714 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. (DHE 5 a, | 
searcher, who glared at me as never, I thought, woman | the first moment. If left some days unprotected. the BIRDS. FREQUENTING THE 
could do. I E aaki in justice to Picacho fficials in | after care was less satisfactory. The rabbits had then | DENS, ee PARK. = Me tie Sa Gu. 
general to say that this experience is quite unique. got a taste = is not like to be disappointed in their | Wim mpole Str W., pas 
My intercourse with French custom-house officials has ibbling ground, and would find their way through the | Zhe Field the following list of | birds whi he ten 
not been infrequent, but I never before or since fell stuff to Steal of the trees, but if the day’s planting | in these gardens during the last few 
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under t es of such an i l- | was protected at the time, it was extremely rare for 3 Rai 
female searcher, though I once to | a single tooth-mark to be found afterwards. Dead | ‘ Tree Sp ori Jack at p 
submit with the best grace I could to the Jack-in- | sticks were found to be as effective as live ones, as Hedge Sparrow Uresciinel Garin Wren i 
office braggadocio of a commissary of police at one of | barriers, if not more so. It is iablain that a tree Robin Yellowhammer Reed Wai j 
the French ports, Moral t: Get Ki man to searc planted for a year or more is touched by rabbits; they erae Ae CoR h | Blackcap ce 
baggage, if you can. Moral 2 n't carry new | like their food juicy, and will nares stop to pare a dead ong-tailed Tit lack | Whitethroat 
snes for your friend’s lady hiendeee dangerous. | stick. Neither do they appear to be endowed with Cole Pipit _ | Fiy caer 
Rambler, e penetrative curiosity which characterises the ra eae Ti ane hee —_ . 
eee ee eee err! and other carnivorous vermin, but seem to be easily M Thrush oll ieldf; 
í j 1 satisfied by ** outside show,” and they look at a fileto T hrs ae Mein 
Florists’ Flowers. bundle of dead rubbish with contempt and unworthy Starling Tree Creeper 
Av one of the meetings of the Royal er of ae 5 i a Bag bh ’ Fa that as 3 
Society held during the past summer, é vey | m); usand was injure 
beautiful forms of Mimulus maculosus (if this name | When thus rudely “fortified with dead twigs = oti ces of k 
sufficiently distinguishes a type), were shown by | rubbish tightly pressed round the stems. Tw OORS, 
derson & Son, of St. John’s Wood, | Or three bunches of furze laid round a tree will 4 Of the thata 
and awakened much interest because of their large size | Keep it safe, as, in se will br anything \ Doiii ai of tie Lin Linnean i Socia, Jast volume of the 
and splendid marking. happens to be lying about. But there is nothing Ly, just published, is 
A remarkably fine strain is also in the hands of Mr, | better than five or six dead Larch sticks stuck round | occupied with Mr. Mie ir of the cari 
ER amdal B Scarborough—a | the trees. Rabbits will hardly ever push through a i r, i dge’s systematic list of 
A them, but turn i at very first e former 1s illus 
gentem ttis se ord. vate Soe mife pai cot aes smell. Let those who are troubled with rabbits eat- | ex by the venerable aut 
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as they easily may do, how effective it is, If yrtacece, they have alternate leaves without pellucid 
their rabbits are not gifted with greater intelligence | dots. Apart from this the main distinction 
an the breed i 
sn reed thus successfully combated, this | to be that while in Myrtac 
very € 1 ch, cpigiey <p of seedlings dockade] plan will be further adop s the easiest, | in Lecythideæ they form a cup 
arge enough to ha ile they are pricked off into pans cheapest, and best of rabbit barriers for sl planta- out unsymme è 
of about fifty each an inch apar en they begin | tion work. With bushy Pine shrubs or Hollies the hooded appendage (symmetrical in 
h themselyes the pans are placed in 1a | live Willows as a counter bait is a idea, asa | withstanding thes per ad characters, the essen 
wed to flower, the first blossoms } few might serve the purpose. Such shrubs cannot | tial structure bel Lecythideæ is My 
putting in an appearance bink ipere weil from |: easily be stuck round closely with dead sticks and have been generally considered to form a group 
the time of sowing. As they flower the poor types rubbish, but the stem of a young Larch or Oak can in only subondinal value. M 
are w out, and the improved varieties potted | # moment. Young Woodma term urceolus for the staminal 
stagly into thumb-pots, and grown on into specimen plants in favour androphorum long _— 
size. Any types of unusual merit remain in the ` to it by Mirbel. The wiy T e = ' 
thumb-pots, and produce their seed therein, which is Natural H istory. but androphore was certainly not limited in its app 
ri as possible, = actually sown again cation to Lecythideze by Mirbel, but applied 
from the 4th to the 20th o = this second bat THE VIVIPAROUS TOAD (Gardeners’ Chron zcle, | case of united heer Mr. Miers also 
li ot into flower in vag! Se eight to twelve | P- ©54).—Botanical Matvei are, by right of conquest, stamens as borne up 
weeks; only the very best a are saved, and from the: Mr. Meehan’s own iar province, but his incur- | attached to the androphorum 
aea is obtained to sow in Marchi: fo lowing. g. Thus sions into the cg of zoology should be met by at | appendages if not filaments ? 
tw ions of flowers are had in one year. east some show of par far matter of general en hota that they 
The Mimulus should hea wn iia meet init mot The es pa of scientific discovery is nowadays so | plants yielding Brazil and Sa . 
e. They are impatient d tmo- | rapid n many cases stare super antiguas vias has to Mr. Miers ormer are rodwea by Be 
d sun-heat, In what is generally known as become at a synonym for į obstinacy of wilful | nobilis, Mies; and the latter by Lec 
a north they not fail to do well. hey | See The present inquiry is, however, made in | Miers. analyses whic 
mak indow plants when th ida of the | other than a respectfully mie ae attitude. extremely valunble: 
window is northward. Really — examples of Tt always u o be supposed that among the | Jugastrum, however : 
it can sometimes be m ith in country districts— | 29™Urous batrachians impregn iton was effected regarded as small-fruite 
externally during the passage of the ova, If this be | Nor is Allantoma apparently sufficiently dist 
still the acecpted. doctrine, and Mr, Meehan’s obser- rom Couratari. Carinian b 
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the old-fashioned large-flowered type Maast with 
great ofusion th ; Summer | oug TI AA id i a A 
= furnish an instance ‘of parthenogenesis rather than of, | considers to have a improperly separated 
strictl ucti i of the new spe 
=. ng any 
explanation very simple one, but so start- | Lecythis are ioniděd o on fruits only. They 
v, pia ge te oted at p. 657 ling a a oa is me at least, seems to plead for some | course hereafter be vindicated by additional cha 
a Darlington of sticking Willows further inquiry. derived from other organs, present, ho 
aces young trees to. Prevent ogee depredations in To what species of toad, then, do these observations many of them do not seem to possess more 
ectual as it is simple. Just | Tefer?—and where can the Opinions of those pans eo ‘tient Se and it is even saa 
as py as and joe ane still is the placing round | 8'Sts who have accepted this view be met with? Is | some of them t have b uced by 
ish. that the ground may | y such doctrine really held ‘on this side of the individual tree, me ot i 
bi For upwards of a quarter Atlantic? And where, too, can we find the * ** over. y Mr. Miers on a single flower entangled in 
e duties of my father to whelming evidence as to the snake”? Or i tak men of Chytroma Spruceana. i 
see to the nursing up, of | reptile not — in its ae for swallowing ? Be | however, that Mr. Miers has flowers 
all sorts, but | this as it may, — be very to have my ignor- | species which do not really belong to it atal; 
abounded with | ance dispelled. 2 true flowers ar of his 
by their nibbling — ; hora in size. The s ise 
ed wasa oÉ THE EMU As A FARM BIRD.—The Paris Accli- solitary flower on which Cercophora is 
loss. The ubiquitous | matisation Society has received a large number of | not rauy belong to Chytroma Spruceana, 
at extermina- emus from Brazil with the view of breeding them on ive charaċters to inj 
uin rce | their farms. It has possessed some specimens for a quent withering of the 
Wiring was but it | considerable time, and they are perfectly necliaha ised the botanists are due to this rene 
was a matter of wiring cheer tn where the ground was | and lay regularly. They are r reported to be perfectly Miers’ painstaking labours, 
full of them, and men, ferrets, dant dogs were foiled in | hardy, bear the coldest weather without i inconvenience, 
attempts to catch and kill; It was observed, how- | and thrive on the coarsest food. The eny believes — A fifth edition of Dr. T. H. Bennet’s d 
ably that when a tree was untouched, it was invari. | that the great size and good quality of the flesh of fal: boo! book, entitled Winter and Spring on the Shores 
these southern ostriches, their large and piaia eggs, | the Mediterranean, has lately been byi 
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as domestic fowls. Our Australian friends would be ing aught in favour of this 
able to inform us whether the emu promises to become | it is a fifth edition, that considers ry 
a denizen of ou geal w yards, « have been published in our columns, and that © 
a S our readers have been enabled to form their 
Gati? da rik Roots OF OAK TREES,— I thank | impressions as to the Sosheny j 
you for your courteous reply to m tion respectin writer’s views on the relation of vegetation to 
TER pa Airida tb A rA pe the: int as ns Suffice it to say this fifth edition is:no mere 
whether the galis were on Oak or Holo osos 0 | but includes auch andit 
| visited nt and forti Günd er | author’s most recent experiences of 
was plentiful, pro ; was evidently a continuation the Mediterranean sho 
had planted in the day. of which I sent you a portion, additional facts in geology, 
therefore, immediately after to protect the tees | ones to it through the mass of brought to light pisare observ 
seas at sxa pape S ‘habe pote 3 pli a prising distance away, oe a 1ern shores a] 
afternoon, Poir the was not en Holly roots > Riviera in 
| confidence z 
t Cynips aptera was able to select the | islands of the Mediterranean : 
Th was thus finished as it went on, to th Oak fro: che i lect the t ranean ; 
great comfort of the manager, and real profit ne i ee dense growth of Spee roots aem: | Be Tiina ae u 
prompt protec ictly Medi iarritz, 
Aneel found to be of 
