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THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
as inert to steel, that electricity must be developed. | 
2 * ay 
not éware of any F J 
d fi to a famil and to the gar- 
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always been caused by keeping the seed i in oo quantities 
Tim 
dener, ‘hen rain-water. Many p 
of that which I t t my ‘aim is simply t to) 
extend, not to originate, a practice “Suich Iam sepa is ap- 
ado} pte d it, and will be s a 
so tiat 1 
known and ur 
ve chet ch in 
pga fre quent! The 
We know that artificial electricity years past, at the time of taking up, adopted the 
pone eat ba *rermination and i Candolle states that a pian ot “ying byl herd a aand for some Subs: till th 
mch in an hou ur during a thunder- storm beco + tok cb some as I intend for 
; nd keeping them by themselves 
Many years a sowin: 
Cress, ‘&e., on Y moistened coloured cloth, and found that 
ood. Tale-wuter is valuable in every situatio ie it 
can be collected in rae abundance. In Tai don, and 
in large towns, it is apt to be con ntami ina ated with soot ; but 
and that black was injurious and almost destructive to 
described. Wherever it can be 0 ptdined | pure, 0: or 
here: 
this country 
I attributed to the action of the salt of 
k 
parks the wi By this means I sent never known 
any to has been 
s 
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pe 
Bee 
easable ; our 
thi 
after 
re so, it is water in the very hey ait To the | 
i ear 
h 
e housewife a 
indebted to it for gt imm Saeki comfort ak ra ithe 
persons, because its great an and the faci ility 
ti er water con- 
ins a greater or less gp ten a fe _ sbesshcal solutions of 
ime, which renders — ane Ben 
can be drunk. I hav n the rots n-water fro 
1 s } 
in-water is generally | e 
like that of a cheese-cloth, in to the water-butt ; there it 
deposited any impurities whi ich were not caught by the 
cloth ; and every ia lay a few pie’ — ns Bit one ot 
the hae’ -invented portable appar: 
perfect eetly y bright t and pure, its flavour Gt = foe be a 
i licious; in fact, it was the finest water 
ellucid setlantan 
peed wer hp not even excepting that of 
us the m experiments on a 
a 
ving er the reply of ah en 
ting the cha 
hers respecting 
Oak-bark, i me J ciple the method of bark peel- 
ing, and isposing of it in f 
Teens Forester,” ‘and, therefore, may be acceptable to 
vegetation. This 
e experiments of Mr. Warde in reference to | the year before. I feel confident that if this mode of 
imprisoned atmospheres are remarkable, ont the phe- | hardening the tubers were th ald be 
nomena are not a little obscure apt failure in Potato crops, and the plants would come up 
muc! ee ede owe eo ack y—J. T. 
of light, as affected or modified by aa ars screen, is no lately received from Messrs. 
ith th Tosses sistalie, "Pikes; adc Co, to here specimens ofa new 
and Ferns are the plants that chiefly luxuriate ; but the | ase; by them called voniensis."” They state 
Dionza muscipula, Cephalotus ge ~ ig Drosera been | that it is far from being na ae a s they shortly expect to 
difolia, Parnassia palustris, and s others, succeed | be, t the flowe r ha aving been cu cut froma small youn) ag plant, 
best ew glass vette and peck a A n illeetration ie 
‘ind. a-breez osphere title it tobe considered one of the finest Roses which has 
eaaAaiy sticks eetlitltie: oe smihen: 1 ‘apprehend, Phy ever bt introduced. The flowers which we received 
the equalisation of temperature, and the softening influ- | Were fi Cet very bore much above the average 
nces of its humidity, but by fifying aBrapt transitions | "!2€} or) it ent an e plant has a vigorous and 
and alternations of heat and cold, as well as the commu- | excellent habit. ow und it deliciously fragrant ; 
nication of a a Daven . Mr. Warde’s plan an | the ae is a clear, siaebe, primrose yellow, with a 
rtificial | Somew 
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freely, without any imperfec- 
tion or hard green eye. 
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE. 
_ Oa ahu, en Islands, be 10, ne —It is 
sively ihe natives here 
ts 5 me suppose 
ere: sign of their recent con- 
i of barbarism Poé and Fest 
re the unfailing sources of a Sandwich Islander’s 
food. _The former, I need hardly tell you, is the bruised 
eagerly gather round a calabash o' 
this, ‘chetr bright ria lively eyes sparkling with aclightful 
antici = oer There is only one way of eatingit co me 
accord ing to ‘Sandwich Island ton, and that is, to dip two 
s, or the much-fame on ae . Nothing | both. 
ott the — insipidity 0 of c ‘water remained, standing, the purchaser being 0 bliged to have it all re- 
nor ever be p moved within a specified time; and, Pps pe <a the 
lected. and strained. ¥ I were fi dee ressing ap toa proper season they employ a nu mber 0 skilful woodmen 
dent of va nape fertile 2 granary of the metro to fell the timber in 4 not haggle 
polis, the I Than f Kent, | hack, as in e of the sciiigud and Woathent counties~ 
pb te Saticient Re mention a rain-water tank, to | but cutting it by axe as low as ible. A number 
nsure his instant assent my unqualified assertion, that | of boys follow, cutting off such branches as are wo! 
= greater convenience can scarcely be attached to a home- peeling, wi whi ich work is gene’ rally performed by women, 
stead. I me parts of Berkshir et fin a tanks of the | many Pe oe Spey Bn ° 
kind are in Se but wit e di dri ‘0 rails o 
tricts, the real filtering rain-w: tank ars to be oes 18 or 20 inches apart, and su acd a host chat ais. 
The ae or > sede for pede water 
cylindrical form, somewhat 
resembling a shallow well; t! od 
and sho vod be built with ates berg ae a being 
jointed wi Roman ce ment ; but made up 
pre: one 
tance from the F< ouagrh y cd oer resting on cloven, or 
forked, stakes round, which stakes, and 
r. 
ly to ‘0 the mouth without letting an atom fall back ; the Poé 
is then removed in a manner better im: = grad than de- 
The root of this plant, when cu tng? and 
+ 
e foreign residents consider ita ‘very gi good = abet. 
ee’ bread and have <4 pe ard ary, laid by their 
itis. T prefer page late vegetable. As 
also ils, is it led ti 
On this “ie scaffold bark is usually dry in 
fortuight or three weeks, when it is carted to some ~ 
or built 
part of 1s very best lime that can be got poder 
that from thoro’ roughly burnt limestone, oe the magnesian), 
If itis intended for the nicest 
culinary purposes, the inter surface must, howeve a 
accurately an: y cov with a coating of the 
ment, of at hex one-third we sags poke inch in ee No 
brick o ‘o be used e with mc 58 
tri 
stand long, with a ca oth, 
or straw ; but it is ually cremret realy for the : tannars 
by being: into small pi colle ore than three or 
four inc’ acs bo A aed wn pieces being pre- 
viously ret ac a wie. hr is “ tas * in sacks | 
= i pet k (and “3 Ae re =o uncertain 
melee wie pees 
they have the property of pb Soft 
>: 7,3 +} 
ew. From 1000 to 5000 gallons of rain- 
and 
dee eep tub a quanti well-washed s ea or river sand 
, and sec 
i ing into the voir, b 
; filter prepared by putting into a 
, to | 
Ine 
before heard of ets a : thing as ae comics point ta 
tanners, oie it may exist in the Se ee - 
hatswo’ Generally ‘spea’ eaking, the f New 
n D 
good charcoal, and, ar a layer of clean Fen on ant 
it will Pe ¢ effectually 
tub might either be bored at the 
water pass, by means 
be furnished with a 
false wooden bottom pierced with ho les 5 the interven ing 
V3 4n 
to make it so, Last pater r geod by was 7h pe to 8/. 
21. 5s. 
them in the A take me ‘ecuentan) pre gh Lemos: out 
a dingy black ec Their best black colour is ob- 
ained by taking soles eof th n the roots of the 
Aleuritestriloba,andalsosome of id Bross of the sametree. 
bin ge heated with these; but m Teould 
ciben o tives are _ meagre of so yond sr their customs 
to the w so I was inform 
Onn crate tauthority. The odes trdtinct that staple 
article ie of food at these islands which it is at the Society 
Islands. It, however, grows plen ly on one of the 
group, but I have never seen it used, or been able to get 
a taste of it. Several kinds of Fern are used mal 
The natives will 
| the iitetiobe from the int seats are 
they are rather antes in ‘their wi. 
per ton, gia the expenses against t may | be fro: 
are light and elastic, 
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passed through a stave j 
coul into it elk 4S 
eg I have stated, is built in the petty the o opening 
Perhaps Mr. Paxton or the “ bg J Forester 4 ill state 
sal proportion their expenses bear to the ies! 
of their bark, ,and we shall then know whether 
to 22, 15s. d 
ter 10s. ot ton for ie: and 15s. per ‘ton for | ee really pr ray oe forei 
it into the house, and from thence to its final de- eer from Tacca pinna’ 
Livery] eaying about half the price clear — ts above 
charges I know to be correct from ience. 
Or Their arrow-root is 
tifida. or The ey have their native 
sugar ; and if they had it not, the roots of the Tea -a- plan ant 
aie latter was recently largely made from this plant, but 
missionaries are now hey powerfully in the ascendant 
i f istabooed. Wine is 
at top is al ys secured ei either with flat ; stones, or with er the same ban ; th ws well 
brick @ in th i felli een made. But what will you think of the state of 
d fitted i f moveable, The Potato Coes smd: seen in ah Chronicle a | these lovely islands when the natives have been 
and is occasionally ae up pea found needful t I bi > ret T have no more «4 by the missio to root up their thriving rees. 
clean out the tank; but if the "pening filter were em, my seed, the Black Ameri , Since 1818, ai Is it not stra me of us have discovered a single 
ployed, the water w ould be si effectually cleansed that | I will challenge them, both % for pho tis and quantity, ‘sith | Orchidacea in our rambles? Nor can I hear that any are 
little or no deposi and it therefore | any one. I consider it Leg 8 to early planting, and giv- indigenous here. Yet there are several in the Society 
would _ — for a very ie period. | A few 7 1 Islands. Your last letter, now rather a distant 
would cover d tank This year all mine were in by the 16th | One, has stimulated me to take some tem of ve- 
1 rare ve der 107. in the whole soa es Mar ok: a st I oe rd = pa in was the 15th April, | getation. ere is one as a 8; en: Atmosphere of 
farnish it with a pump. and pipe, by which this purified and the crit March 14 weather isexpected, | Tree-ferns, dry season, 2 P.ot.,near mountain stream ; 
; - I put my upon the sets. I only grow one kind | ait in rg 86° ; soil and water of stream, 80°; dew- 
the hothouse, or the greenhouse, d be th +43 gS 
degey Per sd ¥ | Po otatoes ; mine are having the se awed LP ual saa gg pe Frankfort, a ah Lhe gered ge found but t little in 
for which soft water is so saapomestty omen _ Under Bark Mo: ly.—Mr. Paxton nore expressed a wish ntz’s Nursery Gar- 
mon circumstances, nine-tenths of 1 that I would inform him lif I bp agg pwr the ** taking deny very good 
falls on every dwell: house, and their peésns are | up” of the O °o mon gion oy pat very well ke ept, he am 
5 a lai rtion of it would | that subject, I beg to inform him that I did superintend aia Baro n Hgel’s and Dr. Si iebold’ s, hew things 
which never se: 
tanical and logical G: Gardens, Leeds. 
Coloured Media and Artificial Almospheres.—The 
curious and _ deeply interesting subject of _vegetation 3s 
_ Mr. Pasion stripping, ea Rovian of the whole of it. 
ses I 
avira the 
riety of oaks : 
former cera a Yea rar 
He ta non 
here, except a - psendo- pte 
of the evergreens thrive 
very pubescent, the 
‘S 
th 
ne, mse Mr. P. had not only made an unfair 
attack ‘pon ts ts ani but Sow i 
or convinced me of 
arse this will “material 
ee iccst has 
communication 
in 
acorns usually single at the pre myth of the short side- 
branches, soas to seem terminal. The public ic walks here 
d with the orost in- 
I nascoan ren Mr. P. will thro saat 
the subject.—4 —- Fame Kidderminst 
oe re of Potato Crop.—In the Chronicle 1 I observe | 
th relative to to the failure te Po 
ig shrubs, and some are ine epecimens, chiefly 
pperer trees of all s ay I find Catalpas, Gleditschias, 
crops and Tg no doubt that the failure 
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rear onl and several others fruiting here, which do 
not seed with us, He has ep dps good many Ulmus 
