774 
LHC OGARDENICRS. œa CORGN ICL. ` 
[DECEMBER 10, 1874. 
(p- 16). G Berkeley protects he from being | having everything prepared beforehand ; sheeps’ 
maintain that ‘disease of the | feet, or other things & /a poulette; plain boiled 
hen gean was immediate eens by the tuber—thus | Potatos. a short, to carry out the ie 
for instan as far aérial portions of | only to consult your Cookery-boo 
the plant are concerned the Botrytis i is the immediate | invention.—Take away the mutton, Susan, aei fet us 
cause of destruction” (p. 24). ave the hare, smoking hot, if you pleas 
Professor Dyer ‘wn ‘the paper clearly saran “ Hare ! hot ! and without much Eak $ aid 
that ‘‘ the branches bore spores of two kinds, of ** Certainly ; the trouble was taken yesterday. 
which set free a number of locomotive end eetrehacty While she is Rigi Sag itn oa with you i aces 
agile little bodies, panie of propelling themselves | book, and sy as fast as I dictate. For this, t 
through water by m of their iah -like fila- | tell you, is ym t-rate a wrinkle, uy ne will livide 
ments with considerable r rapidity. These oo were | it, for Aek into three r processes, after 
res, reason to believe | skinning the hare, cutting it si aaa and saving all 
that in showery athe? they readily at ir way the hg therefrom, 
from one moisture-covered leaf to another, and so . Take oe herbs, four ets. pounded, one 
became extremely active agents in propagating the hive Onion cut into shreds, cooking Apple 
disease. The Rev. M. J had observed | chopped fine, snd Sonis finely Sirot eget l. 
these zoospores, but had not detected their cilia, and “ Putin a frying-pan 2 oz. of butter, place it over a 
had not, t bright ams fire, add all the ingredients following I. ; 
Mr. Belies. said—well, he said nothing ence when very hot put in the pi of hare, turn them 
about the matter! he indeed g rom | over euickiy aho. while the frying. a is s gently 
Montagne, which is probably a oospore- -beari earing | shifted a — over the fire ; brow well, 
= ape (pl. Wif i7) bit nekhit Mr. Berkeley nor “II Hav ready wi ae a a nt of 
i e knew its meaning. All he says gooi stock broth, a little pepper and salt, and so: 
sepuniitig it is ‘occasional appearance of a spore” ! strips of bes n. one quarter of 
e MW he fry-* 
our readers the true state of the 
Rev. M. J. Berkeley, who does not need the ascri 
tion to him of work h belongs to others, and 
which he never claime Agriculturists, horti 
applied sc 
with a T Eie. a 
Horticultural Society! Wm. Carruther. 
Consulting Botanist to the Rami aferin Society, 
CULINARY NOTES. 
U you find o mealendurable, Mrs. Munster. 
a good d 
dged by 
We lik 
(acknowled 
inner on S 
the Church 
“But do you eat cold dinners on Sunday all winter | 
“ By no means ; you see we have had hot soup to- 
z pleasant, wholesome, and even 
necessary for certain 
constituti the greater part of the year ; 
and inthe climate of the United Kingdom people 
cannot live in in winter, even in a kitchen, geomet a 
fire. o 
outa 
very bstain on , from 
dishes whi ch require m uch or Fio ong ppn im- 
mediately previous to serving them. Iam sure that 
Susan, though she is housemaid, and ‘it isn't her 
} as servan en say, does not object to oe 
= 2S things ready 
easy to manage, 
order to et cook have her daj of which she her- 
wil ba hee turn. y jan Ee 
lestly in ase 
willing to i 
ime and give little Goib. | P 
employers’ com- 
or debar her 
g 
e first cut At inns 
eat many warmed-up vegetables wi 
without knowing — 
Peas, French Beans, Salsify, sundry purées—why no 
oe are plenty of hot 
ett 
do the same at home 
dishes 
| 
mer quite eae 
If allowed to boil, it will not 
ng. 
“III. Add to the blood saved a small quantity of 
beef sige i ean of a and one tablespoonful of 
brand nty minu —— ore gta a hi 
was i e r“ wel 
together. During the edie ould ane stewpan 
reaus moa add a little be of Stock from time x 
Ther 
me, ma. turn the es are. 
The read eaming before you.” 
a It is is viel a deal of subie. — how do you 
manage to have it so nice and hot to-day ?” 
‘ No great work was acc oike without trouble 
Its Sne to-day is effected Ta y enough, 
bka pm me completely = ished it off, he put 
r dinner and gra J into an 
cathe jet with å miira iting lid, which jar was 
laced by Susan in a dain marie thi 
is, into a saucepan of hot w 
fire, ually b the boiling pua; 
without the possibility of burning i mw 
sue ae an excellen t contrivance ; so easy, 
i: 
“ By the way, now we are at it, ine s your plum 
pudding, ery ang 
ster? Good? Only so-so, eh? 
| You 3 are not tired of writing, Chariot ? We will 
| give you ours, w which is not expen 
| ** Beat up four eggs aul Add pay them, first, half- 
a-pint of new _a teaspoonful of salt, Then 
mix in half-a-poun beef suet, chopped very fine; 
a pound of raisins, ch 3 a quarter of 
a pound of aa sE ramagi . d of brown 
sugar; one nutmeg grated ; of candied 
peel, cut into , small stops Stirs all ‘well together 
thin 
and ay another half pint of new milk ; then beat in 
d ass 
e 
is better, as well as more shapely, when boiled 
ina dupe or mould. 
**For sauce, make = good ue butter; put 
in some loaf sugar, a glass o ite wine 
a glass of brandy ; make it just boil 1 up ; pour half = 
pethe pulling, and serve the rest ina 
lum au Vésuve is done by cutting a 
with warm Se at 
ame light to 
before it is carried =i but this is a rete fraught 
with some danger a errant oP ae = should be 
guarded against a ” Coquinu 
BRAZIL NUTS. 
THE seeds a! Pei nobilis are known in 
commerce as B The amount rted from 
Para alone i in ie mein! 5 ae year 1863 was 18,862 
alquieres Man 
ami Taking this 
one year, the yield imdami to about 
fruits, or 
60,000 
. = of 3 
ner nuts, broken in a similar subjec ted 
op a when hey yield iy ail: “greatly esteemed 
for domestic purpo: port, each pound of 
, perc 
of 74 parts o ste aktie. The finely 
e and 
laminated hree Wit of the trunk is also a valuable 
the 
18s, 
article of commerce, especially adapted for 
oe of ships and "barges, being worth about 
per 
scott pes arises—how z th 
es ; 
oot, c confine < gemy 
ficiently o allow of the liberation of the seeds, 
then, perhaps, another year’s exposure before the 
. thick testa of the seeds could rot sufficiently to allow 
the ryo germinate, s show: 
ontai 
find a reverse nao 
the embryo of Bertholletia has been extricated and 
ost favourable mstan 
P under the circu ces, it 
takes a whole ae Deire it a s Roepe: Bon 
this iner dies lan o the lar tine in 
pa oil-cells w ich preserves it Sna de ae ? F Miers, 
“ Transactions of the Linnean Society,” vol. xxx, 
p. 157.) 
A BOTANICAL TRIP TO MONT 
CENIS AND THE MARITIME ALPS,* 
va GEORGE MAW, F.GS., F.L.S. 
MR. L, in his Gui ide to the ees La 
of ne Cenis that ‘fit is one of the ges: 
ganen for a natu ralist in the kaa ae of the 
Al There th ps mor F 
ing 
quartered on the summit of the Pass ‘ 
nd 7000 feet above the sea, almost ‘within sight of 
the glowing plain of Lombardy, and surrounded by 
— abounding in the richest gems of the alf 
oo ne bebo x jug twenty-four hours 
leaving L ng a picture: pe be 
through the chat Ee jars; shut in nby noble es 
ments of Amg limestone clothed with a Tawri 
wth == Frise oe 
a Tt 
teresting pl ee are seen from 
Orchis laxiflora, Centra: 
rose-coloured flowers. 
of od 
railway, Sacia : 
nthus angustifolius gas: 
Here and ther 
sprays of elegant cream-coloured flo 
rly autumn Sambucus racemosa is co 
its bunches of e eae fruit. ne 
plants by the sid Sa the railway an 
ont : 
is Epilobium rosmarinifolia : 
s of th 
genus. It attains a a 
alps assumes a dwar: r habit under the name of E 
lobium i 
Salvia pratensis isa oe weed on the 
banks, and here and there may be seen Salvia 
and $. glu diac Amongst the o 
plants may be enumerated Saxifraga rotun 
Sedum alt la -fa 
ocymoides (wh ms lovely rose 
h for 4 
on the rocks), G Genista sagittalis, Torea C hamæ 
nd T. 
Atg ER Culoz Junction is reached, and after 
an hour’s delay for the division of the Swiss from 
I trai in, Ae turn South, cross the Rhone, 
ing “Chen béry, 
gradually emi thro 
district. 
y 
emoved, indicating the 
placier that filled up the valley, an 
20 miles in distan (o 
e valley gradually narrows, 
— cias are occasionally o 
mits of the Mount Tabor 
€ Mont 
still 15 miles off, and cae the rail 
* Read at the December meeting of the. 
Edinburgh, 
