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JUNE 12.] - THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. — 379° 
AL SOCIETY OF LONDON. ect maturation of their fruits. We firmly believe | p abige ge se becey areti de if the 
HORT CUS Tigtn gus At tite CANBEN.” | Stich mine of ivenigation abut tobe worked, | uit of auch ate chouldexhiie external signs of 
env subjects for Exhibition mp most he af thip ‘office on wiltey the and we look with great anxiety to the operati f | tk h ed d, this tr tripar- 
0 gates rill b Be onened at One, 2at, Tickets are issued | the miners. Even if nothing should co perro their | : 
ie Fellows at this Office, price 5s. each; or at the Garden in the | proceedings, we shall be no ae in our | organisation. It is, however, quite : Daan idee 
Fn saanter ga? in yng ma nF hang ae a one will) ¢ ith that a rich vein exists somew Orange-tree thus obtained would — three | fruits 
ar Regent-strect._ We may depend upon it it that mach find of i inves- | one within the other; for such an occurrence is not. 
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The Gardeners’ Chronicle. tantem et nil ferentem,” fruits, Ror is it in fact by any 1 —s 
Serr of Citrus. In our anton 1 it is 
SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1841. serene Sess eee ghamoengece neted CTY attempting to obtain a plant by such means as 
MEETINGS IN THE ENSUING WEEK. Bey, at Alexandri originally produced by a triple those state e practised in S 
rieeday’ - -{ Floscalearat ¢ 5s aR BB x: combination of raed and bearing in consequence | We some time since (p. 99) took the opportunil 
basmati AS cases peas Hck sorts of frui ranges, ‘mentioning the | 
We er occasion attention 
the great apparent impo of recent chemical 
iscoveries to practical matters connected wi 
cultivation of plants, and we exp! 
as desire that some of public bodies of 
irect a portion of their funds to 
country 
te promotion of such investigations. We have now | i 
the ¢ ratifical ation of announcing that this interesting bi 
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wt neble Dake who presen over the eis of hart deveicia eile ubetiag tee , 
ae Saray leaving the island. It is really inconceivable how re- 
of if hile Hae towards the expenses of an | Sees ea iseas eS Sig bx whch, dae : 
mt into istry of horticulture, more | was formed ; more especially as regards the statement | SPectable ee such reports as these, 
especially with reference to the influence of soil and | that three different are of of fait are are produced a0 7 ores false altogether, or enormous 
garden plants. This, with the private | the same rind. indeed is rations, invented in the rival colonies to prevent set- 
subscriptions of a few friends of science, has “ ¢ ens tt Segre to A ie lube eit 5p 
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iegiete or pepe who are to nip wiry 2 so-called ‘ ee Roses vs a Rigs he 
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undertaken; and Wh h ty, from | Figs, which Columella affirms to be practicable—and | i” all respects satisfactory ; 
time to time, the seealt of thei investigations : “we are Oranges on Pomegranates ; ay Nes eee yers were ogee: fate £3 to £4 a-week easily ; 
happy seen Oe 3 the — to as the the production | 2atives were quiet and tractable; agriculture was 
a our correxpondent, Mr. | of blood-red Oranges. eee paying, although the labourers were getting 
oa ee ee he at ve aees Bes! Gene re poem te from 15d. tor-24d.; bread, 5d figs 
iur'de 20-2 submitted to him by the Com th f asifthere | fresh beef, 13d. ; fresh Look . th od. to sagt aay "ie 
Edward Solly, jun, rig ae 
mittee of Agriculture of the Asiatic Society. It also | was n were in them | contrary 2 to common sense. We ba 3 _— i - per 
appears that the Connell of the Ro yal Agricultural | a e, however, 1) rere had been bad wi shall hen. 
Society have had the same subject under consideration, that we ae perhaps more apt to bel ve them than i | don ‘not mention it; certainly th ere had been epithet 
and, although nothing has yet been determined upon, | they were at least, such is the i ea of some | tent, not with the country, but with 
that it is intended to take up the inquiry at an early | minds. Net. long since, one of our correspondents of New South Wales, the ace of which had, fi rsa 
at i lers said to | °¥® 
sent 
Now then we have ea zealous and able inquirer | occur in Garesfield Colliery, near Newcastle. It was | 2° 
engaged in of formal experi. i that in thi y kind of wood ex- | 
ments upon the plant of gardeos- and. platitati ions. cept Oak or young Ash, be it ever so sound, when in 
2 pete put oie et the statement of Libig troduced into the mine, will y in from 12 to 24 
I , ho short space 
‘book is in consequen nap unsatisfactory to | that there is not a word of truth in the statement. 
tigation. e 
poch in = thokutaipel wedcn | het as duties bn Se come emai er | The cigants if fr lng tine pies sand 
ing, | rien nts have hithert er, thority, and is posi- ‘he emigrant’s life is for a toma to’ 
Tittle the subject of chemical investigation ; and we | tive: no doubt it : even sometimes useful to disbe. pr Per Sh sestgeaned dive ted, a ee ae ich 
are are entirely i in the dark respecting Many points of he lieve the evidence of our own eyes. - pee 2 saa crs 
gr q The influence of the soil But paneanep cs or! these fictions Boghos Jous- ween Pa et Ec ine ?  caIaeete 
upon plants is still extremely e, the moment and his trifacial Citrons? No doubt the proba- # ea CHEMISTRY.—No. be 
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to explain to us why it is so, or what the nature of hollowed stem of the third when very young. Under | quantity in the blood of animals. Iron is very 
the action is which in Paar _cases uniformly pro- such circumstances the three would grow together ; or | indeed found native in its pure metallic state, 
ducts céstein resolis—éud yet, in the slenei of chix the effect might be produced by graftingin other ways, | USwAlly met with in the form of an oxides. 
- fundamental knowledge, pec ne is very much a | while the cause was the concealed. But is it imprac- | and silica. Thus the rich black and red i 
game of hazard. Why is the same variety of Oak- | ticable to ; yos in tl aberlan are nearly pu 
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Ete ry process something like the 
order od he resin carbonic acid gas 
ike | cae a id which greatly assists: 
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which the recent case of the Tron is able to form two di 
some other sporting Laburnum 
bythe ane or the Pe Pear; or the Strawberry, for the | pots it still more difficult to form an opinion upon. gen, according to the a 
