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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL ei 
a 4, 1860. 
flower cricket begins to be he ard as early as the 1st of | zanin g it therefore with a 
st, but yh is a week later before it commences in 
Ibany, ai later still in the more 
e Sta 
gren sed. On 
ing a in a str 
very fine transverse lines may be 
> 
hrubbery, some feet part 1 may plainly be seen. 
magni 
ong light, an appearane e me that of 
tl e pikaa S of this 
What at first appearet ed like 
fy- lable. | 
at ry Brat is rales agi TÈ eoatla es] 
Many ings tite valleys to 
the Season 
th 
And on 
blossoming eas 
e 
a AEEA is, however, E. 
ey N, in the 
i and 
i i teeth, resembling the front man, Blossoms, for the wood are seen 
in the same spot day after day, its song begins soon | flat t cogs or 3 aen tegt hoo tattle on, Peed eave ) : 
i “x aint ni eri a py aie Fak sti he oc eg Th yp SA recited Sh at short | in mele all th goned districts for the sake one 
one thd AA oa eee Sa always farther off than it is | dista som ee a as the nails of the fingers| bark. Th me might e iN berries cultivated is beyond 
su be Thou 3 of he apc and caty- duet ae othe end of a. finger is placed upon t the | a slings ae yet s gal ba bd great utility in 
ids are shrilli sage on every si me time, the top of another in a row. __ It is but a short portion of many A com une ar to gui am Arabi ae 
i  crraieting ot Ya h ia| The bark is much valued by the pe 5th Tra AR 
from E mo res Vram igi of repetitions of a sg te teeth—little ` more than the 20th of, a an inc Bai be cultivated À on jan d Which also e e coad Fa ret 
K Pe now, hilg ara ( RS + a eh e 
in with m alight ight ene between. The ane “The oat 1o ee aa ee So os 
a his cricke votary of the temperance | length of the teeth. The tooth do not ¢ tend perpen- acco 
rick r 
cause ; they understand its song to consist of the words dicular to the surface, bat afmoline a togarda tha ee 
em ib isnt the 10th 
shall now be able to 
treat. | D, 
TH its piap that they will at tudded with 
i ther 
inch from the inner an 
ilar to Peas. Cocka 
noticed oc of. the he beat 
erii cockatoos feeding off t of the 
Raspberry Jam Acacia in Central Atay a and the 
white cockatoos in South Australia u used. 
vein 
of an 
in so € 
recall them to yeep recollec of almost every reader, 
s is t 
hus continued without ihe 2 slightest understand the mene 
— een 
ead lily Ł 
l re 
its fiddle-bow ioe dram pes the edge of ‘the 
ith the seeds of the Gu um Watt oa 
use following each third cells which are placed in th this frame work. 
yt) o 
er e pr rg hear it at | tha vary my s dinner, which from there peut g no fresh meat 
J enade fly of salt pork, with a roast of these 
Cite piti treat, iten: | opp grating thereon will cause such a jar in the sash | fellows, but I cannot say much in their favour, even 
pone the „Songster ` was | or. frame work of both wing covers as y Tae a | with the recommendation of an Australian ppetite, 
: ing a eae for his voicel ll the litt! mbra; T of the Fragant Acacia is used a rticle 
4 7 A 
of food by the Aborigines, I ha 
as himself—a longer pa 
‘note. This prelude i i properly performed in 
oy gs ] 
er otherwise T his organs, prepara atory to per- 
Eea TAE 
thinness of the membranes and the violent v 
Wie 
nutr AOR 
It re 
geti t down. 
which they are thrown b rwise you might 
thes e pr ojecting teeth of the eee -bow with the [ittie | i as Raw While eating as ite ating Walnuts. The 
Many s have noticed the eer ay when | sing- | intervals between them pro odue tting. 
ing, ems to see that it is Ais ru its hi ls they act on gum is the most rane prody uct considered as 
+ +) 
ing 
f its wing covers that its stri- 
dulation is produced. In the cricket, however, the 
hind legs are much shorter, and here we fi 
th 
together ; when the: ey 
— 
are opening apart no grati 
as the wing covers ively ope’ 
veba notes tad ityala ae abont Sajal len 
one of them a gut 
ner edge of the other that its song is caused 
the in short. 
It oe a sian no peculiar mechanism | as 
meses produced. The rowof t teeth moreover “bein 
The 
ing can | an antipi T commerce. Som 
a speanlabiop realised 60/7. p 
and | per ton. The bar E mead T. per ton, My agent, 
iss are however, advised that t those prices could not 
ing so | ma inta ined. | of ie 
and 
oe wal jia tare vig slender hind legs similar | tion, andit is noti in the power of the insect to produce a = 5 obtained once (for the tre 
to those of th ls, 
ser ema. while the bark can 
e dies), it reminds one 
The re eres ie of the ue of killing the goose. A party of men and 
be u in “te ma same m We how ever find 1| several differences betw een the song of this and of the | boys out “ barking ” would destroy a belt of Wattles a 
that in this as in so many o ipi ii s they whose hes ation has been descr nied | mile in pees in a week, and they make no distinction 
to the akta, > bia when we come to examine Be ie with so sie exactnes . Goureau (Annals Soc. | as to whether they are growing on Crown or 
wing co we are able to discover the very ¢ En nt. vol. p. 34), are bee readily Bron vee nc re | land so long as th r is not located on it. 
ho-hi which their atis peue y we find in the e of the _ The e gum i s used by m manufacturers to give an apparent 
iarity in its structur once | eovers in soy ie y to their by 
a 
hich ai two 
eahlalas ehy it is that the song of this heet consists both of Bate and o 
of mbes of note tel ollowed by a full ase, 
sound, nea of bein; a: or stea 
hole length. “Bonos its ite is 
Sera are flat and placed far Jess oud and shrill 
M. was ead ee 
] cularly downwards and covering the e its wing pre whilst they were still plian 
They are very thin aed po aar like clear Supe het same sound which it ey ers when 
ms and may be c Siapio to a wind tet vith ews veins and . by randy eorntching.g ith a pin a 
ike the sash bavi ond into nb 
e 
THE et eya hen hs on 
OR STINKING ACĄCIA (oF 
Apermatsa) i AND _THE Poin 
essed reckons They TA OF 
55 phased in the wing as 
Ind ones 
forward m eoting these : $ 
h +h 
this aunty the fiddle- ae 
tal | instead of projecting tosta is se | furnished with | maker 
ted transverse ridges or ribs, these 
occupy 
veins prolonged and | 
shrill than that of the flower — | Austr 
in Sn and ma ny o others, A SIRTAR fe 
told me that it cost him 1502. per annum for 
its| gum arabic (which after all is chil key from 
girien), Eo ta thicken; an pe fini 
i and pure, ‘oun 
sings 
ia 
simi ilar 
| w Ki buns. Louis pieis Calcutta, April 26." 
Correspondence. 
ba 7) 
ongitudinal veins te 
t ral A 
pat Ad ean , I noticed a f ve 
mttin ng on the stretch the re i k species o acia growing 
ral 
dry stone beds op to e of the creeks ar 31° 
and lo ong. 141° „East 
» but mer rely beg that you will correct 
Sa A 1 Lo 
pees ugh had nothing whatever to do with my appoin' int- 
in the 
South ment; nor has he p robably ever f eard peel of me or 
ed eo oyed. 2. A practical 
"of 8 
“ stinkin ce 
re “in 
veins, Thus of t 
little drum or tabor, — whe 
‘insta’ oti The 
re 
no imple smooth 
surface, but is striated with, ariba “little aa i 
It now remains for us to descri ibẹ the curiously con- 
t by which all these little tabrets are | 
the 
| at AA 
instrumen Po a 
into vibration. n the ce ner emo of owever, exhibited i 
the 
e same time kole 
yee no sensible smell when fresh, but T 
few small branches and placed them | and’ to aie in the event of illness zi accident. 
ahh 
hi 
f tl di ccompanied si peda, not 
Decaus ther ere was pi doubt is re a fitness; but to 
‘assist i in KA ing ¢ the Wardian cases, 
3. It is fals 
having accomplished PEN 
h On that day I Saved in Sip 
with a large ‘upp o plants of the ot valle 
alisaya, var. æ and £) i 
dition; which wil be forwarded to their destin in 
India by the first steamer. 4. It is untrue that a 
has be 
in the 
excited gu 
: wing cover, » at the anterior end oi ike mark | wood, which, instead of pet aking of t 
will Erroa smell of the blossoms the leaves, was ag 
os ae 
On my E to the 
is t! k and stout ana hen 
stout, and w) 
y inspected it is found to be ii in several respects | ay 
Kifterent Be from all the T w rs veins, It first runs| Australia as the oi 
abruptly . inwards, ransversely, and then | su pposed Be rg 
rye) +} 
+ g3 vin 
this c sle nde er. Ont? Ji obtained the e 
an 
ales, was 
iho or rout ae of wn wing ‘this vein is pressed | and the sp 
st a far rrow is form ed in the eo Con tral er Bs 
rongly downwards, wher: n fragra’ 
surface above it. On the out from 
the oo iin bold relief, halons an elevated ridge. 
the settlements I found that this 
e NE a ES Agetřalia,, 
known in Wi estern 
am Acacia,” from ares 
nee of the w 
rve. 
onal m mg: s tis Picco fe aker She ood,” ge se ar rel we shall fully 
ock Rainbow and Thun 
T: 
a ys pets frente similar in appearance to Rosev wood, 
ias been ciiay" ideri 
the French etke As to my 
and to the affair being “discreditable,” I trust your 
readers will attach as littie faith to suc 
as ‘to <r which I have already shown 
igreeably 
w 
hy 
3 
& 
copy of a 
ens India Board, nad a tot t 
5 o'clock 
o | favoured wi 
Markham to 
super .— t5 
It is of | on heck Abon 
Now th very heav, vy and sunk in n water like a stone, and so hard | vot fection for. Perhap 01 rs W 
or chisel. are t i r i 
Sd eee of the opposite wing cover, and as it runs} The odour í is pota due to the Presence aie " rga } natural a i se ty shen yarn sht, n the sub- 
nsversely it will at once be seen that w es the ae. pater of ae t | ject. What I saw looked as if part of a primary rait- 
covers is. slighty spread ap: i he echerch ait sedis yet to be seen if i Ta ee bow, as'far as the colouri ring was concerned, had 
: eb this ridge up a on 1 st tl voit able eer by he pedi Let us| placed in a perpendicular manner among the clouds, 
nl applied, zeci lhe the b: w of a suppose that essential oil of “ ‘Raspbe m Wood” | not A there the sun like the rainbow, but about e 
ying on ne hes „This aay there- comme, iber, mh ct could mta a Aad ls it would not | same altitude and in the same agate rly “direction as mt 
arean; | e a particular! easant perfume, Mot. at does not vane ‘How! ng it [ean 
= Teeth described beso _— militat edna ainst. ist for the R e may be said of musk, kel; but IE x sine hee peal grein anaw I saw 
cricket, having giv other ers when pure. ler rt of the say th ther was 
But “et in ames Th t bet bl about half-past 12 a sudden change tok 
steers] A tourer Jam Acacia and the blossom of = ita well- a in the — the clouds were pouring we 
bow when | iioi Gum Wattle (Acacia decurrens) is very remark- lin such a manner that for a short time part of the 
of 
e exquisite 
S a a a a ee ey R 
