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TURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.— pose, filling the air with , that those istriets in which the a mosphere was 
eran ven, that the EXHIBITIONS OF | poisonous particles which, inhaled into the system, | most char 1 Wank 
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pLOWERS take place on nog — a ays, viz.: SATUR- $ A s 
bax, June 10; and WEDNESD: aT, July 12; | predispose the system to the action of other poisons, | demic. 
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TY.—Under the Patronage of her most Gracious us state ot the | their causes in order we may awaken the atten- 
R 2 QUEEN. . Eshi bitions A the shore. Backers, ir atmosphere not only its tself acts N on the tion of all classes of our readers to the subject. W 
will take placo a5 o9 oh Apehcanh asho Revel: MENY pec Ba 2 its influence, but is the most are convinced that neither proprietors of = 
sen, erden eltectual means of conveying the poisons of decom- nor eren 3 are 3 eful of 
Zoological —— eh dune, posing organic matters and contagious diseases into the source disease which we have men — 1 
TuEsDAY, 18th July, a the animal body. Even where the general Ar | If this — meet d eye of a 7 owner who 
— DNESDAY, m ene 83 of a district is good there may be spots which are is conscious of allowing his men to work, and, which 
„be e of he iro ef mach, wore, dep, nit the cate a 
of attendi ower Shows, Lectures, and Meetings c isease re we entreal Im 
Fes society, of eshte — "Prince ra ae 3 „. gardens the health of the plants demands — not to meg — day 18 date without remedy- 
po PS to have for friends at each to the drainage, but that which is carefully pro- ing “rn 
entry, Show, Lecture, or Meeting. 3 for oe of a is * often denied tothe Hum nit sity and Supe uct are alike interested 
NALL begs to inform his friends | gardener himself. Some of the men whose daily | in the woo lag To a man knowingly by the 
S ‘sad te Public generally, that his 8 STOVE | occupation it is to secure the conditions of health in poison of malaria is in no degree different from 
e 3 . forwarded plants, are deprived of the possibility of such condi- | killing by the poison of cr se and it will be 
and Se.-Grantchester Nursery, Cambridge, March 25, | tions for themselves. They are frequently compelled | impossible for any one t o plead hereafter i 
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i NS of the TRUE “ ASHMEAD'S KERNEL” to take up their residence in sheds and outhouses, | of the nature of malaria afier the full and conclusive 
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Kingdom, on receipt of 3s. 0d. worth of postage stamps.| of decomposing vegetable matter, whilst the de-| vinced, however, that the continued presence of the 
delicious ‘Apple “unquestionably ought to be in every | ficient drainage and ventilation of the places where | sources of fatal disease connected with the wretched 
pedals ueetee, Kingsholm Nursery, Gloucester. they 1 charge = recta arr with a moisture por ikae . A s owing to inhumanity 
—— ia that makes it a ready vehicle o 3 matter. on the part of landlords; rit merely arises from an 
Huw- SE —.— eee, 1 The diseases thu produced m e known by the neee with the terrible eee. in- 
4 eei: Globosa, with a pink —— and sepals, name of fev These Wars dane 50,000 separable from it. And we confidently hope tha 
crimson and would form a singular 6 persons annually i in this country, a population as in a few months it will be as difficult to fin young 
to any collection. August, 1947, p: 50, For description ses great as that of some of our ‘age ies. Them ajority gardeners dn ae rer or worse places, as it 
Seavert |e Sere ene [es co ap oho mye iee 
to these diseases all this - 
and e re able causes. It must not be peta pe he coe he RE are few books 5 bag more amuse- 
or at Stuart’s Grove Nursery, Fulham-road, Chelse these Grow: exist amo ag the population generally, | ™ nt from their perusal than Sin W. Cuampens’s 
yor mal ga kept in sealed pa acka es, are well ‘ada y post: for | that the ey must necessarily also exist in gardens. Dissertation on Orien nta] Gardening, and the amuse- 
y Annuals d. |The fact is they are all depende 5 on removable | ment is made up of various elements. At first sight 
pice ” mee Fs causes, or causes that iieis: so small an amount | the English artist would regard the Chinese oral 
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„ Choice „ i 5 of individual and combined exertion for their re- dener with the spirit of despairing envy—as a m 
” 0 » » E a moval, that it is astonishing they should exist at all | 9f 2 utterly unapproachable. For we are 
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Choice - ** The larger proportion of the fevers of this country, 9 ving the e e ields to few other arts what- 
100 Wooden Labels for Annuals ..  ». including ague, and to these some medical writers ever t their gardeners are not only botanists, but 
MERICAN TREE AND SHRUB SEEDS, just add rheumatism, are dependent on decomposing | also Painters and P. 125 pher ry having a thorough 
: strong healthy plauts of Sarracenia vegetable matter, Although the particular form knowledge of the — mind, and of the arts by 
on, 3 H eie the: eléments ot plants assume in order to | Which its e ee feelings are excited. It is not 
which i ħed, and can be had on applicat produce disease has escaped detection, there can be |! n China, as in Italy and France, where every petty 
es sles, to . 0 Lietė; — ng all i the most aP- no doubt of the fact. The evidence. collected by irekita ct is a gardener ; ‘either is it as in another 
e ether wi se uite new ricuitura. s 
OR Tarip S, Grasses, Clovers, Mangold Wurzels, | medical writers on this 1 is of the most exten- 2 country Bebe a epg va we 
ch prices can be ha i isl — groun sto ta m 
DIAN | xeon 7 * cy rae e varieties for sowing in sive and convincing Ki kin ET ee pan e this a These last nerd are intended to convey 
‘AT pls English, , German, = Am rea antity Pages of the history of disease more interesting than | & very facetious om Ae Fee A phe principle ore 
ve, or estimates for any given h hich detail the laws which regulate the ope- P r r a hese 
of land, immediately attended to, by G č | hapa yt 8 P f 
— ately attended i, eben, ration of this subtle agent on the human frame. In W wonderful professors? „The Ch d thet gardeners * 
Ti the dinak forests of Aie aA produces th arrr * for . e et t ar aa ser 
¢ 1 fevers known by the name of jungle fever. In imitate all her eautiful irr : 
he Gardeners Chronicle. the West Indian islands, America, and other parts admirable 3 , if carried out But alas 
; SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1848. of the world, it produces yellow ane In the for hum These roe ht a 2 Wen a 
p EETINGS FOR THE TWO FOLLOWING WEEKS. borders of the Mediterranean, in many parts —— be slaves t to "the rr i wae 1 in ‘dienes sof 
Moroes, “Apri * x of Eu ope it causes the well-known 7 and he pa are e ee a x pare Pete: ae m 
4f Horti bilious In our own country the continued the patron by whom they are employe 
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—— of so large a mortality, are due to the same cause. business, and mann 0 2 1 
Turn are no 8 of the community that are The only conditions which are necessary to ren- gardening! There push a a yon "he er ani 
aot interested in Sanrrary Rerorm. It will not, der even a small amount of vegetable matter capable | the youth comes to middle 2 al PaA pet 
aa. be a ias of surprise if we refer to the of exerting its destructive influence on the system, be metamorphosed into a middle-age em y 
second of the Metropolitan Sanitary Com- are a certain amount of a i fer moisture. Hence pont the m aoe s 
sion. Few persons could read it without feeling | in our own country we find fevers prevail most fet” 
that they —— ‘int interested in its ing during the s rad and autumn mo sie! The | the snlty garden — os ge : rar a — 
few and we refer to it for the sake of saying a Sapo of the temperature in pt tas mits de- there must be a garden sty hex’ Wr 185 y 
more anxious to do this be er ; 
ftom experience that, unless they are aware of the a age i —— ut the winter, as we have the grocer, the "i 4 the ee 
many sources of disease and short life to which they during the last four months, then we find these the temperance ae dh bes ee ee 
oe and exert themselves individually for . poisons as active as ever. In the autumn three e yt man. Y 1 wife e ps uin iv "E 
removal, little will be done for their relief. the cause of the disease is 2 to the increase of may W at e Is Chinese 4 
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eee. e in . Report | moisture in the atmosphere, but in wet summers | Ut Lo ne sgn ae k buil * £ capa- 
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à been visited by an epidemic which has been far| The way in which malaria acts upon the system = logic 1 5 which the artists 
— — of human life than Asiatic pity seems to be analogous to the way whee, f ie 8 : = : 
un prevailed in the same districts. On an ex- | ferments act on vegetable compounds. e Á 4 Nature produc 
‘nation of the registry of deaths which is now add yeast or decomposing vegetable matter to diamond set in lead. . N ar, gery’ 
. with so much care, it was found that | sugar, it communicates to the sugar the same state nothing either boiled, roasted, or stewed: and ye 
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| . en, how it is that imperfect er shite Body; Witch He call fever. ance e be exclu uded from gard oh t- PoE 
1 aii to give both intensity and fatality to dis Now this malaria, which requires heat and water | 50 good: it ache B Tison. “The scen 
ear we use the word disease generally, fof in the "vegetable 1 itself to develope its detri- go on to o RR 
to the , disease but many that have contributed mental properties, uch more readily diffused h doth from a prose r 
‘fever, i ate mortality. Typhus, small-pox, scarlet | where, in addition, the ö itself is charged | as an Rg a 
influenza, ha i pees p mourn- with moisture. A damp a we may be the | garde and even fly beyond the truth 
eath. It appears, then, that deficient | result of meteorological causes, over which man has | 1™ iti sary to A embellish— 
acts in two ways. First, by allowing | no control; but it appears very evident, foci the | wherever it Is bee Wd novelty: to their. enger 
and vegetable matters, more especially the | report of the Metropolitan Sanitary Commission, to 1 
elation: and 
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