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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
her. Inthis mas sing 
ie a species sme herepets: 
we pir yam am ing den 
should ig a = to bea mere eo 
species.— Bot. 
otless age args ( ing Sosa ite 
Horticultural 
R. flam- 
aye Cc. cytes . bso ack 
~ Ledges from 
e@- 
reana one Ww 
sam rd ee but an e ome 
confirm that opinion.— Bot 
[ScRLLANTOUS 
—aA venerable object bss 
w 
substance resembling pitch; two 
gallons or 20 ci sisight of this pitch (or bituminous ma- 
wit 
terial), when a) nid, are combined 
one hundred weigh of coal-dust; the composition is then 
moulded into the form of bricks, which constitutes as 
ose a (nero =a y Mr. _ nt, and patronised by 
Herts Reforme 
‘tape ment of Irish Flas —The following extract 
of a letter i ys the Northern Whi ig) from _an extensive 
respec 
to turn the ie attedntion, earnestly, to he 
Paseored methods of Shaticry, fy the article, in prepar 
We 
for market :-—‘ e glad to s - . the Belfas ast papers, 
the exertions sadion improve the Irish flax. 
shall be very glad to to ath éiairtict: and be inde- 
pendent vt ing eeyenacanel bal — a great improvement 
a 
Nh gee 
Tas a ; pes even fog though 9 sake oes it has a 
w-like ee, when in thread, which vents our 
proportion v of it with 
s in finishing. This, 
which i is sae ony defect, arises, we y balioe ve, solely from 
reatment of the flax after it is pulled.”— 
is’ Se in Mess 
(a ss a e globe Tur 
easure 
n Bruce Castle farm, Carnock, tirlingshire, and is be- 
lieved to xn the at aoa = in this district for many 
— Sti “ind Obse 
Potato.—We ‘ave tan al tasted a aba" tr sol 
sg rden ee eked 
made more 
we are not 
repared to sta pagar it diffors from that va- 
ssely, which is scuresly known in England. ite o 
GARDEN MEMORANDA. 
ine Apple 
not have w years since.— Jan. 
gear 
ecm in its application to Agriculture and Phy- 
ology. By Professor Liebig. Translated from the 
i d Edition. 8vo. 
r given a review 
yy draw € 
af che and point 
mo tie uch ee but nevertheless 
tich of te 
here w some, it is 
all alte sehbigh, whether improvement 
= e whole subject of agri- 
out against it as useless 
sah hath ‘Hawaii. With these 
nae 
have an erroneous idea of chemistry 
as a mere theoretical neler 
er 
ny confiden 
the experience of practica 
chemist is to "collect ney 
y these m ei 
s by n 
Yeast so 0 
dicted, but in every step it 
ni repeated 0 sna ‘dt aihelbre reads, to ‘iedhing 
but practical concl 
e object of chemi therefore, is not merély to 
theorise at suggest impracticable plan s for improving 
rocesses of the p Bes er, but to collect, ‘ethene, and, 
as far as ee ible, explain those processes, and the fa 
observed by practical men, on sound and rational prin- 
ciples, not according to new uncertain theories, but 
in accordance with simple rules deduced from attentive 
ts of a great multitude 
of similar operations. is, the chemist or 
chemical argriculturist led make new experi- 
ents and observations, i: if properly pe well 
selected, and ac ret corded ways uable, 
ia these experim oti fret or vretict with 
rtainty the ret, ‘but he ca 
ones pr’ reviously hades form some idea 
he rg or reasons 
phe or show 
sment within result. In so doing es 
y : the result may p rove the 
d 
this,as in all other sciences, is merely to ass 
making experiments. __it is ‘true that t by making 
> 
ati 
but if we for a time take u 
of any subject, and ye -eadakv ott by a few appropriate 
whether or not it be correct, we 
u 
use , its appearance was 
eagerly hailed by prac etical ariel ier expected to 
n of th 
fi d in it a clear and distinct account step leading 
facts "of agricultural chemistry, so that the 
could easily understand and apply them to frradtical uses, 
or this purpose, however, the book well adapted, 
and consequently many were disapp n their expec- 
tions. Some believe everything in it implicitly ; while 
hers, going to the opposite extreme, d everything 
and place no faith at all in th its autho 
e right cou e - purstied w So ae been some. 
ere between aa two ; but this, f those who 
One of the great faults of the book i is, that the rome 
does not sufficiently separate those ¢ certain and well-es' 
ome 0 
ts, are unsuppo y 
radi poeeien able, or evidently e 
led to on a s ers of his smn 
the whole is proport peorrry dimin 
read it without peat followin ng up eac 
fixe 
argu- 
conviction that inpiilig! in it is 
rselves, | ° 
3 
2% 8 
‘oc 
a 
5 
D 
ements edor hs with caution, 
fail to be instructed and sati 
- It is this nyo a style of the sathor which renders 
his book far | ua n it would Twise be to 
general read x Those who have paid great attention to 
m 
the nary es om will be unable to 
will accordingly be led into unlimited 
t ected Nope of 
a philosopher, 
ough ready to receive re views BB corn the 
iourshnent and gro of plants with all the respect 
deat is talents and Sibiadth, we are by no means 
7 
and we gunn’ that it is 
arpa a scientific men 
adopting his views undoubte d, a 
be far better to examine t 
mentally ; for those which a wi 
confirmed, whilst the sooner that any which _are not 
so much the fash 
oO 
~ Tt would be impossible to give a condensed account of . 
@ ete like Liebig’s 8, sae we set of which it 
: if we were t go 
stot the sublet at all, we aata ba, ‘Ted into > ne ; 
comme: and taking up each sponge one by one—and we 
account of t ork. f n the Roar es wah some attem 
eb aes to render * e bo 
unlearned r Ss Ay a few explanatory and in 
ar 
t the stateme 
English Ss: but as 
shall at o say, what is perfectly ie that this 
sertion, an’ ra others, are pieces of mere gratui 
impertinen 
Amongst the a ween’ sd baad ae" the most om 
are the obser d th 
soda, he 
been Goetianeed with this m 
perigee with positive certainty, that it is a niteal 
which it owes its efficacy ; but the 
ewhat questionable. As we lave alrea 
broad line of distinction must be 
theories, 0 will be 
the 
ust be brought folvard i as theories to be confirmed, 
re fejecled by the results of experimen 
CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS for the —— Wek 
hear her which has pre ee since our 
there mmend 
hen wanted for use. Any rough ground- wo 
be executed ; for if a yee time be ae by the difficulty 
= frozen surface, it will be amply redeemed by 
wheeling. 
req 
treated di oa por teu much 
Se heat i“ ‘the better of the 
re it will be advisa 
ses ond. aled-tt 00 nti 
-heat. ae uae iy ait thee bonne 
for as strong fires ha 
1 of sunshin ten 
oe unpropitious weather yy hoectod po all t 
of the fp viacy a is requisite to counteract its ake tafuene 
most Hore of Vine- Storch is when the 
just hte to develop t! ae 
ye a to ass a ae 
ance of flo organs. m chee! insufficient po m 
at that stage frequently pons nbortivencss and th e young Du 
instead Sd expanding i blossoms, dwindles into a 
When f this i mpe 0" 
December will have beguu to expand 
