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ACCLIMATIZATION. 
ting its objects, are requested to give in their adhesion, though they may be un¬ 
able to attend. Communications may be addressed to Dr. Attfield, 17, Blooms¬ 
bury Square, W. C., or to Mr. H. B. Brady, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 
ORIGINAL AND EXTRACTED ARTICLES. 
ACCLIMATIZATION. 
BY MR. JOSEPH INCE. 
“When a Traveller returneth home, let him not leave the Countries 
where he hath travelled, altogether behind him, but maintain a Corre¬ 
spondence by Letters with those of his Acquaintance which are of most 
worth. And let it appear, that he doth not change his Country Manners 
for those of foreign parts ; but only prick in some Flowers of that he hath 
learned abroad, into the Customs of his own Country.”—Lord Bacon. 
Part II.—The Garden of Acclimatization (Paris) —concluded. 
Owing to the presence of politico-pharmaceutical discussions, these sketches 
have been compelled to appear in a fragmentary and disconnected manner, a 
circumstance to be (if possible) avoided; since the reader is no longer able to see 
at one glance the land that lies before him, and by too frequent recurrence he 
may grow weary of the subject. It may be recollected that seven plants, to 
which special attention has been called by the Official Directors of the Garden, 
were briefly noticed. We now come to the 
Industrial Plants. 
1. Eucalyptus globulus, from Australia. A-tree of rapid growth, orna¬ 
mental ; wood well adapted for use in building. Unfortunately, it can only 
be cultivated in warm climates, such as the south of France or Algeria ; it is 
too delicate. Independently of its industrial applications, its fine appearance 
and bluish foliage will make it one of our most attractive garden ornaments. 
Beauty is use. 
2. j Uliamnus utilis, Loza.* Shrub, which produces the green dye of China, 
a most hardy plant, and capable of general cultivation. 
3. Acer saccharinum, sugar-maple or rock-maple of Canada (called Acer from 
the tenacity of its wood ; it is the acre et durum lignum of Pliny). John 
Evelyn, in his £ Silva (1664), A Discourse on Forest Trees, with an Historical 
Account of the Sacredness and Use of Standing Groves,’ relates that a portion 
of the sugar made by the Canadian savages was constantly sent for many 
years to .Rouen, in Normandy, to be refined; besides which, he adds that 
they made an excellent syrup of Capillaire, which was very useful in scurvy. 
From the calcination of the maple-wood, four-fifths of all the potash imported 
from America into Europe are produced. The Maple grows without much 
difficulty, especially in high districts which are not marshy. A stony and 
warm soil seems to suit it best; but in all situations it is capable of enduring 
the severest cold. The leaf, of a delicate green in spring, changes to purple- 
red in autumn, and is a striking object in the sunlight. The wood of the 
* Loza. With regard to those subjects which would suffer by being imperfectly reported, 
only such memoranda have been given as would serve to mark their place in a descriptive 
catalogue. An abstract of the acclimatization and industrial applications of the silkworm 
would require the space of one number of this journal; an account of the discussion relative 
to the green dye of China would require another. (Vide Pharm. Journ. old series, vol. xvi. 
pp. 517, 553 ; new series, vol. i. p. 228. A Kesidence among the Chinese. Robert Fortune, 
p. 164.) 
