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à 78 SEEDLING PELARGON! LUMS. wares of dealing in vague and, to those who had Indian Ocean, in — — dn 
T T. Tina Far bove may | — uch houses, unintelligible ‘allegati tions. Thus, almost every part of the Continent cs aly So 
e Gata ET isti, Postage S for instance, — Laxspowwr's very intelligent thence it may be said to extend into Persia and Asia 
PickINsONS i ITALIAN RYE GRASS SEED is | mony against sheet glass was among the first that including the islands of the Mediterranean, whence 
m this year ie; net 2e 7, Carzone was published (see p. 558 of 1847), destroyed the our English ebe received their earliest 
Bees, May-fai, Laden. 3 value of his communication by connecting it with su mp lies of Cotto 
: is ‘ of di * these Limits, extending ftom the Equator 
erent colours and Mr. Hunt's ingenious 8 to 40° of latitude, we know that there are consider- 
The ber Chronicle. lations, Had any one taken the same course as was able diversities of climate ; but the summer tem- 
SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1848. taken by Mr. Mircue te, measuring the dittehenee | a of many of these localities does not differ 
WY Wins in 2 e the luminous spaces which so much as might be expected from their 1 
2 — — os 8 Paw formed upon his — and the ordinary tempera "| The temperature of tropi 
xrar Snows, Thursday, , August 24: Great West of Bagiand Dahli: ture of the house, he would have — a great modified by the greater moisture, while that f the 
ee ati ak E ice upon gar — But the mere allegation interior of continents, ev hA in high Ja 5 ei is in- 
_| that sheet glass burns plants only serve to pro- creased by the greater clearness of sky, is 
De ile h! pata 3 3 duce a host of testimony to the contrary, the truth dependent on the comparative absence of moisture. 
> leet f they will now favour him with their Of which we knew from our own observation, and | This cause tends to increase even the cold of winter, 
Society i c vamable. thus res the settlement of the question; move from the more free radiation which takes at 
communicatio y as possi specially when the alleged mischief was assigned mn in a cloudless atm re. Hvmpotvt has 
ALrnovon the examination that we have lately to the mater * gi which the pis st 2 remarked that t, Gossypium barbadense, hirsutum, 
made of Sueer Geass has led us to discover unsus- | instead of “ . N was m F to as 8 i and religiosum hav have = , 0° 
fault l t ts manufacture, which | are surprized to ma at one of our fires | ents | to A where the annual mean tem- 
3 iy ‘lini situs — —— ess for e ee is even now unable to perceive this distinction. perature i s from. 7 to Fi ie that G. herbaceum 
i is successfu d cultivated in the t rate zone, 
p — won Sas gy akn ins Soe «eg g ~ ew Amone the ere p R oe — 4 where, with a mean summer 827 of 5 75°, that 
in all — a perfect material. We long thought 2 to — Porar of winter is sige less than 46° 
$0 too : — examined sheet glass houses again and | formerly seen much fower e, “When the} In taking, perenne a general survey of the locali- 
5 that the Ditin — — kii out of the ground th ey appear | ties 3 Cotton chi efly cultiy vated, we cannot 
PE ag as if — — A — of mmouldinees, of the same | but. observe that roe of 2 are in i „ an 
i i clear white glittering aspect as is observed on the | others in the vicinity of the sea. This is certain] 
with r oof of ctown glass, wee realy Gaited RY — attacked by Botrytis ryte! magnified | the case with the ha big vii the finest IFEA 
t eaps resemble masses of starch-grains pro- are Th and returns per acre 
hi 3 9 1 py py viene the trudeg through the skin, which is split into N i obtained. It bas RA 23 aa stated that the 
a th y ng stars in 3 to make way for 2 gl 2 ub- | beneficial eech, of i i 
mitted to the —4 oscope these heaps are found to the presence of salt in the soil, or 
eee se ee are —— 3 5 oblong cells, cohering very loosely, and | up in the spray, which is — s a winds into 
sae o — resenting their natural brilliant whiteness ; they the interior. Dr. Une per long — 
mot cont i * 8 
3 * e e = — u trace of starch, = rapidly become brown | the chemical anal ool throws cont 
ginra ae — de e * ag under the action of iodine, whence it is to be in- siderable light 28 the predifection of the Cotton 
peee ber anahe HE which the ‘roof is itched, farted that they are lined with some azotised plant for the neighbourhood of the sea, as this 
pike A Me distance ie this pfants “fom tie glass matter, Exposed to light and air the cells slowly supplies plentifully the saline substances requi- 
15 for instance the root fies su A in sents i 85 acquire the cinnamon colour be to the tissue of site to the t development and constitution 
s aim thoes ‘ddl er 1 aes y Er RA evalent ait Oe Be i Put ly * and that a 9 1 K ioa 
en washe out, leaving pits that the compost or manure bes or Co 
ote day eliet — * * b dae, rs —— ks | behind, of the re of th those formed mg ne scab, or plantations OS ONE 2utro-saline sia Gh 
rae pa * p a — the Tubercinia scabie alkaline, caleareous, and magnesian 
the presence of magnesia deserves notice, as sit indi- 
cates marine food. But with respect to the absence 
of soda salts from the ashes of es, 
“ Here, as in — other examples, the vegetative 
powers of the imi 
satisfactory. 22 
What we have been anxious to ilin is a "that 
pi the way in Shiel it is made, sheet glass must 
us concavities and con- 
found salts wi soda iinit 1 
salts in the ashes 1 — a Kos STER, in his 
m “Tra vels in i the contrary, that 
‘the districts which are aprte e ed to Teh the 
ie adapted for the growth of Cotton, are far re- 
ed 
— ay. 
be, have the power of concentrating the rays of| We are not at present prepared t: speculate 1 
rom the sea- coast, . 2 — 
light enough to burn the leaves of plants, The | the eanse of these singular appearances, but as 5 
ess of splitting and flattening cylinders whose are, we believe, eee — — Potato i in a healthy 
exterior circumference is I of an — — 8 than state they deserve to be recorded; for their pro- 
cause such irregularities to occur, | ducti Sie ‘ti have : to be erat fi ge eed PS al. Mihi 
with whatever degree of care the atten is con- rational theory of the first cause of the Potato . > rin s 
duc 60 Piet were simply irregular or 9 —— toposed. So a 501 must the other . 2 oa ruse x 
wavy, or uneven, its thickness being uniform, this | fact ite advarte to, that all Potatoes having a) hich becomes ee hard ba 4 Tone itte 
concentration would not take place; but its thick- | tendency to rot under the — of this ma without um. wnr A t 0 donde ve dern 
ness is so variable, from the effects of “cockling”| rapidly become cinnamon coloured when exposed : , , 8 
that it may be compared to a layer of meniscus | to air 
used together ; sens I eee 4 th d Š best ited to th 
from their — size and the small difference be- . I. enquiring into ut g 8 E 
of: hiner aed ae came | CULTIVATION oF must remember that we i to : 
will — 7 * foci. It is said indeed that the have to pay attention — pige to ‘tar air, but also barbadense, A) sometimes, but more rarely, the G. 
effect orb a E Wbaerved fay Beyond thie'focuni| to the —— Which may be considered in some | herbaceum, L. es very well, not 
* ible | Pasa ali Joe this i$ a respects as forming two inet atmospheres; the furnish such durable materials as that i n the higher 
mistake, as I will aad Ae by watching the. ome uniform in quantity and in the proportion of its | and drier 7 — of Minos whee 2 
1 3 forined Are 1 y beneath ** ingredients, but ever varying in temperature; While] Vieinity to the sea has, however, other peculiari- 
1 on leaves beneath sheet the vapour Varies not only in this respect, but in the ties besides the facility of abe eg eatine ingredients 
glass in a bright sun. to the soil or to the atmosphere. my icipates to 
The off nete of patent rough plate will be to diffuse quantity in Which it i z pgi and also ïn its point Mtii gegen inr Aes voenl yop 3 
of deposition, when al t becomes perceptible as 4 ge 
concentrating it. and for this reaso li Ae t iety climate; that is, in greater beiter rand 
seems likely to — most useful to o gardeners. ‘its moisture. Cotton i 2 op iva not o - pect < si | tute ; than is found in places further in the i 5 2 N 
— aos Teer ie chou espable of 2 oonsidesble diversities df and in r 
arise, it Will be if se fie 2 denan — —.— climate. Thus 1 aliwyial lands of the Missis- the usually alternating land and sea breezes : 
apa the ven In a few months we shail be able Á 8 e i — 2 
report the result of the experiment we have in ; alt A the — . f large — of water, thie it 
progress oe ss ae — She utr of diately deposit om the coast; unless this -isi A hacked 
TRR ills, beċause it 
natura e 
ual e a f 1 is cultivated | by the heated land, —— Te taking * 
rts of Mexico, and much is cultivated by the h 
proached with publishing * fact now that we d : i f i * nd of Brazil. Hum- li ttle more moisture. But as it But as it does Teac 
— it exists. So : we ok iations. thon” = moist 8 4 Guiana and o ill. 
- y 1 ey r: * 
ge their errors, or Equinoctial Andes, and at 5500 feet in Mexico. But checks than favours excessive evaporation, and thus 
1 * vo — = — Eqninoctial An species may perhaps be included, as 8 force the foliage e: exposed to K ae 
pe renee Saale common lot of all "We Cotton i is — ur page South Ame- is necessarily the case — ever a dry current of air 
gue EK that this matter would have rica. In the Old World we find Cotton growing in | passes over the surface of leaves. ol 
who possessed | the smtevion-heth-of Africa and of India, where there „ we must ascribe 
s 1 A . 2 2 ege 
* er a 1 ü 
< We should state that 8 be had of he aid of and coasts. With wi te — o Rovte has 
in every glazier Port Natal but in pte former only by the aid o „ ; 
Been Messo Hanus R ungern. It is produced in various islands of the [observed ee 
