424 THE 
OAR DE Nike “CHRONICLE: 
[OCTOBER 3, 1874, 
tinct kinds, As the genus — so Dicey sone. in the 
or sa Islands, which en temperature of 
, it is highly’ probabie that the Fern 
ceed well in 
artificial man 
Earley, Valentines. 
DR. Se GARDEN AT 
f <n sh sil — with pleasure the 
enry Bennett has oe 
for some year a peat: enriched rs r colum Thes 
Ditis have since been incorporated into evo of the 
books of the kind ever eee 
poston to 
accuracy, and, so far ur oppor- 
rmitted, to endorse his S conclusions. 
F an 
Ai 
atan kente pen d eto ‘che sea, sik little or no saree soit 
and with a hard rocky substratum of ae Imagine, 
pi a climate w in rarely falls, and where for 
or five months al oF beats so cel 
that scarcely a lizard liv th here, on a 
lovely promontory dvetooking the town of Mentone, 
sheltered from the north, and at about a mile’ sdistance 
from ae Dr. Bennett has succeeded in ing out 
, which is not sh in point of space, but 
wear ‘is large vi far as intrins terest g t 
of e do 
whil ns at Monaco, La Mort ola, 
Genoa, rat A De te thrive à merveille all along 
the coast, Bennett has turn l this’fact to 
d Dr. 
aie 
Dr. 
tering tender 
ie ger of : m- 
ratur for purposes of 
propagation. We can well i iipit that the atiii, 
whom such a g enhouse was utterl 
known, looked upon the English doctor as one not 
Fuite compos. It may be where in such a si 
ges the soil come from in which the plants grow ? 
Well, part of the terraces have been used formerly for 
Olive — indeed sag es afford the raison d’étre o 
the terr Again. the crevices of the rock are 
found deposits of lonii soil washed down from bone 
mountain’s side and stored up in these cracks. 
soil tang: unattainable use is made of Chestnut er 
ould that is composed in great part of the decaying 
bark and twigs of the Sweet Chestnut tree. This is a 
different thing from leaf-mould, consisting as it does 
principally of the decaying wood of the tree. Sample 
f this and of similar soils , we may incident- 
ally, exhibited at the Florence exhibition, and excite 
tE 
f 
fungus soil as 
that. ever, 
r much to do _— obviating these ill effects. 
abundant means of irrigation ate ant growth 
assumes ern datiesnan proportions when once the 
m ver, From April t 7 ak ape 
there i is little or y jse tho Ri it was our unlucky fate 
e drenc arden which should be rainless 
sig aig and "Ap ril the 
i = temperatu ire fice 
those summer mont nge fon 74° to 84°, and 
n winter is generally about 44° for a night minimum 
Very y, and t nly for a night, does the 
thermometer reach freezing point. This must have 
een the case in the present spring, for the Lemon 
were i laces even at Mentone severely 
blackened by the frost—the same probably which 
played so much havoc a the “which at the end o 
den would 
o . 88 
is iy taken koi the qe tg the terraces, looking towards 
Men tone, “oe _immedia ately over the way from 
p The tower in the left-hand corner 
useful as point 
wh arbary sorb were 
the terror of the inhabitants of this coast. The 
gaves, Draczenas, Yuccas, &c., will serve to give 
some idea of the gern Mo features of this gar- 
dener’s eyrie, 
po nn 
Foreign Correspondence 
WoDENETHE, FISHKILL,: ON THE Hupson.—In 
your issue “of August 22 you gave a very inereafing 
account of the oo revoluta flowering in the J bm 
air. wish also to bear testimony to the many 
instances where tropical pleats stand out during the 
s, all at ur congenial climate ; 
and here I will give the dimensions i another of the 
g m re to be 
New York State, wai ch has flow re 
cumf 
is 4 es; the height of 
and ney stn from the — of on 
o the other measures 10 feet. This year it Apa 
ted i , and thrown a very fine 
orst, 
sae 65° s 
to plants of any cha- 
racter; no L , Yews, or 
varieg Hollies will stand it, although we have 
fine specimens of these dine have to be 
taken another cou in winte ly, brought 
indoors, Befere coming to this country I could not 
le mericans could of 
i ti 4 as it pA 
as it was to me, I will gi 
varieties, that give the places where planted a 
very rich appearance, A he gold, silver, and „blue 
colours mixed in with t pim give a most 
viridis, 
c 
generally, but 
the Atlantic for the Land of the West. G. 7: R 
TR e 
o4 INDIAN UCE lon 
all, its non-liability to attac : ate fungi. 
forests form one of the eae features of the 
Central Pioviness Berar, Bom bay, and Mysore, va 
to some extent of Madras also, as well as in Bur 
Mr. Baden-Powell says t 
AE ural limit POTRA, to which Teak attains 
(about 25° ASA correapopn p neia ʻo; bi limits in 
Burma, so far at lea we hae mation on 
? 
Towar r that limit a ‘rafnfall enna pi 
r SAS 
and night-frosts are mon, ill 
wards a r that, as a rule, tempera Sas 
an effect on the range of production as moisture. Ifa 
line be drawn from the mouth of th budda on the 
west, c g upwards Jhan en curving 
eastern face, following t 
the 25th parallel of north latitude, and then See round 
to the hills enclosing the Salween river. ek , how- 
ever, known of the Teak tracts beyond t e artificial z 
boun cag of British Burma. ; 
‘On the slopes of the great agè = hills north of s is 
Netbudda r ey, ka the forest con- 
or furniture work, but is said to make the 
locomoti _ From the bark a strong — i obtained, 
Masing 
and mixed with mapa oa 
ieee 
ge. 
and is with fresh chips several 
which it is evaporated to the consistence of a a 
which, as it coo 
s, beco ard, and has a 
shining fracture, It a very bitter and ast 
taste, and is rt asses or lu 
aon tine ean for hae and tanning purpos 
in the n vzhpourhood of poe : 
maana the "Dak k (Butea frondosa) is common, and in the 
wiands the Mohwa (Bassia Tatifolia). 
tree 
* The flowers being of a helii Se colour, 3j 
early spring before the leaves 
