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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
En. 21, | 
forward by Bentaam, and pam and corrected 
sig that er as a test, the law Ws 
indiv 
2 tested b 
ould secure 10 an author or rant the exclusive 
s brain would also 
monopolies, 
are closely analogo 
In the report lately ppa by bar 
Arts, rights of inventors not denounced as tend- 
ing to create mo openssh but still we think that the 
word lingers in and secretly influences the romiu 
roduced at leas 
n r 
ee to . it, cannot at pre 
longer than a c 3 — 
— —— oe, terms whatev: 
obtain is aright of reget enjoyment for a limited 
8 of years; and in r to acquire this right, 
as to make it shill 8 England, Scotland, 
s to be paid ; r the present system, as unde 
and ot . eri is 2 — e lef his that proposed by the Society of Arts, he merely ordinary ae 1 3 will be a conti. 
invention or fined 300“. for his ingenui : ower of sustaining his invention if Wian 0 e ere = — — . — er to June, 
the committee of the Society of Arts do not, and he can. If he thinks his invention has been, into pots 8 cia ant k ae vows 
there ps they are right, propose that 5 in- or is being pirated, he can either bring an action 9 e thi e ie by, and 
ventor should possess the exclusive right of enjoy- for damages in a cour aw, or he pply for l H Bpi eee sas b- 
ing his ez for ever, but they still ben to the Court of Chancery for an injunction ; but care to spread out the branch sid 
to fine him ible extent of 85l. ; upon in noe case the burthen of proving the inven- | sar a handsome spec 
pra ould tion to be ne t upon the pina, ots ee made an inch or or Bi 
e indis nsable to the working of any | on owin 
e Pi ws whatever ; 91 ith Without registration an inv at this stage, k A. RA th will 3 
are, as we hold they are, 1 l to the ocus thit; under the present, as ers ye oN ri awor ae 
pi. at large, big should not the public pay under the proposed system, he is allowed to do Pip Frai pa rey r 
ver necessarily incident to the what he can ; but for such — ion 3004. or 85/., 1 dii l shady situation out of 
. — enjoyed ? in . e words, 1 should not or any other sum not in nsably necessary to here they will be protected from the mid-day 
the registration office be a Gove t office, and | defray bags cost si Tte aii itin, is in our opinion | and, to them against the ingr 
. A should not the “office vf who pera to manage it | excessive, ted by any principle pots should be placed upon a bed of e 
pe i ily four apne i Ka me caution must b 
he 0 
the Government in the usual way ? or, 
be de by 
Ser of ir 
tis, like other rights, proceeding, li like themselves, 
from alaw s based snot the principle of general b 
e e that 5 will not rest 
; and unless ie gentlem o have 
d can accomplish this, 
1130 
now, no be t 
that registration should confer such a title, it d 
e court of examiners Ys nig ed 
b 
n han ah will fi 
3 bess wi "that which it is most important should 53588 
r carefull wa 
sun’s rays. If drenching rains occur, remove i S 
m 
a light airy situation in “the greenhouse, Wate them d, 
be carefully applie ed during winter, 1 
n the soil is dr per and 
0 ably iat 
us to cutting * ro e 
nt 
e they should 1 
be very 
x Lesy apes of the Se and be 
kept in 
Now is t the time to Pe as for having a suce 
flowering prip 4 the coming winter and fal 
S plants slie h have b 
„„ 
= pay 
nd in chat event the production of the letters pate 
is not even primd facie evidence of novelt ty, a 
that alone will not — upon 
— THE -EPACRIS. 
e ddle end of Ma ay, and t 
r into growth Gk. d farther assistance than the 
in remov 
shelter of pea and a 
few to the yr irene. nt of the many, whilst in eh 
and in fact, 1 fae would, laced 
r basi ess beneficial to 3 public at | 
large, than are the on exclusive rights at present 
enjoy 
The principle of 2 1 sppe to the extent 
of 83“. by fou cae the Ist, 5l, 
payable at the tina of een and by which a 
right of exclusive enjoyment for r one 
obtained; the 2d, 10/., to continue such nent for 
five years; r five 
yea 
sooner 
suppli: hich require no stimul er 
them to flower ` Airani (and which are generally m 
1 r for 8 seana of the cultivator Sid 
* satisfaction of ge 
hard-wooded Pate, it strikes tard 
en in condition, may fay 
es n the — advice I 
propagation to nurserym 
ne plants page S choose young, 
d busy specimens, in bench pots. Fé 3 — 
as convenient, carefully turn them out of their pots, 
and if the roots are active, shift into two hr larger 
i those in which the plants have 
d for a 
I can giv 0 e is—leave its 
2 tho d a 3 yo ‘ee 0 
he more beneficial the tion to 
the public, the Wi the fine i ; a person | 
whose invention, thou oo mi ious, is of no 
use, would pay 5/., and very likely no more; but a 
whose invention of use, must, to enjoy | 
benefits of it, pay 107, 202, 50/7., alto- 
gether 807. 2 t other! In the 
place Ar S 
method seems 
to 5 mired to nin the end i 
would be very easy to say that no invention i 
— rigs tall u gt ve: sl ould 
— 
five 
tration; but that those 28 Should be kept alive for | 
another five y ri before the first five | 
rs hadexpired, notice being to that effect, and 
80 on for as many periods of five as might t be 
thought desirable. The er = this wolt be that 
infringement occurring y period after the 
m] ned of as a legal injury. We do 
necessity for levying a fine at each 
cannot help thinking, as we have 
bor * years from the date of the original 
d, that the proposal proceeds from a a 
f d by the term 
moe the plants should be 
end of the where ra can be kept 
make free gro 
their breaking re; regu- 
r be carefully a lied until 
have Iai laid hold of the fresh soil; but the plants | 
during winter, and 5 furnishing a supply T cut | the 
flowers at a season when they are most esteemed, the | we 
different varieties of Epacris are indispensable, — 
uld wn to the exclusion of many plants no 
used for early flowering snd known by the term “ 8 
plants.“ The 
be 
Epacris is not difficult to Propagate, but like most 
ily ; as established | larger than a 
attention cesta 
e ado epee, tsi iat 
sion e be 
The best 75 tor t — Emai 
is rich turfy peat, a 
m Wimbledon Common. g should 
$ 
as are i 
To the peat thus W add 
of 
of silver sand; sb the 
n of course upon 
must be e regulated Ae Alpha. 
Seger SONG BIRDS. 
if the weather happens to be clear and ‘sunny, 
bow ier thus, the plants will soon ‘start into vigorous 
iberal 
lants kag 
ey can be shaded from 
kept moist, and freely supplied with 
stronger growing 
air, 
ta 
summer is 
hooped round like the mouth 
re 
is a fact whicha 
traversing z the gard 
delights of freedom. 
chief than this in our parts ; and 
menced nidification have, in many i 
© ton 
— 
eup, where a thicker ban 
of a basket. 
readily conform to this 
glued into their proper 
r 
ce to gaze 
“si w as it may 
nny be er 
