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51—1853.] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 807 
from bis account of the chemistry of * The water we — me to come, as мау astray from | 
drink : 
«The neighbourhood of graveyards i is equally fitted, 
with th refuse 
e accumulation of tow to. adu iterate | o 
water with undesirable admi Bike’ The Ww: TW 
с close to the old churchyard оп ће top 
Highgate Hi Hill, has lately been eu Nod Mr. Noad, 
oun contain muc! 0 grains of solid 
$o the gallon, con e of 
н убт of li Eder 4519 grains, 
e — of magnesia 7 S. А 17.06 „ 
- - Sulph 1704 y 
Sulphate of — a (Glauber — 9.52 5 
Chloride of sodium Sars salt). 9.63 5 
Chloride of calcium DOT „ 
Silica - ate 90 
m oe E ” 
This large amount of nitrates is traced to the өш инан. 
ing grave-yard, as such compounds are generally pro 
т i in porous Аг 
) of а more 
have been found in the well, as my 
also of a peculiar kind, whi a 9 unwhole- 
some, even over large traets of милу» In dis- 
he 
outl 
are observed to sink down and €— te pan,or pre i 
. 1 pu 
SA 1 — ч the subsoil, whieh. is im to | rather more than afoot high, with a very powerful a 
Were To ong 2 orm, rains. cannot not disag smell, resembling that of pepperm 
it rests u dim Ae the rain water, while Their leaves аге oblong, obtuse, Mis long slender stal 
hie ation, wad ai веха: de vege- and no teeth; pnt under side is elosely со үнтү ‘with |o 
r; and when into wells, is often glandular pit e flowers grow in heads surrounded 
dark coloured, marshy in taste and smell, and unwhol i in go ir 
2 drink, "Wh seni Mn ware: 5 ЖК, ribbed айпери! 177 the "уе үн ich are 
3 | aii, the organie matter coagu- bright eep green, whil r ach id ler 
lates, and when the water cools. Sepatates.in flocks, | Те slender obes Uf thé the | ré ve 
leaving the water wholesome, and reefrom taste | remarkable for pcr is thers at deir 
or smell К che same purification place when the: points, in wie P is not set 'even to find po pol Dad 
water is filtered through charcoal, or when chi Oak The eal} ule Val ular teeth, in which shad 
wood are put into it. These properties of being coagu- ев is bina Senn M. Doug ar 
lated by boiling, and by the tannin of x e of little moment, except for ho 
that the o ie mat ed in the is eme oe в 
r 
cter, or resembles white of egg. 
whi 
it coagulates, it not only falls itself, but it carries — foanded the species. Hort. Soc. Journal. 
impurities along with it ы and thus purifies the water—in 
the - way as the white of egg clarifies wines an 
other fiquors to which i it is added. 
- ch is th r of the waters M н use 
in the Landes of the Gironde around Borden it in 
many other sandy districts. The waters of rivers, dem on 
ilar | River. 
nut of the Strychnos potatorum, of which travellers o 
po nery ar 
carry a supply. One or two of these nuts, — s in the extreme 
powder on 50 side of ath earthen vessel into which the | the river, while on the 
vater is to be poure about the — * the castle, and then forms 
Side. In Egypt, the — 5 water of the Nile is clarified | itse cession © 
by gabbing bitter almonds on the sides of the water- 
| inthefar distance 
the Maul 
ountains, the summits of which are often buried treg 
The s 
vessel in the same w. 
ay. 
“ "а al. these instances the principle of ins Aiden Down) 
. The albuminous matter is coagulated 
ge what is added to the water, and in coagulating it 
embr. alii veiki impurities of-thie water, and carries 
these enses — ally thatiof-the — bandes 
. N Cutti or piece: 
of Bordeaux, Lud elsewhere, throw an preme fight | — e a aad — shrubs, particularly: ‘Trish: м ДА 
| Décdars 15 fet high and andthe ‘handsomest’ —— of | 
u ол фа ане n me Fin, itr bas ah 
th « — i 
ol Kom hé пе SATA 
name of it was called Marah pe — 
opt 
against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? And ne 7 feet in diameter. 
cried unto the Lord, —— owed lim at tree, a — 
which 2 he had cast into the 
187160 geno по! zegelt А 
Gard 
а CASTLE, — OF THE SEATs OF HIS Grace THE | 
n 280. 
0 * one 
e grea t 
pi shot ze thes uch, 
cancel to think $ that MER Sas ‘should 
TAA 
ie in 1858.“ 
— of tru 
ive а ir fi 
oun 
JEVONSHIRE. 
looks exceedingly well. It is impossible for this border to 
The 
ed men, 
. 
= d chemist — Germany, the other 
co cate 
; but i still more melancholy | I 
" think that the publie should be so little instructed as | not 
t keinen true fr cien 
om false s ya 
a Patent A 
of f 
(кёшн, М). es learn im. this M ple as 
f Т, 
0 on and 
have ‘undertaken j* sale of ee 1 7 — 8 N 
s of this apparatus. In the pamphlet before us a c 
fall Account i is given, with | over Т gl the duy 00 
be These 
оед 
of two vais of this were 
en Memoranda. 
ae ett A 
кү Жел banks 5 A the, cow valley 
that enter into the picturesque an and the beau 
1l scenery about Lismore 
FLORICULTURE. 
— — 
_Таклтмкнт or MımuLuses. — Not 
| cH 
H Mis Жал e of pa? 
fibry nature of the turves will preserve its 8 and 
mage galing it so bove the natural sur- 
will keep it dry, and m in temperature 
2 any border placed below the surf of the ground. 
wrong ealeulations, if Mr. K. does 
produce some first-rate from this house. 
ve made & і rders, as much like the one 
1: described as the nature of nd houses 
Y 2 7 , and the t has have 
never had a “badly eolo ked” bunch of 
bd er wh bove ha dread, 
which upplied. m though we may at times En little more than we like ; 
ЗЇ, 83, io 2007. It also эрме that the ras i it is the water "iid enters from beneath that canses all 
may be obtained on hire at from 27. the mischi arge proportion of borders made 
P ег in slanting © heat the lind of the surface soil are, to say the least 
vili whieh Y ae is to be mars at £19, ( Ciel i be. 1 ^p г than puddle holes. . Ro 
iod SEN i should hear so much of * shanking," want of 
| E ra 1 . 
Nerv Plants. ^ ra dogm 
55 wenne, . e in Pun. border 
„На, 
"C VS т. 
more to Y E wo There is 
very oblon “tbat can be p duced UE y dà elements 
ot 
в, bold verdant ie 
art superadded, and made visible in magi ificent h 
pu ig LE 
grounds.” So much yh wooded 
withs 
hacia Wa fet e in these columns last autumn, and 
— verge of a hill —— over the Blackwater 
| aces, often t is resen ergoing great alterations 
coagulable substance. Hence the waters of the Seine at the wx ood 2 which — 1 believe, furnished by Sir 
Paris are clarified by introducing a morsel of alum, and Jos 
the river and marshy waters of India by the use of Es including a 
seph Paxton. The grea —— ready finished, 
part which was burnt down a two years 
y 
those that ay te е H. Clapham 
the cas ows 
ite bank the ground rises 
ed hills, each becoming | 
ide of the hill on which the castle 
Oak, 
that I have ever 
Cupressus | There 
also a tree of Тоза imperialis, 20 fet gh and an 
cacia affin r, informed 
us RUM à HW pem 
written agreeably, amd in 1 8878 jain, ur "rites | as fresh and 
— nr 80, it will 
hope, a — to the Ici les whieh it 1s to 
* Ignorance 
ече ami А de, 12 5 
— — How slight is ‚ the whieh 
— 4 — tal of " Phe last two ars m dune and 
я d years Kas g fallen + e lot of each to furnish а e, 
individual, © even cider the сай. a ders of society t | 838 
yet that mere sprinkling of knowledge in such some d 
as Astromomy, Meteorology, Natural History, with вре 
d Anatomy, has өч сейн) Pn "from this part o чеч 
the world astrology, divination, sotcery, witchcraft, And Im ome of the pits 
magic. What an enco t does this fact afford ате i 
| 
( un y is, which Mr. Keane, the gardener, 
And when they came A Marah, they e — —— — ane — ely covered wi | | 
bee hA E does also the White Indian — which forms bushes | 2 
rowing here singly on the it had | 
of flowers on it at the time of my visit 
October ; this does not remain 
other plants named: 
eimen Heaths. In the green! 
every 
ost vigorously, as 
A * specimen 
through the winter, but all the ts nn doen! 1 
withou ‘protection — ЗАҢ the flower beds n 
looked 
Mam Augusti” >- па 493 4. моши д 
The kitchen gardens are 1 | gis 
remarked in them some Peas shes Tall ку 
аф 
2 enr 
Fats; two of these were 
narrowest limits, has proved so successful there a es за 
are still delusions remaining to ‘be banished by the JOE pie 
extension of sound know! Does ‘the favour ex- the past summer fo the produc n 
1 o chi and In making thé border, f 
Eras of J or 4 feet, Mr. K 
le st | of the na soil, then his ma 
not | drainage to the depth of 2 feet, and on this he 
order 3 feét deep. The materials 
ry tur ves. from a field which had 
1 more than 100 years, good stable ma 
. "There are two bril in | crushed bones. At both ends o of vel bane: and we 
Mo RE, aise cy irte и йог V die pec | © | the front, mb rockwork, w 
sg dom firmly previous to the sowin 
eing 50 
es - s 
induc ац ааа 
ham, Esg., to wh 
debted for some of the finest finest varieties of Mimulus 
меё p 
cceed in ‘Society to 
give a prize to such [^ but ile progres progress I Bye 
et n made in in 
have fallen. They may be p a i 
they strike root from nearly every joint, and form a 
huge specimen in a short time, covered wi 
Сиш s taken off early im autumn will no 
doubt be, sufficiently rooted mit of their 
into,b-inch pots, which be p! 
mS it once i hich should 
in cool, frame m liberally. supplied, with | waters 
uently watering the plants ove with a fine rose. 
Bu t ‘ile air should be given during the fortnight, 
w dmit it freely in the morning, clos rather 
early wi on. sun, and sprinkling the plants 
oven the be fil with 
в soon 
ls, give эй a liberal shift 
e Mie flower stems may be cut 
situation, or turned out into the 
ers, where they will flourish freely, and if a 
ed round th ey will 
quickly tak t, and parted in the proe into 
tions ‘best ess to the 6 poral hi the ltivator. 
id | thor g and ide soil 
shou of one part fibrous eid 1 9 2 leaf- 
in consequence of 
uehsia \ 
pis carefully peg down each hook i in the mou 
fresh roots, С tinue tc 
ВА Buh will ung 
1 5 4 Че 1 and the 
