588 THE 
work he can find for a man to do. ot mean that 
is own vegetables which he now buys 
he should 
atthe market, for that would ve 5 taking with one 
ket, 
hand what is eig 5s with y other. Anp let him inquire distance 
to indulge 
dishowe st gardene 
but the Toney for. this lies i in as own n Bandes. — 
and let him 
your paths, and aig your ground ; and if yo 
succeeds, recommend him to your friends, and make a same day Captain 8 read a paper A ih T generally seu a ud z eaoh s 2 j 
man of him, the 3 section on the position of the chloritie uct expenses of cutti 
While on this topic I bist relate ee occasional prac-| marl or phosphate of lime bed in the Isle of Wight eee ers z 
tice in reference It is RT turn This bed, which — to the upper green em and 5 years, 500 Larch 2s 
vagrants away as . I alike f ie mpostors, or to dole is likely to be of great agricultural importance, was first ee ee of * pruning, eu ae Oa Te 
out to them a a gy which often does Seer by Mr. Paine. upper green sand is At 20 years, 700 Scotch Firs at 4d. each . . 11 13 
more harm than ‘good. w I do not see how od found in great abundance in the Isle of Wight, which Deduct sundry expe — 2 
man. can bah all his. ‘Kindness ‘tor = ho useless led Captain Ibbettson to look for this deposit. The At 25 years, 100 Larches at 12. 4d. £618 4 
wanderer o 0 or. laws h m phate bed is —_— portion of the green 300 Scotch Firs at 8d. w 0 0—16 13 
often n neglect a worthy object in its gigantic operations sand, immediately under the arl, grey Deduct sundry expenses we 
A little conversation and inquiry, which wil e you marl full of gr icles ia — of iron and of 
no poorer at the year’s end, will often convince you | quartzose sand. upper the fossils occur in a RS 222 aer is H 3 0 
that a worthy object is nd among rs. | houldered state; batts the lower there is abundan educt sundry expenses +. 7 # 
My to have some rough work in an 5 Ammonites (A. splendens and varians) and Scaphites s 
= ith 
hearty blessing from a m 
and wish the plan were ane hoieri Glove’ ; T 3. 
BRITISH 1 
FOR THE bt i ENT OF SCIENCE, 
(Dont Leckie bap e 572.) 
On common Sali ns 4 Poison. to Einin by W. B. 
likely to afford al tical 8 8 those in- 
erested i cultivation of plants. In the month of 
Sop three or four small plants in pots were 
wn to the writer, nearly or quite dead; and he was, 
at the same time, in ed that their destruction was 
complete mystery to the party om they ben 
his opinion, 
and that Dr. Lindley had ex 
the examination of a portion of one sent to him, that 
e open air pn 
ein any measure this ot 
| words, at iaa doures of dilution e ‘fee danger er ? 
i lt 
mestie purposes 
n 
n | outcrop of the eee 
eve 4 coun 
xhibited, in a „ 
GARDENERS’ 
ordinary e of the evil was . To place it 
beyond wi a ‘that the water was T ee ne Le ry me 
mischief, 12 healthy Fuchsias wer red fro 
"and divided into two ahad “hall “95 fagene 
water 8 and 
week, 
morning = ev mages with the 
with the si 
m the ‘wall had turned 
the rest 
the other: wa = 
plants whi ch 8. 2 watered f 
brown re ultim 
e 
d witha w salt, it g y accu- 
reg to * Ne to support ve ge te either 
an ing subject of taf is suggested— 
What t is dhs pes as solution of salt whic 
poisonous effect? o 
ortant natural e uch 
spring ae quite oo of ay Talat ‘Moet 
the sea, as in this instance us: water of the 
artesian well, Tra nfalgar-squate 8 Baden, n, contains i in 
each gallon about 20 grains; that at Combe and Dela- 
ehd brewery, 12.7; that t at —— railway 
rrj 
© 
. * 
tation, 6; one lately sunk at 8 for supply- 
“a a pr ivate manufactor , 40. May it not be: asked, 
hether the subject of the suitableness of w 
0 
drinking is not worthy of a greater 
of Lepap attention than it has hitherto com- 
= 
ple 
n good condition, — 
— te of lime. This 
reen sand, on the southern slope 
of the chalk range, which extends from Compton 
pe some parishes 
it also occurs in surrounding the masses of cha 
at St. Katharine’ a uch of the 
d ferruginous sands, 
on — — 5— fhospliate beds might be employed with 
great 2 tage 
In — 
with meteorological 
osed ex- 
of a set of columns for re- 
be cording” observations = — thermometer, barometer, 
hygrom clouds, and tides ; a 
many 
greenhouses (but all in pots), whieh le 
greater or less Bs. thse: the same characteristics. 
ts were be 
Pere 
easily 
und the edge, 
; while the whole plant drooped 
Fir, Cedar, Geranium, Fuchsia e, 
Heath. The sight of this wholesale destruction, 85 
with the kage — the . daily watered from one 
the 
ce, suggest the 
cause of rg bel must reside in the water ; 
and this was accordingly examined. yielded the fol- 
lowing constituents, 1 in each imperial es of 20 
fluid ounces nearly 9: solid matter entirely 
saline, without any organic 4 
Carbonate of lime 0600 
Sulphate of lime 0-462. 
Chloride of ealcium 0˙200 
Chloride of magnesium 1252 
_ Chloride of sodi 6-906 
2 8 
The mould around the plants and an infusion of the 
* also afforded abundant evidence 
ium. Further an 
bl 
the plants 
uniting in the 
work 
to — rs of the Gardeners’ Chro 
them are placed in peculiarly favourable e 
for making observations on the phenom — in aap a 
and we shall sapo A 6 ae their na 
proper quarter, for the rpose 
the pripad tables, g 
(To be continua.) 
THICK 1xd THIN PLANTING or or FOREST TREES. 
Berne anxious t give pi eal information, as far as 
lies in my power, on this subject, I beg of you to insert 
the following a arks, which point out the profits aris- 
Tom 
ane in the way I recommend 
— Many of 
pits 
ts go b 
nea and by making a little — at the offset, 
uch trouble, arising from aeoe, up, is afterwards 
saved ; aroan in a case of thi plant h Firs 
to the aim t of about ee * the vape; which 
agak in En pay the e proprietor well when out at 
ly stage, leaving the Scotch Pines, “hard wood, 
if. there be an any, . till a later ‘period, when 
. e of more use. 
situations of a moderate 
aka tand at 
From about 
served to 3 A but it was s not until nearly the a i 
ol a valuable stoc k had 
“os t any extra- 
al 5 r my . for Planting at this distan e 
plants bei 
— —5 7 ing in 
moderate so Mabie to be destroyed by 
CHRONICLE. 
ch in bag first instance ; 
ion of Natural Hist tory, Dr paisani pe 
0 
of observation. We would commend this 7 w 
to the 
of — cies of i 
0 
arious the dise 
they 
the facts 
exposure, and 
oe a moderately 5 soil I age 3500 young trees n 
them 
stress of weather, Ke., while in — 
and i 
half of the whole Lare 
soil 4 all adapted for th i 
t 10 feet apart, 
the Firs to the desire 
„in gle 
judicious and skilful e instead € 
= hurtful to the who se a plantation, iti 
i verse, an it ta great source of 
e proprietor, and — the whole theta grow 
a healthily. 
In 
illustration of the profits arising from a 
t a moderatel situation, ar 
a moderately good soil, consisting of 500 Oaks 
i the i A gi 
statement, which may be relied upon, and 
actual sales 55 8 by me at different stages 
ning plantati : 
End 
At 2 Ji I thin out 506 e Saas the 
the above statement it “2 be § 
And eee any proprie 
his land, of the same . 
taken ne above statement, an 
that I advise, will, by the time th 
| spe Mr. Brown made some 
answer the queries onthe 
a ah we have yea N 
not coming er to 
. The 
e even tells use ze 
