Novemser 8, 1860.] 
tem 
Long- poping Pears sometimes ripen months 
earlier than usual ; bub no renee p ed Boat w. 
kee eep | for months after its Renora season of maturi 
W oire Figue @ Alençon 
isn Poire Figue of D ah amel, Nor is it the 
THE GARDENERS’ 
ber will keep till br gives ied less till December. | slender growth, yet hardin Ba peng rik oe and also 
any kin 
ill 
ty. | berr: 
CHRONICLE AND 
| 
the heat of the sun. It gri 
ast three ms aoe years. tee 
e for thos ARS country houses 
r the summer, ad wish to enjoy the fruit 
of their pnnatin the same season. Planted in the | 
beginni ing of A ms Cuthilts Black Prince will yield, | 
tolerable produce, 
f soil, and 
Straw- | 
the of 
Bon Figue ae Kn poe Man is er er the 
Windsor ar, and well en ribe by 
kt, 
author just mnenti nity This 
from the Poire Fig, known aiai in his Ere idi 
the name o itt’s , Pear, Holdernes s Pear, a very 
old tree of it this 
sort ripens in "Septem mber and is d Pear, but ; gives 
way at the core in a few age after Sati ity. 
Surpasse-Meuris. — Fruit large, ATADI e, 
obtuse ; $ stat short, obliquely inserted, the fruit pro- 
jecting considerably on its upper side; eye in a ver 
CaS E shallow depression ; ‘skin greenish- 
se pia A yee with wuk and russet a brownish- 
the 
Sy cote ah eee Madame L. Vil- 
morin, cog ate the ths He any variety of 
Strawberry, pele the Scarl et G 
Stirling Cas te Pine isein 
soil — Fruit large, 
ripening in t e-season, conical, broad, 
and 
hy 
AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
| histor 
such as cannot | o 
979 
Separate chapters are devoted to the “ days,” or 
of asi and to an inquiry into the nature of tho tho 
actual facts to A nem in the Mi 
of the Cos 
Ht 
pr 
ceeded from luminous m 
whole space of the, solar TRY or surrounding our 
It ‘clothed with light as 
middle 
cordate at tho Daso; brilliant song orange-red ; 
om fine, buttery, with a 
+? 
bv at the dalicious, 
refreshing flav 
and frequently andes 
It was introduced into Briat a by M. V 
We expected, from its hardiness, 
à madini t cloud; for yet the sun was ni 
valerate the ee, that the > 
obscura- 
roceeded from a 
ane 
2g 
h fine, _half-melting, juicy, it presents of gece a a Hah Srila which bear carriage | Let light be, affords an additional reason, since, in 
fi well, and above, all fi uality. » that it would b oe ith the strict oo of 1 which 
Season, Aasai ye Ar Said to have Sin ver ry where bins in this “3 document, a mere 
from seed at Louvain, and bore fruit for the first time | oe many have eat its cultivation at Verrières, stated i in rir’ terms. 
in 1824, It was named by Van Mons after hi is gardener. | bat all have b een | TER Acocks: f i l f the mode of 
[This ripe e time when many bet cr Pears are | the fru ih re endering it not acceptab e to the Parisian | Momma referred to, we must recur to one or other 
A e on. tb } 
s Meu d after th e person, whic 
though not so ARA m appearange is very superior 
in quality, and from its long keeping is much more 
valuable. 
noni Cassante @ Harden, ee ge ert arge, pyri- 
form. oblo; ae obtuse; stalk long, straight, or 
slightly bent, alela fleshy, Fe wrinkl 
with the essed ; 
ate 
S 
su 
h | cal records, t api: aar oe 
re accuracy of £ Judgment s ney anha “= E who have 
. | combined it of 
rechas 
tiom, reiting the _erop to be gathered at diff 
that the luminous 
fi da nebulous atmosphere slowly oise 
Ie 4 
pa “th arket, but becomes a merib 
“pr ‘ivate 
$ formed 
e b with 
growers, pani it permits all the fruits to attain, in | 
succession, their full si 
preserving. 
(To be continued.) 
aia; or, Studies of the Cosmogony and Natura! | H 
ega Me aS: &c. Mon 
luded 
ze. It is one of the best sorts for | h 
ant 
Archa 
Tey a ‘he pm Sersaevntt, By J. W. Dawson’ | wer 
ate IE SE. 
a special envelope of our earth, whieh 
The various points which e usually supposed to be 
pes ae a. ied in he two records are 
min in most 
t having rea 
Ene ae we t laal avail 
pu some « in a late Number of Ta; 
of Natural History.] 
ched u: iog al 
PANA EF me following notice. 
ylor’s able Annals and 
ex soria 
aahapces tence satisfactorily. to 
Hebrew narrative, “all the pem Ene ne feature 
perfi ourth: day, — iately befor 
sreation of animals ;” and. iseovery, i 
our J 1, 4h g A. p ia! ear os back to a 
= 
TROPESSERS 
o | geolo * But in the Mosaic er it wil be remem 
he third By, 19 moet to have preceded 
animals å in n the order o f su so tha siy s iin s ‘are 
a sufficient amo 
pcre acumen, t I 
E 
itss place before pen 'Puleozoio hrern of 
ry 
enpont, 
orren, Professor dhe Botany 
ed aor 
ho with, a a 
EERE 
3 R 
as), bon 
nema me ne 
sed, 
pa either ga et he 
e: 
either philosophers or bi plicat crities. The 
Hiatt nce is, that, practically, each particular in- 
lative has taken up, more or less, an independent vae | ce 
tion,—oftentimes. caring but little, or even almost w 
conscious} whether or not the i iny estigators o of truth = 
} geology, 
0 “before thi 
have 
.? «But that there bg tog ” continues our 
is period, w infer almost with 
inty from the abundance ane ‘distribution of car- 
Naite matter in the form of graphite in the PA 
or Laurentian rocks of Canada; but of the fórm and 
of Mons, a Raren, which sti 
mily. belongs el os 
ys Belle de th 
Pa geg 
different. 
at conclusions in hari mony with his own | 
nothin g” 
Many Shue? suggestions bearing on controverted 
fe bee Img, pyriform; or 
E = Age le 
And thusit 
able in fc a 
is oa in some departments, much v 
i might have been found ex 
ai 
somewhat ¢ cylind b henneh t Thus, in discussing the exact mean- 
in length, straight or «  depr t; been anatosy of faote | dia ing Of the Hebrew igo “min,” Dr. Dawso T A 
skin at first brownish ; t yersek or- as worthless, —and all} “A very im ao sme Pie is contained in the exprawtiis 
bro the fruit approaches urity, somewhat | the want of happy balance” of un- safter its: hee Ha m its ; for the He 
rough, russet dots, Flesh p firm, or half- | bi discernment which can, detect the golden harean “min, used has ore this sense, and, like 
breaking, with little juice, and an acidulated sugary uth throughout, its tless ti pine idea and he Latin -the notion of 
flavour. Season, November and Decem| merely i in pani but. equally also in the. at sat aeg well as that of vind It is to } 
is vigorous and pro Good onl te kitchen use. and n moral, w pecies of mR sn in Le s i. and xiv., and in 
Poire Nonpareil.—Fruit middie round ; stalk and xv. are t t by 
straight, fleshy, saikni n ewe cavity; eye in avery | of th ‘te clev pea inge mious own now ‘i. e us, it ry ome tes that pier were crea! each by’ itself, and 
slight depr' ession; skin v ick, green, changing to | will a ist te admitted that he has executed "his task | that creation was lump-work to be pet- 
tron y semen ‘ing spy of. sty ppdjodament than fected by o aed of a law of development, as 
dots, tinged with orange- ah next the sun. Flesh fine ps any p:tha Sh subje: sme has. pre fancied by. e modern > el In this assertion 
halfmeliing, j juicy, sugary, gd a Cae ne perfume, and | a) hi At o me al, poya, 
very agreeable m, winter. | scholar, and a ea biblical . l critic, an g|by a distinct creati ve act, reve es perfectly 
(which i is more ane still) a thorough tt th 
flav 
roana refers. this Saty to the Poire Sans- 
efons 
Pair, mention ed by Bonn and by Dom Claude 
of Hebrew and a a power of pa ee perception 
ort 
ience, a a lead us 
er Bath es is * permanently repro- 
narrow limits, incapable. of 
with the a of natural s 
to believ ani 
5 
the name of Nonpareil. It Arn also the synonyms of “thrown some new light p P 
Poir Sans-Par i a i Sans ie = &e. [This Pear, | para een. hitherto A imper fect ay ssed : fe we product of creative power.” And, again, whilst 
even in as found not adapted for the | feel sure that all who are phe A? in me Mary of listi ion to “create” 
climate of England.) subject which yields none other in importance | and | simply to “form” or “make,” he adds : foie marked 
Poire. Belle Angevine,—[Uvedale’s van ey (though it has lost much by the ne icio g g 
Fruit very large; slong stalk oblique! inserte shallow, scep d tl pant ] y iep the use of the word create, for the fi 
fleshy, cylindrical; eye in a — aust we dabblers) will thank Dr. D fe tion | th 1 I d th h. We 
with ised E A ENE kin citron or men | of his views. l 1 t 
yellow on the shaded a ‘nitions so narh the sun, | ‘There is a class of reasoners on the Continent saeir after its “etaa or “species by ar spediti 
aeaee rinkled with round dot es very | (happily not very, numerous:-in- xine country) who | animals roe it ks under three gre classes the 
thinly pode: on the pa art i imme diately adjoining the | believe the Mosai aic-narrative of creation to be TADIA Renita e Tanninim, „and the Birds; t, lest any 
stalk, esh white, bre SEE astringent, 1d myth, They think that the i t sid species 
_ and OG uit, and excellent for stew- England is not yet sufficiently Advanced to accept s so » these “groups, we are sapeeualy" informed that the 
Many persons have erroneously confounded t s is here the true unit, of the ve work. It 
ific fruit either with. the Poire d’Angora, or tiful moral purpose, med ‘sed. o p ff hisli th while, therefore, to n ote that ‘this rath 
eae “gap mae ok one ame aoe $ ea n TR iray, $ iy Ne oe "this beta! controverted topic ¢ 
1 r to ayoid for the future this | he earnt in — forgetting t e inserted ies on $ pme hana with the. creativi 
L as ‘ds a fruit) which has more |in the selfsame bat ig ee aah “fiction” the | the other with th poe of contin oo 
ms Decaisne states. that he hi Teu Commandmen nag, Mha heaviest denunciations} In like mam this 16t) 
the name by which it is known [i Jat | against for, pi ! To “philosophers” of that | a antigay o an”), Dr. D 
Pant he } forgery and Å eset does not appeal; but those | to same subject: “The sp 5 
belove that the variety originated in Anjou. Hand- ther and ays saree Le eae ee ideal unit; it. is a unit in oF 
some fruits, like that represented, and not much larger wack their own has ent may | one better indicates than Agassiz does the 
[the one figured in the work is 7 Saa in ga | vat i armay bain i ft whe elt if oly Serip- | the creation of animals; but to what. $i 
mes v, pajina] are usnally sold fo uch as 7s. | tone, as conceive 5 R oa alt that statements refers ? pai tons and higher groups: 
or 8s. They servé for ornament and especially for the fare not neces eerily, winiru ply because they them- | express only t pach row 
Epergne. The Horti cultural ‘et of T pe cially Prt ed | pee A not at AAN eet A etn them, will | individual ing : they are the results 
a fruit 1846 which w lbs 35° 07, and fin da fund of valu able informat Hi ation and ey evga of varity rand increase: of the species 
measured 9,8; inches in koti rA 197 inches ii 
cumference. To enter into the general ra! of the | and 
Cuthill’s Black Prince e Strawberry. —Fruit very early | w would requir ir rate RoR than that which is ed limits of variation inherent in 
middle-sized, conical, glossy, dark red t bet r deseribe it than.as a |tialities of their existence, 
flesh reddish, n the fi rst fruits rather dry but the suc early pi paren deee ts of The species, therefore, with ait TA 
ome soft and j juicy, witha mi- greo: Ges in which a ‘cle collation is made of hat whie! we gi 
Adhe —His unit in the w as we ours in 
able reed though not vi 
very s 
