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transient; and as a corollary from these two facts, | produce of these in the Sa e Otton. Sugar, ut wha an is it? Mr. Rr — supposes it 
it follows that man can (so to speak), create or | Tobacco, Carmine, and — ut often in| to oe: MILLERS zai -leaved Plan e tree, which 
cause to originate still other varieties by selecting | vain. If we inquire the c use , we are told that | that aie raised at Chelsea, tein seeds of the 
from shows ~ has established such ee as we plants grow : admirably, ne pr opagate abund- | Oriental Plane. But MILLER says that his sort ig 
depart in any particular from them these | antly, b produce | more tender than the latter, and grows faster 
latter will — be wider Aeshna fom the therefrom the kind of crop demanded and con-| neither of which statements correspond with our 
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most persons; jar not the rationale of it. In| we here forget two principles that Nature teaches; whether ie is the es Plane tree of 
common parlance the gardener is said to ‘have | first, that there e are no known lim its to variation ; winters or not, there is no reason. to doubt that it 
made his saints vary;” and this looseness of} and sec bigot that h things known | is the kind which bears that name on the conti- ` 
ression betrays e inexactness of the pre- |as finest kinds. Why should we assume “that the aut. t is, moreover, certainly identical wi : 
i Th: an vera sent out to the colonies are those best | what TENORE in his dissertation on Plane trees has 
not nece pe nor sea n a make the p! Jarit] worth producing, or the only ones worth trying |so figured (Ricerche sulla classificazione de Platam, 
ary; very few useful Met have owed their| to select from? Why, for instance, do we assume | figs, 4 and 5); and we agree with Mr. Rrvers that 
to ae the appea of the variety is, | that the best known Tobacco is the best that ever | it should now be called Platanus acerifolia, 
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tins tility has directed man’s attention to it. | it is, that it was known under certain conditions| doubt. The late Prof. Linx himself pointed out 
Suppose that it be desired to raise what in common | to yield the finest known produce, and that! the trees in the patie Garden and Hyde 
par. a is called a new kind ss Rabon better | this produce yields me jovi surest, and | Park as what he regarded as the Platanus orien- 
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paa sar the strongest and most vag individuals, | pounds in growing the Sea-island Cotton in India, | dist stipe rics Rien at of our Parks, At least it 
any propagate sesan — n here works | where Cotton grows and thrives admirably, Who/| exhibits one of the most certain marks by which 
no oem ; he only ibenitian of the| knows but — the time, money, science, oi eaves of P. acerifolia _ ne aon from 
differences which are naar by the plants in |skill, and energy expended on the abortive e of P, orientalis, viz t propor- 
the field, and which have be he S ts to force a on an ungrateful hoes distance from the to Op i of the! leafs to the 
intervention, and he knows not how. To follow out | soil, pliant or vain might have enabled sa self, Itmust, 
the process, the field eventually becomes ivator of native Brilian Cotton to however, be owned that s much difoulty exists 
with a crop of Wheat, which was formerly repre- | developo, by imitating the process of seh ral selec- |in distin niguisbittg single prn of the two trees, 
a few ears nen but in effecting this tion, a she oy ual or superior ae gee to that of th ae that were it not for ec curious constitutional dif- 
p ge E e.owe to accomplished a m, pointed out by Mr. RIVERS, 
ty iti t whic na ı has is | en berg “Director of the Ceylon a tanic Gar len nd well known to les they iH ‘certainly 
so ` promi mdi ek ve out is that it would be better to attempt bo sancti =e one a species, 
pel conditions remaining the same) ae ulti- Ith improvement of the — “fruitfal Ceylon g to be the true history of 
mately have asserted its su riority in a similar | Cotton: to ‘seek to establish the American | the "Park Planes, the eer re _ cting their t 
penn Thus if it owed its asiera ardi- | long: athe > herein t a ‘rly scientific officer | tenderness in our clim ust be w thdrawn ; for’ 25 
hood, a pomi proportion o seeds would have | has shown himself to be a practical naturalist. such real Occ! chee tal Planes 
annually and a mialler proportion been | the „present state of science, ve cannot doubt the if they bk became trees, seem to have long since 
ile’ i in the ensuing winter; if to its Vegi ae to ripen their wood suf- 
a the same, and so on, a S -a eee of the principle which Mr. | ficient sath is ur winters, n commie 
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Lg i into man’s petite whethe er he knew it or on yor and which a perusal of his work | December, 1859, Ai been Sikeatedus for the Olives — 
if o us is, in the existing infant condition of in the soui o rance. A correspondent of the 
ie the ireumtanes pty pr rz perdi seed better suited | experimental agriculture, capable of indefinite| Times states that in the neighbourhood of 
all these do to the climate, the seed of that | application and undreamt- of results, both Olive and Orange trees were completely 
kind Brey for tho reas ns aboye piven have beon frozen. w will be the zea aaee felt, _— 
arvested in annually increasing proportions an much as in October the Olive crop had been much 
heuce finally dominate over the rest, pen li ete enh EN. oe ae Mr. reduced by t e worm, an à by. sn wind 
g atio: asons, bad | 7g Pa m off = trees. 
harvesting, or bad i of the grain; buti ihe history of one of our most ornamental trees is | t° the Olive crop by the fr oa of mpeg: is ‘so 
unprolifie as the field may become, there will to |; ‘he aac i Tat : serious that it cannot yet be estimate 
the last be better and worse plants in it and the|tv wry addicn momcthing we whet toe tnd s 
best will be the last to die; there will i me been =i we take the eet opportunity of our- Pla 
aban seleoti ion, W ai ponderanes of of D =— eee eee 
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seed ofthat ariy iat atthe and place was t = ioral < meet tree re to su Hiv; sate = ee apie t nue pent tat 
— dial fflaenoes, and to | nono ia in ‘Che. Oniontal 42°, Orientata) Teili taf Soroa aa E eee ethos ia 
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these sho travellers ‘in the East, and to arra who remem- 4 gnam carnosam separabilem inserta. ae 
“as w Licrnrvs Mucranvs, when Roman Consul | _ This acquisition has been obtained by Messrs. Low & 
A Ta, dined in its hollow trunk along with | C0- of Clapton, through Mr. William Lobb, who found 
18 persons of his retinue. Th The other, aea ae California, and speaks of it as a new s 
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and distinctive marks of the first ther e is no ‘un- | a aed it is indeed sire tiing, wer ores 
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R 3 not mean that slang te a ae of , are Of | and not unlike those of a Pinaster ; but its mostremark- 
iie <2. maldina. share en goes | from _ the others, | able characters are to be found in the cones and seeds. 
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Ee k se com pre grager wiii 7 5 ‘avoidine | more a ees N So chard The seeds are — 
qualities will prevail over : large Í of P. Lambertiana, &c., but they are 
coors ement of the condition of ig race, in the ce | furnish a thick ro comb or crest, 
Saal as well as in the moral wor! | Blackish colour, from whic pass very 
This principle has a wide Benet apglinton, : es we 
a far “oe ne to the ûlturist than The origin of our _ Plane is CEN a8 ie ae lar. ‘he species i scctions Pinaster 
ea van py mie a s Hélia eve that generat ystery. That it he same as — MILLER | and Pinea. 
a = away Be a it, is so acted upon as ae called the Ocidental Pleas (or Platanus virgini- Se 
Bn a E x „and | ensis) is we ‘think indisputable. Every word PR a : 
all ions, we have the demand for | which he uses por i to the Park Plane and to MYCOLOGY.—No. TI. 
ite i d con- | nothing else; and hence doubtless the p z ADe ee y.—As the reproduc- 
these we | belief that that sort was American, The | tive organs of Fungi are in general at the same time very 
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“power to in- | Button ‘Tree, from seeds brought from Carolina. | changes of temperature, it issu 
i a we infer that Miter di | not himself know species do not make their appes 
, amongst us, A great many of them 
