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HER MAJESTY, 
THE QUEEN. 
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SEEDS is now ready, and e ad on ap- 
s Wholesale Seed Eetablishmnént 181, High 
whe Gardener € ronicle. 
‘te ce Gardeners 35 ay 
MEETINGS FOR THE TWO — watts 
March l 
Bynt Hortic Kral . 3 — 
ESDAY in 8 8 P.M 
8 Society of Arts 8 P.M 
tea = II- Royal Botanle 
et that more persons than Id ebe ose 
Kite a are unaware of the curious fact 
it reaches us, eee of the th 
— color, red, yellow, and blue; and that 
each colou er peculiar to itself; 
that the y ie conveys light, the red heat, and the 
cal action. In the absence of the proofs 
oor ‘ke a who have occupied them 
selves with these 2 researches, our country- 
mav, Mr. Hunt, is the one who has more especially 
investigated the r . pervert the different colours 
His views we 
“report of 
oe me gentleman a 
Aei Mont sean that his o 
a * therefore, put them 
Baie following 0 nilar 
Yettow Lien: Loe 3 impedes . 
— 3 es that decomposition of carboni 
oduces wood and woody tissues. Under 
_ itinfluence leaves are small and wood short jointed. 
i Rep Licu e — heat, is favourable to 
rmination of water is present, in- 
2 rin perspiration), supports the 
r A, and improves fruit. nder its 
e colour is diminished, and leaves are 
Bro bise (chemical — or actinism) acce- 
s germination and causes rapid growth. 
; ee me —— weak and long- 
5 mh be pre evente 
ted b 
that high te bei 
use of r 
urposes of vege- 
e, to say ‘Ke? least 
it ldd be as well suited 
BS tha as ae NS: for them 
great Author of the Uni 
1%, uses are necessarily e 
2 
a light ren- 
ree artifici by the oe through 
and — — it is ray a serious 
what kind of for con- 
e 
rimiiive colours ate most entirel 
„however, looks at the ques- 
y, and has suggested 
copp 
: fl a oxide 
= colour 
given | the ise Deere of the rays it 
bstr 
by A 
Ep airh 98 pë obtained by i 
and s 
r 
co cmp about — glass only confirm 
ms to us a far more pr a 
gh clei of hier cause of unhealthy foliage than 
te quan i : 
Boe ru 
os to be re: sinuata that plants in 
3 for studying an 
is of the most delicate emerald green. Viewed 
from within, and at right angles 
iewe 
it appears colourless, 
eci 
when the — — a it at a particular angle it pre 
sents a m us and beautiful appearance, the 
9 7 u that is illuminated glowing like a 
ass of gigantic fiery o 
Me. Hunt appears to have been led to advise the 
use ef this ry e “since the employment of 
n shee 
tinguished — fis 5 fr — ws wir e been 
found that the more del kin ae i 
cannot say that we 
subject. t believe one word about eee 
ase scorching more 1 — crown glass at som 
sheet glass may scorch is likely. enough, though we 
do not happen to have seen — Just as crown i glais 
will sometimes scorch, as every gardener of ex 
rience is aware. But this “cannot, e think, sige 
from the chee being in the one case 125 into flat o 
h any righ Bienes ince, 
sheets, and in the other inte round tables s, even 
although thatë is some trifling convexity in the 
latter. If these kinds of glass are alike in compo- 
sition they w ill, we believe, be alike in their effects 
upon plants, notwithstanding the ee PAR differ- 
ences in their manufacture. If indee 2 are 
not alike in their ‘composition, why in that 
difference i in their action is conceivable. 
t as — eee used in the ordinary construc- 
tio glass, if in the slightest in has the 
rite property hi under the influence of light, 
of imparting a pink tinge; and a bee to his 
views the slightest 55 to W would allow 
is so important to 
Ths we do not deny ; but as a sap a7 used 
in the manufacture of both crown and 8 glas 
we do not see how — glass becomes inferior to 
crown 4g s on that account. 
whole series of statements ope to 
sheet.glans appears to us to ded mis- 
We entertain “little doubt rah the 
een complai of has arisen 
tion: 
ate 8 = a minim n many 
whether not in all) no c eue provision is made | į 
a8 the ahi of the dry and scorching heated air. 
nce arise unexpected accidents, which have been 
ed to the quality of the pies 
-| who call themselves practical, in the a 
ene 
-| cann 
t are current upon this p 
b 
fon, a igh temperature ca aused by ie venti- 
lat In the old c 15 Jipa nes | 
sense of e will much longer allow 3 a 
resting-plac As far as we can discover, the 
only advoca sive of the system of keeping young 
gardeners in ignorance are cettain os ia ye ns 
of any 
claim to the Cosignation of poke nro. sh intelli- 
in an Mey aiai om accident has placed over the heads 
p> 
0 
uch “persons the education of young gar- 
uin: because they will not, perhaps 
oe now make y * study for the time they 
themselves have los But while they demand 
abs 
d 
ng as it lasted, paralysed the 
h gardeners, the bes 
the 
ance m en ach skill i» this country during 
the last 30 years, since the anne of — 
education mov 
We 
oy n 8 
oan witnessed Sa 
the most intelligent of t 
of British ee aih w to sasiad 
in e spate n which is at 
once the 
to 
and eee, of foreigners 
the dificultizs are diminishing year 
2 on year at 
rate, and we confiden 
‘i been a struggle wilk ere — become a trium- 
i= — 
on — Zscuoxke’s German stories“ a per- 
ees rie ne gg ae is always eager for pro- 
Tess, Bae it on ize and discontent 
of one of the heroes of his party. 
Dost thou k SE ee said he, “ what the 
e?. Thou art good 
te ent the fire just 
vo 
for nothing, 0 k. 
y my poor 
when thou oughtes 10 quench, it. 
life, I believe he w 
“ Perfectly right, ‘Sir Knight, ee 2 or 
man ae not under and his wisdom, 
e ha 15 my tne trade 
nothing — ta do in the world th: 
ull.cheeks the divine fire which threatens to ss 
their toys and houses.of cards. They try to 
quench the haly flame of truth; I always 2 
blow blow 
It is that habit of bladre the embers of exertion 
d whi 
—always i of it h produces: the mar- 
ellous effects ober vadis in the condition of the 
or! cl in free countries, w ared 
with the portion of society under repressive 
governments; and which, in raising the hi and 
owly, ever carries higher and higher the great, 
who float on the waves of po rogress. The 
value of IsENHOFER’s counsel is perfectly understood 
n this kingdom, and we advise gardeners to imitate 
his 2 ; to eas = cautiously but 
always — to blow — blow — blow. The’ harmless 
flame so aroused will vo brilliant ‘and steady, and 
will serve to ea the paths through 
whic h ‘they common all men, must pass ere 
t they reach that honour and distinction which is the 
ultimate end of every man’s endeavours 
We asked if Sir Uvepare Price were quite 
correct in every portion of . ee r Ms last 
opening words can 
This 
n glass, or imaginary effect 
lait ot apens and concentrations,” which 
if they e any existence, will occur more in 
crown Tea 5 in sheet. 
th ns a ue times, EA those who 
eerie n Edinburgh, 
rank, of No. 2, Hi m Here 
to be p urchased 
and preserv 
of plants, r for aidin 3 
1 i shows the v 
bran arden education, a 
gar 
a ptt to young English pi eraa which they will ranges 
notn 
ai warehouse 
are 
all sorts of ae and apparatus 
g dried 
speci- 
“youn student in 
alue 
i im 
Tt i is clea ee the North Britons are resolved to 
im. The v 
be reconciled w ith his dee (so 
) of the variety and i cy 
ibited in one single tre ut when he writes 
so strongly, not sr = clumps, which he hated 
but against “all 
ose 
Wi ’ 
uch more 5 in 
pleasure 5 the eye. 
g n the rr eas pur oh 
Fait chasis may be effectively intro- 
pris 
‘struggle ha 
t whi h they enjoy over the Southrons: 
rio jsa al superiori y pak ae 5 ss the English and 
n 
„the 
Ba compound of ye — — oe lamino s, and of 
ö or chemical rays. Whether he . or not. 
rer 8 for the truth of his 
n scale x pris the vast 
17 9 Journal | has informed its readers that BLU 
s TE The editor even goes so far as 10 
i — a sample of glass “ of a decidedly’ 
nthe glass used at Kew.” Oh! 
The glass employed see 
in the national Se the w 
lies in the foresight o the gssai classes. 
arbarous opinions as vee? a gardener should kno 
Sahin but gardening 
Tw 
ain 
w | woods,” Pnier's Wholesale condemnati oti - them 
‘ n sound princi 
= h quite in the distance. 
xist north of thie 
eed: and we shall 2 pie, bab if the good 
me to abuse. 
lighted eo — “large plantations and 
It is 
lantations or woods must be plac 
By the side "of till of run- 
vanslated in a 
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