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GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
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not have brought in more than £500. He was anxious 
that the aang should take up this peir in`tho- 
lantations, and it would be one 
i foung plan the country if the rabbits aid be porn 
or 
Mr. M‘Corquodale ona ery plantations returned 
d he illustrated oy by 
had 
lately sold at £132 per acre, and another of forty pea 
years’ growth, which realised £70 per acre clear 
fit. 
a France recommended that the ee should 
wn in the summer, when you 
n, said that 
T Correspondence. 
GARDENING IN FLORIDA.—The following extract 
from’a letter I lately received from a friend in Florida 
speaks for itself. William Falconer, North Easton, 
Mass., U.S.A. 
“Our people are beginning to take great interest in 
around them in the shape of fruits, 
ith trees and flowers, 
is attracting consider- 
a prospect 
Fruit 
trees grown in this climate do better than Nes brought 
e are ard of the fact, 
eri south as they 
> nearest nursery d us is that of 
. Buckman, Augusta, Ga. Parts of this as are 
being rapidly settled up by northern and w en, 
the majority of whom seem to have a ma ania ei vivian 
Oranges and other semi-tropical fruit, ae the Serra 
for plants is large. Orange trees are 
20 dols. per 100; 2-year. 
w 
esn 
from eight to ten y ; these bear fruit in 
months after setting out ; 
whberries e 
Grapes the latter part of June; Concord, Ive's, 
Diana (all native), early in July. I have fruited the 
Black Hamburgh in ou rapa culture, also the Malaga, 
selas will do well. Every 
f 
zeha il. "sat visitors have gone to the eastern 
Patt of the State, which is a rather low, Bal Pine-wood 
tractions of this except 
north 
Florida lst winter, and we expect a 
In the next few years I think this country will be settled 
i its superior soil 
am situated g miles from the city of 
ment the 
ut aie wie, 60 feet ae in Pike “mitais 
fine fish. y Oran es have had to 
= s have 
Propitions. I made mon ‘ore the war in Cotton plant- 
the and have lost some 15,000 dols. since in carrying on 
© same business with unreliable labour. I can 
oe d negro labour from 8 to 10 dols. a month 
Phe! eet, ana this laboue T ues is the 
_ for Vines, &c., but os bam 
Work, The most co i 
ignorant, 
ink oi ‘with the 
Placing himself on an equality with them, th 
Aotices of Hooks, 
pet Rohstoffe de 
eels: ulius We oe er. 
erials of 
Walin & Norgate. 
ith the exception of that most useful pr work, 
othing appro 
es Pflanzenreiches, &c. Von 
Svo, pp. 848. (The Raw 
Vegetab!e Kingdom, &c.) 
the Treasury ny, we have ese 
ing a complete account of the rodats of e veget 
le kingdom, and that work, from the compre- 
ensive and popular nature of its contents, is ne 
cessarily imperfect on nts. Why is it 
that, in a count as our own, which pas 
itself on its peng ies and manufactures, and 
which, probably, a greater variety of vegetable pro: 
ucts are utili e have 
$ blishers to run the risk of bringi 
certainly ca — uie from k of materials for os pur- 
sons to unde k. 
or fro n pen o 
uced an exceedingly useful, tolerably 
complete w work, but a translation of it would a ear and 
going eae bak 
m eoi rathe 
mid that a is tolerably co 
omissions, to which we 
m nstances. In 
about thirty pages the author ea the literature 
i a esp this ee = 
g products under twenty heads, adi — 
I, gu , resins; 3 ium ; 
, Aloes; 6, catechu group; 7, fats oils; 8, 
vegetable wax ; 9, camphor ; 10, starch ; fi A 
j ks; yeng Ue aing i 
of flowers ; 
20, thalloid ke. ha 
on the whole, as con any ty the uld be 
devised, certainly better than placing the products 
under the families which yi hem, and prne sh t 
ult than an alphabetical arrangement. 
cons men is 
an index of the a ate ma raea = the Latin 
The first 
and anatomy 
his general definition 0 of gum : 
substances nging to 
carbons, which, in outward appearance resen 
rtant representative of a divis 
bi 
most importan 
well wn gum ic. Like the latter, when 
water is added, they usually form a viscous fluid, o 
often only a sticky gela All gums in commo 
perfectly insoluble in Icohol, and possess the 
liarity of c through the intermediate substance, 
dextrine, into su: oe? 
early one hundred p 
t division of resins, e 
resins, 
ages are devoted to the more 
s, which are l 
a3 
o 
gamboge, asafcetida, Sim of ‘Me ammoniacu 
sit (ote), ay babel 
Econ mar, 
resins y 
whilst others, such Py the o rpa 
not national, probab = account of their not being 
actual articles ‘of comm 
division, devoted to starch, is a very in- 
anges chapter = fifty pages. Thisi is certainly one of 
t and one ot the most abundant of 
apioca, arrow-root, other 
e gives an instructive hon of 
and other kinds of meal ; 
terations bpa means 
micros yen structur: 
o pages "ae given to fibres, all the 
and a unimportant ones being described 
there 
known now that one would scarcely expec 
°o 
5 
g aea g 
tek SL 
rt 
= 
o 
he med, sf 
value te this carpi oe, i for the ra 
bl 
would account for cinnamon an 
being sone , and coffee, 
ipecacuan sarsap 
mentioned I Sidet any heading. Then, again, 
the D , &c. However, “it is 
mentioned above 
t 
absence of a ces that 
in full. The little use we have yet ek idii e book 
essness of consulting = 
uniperus vi 
e 
x8 
giniana, but could not 
we after came 
remaining cha i eaves, fruits, gayi &e., 
are equall interesting, but open to the jection 
we iik is ioctaded ary me Bat in 
a most useful 
and what 
spite of these little inconsistencies it 
book. 
t number of the Botanical Maga- 
of the following 
in gardens as T. ign 
but which h Ma the reputation bs gh say a shy bloomer. 
uth 
toi ar South of E sane gues Jon mag fd 
o of Japan, supposed to 
the normal form of the Iris Kæmpferi, lately men- 
o by Polygonatum vul var. - 
thum is, as D err : apparently only a 
trifling the well-known Solomon’s Seal. 
Lastly, Blu acca contorta is one of those very 
handsome Loasa-like plants which every one should 
see, and no a 
— The last part of ine Teraa te? de la Société 
Centrale d Horticult ure de an elabo- 
article on the germin: T the ese ot various 
Lilies, and on the fi ; 
Duchartre. “We shall pr rob 
