learn the trade of buckle- ; but he disliked to 
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milar to that TE occurs in our 
Filix 
-mas cristata. M. 
DEATH OF MR. B BILLINGTON, 
е all well marked examples of а tasseled development | | bo the towns and villages | whieh are situated | 
British I 
THE WELL 
KNOWN ARBORICULTURIST. 
Tae deceased William Billington, 
oungest 
and at tho тв -— 13 re was sent 
rs, Belmullet; | 
of Roy Tow: 
Mayo, Ireland, DN mcd of this айа, was n at Hadnal, | | 
vilago near ear Shrewsbury, on tho coh 2 July, 1776. His 
лот а mstances, the education | | prr 
Ec айу m 
i ich occupied the оаа seeds from any Ra in the Pacife or West 
p capit: tal and dnd towns an с village ges in the Sierra or ена. to which place it was taken by Capt: Bligh. 
nity cou ntry. The Guayaquilians wished, it „уаз At first sight I really thought that the leaves were 
үт the D other than ow of Artocarpus incisa, but 
a с 
ntry, with а view to the establishment of sound | the great difference in the. size of the leaf from 
Б "њега! piane. vd the ved development of the| those I had seen on gites in cultivation, — 
vario us scienc Wha mport: it ben efits the “1 liberal | with its great height a ik" spreading brai 
ciples " on t completely dispelled the While I was oa 
8 
пећ | Į учет a say; W MAY! there was great necessity | plating my new diner ё и by of soldiers—who had 
ч ves rcd | for id advancement of at least some of the sciences. | been out collecting firewood—came along and halted 
of of this te d i 
to use his own pim be unable to obtain. the sight | | Ав ро 0 : may state that es the | under the tree, in order to rest and refresh themselves, 
of a green field for a whole fortnight he got arm sick of | past "us т, Dr. Jameson, who was then professor| From one of them І Іеагпей that the tree was called 
busklo-making, and ran home & distance of nearly 50 ор botany іп the cn of Quito, had only | Ње Arbol de pan, tree of bread, во thatit turned out 
n Эмн now thrown on, his own K Rr. areas, ho атыу three pupils. e the T La Fd after ak Certainly, the 
Jum o Ва, the celebrated foxhunter, ofSundornCastle | Ву the lith of J I had so far recovered | le spec of this in — 
rom the effects of A that Г "applied to Mr. |in in лән dem which are n ny vmi acie 
Mocatta for funds to enable me to procee d up the| 3 or 4 Per in Pelis e with two or three tattered ато 
"River, to a place called: called" Vent t idea of the tree. whatevi 
Pavo Mel Wario mob ma Mr. | and Ное nct been for tbe little thread of Iaformesiun 
E 
E, 
— 
path was, bosot WEB. éiuics 
в, yet ved ga pplication to reading such. works as | 
gos of Milto n, o4 E Мур, ДЫК and others of that | forces, ut would, 
ind, he acquired M — for abilit 
оой conduct, h io gained а ch: 
making extracts 
З or4 o'clock in the ber 
tand 
h for several 
insurmountable 
Dr. Taylor as I 
Mocatta objected to my going up "the river тт ад deri rived from the p temi then I remembered I 
|aetion should take IN. JEN the contending | bap seen wax models of the fruit in museums in 
Eogland—I e: — remained ignorant of its 
onger. 
; and on account o of | tu turban The тоор e а had by this time | identity for e time 
&ecendbd into the а науа plain, and taken On my eed I a ad 
зе | possession of Ven and se эз Vicent villages. | vegetation, Adiantums, [ipei d T 
| Mr. Mocatt pe that it wo ould be|and here and there several plants ~ of Asclepias 
and | extremely Reime n under th g Curassavica 
to attempt to reach Ventanas. Du І was determined | several c clumps of X Tango trees, Oranges, and Plan- 
to in Guayaquil no longe The climate is hot | tains. Butt gos of Guayaquil, although famed 
very un Mr. Mocatta inform that|along the western coast of eriea, woul 
а т. u w 
oad the mean annu аан is 80° Fahr, —À— not find a market in India. The Mangos which I 
À Daring to ir v it must be a little hibit in India, when on 
my s here, No My 19th олау 12th, M my way to the Nilgherries, far exceeded, both in size 
е бы UE it was a good one with lish ed and flavour, ће ren owned Da ule Mangos, whick 
tube) never fell below 82° Fahr. . It is howe wever but 
daily 
ode; egas, like Guayaquil, - СЯ — - 
urage in puti 
X tem to be 
e foun: on. 
romisin; А 
his ability an 
of 
wn Dung 
and Experime 
inst mism Зет 
urist wi апа 
destroying the уо e por on [e dpt This i 
him to ас elaborate series of ех 
completely proved the correctness of his 
nts," n raisin, 
s in lation "fo 
his mode of 
'alter y Cobbet, Mr. Withers, Dr. Thackera; 
2 other eminent writers animadverted upon his system, а 
m into notice with Ed — on 
pruning became styled the 
тау, 
pu юын) — by Sir ей Steuart, и 
facts w nt or tible. He, how 
vigens 
arrived at a arei : 
ВЕ 
ui 
get rid 
hottest months in the year. ost unhealthy. If there were in such a place 
{һе 12th of a H embarked my Wardian efficien hier o committee Tute? with fall power to 
15 in number, a small United | act. as they might consider necessary, the mortality 
States steamer, which Ws commissioned by General | ape not be en -— — it ie. But such a thing 
Franco = roops and munitions of war to |asa sanitary not, as far as I am aware, 
e p small town on the river mei n 40 | ever "thought ots Ta the Vile of Bodegas, as at Guaya- 
miles There were is | quil and. Pana: te sees: the remains of Plantains, 
o e Guayaq uil, 
Escclency ierat 1 Franco, óótnziihderdnolilef « {ч d refuse cf fish, raita of anim and all sorts of 
mals, and 
в yaquil a number of. general officers, — around Өлү didi and these are allowed to 
ut about 200 soldiers. accumu ul: ate and t to be soaked by the rains, and dried 
d steamer left Guayaquil about 1 
prs of the soldiers and я е, e pro- | ever being breathed by any one as to their injtürious 
bec slowly up the river. "That large tract of low | effects on the community in general Robert Cross. 
t exactly 
lying xs ed whie ch runs E De sea coast from the 
e rainleas Дере 
passing the river the n graduall ] xr ea 
and so spp deis — it ulti medicum da ; 
magnificent evergreen forest. The banks of the river 
those Southern India. 
i LES e dmm nr the 
nes In some m simple means raised as 
counted as: many as 52 of the full- Eu се 
grouped. together, and presenting the meme gem costly and laborious procedure. 
of so many logs of 3 hich had been | 18% d 
by the ebb tide on the muddy banks of the river. 
ing this great numbei alliga 
om tho App 
tions oe. воще mes d iot is Mind | being produced not eme. Taa i о 
ME 
as we do, but often five or six times, inereasin 
time Engl 
| subso: 
three 
Bodegas about ч PM, and I|? 
imedistely el Times getting ransferred to 
a minu: or rather shed, hic had been 1 
a raft in the bod of the This j 
called a Fonda or Hotel, but it "it certainly Pid. ло 
deserve that ais On entering I was compelled to 
down almost on kn and when once in: 
tom 
t 
th 
had been lashed b yr. E Pars d of the 
bent and twisted, so 
à years so от! 
ü Wen ынаа e? And, secondly — Can. the erri of the 
-| Indian “ Cotton ma De. increased by the ial 
e country, | appliances, aided, perhaps, by ol fied . rota! 
a | Bodega as one of the first pla эп accordance with ascertained Moser principles 
d garrisoned and as now practised? I lim: this que ion to the 
called — *' black Cotton. soils," which are 
kaor can be so ге 
D Ml day at xi] ук нн 
the ground for some distance around the town, |. 
same | тк. le: 
i дой the la be looked 
» ` gone to Ventanas, clum of tre " абаб бн At i XC 2 г ot 400 ат to the acre 
Wherehe would await m. my arrival; and that I should np ee fine рро Тһе Кыза ашан favourable mstances, but this is 
be сл = tely. The fever left me ina couple in question must have been 50 or 00" P fo in high, м журты 
to егт the'druggists for medicine. "The republi m КА 
Eeuador was at this time, and had been for 12 cien tior see Iwas 
the во 
bout 17:68 lbs. of mine 2erop 
of revolution. well aware that the Bread-fruit was кде of 38 {счет carries off in the mein Ms e "is. A 
of Гапу part of America or West India ende; i: know. 72 стор of Oats of 50 bushels, 58-05 lbs. According to Liebig, 
