41—1846.] THE 
AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
681 
GROVE HOUSE ACADEMY, Busnzy, Hrnrs. 
Head-Master.—Mr. H. L. BIGGS. 
At the above School Young Gentlemen are liberally Boarded, 
and instructed in the Latin and Greek Languages, the Mathe- 
matics, and Book-keeping ; together with the various branches 
of a sound English Education, including the Theory and Prac- 
tice of Rural Chemistry, Land Surveying, Mapping, Drawing, 
&c. Terms, from 5 to 8 guineas per quarter, according to age 
and requirements, 
rove House is salubriously situated at a few minutes’ walk 
from the Bushey Station, on the London and Birmingh Rail 
OT-WATER PIPES.—A large stock of these 
Pipes, with Elbows, Syphon Bends, and all the usual 
connexions, Also Socket and Flange Pipes, at JoNEs's, 6, 
ide, Sor thwark. E 
ye ones DRAINI 
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most efficient DRAINING LEV 
to any part securely packed. 
order, and a mere labourer can use it. 
maker, Jonn Davis, Optician, Derby. 
It cannot well be put out of 
To be had of the 
way. A Coachalso runs to and from London daily. 
. H. possesses the advantages of a Dry and Airy Play- 
ground, a Field, and an immense Garden, the produce of 
which is devoted to the School; portions of the same being 
allotted to each Pupil for practical purposes connected with 
Agriculture and Horticulture. 
References to the Parents of the Pupils, to Gentlemen in the 
neighbourhood, and others. 
YDRAULIC RAMS (upon an improved principle) 
for raising Water, where 
a Fall can be obtained, to the 
height of 300 feet. The same 
Ram without the aid of a Tank 
or Cistern arranged to throw a 
Jet of Water constituting a Foun- 
tain with the head of water be- 
neath, 
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RAM. 
Also Engines for Deep Wells, 
worked by steam, horse, or manual power; Douch Baths, &c,; 
Buildings heated with hot water. 
OVERSHOT, UNDERSHOT, and BREAST WATER. 
WHEELS, to work Small Pumps for raising water, from 151, 
Address, Fremman Rox, 70, Strand, London. 
Estimates given for the supply of Towns, &c. 
A newly invented PORTABLE VAPOUR BATH, all com- 
plete for 
RNAMENTAL TILES for Floors, Walls, &c., of 
Greenhouses, Conservatories, Garden Terraces ; Encaustie, 
Venetian, &c., in EVERY VARIETY. May be seen at Messrs. 
PARKER and Wyamr's, Surrey-street, Blackfriars, London, 
Agents to Messrs. MINTON & CO., the Patentees, -. 
upon-Trent, Also Patentees of the PORCELAIN BUTTONS, 
cheaper and more durable than Mother-o'- Pearl, &c. 
TO OWNERS AND OCCUPIERS OF ESTATES. 
W ILLIAM BULLOCK WEBSTER, of Hounsdown, 
near Southampton, Draining Engineer to Her Majesty, 
at Osborne, Isle of Wight; the inventor of a Patent Til 
and Pipe Machine (applicable to making Bricks); also a new 
Machine for taking roots and stones out of clay, both which are 
to be seen at the Royal Polytechnic Institution, Regent-street,— 
offers his ass; é as a thorough practical man to Landlords 
who may require information on any subject connected with 
the Drainage of their Estates. P.S.—Land drained at a fixed 
sum per acre, including every expense. 
MARLY FOOD.—The farmers of the United King- 
dom have now an opportunity of providing early food, by 
sowing, without loss of time, the WINTER DON OATS, which 
resists the most intense frost, and comes in early in proportion 
to the period sown ; growing a heavy crop according to ground. 
Its mealing quality is unequalled,-—Further particulars to 
had from Mr. MonaAN DILLON STEWARD, Stratford-on-Slaney, 
Ireland, by enclosing a stamped envelope, with address of ap- 
plicant on it. 
HOSPHORIC RAT POISON.—This preparation 
- is offered to the Public with the greatest confidence, being 
decidedly superior to all those poisons containing arsenic an 
other minerals. It is most greedily eaten by rats and mice as 
long as it is offered to them, and invariably proves certain de- 
struction. Prepared only by EDWARD PURSER, 40, Bridge-street, 
Blackfriars, London. Soldin pots, with full directions for use, 
at 4s., 88., and 20s 
$ 
OT-WATER APPARATUS FOR HEATING 
HORTICULTURALBUILDINGS,DWELLING-HOUSES, 
CHURCHES, and MANUFACTORIES, upon improved princi- 
ples, and at very moderate charges, erected by DANIEL and 
EDWARD BAILEY, 272, HOLBORN. E 
D. and E. Barkey having devoted much time to the considera- 
tion of this subject, and had much experience in the erection of 
apparatus for the above-mentioned purposes, have, by improve- 
ments suggested in their practice, rendered their mode of 
heating not only very efficient, but very simple, and have com- 
pined durability in the apparatus with economy in the charge. 
They have erected apparatusin England, Scotland, and Ireland 
for many noblemen and gentlemen, and have had the honour 
to be employed by the Horticultural Society of London, in 
executing the works of their splendid Conservatory erected at 
Chiswick. 
. and E. Bary also construct in metal all descriptions of 
Horticultural Buildings and Sashes, and invite Noblemen, 
Gentlemen, and the Public, to the inspection of their various 
d models, at 272, orn, where they have the 
opportunity of exhibiting, amongst other metal works, an ex- 
tremely complete and convenient kitchen apparatus, or range, 
adapted forthe continued supply of hot water, and an arrange- 
ment of the oven more complete than has hitherto been brought 
before the public. A 
D. and E. Batey were the first to introduce metallic cur- 
vilinear houses to horticulturists, and can referto the Con- 
servatory attached to the Pantheon as one of their works, 
besides many others in this country, and on the Continent, | 
D. E. Barrer have prepared a quantity of the Galvanic 
Plant Protectors, which are now ready for immediate delivery ; 
they beg to introduce to public notice a new Trough Pipe, for 
Orchidaceous or other Houses where vapour is constantly, or 
at intervals, required, and which may be seen at their Manu- 
factory. 
pue c En i DUNS M Ent 
TEPHENSON anv CO., 61, Gracechureh-street, 
London, and 17, New Park-street, Southwark, Inventors 
and Manufacturers of the Improved CONICAL and DOUBLE 
CYLINDRICAL BOILERS, respectfully solicit the attention of 
scientific Horticulturists to their much approved method o: 
Copper, by which the cost is re 
are now so well known, scarcely require description, but to 
those who have not seen them in operation, prospectuses will 
be forwarded, as well as reference of the highest authority ; or 
they may be seen at most of the Nobility's seats and principa 
Nurseries throughout the kingdom, 
8. and Co. beg to inform the trade that at their Manufactory 
w Park-street, every article required for the construction 
of Horticultural Buildings, as well as for heating them, may be 
i pon the most advantageous terms. 
ies, &c. of Iron or Wood, erected upon the most 
ornamental designs. Balconies, Palisading, Field and Garden 
Fences, Wire Work, &c. &e. 
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SEED WHEAT. 
jum STRAW WHITE WHEAT, AND HOPE- 
TOUN WHITE WHEAT — Varieties whose excellence 
has been tested and acknowledged by very many farmers both 
in Eggland and Scotland, —for Sale at 
WHITFIELD FARM, WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE, 
GLOUCESTERSHIRE, 
Price 37. 8s. per quarter, or 8s. per bushel, in quantities more 
than five quarters; sacks 2s. each. Orders must be accompa- 
nied by a remittance or a reference. JOHN MORTON. 
The Agricultural Gazette. 
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1846. 
MEETINGS FOR THE TWO FOLLOWING WREKS. 
cs. 17—Agricultural Imp. Soc. of Ireland 
THURSDAY, 21—Agricultural Imp. Soc. of Ireland, 
LOCAL SOCIETIES. 
‘Trafalgar—Leominster—Shrop:hire—W. Norfolk - Barnard Castle, 
FARMERS’ CLUBS, 
Oct. ;J2—Bakewell ` | Oct. 19—Botley 
— la—Wootton Basset 
Tur Norwecran Harrow, imported by an Edin- 
burgh gentleman, and introduced to the notice of 
English agriculturists by Messrs. Strarron, of 
Bristol, was first exhibited at the Shrewsbury 
Meeting of the English Agricultural Society, where 
a prize was awarded to it asa “new implement.” 
It consists of three parallel axles fixed across the 
direction of the machine’s motion in a horizontal 
frame-work which is supported on wheels, and may 
be raised or lowered. On these axles spiked wheels 
are placed so that those on each work into the 
intervals between those on its neighbour. The 
following is a wood-cut. 
|Cirencester. There are several points of the very 
| highest importance which these researches are in- 
tended to clear up. Among them are the questions; 
—Is chemical composition, as regards the mineral 
parts of plants, a specific distinction? That is to 
say, Does a given variety possess the same mineral 
composition, whatever the nature of the soil may be 
on which it is sown? Ifnot, What influence does 
the character of a soil possess upon the composition 
of the plants grown upon it? To what-extent can 
we, by manuring, exert a similar influence? And, 
Do varieties of any plant, though each may be 
liable to this influence, maintain unaltered their 
relative mineral composition under circumstances 
the same to all? Out of answers to these ques- 
tions it is obvious that we should gather informa- 
tion of great use in guiding us how to select particu- 
lar varieties of plants for particular soils, and parti- 
cular manures for application under given circum- 
stances. And they would also enable us so to treat 
our plants, and so to choose them, as best to answer 
the purpose for which we intended them. It would, 
for instance, be of very considerable importance, 
and we doubt not it will be one day practicable, so 
to manage our green crops, by regulating the cir- 
cumstances of their growth, as that one portion 
|shall be best fitted as food for young stock, which 
| have yet to increase in bone and other parts requir- 
ing mineral food, while another may be more suited 
to nourish fattening stock—in which these parts have 
already attained maturity—or working cattle, the 
mineral parts of whose bodies, compared with those 
that are fleshy, are not so rapidly wasted by the 
exertion of force. 
And not only is the quality of our crops, its pro- 
duction, or the circumstances affecting it, a subject 
|capable of illustration by these researches ; their 
|quantity—the bulk as well as the nature of their 
produce, is likely to be a subject on which we shall 
be equally instructed. If, as we expect, these 
It will easily be seen that this construction insures 
to the machine a perfect non-liability to “ choke.” 
The operation of this implement may be considered 
as combining to a certain extent those of the clod- 
crusher and cultivator. Its weight and its nume- 
rous points of contact with the ground insure its 
action as the first; its long spikes, their rotary 
motion, and the weight which presses them into the 
land ensure a thorough stirring of the land. We 
believe it to be a most useful addition to the number 
of our farm implements. Having frequently seen 
it at work we can safely give it this character. 
A gentleman farming land in Northamptonshire 
who regularly uses this implement, informs us, and 
we can easily believe it, that the surface of the land 
is left by it alternately raised and indented with 
such uniformity that Wheat sown broadcast over 
it, and then harrowed down, comes up as if it had 
analyses shall indicate that certain mineral sub- 
stances are necessary to the growth of certain plants, 
then there can be no doubt of our ability, by ma- 
nuring, to influence the bulk as well as the quality 
of our crops. And though we may consider that 
the experience of the farmer has already set this 
| point at rest, yet it is of great importance to know, 
and we doubt not that Messrs. Way and OcsroN 
will by-and-by tell us, to what substances in the 
wonderfully complicated manures which the farmer 
applies these effects are due, under given circum- 
stances of soil and plant. 
A little thought will suggest’ many methods in 
which these investigations may prove of great prac- 
tical utility to agriculture. The English Agricul- 
tural Society have well acted up to their motto in 
undertaking to bear the cost of them; and we feel 
sure that all intelligent agriculturists will feel it 
been dibbled. it falls into the little basin-shaped 
cavities in the surface left by the spikes, and thus | 
comes up in regularly scattered and isolated plants. 
their duty as well as their interest to assist. They 
can be of the greatest use. Professor Way informs 
us that the value of his investigations must greatly, 
Whether or not, however, this may be seriously | indeed almost ae? depend upon the variety 
MESE : " d Š 
considered as a merit peculiar to this imp we | 
have no hesitation in recommending it at the present 
season as admirably adapted by its weight, and the 
and g of the sp that he analyses. 
Specimens of all crops, of all varieties of each crop, 
and more especially at this time of our different 
mode of its operation, to prepare a good seed-bed | root-crops, are required ; specimens of crops which 
for Wheat. 
Ws are very anxious that the following remarks | 
should be read by intelligent practical farmers in| 
all parts of the kingdom. Andewe doubt not that | 
other Agricultural Journals will do us the favour either | 
to copy them into their own columns, or will make | 
a similar appeal to their readers. 
It is generally known that the English Agticul- | 
tural Society last year set apart a considerable sum | 
to defray the cost of analysing agricultural plants. | 
The investigations necessary to this end, which it 
was originally intended should have been under- | agriculture. | 1 
taken by several of our most eminent chemists, each | ficiently to induce their active assistance. 
have been subjected to different kinds of treatment, 
more especially as regards manuring ; specimens of 
the same crop from different geological formations ; 
specimens of extraordinary crops, either small or 
great, especially if these have arisen from artificial 
treatment, are all necessary to a full investigation 
of the subject. 
Now, if any one feels disposed to assist, he should 
at once communicate with Professor Way, at the 
College, Cirencester. The subject is certainly of 
importance, and the light which these analyses will 
throw upon it may prove of the highest value to 
We hope that many will see this suf- 
They 
taking a share, have at length been wholly confided | will see the necessity, more especially as regards 
to Messrs.Way and Ocston—the former Professor | the root-crops, of offering it immediately. Some 
of Chemistry at the Royal Agricultural College, | may, perhaps, be induced to undertake experiments 
