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FEBRUARY 4, Sh 
THE o CHRONICLE AND a ee SR a 
97 
ITS werby, the new pattern to carry out my plan of heating, and it he tray i in which the pote pote 
“various or fatal were j oley not the true Pat | | seems ayi in r yay £ should eier sketches of it to prer the top- yeke G vibe glass per and H per 
4 setleae is the only species amongst them which can | your rea oid repetition I refer to the | fora ted: bottom of the candle- oy 
be satisfactorily pointed out as PE, deleterious, | lat eners? Chronicle 1859,9 bags "360, where the case| I must repeat what I s: the paper already 
uliar ki ep — ch Sowerby av ame oi a omecig oo “4 length, and its se measurements | referred to. If I go into the ie of the value of 
ana virosus e poisonous Mu Shroom, boine |; give ie: 1 is a view of the apparatus as it pon! Bt gre for propagating limited quantities, of 
Jcabtfal from the fi inco wri oat of his figure, and | dita ie e. Its dimensions are as follows: and greenhouse plants, its value is incre eased by 
the want of references to connect the gills which he | From end to ptej: Rimde 34 inches ; from front to back | rt pein hi on tar Eye of oe: ource of heat, for 
figures with their proper specie: requi much gar ience to kee 
It. is however proba able R it Piera o its bad : te Ta Aoi o Fh pi nan or ie grease 
: 
character and certainly should e avoi oe fogade her v wit th | vee eh Mort oh sabre A pron 
: ite Son a. lacy’ ieee Mio 
k finn «. need of ira in lamp thal 
b dies ‘ty is n end, and if the possessor of 
ar lt to th way from home the most 
aides Si w it obtuse servant may be Ne be ag ve 
san arat BE O A | a fresh candle at A giv 
founded wit À| word more to cert: n S we have 
the true Cham- > lately made e mis hont this 
i as t t will start s casting “of 
pills; every kind of stove house 
pA plant in common cultivation, but it is 
at 
re thick and 
cream-coloured, and the 
whole aspect of the plant 
different. 
It appears how 
that p spevies saat ty 
Se 
after the 
ceteris s paribus, pey cannot be bloom éd 
ted i tisa propagating 
co aier ter pranin S noth in ng more, and i in that 
g th 
occasionally eaten in r, e spt e R 
it i i age mga 
a, by a Huss inside 17 inches; superficial area 568 quare inches. | and who w: ant Bhen a few hundred pla: we “for summer 
dat pee lee Ente pred Height fere at front, 10 inches; at back, 13} inches fecoration, a n, and to whom the chief delight”is to raise 
died near Winchester Th f the frame externally is 7 inches from ck for themselves. Shirley Hibberd, St loke News wington. 
from eating some dark the ground, and its appearance is particularly neat an Sa 
gilled Agaric, mistook A. compact. As originally made there was a tin box |, MERICAN APPLES AND OTHER FRUITS. 
semigiobatue fers ths spended in the front for an oil lam That is THERE is perhaps no quarter of the Mi 4 where 
plant ulet. His superseded by a box with a bottom of perforated zine, and | the Apple is cultivated that produces such fine anı 
species is apparently A. a sli in front. In this box is placed for heat- perfect fruit as a portion of the United States, It is 
appendi us, and a ing purposesa precinct fashion of a Child’s night strange that such a very old inhabitant of the Old 
it is sometimes very light, but with more substance for cont burning 
abundant in w and supply of heat. ‘The perforated zine admits air to New, and to have such a tenden ney to “make itself 
good ; es for from ny doubtless of 
rs 
r ma 
some fu’ vator to se roperly. To set | inferior quality when introduced about 200 years ago, 
of prid ee | th l h E are lifted up, an inch rd sp ae bers x the fi - = x Appare 
may be. known at onee epth of aeea- Sji ia is n down and wetted; the} the known world. e great peculiarit erican 
from A. semiglobatus by boiler is filled by pouring water into it through a tube Apples is their tender, juicy, dolinie half- -melting 
the head not being slimy, n the centre, and the candle lighted. Pots of fle sh, rich, , sugary, an nd most agreea able, pipar , how- 
and by its narrow gills. e eutti ings, seeds, #8, may then be crammed together on tasted, 
Panlet’s Fungus is in- | the bed of sand enjoy a moist botica ity on the like’ ar Ribston Pippin w hen grown une r ep omg 
cluded by Bulliard in A. * amount “i be given is regulated b top ya te other English varieties. These ave perhaps- 
which de- ligh ore piquancy, but their flesh is hard and breaking, 
rives its name either from a ke the case to pieces. When the lights | saarna like e pini errem ai teeth san a 
its being abundant after are removed, and of course the pots also, the tray on | stomach of leather. Am les are, on the co 
long, continued which sand is spread may gt sit out by means of a | tra ary, “old men’s p it,” org re as ew Town Pippin 
nian pr i e a i k as much comfort as a. 
the facultyw melting I can imagine no Apple more 
it has, in common E am las the. Mother, the Northern Spy, 
however with the Melon, and the Reinette du Canada. 
any other * American kitchen agh re Areata} ae 
ies, of imbibj g p i. jiy fiesh, neither too sw 
water, so that i cid, of the Scat quality nn bea pa 
moist it is of a dark. Fic. 2. pu aah ngs. "ihe Rhode Island Greening and 
ue, and differently = the Baldwin are two excellent examples of 
red fi hat i couple of handles for the purpose, and its appearance is | this class of A 
oe represented in Fig ig. 2, BM e E E boiler which 
pecies which are giv von hont tot the on which the pots bese c 
brown at first, as their ARICUS SEMIGLOBATUS. | is the tube by whick the VIT is abate The tube 
ture evaporates be- Natural size. (Copied by per- oved so as to fill the ca 
a stopper which can be 
wit : 
na le’sScottish |. rite ths to give t 
case | England, putare or aain 
of Apples quite peculiar to th 
States, viz., Sweet Apples or f aci bee Mokena A Pacem These 
ave scarcely any trace ol hen grown 
ease aa rather dull, sugary 
flavour. ` Pigs thrive upon thei? and they are grown 
| largely by the Pre te for autumn sot. The in 
| Sweeting, Tolman aban seek Ramsdell’s 
ndreds of se 
t 
hite, 5 eultiv niie the 
pa togamic Flora. ) cuttings a vapour bath. If ue andi is kept regularly 
of oanig, were it not for their wette si there is no occasion moval, except to 
d. is extremely common on horsedung | fill up the boiler, which holds eos 2q 
in rich . The cap is about 14 inch across, nearly | is hea passage of te hota the amp |p 
hemispherical, of a hiom ellow, and clothed in | psig throng it, and the hot air esca 
moist weather y is straight, | kA m bye) at D adina ieee at week i a at ‘ee flue 
slimy like the but generally paler, with a |E is fixed, so as t roducts of combustion out 
tubular cay: vity in the centre, and furni wit E? the case. It makes ss little smoke (even with th 
distinct ring, above which it i p white, hough | lamp) that a piece of ne which I placed agai 
often soiled with the black spores. very | the of the pipe flue was but oni Be cake dg 
ad,- attached to to th he stem with their edge. nearly y| having received the smoke upon i 
tal, and three months continuously. The boiler i 7 sitptied ey 
everal o species grow on horsedung, but the |m 
y one which can be easily confounded with ge is 
stercorari: wius, which is readily distinguished by t 
ns of a sto te cock, F, which is an improvement for | 
which I [ believe we are indebted to the maker, Mr. 
"ite d re ners 
Boe 
bie 
Be 
Gel 
Bs 
ig 
2 
= 
Aitiotioan Apples 
at glish clim e lik 
stem contain: ning a distinct solid aly 
1. loba 
pith “neglec ect in changing the candle the heat see 
A. semiglobatus as peculiarly addicted to horsedung | 
o 
om 
declined, when the cold water can be drawn off a 
is one of those species which occas casionally make ee eir | fresh supply of hot water takes its place, and of ¢ ie 
appearance in the Mushroom bed. There is how 
no chance of its being gathered for the pitied 
ee. as its appearance is so totally different. 
a 
THE WALTON IAN CAS 
I gave a description of the Waltonian case in | 
ray colamns on the f last. The request. 
I information on the ak ut of a note which 
sent on the successfi pplication of the heat of a 
datin p plant t propaan An gee sane beig wier á Fie. 3. © 
eg ly os for the oil- anp rh previously | the tap is useful when the case is pnt away when its 
used, a sone was then very | | work for the season is over. The box, 6, is thet alrodiy 
us 
tinued, in haps be still further assisted to form 
"ard tothe ca erat € the result was unavoidable. ception of its 
the pside 
ts construction and 
have just received fro down, as in Fig. 3. Here, the | 
if 
as before, a is 
con- 
we turn the tray | cul 
‘ati 
yeyr remarkabis, 
art of 
with a host of enemies; “ frost bl 
