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CHRONICLE. 
haracte S ‘ge Maltese gardener. An eye- -witness 
x ais A of the eager delight e which the 
caren 0 Ael themselves, $o such learning. Eve 
tle Museum for them is already in existence, in 
military governors 
as well as c civilians— 
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ecessarily d to the field or the barrack, but | majori be distinguished. Thus from this becomes covered with cork ; its extremity zen 
may be extended to objects of which even a gentle- period the nn fundamental tissues of a plant are visible; | grow and to send out fres 
rab must approve. And when they are ther words, two sorts of cells of totally different | The epidermis of the stem and of the lets * 
employed as rial have been by the distinguished value. One of these tissues serves princip vi podno? goes N ee Boe external side 
entrusted with the charge of Malta, they | cells (this is the organising tissue, < :° cam fom), n ned generally more diag 
noone Rea ’ | other serves principally to form nutritive matters, such | nal; they offer, especially when 7 ue 
afford one of the best of human means for the 7 sugar, chlorophyll, &c. (this is the nourishing | evaporation of quids in the parts filled ean 
tension of knowledge and civilisation, e, the parenchyma properly called). The they would com paer prevent all eviin Š 
We are among those who_ prefer the evidence of | organising tissue, in the aet of roses ects ieo Forms | which allow gascous and vaporiseà osaisi | 
ee. emi , 
our senses to all other evidence; an 5 houg f | the first stage “ —_ bundles. n ed ger- | exhaled as well as absorbed : the epidermis ite, 
rs of a theory we are stil greater admirers f | minates, the bud, as well as the root, is lengthened. It | im e importance to plants. In the Took, if brs 
a fact. Whe erefore we read the assertions O° | is from the iune riie that all those different sorts of | hairs, absorbs the solu tters in the soil: x. 
some of our correspondents who main cells are developed, by means of which the vascular | stem an the leaves it prevents evaporation 
not grow, under any circumstances whatever, bundles and parenchyma are extended. A cylin ndrical | secreted layer or cuticle, and especially h 
after their leaves are removed, and the opinions layer of this tissue is distributed in all the more perfect | modificatio e ex 1 brane 
expressed by others that if they do increase they | plants, in such a manner as to divide the parenchyma whilst the stomates allow an exchange of 0 
will fo thing but wood—in other words will | into pith — sep vo wards in the stem as down-\ vapours. The activity of the epidermis of te, 
become “ sticky,” althoug receive such co In yr — 4 mi asa n gonone is, as a general : 8 e a certain 
munications with all the deference they deserve, rule in all diate oe whose uring time; as soon as i it is replaced 5 
we nevertheless bow still lower to the proofs which their whole lives, this ined layer’ “(whieh 1| when completely formed, prevents all evapo! toa; 
is- altogether mistaken. | shall call the thicke ening zone) is active so long as | possi ssible pi its porosity may condense the gabe 
Lois 8 offers that they are altog age 
We candid! nfi K we refer — Rev. Mr. life remains; it is by means of it that the stem surface of the plant. 
f es. he T P thè : a enlarges ; the cells of the tissue, . towards the The tissue "destined es d r 
pu sara’ 1 atin of duce an fed from it, interior new wood, and towards th rior new bark. 15 
CCC k 
~ f other „the thickening zone is active only for a short d mi 
ms 4 dog-collar Bien p. 757). ee" 1 | Period of time; consequently the stems of tl 75 e plants a 
n order to satis e pùblic concerning 5 not en certain point; later, they grow h 
ity of these famous Turnips, grown at 70s. one direction — — bn eig : az 
on in rows 5 feet apart, and whose leaves, "The peculiar arrangement of the vascular bundles, 1 z 
use they touched in the rows by the beginning the roots of —— and Monocotyledons 
of September, were then stripped for cattle- food, we | consequence of the limited duration of the life of their 
ventured to ask the able author of a Word in thickening zones ; a row f cells of this zone in such 
Season to anid us an average sample of his crop eases generally forms a — a cellular circle around | s 
as it is in this present of December. What . pith” shiek 3; 2 
he sent Pests exhibited before the Horticultural So- 3 3 
requis 
and vie 
plant has no need of a * gs circulating system ; by 
means of its cells of unequal value it can direct its juices 
a all their chemically a Ay to the . in 
y ve Let see 
composed of ce 
the different tissues sao 
the ripe seed rudiments of the b 
faint 5 of eye ar eas may, in t 
found starch, inuline, dextrine, su sugar, ch 
other colouring matters, and crystals are fop 
interior. The cells of the epidermis ve penned 
lar hair: rs of the root, w sorb Ton m 
in hg 
food 
E oe Motweotyiedons grow at t the same time as the stem 
and the root ; to it is also due the lateral ramification 
bu 
zone becomes woody t the vascular 
to grow, except at their extremity. At first the 
—— 
oo, that these were sent 
fair average Turn Par ty no means the largest 
that could have been ‘selecte 
ew may be per acre of this crop 
cannot A ee be determined, in 88 of 
the wetness of the land. A similar crop w. 
estimate 
p of the present season will prove 20 to 
n possession of the 8 
n, but 
ven acres 0. 
arable land support six cows, two carriage C 
horses, and many swine. If we take rypto and Mane can only in 
terally by ramifyin In ieot ledons the 2 
poin 78 six ert tobe worth . £60 is also A in the middle of t sA e vascular bundle, but 
Pr lt 3 it answers to the thickening zone ; by the zone it con- 
‘ont upon pigs “(ascertained) Mi Se tinues always er of development ; its ee 
yer on 223 sides to the 2 to woody A and 
vascular cells, rior into cells of the 
And deduct expenses, we have evidently a very | bark and liber. The tt * zone and the cambi 
profit, the cause of which can a be an of vascular vessels alike give to 
nse production of roots sand leaves 
Vedi? E LIFE THE RESULT OF THE 
ppb yee pels AND N ACTION OF 
CELLS OF UNEQUAL V 
pati eal) 
(Translated from the Ann. des, Sc. Nat., hs 2923 a series) 
A rruxr is a body co omposed of one cells; it 
is only in the lowest species that the ¢ cells a are of the 
same value, i. e, of th 
unc 
d bundle song cambium of y 
propria o ). 
of nothing 
| successivel rmed all the 
fo 
the 
2 it constitutes the essential part o 
f M. Mohl The arrangement of this cam- 
bium characterises the kinds vascular bundles ; in 
Cryptog: the ‘ood 
t as soon | kno 
bundles cease | carboni 
ce. 
nd the thickening zone, as well as the extremity | the 
and ‘ies sof the liber are absent, and pitted vessels are 
never present, The cambium of the vascular bundle 
by vessels and moot el a the liber; pitted woody cells 
are of very rare gee vascular 
and is surrounded less 0 
pa ofli 
and to the annual layers (wood 
periods of grow e root of Dicotyl 
like their stem ; but the took never has 5 275 
th instead of a rudi- 
nating ak vascular b oody cells, and 
undies, of w. 
cells of the Liber out of the organising tissue of the 
„ be seen forming in or from 
„of t 
and of the same 1 importance 
— st and Algals on 
Even 
y the most imperfect have e cells 
di 
Sng. phos |i 
h eo 
ation in the e of the germi- 
— — ies of these orders are, like lichens 
composed of cells of different value. 
plants higher up in the scale of 
com of numerous 
With respect to 
rk; true of the cellular hairs on 
thenceforth. the ot is furnished with cells of vi very | this subject, is also true f th 5 
erent value. e organising nig situate at the of a pat; at the top of the the 
a agane E of 5 Bey and root, in the ee si | prc fiom ing formed ; and there endering 
and at the base of the leaves, consum 5 in ee — ig e 
all first insite azoti tised mare rs; its e ts beco nið Of ii lar bundles, 
a rose · coloured if acte on by sugar ape sulphuric | of the en i OF the vascul root to 
acid, whilst the contents of the i cells, which from the extremity of ; 
have other functions t perfo me Th greater the consum — 
colour. The sides of the cells of thi are extremity of the beige 35 
t delicate, and its m i | rrent of the net “ 
A * another and acts by 8 een the 
togams and Monocotyledons behaves of equilibrium py the 
manner, although it ceases to which is constantly the extr ni 
yay is cambium is surrounde a te of new cells at — sa 
is, as it were, i b ma, | tains tl woody cells o 
* ng tissue, lim imited pith | the last, s dy ity it to a 
bark, contains few azotised, but a proportionally | some other sort of Tub ens 
carbonaceous substances. In it are isolated by the sides. Tus Pr 
