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THE GARDENER®YS CHRONICLE. 
Hh vs 13. 
light, as transmitted through a square of stained glass, 
will be foun nd of the avescee$ | eprom homage Mr. Robert 
Hunt, in experim ts of diiesiaib-co 
truth. Hadhe proceeded to the indi icke; 
ts would have been much greater if the vil 4 
coloured ray, they would have ‘been tenfold. For prac 
cal purposes it 
Polydesmus. 
Nn bh 
Iti 18 pn = en colour, and g 
yy 1 re * a 
J 
ree tages. ; and 
nit tude of some found near Carthagena, 
T. a. Wor ¢, Pees war ys £, 
urn, they com- 
_ larger figure. af ne erican nee of Julus Sine an. with the. oxygen, and never with the n pra of 
of gigantic stature, I have as thick as the | the air ; ppear as if t _ f use of ni- 
| Iarges st swan’s-quill ; but even that is is ‘othing to the mag- trogen in the air was to dilute the oxy prevent it 
if we may 
a 
r , and its compounds are 
ious sand important “substances 
use squares 0 of violet-coloured glass, placed on the os 
the sian than transmitting | the light serene & a bottle 
If: 
ee round the gtr and afterwards Leroi it 
ould Ip 
curi 
know. When wees able or nin 
we find that it, like the carbon, is is not se 
as in Mr. expe- f th be form, but that 
~ moreoy pn the mere mechanical ‘fects of (a Seal pony more catia to extensive crops. "Bat this peat it combines with a portion of hydrogen. Theret ‘ore 
nena a glass so d in addition to water and carbon nic acid, he 0 prin- 
wth of seeds 2 reven ‘the evaporation of water | If a few J de basl i bi: vege- 
gro » BY p' ting a state of | filled n the mE reese the Juli | table matter 8, we finda . pungent, strong- smelling pt po 
from the — aos Pe nth corgting & a uniform 
moisture Hull, 
NTOMOLOGY. 
No. Sees Pein Mitirrepes constitute a tribe 
of insects with whose history few persons are acquainted, 
confounded with 
the se Wire-worm which seems to = a convenient name 
tough and found at the roots of his’ — it will not b 
mispent time to invite their attention to these an enlgaal | 
of 
with moss and sunk ii 
would in all ‘probability sracidt ie them, when they might 
easily be secured.— Ruricola. 
posed of nitrogen and hydrogen, which is called ammonia. 
Thi th h 
is ——-* ough a gas, is, like potash an soda, 
a base; like them, it hasa stro — me rw for acids, and ei 
combined with Lani neutralis ses owers; and, 
fore 
th carbonic si 
it combines with that aid and coals asolid salt, which 
mor 
nia, just as the ‘mt 
¢ 
be ab GARDENS. ao 
D now to the advancing — 
Arr he first-sown 
Peas baie not he ave 7 ay 
for th calling totally different things | ~ te done without 
by one favourite appellation h delay ; = naegrale appear t the T earthing-u p 
Linnzeus applied the senegal — of Julus to these ani- was insufficien ttl 
mals, which resemble little mervae 2 With ¢ ception of an occasional hoeing to 
and they might, with | send "have _been called wire- eee, keep Pras this i is all that they will require 
s un ntil one ete is nat for use. The Spinach between the rows 
Skipping Elster, with which they have no connexion aS Lara ae of Peas and Beans will also be the better for cee 
w RURAL CHEMISTRY.—No. VII. earth well stirred around i and oe plants thinned to 
lene “the poe eanas tem walk Pred a rather glide ae HEN two substances eae together and forma ge ¢ apart. is false feag cin 
a peculiar way, from the im umber of legs compound, they always wee nia same proportion. A 
ie sammie: cmecating om sometimes ry 240: these legs, | siven Sateen the epee: dooms attaining that size and suc- 
which are very so thickly set, that whe the | the same quantity of as * app a certain weight culeney which they ree fail i P: acquiri ant when the plants 
animal is Pigs motion, cing look like : fringe of hairs, one | of carbonic peta a this wore hold allowed to have plenty of room = fag? srs: the 
pair after another in quick iaseeesied and with | of chem ical ¢ m, for it is of the distinctions | main big of Carrots an Pontes 8. et them 
the most exact regularity, x wavy ap’ is tw een n mix ‘ators ror combination that we are able to mix sown n the latter end of week. Both tike a po Tich 
disturbed they coil themselves up more md ‘oe d it b of a mene Pamorad the more 
spirally, the head nearest the centre, and all b 1 abst Fab itable will “Aoi id 
‘ pete on, Cc rmented dung. If m 
ill J sis one necesmery, it should be 2 ony such as has been waned 
an and — a eae ah with the cen tipedes, part rt of one eleme ent, and one, two, ge cine ore p: f | and be taken in di to have it tho- 
(Scolopendra); but whether they are as alinhatana to the | another element; and indeed there ema Secpienily be Rabo cag plas with the soil ; otherwise, instead of 
gardener as the former i is doubtful : I think not, and there formed se veral differ ent compounds by the union of two the roots being —_— and taperin .; they will be forked 
is some Sacaee When, ie ever, we mix | 2nd wormy wherever they come in contact — the —_ 
species inhabit secreting themerives under aes two substances which can unite together, they | On this account, therefore, we wou Id reco mend the cot 
stoves in damp places, e loose bark of dead trees, always —v> one of these fixed proportions ; and if — ‘o consider well beforehand, 
and especially in the mossy holes of old stumps. Serae of the one element than is requisite to form rrots ai 2 rae at follow a crop fe whic the ground 
on i ibstances ; compound » it is left unaltered. _ Thus we know that | was Sasi well manured; or, if it can = “dom it 
some of them live upon other in hae ES nswer the same purpose to coated the Pe: in- 
(Acari), and have been detected eating the larva of a fly ; sfaryeen tobers ‘ for them in autumn, so — it ma 
bs are accused of poner on fruits, roots, and even the | bonic acid; and y the same quanti ~ ae reece condition by this t time. _Whe en the ground is ae for 
ves of culinary y BS... e is burnt in a , or slow 
Last September I received some onions from Guildford, | combined with oxygen by the gradual process of decay. d 
which were infested with the maggots of a "ty, and in were t = de ombine six grains of carbon with 20 it call ow raion ee an inch arin e — nine inch 
en with them were multitudes of two different s ns of ox ot asunder. seeds § are ‘to be mixed with alittl sind 
ulus (pulchellus, fig. 2 and 3, 
the bulbs. 
o ae 
and complanatus, fig 4and), 
or various sizes, ruoning out _and into the putrid parts of 
been recently sent from Hampshire, and were found 
ry to burn charcoal so — shall get les 
oxygen. than i is requisite to convert it into. carbonic ela 
cabbage-stalks the other day, which had been planted i in| 
0 so, but that the gas me 
or dry earth Tt 
ey are cong of the gue which make ee stick 
coun er. The mixture of eé; oud seed is then to be 
SOWN as 
afte erw 
evenly as possible poe e drill, which must 
ards ibe covered poral and levelled with the rake. 
duced i is not carbonic neg 
ore than one proportion 
veh amongst the roots ; 
them, Foust id two specimens of a larger sort ¢ 5. ter- | 
gst 
and 
quently, ‘though ‘when carbon is burn ne in the air, or 
i it alwa 
drill } 
? y ONS 
15 pees 18 inches apart d about inch d 
ooth ixed 
The ei 
a lik 
Le 
forms car. 
bonic acid, = when burnt so that it cannot combine with 
Carrots, but in every other hci they may be similarly 
eated. Jn all cases: where it can be pehragen eres 
gas; 
dift fon pent Saat 
carbonic oxide. a penteinine ine Das ‘anspare 
less gas like aageoense = and resembles it also i in Shes 
totally unfit t support mal life ; indeed it appears ‘0 
ference to sowing broad-cast. Th 
it causes, we think, is pvr a mpen fer for oy ae 
neral s superiority o} of t tio Sais over those obtained from 
ent Besides, the drills admit of 
three 
8 segments 0 sh oy: ba i a fo 
pair of 
9 Ans 
Sole. even though conelioretts diluted with common 
It extinguishes flame, as might be expected, ~_ it is 
itself ane burning with a 5 ple blu e flame, a 
converted into aci ie: 
q 
n fro’ in 
equen: iT ga on the top of 
charcoal o: r coke fires a me blue oe r goat oe rent in 
P of w iin the 
wined uring summer, ek will be found of “great as- 
sistance in promoting the gn of oT —— are 
subjected to this mode of cul —M. E. 
Bete sete ine 
both beret 
the number of segments keeps . 
which rende A. 
thie ; 
ficult to i a this is increased by the sched off 
thei, 
al times. 
ery segm is farnished the 
ried to get pence oxygen 
saga pra pots oo 
duces 
es this S gas, whi ich, when it i the top of the fu el, 
of large = of warm Wi come 
So a steady temperature in — 
—— requires a proo! 
ing tha t desi irable aioe oer ube 
Every omg 2 pai with 
exception of : few of the rings next the nae and the 7th 
segment in each, 
e is 
from which an acid 
pos, ow odour, which is employed to cor sure 
from its enemies. The th s fi 
ree 
a 
lee 
and a 
saan se bes a dis- | 
e Julus | 
ther quantity 
ofoxygen. When, however, a charcoal fire i is burning slonly, 
fast wil is to place the most certain means 
this agent wit thin his reach, and oe ‘abe “founded o on 
a large eons of Oe as escapes into the air withou' 
being burnt int acid ; 
lr 1 e houses: 
is often shown at seus have foolidhy placed a pan 
of pars, charcoal in a close bed- os The charcoal is 
not only abstracting the oxygen of the ai 
it into carbonic acid, which cannot Sugpet life, but is 
ill coatinue to give out oat mech 
see 
oxide, the peseaee of which in a room, in any quantity, 
ng, 
‘sori e 156 legs, but 
authors to “anount to 200, of a 
dull Ut yellowish 5 the tail is muc 
iy is pale a cpusoei: ro 
crimson-coloured spots down side, excepting 
170 legs ; 
each 
the 4 first and 5 last en: it has about 
en priory 277 
ToS aa us, Linn 
When lants: or vegetable substances, consistii 
pia ing 
aE ie = carbon, gas pee ir ele 
i. 
ments form 
water. 
pret rom the 
orted to the flue sys tem ; but with t 
were 
brickwork or tiles, I 
ac. 
| that w! 
= 
thin 
of deren (the opening 
my spe songs eg takes 
ore t ae mas: mg tyn: 
| Saaee while 
¢ | hydrogen, carbon, and n itro, ogen 
Thi 
t takes. one. "day to Tey 
ee days after t 
other 
a genus, called by Latrgille | 
| inert ; it seems to have little or no sty for ee other 
substance, 
has t. ~ By using this pea of material, 
gone out. 
ever. overheat on oma aie 
me The only 
