620 THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
Committee appointed by the Literary and Philo- 
sophical Society of Manchester, to inquire into oT 
0 
disease, and t 
in sulphuric acid, or 
parts of water, and found t 
Potato so treated had not p 
read the paper from which the preceding extracts are 
e iude q or 
peri eA compe stent partie 
t has been 
‘most eee 
Fin 
letter in the Royal a er Gazette, from which 
the e e are extr 
n the — I: ave ascertained, by extensive 
as w ee wie fia amination, that the tubers 
more or less rom fe when allowe remain in 
nature of the soil (whether, | w 
dry), an 
e earth ; since the geane they are to 
Pogo eir the 
y do they are 
Whilst, een there is ee danger in allow. 
remain 
| least two distinct materials, besides a ee propor- 
r, gu 
- | lead, rose pink, re le ea 
; ochre, and ora 
n 
s | expe riment, exce 
tried ihe results have been! Y A 
ally, the Rev. Mr. Canlxox has published a — 
percha 
it ad = Poop its qualities. 
only osm that could T akopiki 
»ge chr om th e s e of 
heat and pressure, g 3 ‘percha would spre sh 5 
certain extent, and m so if mixed with foreign 
the —— a of gutta percha 
nd other —— whie 
t t 
P 
found to increase its power of con 
its pure stat 
by 
After giving an ac 
sh cha for ma —— ure, the paper next explained a 
ariety of articles already made of it, which e 01 
ree classes: 1, eee e 2. Ornamental; a 
ntal combined. W rious cant 
two tay handsome 
rcha, which were quit 
calling attention by them 
ich was accomplished by t the insertion 
ing blown, sounded at the —.— end quite 
shrilly. tention having been thus ob 
tie his le, and w simply whispering, the voice 
veyed quite audibly for a distance of at 
least res a — of . e, and a conver Bense . 
u i telegraph of gutta percha 
k marine 
t| was ee exhibited, akii, Goer of a tube perfo- 
tatoes are 
ink unn v5 u 
be 8 and, when er deposited on arches over 
which fres esh slaked Pct mixed with an equal quantity 
of has b tre 
5 een strewn. yer upon layer of 
Potatoes, . to the depth of 10 or 12 inches, having the 
lim ixed among the thus be 
stored in safety; only I recommend, for greater security, 
that the heaps, after a few weeks, be turned over and 
A with a renewed supply of lime and e 
In y we procee year with a portion of 
our Potatoes ; the labour was trifling, and the Potatoes 
r ed sound to the last. It is proper, however, to 
add that the lime appeared to impa culinary 
otatoes, so them less 
Pota s and 
* 
might be equally well saved by storing them in the 
rocured burning 
of ee of which — 
an 
sen 
Posing layers I 
and have ade idee lime or 
f 
addition ; care o keep one 
layer of Potatoes from 
whether 
coming in 
layers of straw, or by lime or 
_ BRITISH ASSOCIATION 
FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 
Continue pee? 
Aug. 11.—On Friday, in 
Mr. Wuishaw read a paper giving an of = ete of | st 
A umerous 
0€S. | imperviou 
palatable 5 and for reason I shail only s store such | and to i 
arth 
e as it was found that Nee pars 
| homo! d the 
sF prera Z ogies, and t 
re | symbols, or, at least, sin 
3 another, a 
ashes.” 
| fro rving it sa 
ine t — 
serie 
telegraphic wire, and which, for he purpose of 1555 t 
d u ne 
N its being acted upon water or mar 
insects, was banded or brai 
and its being pe 3 — AY would render it quite 
dnd the osphe 
i. 1 istory Sete Prof. OWEN read a 
e 
mu 
thened descriptions 
cludin — —— of Pro r Ow 
ore of a applications ‘of “this 5 to the vege- 
s to the anima A kingdom 
foregoing ‘anatomical facts 
verbal oso of the 
e type used in 
arts by tracing their 
them by attachin —— * e parts so determined 
gle substantive names, distinetly 
eon ate the bones might be — by simple numerals, 
as proposed i in ond ork on the“ Serer ia of the 
Skeleton, And the effect of the few symbols for the 
teeth, which, when ex plained, were so easil 
bered, had been shown to be 
t symbols of the planets, 
vocated the use of this powerf 
Paper 
ot nivalis, 
gu 
stagnates 
s. An Protococcus feriene re b birt diis pie pre 
tisf; 
ear on the same 
xamin 0 
s | has figured the 8 
e ing several granules ; 
and Service. | red, but som 
ined, you A 
express au 23 I have 
use the 
his name for the 
and in 
hibited to Dr. Hooke one 
mouth of the tube, having to a 
free in the w 
a 
tremity ipa Tae an e to 
that this is one, I do no 
gr rhe escape — rom 
pai een wi pals which was found in in b 
different tect that described by Mr. Moggri pe —Mr, 
by Ae, Be agg ant had been examined 
Ir. Bro aes ori dl "deed ibed the red snow 
5 — the pola, and he had e essed his conviction that 
it was identical. The Protococcus nivalis Was not always 
n 
the ob. 
f Mr. . 7 Pro fessor r Agassiz, 
appe ars a ahd not only w plant present in red 
1 & animaleules, The 
Mr 
not uncommon amongst 
0 
und the plant near Bristol; when 
young. it consisted of single cells, which were of a green 
colou The tube deseribed was like that found in 
n 
s paper as sug- | kn 
e p 
W of the 9 to 
8 wi 
fresh-water to rem 
. maces. 
? 
these plants. 
£ oO o 
(To be continued.) 
PRACTICAL RINES FOR Rie 
DS 8. 
eee Bers 80 
for the vis medicatriz nature which so 
oe of m P ane blunders, in spite of their i ed 
produce no fruit at = 
old stools, whi a hav 
ce ae many ye rs 1 “tb be 
smothered — 8 inn “the peti à gathered, until 
in the autum scythe mows off the whole produce, 
5 the age re ge 
at that after n trea 
e atay on qualit; 
every respect with that of a more thoughtful cultivator. 
This is the time to cle and weeds, 
mg continua: 
e explained the reas 
Asparagus, and ne “a not 2 ov ver th 
again. Another reason why leav 
ar state to consist of at 
Sha ap 
I found the: Protococe 
fears to be confined tone. preo nama In 1 
us nivalis in pools in the seats 
d (about 40 miles from the 
eee 
ce and office of a tu 
—.— two-thirds t the diameter o of the globule. 
an ana 
in 3 feet Sey ‘and half 
o-ring be goa ae now separated | will 
from w: * arly half the world, Dr. Hooker, whose 
ks of frost on the crowns; conseque. 
tection of the foliage may be a matter of im 
dressin 
t the ground be ee 
east, a seal mixed wi 
settled put, “ee p 
yard dista 
g is painoi W but sais is lost oy ebo 
apd should to walk between 
e depth ot 2 rage 
dung. 
y close 
P A ee eee 
FP eens Fgh REN 
‘withered wba 
fnd a N thiness unt 5 
n 
fom each OO 
