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TAE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
[OCTOBER 3, 187; 
mometer generally pa between 75° to 88°, and in 
wate from 65° to The 
mornin re fresh 
invigorating ; and from the flatness of the islands 
the full benefit of the sea breeze is felt throughout 
part npr them. Hurricanes occasionally occur 
every 
during 1 the months of August, September, and 
~The sre is composed of about twenty mos 
s, and an sraa umber of islets a ocks, 
The land rises almost perpendicularly ko ik im- 
se depth of epai and seems oa have been formed 
mulation of she calcareous 
Atas i fies a reef of rocks 
many of the islands is observed to follow the lirec- 
und, and boundary of the 
Without this papaes the i 
a sq 
diately near is often unfathomable; within it the 
either of a beautiful white sand, or 
with seaweed. Amongst 
ps, the 
botto: 
chequered with roc 
the retired shores and swam 
of trade, and the 
arly manifest daring t oa blockade of 
the Southern States. 
ana appear —-e the 
matic eal ti- 
ature has been a aek er 
her grandest po appears 
the arrangeme pr prei all brist 
prickly Gelences w guard the fruit until it can arrive 
very eviden 
stling alike with 
at maturity and stand forth 
“Tts luscious fruit ee rears 
Amid a coronet of eg 
The skilful treatment by our own — ners has more 
than made up for the =o. and t eee of 
natural temperature, and with pee al cultivation the 
inferior, but often 
; > 
Perno rank came 
) to see it. The art 
the painter was was invoked to celebrate the Pe 
_ for amongst the famous collection of curiositie 
a: Horace Walpole at Stra wberry Hill here: was a 
picture wherein King Charles II. is represented in a 
before his palace 
3 
Oo. 
&c. Whilst inditing his work the first importations 
out the latter in og large — had taken place 
, about two- eds 
: meg arrived in poe. condition, that it was antici- 
that a a regular su pply might hereafter 
“hec Berm Bermudas, bu 
The choi 
West Indies is the i 
orld. 
wnall o 
the w This t 
in Pies Street id eer » b at the shops | us 
and the dark c vering lea aves. 
The Island 
intigua, a mt limited In extent, is one of the 
most productive of the West Indies; the soil is of a 
rich black mou ha a substratum of clay, and seldom 
ons soy the hopes of the oa The chief 
drawbacks to ‘this fertility are e drou ghts which 
occas csally arise, when the dines are “depen ent 
upon the neighbouring laids for their supplies of 
ate 
The excessive heat experienced — the day i is 
relieved by the delightful cool of the even 
ner has the sun hidd 
brea arises ; Aeneis owing as it wer 
wards the n appear 
pass a 
Ai Whe 
ores, the org isois sprinkled 
over a peel from the flowers of oS Aloe 
T beige grows in 
ond oe the numerous homes of the planters, 
emboso in tr ave more the ap ne 
country mansions in England than almost any other 
in the I m o mag He whe 
the western sky is dear, oupe, 
Nevis and St. Kitts may be ~ distin by 
naked eye. 
All the tropical frnits flourish in abundance. 
Amongst the tree ies Guava rise nner 
of a shrub to ro 
a du 
Montserrat, 
the 
of s nterior of the frui 
colour, or a pure ene, growers: nu 
yellow seeds : the flavour is sigs ie and “the jelly 
made from it is said es exceed the e world of 
confectionery. The bright pisse: Es ose flowers 
of the iia seated as they are upon their pale 
mior pe en, ‘flow er-stalk, present a very beautifal 
e: he trunk of this tree (which is male 
of Turni 
forms, poe tte with p 
a conserve, is little short of the Mango pickles of the 
ast Indies, he acrid milky juice which flow 
from all parts of the tree is said to possess the singula 
property of makin eats tender, and 
o wish to pass o 
five or six generations ier young chickens. The faith 
acy is so great that even the exhalations 
in its effica 
rom e the same 
badoes a 
meat in its tate or a few hours with a perce of 
the young fruit; bu riments made 
he Papaw, S nevertheless is 
widely diffused amongst tives. The Avocado 
Pear is a lofty tree, covered with a dense foliage, — 
bearing one of the best fruits the oes produ 
The shape is that of a Quince, with a tough gieo 
ore er vos, one large compressed plobulae 
seed, In flav somewhat resembles a boiled 
anii Mar 
ad abe hor inte arcing its Nadir sister ioe 
e furnishes s choicest examples in the 
Jasmines, the Arabian oes the C Caa the ‘* King” ‘aa 
‘í Queen ers,” a of th 
i appea form a singular contrast 
to the withered- ooking hehe upon the sun-dried 
plains. Æ. 7. B. 
MUSHROOMS 1 „AND TOAD- 
cest variety of the : Pine-apple grown in ary 
ck Antigua, w well kno 
hy, for 
Á to convert what might 
into x: a pleasure, 
A aA U 
spelt in that 
and wine, jeram raat fe iron, aad 
on international r R 
with such crabbed lore, our schoolmaster 
blocs us a large — of Europe, and gave to each boy 
an outline map of the same, stoutly mounted on card- 
board, with ebien to fill it up according to the 
PRE: 
the other iiticles whee 
ead of cram 
model. But the process was long and i 
First, oad was the shading of the seaside ot : 
lines of coast with Indian-ink, finis ff 
second taker and narrower line of a s 
mem 
colourin ifferent countries—and 
does like what calls ‘‘ pain 
yellow; Portugal, red; France, b 
ose-pink ; otland, heather - purple, 
Emerald e, of course, grass-green 
terior frontier of each country 
a line of the national colour a litt 
shade, for the same reason that the coasts ha 
similarly te = Then followed the pu 
vers untains, re pa whole | 
the rather important — o 
result was a strikin 
others friends, a 
finally hung on the ine,’ in a favourable light, in th 
a exhibition = Fose and sample Buri 
grand point was an anive ion a 
— = s gaudy  partioloured € Aei 
mory alone, a ve 
decetit ma rope. Aad ms = "groundwork 
our seh nid Ee to ewes the « yf European 
ography, which then beca because 
“8 sit Be l 
nds, and ever 
ro er place in it 
proper order, all through the clear OOH of the Co 
tinent’s configuration obtained by the amusement o 
map-making. 
The recent inexcusable because e 
on Mr. Smit h’s shay age s and Toadsto 
im statements he never m 
never dreamt o TA ed th i 
the book and its illustrative a of Patter portra 
While so doing, the question natura ally s sugges 
itself, ** Why d not 
x 
a ours, € 
SpA are rat that is is gie to 
his career of Mushroom 
need a 
observation ns on 
a wee will 
learnt the whole by ha nd eye, and proba j 
= will ber too, if ote execution 
Base: with the pe 
w visible g pme in 
ladies of La Salette and of Lourdes are in 
have appeared to mortal eyes. Æ. S. D. 
THE OCCURRENCE OF ALL 
NIUM IN CERTAIN CRYPTOGA 
ALL the more recent yi exact analys 
ashes of plants show ‘that t element 
not to be found amongst i Constituents of | 
plants, and th at its ponr is confined to 
; S. Dur ing t he lat two J 
been end ouring to gi 
aenieei this aut and thro 
of various udi ing 
5| mens o 
which a ne apaan to 
it 
searches are =e no means finished, but I ! 
