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superior to them in everything else, they feared him, and | 
beli 
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ed him wey | eries should be addressed. Pi xesorge edhe 
to intr oduce | the } Me P Payne Knight to recommend s0 me one for this pur- 
present sent notin Oy ch remarks, vit is t b Herefordshire 3 who menti brother, as 
now remain: than he knew to the object in 
paramount pteeaa of 4 Knight’s horeatural pro- | view, from his any one “ wl of the agricultural 
ceedings, bu but because we wish gardeners to consider how ti of well as from the 
attention he had given to its i % 
merely b y have not the power of Preigna cor-| ‘Mr. Andrew Knight was accordingly made known to 
hentifo- 4 x from mean and narrow- | Sir Joseph, who soon found that he was not only emi- 
minded feelin | nently qualified to effect the i te object in view, but 
That horti i Se te is immeasurably | that he had made observations, and deduced i 
superior to that s the last century, no who is ac- | them throw much light on the more abstruse 
suelnted with suc! j can deny; that the advance | subject of vegetable physiology; and he strongly urged 
mainly attributable to the him to lay the result of his before the public. 
as as scientific investigations of Mr. Knight, our | Mr. Knight had not mixed a great deal in general society ; 
whole sepionce 8 ~- us. The great skill of modern had ¥ modern scientific works, 
is knowledge of physiological formation Imost wholly derived fr 
ies chiefiy, the say prs rrare nature ; not Sir 
siege cat 7 the Aicovery of those pri 
eee Oe wholly, with - B saecees 
y be unfelt; gardeners ma 
tof t the source from whence t! ts tenoebeligs 
derived ; but they 5 will find, if they trace it out, that it 
chiefly dates from t of Mr. Knig' 
themselves be | most distinguished 
is | assem co in Soho Square, 
ose Mana aware that | ie he had observed anything 
fn Ste Josteh Mr. Knight had a friend always anxious 
him forth, Wi Sealbaaly alive tide soocieg 6 ever 
0 obtain informatio for him on any or to 
and his suggestions were 
great practical physiologist a to draw 
pon his desenians most | certainly they ready to 
Canariense, flo . 
Brucerirm Cenarion Lt frome i ahaa Rg 
section of a seed, r Speer Hee 
“TyricaL GaneRa— 
desire to to promote ts progress. This is proved bet their | always seashell wie te consideration they deserved and 
| publication in oe paemrten of the —_ valuable of acknowledged | with gratitude. [AES Joep ae he 
his horticultural paj papers,—a re} republication no way de- Sd 2 rabteneig 
_ the sake y 4 F 
ituation in lif to th tvoted setacalicts of wll ctatrion poe aden om Sova 
many costly volumes through Lec yh tena ry 
persed. For the matter therein aor area we ws eur info; if more 
readers to the present is papers. 
this occasion we shall content ed with rather 2 tart 
copious extracts from the life of this truly great man, now Ped hich labour 
to the wo: = erdetnen Seabip eanploped'ta ba ilding on the sub-structure 
“ Mr. Andrew Knight received his early education at laid by other hands. He for some years purposely 
| tadion from whence he was removed to scone of em read the inthe Belo Ygeabl 
ee ee then kept by Dr. Gea tre Sr apiposs eran be should bemsoet Holy 
erwards entered of Baliol Sane Ox. h 
ford. 
ford, Pt oe “the pe eminent L phpeng Dr. rng en bide his 
contemporary = that he managed 
who used to say of him, ‘ peep & nahn bored rhs we of his friend St Actor 
en v “In the summer of 1827, Mr. Knight had the — 
:seatente, 9 t less time about ens 
iad ogy bra pau son field sports.” He was at this m he tercourse by letter, though 
robes and continued f y year ds to be an | they had not previously met. The extract — 
rtsman an excellent shot; but with him, | fro nicer a illia 3 
ili ze ame was only a second- s6We sevens on) from London i ina =< 
had great pleasure i: 
dey, or we Should 1 have n spen 
= bronyes with me my French corre- 
ga a 
© the rtunities which his long 
with his sh afforded hima for studying renee ds 
and from the facts and incidents coll ect ted at t this early | spondent, Mons. D 
. f i d the | di 
period he laid in Apa oO e | discoverer of the iecomathiees circumstance that ee 
basis of many of sequent inyestigati and vegetable membrane, w' tie under bore Bex 
‘* He was at this time painfully shy, ites v7 ee stances are impe ervious to wa tT, readily ad dmit that A uid 
to draw him out ; e was remarkable for th e i 
ness with which he resisted all attempts, whether ie a tact with a fiuid of greater di ensity, ‘or in some instances 
join 
in the intemperate habits then 
ays Ah 
| eos amt chemical powers; and the ake he 
had advan ee er 
render i it doubt any mechanical 
‘* His school holidays, on afterwards his college vaca- | agent is at in raising the 
tions, were eet either (Wit th his brother | in = membrane, chick separates the tin agen each other, 
Wormes- | which are excited to act by some power, probably chemical, 
the sap. M. Dutrochet pct Sh daring 
e experiments 
ie Gavelled 
} a ae 
as pat the loss auger (on (one 
in 
i pig be | which we made som 
her ich a other in ie 19th year), she removed at 
ted * 
Mary hi | 0 miles, and back i 
K I for himself n opportunity of conversing 
fae the time he was building kira Castle. | vegetable 
of 
ph: ysiology. i found him rig Try ateigent and 
The inhabitants of his vicinity, the 
“Mr. Knight’s f hi — 
ulturist. 
neghbourhood of Tours, t 
derstanding, seem: sateen tatietty formed for the ebjoyment 
of a country life; and the part of Eng) land on whic a 
culture, and to nd nothing of varieties of fruit 
tent faculties of his mind. ts hills, its of oe vind beyond Duhamel.’ 
ia hs st a nedouict! | “Mr. Knight’ 
and horti ticultural investi 
exercise the la 
valleys, its de its vegetable 
and i 
——,* to him 
‘philosophical ‘etigstiony eh bile | 
This ustrated explanation 
objects of 
h G Biograph y” 
poner yrvmpenbrditag raw gee pets <2" 
_ ‘« In this manner Mr. Knight passed some years, occa- 
dalle iy sseeted ny ip Dee Guascrbcs poopoeed br 
in ng the alliances of plants, 
theich of « new distribution of the vegetable kingdom, 
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in London, at whose house he never failed to meet a so- | 
calculated to exert the most beneficial influence on 
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