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Also on the Alexander and Kirk’s Emperor apple-trees, Mr. Saul 
had, the same season, fine double flowers, appearing at a distance like 
large double white roses, and measuring as much as three inches di¬ 
ameter. They were produced from the young shoots of the same 
season’s growth; when the shoots had grown six inches long, and 
had formed four leaves, the flowers appeared. 
Garden Seat.— The inclosed (fig. 37) is a sketch of a Garden 
Seat, which was exhibited at the Horticultural Society rooms, some 
time ago. I do not believe there is any thing very new in it, but it 
forms a very comfortable seat, is very portable, and is capable of be¬ 
ing packed in a very small compass when not in use, or in bad wea¬ 
ther. Fig. 37, is as it is used, and Fig. 38 in its compressed form. 
37 38 
Hatching the Eggs of Birds. —As the hatching of Eggs by 
the power of steam seems to he the order of the day, amongst a pe¬ 
culiar class of society connected with the Fowl trade, the following 
table taken from different authors by Count Morozzo, in a letter 
from him to Lacepede, may he interesting. 
Names of Birds . 
Periods of their Incubation. 
Duration of Life. 
Swan. 
About 200 Years. 
Parrot. 
- 100 do. 
Goose. 
- 80 or more. 
Eagle. 
Bustard. 
f Period of life not 
Duck. 
C known. 
Turkey. 
.30 do. 
) 
Peacock. 
.26 to 27. 
25 to 28. 
Pheasant. 
.20 to 25. 
- 18 to 20. 
Crow... 
.20 .. 
-103 or more. 
Nightingale. 
.19 to 20. 
17 to 18. 
Hen.. 
.18 to 19. 
- 16 to 18. 
Pigeon... 
.17 to 18. 
16 to 17. 
The Crane, Heron, as well as Ostrich, hatch their Eggs chiefly by the heat of 
the Sun. 
