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Honey Locust for Hedges in Canada.— I 

 have made up my mind that the Honey or Hedge 

 Locust is just the thing for this dimate. The 

 Osage Orange will not stand our severe winters, and 

 it is a slow grower. The Buckthorn makes an effi- 

 cient fence, but fron my experience, it will take 

 from seven to ten years to grow a fence, and the 

 mice are very fond of it, while the locust is very 

 hardy, and a thrifty grower. It grows with a tap 

 root, and never sends up suckers. 



I plough eight furrows together, so that it will 

 give room to work with a horse, and set the plants 

 with a dibble, ten inches apart, and mulch with 

 short manure, which is all the manuring they will 

 require. Cultivate three or four tunes through the 

 summer, and keep the weeds down with the hoe. 

 The second year they should be cut three inches 

 from the ground, which will cause them to s^nd up 

 two, three or four shoots each ; afier which it is 

 only necessary to keep them of a uniform size. 

 With strong two-year plants, and good cultivation, 

 a hedge can be grown in five years that will turn 

 any ordinary animal — Cor. of Canada Farmer. 



Poppjgn Infplligpnrp. 



The late Philip Franz Yon ^ Siebold.— 



[We havebefin favored by Profesfsor Oudemanas, of Amsterdam, 

 with the following notice of the life and labors of the Chevalier 

 Von Siebold, in which many of our readers, we are sure, will 

 feel interested. Eds. London Gardener'' s Chronicle.] 



The Chevalier Philip Franz von Siebold died at 

 Munich on the 18th of October last. This great 

 scholar, who had made his name woi Id-famous, and 

 shed thereby a lustre on both his native and his 

 adopted country, was born at Wurzburg on the 17th 

 February, 1796, of a family which has given several 

 distinguished members to the medical and other 

 kindred professions ; in fact, his daughter (who has 

 supplied the ground-work of this sketch) enjoys at 

 this day the reputation of being a most able prac- 

 titioner in Japan in the ailments of women. 



Yon Siebold received a first-class education at 

 Wurzburg, and obtained the degree of Doctor in 

 1820. Two years later he followed the example of 

 so many of his countrymen, and went to Java as 

 medic .1 officer in the Netherlands service ; and when 

 that Government despatched a scientific expedition 

 to Japan, Yon Siebold was attached thereto as 

 medical officer and naturalist. 



Arrived there, he was compelled, like all foreign- 

 ers, to confine his explorations to the immediate 

 vicinity of "Desima." He soon, however, acquired 

 greater freedom, mainly in consequence of the repute 



attaching to his name as a man of science. The Japan- 

 ese naturalists, and even the physicians of the Royal 

 Court, flocked to hear his teachings, and they in 

 their turn gave him the best and most reliable infor- 

 mation respecting the political, historical and geo- 

 logical feautures of a country then comparatively 

 unknown. * 

 In 1826 Yon Siebold had the good fortune to 1 

 accompany the Dutch Ambassador to the Court of j 

 Jeddo. Incited by his love for scientific inquiry, ' 

 his pupils visited almost every province of the | 

 country, and the result of their investigations were 

 carefully collected and digested by their master. In 

 1828, however, while he on the point of returning 

 to Java, his life was endangered by the excessive 

 zeal of one of his friends, the Imperial astronomer 

 and librarian. This gentleman had furnished him 

 with a hitherto unpublished map of the empire, and 

 for this cause Yon Seibold, who risked his own life 

 to save that of his friend, was thrown into prison at 

 the moment that he was embarking for Europe, 

 whither his companions had already preceded him. 

 He returned home however on the 7th July, 1830, 

 and although holding the rank of colonel in the 

 general staff, he quitted the Netherlands service, 

 and employed himself in the arrangement and clas- 

 sification of the rich store of scientific curiosities, 

 which he had recorded and collected in Japan, while 

 his wonderful collection of ethnographic objects was 

 purchased by the Grovernment. The latter has been 

 beautifully arranged in the State Ethnographic 

 Museum at Leyden, and is now open to the inspec- 

 tion of the public. 



We proceed to enumerate the series of interesting 

 works which have been edited by Yon Siebold alone, 

 or in conjunction with other learned Professors. 



In addition to the treatises included in the "Trans- 

 actions of the Batavian Society of Arts," we find 

 Nippon Archiv, zur Beschreibung von Japan, ect., 

 Leiden, 1832—1851. This work, which is not yet 

 entirely completed, made at once a great sensation 

 in the learned world, from the wonderful wealth of 

 scientific matter contained in it. This was imme- 

 diately followed by his "Fauna Japonica," Lugd. 

 Bat. 1833—1851, in folio, in which he was assisted 

 by C. J. Temminck and H. Schlegel, and also by 

 his "Flora Japonica," illustrated by Zuccarinii, and 

 which have been published in the "Transactions of 

 the Second Class of the Royal Academy of Sciences," 

 iii. or iv., of Munich. Furthermore a collection of 

 works, lithographed by the Chinese artist Ko Tsching 

 Dscheng, at Leyden, chiefly relating to the litera- 

 j ture of Japan. 



I About 1854 he fixed his residence on the banks 



