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Vou XIII. 



ROCHESTER, K Y., JUNE, 1852. 



No. VI. 

 OB.EKVATIONS ON THE GROWTH AND NOURISHMENT OF Pm 



tioa and sympathy, these valuable idetsW V ^' ^^' ^'""^ ^ 



tVuitless. The truth'of tin ^ ".entl^^^^ '^^S''--^^^'' -^ ---ly 



ing a shovt paper ^^ Oa tl. Gr^^^^^^^^^^^^ l^-^f ^-ur n.ind by .cad' 

 m^v, Vice President of the Society for the Pro! ' nV A ' 7 ^'- ^'"-' ^'Homme- 

 tactm-es; orgaai^d in ^91, and ^h^rtetd ^^^^^^^^^^^^ 



which was written near the close of the last cent nrv P If f ■^"' ]^''^ "' ^'^^ ' 



tions of this Society were printed and tl TV' i ^ ^""''^ '^1'^"' ^^ ^^^ Transac- 

 country that some o"^^ iti mSttdul atti^le ' be" '^' T" "'^^""^^ ^^'^••'''^"^ ^^ ^he 

 present generation. Chanceli: W.^ :?::TS^ fb^ T""^'^;; ^^ '''^ 

 beginmno- till his lamented death imST<?. o i V^',V'^^^<^ ^^ the Society from its 

 of the ablest !nen this State o t'ti". c fb'oasf T b^ f- '^ ""^^-^ "^^^ ^"^^ ^^^ F- 

 of Mr. L'Hommedieu at that ea JvTv Ind 1 .> T ^ '' "^"^ ^'^^""•''tion of the science 

 tHepen,and pnblish -e .hol^^ S' ^t^I^^f X^^ ^i^^S 

 the J'S^:;:'rg^:;:^|;;[^tS^ -^ J^t^n we ..11 inq..., so fe. a. we are able into 

 by fact, and appearances. I believe we a e\n ^^^^0"^ IT '" '""'I!" '^"^ ^'^ -» ^e jus'titied 

 no-aridhment fi-o.a the eartli. Many Iiave been T. f. ^'" 7^ "^^ ^^^*^ ^^^^ jdant receives no 



m boxes mJed with earth; and this^eS 1^;" weired' aiwt "^''f"^ P^"'^^"' ^^"^^^' -^ tre " 

 ntj, (05 the orange and lemon tree,) and afteMakh "/ ont f i! V '<S''"'^"'" ^^""^ ^'^'^ S'""^^'" ^ mati^ 

 any ot Its weight. It thence follows that the earth? onlVn T T<' 't&'^ '' ""'' f''""^ »« ''^'ve lost 

 may receive it« nourisliment from son.e other source • .n^f h. ri^" ^"^'1 "^^ '^^^ 1'''^"^ or tree, that it 

 bind consists only in the position of its part^ so ", tJ enll th I'T ^.''''■'"" S°«^ '^^"-^ «"<! Poor 

 from difterent resources better in the one thanTnThl Ji nv ^l^"* "'' *'"^*^ *« »-^<^ei^e nourishment 

 "The next inquiry wiU then be, What iLrfood fn^r^ nfher afford any in themselve" 

 nourishment received ? ^ '"""^ '^^ ^ ^'^"*^- and the last, By what means is-this 



Z^^:^:r^S::i:fl^I^ air that canat^rd 



sSiS^iir^r^^-e^i^htti-^^^^ 



and reception of Le water and a Vor W aftiaSZ T '' ?''* ^"'^^^"^^^ '"«^- *''^ «^ension of 3, 

 plants, or by the emission of tLxcd 'and ot^he ah of "SLh 5 1-^'' '' *' r ^^r^P^-^ «^ «- fooc? foi' 

 at,on._ It we suppose, as some philosophci-s haVe iSv 'nd^^^^^^ peculiarly possessed, add to vege- 

 from air, and of which there appears to be great prSlifvT -n ^r'''' ^'^'^^ ^'^^"- *« f'^'-'ned 

 air in some shape or other, froili which vegf Se ™n deri v^ Z T '^''l^' ^" ^"^* "^^'""'^ l^"t 

 be surprised when we consider the atmosphere isa vast M or ^ ''^"^""f • ,^"<^ *'* ^^^'^ ^'^ «li«n uot 

 performs immense productions of various kinlLlfl^^: rff'^' '"} '''^"^'"^ "^^ure a.s the operator 

 vegetable creation, ind is the granl™ve; in wh"S tt^ '^' Bounshment of every specie«Tth; 

 tmds of air arising from them%re received ^S d omJheTSr ""^ f.^^^^^M ^'^ ^--- 

 . * A.S a smalJ proportion of earth is found in al, w , . ^"''^' '^^^ ^^P^^^ted, «o< 6y cA«„c., biU by 





