100 i LHE- GARDENERS CHRONICLE. [JULY 25, 1874, 
other choice flowers, drooping from Moog toms pure | of three, and the flowers, which are white, beautifully | deran. The Pi ine-apple is unknown in Persia, The 
white and transparent red blossoms of the varie- | spotted with yellow and purple, are collected in large | common vegetables are Pumpkins of every kind, the 
ties have no equal, ea when we find that they Ke at the ends of the branches, like those of the | round Gourd, the Snake Gourd, Egg-Plant, Peas, 
will last so employed for a week or ten days. When | Ho etn estnut, to which, indeed, they bear some Lettuce, small Kidney Bean, Beetroot, T 
the white variety becomes sufficiently plentiful it will, | resemblan abbage, and Truffles. C bers are sumed 
next to the white Camellia, be the flower in Covent In the na theri States of America, of which this | such — es by the people that bilious fevers 
en ) t. But for these plants to fully deve- | tree is a native, it grows upon the borders of rivers, | very common. The gardens are often ae | bya 
lope their natural habit, th hould, as here, be frequently exceeding 50 feet in height, and measuring — which Pri ey call ‘‘rust,” caused by 
planted out in a well-drained order, so as t a OW a | from 1} foot to 2 feet in diameter. It is a wide. | rain, and the rops are not unfrequently destroyed by 
ree percolation of the considerable quantities of spreading tree, with smooth greyish bark and few lights of locusts, which, w all beetle, are up. 
water they require when in a growing state. branches, and appears to be popular with the abori- | welcome visitors. The Po ti at, or Ce cane eae 
ext we come to the specim: en zalea-house, where gines, who have introduced it to many of the places | is cnltivated, yet, strange to say, the 
are quantities of plants beautifully trained as pyra- where it is now i es natives, | relish it he snail ars to. be ra pis 
midal and dwarf bushes, as also large numbers of indeed, the tree oes E p well as he Potties inethod of managing bees and of pre. 
standards, so useful for CONDREDRSORY decoration, and | its scientific nam u Latined form of | serving the honey is curious enough to deserve. 
for which there is no family of prea appropriate, as Catawban, that sy the tile: of an Indian tribe | attention. The hive is a tube of wicker 
with good management, and a e number to | which Tinned inhabited a large portion of er ia | plastered with cow-dung, about 3 feet long and 8 or 
they can be had in | flower the greater por- | and Circling” Michaux prong in renc gia inches in diameter. is closed a 
tion of the year. In close proximity is a large span- Upper Louisiana call it Bois Shavanon, from the Sha- | round piece of board or tile plastered in, and one 
fed house 50 feet by 24, clear occu- | yanon or Shawnee nation, which once existed in W. of these doors = yai the centre 
pants, me on both sides with their cele- | Tennessee, on the borders of the river of that name, | for the egress and ingress es. 
brated C elegraph for now known as Cumberland River. A form of Catalpa | the Bage of May, or shortly before the sun enters 
table are quantities - healthy young ‘plants of Statice | is eon a native of Japan, where the leaves are laid ini, these cylindrical hives are packed on m 
S. intermedia ; s apanese upon parts of the body affected with | or ‘donkeys S, each animal carrying six or eight of 
in a g light house sufficiently far apart to pain, or used in fomentations, as they are supposed to | them, and transported to some locality where the 
e their becoming drawn, they thrive fast, and | bebeneficial to the ep! = decoction = p m shrubs and plants which bees are fond of growin 
enjoy the partial shade afforded by the Cucumbers, and pods is also used as a remedy in c of asthm greatest abundance. This is commonly some seques 
Adjoining is a house somewhat e centre | Its medicinal uses in the "Stites are but very slight, tered valley among the mountains, Here the hives ar 
stage of which was fi h num ealthy | although the en recommended as a stimu- | piled i l pyramids of three or four rows, the 
oe comprising Chorozemas, | lant tonic, exhales offensive odour in lower row consisting hives, and. the 
ronias, Pimeleas, Aphelexis, Dracophyllum gracile, spring, when a portion of the outer layer is removed, | upper of two or three, and one or two persons afe left 
Leschenaultias biloba and formosa, Monochztu The wood, however, is, when thoroughly seasoned, | in charge of them. In the latter she of October, or 
c. ; on the outside stages was stood a row of stout very durable, and has been employed for posts | as the sun is about to enter Scorpio, the hives are i 
mE ar in pots. in the regions where it abounds with satis- | transported back to the village before the frost sets in 
we came to a house filled with half and factory resul It is very light, of a fine texture, | and kept there until the ensui i nthe 
= hei specimens of hard-wooded É Sanap sors plants | and greyish-white colour according to Micha ” | honey is taken, the bees are a driven to the further 
of all the most poecers kinds, such as Hedaromas is very brilliant when poli It is of very rapid | end of the hive by blowing in smoke, which does not 
_ (Darwinia) tulipiferum and fuchsioid es, Phoenocomas, growth, as may be i by the distance of the | injure the or taint the siokey ; the door is then 
Dill'wynias, © Eriostemons, men a and a | annual concentric rin The branches have been taken out, and the honeycombs cut out and removed, : 
numter of the most beautiful aS employed in the “dyeing of wool, to which they | leaving a small quantity as food for the bees during 
phylla, robusta, rosmarinzefolia and longifolia. For | impart a kind of cinnamon colour. In Italy a decoc. | the winter. In this way any quantity of honey may 
table so much in irate: ` at the present | tion of the pods is a rem edy for coughs, but | at any time be obtained without injuring a single bee. 
day, t plants their the claims of the tree to notice r est rather upon its | In winter the hives are kept, arranged in the pyra- 
graceful stems, clothed with cleat Fe nae Femlike foliage, | ornamental than n upon its useful properties. It has been | midal form, in the Ram of the proprietors’ houses, 
: adapt them in every way for the abo: e purpose ; they stated that the honey of bees which visit tie blossoms | and covered with st w and mud to defend them from x 
+ raain a ge of being able to do daty i = is poisonous ; but this requires confirmation. the effects of frost Main a 
e Catal; a was discovered in South Carolina b The northern provinces. alo the borders of the | 
occupants of the stove do by being kept in a pete.” Catesby, ati Seg introduced by him to England H Caspian have a distincti character the belt of 
1726. Some fine “ae exist in this country ; one | Country between the sea and the m ountains has a = i 
in the garden oi anuel College, Cambridge, has | for the most part of a natu and deep, that 
a girth of 8 feet at ern height of 7 feet tosh the | when soaked with the heavy rains which fall for many 
ground. A tree at Syon House reached the height | months in the year, the roads become totally im i 
of 52 feet, the spread of the branches s covering a | able. When the sky is dark in the direction of the 
space of 50 feet. Fine trees ar in man Caspian, the inhabitants are sure of wet weather, an F 
parks and pleasure grounds s throughout te count when clear to seaward, whatever clouds may hay an 
it is of rapid growth, auaiag i in ten years the height over the mountains in the south-west, they are equally 
of 20 feet. Our c 13, 1870, con- | sure of fine bears and the mountains soon become 
tainted, # description of a very e specimen o clear in their turn, The road by the” 
tree ing in Kent, which, although only Se = traveller lies through a thick jungle, sometimes fs 
hi ad to a diameter of 60 feet ; as lofty forest trees, but more frequently of T orns, ; 
150 spikes of Diokom were counted on 3 She or of "i Brambles, and wild Pomegranates. At times it 
lower boughs. I Faak th of opens on the cultivation of a vil tifully 
In Ital e Sou rance, | ©] tiv; village mae 
especially about Milan and Montpelier, the Catal situated amid swelling lawns, and rich, well-watered — 
is planted by the sides of the roads, and in the en interspersed with high trees and copsewood. 
avenues leading up to houses. B, M. e trees consist of Oak, Elm, Sycamore, varieties of z 
the Beech, Alder, with some Walnut trees and 
Ber o aa ae wild fruit trees of various kinds. The Fiesa fi a 
Sycamore, grows luxuriantly amidst deo orests, and 
THE FRUITS OF PERSIA. - is one of the greatest ornaments of untry, The 
(Concluded from Ø. 67.) people have an idea that, when the Sycamore ata atta 2 
AT Ispahan be is produced in such abundance | 2 thousand years it takes fire, and burns spon 
that the Bowler tants are de Faso ae procure every article | The Oak is likewise a fine tree, but toe ate 
ge iniaa to a baie and becomes paparres -i 7 
of Peach, Nolana Apeicot, Pass A and Cherry branches ; the Beech, asin England, is fea a 
flower, mid fine are interspersed with the gardens oe" Gaines * 0” boughs, often to the very ground. e Boxwood 
oan prine are, nea: y the they are called), for any spot where water and foliage | grows among the underwood, and when close to the 
oo rubbish Bhan predominate in Persia is grateful to the eye, and | road, by the passage of cattle, it forms a ct 
ts swoon seen from the high towers ‘Biss have a most a, ce gigantic —— erigan fie ; 
en resque appearance. Apricots are in t abun- y produ F So) 
te onde) tice’; thet-white: Cherry sad wblack Chery, Men. | amon the inder aoid Fan thicket, with Eie blue 
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every 
THE CATALPA vise a small reddish yellow Plum and a ‘sweet | Hyacinths, yellow Lupins, and o 
i ullace Plum, berries white and blac 
a H OLE: A. lenti The Oranges are of several kin code ing a considerable distance to the ba of the moun 
mai 
car] Of ced, white and llow Clover, Daisies, 
ws and Buttercups, renf from a rich aa 
nce, though they are grown i Teheran, where they 
grown more generally than is at present the case. The | the name of the ** Frank’s Mulberry;” the ee 
leaves are large and heart-shaped, growing in whorls | are found growing in abundance on the hills of Mazan- 
