THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



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most" fitted to 'exalt th. 



(SracUener^ €i>vmntiz. 



SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1847. 



the Irish and other papers that 

 nftotiflg the Potato fields i< in progress, we would 

 < •.. I our readers of what we formerly 

 awimccd as to the effect of pluming dee:>. It 

 nikst year generally observed that least ui-case 



ftuter. One of the effects of deep plai 



; "Cbu?'huio 3 a'.t, 

 n^ beciiuse we would 



by a thunderstorm (see IJubli 

 into holes by'fu 



1SS 



four hours a day under the mjlu 

 fitive andpositivi 

 i hardly possible to doubt tha 



irth and air of so much import 



VV e quite believe indeed that the notion of elec- 

 Clty having some occult influence on plants, has 

 sen partlv from the doctrine of some materialists 

 it it is what is otherwise called life, and partly 



molum pro mag 



lat plants must be benefitei 



equal 



dr quickest vegetatic 

 s a thunderstorm in th 

 n S 65h°. Thegrowtl 



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mental plants grew considerably below 

 •d it. It might, perhaps, be supposed th 



ts continuance; but that uas not the fact 

 the occasion in question, the growths imm 

 diately before and after the thunderstorm were 



tide more mistakes as to fact than we should 

 Lve thought that ingenuity could easily have eol- 



The writer wonders what can have induced us to 



him. He asserts that 

 did'say, he will find 



dear, efficiency being 



iut when he proceed 

 e really must beg t« 



tot-water pipes to dry up^the 



donedit. A fourth asser 



udyit." Of course they will; gai 





'fittS • tlu ' r " M1 " "' : :i " 



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^tu£ and thG ° ffici ^ re P° rts u P° n th c «- 



S to ^ d ; "l 18 gentleman says—" The conclu- 

 ''<« these experiments k upon 



^■Ott \f J f t0 . the supposition of the ,/, , ,,/ 

 "('/ on vc<jctatinn' , ~ : - and 



**«&/, flr l 0/ ihe e ffects recent 



<**,. ' aTe accidental, or due to adventitious 



Jf»- More^J 8 e . x P erie,1 ce only confirmed these 

 ; uriu l' ,| > declariii. 



' (See Hart. Trans., vol.-3,n.s.,p.'258 

 1 influence over plants may surely, afti 

 lence against it, be treated as a chimen 



"Selfishness," which, savs his Lordship, "in at 



place himself in this 



other matters of Tasc 



Rarely, and at long 



y arise and pour ** 



iesoferasefser^J 



Ln the two latter 

 assuredly ought t 



f Taste, which 



s prevailed at diti 



, however, that while in each case 



ted may have been a'jsurd in itself, 



landscape a pyra- 



n edifices of all so: ts— palaces i 

 mildings, and churches, as well 

 gardening ? For we all know tha 

 there are few pro 

 his : given the style of a building, 

 ;o find its date. How came this m 

 paramount? Because *J*^^j 





or of a garden, 

 otive then to be 

 5 were neglected 





