SEPTEMBER 22, 1860. ] 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 855 
Peres shall have been Tabi it will be the hig ghway visions—but fresh provisions must be grown on the found of practical use. The plants designated under 
fro British _ possessions, n | spot. Ca ttle, poultry, vegetables, forage, requite spa their Latin botanical names, will be arranged in 
it rearing. this no ee is better suit ted, or ¢ 2 | alphabetical order, followed by their English, French, 
bbe Cree Cotanbia must, under a wise ae | hold out stronger inducements lt Italian, Spanish, and German names, To this will be 
ob tho mot thriving stations in the | The ag obstacle in the that greatest | added a special alphabetical index, in we £ the above 
i World. of i n the Ga rden an nd most necessary of all "clues ba pia the law | mentioned langua 1 work bein ended for 
Chronicle of last NESE: whi t o its | f land. ember- | the use of young 8 the Pear E ia — it 
present value a pone ts nent with Fh enltivatiom | ton assures us tliat the bn of the seth in ihe aat yp with the most repos care; and a aoa 
the eta tha information gathered fro source sà say kan ilia to 
poin out; a we Ap ordinary readers, it is hoped it may also be tetas N 
firmed in all mR ihe = ibe valuable "work | Bib ioute statement ed us by $ surprise ; alt Boog by: the general 3 nt The work nan be published by 
before us. enough in an account of Califormia. p subscribers 10s. Subseriptions 
r. TA anuk position as _ Surveyor- General of | as large as hassocks, Radishes as larg eets or | to be pai nd to ean Herries and Farquhar, sa St; 
Van anid bushels of Potatoes to a single stalk, are Janes’ Street; London, to the account of Countess di 
URAAN with land, and, although his official ob liga- | nothi hing ri Neti rare At the house of an ¢ nsu n Gic 
"10 
ao Lovell Reev ve announces the speedy publication 
of anw m by aes ivi M. J. Berkeley, under the 
of Ow s Of E 
gology. It is ag be an octavo 
PANSA ning characters of abo 
tions must operate as some restraint upon saying all | San aa hae seen Oregon an to e ire 
that he could whic ired the uni ited „efforts of five gue 
convinces us that = is : faithful statement of what an | t Apples BAA 1 ls i 
emigrant has to ex He describes the country i in | stl will be very. remunerative. Those in Oreg 
vea 
considerable detail, mtn out its pe ral and 
actio 
f | thousand species of Fungi, and a complete list of all 
riches, criticizes its legislative ac and fruit has to be carried to the Wi ritish Isles. 
the impediments to ig pen vance with t the speed of a tlt then eee eeaihaiy from Portland. An acre | The plates, 24 in number; ar ir ene A ith original 
remedied by a better k prow | of tand Plantea with 200 Apple trees would, at the end | coloured figur ith nA, ge es necessary, 
tion by Government of the wants of settlers. In an three Ps ri on a minute calculation, coat a pro- | magnified aoten about 150 madian 1 drawn at 
Appendix he has E some Hither i: g p o 407., , and the lowest selling pri ice on the | Kew by Mr. Fitch during the past year (which on 
he coun dded that age is 2002. a e | account of the continued wet has n especially 
the laws of land bitirin t the colo ity, and oat excellent intermediate A are chopped out with an axe as favourable to the growth of Fungi) from specimens 
maps of the island itself ene fe adjacent pa ae ooo rd ri es too cro ana Hops grow aks in tive | supplied to him by the author and his various mycolo- 
showing how roads and e ually railroads may country n a la arge scale would p well, i friends. 
ve 
carried from the mouth of the Fraze er River t 
real, 
ce of Vancouver to navigators 
fact, that between San 
immense importan 
the striking 
J J 
roe ee ee J ER AY +e tad 
r. Murray has issued another of his excellent 
Han 
2s, 
dbooks ah slant arte 
g 
i T} eke ie daia +} {iy 
coast. Į g fro : g 
crops and Grasses are far from inconsiderable. The cost or 
hi ich the tou 
serpin “and m ie of Oxfo in addition to.a care- 
s of the isla nd, a coas 
s long, there is not a single respectable 
port. The month of the river Columbia and Humboldt 
are the only t arbours, and both of them are 
guar be 35 ae an extheniely da ange rous surf. o the 
t 
Mo] 
b the bou 
esent arranged, is about three and a 
ge as “Great Britain, hh Ope 
half the | size of Ireland. a coast-line 500 
arying in oloyntion es 
mdb to 6,000 oon Pai eT osed, 
this ony is, of lake and m forest, mar ati 
and prairie, frequently Pre Asap in these, colonies, 
eatest diversit; 
ndaries are at 
imes as 
ci 
feet bg thea 
ed land may be t 
of the odee descriptions Jess, varying with the locality. 
An acr s4 a nd produces from 
Wheat, i 
at Hay pays es a well, varying in price 
during the year from 81. to 16/., or more, per ton.” 
1 
eo 
md vii site noticed 
ind blew fet "de 20th 
mente the frie dee ae be 
Som 
industry ‘required to veto in Vancouver sti h g 
resources is about to be altered. In futu Way 
British subject may acquire ie acres of unoccupied | 
land, in anticipation of survey, in any part of Bri 
eat 
y wet, story eg ungenial, 
eds in order to test oe correctness: by t 
cial note of these “ forebodings,” th 
termed them, which have, et Lo been t z 
verifi 
was, for 
rt, 
overnment for ‘public purposes, such as town bas" 
y | by 
Indian reserves, or as may be hi es for mining. 
acquire a go d 
it is 
portion of Vancoaver Island, and in pAs 
e oniy necessary for the claimant to 
n as he 
I 
take e possession 
makes his AO, rapes the fact ir 
the Frazer, Lillooette, Co lumbi 
re: as m as t 
e ni 
ted by birds of bright pluniages i í shall have been more 
sag growing in the open air, &e bya ernment, the elki his heirs acq 
“Of Ries land in either pa a the portion occupi a m Government, on payment of a sum ar Fio win 
(some thousands of acres out of 150 millions), is ENIA 10s. i ade but which it is rte will be 
sm: anand with the whole, that a pred ae seduced H acre. r of cou 
time must elapse before settlers monne shall find it | depend on i the deci Zin of sal "Go pei 
difficuli to obtain farm sites co a suffi pele a H o encouragi Sri vement, person | 
quantity of open land. In additi this an a Hie n can sell his Baa iis soon as he shall have 
pref s ne for building, fen is in fected i PiipeoPebtin nts to the value of act per acre; 
a farm; and the quantity, required for Mel 
land t 
n 
gistr rate , with a Rene te of 
1 eee p hing. 
thi pina Pigs ey with, he can pass itle 
mine cl: ease can, in addition to the 
oon thon 
sional im 
| 
on the of! 
Sali is surprising. ‘Of Vancouver Isla southern maa} be allowed to speal 
portion only has been examined, an es te o con- 160 ase at any time any ad- | der May I a pe Ace Ekk we are e 
100 cres of valuabl nenak land in the ditional quantity < ia are perei he pleases, at a price not ex- apon series of y s characterised RA Are os 
ediate vicinity of Victoria, extending to Cowichan usual. moisture ? is fa been observed that for a 
hich again is found t about the same er the rest at the time of survey, if demanded. Asa eyele of Sqvon,.. Years the winds have chiefly 
quantity of open land, which adj ome 30,000 n 
of open land imo, i sa are oo persons taking up land promptly, may be | ha ae and for an eval period easterly, with dey 
eatending ape Mudge; is to n possession before ert are called upon for ina amv and good har iT mag +2 remembered 
150 miles measured ithe the coast a tna island rien Land so taken and oe rds y years sii a ssions in Par- 
has been aroa sing! the cae a a of this et a abandoned, may be claimed and ERA up by any other | amen on the Corn es is ‘Sir Robert Peel 
the islan support in afflue large popula paa g on the original terms, even if improved a the | ted to this as an established law in connection 
site, mi hile keia ery opposite 0 this first occupant. Persons so occupying land have th more 
itt th i £ a hundre! years, published by tl e late Mr. Tooke, 
which hays: not been | explo: ored. pete Cie as if they had paid for the land ‘and | ite Be the prices of Wheat as Sigh or low, and as 
“The a «meee it is richest, in pve nen deltas, the | obtained an indented Questions of boundaries or | ac cuatas corresponding with er character of these 
valleys, an e plains, vended SE a ck vege- | disputes with neighbours, are gags o the nearest | cycles. R. ee Cheltenham, Sept. may be he 
table aco oi "titel hes to 3 feet in eren PORADE a mag istrate to be disp osed of i mmary way, but TEN bits the por —The Kite 
deep substratum of clay, ee or nad meh is — ts.” the wi KE from all other British | via z ae i i its 
witha a insur riaut se g Fern, which i 
kill gan tediou radicat 
y k is most important that 
these facts should be 
cate. 
e are EA f a poor Alpine Saharasta 
dying away in Sep- 
: which supports 
but which is 
the 
too coarse 
AAIE 
aliem. 
r they 
emigrants, pete. we 
mberto: 
y Mr. Pe 
viction that a magnificent field of 
ron geet 
is open before ihe peg apne the 
of course, 
appear to ti every Sodneemenh to 
PERERA ain ubt at th 
i 1 woody in t ou i 
peiie unterbalanced by nativi 
Taron ane an Vena wis are, in most ant 
e account given by Mr. Pemberton of 
ier ts sing ere and private informa- 
ies ete imony. That 
ming is bie: 
church, e 
governesse 
would do a 
aware ye there bein 
wan a 7 
cers and wags Soe 
feen nybody t can teach 
ped well is pa somh. 
g any ladies’ schoo! 
y to add, that 
n be Ta on good pie sa 
30 per 
es 
in pirsani “sand a 
aagi r cent. per annau; im 
and farm 
ail to to be high for a ne or 
w and for many years oor t be x; 
populani ion conn eii 
p 
ose who | very a Swallow, excepting tha that the flight is 
rusal A 
Fotin i parr 
enterprise | 1 
beautifully ag flight, and the long forked tail. n pci 
while flying, the Kite bears no small resem 
fies and phe wiog 
mag of the Kite me 
the parme 
vd Eit 
iling op ua! higi for 
5 
A. Supplies of of fi 
allotted iwattempting to -= 
) 
thi Bnd aie | it 
ld nioge er The 
tessa di $ 
ot A “Polytt Cat 
to 
yar the Con rie prosody of vied. 
s | The work does the char acter, of a 
not sapon 
tis 
y flour tarita | 
mple 
inp in ordinary AANE P "the hope that i 
it may be] that is played by yultures in more 
