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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
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very fr fi — one is co onnected with the Behn 
ust (Uredo W which seems to have been 
senit vely co and destructive 
places this year. 1 01 the latter, we have tats 
gardener o HT: Horx. Esq. „of the 
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affected in the same way. 
are quite black and dead; 
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is caused. If it is assumed t d 
morbid U pa which the mildew ra * are 
n that case tke disease of the 
oce n which 
we of the gle of these parasites can be eue 
an 
most experienced observer. 
is by 
the view that we have taken of the subject. 
We must not let pass eee = record the fact 
that the VIS ERIES at pie — to 
produce 9 rapes. 
is place is near Pembroke, i 5 the aer e of A 
Lewis Go ok and er is Mr. 
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unches received from * having wei 
3 re respectively 3 lbs. 8 oz., 3 3 ibs. 9 oz., 2 =a 
4 lbs. 2 after z ton se land j journey, in ä they 
had necessarily lo rt of their weight. must 
at they w ae ‘yeantifully — dar e 
cloned nel Set flavour all that the most fastidi as 
keea particularly draw attention to the 
fact that 3 5 a 
* This was fully described and 
eur volume for 1847, p. 779, Ander ibe name of 
thea 
Oidium Tuckeri 
been pointed out, a circumstance to which we had not adve 
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BRITISH ASSOCIATION 
ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 
Tue eighteenth annual mee 
first tim 
to the 
amply 1 = give 
the ations of the 
re to furn ene ee rate reports 
the Gardeners’ Chronic 
At the meeting of os onde section, on Thursday, 
Mr. R. Hunt furnished the report 
n if it be possible t w plants 
ore bighl y charged with carbonic acid than 
is natural at the present day, i in order to throw light on 
th 
eeting of this body was 1 
as | ea 
ing the that i 
ag the anticipated 
had not taken | m 
and Flor: 
to both the s zoologist and | p 
f deeper in the a 
tak ish. 
of all the proceedings * to interest the readers of lon 
an | at the top, to 
: acid in the atmosphere dur eet the existence of the coal 
orests. Two 
sets of exper being conducted, 
one by Dr. Drabet ny, a Oxford, the other by Mr. Hun “ 
n London. In the conduct of these experiments, Fer 
are the plants employe ne set of them is grown 
ins : oa with carbonic acid, whilst oa set is grown 
r. Hunt stated th 
| mous plants an 
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in the next place that the action of other g 
hould 
; | through o medium 
the acutes 
This would lead to the inference that the soft — li 
no so tether r general seul than that ths plants by being 
grad nured 2 the agency of the carbonic acid, can 
be mad a gre mee = ae, — when a a larg e 
? per centage is given them to se 
oes Dr. Paea at a saree: i piii and also in the 
lained the natur e of the 
per cent. of car 
acid in the atmosphere bild plants, but they bore ‘10 
per cent. very w 
In the discussions w which followed the reading of these 
communications i suggested, in the first place, that 
experiments ‘should be extended to a 2 
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hel tried. De fi 
nic acid on plants 
of its dissolvi mabe wer, introducing 
stituents which Peg wise sir not enter 
tissue 
ies on vegetation. 
bea probable that th 
+ animals were enabled to deposit ae agree 
of carbonate 7 lime was ing 
frst. poke up by 8 = m 8 
e was de ral animals at the 
e that the great 3 of the coal period 
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(To be continued.) 
ON THE oo OF MEN AND PLANTS. 
se 
Y MARTIN DOYLE, 
A — 2 of thought has bee 
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health and 3 and lose their — area 
or produce but a feeble and degenerate progeny. 
In our — cities and towns there are eee s 
e hu man creatures more damh cooped togethe ther 
generally are, 
the w 
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a 
e bend in wh hick n: various weed t 
n just passing through | and li 
my mind reg: me of the soeia subsisting | air 
between the higher orders of anima vegetables. 
: a air, aliment, freedom of space, m pron eul- 
here these are deficient, both d 
lbs. 
w to state that ae cha 
m Mr. Gow 
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rted. 
mbers; to who 52 no breeze brings health, no > gaie 
f the garden, or of the flower lad 
idst such impurities, grow 
n are not dis- 
timbrel and the harp ;’ th 
ess they = “ full of heaviness.” In 
umberless ane we see our Se eae — 
by “man’s inhumanity Se man,” or 
the condition of his distressed —.— ‘through de- ae. 
ion of spi si — an natural 
and misery—to untimely death. 
consequences o 2 
The R 
tropical principle is not — 
mber 
industry with which 
eir rena an eye 
if it be cheer in 
scale might have the power of rising too, 
the 8 which would send them in 
pg moe 
hat fine specimens of live vs are produced 
our — hows —from the es 0 . i js 
to the gro rora ate the Sos i 
the cottager, at m of the 12815 the skill ang 
ae ge of the satis i ! the 
orld what has there not been 
actes variety of use 
of those that are m 
aces ucted, we 
creatures in hovdi huddled together promiscuoulys | 
without any due che e 
to the nature of man, and vib- 
oals reoni 
na 1 
ss ig hs llor 8 7 me rgyman 
2 ollow the g e 
with his life erilled at every breath he 
down into — r dens, lying von 
riage wheel daily tread upo 
ene and up u 
the Y alight seat a 
daily delicacy living in the ext 
3 8, ci do 5 believe it? 
simple plant or flower, or 
this foetid bed, — ＋ have its natural growth 
o the sun as 
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oe 
them 
striving for — ry in n th 
em air, , fr esh soil, eE 
phi 
but y of egri ngs w 
need to be — atin ‘froin Bows — and life- 
destroying een vastly ex the number of in- 
dividuals who are both able iad willing to place them 
in better eireumstances 
When we contrast the expensive outlay and untiring 
fix themselves anew 3 
modate th 
more, it will not 
will be soon rivalled an 
