ЮЕСЕМВЕЕ 21, 1861.] THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 1117 
high and low water, can be taken by all and sundry | bunch of Calabrian Raisin Grape, t e flavour ad which | Europe, and even into E : Herodotus mentions 
unchallenged except by the Crown. This seems borne | was rich and good; it was nay а first pri Mr. Macedonian wi к охеп, ith ceedingly large 
out by a parallel decision of the Supreme, Mee vi Thomson also sent a bunch of Lady Downes? Seedling. | (фтєриєуйбга) horns; and Ph hilip ot pun dun 
Scotland (Hall v. WAilis, 1852, see Shaw igest, | Mr. Mackenzie, of ghton, exhibited Marchioness of | » wild bull in Mount Orbela, which had mai 
vol. 3, p. 382), by kinpa it was held that the atr d Hastings, and "pr Craik, Prescot House, Stourbridge, |} tants; 
lands adjacent "d the could not ved ш public | ine bunches of Blac rocco, which took the first it spoils he hung up in the Temple of eris . The 
from gathering shellfish below high mark, | prize in the class of Black Grapes. Mr. Graham, of А yrian art delig 
provided they could e witho tS i on the|Cranford, again exhibited bunches of his i f the wild bull id the 
lands. 1% occurs to m t there are other decisions | Muscat, a — highly-flavoured Grape, whieh has the prowess of their Nimrod monarchs and the figu 
in point, and that нб e$ lately alluded to in en property of not cracking, like the Chass elas Musqué. | their ч 
рарегв їп which, if I r emember nguy, the Marquess | The bunches had been cut some time, and the berries | descriptions and remains e Eu uropean n Urus. "a 
had become somewhat sh Меры - were very finely | large forest that surr sie d ancient London was 
Strawberries —There ought to bi no difficulty about 
raising Strawberries at Victoria, si ud id are ст 
A P perfection in many parts of Italy, w 
without auy fire heat. For Аш а first prize y 
a d to Mr. Newt оа. ав. Cornish Gilliflower, 
са а 
as | beasts, 
, boves артчу among other wild 
2 ble that these were Uri. The 
of 
3, m 
uy, Earl Warw ick, in ing 
expla of n бее! 
te neighbourhood from a terrible dun cow, whether 
y tru 
irri Young, and Ribston A second rize was |t 
Жу am of у понт that the increased price of | awarded to Mr. Си e RS Lag Fu lham Palace, for Blen- | histor іса] e or ru shows the existence n foi E 
E this season ing to the crops both in |heim Pippi King of к Pipping s s. the variety of able vi! es n the — of Englan A > 
England and on the пев being slight, and I am | Russet called Sykehou o and, Esq., sent | terror they Эрт ай. Тһе emily à 
assured by Apple merchant: Manchester, who ens of Соле. Ribs! t, үп, ий туа in Scotlan 
come into this neighbourhood dis. during the | remarkable for fine flavour. ©. W. Wilso Е гопутіс а hero who turned а wild bull from 
season, — ly reside fr tw hree weeks, | hurst Cottage, — exhibited fi “аш. bert the | fili when it bad attacked him while 
ш to purchase fruit, that the repr of Apples montel Pear, ripened in ard- loue, er some hunting. р 
eing used for e “дуа eing purposes?" was neither more r. Cunningham. * What has become of the terrible Uri which lived 
nor ess than a joke” К ne the importunate — in Europe at the commencement of the чне а ега? 
о 
me T is sometimes 
A with cn o the “ Trun amson Plum," 
which there are 
Ілх : Dec. 5. G. Ben 
iher "^ Ablett Jesse, Esq., 
the C. J. Leaf, Esq. н 
were "cnet Fellows, 
th ао, 3s President, in | Advance 
^d — vinea papers were read : | 
of Tun 
grownin this neighbour n a new genus cata occurring оп one 9 our northern parks by their representativ , as is 
Oxalis. —The Oxalis with brown leaves " p selling the Min d reefs,” by J D.] *Donald, Esq., R.N. rn t improbable, their blood may still ылу ti our 
r ue ote of the occurrence of the Cr Sc ем Md 
&c., has e n known as a weed in d datu and | hot i" тебиз in Eng » by Jonathan Couch, Sui. «Yet ie ee is no Vac anne ia the identity of a species 
m the west of Engl hn yr time е 40 years, and | * Note on the Formation of Pearls," by Robert Garner, | found abundantly in Britain in the Tertiary deposits, 
Rippa a ау of O. stricta or beds S. Esq. Besides the really beautiful pearls occasionally and named by Oven Bos primigenius, with the Urus of 
Mushrooms.—Very few „have been found in this|procured from the fresh-water Alasmodonta, in the Cæsar. This fossil bull was as c m 
і only | upper part of the ‚ ав indeed in several other | in this island with the elephant, and the hyena, and the 
iz, Agaricus tomi al and A, fusipes ; British ves Mr.G stated that an inferior kind | baboon, and, strange to say, with "e терине, ue ЖЕ 
edible. ariety has, so far as I can ascertain, was found in grea "plenty in the common edible musk ox, too—thus co tomen De tropical, a tem 
Md found, although i in other seasons I am told that til d, | and an ael c fauna in o —— island at the us 
they are plentiful. What, th erefore, b о the Mvtili d f ti , however, vri not | Ре riod! What a stran y t must have been to 
of their'non-ap this y ld t those higher up or on th -sh , contai n the pearls, suit them ай! 
of „ and the low temperature о earth last Раси nti 1 f màfitle ^ obe essor Nilsson, Jine paid great attention to 
winter, be the means of killing the в ЫР y erha imal. í ini ave been offered as | fossil oxen, mentions ul 
me 0! readers would kindly inform eL. d aet demere riim E the for, се ТЫ Ed hav ve belo elonged to an animal more “than че feet in 
Fungus tribe 
ертте Witts, 
nd 61 feet 
On breaking them there is found in their centre а 
1 FA a 1 д ++ h а 
а 
n height. Again, the skull of а cow in $7 British 
Й Б 
of an animal nature. A microscopical examination of 
Ише, fizure ed by Pro ofesso or Ow bidon - tomm 
—You * C, W.C?" 
asks * What i is it that in the s Емес е "ife kills s 
ЖҮ — — ів of Ranunculus Ficaria ? No bird 
to attribute the formation of pearls to the deposit, i in 
— this have been! 
> = as - pe "OENE and yet they yid destroy ed 
wholesale. I should think that it is mmon 
ts 
Pearls are common in many 
of demarre Distomus. 
on univalves; and the 
mollusks, and even in some comm 
s to be the 
Would dot ihe slaughter € of ма 
Dun Соз? ав this in single combat hav ў 
| pt worthy of a doughty earl ?? 
We think it would have IA And why should not 
ately 
Distomus ар ppears to be 
E^ cie "T that кч them, for od keo weeks 
whose с nba was nearly full of the “ little 
vod DN now. Are not the li 
tubers poisonous ? R. B., reni чыл аге 
ш; but Ls ot poisonous ely.] 
777 
Horticultural Society, the Pseudo-suber of "ево ntain nes Р) 
Quercus Тоотай а у Ae T ege 
may some 
from the etn 
ER thrown ver irm 
not wan 
—! 
hen 
or the formation €V 
re Pseudo-suber, from his own account, seems to 
а rare and кыдо hybrid, Же Yd the ported 
Lucombe oak, and evergreen of Desf. Flora | 
Atlantica is described as deciduo ie "Тео nly answer 
we can give is this. The plant distributed by the Hor- 
ticultural Society was received from ше fr d m 
sery under ey, jg > бту pend. КО, 
32otítes of Books. 
| The Romance of Natural History; by Р. Н. Gosse, 
| . Pp. 
Nisbet. Second Series. 
will be welcome to 
F.R.S. 8vo. 393. 
This new volume by Mr. Gosse 
durer of the 
the so-called ^ 
as the gigantic Irish 
Elk whi be ee lon; 
in which it ' 
sete à la Сайфи, but let tha! 
a clever sketch. The | rimis 
етін with a — "ael 06 е е pn 
ау serve 
" “ From all these testimonies combined, can we rt d 
inhabitant of Ireland since its colonisation by man n? 
It seems to me that its extinction cannot € taken 
ears ago. 
€ mas; 
agreeably written, and cleverly illustrated. Oar 
y Perl 
ed Britain the 
ere milking and аве their vu. 
elks, do mesticated i in their cattle-pen ns of granite, and 
rected t 
Fontan 
specially studied the оаа nd Medite 
ass Ав е 
learned author has peculiar p ire 
and lances. 16 ERA СЕ that the moie L4 
into pools 
istory ; that he believes in "s ts (a "i feed et ing him was to chas terrify him — 
ented. to 0-suber, w tie xr r. | faith resolutely supported in the „тіше Pus d 190); swamps, such (as ем арцы. then «не tbat, having 
barium under Њаё nam py hered by Dei |n he is by no e satisfied that w the ng bogs, a nd sl lain him, 
the Jardin des Plantes, and another from the same | times рери ней not really | t the head w: of, as 
botanist called “Chêne de Gibraltar, Triano , très КЕ the glo dE à "eot parti vety late period; | the trou We е. e Pee that the А-2, jaws 
beau," which Bark ebb also determined be | and wy he hesitates t6 regard the Mermaid as ficti- | and tongue Анд соб „off; and that frequently the 
Q. pseudo-suber. They are both of the Cerris bree with | tious. With a Si renl thus free from prejudice (?) and entire ni disjoin on the spot, the. 
narrow oblong leaves; but whether or not the plant o ti nly bein "E removed. This would account 
Desfontaines no o further means of ascertain- that a book w h reading would be produced, and the so итеу нетни of separa adr portions of the 
ing. The Oaks, i such is certainly the fact, It is as fall of tal and eges ui skulls, the bog-ear 
of confusion little qe di ee on 
to botanists ; 
unable to assist much in patting them in ear] 
ос t$. 
URAL: Dec. 10 (ora Com- 
were RR кашне o at this 
«us аа EE y X 
4 this 
tei dmg anh pe spurs, w markabi. 
Pottle, of РЕ ceca Ка ех 
hink Mr. Gosse а tittie 
ever ventures to t 
admit that he 
а 
[7 
5 
ern naturalist 
iei pe Ъ м f T d of Sir the certainly 
«ж ing "n. ruth о e legen е 
E Wawi ick and the і famo! ous Dun Cow. There | пате has been 
ab ess a 
his pages are eth it is now the 2 to x 
t | part: у 
EN. æsar, desc ribing, under the name of Urus, certain es for natural o i 
tralliog ber n i pst T wild oxen of th t Hercynian forest, says, P i S da that our author ear da deri on 
iim over-like ы я Uri tl hants in size, but are bulls | о 
and lage axillary 1 зри 6 Ме об, which may eit À ad pom " pie ИЯ тч, Ў gure. Great is their| We have long had bere that s ad йш Seer e 
a pretty bas Р, ant, for which its habit is well t r do they spare | cute our forefathers а eee d 
adapted. It was from the Neilgherry Hills, andi pir. zi x EE one t situe ved tori bi уи with the Dragon is a 
ems Parochetus ош ‚ Carstairs, of Edin- | These, rapped in pit-falls, rx һап confirmed in th poca LE bed 
urgb, sent gc we owers of a fine VO Tree Car- у ныны ? tbe Red Indians we 
nation, The Bride, already noticed A» ; and M. quor Tod 3 s the toil, a nd Mastodons 2 vx isa rien de pend | 
Stan dish hi had a small € plant of on x Ёё, ost, bringing es Père aux Beufs— З dirae s a o 
y whi ite й егв, the ls, eat praise. | donian term аы oreover a Mamm as- 
to floret gg s Mare long | ш, Ese horns, ‹ we not Do habi died to ка пог P made been -— in Mexico | ur ы side of ап ancient cause- 
ы plant t fectl l te jud our ubmerge e. i is - о ы. in the blue 
"зве n A Las the form ^s a uality of them clay эз чы ire o t had been 
Dec. 0 (Fruit Committee).— Mr. Tidi: Dal- | diere Nus mel of n oxen, " : ged. The dy X Тане Ав that the huge 
keith Pala exhibited on this occasion a very large 
“It is probable that this race extended widely over 
'seulptured stones and chiselled rocks of Mexico may 
