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HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. | Glasnevin Garden, and for other purposes con coumected | son. ., We hear indeed that some of the membersof the 
PR inten comnts tp: the “iota ay on which —e patho a gp with “the advancement of science and the diffusion 
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woh cach wren issued at that price, 21, Regent-street. of useful knowledge.” The refusal has been caused | 
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Prapibaif support, we imagine, of th newse 
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The Gardeners’ Chronicle. Irish Government, the nature of or we shall en- has probably not the p. power, and surely not the folly, to 
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SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1841. stig si | he yy ish the Irish Government with 
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.. » «+f Ploricuttural © 22 3 ot eS Grae Ee In 749 the Society | w, da tiower nln subscription : 
ica = and from that time forward it ped een a : - 
Rind hi ded by annual grants of public money, varying eee 
Tue Potatoe, like os Da plane asd hae me et 3004 to 15,000/. Between 1800 and soas.sione, MR. PENN’S MODE OF HEATING. 
upon to subsist while young. This bb preagiane: 1 dines ‘hist tact at A ae ve! nan. We Wel Pc one ae pitt = a State aoe 
is ed ina short, thick, underground stem, covered period 5,300 from giving it, until a fair tral had been made of its work 
a ; valgatly need scarcely Say> that the Governmen' mat possessed a ing under my own immediate observation. Two pits were 
tite satcdee , gi course of erec fies, hese Soa the first account of 
a root; and it consists of no other thing than starch, iieeded ‘ui oi vinnie hich tay + ici = bye Al non aap at ea 
—that substance which many suppose to be of no use Z PP 2 
except to a laundress. Starch is, however, one of the | considered most conducive to the public service. In Mager 1 not misled ip the ey _— 
most valuable secretions that plants have the power of fact, it _was their bounden duty to, inquire into this have hana pesatiad ‘pom thai their first ap : equal 
orming ; it constitutes the nutr ee the Po- | Point, in order to satisfy themselves that they were which, eens peared premat 
tatoe, the Yam, the tro Mandioc from which j in continuing to recommend such grants to the the Editor’s pric Tae Weebed by. those of 
Cassava bread and Tapioca are prepared, of Sago, Parliament. Accordingly we find in the year 1829 | rienced a ante ke Mr. Wilmot, I 
of Corn, and, in short, of all those plants that yield acyl elect Committee on. the Irish Estimates ad- | Preposseesed Tous af ef egee ager  pe 
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~~ te eed tate, it consists of little, hard, dry Dublin Society ; alterations were, however, re- j Penn to Chatsworth to i heat the two pits in question, 
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i strat va- | Prove.a failure. as far as practical horticulture was eon- 
can feed on nothing that is not either fluid or in the required great improvement, cerned, particularly in the forcing of Vines or Peaches, it 
state of air. As soon, however, as the Potatoe begins | #0US Fous changes inorder to render it of greater publi being well known that all plants are disposed to. grow 
to i sweet liquid, | RNY 3 Nese Tee 
and then i ats as the bet of all food for the dicated no intention on the part of Government to mon age ast pe fae lag og nar oceans 
The saieerot we last week made, upon with Seg th Saati RTC Sack e 7 | parts would receive the greatest excitement. 
the Dahlia, applies, with certain limitati rations ano | tore Beneficial to Ireland; in our opinion, they were mots iba cuntiine ith Mr. Penn, that unless he would 
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spring deprived of the greater part of that food peed : the abandonment of ; reulation is ered perceptible in currents 
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es them to be all te pee ans ratte ir usua piptegees teagan by 
tained in infancy. The consequence is, that weeks LL. yeare ref ¥ wing See ee | artificial: means ; oad by all plans = rarified air 
plants are so i in the dations, and 4 bide) motion, which is only rendered more rapid by ouiee 
pecking ers of producing new tubers; and beret aiaeyrvaseacty aphess fe pon # We | the heated atoms to escape thro! contracted outlets. 
cis a ae bility bby the: want of. socks | purposely avoid discussing the points of difference be- e two pits here act very well, and so they ought, for 
food prevents their forming tubers ei od | See i Societyand the Government, Pig Oy avetn pe inasmuelr as they are effectually covered every night 
pate. or i any et quantity as will reward the | 7#ity foreign to the question, We may, however, | witha thatched roof more than Gin. thick, which rans 
husbandm: ew i 
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men, associated for the purposes of “ advancing hus- tion could take place; they are with patent sheet 
hand, an excessive io ay Aaa arts ‘ only three laps sua» ide, hich 
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. P 7 ” “The late Mr. Knight, avene an should first establish a news-room for reading political are 
the more food a Potatoe received when nm young, the | T°WSPaPers and then sacrifice nence OF 1 7e | surrounding ground. They, also, , ais Scaenteet pipien, 
peg vigorous and healthy it would be at maturity, Nev ertheless, A i ponerse ay aeeeeies cuaradueee 
the greater the produce, advised that a field abandonment of this park? wer extaiichmen wPase foe he 8 re h a pets 
Should beset ‘with whole tubers. But it was: found, pari i ch by the od ee We Sa dag 3 times more mits] piping i eeqeios io progavacs"tnen 
ticultural Society, that this di in the opinion of the best friends of the Society, the vantages ex in the glass being the The exled- 
deg, “the ety, at this eel want of skill and vigour in many of its scientific de- res ele yp eet oad £0 of ait hes, during the 
rs . is distinctly traceable enabli 
" Oe) to tara tale yee ctl ak mts eae night. "The pits heated by. de, Suu, Sottny a weanerad 
erect, and, being laid by the wind, became if th - had not for ee | sr dil and that, as Thave sated, ed, covered at esd 
utery has been raised in Ireland at a sup-| up to 
Bisa ya the part of Government of “D- 
pressing the EVIN,€ 
a careful inguiry, to announ ce that we do not at pre- | nz 
wont See Mpg hinge ed the Hp amie we eerie of 
. cxcitement. 
The report has originated in ‘poneequenee of the | grant, 
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| the Royal Dublin Society for the maintenance of the 
- | fuel, td keep up a proper heat, oe they did fa the most se- 
