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THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
115 
nc RR EN RA A AEE EA EM a 
i peer INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN, 
a STREET. 
want for ak oe and therefore a er gt py wipe = 
wey 
Prorgssor Lin Acs deliver, in the Royal Institution; a pn rails, ur ae ” 
Course of 12 Lactarcs o ysiology and Structural Botany. To 
commence on Wednesday the —e ss Feb rg Oe < Reg o’Clock, ald — appear ply persons of equal expe- 
and to be continued on each 5) y till the roy 1 mme! modes of proceedin I 
of March. The pee ey Fenway foamy aes sng Easter. | rience recom o pr ing. in|; 
A Prospectus of the Course ty A be o brained Al ve Royal In: point of fact, homer, il Eyres are he no means | eon 
ecre 
hun csnsiiceh Seta ik eae | irreconcilable, proceed to si —Under the 
The Garden ers’ Cpron icie, name of rani ings are © comprehended elie operations es- 
entially ei" ig oma ely alt 
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1841. 
“MEETINGS IN THE ENSUI was Ng ate | 
just explained, sr snail creeps up the zinc, but receives a 
aa shock a: | soon as its horns or head touch the 
able: fence can Pate in, a moment, be formed pro what- 
d if made 
lar form, or in short lengths, the beeen may be 
trived to meet ~~ possible exig en mh i have ——— 
ae oe ly 
ae 
rt a scientific entles eman of this place ‘whom I a 
ledge myself indebted for th Po innaettiog of the sir 
la ast year rv saved his da thlias (which on other occasions had 
hem. Pruning is ihe removal of Leas Sg - lop- 
ping is the destructi f lar, ree hi — The latter 
out), by cylindrical hoops of the zinc and copper plate 
placed around each plant. If the tip of the tongue be 
would be unnecessary i P the for ere properly 
Fi piensa but the foresteris driven t to “lopping in con- 
Monday ..... Free peta . oa = y 
‘Taenday --- + +: ome Aa et oa + cen Siri 
Wednesday Ge t . 84 Pe me 
Tan business, or more properly the science, o 
t is an axiom in physiology, which m 
in mind in consi idering this subjec ect, that Ii live Seas 
this is the 
nw eo proves so unpalatable and ea to 
the slug, and in which the protective power co 
Hull. 
metallic or saltish taste is perceived : 
Bib . The cost of the plates complete i is about Tisein 
r foot : they will of course last for an indefinite period, 
cannot form 
the subject i ec 
we seein ourselves to the manner in which pruning 
should be nm form 
It will hav babi obeerved olen in our ag agg of 
Cieceteng ee Pax o be what 
is techn we 
“— e injury done to tim 
theres Mr. inion in a seas before us, writ 
as ete 
Ph find, 
_ a letter which appeared in the sere 
Transactions of Ireland, that snagging Ms 
patie of one of the most experienced fore 
ho speaks of it as a plan stil? prastised ss it re was 
% 2 - — suspect, and invented before forest 
is ill 
hamentatd neglected. The letter I 
by Mr. Sandys, who - for more than thirty | _ 
Ae a Ob 
mong the 
Tees and as Mr. Sandys’ opinion ext 
my own experi@nce, I shall give his 
Earl of Peiceste these plantations now rank 4 
best in the co 
a with i 
wor 
If in pruning, in the sense in pages a use that ss 
shoo 
ts are not removed close rem 
es; and the lips ia the jonrerl 
ag has fallen 
lL. Wii : 
will not heal until the sn fi 3 and when 
the wound is healed externally, either a cavity or a 
piece of dead wi remains behind. the other 
Hatha, if — shoot is cut off diab to the stem, the very 
first se: will close the w gel eu the only rig A, plate of copper; B, plate of zine; C, zinc rivets, 
nent injury sustained by t the s a disunion of the NOTES UPON THE LATE FLOWERING 
tissue for a sp dia f the oi a a8 HRYSANTHEMUMS., 
wound, which, as it ought not to ex cs an inch, will} So y new peor of these gay decorations of win- 
have no appreciable effect upon the quality of the fu- | ter have >of late years t been raised, that it seems time 
ture timber, even if ni esion between itself an pes men the them she 9am - a more critieal Or Bap arocape 
_ new tissue took place. t in oor of fact, in | novelty. appears “clear that the tendency of the 
orest re stro: Chi in + int dl cats ¢ 
form, size, and colour, 2 a it a decided claim to be re- 
hat 
ee g the Elem 
timber so treated is a ectly true. The large 
peg of aetie a tee or more of the branch ‘on the | 
e to die 
pete take 
he stem 
s left as ace as “the tree has g 
tll 
Eon rot Best which if only 
aly Ts to ace 
ots 
te 1 
Sg roe during = eae me 
er be Dacia, —e ey may be 
opping isa px 
that ex- 
tion of the 
garde d vas a Floris is’ Flower, and therefore it must be 
ju dg ed by 
Beauly. in a double flower pe colour and 
form, and scarcely any other q n be allowed a 
claim to considerati peal sat in point of 
lour, is determined by the degree of-its brilliancy, or 
of its purity, or by perfectly well-defi of two 
erent colours. ‘The last character present 
apply to the Eoreenthemam. but the do ; 
dull colours, mixed colours, or run colours, should be con- 
bare mL. ia of ac in form, the nearer a given flow 
a looked at 
pal 
ae ‘a the timber. | “When pesmi must be 
2 °2 
circ cle, when in fron - 
e beau 
lit 
> 
een ke. ¢ a 
practi ed. t he plan oe 
for i in order Pt 1 yy 
. . The healing of the wound consequently de- 
8 gone. 
Inste ad of 
mae and the. defect in: the timber g 
Mr. _ Billington should certainly be ‘followed. The 
well filled up, a and the florets, or a8 as they are 
eer: called, regularly and syemieny Rid sina 
- 
° ses the sap om pte it “thes which is better than 
ted limb, so as to prevent that deca Ay the ticks of 
which no art can sala: By leaving small live 
Per fee xact 
i as here defined 
4 4 tall th Nod es iT. 
shoots upon the original object of lopping sorts will be set ae the Queen and a very few only 
being only ss fr a shorten _ a _ | Would not be ses Se and they will preserve its | being preserred ; ural sags. sit alten” Lotus fomernt 
believe, first practised pe gent cp ame vo eng! i ae townie gr pie “bright ee, alt pe Rate 
many a portion o oya ping these made 
fasetes ail Has ts plan, i gradual denudation of ON SECURING SEED: »-CROPS, &e, FROM SNAILS ae Keeping th = eae Ng a : ery ms de 
the lo ches is a comparatively modern those most worthy 
ment, founded upon physiological knowledge, te pe at THERE exists = a ad or ors who does not cat will a ee Se Juul 
fect th ag R a out able objection can be PP enturer *Formosum *Queen Victoria. 
made t If practised at an early eriod, the ruinous tions. of Snails and slugs, an _ : in despite his best seg *Fletcher *Perspicuum : 
7¥ i. 
effects. of Topping ie branches, observed ii f prevention. It w e ci eouaneiae of Paases SAchinet Hey oe gfe seeing 
possessed by Lord Suffield at Gunton, will never occur.” neko seedling crops of a iam flower, the ranun- | {05°00 1, *King 
ilar opinions are advanc . John Hay- culus, destroyed by these wholesale devourers that first | Coronet *King of Whites i Ls , 
ward of Buxton, who advises that the pruning shoul eS ee 1 tae 
te Ps and I may now feed Eureka,”—I’ ve hit it—in the dis- | (2° A praia! 
as close to the tree as possible, and with a single Duc de Calynian Minerva Queen 
: covery h Iam about to promulgate. It is at once | *Eclipse *Madame de Pompa-| Golden Lotus-flow- 
cut ; but that the small spray should on no accoun Crores scent, cheap, effectual, and applicable to a omar dour | 
be removed. and will, I doubt Rots be considered a valuable boo ose marked with a star were exhibited by rere 
tp el eee be fers abd rt Soopers on beaten ee 
r urte i ’ rn 
a that by its agency he can convert soda and potash into rs eal CHEMISTRY.—No. III. * 
let a Kentish gen tleman, whose nam solid , and consume the hardest Rgeceals themectess Phin chemical action fre- 
were pictestiod to ed it, would carry = ao asa per in the flame of a candi + peated: slowly and quietly, but in many cases, 
with it. e say: : is generated by aoe one we Ben when substances combine together wl 
ey gies ag h H. K., that this Pipe tact with th plates o po a agen de —. —— each — agreat deal tis 
= ips be oaath understood, for ‘on s the x s th a piece of moistened eloth sa “the evolved. Som wo substance 
p yc pr several p together ant beset 
oe - eountry. I must- bears testi 0 the | (asin the ga parr trough, a power 50 great may be pro- is the case in ti 
the Norfolk plan of leaving long snags ; for I | Srectalsis aad ppens that the men ae 
i to xperience, that nothing can be of sting this and t y the merest touch. feces by ex- even though the 
than the prac’ 
tice of cutting 
+ 
timber 
the branch of a trée close to * he ae stem. Alth 
may = oe ver and fair on the outside, still the 
origin und never Peer with the n 
but eae and extends pict pee al 
ship-builders and carpe nters “as enw 8 ro 
the other hand, if the branch is not se 
about two feet long, it pet the 
disease, keeps the wound re) 
bh 
re about to be ibed. 
Ifa a or _ be placed on a plate of zinc, to which 
a narrow plate imp ee of — is —— it creeps unmo- 
prem ; but touches the copper, 
y 
copper, another inn 
\ = < th teed 
This is very 
sr to routs in ra eine yes ‘hate the skin 
is suffered to grow bottom. 
In corroboration. 
the stem ; but w 
hewing them, the were discovered to 
be perfectly 
of course always with the same results. 0 protect a 
crop, then, in a border, or in piid. &e., E have 
or thi in 
soe plates bd two, or 
one, 
five ee ¥e 
on 
sila of 
and four or 
with a strip of Pat, an ected plate, one 
he upper part, 
zine, as in the figure... 
ec sabi three: 
for he oxygen ve a air, ie *S 
= both are cold ; 
eated 
con begin to burn 
Prediaia with oxygen, continues aa 
thechar 
increases eecnase wath tbe 
in the 
all een 
ge 
bh 
air exhausted. 
afire isa Si illustration of this. The fi 
earbort, or charcoal, ready ~ preter oe 
of f; unable to de so until by apply- 
i a light to it, we heat a perton int required 
mence combinati 
ca it to spre: e ding fuel. - 
Now the atmosphe ace ia comepaned at epmeiaieiid etl 
ealled oxygen and nitrogen 5 ee con- 
