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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



Im^z^mti^ (Sijvonitit. 



SA TUii DA Y, AUG VST 28, 1847. 



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and pits in a hundred, all over Europe. But the 

 voice is unheard ; the pale looks, the feeble frames 

 of the sufferers are disregarded ; heat is offered as 

 a lubatitute tor air, and the duties of horticulture are 



round a patient perishing of suffocation. 



would have been anticipated from the intelligence 

 of the age. On the contrary, we find tho.-c who 



actin.' as if they thought so, or pursuing a course 

 which leads to the inference that they even regard 



For the moment, we rofrjin from inquiring: into 

 tot rationale of the beneficial action of air in 

 motion; it is enough to show that when it exists 

 plats thrive, and that they languish when it is at 

 rctt. No more conclusive proof of the latter asser- 



srrown ia Ward's cases. This contrivance is in- 



*hich is within it, and to preserve plants in a state of 

 perfect quiescence. Nothing can do so more effectu- 

 % and what is the result? Plants remain alive and 



; " t; -':r vegetation is laniuid, and tl. 

 »nt are rarely produced, Snless the 

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 Udersuch circum- 



J smothered. 



Ihv-t-tl.iYonre.l (J rapes are 



nuuse (irapes for flavour with those 



where the Vine can ripen njtiira 1_. 



The best coloured (irapes are 



dlen away. Oa the contrary, the change o! col 

 whirh gradually takes p'aee in branches dur 

 winter, is proof enough that chemical action U • 



eivable that such actions should be unc 



les, although chemists may be unable t<» 



°«J- be compared to a child brought up with its face 

 ;'V! p i m canvas; it may breathe through the 

 ;-- '*. an i it is conceiv ible tlut it may even be 

 «ie to "imbibe fluid food; but under such circani- 

 *?ce a it would not grow into a Hercules. 



* E P £ case as the nature of such a structure would 



ia n Ut t pldnls are never placed in such a condition 



*arrju l C; h° a ^ contrary, the atmosphere that 



- or during the night, 



feeding, ia rapid 



t h il °v Pe red r *Quecn Pit 



)encd lately at Picion 



s much as that of heated s 







va-tly h-ngthciic< 



nustv and rotting, are what too often rem- 



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cases. PoUnaise 





_a Mr. lk.Ki.iM), residing in Somersetshire, 

 brought the question of cultivating the Potato I 

 before the Royal Society, fit* object also was to I 

 provide some sure resource for the poor in time of 

 dearth and famine. His paper was referred to a 

 Committee: they reported favourably o! it : and 

 the result was a request made by the Socicy to 



his Sylva. It is obvious, however, that FoRSTiin's i 

 pamphlet must have been ia the hands of the puo- | 





bus benefit by 





