718 THE 
GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
[DECEMBER 5, 1874, 
of England. The question is merely one of | 
storing. There is abundance of 
each inch is equal to 23,000 gallons, or to about 
a weight of 100 tons per acre. Even our driest 
counties have 20 inches of rainfall, in addition 
to dews, or over 2000 tons per acre. It is calcu- 
lated that we use less than a seventieth part of 
the rainfall, or, in other words, that the twenty- 
five million inhabitants of England and Wales 
e for all their machi i i 
a year; whereas the 
supply by rain alone is twenty-seven million 
millions of gallons, or one hundred and eighteen 
thousand four hundred millions of tons. 
And then we draw from wells, streams, rivers 
reservoirs also. 
in depth. The great danger of wells arises from 
the filtration of the filth 
them. 
pected. Ata farmhouse near Bedford, a water 
closet was put up and the excreta conveyed into 
An outbreak of illness occurred, whi t was 
discovered that the well had been poisoned by 
uman excr 
20 inches, and more in proporti 
_ house and outbuildings 
a would furnish 28,000 gallons a year. Of course 
_ Mm constructing storage tanks and r irs 
reat c be taken to exclude impure 
and the troughs and roof also would 
nave to be looked over and kept 
clean. It would also I ewater 
through a filtering bed of stones or charcoal, 
SRE Sieeaia 
official report of the HORTICULTURAL 
> Le Off 
SECTION of the UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION at VIENNA 
in 1873, by Dr. just reached 
tes on the rise and rogress of 
N ltu and the impulses it a reied fom the 
Competitive displays at various international exhibi. 
paren he ue very strongly of the 
reby many 
that it would be 
‘extent it mu : the cost 
plants will alwa great distances from | 
taking part in the etit ith regard to the 
permanent exhibitions, they necessaril i 
8 ns exhibit anent and five tem- 
porary exhibitions, whereof 137 were resi in 
ungary, the er from the following 
- Austria or Hu 
expected, was absolutely unrepresented ! 
At Hawkstone, one 
d, ma 
—— the most picturesque 
parks in England, y be i 
characteristic plants of Cryptomeria japonica, which 
will, when well advanced, become quite a picturesque 
fod 
bal 
Oo 
—— The accompanying cut (fig. 142), copied from 
the Schriften der phys.-thon. Gesellschaft zu Königs- 
erg, vol. iv., represents one of a number of pollard 
Willows that were split upwards from the base many 
Cus Y 
FIG. 142,—SPLIT WILLOW. 
Sec ago, 1n consequence of a landslip on the right 
t of the Augerapp, opposite the village of Darkeh- 
men, in Prussia. In the jo above-named Dr. 
CASPARY gives a detailed account of all the circum- 
ances att landslip in question, with a fall 
description of ich i 
€ conditions, which is of little 
interest to any one except those on the spot. fe 
words of explanation will suffice here, Formerly the 
oad from Dar to Gumbinnen tray. the 
site of the landslip, a i the river on one side, and 
a steep declivity on the other. Both sides of the road 
were pla ith trees, chiefly Salix alba. The 
deposit is a blue marl, which is very solid, and holds 
when to the air, 
cl 
in circumference 
The cleft is about 6 feet 6 inches 
of 
seen a fine coHection of 
high, and the legs, as 
yard apart at the base. 
The HARDINESS oF OPUNTI 
? is 
in making species, 
was the statement 
one of the French 
one the round o 
periodicals without challenge 
pruning a diseased tree, wi 
to a healthy one, 
—— One of the most valuable of 
i ints for the conserva 
conservat 
abundant: 
growing in the 
distributed abou 
it a place amo; 
a rich 
ng hardy 
vegetable soil 
ever, soon succumbs to 
capensis, Solanum jasminoides, 
it were, of the tree are sega 
the same as O 
ho is generally 
describes it as 
; rench and Belgian 
e of the best-grown examples of the 
ANTHURIUM SCHERZERIANUM which we E 
house was probabl 1, 
in this country of the exceed 
Palm, GEONOMA SEEMANNI, 
freely. 
The YELLOWS IN THE PEACH seem to bea 
bud, or even 
communi 
and 
plan to plant it in a cold 
Would form an excellent 
Pretty cations 
dining pe. 
ìs indeed 
ingly rare 
which was 
If you dig rounda 
late sumi 
tory is 
