Avevsr 11, al 
pleasure in showin wing them to any PPE: To will |in the midst rolling prairie entirely JPP of 
forward me a note expr me his des e them. | timber. This oling prairie, or open dow we 
N. 
THE GARDENERS ae AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
who, intending to call oe on his 
Australia, to are in oh he 
er, Muswell Hill, should have termed it in Australia, is lightly 
ial het the San 
with Grass, aA situate between the 
native chiefs to solla thom. 
ì The 
Joachim and the wooded uplands o 
Sorteties. which gradually rise towards the Merce “Nevada, In 
osier Sedi aa 
Siei 
this difficulty the Buckeye se kisi hier ; 
h > en 
HORTICULTURAL: i pred 9. Floral Committee —A oy ar Mey aa! aig ed = aa d 
ple, and a very sre 
Hollanders or the Californian Indians. 
anon ape wants, light t labour, r, and “beautiful 
s awarded on this oecasion to 
+} 
to one waggon to be deci all 
to the Rathies: HBA that the remaining Fe ye with 
ed should 
that a most completely. 
The feather can “scarcely look upon thei eir condition 
A w i containe 
ing. owaggon in Mr, Wolf’s char convey- | of ci tion, and it re ally may be doubted whether 
a light rose-edge mer; to a Me a New York Company with their Seria o the rece an appiness of man in the civilised state equals 
scarlet Verbena named Nemesis, from Mr. han apt ee xf seine and to them t the first preferenc e was given, | that of these favoured peo 
y We As to the origin of oe hat is called placer gold, he 
the last named ` foll tulated gat ‘inst oid iua We opposes most resolutely the theory tha ab it is derived 
mmendation Z, Verbena, Pink Per retion, a | required to hi ane 4, She tim y five mil n 
pretty rosy pink sort with a lemon eye, from Mr. farther, so that we might be placed menr biswas before | the contrary he ‘produces what he regards conclusive 
Smith; Picotee, Empress of India, a amen light- | the double téam aoe. ed its journey of breton a evidence as to the gold having flowed in a molten 
edged kind, and Garibaldi a yellow fancy , from on ration in an attempt to. reach the pee -diggings, for | state over mek ky beds. The form of his theory is thi 
Mr. Bragg ; Picotee, Countess of Derby, a paki Parple | task of its aecomplisimen now began T appear saiid by himself :— 
pies and: Queen "of Picotees sande a KARETE Soave owt = AA pm oi thew ae mofo ere te “The oct Ld@vanéed then’ wab—that alnviahos 
edge, from 5 d b ted and k eren 
pape edoed amed Favouri ‘om Me wit barely, O ng, mate acon teh by fe ort Paer aa ishable 
er, of Slough; à yellow hybrid variety of Honey- | unabated ren nde red it it Jeti impossible for any of us to pag pesi that “qe aarta-veine as Well as komme pë war dykes 
suckle from Mr. Ingram, and a seedling a named | proceed separately on foot without an extra tent and | trave ae constants had been the fissures of discharge 
Nobleana fro i: e, Bagshot. The last is ee We had n now, be egan to acqui ire Americ an | —the only acente e aee, solid remains of the 
supposed to hybrid raised between Callosa and ejected matte artz and some few other 
Er inn and is an exceedingly handsome rosy purple Be ee aw itt appointed because 
iking imp ti ooking Uhom Alluvial or lacer de osit gold has often a fused 
bath F parents. Si TP SED I nett posses: sA an ex t obie barrelled appears and Petun on frequently _ resent 
irae’ AF Adah fowling-piece, fr consequently ure place d ragged and irre nie urfaces, such as must hi been 
rr] upon the foraging c eviously | destroyed by abrasion. 
Notices j ookg, elected our officers. "Binge was appointed “3 Tt is found upon slaty and schistose bedding 
president, and T was chosen „treasurer, tor we mm dea rocks in such alr and Erare that no merely 
wery and Geognosy of the Gold Deposits in 
Long 
The Discov 
Australia, e. By Simpson Davison. 8vo. - | special arrangement for medical so We.reut 
ae 10 days in this miserable condifion Or ie focobd ‘aay 
a soley tree was discovered, "whic lied us 
scantily with fuel. 
Nothing less than the in Pag of the subject to 
which this ae refers could hay induced us to wade | 
digesta 
rive 
supp 
In my Peeing: capatity, however, | ,. 
and n hae ne ohn ad sportsman 
«3. It 
o to 
through the moles of i rA ges, which remind | [ enjoyed rare sport, z 5 
us of a Patliam ntary Blue Book published on private | a pent heat field. P isie » and consiste ir Bak at Page aie i e e 
ccõunt, The sists of a long. introduction | hie eny of deer antelopes, “pares” ` rabbits, groun 4, It is found richly deposited in the neighbourh 
narrating the history of the author from his th a of naek voleanic disturbance, and where quartz- 
to his return fro! ifornia to Englan and after an Mr, Potts a nother ‘2 ung ma A Wa nanan with | Veins Sa: trap-dykes transverse certain slates, schists, 
absence years ; and this, although prolix, is a| me in shooting, a schemes for surroun g the and g nites calla. ne nts, ; z a 
very reada! > part of the volume ; for it peo light | timid antelopes in A ie VYEO. or following the 1 lite k old i; 
npon ihe life O£, ma; age ae ist, the dif- | deer a us N those me delights i and quartz-veins are 
ficulties he must encounter and e risks which attend, hunters only kno ja r om Ao ar : had left in e, d by high A REE o have been 
or in Mr. Davison’s case fo thy 6 Pat and I may| filled from below by mineral matter in a fluid or 
to carve a fortune out of shee Tate and cattl d th til afit for use, | vaporous state.” And ea 
The remainder, consisting of about ie! pages, Rie my si tat ea ter seme rine on thel “1. Allnvial or r-deposit gold has been thrown 
partly to a pe po cventally they ved a quit Bik n Tacky ad- | tó the bottom in an overflowin e volcanic liqui 
Mr. _ Hargraves, to whom = “Legiative i rik saire OW thë We mets “2. The liquid has cooled a By day and a zit 
0002. w hich Mr, nai a oe most part has since disappeared by and slig 
= son thinks ought = least to Bove been Pesen par Henie who had d born to the $ c de gair forces, or possi ibly it may then partly hav 
self, Mr. Hargraves having, we asa et t 
š f gold daha from 30n, = : 
aie A the public has er part o 1 a i th Se 
volume is occupied by a discussion of the th of | ad A been appare: } ) 
gold _ formations ; and here Mr. Davison’s ie a nd et in n San its bed, as to ev old-digger x 
Periana “This sil voce to show atv eriei al sor sort of life perienced ir in wo pi lst apo upon ‘hard Soe. 
men of science. te > ‘one occasion Mr. Da 4, The r of gold ‘chlorine and oxyge: is 
In the narrative portion of the work we the P known me Islands, of > gives a niggers of a particula epee which may have si 
graphié descriptions of Californian nian gold stron most nee connected with its original deposit, grief why the 
which, as- has veret: e Pacific known as the Samoa, or | noble m -alone has since remained a Fi metal, 
Le this be taken as an 1 "> | aigat i We eae discovered an the French’ ae = e ensein eee oxidised and 
€ Il sek head é considered requently disappeared entirely, 
amvigation oe the San Joachim River, ia the | as constituting a subdivision c of the Friendly Islands'of |! “5. The ocean is the: pres! ke ee hdo ral k 
rsmg city of Stockton pud eos ‘been established. | Captain ae iin sists of for perished apoian Jarg quantity. 
pice ey tie a ent place as an entrepot for hiai satiety, M Manua, tailla, k; po djor agi salt in ie. ere indicates wet Their nature may 
E southern diggi gpa "a week was passe «Orph first hor nt Manua, | Baye 
on board thi taisarable rath, C70 6d WN Grp ond of the “i A Foia poenti. is $ Miam, "G, Al the nomena are r referable to analogies in” 
hg 7282 which steamers now perform regularly in six | here we found ‘were all Christians, ith books pred | sies, and ak ee with a ha 
hours. The San Joachim is a > large river flowing | upon a in Roman ‘characters, and yet, | f poy yes We by e 
through à marshy country ov rown with gigantic | si oh bar » there were HO “White "tele tie AKG geol : sia t 
toe ee oaljod ‘Tules, until | n, where | island, the le having all been taught by ‘7. Auriferous quar uartz ta vains ‘ot other dy es have 
elevated- and fer ith ‘trees and | teachers hiti. ere is not perhaps a more | Probably been fissures oi g 
green sward on each side. At Stockton v we foun nd plenty | trium syri result pam an a * so annals of ‘er is a question to be settled ‘by sedlogists, pars 
of teams, both of mules oxen, ready for hire to pes anon an man referit; wit ozpresmgn © fere a) 
convey miners with their aaa l highty a ied wes <cpeds eee sc ientifie gfe He er should haye been trea! i a 
various A bargain was soon concluded with truth a) l gaai Siichiption: Their ster Neainty i is | tone beg gut rity which is pei eg Spear tn it ‘ch a 
a teamster, one < Reyna as, a a as he de- | surely a nearest approach that can be to paradise offered them a digging, id 
setibed himself, to transport our 1 earth. All that my youthful. hagita maa a eit w afan they will probably extract ore enoug 
pix gold-diggin on Woo Ale roe. in consideration | ever pictured, all that Cook’s voyages had ever im- | to repay them for their trou 
N a ment of 16 cents, (Is. 6d.) per Ib. avoirdupois. | pressed upon my boyish fancy, and all the slowing 
oe e Mr, Wolf, ta fall-bioo ded Buck- | Hes S which E Mid ered getliured: fron dake riptive| The Floral Magazine, Part IV., contains igus s 
eye, as he bo o be when asked from yal State | books, had never surpassed the glorions reality. I haye|the double Hemerocallis disticha ; _ the Presiden’ 
he cami » NeIng a particular friend of the dri raid | gen rally. fo found the contrary to be the case in other Azalea, a Chinese sort; two superb ‘single Hyaciuths, 
Sine which we had engag TS to | countries, but here the- the d, and Argus, blue; 
oompany with him, so ‘that whenever any | climate, | ‘sea, | 
after the : migh i si = crossing creeks, or | most n c 
ggons getting Ped be Ox ane eable 
zah is pei in se e on too P| then entered Apia harbour im U) 
The tet eed pall each other through the difoulty. remained p fom 
ly 8 travel lay through a n Oak forest, | sions into the interior 
over the nearly level aale the River San Joachim’ | Pritchard, the Consul, ‘and thence went to view a re 
We encamped the first night near a public house A e a bat fo 
Sa a, : s? [t rained during the night, gold on 
= ie now first experi 7 Se the Seat. Eidyn thir the the eget curiosit 
the: had been made ete the river, On | Nutmegs and AIRE © Sheehy m, 
ie iges ope IN $ ir to mo 
the grimnd fod one the rain continued to pour down, | besides ~ me Se apical obj 
à become A d p +6: Saag Tuffen West, of of whe there are 250, ney 
farens eoa alo as six tos Leaving Upola the ‘Orpheus stood off and on, near t ty Mr. This is the 
ptr encamped . ; Jarge island of Savai = microscope which can be put into the 
down ear ea natives visited us on every occasion, Our long stay at | best book on, th» pe w p 
it was declared impracticable to proceed. We were now | this group was occasioned by the captain of our vessel | 
