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Е" yap of the tenants, from a fe — р ир {о 
ТНЕ 
п they are still in a 
— eh Zate, such as the begin ing of P mber, 
ets the success of opera At icu 
d i pers. нбай “the [ey may on 
remain op th es for a single day, the death d 
eaves 
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CHRONICLE. 
549 
convinced of its advantages, readily support it, E the tree had been felled after a frosty night, or when 
fue ч = of labour sufficient for the a he weather was eld. and ungenial. 
The e poor, an andlord ha Having ed thus much I entered into conversation 
БИШ; ; the 1 t by айх ste 4 — Ww riis with the men who were cutting the trees. The 
[аныч Се and n: . his augmented cw me that aer the bark around the — iow 
ing in receipt no 38 Gie or land of a tree separated with difficulty, v! we mu 
which + was all bet valueless till fiet by "the industry кее д from the branches, ев ly those near — top, 
all the young and tender parts, such as the spongioles 
It is, therefore of the utmost 
importance to take off the leaves, if th 
fime when we plan 
Preparation of the Trees and Soil for Plant ting.— 
me. р never hesitate about thoro 
x The prepa- 
performed аы well, 
ere are any, at the 
on 
result of this was, that on the 
diva ы Tit for 
roperty m increased 1257. yea 
while the taken ж. ee ањ 
0 mm 
but as much vam. ot be said of that of the roots. Plantes: IG 
rthen was 
Shortly tee this, кз rye w came into 
Lr piene and г 
m 
of spreading them out as the hole is s being filled 
oy obliging them to go to the union, 
T the sur pius poor 
it was given up. These — wae ara I have through | ¢ 
h 
Mr. P. в dore been to record, will 
calling posent to “this all-important 
instea 
up, content themselves with throwing in the so 
In consequence of iis the flexible roots take a bad 
direction e 
gets of 
п to the circulation o 
ted pem no — 
ome necessary ; H re- 
quently neglects and accidents await them. 
(To be continued.) 
ALLOTMENT GARDENS.— No. II. 
lan co 
he attentions of rearing ; other 
but too fr 
e 
quite overrun with unemployed poor; nor was 
condition of the the parishes adj ijacent different. In Bicester | 
overseer received for a poor’s-rate a sum equal 
annual ren 
lan for the 
beneficial occupation of the people, of whom upwards of 
А ws чка a one time. mong 
various propos such as husbandry, and 
allotting portions of | land, the 1 latter plan w 
the песни g for 
It is abb e in the power of many ge 
roperty. To such as hav t 
Кай to ‘thelr ert meh I would Jif let all. your 
regularly employed men have from 20 to 40 poles 
if 
“tr rovide work | i 
en, 
— ey is is 
* 
f | sap, checked by its 
d vice versa. 
Now from these facts, the inferen 
р me to be sufficient upon which to build a 
of Biceste vet at once throwing light upon some of the in- 
f the vegetable economy, and also to afford a 
year the | | beautiful example—one among innumerable others—of 
the admirable — powers so abundantly 
, and | evident in the ell the more 
la 
was | elaborately organised erue kingdom. 
the ordinar 
The el of the ee current of sap 
in value, is through the ibo of the poni Its progress is 
arish. “aren т by warm weather — by cold. If, 
e — in spring has once 
that utter stagnation in the vital powers of гасним 
follow, v- what res „e -m = be one, 3 seen, 
In a common-sen the — th 
to be apprehend, 25 the mome 
— favourable for such present themselves, : 
ory power is — into action, 
dem — of the ар тет tosh Е still supplied The 
rp o the low 
he 
reulation goes on 
by letting them 4 or 5 acres of 
Henry Baily, C. M. H. S., Nuneham Park, Oxford. 
MOVEMENT OF —.— j OF TREES IN 
Tux fact that physiologists ier in their opinions as | 
0 
being no 
r 
those inter2sted in the subject, some opinions, the result 
acts—or, at least, what a pear to the writer as facts | 
2 pare from recent investigation 
I have often observed in р — stools from 
which Oaks have ete y bee ra ^ —.— — 
of ap ч cause 
felled 
me, 
nts, and the conse- | the 
t| play a more important part in 
its leaves, = possibly 5 e 
id Its 
checked, 2 at Ue À checked but sigh 
ation gi to them 
Mr. Kni night, are known чо extend witerrupedly to the 
tip of the minutest branch, and through th — 
peerage is undoubtedly ‘established, either ere 
dinate vessels or cellular tissue, or both, all parts of 
t has alwa ys appeared to me that the medullary rays 
the circulating economy 
of — than physiologists have hitherto given them 
credit for. 
I am aware that the argument I have endeavoured to 
establish is open j 
es. 
not adm it of argument, yet I бо as not pi day ia 
ed as antagonistic to the position I have 
ad van 
ced. 
An old and hollow tree, although yearly putting forth 
i merely exists in 
ances, as ri 2 were not 
rom the same da; ay's cutting, or, in other words, where 
as adopted, 
" — plots a eet equal 
to that of the 
well, giving remunerative — loymen 
idle in the town of " m 
The size of the al allotments varied accordin 
to the means 
d4 
At the onset the poor men found much inconvenience 
Mr. Pax 
any hundreds, 
"yere the cont of ез seeds 
nder the new 
at fret с 2 a few poles of 33 
farmers, culti 4 
employment — 
an 
| mi s Pen гат 
On Е precedin 
| the stool 
unding the heart of the tree would alone 
convey the | rising fluid. I was confident that these 
differe 
a 
— 4 been felled а few hours, the tubes imme- |і 
exhibited in 
to allow those i whisk are evident, either — the cause or 
effect of existence in a d ist us 
i ss negative evidence 
of vegetable physiology, in 
an insight into the action of th the vital principle of — 
E the lapse of time — the felling of the p and 
e period of my observation. For, in a series of v 
I found the respective 
the same day of the cutting of t 
The apparent difficul “of Alvin M "me problem was 
ty 
m | now greater than Bene This, however, only stimu- 
arch. few hours 
urs gave me а clue 
— 
ev 
8 
. 
me in my re A 
to the solution. 
Passing near a he woodmen 
dge-row where th were 
i well, a 8 кы about by the — 
nation of the sa n that ге etree. I knew 
of temperature w 
аа I а fe es 
sits, 
pps 3 MM (fidei on 
he at 
and by i individuals widely di 
principie t tho 2^ gm paper is written. 
well to bear in remembrance, that а theory, 
= we som nce, is not & 
me 
ionary — on of the — on some given 
ји ‘but that it is the principles and the grammar of 
r correct science previously established, George Lovell, 
agshot, 
dere, 
about such a conti 
with its bark with facility, mer upon the facts 
an 
m the wood readily enough. 
xamining the ial I found but a slight trace of 
‘it in ‘the alburnu um, b 
trees cut on а. me day pre- 
The cause of the bark no 
years. 
at abiit the middle 
a | of the of Geo oni А III. l plantations were 
зно; t ealeu 
un, say 
lation ; EL was 60 
that su h planta- 
d, should hav 
E diy every tree cut — barked 
readily 
allen tree gy — 
favourable, and when the bre е bole readil, 
| separated from the wood; and, on the other hand, 
w, | where around the pith transmitted the fluid, 
the vessels 
nough. t 
Following PES the investigation, I found that where 
the sap from the | 
when the weather was | 
f f 
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