Noveuser 24, 1860.] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 
growth, and large numbers were ages mp sold at To these „Was 
are ie 
the creatur 
| bulky, the perseverance of 
it. 
first priz e in 
were shown. he next best blooms came from 
iaj Ante 
plant us on 10y 
a high price. he follow rig autumn when 
expected no fru ti seen, ‘and th 
His 
| and mangling the carcase, as ae 
succeeds 
fury gel “at hh goring 
er 
attempts to 
T 
Wilkinson, of Bow, who ha Adit 
ab 
o 
ing but a mixture of 
M: nds mentioned 
h o ne nothi 
British Queen and Keens’s Seedling. s th, Versailles 
to how this ai Legu Hermione, and Quintus | 
7, 
ewington, showed very fine flowers, as 
Vortley, and others. 
At the different 
orced in ear 
spring and then planted o find that I was 
not far from the truth, fie! on pesing to- -day a pa ve? 
a Strawberry e wh ich wi 
small pots till the 
middle of June ist T found them fall of fru it. _ They 
E 
ragged but striking), 
which bids fair to di lace 
Maréchal Duroc, Yellow 
Duke, Fabius, gs oa Salter, 
d and nearly forgotten. Soon after the time stated 
above they were planted out i in a rich border and gre 
with fruit, ead of which i 
d thus seem asif we ve arrived | 
bees de PAutom 
es), | 
mosum, Goliath, | 
Pies ae "Ma idame André, | 
now can to you. It wo 
at the solution of ie = 
ques lutus 
guay, 
In the amateurs’ class Mr. Paxton, Stoke | 
did also Mr. | 
The female is eel 
| This sto ey is not cage robo: 
| @Abbadie, writin, os Pie 
| gives the follo 
E 
withoat a horn.” 
“M. Antoi 
Ti 
SEF 
i=] 
n A*nasa, 
e described t Tt is the atte of a small 
donkey, Paa A “thick Body and thin bones, coarse hair, 
| and tail like a boar, ehead, 
and lets it hang when alone, bat erects it ae 
tion, and I have no doubt that Strawbori Hy good yellow), Pio. Nono, cane Leon Leguay, | know its exact length. The ‘Atl ig fund" K 
autu ay be had in abundance from any of ou ae oy Picturatum, Trilby, cree Lysias, far im hert hee bt Ste the ie ahi I have 
ring kinds, such as Keens’s, Oscar, Sie HAAV. Holborn, Miss Kate te, JEiueidam it i ese egroes lillie it, 
Princess Alice Maud, Princess Frederick William, and Meray; the last a small dark and Pt feds from its ape 
other early kinds, by having plants potted in December e best were Fleur | Te these stories are ae 
or January (mine were potted in the former month) in | de Mar , Glu ‘Norma, George Sand, day wi ee the Lion R. he nomi in our ied 
small pots (No, 60), suffered to grow and bloom in an Margaret of An aie Ou, pa Nahiey e Sermet. | Garde! 
orchard house, cutting off their fruit when green and f new kinds Lady Hindio a variety in the way | Erer 
r and fale er, Lady Mayoress. 5, | Mr. itis sti ee a mn hie’ is martes hy to = diš- 
wt Miss Kate, 
white Hybri 
bingy varieties. 
two last from Mr. 
By larger 
d Pompone, and Garibal di, are all pro 
planting the plants in a rich border towards the end 
of May. Z. 
The first came from Mr. Salter, the | 
Bird. 
Societies, 
CHRYSANTHEMUM, vo. gaem exhibitions of Chry- 
djs. Bist have. taken place du uring these last 14 
ays 
rN Bes? og tw 
Show: that at the Crystal Palace, and 
lastly. inte ‘South Hustropoli and erase _fobaren 
the: 
Notttes of 200ks. 
The Romance of Natural ‘ag By P. 
9b Nisbet, 8vo., pp. 372. 
Ay 
H. Gosse, ae 
cussion of whether such a wpe really exists. After 
ponte the many stories nt from the days of 
Std ime eae he ou 
Owen’s condem 
a 
exam i 
sea- iepen nt exists,” 
e of tho: 
re food Bp the age! 
vee pe t 
e a writer and a 
ti all 
A n plants te aways 
pene 
lished N says 
wadna 5 a we aie say ai “that I would identity iioa than seen with the 
than e_ lias 
when 
as Goss 
ders will ray never more so 
book before üs. 
nid 
rea 
into the world the entertaining 
OG Of them ye aaan 
appear to bree ET: in length, which is pearcei, 
h alf s sufficient to, me et the _ exigencies ‘of the ca case, 
ich | The a abhor" tells us that more ways than one ma 
be fou ory. 
were Mrs Bird per- nd for study ing | natural histo: i 
. Novelt; 
OTEN ADI Benes 
y. y the poè 
> | Nature Tie “a glass peculiarly his the 
esthetic TRA il Trei me are statistics, had 
ith the 
+ presi esen 
Aamnitng the PEN continuation | ‘of the order En 
sauria, | it would be, . I think, quite in conformity wi h 
| bilder, Win, ie Nab; ° admiratio on, 
and so forth = which geo 
ngii —surp! 
desi 
are the 
‘oot in’ circumference, | contemplation of the ereatares arn di him.” 
a 
wy 
This 
elight- 
j ies, 
, | proba ably c combini salient parted of several 
repre forms. Thus the littie known Pliosa) ey nany 
of the papanya pes of the ma without its extraor- 
din arily puy AS neck, while it. vastly exceeded it in 
ning some 
€: 
were compact and ir xcellent in shape; |iS the road now ‘followed by M 
Blooms of Dayo nt de oy ze the es ce p no doubt; but we fear not quite 
were also ly fine, as likew inet r. Dryasdust, who clas oH ne ‘that is to say 
kinds to. whi Brin ai sof into order, the Serine i field it pai 
claim to tie hda be 
eames te the same standa we apply to a 
roman: hich it calls itself. In bag iy ani on Mi tiot 
arg tine the statemerits of our ‘author a 
Wwe 
mong $ mee etings, 
Prince Albert t was Agri fective, gppctially 
when anes ios 
richis il ni 
of ost e 
a dis iiao, , its jolt r being 
as atrikige as that of the Band: 
if the existing form should be essen- 
tially PAN with the colossal i 
Pliosaur? Ph re seer bep no oae oe 
ty in such a su ition exi the ‘ mane,’ or waving 
REAN whioh bas. 50 irequeny Fogn. ole 
those who profess to have seen th 
pea however, is a difficulty of i Palizi rather thi 
of contradiction, We do not know that the ns 
mean that if they are sometimes p 
tively 2 cbtolite such as fancy breeds, M 
breaks faith with the reader, or deserts realr 
1 a 
called Bob. ee light kinds we 
note exellent "t plants of Vesta and Goli: i Christine 
r pot cultu ahs 
J 
n of 
m can suggest. 
appendage, and I do not think there is any insups fet le 
earest analogy that I 
hlamydosaur, a 
the 
. tural his brilli 
Erik “Pavone A ae Cedo Nalli was shown in eth volu ne fn gi cant oe. petit bag D 
‘he um t of a Bele ti f Storie 
good Seige ee éxhibitors, as Were also |; ings e consists o ection ó i 
larg t trial i of ati whose lengthened 
heir 
je Pret PS 
a, General Canrobert and | travellers, and of course therefore’ given “ont 
sane with this —— however, th 
e 
membrane, 
Tiat, £, 
The et cae 
| — them’ himself; ‘and ‘undoubted! hiso 
stl eee were one especially ye - Greatorex, | jg ed to all respect. The m matter is also dattvened 
sited 3 in asming hat all these 
pondent of 
} 
tha at we are nob yt 
drawn by Wolf and engraved on wood by Whyx mper. 
Genes) 
eréatures as the etna i 
Aes fo 
e 
animal of | ancient 
hat ‘unsuc- 
ange fi inde aon sorio of his Pea, ad 
i 
dicated (Central Africa). 
ten wero very well flow h m E Centra r oe 
comparative ely small si 
jake meh ya An 
e especially at the Gji 
présent ; 
a Koke, With ¢ ei ven hoof, id ir ta 
< 
el 
“of 
exit 
mong these 
(on which twisted to à poi : Bae 
between ‘a deer and 
tipped tail, and a horn spit pe 
6), | ay be the original of t 
he traditio onary wt rtrait | that, 
statement :—*“ Captain the Hon. rge 
rhei in H. M. B. Ply, i in the Gulf of Ciorna HA 
hite stat 
General Can- | of which ed is how apa, 
k other testim 
well-known cailhey i 
the ‘general belief in the éxistence “öf 
aie on the land 
n y cor ip 
thia 
Dart Helen, ise ui, 
sett; he lat uae tws 
Sates a 
kan eve were | 
showe 
eight | treme ta vien 
oe aim caval l pe 
and | i eo oa The device 
h lop pssilie; bati 
rd under re oo rag in rage. It is 
sée his | 
copy.” 
x My. ee the | bottom a “large ‘marine ete, with 
PAE i 
that 
reports generit ther i of an 
MAA S ae nger; 
witness, p 
mn whenever pirg 
he natives to | | those 
bre trée 
Plesiðšäüri, 
| respond ihe 
I cannot find that = had heard of 
ash 
commences 
rad if i catches | iI 
i ental ahr boring and | | 
“Aiiaxo, 
coor nen, e ains 
aes to ttie 
André, © eböis, ‘Dike, Non ‘attack on 
pe ila ries Ta Ho, Yellow Sap ng it an he brings ie Wh, hen 
egregious 
rippi 
Meillez,and Fabius, thelast a polished | man is presently gored to death. 
