of the hollow bone of some large animal, 
a hen taken is sniffed into the nostrils through 
t described, 
to be one of the principal qualities, for in a 
plete apparatus of this nature, contained i in the Kew 
Museum, the pestle and mortar made of the 
wo at a spe зрб z Tecoma ; nor is it 
Tobacco itself is 
e 
of Acacia Niopo, H.B., and u 
Tobacco. 
hed be 
eing perpetua 
thee pea manufact dum and consumption oj 
EA in read with interest by many 
o ma Rer wondered what becomes of the eighty 
odd millions oe pounds of Tobacco rdi brought 
into this country. 
—— The Florist — зыгы; сы! = dien month 
contains ee m 
the Prin The ет is 
described asa thraing little hardy herbaceous mel, 
ins by M 
t height ‘of 
6 inches ; and the Sones hich are half an inch to 
two-thirds of an inc long, are horizo 
reddish lilac tint, an 
pre, ap blue-purple, the filaments being smooth and the 
hairy. merits of the Prince of Nt 
Td as a market variety are too well kno 
require further menti e figure now published 
will make it familiar to those hé do not know it. 
Rose Budding, by D. T. Fish Жент 
рета- 
attr 
r Amateurs, by W. D c tm io обе. gives full 
practical directions for the 
n of 
cations in their respective departmen 
Natural History. 
E want to to tell of. рту ot 
and cl 
T a qoe of ‘blight, t. chiefly from gr ө: Таш - 
ey commenced the o 
an 
this thirty - 2 wu in 
o 
of hs: plants tem ing tall and slend 
бані. with the blight I pes я a 
helpers understood 
pode hint—the y ee were surely cleared. was 
the side of the borders ng; 
that got well loo poeg onym a hole, no a crack was 
ere but w. ini oe out if pos did 
not seem to be the only 294 these busy rers had 
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оша come near on the place, and I was told 
killed boo. No whi nice of course, would be 
destroyed here in winter, but perhaps some othe 
birds quite as useful were sacri sacrificed. A wren is most 
indefatigable. А. 7. 
