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REPORT—1847. 
Of these the most striking occurs in a New Holland shrub, which has 
been cultivated several years in the Botanic Garden at Kew; and which, 
though producing female flowers only, has constantly ripened seeds from 
which plants have been raised perfectly resembling the parent; while yet 
there is no suspicion either of the presence of male flowers In ihc same plant, 
or of minute stamina in the female flower itself, nor of fecundation by any 
related plant cultivated along with it. This plant has been ligured and <le» 
scribed in a recent volume of the Litmcan Society’s Transaciioos, under the 
n^meo? Ctslebogyne ilicifolia, by Mr. J. Smith, the intelligent curator of 
the^ Kew Garden, by whom, indeed, this remarkable fact waa first noticed. 
It IS not the least curious part of the history of the Ct^lebogmc, that male 
flowers have lately been discovered in New Holland unquesUotiably of the 
same species. 
Professor Gaspariiii of Naples has more recently conimunicatod to the 
seienti c meeting held in that city tn 1845 his observations and experiments 
on the cultivated fig, which, though entirely destitute of male floirs, pro- 
duced seeds having a perfectly developed embryo, independent of fecunda- 
^r- generally supposed to be carried 
shnt?inf rprevented by the early and complete 
An ^ channel m the fig by whicli it could be introduetd. 
the «’«5^ently appeared in the Transactions of 
Affiniae^omr & ’^y.- W. Griffith, *On the Structure and 
been reffarded hv r ^'I’eso singular productions have 
cC whLlf i.J 1’'“^ d'snngmshcd botanists as forming one natural 
hand: wb f fi-Hi'h. on .he od,er 
botanist, to iiido-p nf «« T ^ ahfied, both as a systematic and physiological 
stinct, and not even neariv «-la ed T ’’ “"1* 
and external .ippearanco wbinti ti, P®'*’*® internal structure 
isycarirfaSting?ntrcm Electric Telegniph 
was a Report presenird'to ^the V" before leaving home yesterday 
Brunswick, relaiiv^tn proWt Assembly of New 
°^^®ctra.uiagne(ic teleirrarih Iron a railway, and with italine 
Distance is time ; S wlL’ k ™ Quebec. 
^nal communication is facintafed'*"«Tl ”’*1*'’'***^'’ F''* 
without fatigue in as many hour* i armies can be transported 
orders are conveyed from^onrextre™?" T""" required, and when 
a flash of lightning, the faciliiv of ^ to another almost like 
equal to the facility ofgovernii?Lth/7T'''®”.“*'®® becomes almost 
m the an inlSn a^n J \ many years ago. 
governed as easily as Attica under P^*' t ^ ®*>owing how England could 
clusmn was deduced by W Cm ^ believe tl.f same con- 
Alio system is daily ;xte,ulh?ff u t V"’ illustration. 
‘ adopted ni Z ''""ever in the L'oitea States of 
EinesV*^"'^! “ is tiovv '’X E''"l’essor Morse in 
most extensively. 
J y s Canadian provinces; and it W ^"nnect those Stales with Her 
" "’"■■se of develojiment so rapid, 
