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Fesrvary 18, 1860. ] 
THE es A sel 
CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 
Fria. Some subcribers to 3 o th as for oR Naga sain. We ji nducing a ci petit t of f the Gardener? Chronicle roof; the corrugated layers , surround the tree longi, 
e thir 
po Ba Se ai ror aga anà ‘that they ‘sent to the A gp wind saa praying for the! tions are packed with the elastic spongy substance. 
engagon, reason to be dissatisfied with his conduct | protection of this eighth wonder of the world. Fortu- The quantity of seed obtained, however, was by no 
och ag sy year, sometimes speak of is expedition as | nately, oe authorities w Pro wsk, alive to their duty, by | x means correspondent to the sacrifice made to obtain it. 
ioi But it is unjust so to term it; and if they | | prohibiting the removal of any trep, under any circum- ould appear to have been com- 
ba d 4 y EE quantities of novelties which | ri malera and thus s, by throwing the sanctity of | praia few; and, as as I holieye i in tie case with othe: 
he law around the ha Ilo wed fe ‘preserved. to North | Cypres ht se 
do him no discredit, eir 
But the chief part of Mr. r Murray's s ee was oc eupied | 
cky, or | | amounted je þe ; but, 
tho Natural re 2 of Virginia.” The result of this is, | | 50,000 seeds in a pound, the pins te dog i ‘probably 
curin, is og'i gh | | done more good than harm after Ems The portion of 
the cones with rifle bullets, or, so to speak, t f| wood sent home by my brother me the oppor- 
; my pry other succeeded | tunity | of testing the ealenlations which have been made 
e tree, =e I find 
ask | it corresponds with the data on whieh Dr. Torrey came 
of procuring some seeds for him. A first-rate shot, a | to his pases yy whe wae: that the tree was geen 
keen sportsman, full of en eke whom Sristi delighted | 1200 Ease instead of 3000, as rst mis- 
hunter cam pi 
with an account of the viet A 
out | takenl 
L ék 1 ng ya 
in long. 
above ty pi level. 
ees still s ding amounts = 
o aene ‘oct are nown, 
d other 
Britain, grows very rapidly, and, althoug ly 
h i ntrodnord i in ie I has already reach 
without its own inhabi = ee its own hotel (kept by an + het É and 19 in 
old hunter), nay, even its own a ayia as Mr. Black ear r Cor 
had Tike to find to his cost. He up his quarters 
with = old hunter, who may sates gts said to have 
ote than a hotel, as the sky, was the an 
a land. may sear goth Bi pits 
ee we. shall ere long be _andependar nt of the ener 
Mariposa an in Fresno county 
grove piko about 4 ees, ee the | 
600. The “ithe is undoubtedly > 
agnificent | he |t 
Tts ally, ta Sequoia sempervir ens, is 
short of it in size, but still stands a little Zs the Paty 
a the y of 
esser the a hotel in these parts, | | an the PEET ime we have the satisfac x ic 
although we might aie: thonght it wold seeing that | that we n make plants 
the forest is 6000 feet above the level of the be? yo facility; 
there was ee Bie es while Mr. Black w cae 
He visited the gro aily, sh 
a roof a p a 
majo- 
rity of acm they grow erect and readily from leaders. 
Motices of 2ooks. 
tledge’s Ttasteated Natural History, 
this immense “height, arya 
Edin- | 
recourse to other = ges of comparison, n 
burgh man we The Gas 
Co a, *s great chimney, though bail in a on 
below Nelson’s Mon has 
Row Part 
f see ae Those seed is s exceedingly is more full nteresting matter, 
ye thin —a mere eae ges the co Tasmanian Devil’: cond Wo oh the Wombat, and Bandi- 
of an ‘ordinary Scotch coot, the whole ra ise Opossums, Seals, and Whales are 
singular felicity. We select an 
small 
small (not larger tha an the e con 
Fir, 
deep 
7 feet ee Now it is = ai 339 feet high in 
which a a sot in 
all, Figen i 
hei, ammot 
of a whole wetk’s shooting mig be held in —_ jte of the ‘ist of these, called by Zool ogists Dia- 
waistcoat poc cke t. Gih Bla ck soon tired of this, and, 
as to render it extremely difficult to kill by mere 
thes 
feet high or nedely a nee Fe nag then 
that imney. And Lor Sag gee im 
letter amwa i ina recent number of t Gard s 
| beatin ing. 
“Few animals have deserved their popular titles 
better than the first Ser a i} 
Van Wee ii ome a poon usly 
cos 
being apparen ntly turn of mind, came | 
to thé e snc fom first, i it would be easier to fill 
his wallet by cuttin ing down a tree than shooting | 
the cones; second, t that 4 eros be done ; and 
Chro 
ference and 450 in in height It is taller than St. Peter’ 8, | 
= ttle short of the et = the Pyramids. Another | 
ingin g hom 
it ould 
Ai 
gave the 
that The r apparently ineradicable 
being apparently also a man of a akat as well as of cept 
evy: il 
ferooity of the crate a hardly be conce 
had 
= Ange ensations an idea of the | a logical turn of wu, he boldly putting aop him by those who hav rs 
tese A T EN a by Messrs. a fear of 8 anathemas of the New York Courier | demeanour. Even En captivity its sullen and purpose- 
Bik ng, pri en, Kirkcaldy,- in eat and com- of the deners’ romo b 4 well as the nearer | less a anger is continually excited, and the animal appears 
age little account they Cag given of the tree, n any other creature 
They cal ( eee, ity of wood in a tree, and its of his her tand two keen “(that the three most of whom we have practical inowled ze. Generally, a 
The 507. for a big one. | civilised eee’ in the world might aA be g eeper, 
i an acre of W eatin cose | in the per: ion of the sacril deed) proceeded welcome the hand that supplies it with food; but the 
would m thelr younger cae! da o to put his mek i o executi first selected | Tasmanian Devil seems to be diabolically de void of 
prietor of an entailed estate! The as seem all To | the smallest tree whi d that 
rise like solid pil thout a branch for nearly’two- | was 24 fee ireumference, and took Black and ee | approaches it. I have prera had o opportunities | of 
irds of their height, often with furrowed bark, sol hunter th ree days’ hard work to wed sce the pos testing the chara - this curious animal, and have 
5 to look like fluted columns. Mr. Murray exhibited | one cutting on geet Sarsi of t Increase always found it pi $ equally savage and intract: 
several photographs of the trees from M iposa — | appetite growing by what it fed ss nee leh and an ther Without the least cause it would fly at the bars of its 
one of which was 94 feet in ci erence. He then | shared the same fate. = ~h had sdy cut down | cage, and ondoeyour ae dint of teeth and mye to 
went en to say:—“The tree that could be | four of ee magnificen the rgest | wreak its vengea me, while it gave vent to its 
ound was 24 feet fi and the next al ing 42 feet in ana hich AA a week to te feelings. se short, hoarse screams ee rage, 
24 feet, wha I shall tell you how T know. ta brother last Her nd fe wt ot mie before the two Frenchmen ; not, Saeed ere was no reason son, for these outbursts of anger, fo 
autumn lesired to obtain at tp ge — sreached t the ears of| the animal behaved in precisely the same manner when- 
Wellingtonia to send home. poe ynah he who he fun, op BA imple ever any visitor ed to pause in front of- its 
h e, par unmistakeable Tanguage , eave ee domicile. It is a very conspicuous animal, and not 
hat it would be “d sa In uaa’ ore ba mistaken for an other speci 
ish, the authorities i pe they | coat ¢ e Tasmanian vil is very appropri- 
ch Pat (which would set the ately black, ed here and there spots, 
), th him that they would, if he cut bold ands or ‘tines of a pure white, which afford a 
ood is e , very li nd | bol singular contrast to each other. fo different 
may worked, and not unlike the Cedar wood for | indi i distribu- 
m tog eshly cut it is w but ly these two colours, but t re Romito of the 
4 ar hue. It is so brittle, that one of the | markings is similar in all. The gnon hue of the far 
ake plica- three places before it reached | is a deep dead black, the fur being devoid of that rich 
my p 2 of ee away PE sig: of Silver Firs | silky glossiness sera ener to the coats of many black 
oar a gira e figur: 
is 
Sr ee ; the 
Ck and sending = psn Teck 16 Co he, poor 
levé, iè dead, and has pe no ssor to 
i). a0 pent yin na tre not impossible It 
lready by speculators m 
tae ction = ea Ir 
Per aid iota of "the tree), my 
BY: 
id, ki we ed to to get a slice of it (not less 
oe eet in et for ex pi in the Crysta al» 
Palace, and between 300/. and 4007. w i 
aoe that in 
ave 
= z y -e je requisite |o 
Bia AE or ee bearing 
ye pene Dut eg m obace W 
ane is 
eng 80, § 
an aaya“ It was at one 
many years would not elapse before the 
the Mammoth Trees € 
= Herald which first d for 
P 
an once | portion of them hav 
n it; and we a res of the | animals so avr te 
trees whi ich we alrea ready posse! as from the is near ly alw sae aar Į whieh 
hotograph of ‘the group now Skos, “that a great takes the fi band, 
e bee en broken off near the t | and in oth ted e spot. "Gee erally, 
| th og if tł g | another white mark is for Ai he “extend saddlewise 
tion, they n A highe if | tl f the e spine, just 1 rtion of 
the wood i is "brittle, his henge lets Our fr hds found| the tail. This mark is also suseepti ible of great varia- 
it great deal worse to cut iioi than the} tion, being of considerable dimensions in som 
ir mens, and extremely small in others. Now 
streak or patch i 
Well nea tai 
ere fee with bark of at a common thickness 
t could never live e to be 
a hold upon its branches Pen here 
thick, iagt, cag geet n spongy, and 
protected 
ly made, the 
eee ot eat 
are i 
n ge 
i | length this animal is abou ) Pia F 
jad ovt 50 medy. by any! IE which the Aa as maeh measures gis out 7 TERE in length, and 
furnish the eatest |ia n espite of i 
has Sota covered with fur. 
with ad waste of : ym a is 
a different pl: 
o ts wrou ught sad havoc a among t 
of the 
