tSfi HtNTS ON ACCLIMATING tENDER PLANTS. 



Characters of This ether has an agreeable smell of ether and acetic acid ; 



acetic ci er. ^^^^ j^ reddens neither the infusion nor paper of litmus: and 

 it has a peculiar taste, not very different from that of alcohol. 

 N^either its spqcific gravity nor degree of elasticity was ac- 

 curately ascertained : but it is lignter than water, and swims 

 on it, and heavier than alcohol. Water appears to dissolve 

 Imuch more than it does of sulphuric ether. It burns with a, 

 yellowish white flame, and produces an acid, which is probably 

 the acetic. It does not appear to undergo any alteration by 

 keeping;, at least It did not in the course of six months. 



IV. 



Some Hints respecting the proper Mode of inuring Tender 

 \ Plants to our Climate. B(j the Right Hon, Sir Jose Pit 



Banks, Bart. K. B. P. K. 6'. 4'C*v 



tnteresting and Jt^ESPECTABLE and useful as every branch of the horti-^ 



advantageous Qu^m-^l art certainly is, no one is more interesting; to the 



to harden ten- -^ ^ 



<er plants. public, or more likely to prove advantageous to those who 



may be so fortunate as to succeed in it,, than that of inuring 

 plants, natives of warmer climates, to bear without covering 

 the ungenial springs, the chilly summers, and the rig(,rous 

 winters, by which, especially for some years past, we have 

 been perpetually visited, 

 . Many attempts have been made in this lire, and several 



this way. valuable shrubs, that used to be kept in our stoves, are no\f 



to be seen in the open garden ; there is, however, some rea- 

 son to believe, that every one of these was orginally the na- 

 tive of a cold climate, thpugh introduced to us through the 

 medium of a warm one ; as the gold tree, aucuba japonica, 

 the moutan, paeonia frutescens, and several others have been 

 in our times. 



In the case of annuals, however, it is probable that much 

 Las been done by our ancestors, and something by the pre- 

 sent generation; but it must be remembered, that all that 

 is required in the case of an annual is, to enable it to ripen 



• From the Transactions of the Horticultural Society, Part I, p, 21. 



its 



