es 
Ce a a, Se eT ee 
Lai A ik sales oe ae 
ere a Ne Le 
PN ee 
1841, "ths pls while 
‘Bac! 
_ tire crop of grain 
There could 
oy of the manure 
3 
1842.] THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 19 
This day is published, price 6s. cloth readers ought to show bry = our present practice rupted to the last. For this there are two reasons. In 
HE HAND-BOOK OF CH EMISTRY ; with @| with regard to manure - first eg the vod pas at mend a hy quantity 
Ee aos os a oat By G. H. CAunNTER, Esq. 
. Orr 0.5 
Londo Ww. = W. &R. Chatineg: Edinburgh. 
The Gardeners’ Chronicie, 
SATURDAY, JAN. 8, 1842. 
MEETINGS IN Joaicn aad sae wat 
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Wedico- Botanica 1 4 ‘2 Be 
1 PF, 
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Wirnovr entering into ito the entangled and vexed 
-Laws—which, fortunately, is not 
may be ‘pernaflredt to express a de- 
some more efficient means of in- 
in which 
bes 3 
© 
and cannot possibly 
go sely-po ns alte coaaitey Hi like England 
winless half "the inbdbedtits e famished. 
> 
of discov ig some method of augment- 
a of those manuring ieences we pos- 
mand for nitrate 
stances 
We have now to announce to our readers the result 
of the ees of science : the art of manuring, in 
_ the form of a report made to the Bath and West of 
~En gland Agvicultra Soctety. By Mr.G. Webb Hall, as 
given in the a Chronicle. ‘The substance of this 
report is as follow — 
1827, a ar of land Lor which ha React 
s of wheat have since been ) with 
E fa: ey after being manured with ‘shes obtained by ‘buming 
- the weeds from the pk the produce did not amount 
to four sacks of barley per acre m ie eve 7839, and 
1840, it was sowed with spring wheat, red only with 
a new manure, and lime and ashes arghated as above. The 
ks; in the n 
eeenine 6 
n straw was calculated at seven 
per acre. was €x- 
ing the previous ois years. The | 
yan piece 
tab d manure put on this piece of land 
nce t tees as been anure on it of any 
peice gigie that could have produced this improvement, 
excepting that which is refe sired to, and that only in small 
@ antities, and imperfectly got up; and notwithstanding 
s 
hese ve crops, the land on which t ew is s 
; hoseaies in pe he ad value as to be Sone Gonble at 
least that i ro aes adjoining. In 1836 the value 
; of this land was t Fi Tepes of Bristol, an 
: emine ent lan “surveyor, at 15s. 6d. 
Such statement read by Mr. W Webb Hall, a 
ieintlaeiar rg unguestionable veracity ; who ‘ 
he imeelf verified a part of it, and that 
had been mate to carry wheat four yea 
and that Be last year rit tf nae ai! 
and this, too, by sowing "ee pean ing a 
tie of aie, »dnatead of of ten Yass an acre. ples of 
straw an roduced, a 
the best qualit Bs Shemeamiel | 
It did not transpire how the manure was made; but 
it was mentioned that a Mr. Daniel, of Twen ton, had 
q 4 hs si - ‘. * tset of by 
oc into the preparation of manures, is a discov 
which, upon the best and most disinterested tes 
mony, abit of wheat is scape of being ik 
feel ea of this hat report an 
many months, be al by at reat one practi: 
operation 
at 
ri evens the fact at we now Ty bere i | 
mmeasurably inferior to that 
which must be very odin Sateenally adopted. 
Tue death of the late Professor Don has created a 
vacancy in the Librarianship of iy era 7 Society, 
and in the Professorship of t King’s Col- 
ege. It is rumoured that Mr. Babington, of Cam 
ed himself for the latter office, and 
ie] 
i 
, an e 
siderable sciaactiie knowledge as 
prey learn that the Council s Re 
nean Society are divided in their views as 
eligilty of nips we candida im Upon this otis, 
arks. 
, we beg to 
The Linnean Society i is jo ‘of the most respectable 
of et eee ve © ae London, pgp ° we regard 
the w stitute it, or the proceedings 
It is entitled to the eee 
dean ning, at a a 
History are jh eae ay an unprece degr a 
We shall for the moment only ask the: Fellows of 
the Society to consider well whit. they are doing in 
the election of Mr. Don’s successor. 
candidates are ; let us 
i ive fitness 
st is ieiciaineed 
with the business of the Rigen is Pages vig ® sen 
and og F respectable,— 
& the other hand, is a i avaied Naturalis, 
an saneilieneel Botanist, a man of education, 
gentleman. any eae of the Linnean Society 
doubt which it is the interest of the Society to elect? 
Ve think not. If any one supposes that the failing 
—— ted 
5 
=) 
fortunes of the ety dre to be suppor ws “ 
election to the esponsible office it has of a 
boy, however vepeanatil he must hav iden 
of apo” nature. With what satiefetion, let us ask, 
can any Fellow of the Society consult the pho if 
o learns that all his inquiries be 
o alad without experience? What beg of piers 
aniee will it have with EN, who visit England, to 
nnean Society such a 
of -the candidate: a3 some per- 
- | ons well-meaning but unwise friends of the Society 
themselves in favour of Mr. Kippist, at 
he ‘Geotion, men eto xpect 
meeting, on January 18th. 
yi wishers to the Society, would call on all persons 
possess votes to record them for n. 
Powe wish Mr. ae Beeics we have not a word to 
say against him stant, and some years hence 
he will be dligible a as Hibrarian : me if he is wise, he 
will hot now persevere in a contest which, if successful, 
can pad irate the Society pases which he would 
have to 
In a treatise upon Foresting, ay most fo gat mode 
of proceeding byes with the beginning, 
when sown, and to ae with the end, i 
the forest-tree i is s fully grown. But asthe observations 
we at present pr to offer are not a 
ppm we may itted to treat the subject in 
a more desultory mann mence wi 
very important ocationt "of thinning  memairpe 
ormed at the present season. 
To look . the plantations in some parts of the 
country, it ieee evident that their owners are not 
aware that van 
ding trees vogethes ruins them ; for 
acres of land may be found in which the trees of all 
kinds have run ap to the state of ho Laces In some 
done under the impression that 
See, a 
em 
éllow, their ante in no oe 
nd | time Se 
ow state has mre: sai yp rt Bag og ; 
fecbletiess of habit. Noe or ives cout ts | 
mil, feclens of ba themselves 
food to the 
atis true of the ge plants is equally 
so of any other plant, whether ee, and ex< 
n a manner familiar to eviay one the — 
wing trees in plantations to be dra 
othe er. 
that for ; 
As rive e is no disputing abot ast 
produced who 
ee lo aided “vith all the ‘olige intended for it is less 
beautiful than one in w 
tity is abstracted condatih wit 
a pine shall confine ourselves to the question of 
to light and air is rg evident. 
on exp 
mber ha a Bias 
ped a crowded tree must form less 
reely exposed to is ht and air. 
question dependent upon reason alone; it is capable of 
being ieee to the preety eviden “pee 
us irritant anim 
woe sunt oie s subject fdel 
A memorandum from merton, "of Hellifield 
1000 = which it gave me very great pain to view. 
he one is progressively gang to maturity ; the 
other. “retrograling, dying year by year—the dimi- 
of its concentric rings ae ng to demonstra- 
tion that it has not room to gro 
“sg 
co 
ne 
this sufficient] 
i case it is 
right-hand specimen the grow 
evident, that in the 
the 
trees did+ not choke each other. 
timbet in the aaron 
was immetiatel af Feta to aminimum quan- 
tity ; while in dive inter it continued to form, with 
little variation, year 
In the east Sf Yorkshire t there are some thousands of 
rel a of states ing to ruin for want of binning, 
a great deal of it is gone 
friendly hand which sent us the ske 
page ager romania with a specimen of Spruce 
Ee ane ee, given, 
ce-fir 
from th 
The flowing ate the rates of growth exhibited in 
In the fs fie dae bead cud 26-10ths of an 
Second on [in 
. diam. 
Fourth ; . . ; . : o 33 
Fifth ntilaek apes RSS 
ixth ; < 
ii Seventh a ; | ae 
ang howe ears, e tee ooly u a diameter 
i inches sud o halt a half, mina of timber 
