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THE GARDENERS: CHRONICLE. 
71 
= a fine 
expression of Hawthorne’s) were strewed 
many an pop aia field ; there is the golden 
Boon as the be ah gifts a 
holic moriarchs— 
e English poets is there one who does not mekap 
m it 
the Rose, a 
and of all is there one who dra 
more | tender morality than Waller in vi Go, lovely 
k no 
and it 
been tr. 
Rose sprung to bir th. 
has been 
nd I kn 
translation equal to it in n general fidelity and vigour of 
ex 
pression 
the very best 
pien ever loved the Rose as did the 
as their legend that told us how the 
Ase ** Lament for eae = 
anslated by 
G 
4 
So 
5 
oA a 
3 
Ita s to me, 
fenuslation in he Mngaiay 
sot Sa 
n the whole, Bore 
Her rea 
the lines which tell this esa of the stor 
wabah 
, Cythe ad ; 
She went co “after tear with the blood which was 
a! Adoni 
At both turned into flowers for the earth's garden- 
close,— 
.' Her tears to the Windflower, his blood to the Rose.” 
Another still more famous Greek poem 
Rose is one by ear: © whi 
most beau 
tps 
England. 
No 
ho: 
ze a call to the Rose ani wpa 
e Ro 
‘a the eight of the plants that pie gr 
about the 
ch Mrs, Browning ad also 
tifully translated—a fit task, which unites 
of he Fo a ua of Greece and 
The poem begin 
ose us a king of Š flowers in his mirth, 
ae crown ik 
ose, ho ! the Rose, is the grace of the 
owing upon ce". 
Greeks wove their erg = capa 
wonder the 
Rose, or that ‘funder the Rose” the 
-~ gay and happy hour, to be kept in kai if untold y 4 
words, 
_ My bedding-out is of oe aap but of this 
_ must speak on the we 
been hot, vey rain will ws pa i ome 
next o The ather o 
A NEW tae OF INDIA: 
| AwONe th e oes i re beroen Seba 
made during a short stay a oe - 
Juice of the Massaranduba Ti Adie was ove 
gto 
| Tis trank woe 
‘ me by my f 
tho eaten its yg in Pará, 
| ty logs that had 
Sun, at the saw-mills. 
ight ranknesgs 
ue, which 
te © went on a few yards further, me wes 
tiend Captain haie as yielding per 
, The principal use to which this ince i is applied by 
mending broken ‘gla and china, 
» Bates in his highly interesting book, Zhe 
on the River 
tes, writing on a a or Cow-tree, - 
heard a good deal about this tree, 
from its bark a copious ner of 
nt to drink as that o We had 
irket-wo' nd had a of 
the durableness in ae of its timber ere glad, 
wig ee see onderful tree growing in its native 
It is one of the largest of the forest monarchs, 
pearance on account of its deeply 
i gged decoction of the 
vas ol is as ye for cloth fe 
Sused asar l 
ne ote phe its milk, which was drawn fro 
‘on, Sh his Narrative of the Banks of the 
topped 
ous tree, o ts of the forest. 
cov with ss sh ied reddish -and 
Uppo patted it, saying ‘This my cow.’ 
ım ies, but much smaller, 
it, saying, ‘S cow give better 
ck it with his axe ter making 
ectly fom liquid, which 
eon 
m another the oma con- 
> 
a 
asting 
Fossa davon and 
sce ilhe re 
cow would keep so long,’ and we confessed Bed a that 
climate it would be very likely to turn sour. r this, 
on several occasions, we obtained a ne ped the 
Cow-tree for our breakfasts and supper: 
I must confess that my experience ce its taste and 
flavour confirms what Mr. Ki 
-0 
S 
without coagulating. I di a portion of this 
juice aes ated ai being bottled up e Sarr 
months, n impression of it, as well ax be 
formed” py ee tines friends who tasted it at the time, 
were ne 9 in favour of its agreeable and milk. like 
properties. 
Probably the unpleasant flavour described by Mr. 
Bates may be due to the juice being colle a d Sgi a 
tin which has been nag or some fareas 
exposed to t 
imber in water has long 
araensees, who construct jetties 
harves pa 
ht sider to be o their most valuable 
ae eating decay dle alternate exposure to 
air and wate 
This sho ald be a valuable wood for eee 
since the durability of Teak is said to be due to the 
existence of caoutchouc in its pores. The poi itself 
is ver ry = rd, and grows a reat A in the uplan 
h 
regio the m afraid the difficulty 
of transporting the trees chin felled through the dense 
- among which it is alwa ays found, must remain 
ninsormouniable barrier to its exportation on an 
saten scale. 
Several plants yi spt A juices have bee 
noticed agi trav panir mong which may be me tioned 
the Cow-tree of Brazil, the Palo di ee of the South 
ptet and the of Kunth, 
ymnema Tieri m), the 
of which is used by the eee for alimentary 
pAb and the Cream-tree o 
Although travellers speak generally of these trees as 
fro 
being harmless, it is evident the experience 
Bates and others that the juices of such trees cannot 
eld to be innoxi ow-tree of Bra 
er Artocarpaceze, a class 
con eae many highly suspicious me spe Zia ne 
specim the juice of this tree w 
or 
limpid ‘cai than obtained from irde iringia mn (Siphonte 
str 
elastica), it was mu er in colour, strongly re- 
sembling cream, and p =i rong ammoniacal 
our. In a tolerably close vessel it keeps much 
longer than the indi uice without 
coagulating, which, b ; a grea 
is an 
fou The c ite is rapidly accelerated by 
eat. The weight of solid india-rubber 
from 22 ounces Ww ces when dry. 
By destructive pin it yields a per y rarat of 
caoutchoucine m other irs obtained in 
the distillation of pal Oe Like india- 
rubber, it hardens by exposure ` Ai fai ict ai 
great yA eÁ pe soft. It does not melt without 
decomposition when melted remains 
sulp 
upon a d pure india-ru y 
specimen is much harder and tougher than any "india- 
rubber I have ain 
As the Mas randuba grows in more healthy 
localities than the ‘different species of Siphonia, ahs is 
a question whether it would not be desirable to dra 
the attention of the Brazilian Government to this ta 
be less pne to the health of 
ulation. I have been told that i substance 
if a deman ot ed for 
it, it could be o 
half the pric Pay the best Para india 
this statement which led me to Ceide i E- 
The ipidoaness’ with which the jeice e flows from 
the el when cut may ee naan, aen the remarks 
which I have quoted from Mr. tone’s book. 
Being more limpid than the juice obtained from the 
different varieties of ne ha 
i at i 
ferrin 
or pick 
the same time, 
from trees in 
Belem (Pará 
The pe rcentage of solid caoutchouc from the Mas 
saranduba is abou whilst the juice of the 
ye Massaranduba juice being aikaa 
e forests in the neighbourhood of 
Qa 
L 
g 
x 
water, so that 
Siphonia would contain only 50 
caoutchouc. 
t 
being so easily or readily s rape as is the case with 
the epi india-rubber yielding plants. Thos. 
LEP B + Weed: in the ** Fournal of the Society 
of A ne = 
NEGLECTED PLANTS: 
HIRE: 
WOULD you be ‘wid. gentle gor to hear 
at s coniipet etitive examiner ad on his 
Quote the best Englis To 
which natural family does it i 
v dens F i t manner is 
repared = eating? Give some idea of what it tastes 
e most of the answers he 
sap e cite se an 
hardly be surprised to mxaiy—expecially if 
his candidates w 
oses of sea- 
a dish of greens—» 
ot are Seakaleish quality, but that it 
en it tastes o vinegar and — 
is mostly pic thin i. 
Ta z 
pepper put to it, and of no 
Such i 
2 Fp 
which is not confined ite gies British Isles — and wg 
ch Passepierre 
ing fleshy leaves and in pre- 
aiie h i foetan to the seashore. Boiled . 
Ceat are not without their merit, bu but 
they are no substitute for, ar true ; 
phire ; and, therefore, ignorance may y be 
ee it is not necessarily folly to be 
wiad to have, the real thing. 
One of the Salicornias, found on the Norfolk coast, 
but nowhere v mission for its 
knew it to aten in any y under- 
shrub, of erect habit, with evergreen succulent leaves, 
thriving in any ordinary soil, pet ra y pasa a 
the linie roan it takes up. ste vain 
ated. Evelyn, sd was fond z “ Sea 
er, not ents en young 
ears ender Ae such as w ‘a have in - 
gardens almost the year ” does not 
tell us how he proceeded, except that he frequently 
recei France, and so had it fresh, . 
in his opinion, ‘‘ for 
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spleen pae the passages, sharp’ning appetite, 
E far prefer able to most of our hotter herbs and 
sallet iredi nts.” 
If prams be or to be found on Dover cliffs, it 
any 
cannot eat quantity. [Plenty still remains 
all along the — pring mo ae — eto mer. 
Eps e is no esponding chalky 
the 
an ‘of Sas “Slants atz opposite, although plenty of 
wild Cab where onl 
i There x we: tite re at 
foo e Castle, in the 
pa EE Se of the Seine, ni tks ne certain 
parts of the coast of Brittany i it is aeai sbona 
Itis also found fringing the edge, where the shall 
lagunes of the Mediterranean meai 
