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DECEMBER 26, 1874.] 
THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
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FIG. 162,—BASE OF A GIANT BUTTRESSED TREE IN THE FORESTS OF THE AMAZON, 
k. On the contrary it is an honest attempt to 
make pupils use their own powers of observation and 
ee peaks wn eyes and their own fingers, in- 
stead of depen naike on those = mary people. We 
may fokan yö commend the o be iir a 
pu E teachers, who will fad it. shed meeh ia to 
e authoress has, in her aim at sim- 
Pe rhaps 
A occasionally erred, but if so the fault i is on the 
side. We 
right not see, eh instance, that to the 
ç 
remember the word 
erat 
writers o age ment tary pt 
greáter pretensions, 
the flower ‘‘ comin 
olh, or what 
term ‘“‘insertion.” t 
fertilisation that we find the most evidence of origina 
observation and reflection. 
—— We give, by permission of Messrs. Chapma n & 
Hall, t two additional woodcuts fr om Keller’s splendid 
work o on the Amaz 
y tropical countr 
compared “ec as sketch oft a similar tree from the 
of Captain : g 
The kN (fig. 161) represents the settleme nt 
of an indiarubber collector on the Madeira River. 
| Brazil takes the first place a ‘the rubber-pro- | 
ducing 
has been 
any provisi apa se re 
As it is more n Samgo» n pou 
annum are produced, while. the price of the exported 
arti pho: in BP s best 
ones, 
trees (Siphonia elastica) though much injury 
n done by rec carpe say ing at the abse = a 
pla 
lee millio unds oe = 
e is st e ow 
on a soil wherein its stem is ys bmerged 3 by 
the d re fee at The best 
ground for it therefore is the igapéd, ta lowest and 
most deposit of the Biros gra - ere, in the 
tche 
tie Ps by the 
ar peared of the p ont 
” hut 
d hov els Shale dered pas sabe during the 
evice of rais the floors on 
wooden pi iles, of 2 metres high, in which the cano—the 
Bo 
harbour. As as the dry ig sel sets in s$ 
colias Seikka. "himself to the trees and cuts 
holes in the bark with his hatchet. The milk-white 
p imm ely exudes into pieces of b tied 
elow ovér little cups set under the gashes to prevent 
= tri p collector travels 
O 
on his os visit h 
he em Fi es at hom 
serve as basins. 
smoking process, as the 
after a while, and the quality oft he ru 
inferio Re 
E 
arrow 
a Palm 
c 
e cala bak provided with liana straps, which 
nto large turtle-shells, which 
W ithout a ayy. delay he sets about the 
us parts will separate 
omes 
ithout bottom, and with 
set by way of chimney over a fire of | 
m nuts 5 (Attales sp.), whose smoke alone has | 
mediate effect of coagulating the caoutchouc. 
Fe 
The milk is thoroughly exposed, by stirring with a 
see shovel, i 
aone a 
It will thus be seen that no 
waste in the collection, but great 
mperfection in ae manufacture.” JAR is only one 
m h 
meantime commend rea 
not only for its great artistic merit, -a t for he abun- 
dance of useful Hioni it contai 
third part of Dr. Carrington’s British 
Hepatice s (Hardwicke) has been issued, The work 
vill be found indispensable by students of this class 
of plan 
— There is little sery now-a-days for a want 
of ae scant ce with British literature on the grour 
of ex . Weha “5 a s the complete works of 
Jar rat homson a sat of Mrs. He mans (Dicks), printed 
ins a | but clear type, for pi e ae 
may be had for a shilling, a like sum, Gold- 
smith for ninepence, ie bor Shite and othec 
uthors i lection 
from the best plays may be had at one penny each. 
At a time when there is such an overflow ee 
num 
gs, it is satisfactory to find that no 
eaders crave for more rieien and 
snitriciouie aes 
