vry 14, 1860.] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 649 
‘As regards premiums I think a some reason- 
able defence might be set u their behalf, yronounce 
Where, for instance, will you find a professional | was 18 e that 4 wbaka. ved ‘Boor sh and be green for | ance and flavour. ae 
man or tradesman who „will take an apprentice | e The degree of sanctity with which this extra- 
} Sids $ Piast 
older than the oldest ot these Ne a century, and would dy Ayres sent a hybrid Cashmere Melon which, bore con- 
verify the rop y | t 
tree ha on of “ On the 
much than is paid to gardeners, @ven i n the best | the Buddhists may be compared to the feeling of | ence ita us Mekki in e? by Prof. Toe. 
i ? Dot they consider x8 omen inthe | veneration with which Christians would regard the |—The au = aor etate d that he had detected both copper 
light of es or thet they fet in the dis- | attested wood of the cross. * * * Nor is thi s superstitious neues zinc in cheese. In some specimens copper, in Pw 
charge p Ge sag duty ? Piri aae im who engage | anxiety a feeling of recent growth. in e both copper rie wk were found. 
young men at 1s., 2s., a and 3s. per week less than | other the remotest periods, of Buddhism; and the same The dacrniphon of pens in w se poisonous 
ce, are q ge which is paid to the tree at the present day |m metals were fou nd double -Gloncester , cheese 
gardeners who take premiums. Again, a gardener | was wont to be manifested 2000 years ago. Age d which 
Jeaves his situation; his means compel him to apply to|age the sacred annals record the works which | copper and zinc, did not contain any metallic im- 
a nurseryman for employment until such time as he | successive sovereigns erected for the preservation purity. Stilton, and other herria = of cheese, have not 
can procure another place. Does ae a paid the same | of the Bo-tree: the walls which they bu ilt ust n t therefore be inferred 
as many of the other men, som which are but it, the carv vings s with which the ey a it cl than Gl tersh 
labourers? Not at all, but “shillings per k t s poisonous pier nies in the dairy 
less, and do gardener ompi in of ead I never enclosure. - Eha latter were raised ay a king A.D. 182; districts of Gloucestershire and Wiltshire has led to the 
heard of any who di the contrary, they n 223 a e le edge w as added to the 
are glad to` avail naya "of the ‘opportunity of wall. ‘to one i f employed 
working while they wait for a situatio) the | buildings are oen in the Singhalese annals, King |i n the makin ng rof oes eese. The reasons for which these 
system is “ bribery,” in one eas i e > in all | Abhaya, A.D. 240, placed “ n the parapet, a prejudicial salts are added to the cheese riously 
others, and the sooner the Teglio makes the act porch at the southern entrance, four ‘hexagonal prisje ted. Some Bt added sulphate of zi eng “with a 
pu oc by fine or imprisonment the better. “An of 1 statue of Buddha at eac! ch | view of givin new cheese | the taste of o ld—oth ers 
Angus Lad His successor, Mines caused “t e yed ji t 
by referring to butlers and housekeepers, but the aine a bronze A: neces st and erecte a in the hall of ing the heaving | of cheese. , Dr. Voelcker also pig 
the great Bo-tree ;” an t he had f 
| the ‘expense, the education ? The difference is great. | annals, nearly tw o thousand years later, of t bra- | d th: thel 
Your “ Angus L ad” would have the gardener devote tion of a festival, heir «from the ty peg the ployed t t a more peka: Pre” of the 
night after night was planted, the rulers of Lanka held ine from ‘the whey. 
him, and erti all the knowledge of his profession, | every alte foe for the purpose of watering it.” * f the Sexuality of Plants, with 
such as is laid down in your columns, at comin an author of the Mahawanso, who wrote between a Piikin Reference to Mr. Darwin’s Wo rk ‘On the 
expense and inconvenience without the smallest re- | years 459 and 478 A.D., after relating the ceremonial Origin bad Species by Natural ca by Dr. Dau- 
muneration, and if, as he says, the subject is one which t the | beny.—Dr. Dabei be 
produces a great deal of ill feeling, I hope that those k arina 7 the venerated tree by Mahindo, concludes between the two modes by whict ony ultiplication of 
who feel aggrieved will os ak out, so that if the a by saying: “Thus this monarch of the plants is brought about, the very same properties being 
is really bad it may be done away with by common | with miraculous powers, has stood fi ak in the imparted to t the bud or to fe ue oe as to the seed pro- 
consent. J. D. U. delightful N n La a duced by the or rdinary p Kin of ei npe and a 
ue |s ital welfare of its inhabitant and the propagation new iadaa being in eit er instance equally pro- 
back ire reat pas joni a t0 te v ag =e oft religion.” In 804 the seigning:, king du ced. We are, therefore: » led to pesega as to ys 
td es <— a plant ins seed and built tin hono! peor and ne: pee 
ee gd ies is i evidently a Cov Ti Bo- Hon at Anuradha poora-neuera; ” and in a. D, 1 53, 
ite gd about St. P. sticks s Day cri R pedi Brakra aries a-Bahu “ aende a house fkin Jaya-m maha A ttings, One use, no doubt, pera hiec 
d quit Instead of long th ry eee ae aar e e. the yee Akui will biahero bads t the peni many plent a propagated T 
h roughout these notices a few s alone, wou in a mann 
at branches, it had a xi ak E la number RIGA g pat al ào) the object of E veneration Mon Js always ak Ano ther secondary dine ti tke pei yy cits 
i tistic | alluded to to as * th been | whi to animals. A third m a ee 
tati uggested as to ite es aig and the Raj „a still | to minister to the gratification of the senses of man by 
a tations, ‘he “secon eg cw aent oe oe i map later authority than those already jistad. coils of ie a auty wt ne eir form dei colours. But as these ends 
boas examination. Ati is the plant invariably us sed wii ayo- on iby. ei erste tae oe division of |â only an red in a small propo ortion of cases, we 
Ceylon ie alabar: 1240) says he was tl 
in ely pasture field, as ommons, earthen | “ descendant of Pe yms ily who re ree t the Bo-tree | and ae e the ile pr cron that they might have 
fences, and adil | iy % eh think the Wood Sorrel | yet existing to Ceylon.” _, Regard with so much | be con provided, in order to p T that uni a 10 
could ever have been so used, as i n exceedingly rare idolatry, tended vith tt f Nature, wk ould have prevailed if 
plant in this country, J. Bradford, Cork.’ [But it is | t from all lands in which the name of Buddha is held oh ts I i ten oe exclusively by buda. Ibis 
asserted that the Shamrock was once eaten, Did the | i" veneration, and its vicissitud led in tl d | well known that a bud i = gouniorpat a of the 
“dd Irish live on Clover? The plant sent is the kind | history of an island the inhabitants of which i ; w springy... : 
i 
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A which considered j stock from whence it spr 
i nifi. themselves the possession of so heavenly a sure of obtaining the very same 
Rainfall at Arle-Bury, Alresford.—The following treasure; the conjecture (had it ever been hazarded) tree up grafting a pease or cutting of a Pear or 
is our ‘iene i on of rain during the last six months. t l t of the PRE „species. „On FE 
The a in June seems incredible, but it was care- | Supplied by one secretly substituted, may fairly b 
fully aly an e had a succession of ores regarded as an hypothetical impossibili ty. Such an | clike the plant roe ‘whieh it sprang; and hence, by the 
n plants, some erties from the 
vty fs, SEE, pare: arre _| would have spread consternation, not only throughout primitive pere is s sure to result, _Dr. Daubeny aed 
test SOE RO aS Re aie but over Siam an nd Chin 
Rie Ene ie are IGE Se ean ted w h equanimity, and Sate with a the creation of sexual organs in Pata or be 
WONG ey OE, ey AE ey sense of the calamity, injthe annals of every Du regarded as intended to propage this sajene object. 
aan AR y nation in Asia. ] Whilst, however, he gave his assent Darwinian 
as 
which the Satlior — 
disposed to carry it. He sath pae to E end 
rene 
rban. 
pon = 
stock a pond w. with Apre and w where is the best place to | Societies. 
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acred Bo-Tree (Ficus) of Cey eee would | HORTICULTURAL : fa; ly To . Fruit Committee.—J. x the limits syns VA the doctrine Poed by 
E. Tennent’s | Graham, sai in the ehair. A very pa anges ng i pann may a in distinguishing varieties 
Ceylon m (Vol. II. 613, &e.), to to be the aa tree known, | Strawberr Pig which a prize was awarded, was from species. 
of which s pri etre history can be given to establish | hibited F Turner, of Slou RN consisted “ot! Prof. Huxley, having been called on by the Chair- 
its age, also Vol. I. p. 341. It was planted by the | ee fae "Sir Charles ni w yatt’s ard Rivers’s | man, nb ge ated any nee on the general ae 
Buddhist emigranta from the Indian „contine: nt 288 Eliz , Adm ral Dundas, ack rince, Sir sien | of the truth of Mr. Darwin’s theory. He felt that a 
d i ti erba, and In 4 rince of Wales. l i h ch sentiment w aA 
identify it with the individual now pegase: There i is Among t N FA best nt Inga were Filbert, Pa audienco an 
y y , ge pja superba, a of which, considering | such a discussion should be carried on. Dr. Dauben; 
tree. G. [The f Emerso; e good. 8, Mf, er i d 
epre ea oly of this river tree :—The Bo- sent nisi, a Tase and fine ak ts Adair ; Jeyes’ Sd on- r r 
of oe is is, — wig te pepe ty, inthe oldest | z fal, t ray y North, rhe las erry ; May Queen, and | two instances in “which ven nts had been disseminated 
ree in as pla years | Wizard of the North he last was small, but not b q t be ted by buds; fi 
before Christ, and alai it is n 147 years old. | in flavour. deere err re ogee ry Bice! Bie don 
and, erna 
w 21 e : pan > get $ weed vita io squalidus, by the late Rev. 
 varyinį v n | an early stage of growth were shown by Mr, bertson W. Hincks; the diffusion of Chicory, in 
fi ito the Baobabs of Senegal, the Eucalyptus of | Good fruit of this variety may therefore yet be e 
berth tg ) e i this ŝeason. SEAS He 
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Cypress of Soma, in Lombardy, is aid Sate Ch ta aang es be different from Bellegarde: was cov lusion wii 
tree in the time of Julius Cæsar; yet the Bo-tree is | ee i Mitchell, gr. to Lord Wenlock ; and Mr. of Mr. 
