7H Chae CHRONICLE. 
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elections, dr more than a steam engine ‘without fuel con- 
r, and I would respectfully submit to masters 
their erat to get 
I be- 
t 
of humiliation to many good po cp and to have 
erst at we cannot Ride ted to obtain 
8 from our aa gages + wile 
pla $8 J ise ve something 
to ‘offer i turn; it would be injustice to our friend’s 
employer.—P. G 
PROCEEDINGS OF sO SOCIETIES. 
EAN SOCIET 
Dee. 21, —Edw in ster, Esq., in th chai secretary 
oiamaee the death of the librarian rg Rs aie Professor 
David Don. © society, he said, in bons eath had sustained a 
great loss. His proficiency as a na atura’ ae wate his excellence as 
aman, Eee pp pond = him the r oie eem of all who 
knew him.—An rom a letter of oe draaes ake 1 5 
Loranthus; also some remarks on the reproductive o s of 
Isoetes. A paper more fully detailing the pansy views ma oa 
its way ‘from India to the society.—A pap valk oe 
o 
F. » Was read, givi plan 
Solenomeles chinensis, a plant he had falimerts “published vith 
name of Cruikshankia, but this name had been given to 
oblita.—A see fro 
anew § It at 
and was Resenetiy.} anehiong for the first 100 feet of the stem. 
A description was also given of eae pe png bn ces was 
growing in the botanic pate at Sydney, and in 
‘ee cotyledons. 
called att egg the c the 
nish naturalist: Barcelona, inviting the scient ific men 
Europe to join thes in peying come permanent tribute of 
respect to Salman metas yh countryman La Gasca. The of 
— 1, 1839; and it om that s sabectipiohh 
ould be  peneee by the secretary of the Linnean Society in 
Lonéth 
cy Meioirtinbel hag 
Ay 8 Flowers.— According to a writer in Hovey’s ‘‘ Ma- 
of Hortleaitare,” striped Dahlias will be best kept 
clean 9 pleanne in poor soil, while rich soil invariab 
a following experiment with a 
rarity cited Strata Bethrger clear hich he is con- 
had the same re- 
sul No.1 tanta ly soil, in an o - 
. Three hats: 
enriched ; vay bloom but one was self-co- 
Sicen French).—The cd of tes 
wn nin Germany, like those 
zonera, and the points Por ‘the shoots may 
lish for win ence 
ich being imterpaetel ‘appears to 
e-hun ove boris an A 
Aiihlie Proteting Material. 
= ne nem din 
—We find this material 
the garden of the Hortioultaea So- 
construction of boxes to p 
Ss are i 
am 
jesson as screens agains prin g frosts 
ecimen is mentio ned in an 
American paper, which votlhctad of Shirt bree ee 
from one root, each c d with fine blos This 
e 
nhe, 
ating tg with t Pp 
ject. been cultivated in a es N 
pot, with “ch ont and abundance of water; the latte 
in the open bor 
Rebtetvs 
The Farmer’s Encyclopedia deg Dictionary of Avid 
Affairs. By C. W. Johnson, Esq. ngman 
8vo. Tobe completed in ten monthly parts, ek I 
of the most useful books we have on Agricu 
a 
whatever the Encyc 
either get up his science a nowledge of the nature of 
he material o ing that surround him after he has quitted 
his coun r must-be cnet ag many gre, to 
remain in utter ig Baind’o of them. 3 
nion, fully vanities our caution. 
agree wit ne our contempora- 
a) or e the 0 
om them, we shall, without farther iteladé, pro- 
ceed to tate our ae ns. 
br contain bee sear Rat? all the 
clu 
The 
lants of which erry rane r takes cogni 
we ij 
vegetable acids, which is $ very in brky : nae what” is s said 
getable acids do not abound in 
; on the contrary, they are found but 
mber of plants in ora quanti 
0 
uction of trifling varieties of Agrostis, of no sort of use 
o a farmer ?>—o earium, the Latin name for a bee- 
hive; of A llis—which, by the way, is not an A: 
yllis; of A n Fennel, which cannot be ivated in 
zorea . t 
of the species of Elymus, of no value as fodder ; 
nivalis, a renee e plant ; of Festuc uca uni- 
hin 
glumis ; of La 
it is a contrivance Sot Jecdcae texture,with two or three 
varieties ? Tee can scarcely be deriied that all this shows 
very ufiskilful arrangement of materials. 
he grand complaint, however, we have to make con- 
ing this cycloprdia is, its er incom- 
S re, ate e 
ow,’? 
Malvaceous plants an 
the book; Aco 
ne ch is per situs may describing a hor 
of the hedgehog kind; Adonis is said to it Adonis 
aos instead of Adonis autumnalis. Albuthuia is called 
nte sed of a 
or 
“an integument one _Soft white _ Substa ance, 
e od, —a most absurd definition, which 
ave been intended for Cambium, whi 
Hi 
uncom- 
i ment :— 
eration is said to be * bee Seay by which the soil is 
exposed to the air, and i y 
pcb as aeration 
i nore 
e 
A out. Alabaster: 
re her d that it is sult of ie Sad is right ; 
but Aiesty Tolowng bear author says, “ it differs from 
arble in being e: dl i 
e the 
“impure liquid bee constitutes the white of ay avers 3" 
this is not album t a soluti it. Alcalies :— 
stances. 
smel 
be du 
rei Beat he of this ungrateful task. It is appa- 
rent from evidence now produ uced, that whatever merit 
inetioaerd sre Mr. Johnson’s Encyclopedia at 
‘aye—and some are excellent,—written, we presume, by 
himself—yet that in ree) nn ge the matter is of so vail 
that the boo ever be regarded as an 
authority of any value We haeted ~ ™ it ‘is [ 
cheap and well ‘tiated with adiak good woo t 
COLEND AE OF OPERATIONS for the ak Week. 
In the Weekly Calendar of Si shape for the ensuing year, 
deviation will be med — e plan adopted om nee fm 
which, it is co not a materially im 
ved, 
details it is named, ‘that rt dditional useful em will ‘be found 
h 
by the young Gage Piected LOGE from the very nature of the | 
subject, much r on is unavoidable. 
Neatness sesh , and general clemsinett,: canni 
00 rigidly enforced by master upon his m 
these matters penetis not only the gardener but those employe 
lem them good workmen, and consequently 
ore valuable vente. 
KI 'TCHEN-GARDEN — ORCHARD. 
Prnery.--Great ag n the watering of Pine- 
wane at this scaon of the year, pat their vegetation is neces- — 
languid ; the so’ send the — ca rather to be prev “— 
this purpose itis 
m occas ionally ; but wh 
this c 
should Ibe given, daily if s ~~ fires are bi ed; and s 
vessels water, to s apply ry ure by evaporation, should b 
placed upon the flues or p s the chi ef obje ct to Pas. 
in the 
unnatural Leb te an atntoavaseie easepersird of 60°, with 
sufficient. Plants that a 
ouse or apitto them ; 
t be eight or ten degrees nhiehees bh: 
ch ihre ern they should tee Leena at the 
frui -hou plants inten 
t 
growth ; 
eS = eight SObeihie ty uncovering as early in the morning a: 
e weather will 
san pos es which are) in nani ion 
o or more buds break at cach e 
capt rod Sete ht one. en the roots . 
they must be y-eew 4 protected from the i 
suffici mulching 
ent f leaves or litter tat 
er. good hic covering of f 
ht be used with advantage for this p 
atmosphere in the house, and avoid sudde 
rature by the injudicious admission of co 
bunches are visible, the tempera ought 
65° by fire-heat. oye praneeet rown 
stoves, a ed Vine it ni e pits oS Te ‘ft tolerabl 
Pitchers aioe ate a ac F eat Poa 
ginning to expand, syringe the trees morning and evenin 
luke-warm water, and keep open vessels of water on the wa 
end of the eg apparatus. Protect the roots from frokeg 
— d for a 
ERRY-H —If early fruit is required, gentle fires may 
now eo lighted, by way fot Wecating the trees; or a few trees 
pots m beg be pu — the Peach-honse, | 
Fres.—A few plants in pots might be introduced into a gen’ 
he: sie ouse an e there is room. 
y 
UCUMBERS must be carefully attended to. If growni 
id crennip trellis, leaving sufficient space 
and the soil to lead eg to beso pet cular. 
ficial seme’ rature betw nm 65° ona 7 sae i 
atmospher iste gs ght n ag. oa f well-prep 
dung, Woe . one- light box, in van there is no pit ne stove be 
in which young plants can be raised. Look sharply after wood 
or all pose ly — may be lo mnie fine 
MEL ow for y all green-fleshed s 
called. “ “isulipatama is very pond for this purpose, 
SrrawpBieries.—Some plants might be put into the 
Peach- oni, on mene near the glass. i 
remoyal to a warmer h he fru 
placed by others which haye been Pesca : little | me any 
bin oe Ysa one dress them with rich earth before they 
taken into the — 
ineey. Bea ol ch are in bearing should be frequentig al 
ringed, and not a stinted vin water. Sow a successional cr 
**Fulmer’s Early”’ is an excellent sort t for forcit ing. _ 
ASPARAGUS.— —If the first» made bed itn 
ee ith fresh edote; renewing the neat by li 
poe pete inery co. 
ae IDNEY PotaTosrs, if planted now in small p 
and placed fi in S aeak, will be fit to turn out by the end of the moi 
into the pits La frames prepared for bees 
Pot T: and Mint, and sow coat} ‘salading. If it is wish 
to Aoi cart. Gasente; sow the Sca ret Horn on a slight hot 
in alternate drills wit! th R Radishes of various sorts, 
pa eo wag 
3 ON: sete 
Continue to tren vacant ground, if 
eather permits. if frosty, oes te "theo a Ngtag 2 of Endive. 
njury from | 
ania of h 
it be dug in when ints longer by ber 
eo 
cod be persevered in w 
Prune dwarf and standard 
whi 
or e to be taken off at the rinse rt) 
when a pe cut Ser te made. 
Il.—FLOWER-GARDEN AND SHRUBBERY. 
In- oo oie a ment, 
‘ior VE.— Devote a enc hs ‘0 the eradication of 
this season of the y' 
wie ae ad formidablein number. 
fore try to prev t ‘their ini inue e- 
ceous plants, and go over all those that hang up, mi 
adding some fresh 
ois' 
ang up may be frequently syrins: ro Use ¢ 
btw ie ee troy snails and slugs; young Ca bb 
excellent decoys ix them. Several of the Mex xican k ‘kinds 
now be expected to be in flower. 
evince, Lee'lia albi 
ConsE ERVATORY.— Cam 
ce 
Pinks, and other forciag. 
