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Jury 18, 1874] 
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seedlings would be quite unable to live under such 
: ualit r eA rapa available is also of influence, 
eee s are certainly treated in a rou 
er, as descri ib aes aa Wa lker, o 
hand, on all well-regulated slaniahans hep are 
d ey and specially their niis are not 
treate ia 2 , sun, and ada they can 
stand. h 
than 
choi ere, on the other hand, one of the 
“the seedlings being injured while in the hands of the 
Neat oe ete Sere 
pificalties i in planting operations is to prevent 
On the whole, r eg that it is impossible to set 
the subject under consideration 
c 5 
pon 
Schlich, in ** Agricultural Gazette p 
FIG: 17.—STAKING TREES. 
ARKABLE POLYPORUS ' 
mo en 
£ i ‘presenting it to t 
tseum, T found tha EE ri s novel 
rsory examination proved it to be an object 
, I applie : to Dr, Johnston for farther 
ion ; and for tunately, considering the lon 
> aen since he parted with it, he 
s able to turn u a memorandum-book the 
following note, taken on Apel 28, 1841, when he got 
it at ** Penetanginshine, pipra ay, Lake ik gad 
a ought a Wahbodo, i Bs Rhuba hoe 
fungus growing on top of White e Pine,—very scar 
thirty-three years’ growth, Indians say it ree geek 
like a child—bleeds when je jmagi —and does not 
i as brought sopa 
Wa e nded a 
was ought to a 
es,” 
rom 
external texture, fer very pestis 
white. It weighs 
Ii is 5 strongly piei de by gt three carallel st gs, or 
o be made up of so many circular per. 
Hasdo cakes, someones t more than half an inch in 
thickn ness. At one side of its thicker end there is 
attached, over a sty, as large as the palm of the 
hand, a quantity of the outer ark of a smooth-barked 
w a quarter section 
th, it was found that the 
resi may ong, pure, 
aromatic, bitter ea. as like "he of sulphate of 
quinia. 
Dr. Maclagan made a rough skalpi of it for me, 
and iiaa that it consists, in 100 
rts, of 64.59 
resin, 25.79 cellulose, and 9.62 watery extract. The 
bitterness he foun ste t ide not in ie esin, Ai in 
the watery extr and therefore mus on 
some other pro si ere principle, possibly eryalline, 
On poneniting the opinion of the emi ae a 
lis ake subject of the gA ngi, 
SeN found that all pera pist ne pbstanon, or 
mination of small fragments of it only, to be 
igneous texture degenera se bmi m much altered bya iie 
of a yporus, which 
pa ped thinks will = ATEA prove to be P, Pini 
canadensis (Schweinitz). 
WHITCHURCH RECTORY, 
EDGWARE. 
pleasura oe agi o 
sit paid 
PERHAPS there are few more 
ty road and e: carriage 
to the rectory, I felt paia by the cool 
odour of ihe Conifers: which are grown here in great 
ariety an ‘iance ; their perfume quite filled t the 
the 
or, the Rev. J. 
m a kindly 
ch, 
iful and interesting 
wih t the. psa of Tak It # 84 miles from 
the Marble Arch, Regent’s Park near the old. 
market town or village of Edgware, the pias part of 
which is included in the parish. On entering the 
precincts of church: ard, which is separated fom 
as 
sexton during the time the gr 
master mapa church.” 
onu iti 
ser geti in x m 
covered irginia Creeper, many varie 
_ Jasmines, Pyrus j pppoe; Glastonbury Thorn, 
_ the the at mpk 
_On entering sane bee 4 is at once al 
w 
individually so 
the c š 
built his magnificent palace at Canons, the principal 
estate in the ph. The whole of the walls and 
ceiling are covered with paintings. me decorations an 
encaustic vod f the very best and the e 
is exceedingly atk, ang a ple asin s; The princ ipal 
artists employed by t e were the celebrated 
French artists, V, E i Laquerre, who afterwards 
executed oth ks of a similar ki ondon, 
and other parts of England. I believe the reception 
tooms at Chatsworth were decorated them. The 
cone | is ae into eight compartments represent- 
ncipal aA a of our blesse : 
I recalled to my min 
D 
imself, Pope characterised cae sa ator and the 
music of Handel thus 
*¢ And now the chapet S re 7 you hear, 
To summon you to all the e of prayer; 
Light quirks of music, snp uneve 
Make the soul danc on to Heayen! 
e before your eye.” 
ehind the altar stands "a organ, rendered famous 
by its being built hy Father Schmidt for the immortal 
Handel y sublime 
„man whose oratori 
anthems were ne upon this instrument whilst 
e was chapel-master here, The woodwork, which 
is of black oak, carved by Gibbons, and contains 
an m cunning hands. Pass- 
chapel of the 
decorated most rofusel 
white marble of the Hast 
Duke, and of the ee of Lord Bruce and consort 
of He enry IJ., Duke a Chandos, pe of Mary, 
Marchioness of Carnar e 
ments erected to the ain 
narvon 
this arg lie over sixty bodies of the members of 
this pohle mily, 
Ret ae to the garden I could po but remark the 
very agreeable situation of the rectory house. It 
stands on a gentle elevation, surrounded by a der 
of about fei acres in extent, and the views poh ge Re 
windows of the house and the lawns are most cl 
ing, In. from i 
room wi 
in the vi situated about a 
rofa mile distant, ing from amongst the fine -~ 
timber er thet 6 covers yer i ee landscape here; above 
these the country gradually rises until it attains the 
highest parts of Mill Hill, and Highwood Hill, a dis- 
tance of about four miles. The ja country 
nf masses of timber, ae pare wi 
g the gradually r 
flow 
time, are most lovely. 
if not the best, Rose in cian w a wall. Inter- 
mixed with this is a very of Clematis Jack- 
‘manni, climbing over the Pash, a Wistaria sinensis 
occupying a position ne 
Mr. Norman has r 
ithin the last two years, and consequently are not 
‘those that have been ager’ in 
