812 em eee CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [Arrt 7, 1869 
tem of the Gre d the] ftl | many vegetables or fruits for consumption and sale. | often as beautiful as its relative ©, cibarius 
condemn them both; whereas had the process peer Among them there is the Dio te Batatas in | fae der stem, which is often black at the ba 
reversed he would vig ber reat in i r praise. | abundance, he io _ Chesnuts (Hoongradt), Dates, ie et iy a very narrow, crowded bright se, and 
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Can it be the Tartarian lam sis wit many a favourite 
m When x cursory glance at the cealinary vegere pe of C. Forseta cus is suspected of being poiso Mma while 
ete Now, hes ve r, that the forcing of vegetable es | one country shows so much worthy of being tried and The common Chantarelle is an excellent soak of 
under "glass forms a in ey inquired into, we think we are borne out in the statement | when properly prepared, notwithstanding Sp food 
Tik t apply. TDi kiete D. with which. we commenced, that were a similar review a and is occasionally served up at pale aie 
sinensis) pe Tow-cock (the Tow pronounced as in | made o; est known vegetables peculiar to other the principal hot ls in London on state 
cow) cultivated by ag Chinese in San Francisco, whieh countries, such k s Him malaya ah, _India, New Holland, | w whero every effort is mape tp secure the rarest an 
would form a valuable addition to the resources of the | and Peru, 4 2 y dainties. As it is rather i ee da text 
forcing house. It is a rreri — used by the Chinese | of set gardener ce the cook, A. M. [W: m | requires considerably colin inary oan 
i 5 e hat we ur Kidney Beans, that | ou advertisi sing columns that seeds of sev ral of the | qual 1 n 
is, boiled in the green itate; bð and all. The pod is | plants here alluded to are now to be pirehadii in this | perly prepared, it madat rrest the pangs of death, te 
‘about a yard in length and about the thickness | country. } Trattinick puts forth a os sentenes re ough in the 
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We have alluded to it specially as a plant for forcing, | y * le 1 : 
because tis genns D Dolichos is ‘confined to the tropics ; | MY COLOGY—No. XIII. | slow stewing, andi 18 much the better for com ar 
but we should remember that our own Kidney Bea n|~ -CANTH US Fr.—The genus Cantha-| steeped some pin, in Reeser On no a 
was tel originally fi fren the “tropies, and it, is quite | rellus is distinguished. pa by the folds over | temperature r be too hiela as a pra 
ibla, bat this t may th the | which the hymenium or .fructifying stratum is spread the Fungus 1 be "tough Should Wi be allow ed, by ut the 
Ea EE: it is quite hardy. It is a hang rather thick AÀ a blunt edge instead of thin ia | volatile aroma will be liable to vanish. 
ane iad koali be staked. acute, and by thei mbling at TA veins rathe ues who sige shna spe: ersi ruptures ofthese 
are one or two other Beans allied to the Tow- | than gills. The Ayindaded is ver of a rather | Fungi, and w ates that a gourm vn = his a 
pe gg might useful. Their Chinese names waxy consistence, and the folds a are = beanelied, It is! tance never though —_ a gsr 
are a S tow, Hoonglow, and i z ae ial 
pe in e gives directions fop 
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these, there is a curious 
little te Pon which i is worthy Me: — ng 
tried. cenit 
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in Chinese ying dar = 
‘There is nothing. j dralha of Dail 
notice in KN mode of culture ; but 
the mode i EA beo is pe eculiar. 
The Peas in water 
for about rote gs ere s tioy sprue 
icle about an inch 
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together x with TAO of st fe 
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is to be seen constantly exposed 
for sale in the Chinese provision also mixed with mincl 
all ready for with fowl, tendons of veal, &e. In the 
hulls off, and our informant tells us uth of France they are oft 
that “ i spel a it is served with the legs of. ae 
propery _ prepared attractive 
medi- 
inal =" suppose yon you pelly hot — 
it make you e doe: 
tell ns pik th the yak her 
is the Chinese corruption oe 
`. (which it frann #0 or if it simply 
Kias abdomi 
seat of the internal ealon, Bo ; 
is the information essen 
Hencho eee or Hemtoy (different 
Chinamen have different pronun- 
There is a Turnip whose 
m e we have forgotten, 
which may be worthy of attention 
The a con- 
merely 
 Caichoy, and is . _ They Tavstixe tn" pr desire 
_ “are very fond of a small Coriander every man should have his 
-which they: eat like a salad. It is hope: you will gaed 
- «walled : Yoon-si. e ia i following communication. 
` however, that this would find no In your Number 0 
ae aoar Th th ey, hove T I observe a long q 
might perhaps please our neighbours across the |very true that a few Agarics have ny neg the Times, stating that Mr. Darwin 
no worse than Aniseed, or / or branched gills, but ps indeed in | have discovered the existence an pegi 
one species, wnbelliferus, s retera ioi natural law of selection,” 18, 
E of Melons—How- bined with a ee aa in nature which 
question greatly if the pirea ened a ect oar ge ea = aeaea 
x i iM t 4 dike $ our jr é ifs á s 
pasgan ase ode n-qua is a a sioner their is not inc ae ar ad a A ae i No one, ey pohlihea n 
good as our own, but used in the same way. Sui-qua | how er, is likely ‘to mistake pages foran Agaric | to be : 
is what is known. to botanists as s the Luffa. It | if a "angle glance is east upon t ode of x A the practically to 
is used in soup, and is said to’ be very good. We | rent ry mistake may possibly be made ona superficial | Arboriculture,” 1 
should have no faith in it growing in the open air. It ` | 1831, by Adam 
would do very well on the back wall of a Vinery, par- | tl t & O 
allowed to trail on the ground, as it likes to be eyed ‘however it seldom does, and in a sta tate of of perfection. | Magazine,” the « 
Vinery, par- Ca in 1 
ticularly as the Chinese say that it ought not to be |of our woo see ne occurring in as which | dicals, so as to have fall publiety inthe“ 
on a frame of ge Tina the husk is emptied, the ; The pileus is mar p variously lobed and waved, with | Magazine,” e of it 
inside os oe as a scrubbing brush, beg soe bemig _ = der vault ted, | a firm | consistence, thin but and 
strong 831, 
eaten oe aie oa raw, sep or in soup. line pe paler when a ‘with white or ae ie 3 | which 
In California they also use a sort of bulbous root or ae = is rather thick, arenes dd t contains the “Art 
this be a wild Californian root or | claimed since os 
i we do not know. In China eee "the pileus, and Jl ih ae are numerous, | mericans, 
the root of the Nelumbium or | much sinuated, but pete branched thick, are in future 
and decurrent, ‘of the same colour wi he pileus. e | selection 
smell is very pleasant, t Tike that of ‘fips Apricots, an on Rea is a law 
the taste agreeable but pungent. - The only" species every 
with nE r bel omer Oh = wat? pei ar is Can- sited T its pon cae 
tharellus which a se cas tible: of, wich, 
. bat ly to be mey the hysical and mental ori 
found geese devoid of Bonifer. 0: rations is | their highest perfection, and w 
e they also extensively use 
è ees or Clover, 
when pro 
