316 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
ever, that we have come at t will proceed to refute the misrepresentation by . inches deep. The house is 
— e ay a des rti — He w ished to 1 which the latter are sought to be — ae aged. a ae cen — returns in 
the maxim that an eee man has no busin *] believe it is generally known that the fluid I Ae > — 18 — an 8 req 
to ns landscape garden e for the purpose of destroying the sulphuretted ae: a * shaken prety: Me hrer 
It is true that this indefensible sort of bo ok- hydrogen a and other deleterious gases, and prevent- |) +4 mp fn opon i 
ia is not repeated in edition of Price.|ing the escape of the ammonia and other volatile fourth Aer — wioderately d 
The poem is not foisted in Rene: But, as we have | elements of hada, T in igre tsoil, &c., consists 
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already shown, Jerrery is in this case made to do of a salt of iron. But it t equally well known, —— is collected for a 
service conjointly with ALIsox in yielding matter | except among chemis ists ps, ‘scientific men, that iron 
for this essay. If the editor had simply reprinted forms an exception to all other metallic salts—that 
the text of Price, with foot-note references to the | it is, indeed, the only metallic salt friendly to m an 
page and edition, in each instance, o other authors | Such, hast Aa is the indisputable fact. Iron is |W 
who have treated on the same iets, he would | found in Wheat, and in trees and plants peou : 
have done a useful thing. As it is, we have only | and iro flows i in our veins. It is found, too, the 
a glaring example of a classical author spoiled, aun most approved animal manures—in th got dds 
by the very process of disfigurement, ren ndere less goats, and cattle. Iron, therefore, being found in 
is gO to the mass of those who would desire to ae. 8 of plants, in plants themselves, and in the 
read him blood of those by whom such plants are eaten, it is 
P iy opposed to all evidence a contend that | and 
In the month November of pact year, ax —— d iron is injurious to vegetation. t even if = 
attention to some experiments had w eee fact had been otherwise —if iron were pernicious 
wit Ts reheat DN Fiu and to vegetation—none but ignorant or interested par- c ‘ rer e n 8 
we unhesitatingly declared that as far $ the | ties would contend that any injury could arise from T stieni ee Shep ion a Aar ws egg 
suppression of easant smell from night-soil | manures deodorise yit; inasmuch as the iron displa Ar — 5 — holga whick, e were 
and decomposing animal and vegetable matters | contained in the deodorising fluid becomes decom- w 8 inches apart. The be 1 55 8 wees | 
went, it was decidedly the most powerful agent we posed by the sulphuretted hy drogen it overcomes, night from the time of spawning, and à gene nerall | 
had seen employed. t that time we expressed an and the most minute chemical tests fail to discover produce Mushrooms abou ni ; 
opinion, that although this and other agents have | any trace af — in the matter upon which it has dis- making. They will ey 3 
the power of decomposing the gases that po charged its state from two to three months, it — e E 
an offensive odour, there was no eviden _ Now we think that Mr. ELLERMAN, in endeavour-| The temperature I generally aim at maintaining is ) 
prove either that these gases were snfebtions; 85 ing to “ refute the misrepresentations ” of others lias | from 50° to 55°, varying it a few degrees. a ; 
that such fluids could destroy infection, and conse- | himself unwittingly fallen into errors with regard to — to the state en f the beds, E the quantity: 
quently that the term “ disinfecting ” was wrongly | the uses and action of iron, as well as its value as a | Mus ie ms mee 3 on — I have a large | 
applied to such agents. e also stated that, | manure, which we ought not to pass unnoticed. cage he 5 and 1 . r sean ae | 
hough we had had abundant evidence of the | We do not observe that our own objection to iron Seer otha beds, But Shodld i, 
i power r. Exrenman’s fluid, it still | has occurred to Mr. Exterman, but he w 2 rx oe) by bearing, I raise the temperature, to bring ia the 
remained to be proved whether night-soil and see that if the iron be presented to the p — made bed, taking care, however, tis W i 
other stbelagese be treated 8 be t beneficially an insoluble state, it can be of no use to it, for | tempera — an inereased supply of water Pipes 
as manures. Our on for this remark was that | plants will not take up insoluble substances. | He is | which I always apply 3 in a tepid state 2 
we suspected the fluid i in 800 ee iron, | undoubtedly right when he asserts that iron is found | beds are dry on the surface. Phi 
and one of the ill ee of the use of iron | in W eat, and in trees and plants generally, and that | The six beds (of which mention has been 
a deodorising agent 1 t it combines with it exists in h lood, but the amount that is made) that produced a daily supply for 12 
phosphoric acid, forming an insolubl Now it | found in plants is exceedingly small, and the quan- pie 9 . t orte 1etio | 
is well known that one of ost important con- tity of this substance in soils is naturally so abundant | an 2 — n eh BE 
stituents of our artificial manures is phosphorus, R that there is seldom occasion to have recourse to „%, Shelf, October 1846 3 
unless this substance is introduced to the plant in a | an . meme supply. It is the same in the human > 3, Floor, — 1617 ae 
solubie form, it is not taken up by the pimba Hens à y: A a 125 — * 80 ea GEAN 5 th 5 5, Floor, Mar March j raen 9 
arations o iron as forms of 100 e es ar ul n open 
ae Re 9 e in Which it is introduced into the body under the | —James Pringle, gr. to C. Turnor, Esq. Lee 
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remarks were made in Nov suber; Mr. | direction of the physician. Neither is it correct to| [The above has been in possession for some 
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18, Ante, T fertilising fluid” We cannot | quantities; and in the form of some salts iron may 9 icle te sent, making 
a “object to this vac on the grounds we have | become as poisonous sto vegetables as other mineral | ¥ eee ee a 8 
before stated. That the fluid is “deodorising ” we | § substances. Both arsenic and copper — e been wn 
admit; but that it à is. 60 2 nfecting” we think is found in small iiliótiticė in plants, and also in the PRACTICAL HUNTS FOR AMATEURS = 
doubtful. Nor do any additional odeng human body, but we know that these morals act — RD: . 
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d to th fertilisin: ency of this must confess we do not understand. If he means | desire that nothing should be negl 
fluid, and aa although ae ‘have been gb Tihai t ex- | to say that the iron in his fluid is itself decomposed taxes his strength and ce too 
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ters cs Bere with ee may be fou act | and that if his fuid contains i iron, it will as assuredly Aan wi ee gardening 80 f the 
as powe ures, but as yet we 89 75 it no | be found in the substance o which it ven added as eye and ear, and to revel in those rural sights an 
report 3 deta! ae thet et woul lead us to withdraw our ve it sinks in water, or lates by hea sounds which at this season Nature so prodigally i 
doubts e ing the highly important question of appears to us, then, that Mr. — N has : ssion, aud 
agree ge arron — — c acid in such a state filed t etn er the grea 5 objection to iron as a carried on sake, irrespective of the e. 
n be used gi plant. e, which is not that it is itself injurious, but should contemplate. The end is, that we 2 
We me uld — alluded to this subject that i it renders insoluble, and consequently useless, | our senses and our i powers Wa ca 
merely on 8 of the name which the patentee | the phosphoric acid, nn of the most important | produced, that we may be at the eae 
fas chosen to give to his fluid, for he alone would | constituents of anim mal manures. for the past and Te i 
the N should it be found not to realise the} While we are speaking of the Patent —— i ie a e da ay 15. fogs pig 
expectations raised by his description of its proper- | Fluid, there is another ae which occurs to us, he soren snag me e Eb 
ties; but we have received a letter fro and that is its price. . a in November — — ho 3 g Tartarian 
Exrermay, which, we think. . our attention. its price would not exce ten 8. * i 
r. ELLERMAN states that our notice of his fluid | find now sold at Is. 6d. per Meier a; Whether ; 
and letter to Lord Morrera on Sanatory Reform, | this price will admit of its extensive use, should it 
have caused several of our agricultural readers to | not prove injurious to manures, remains to be seen. 
address him, stating that “ endeavours are made to — A A 
persuade them that wr night-soil and other * THE CULTIVATION OF MUSHROOMS. 
deodorised manures must prove injurious to vege- HE demand in pies ae or a regular supply of | c 
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ould remark on this that, they are w 8 fapad rs ba able 10 e them whenever | nu 
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course, such an objection can only apply to those branch of gardening, I shall jasa to give prem 
A ree g my method, by which I 8 been enabled t N be forgo 
ontain no iron | supply a dish of Mush iroomsyeither in the button state i uggested 
3 most of the aah constituent or full grows, daily since the 12th November, 1846, to | feel proud of its power to moul 
more objectionable than E we believe. But | the present time, and with every prospect of continuance | beauties, and the plansing rays will s 
2 as long as pe er Lueng is paid to the beds. The for befo: as 3 dy to labour a 
* find that parties making these endeavours supply from tlie 12 ovember, 1846, to the 12th | rating a se 
gt ‘erence. to be | % Bicker, 1847, was the produce of six beds, five The 2 eto hours of the ete enjoyi 
given to manures offered by themselves. But, in the Mushroom house, and one for summer use in an gard — e * 
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offensive and inodorous man pis eA The Mushroom house at Stoke Rochford is more re- 
Sethe oni Ba whee i between manures, markable for a N and economy of ponte 
n e measurement 
RET E ; ¢ 14 feet 6 ins., width 10 fee and ht 8 feet with m 
and rees of injur r other hand, from which the | path in the centre 3 es eet wide eh 3 feet 6 ins. on | 
3 injury to o human life are removed, whilst cash Se See hada, of h there are two on the floor | 
volatile essen fertility are presery ed—I n moveable front boards ! and 
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