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4 3 risk of trying 
ori 
1842.] 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
51 
~ Iris our intention next Saturday to present our readers, 
in a o—_ Number, with a complete ‘‘ Cottager’s Calen- 
dar,” by Mr. Paxton. Tt will comprehend full details 
relating to all the gardening operations in which a cottager 
can have occasion to engage, and will be illustrated with 
woodcuts. Those who wish to secure additional copies, 
will be so good as to order them immediately, as we shall 
not print a larger number than are ordered. 
‘The Gardeners’ Chronicle. 
: SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1842, 
MEETINGS IN THE ENSUING WEEK. 
as jendes atte: owe 
d Ts Ass 
acme Rateenslagieahi Ausal: : 8. Pm 
ie ei Zoological. .» « « » « Bf . a 
Medico- Botanical 8 PM. 
Seer Microse parearienl 2 2s BRM 
the N or expedition are painfull upying the pub- 
lie mind, it isa t Jation . us to et 
state, that when the last advices left Fernando Po, 
Dr. Vogel and Mr. Ansell, the vee and gardener 
to the 4 were convales 
O\DENT last 
that our la e: 
and a stimulant to future exertion 
sam er by should mention pi particular Num 
bers may still be had, and that our publisher is mak- 
ing every gah ee to complete a ee sets, and with 
that view is willing to give Is. a-piece for Nos, 9, 10, 
44, and 51, 
Tovucune brad election of a Librarian to the Lin- 
ean Society, we stated a fortnight since that Mr. 
sercist one of he andidates, is a mere boy. 
this it appears, from o ietter sent us by Mr. New 
A. in error. Mr. Newman says that Mr. Kip- 
—— twelve years employ r. Don’s assistant 
having entered the service o the anes are as 
Assistant Librarian on the Ist Feb., _We 
e good of 
rier, aed to thint all other 
; asten S bea ect an gs a 
error, let it not be supposed that we in the smalles 
ter our apie’ of the ponte pretensions of 
the two candi se ay meen eighteen will be 
In ma appeara orden anewioige . the 
eat sot: at ‘thirty will Yemain a boy in 
res 
atever sorte may think of this matter, we con- 
sider it a question affecti 
e that will] diminish the 
e herbarium and 
of the Society, 
anger experiments in the mode of 
ion the office of Librarian was led 
regarc 
rta by no less a 
Dot 
Society suppose this time for 
to be the 
ing oes the good tule hitherto eteesited ? 
the misfortune to widely wi 
| Kings This w ate for the ane of the 
College ; vs it we be difficult to find so good a man 
-Vari rsons ported to have offered them 
repor 
as | selves, but athlon: tien yet reached us sufficiently de- 
A CORRESPONDENT, signing himself Clerieus, asks 
the quantity “4 sulphuric, <a rhe and gypsum 
required to e amm a given quantity of 
rine. This i ae rather aiff Nate because the 
ale Upon a of that fiuid is, as upposed, Na 
a 
3 t 
of ammonia when in a state of putrefaction. “Thi 
weal eatin about 12 per amt of hoe rel strong sul- 
phurio acid, or a 
same quantity of a ia. We 
give is with some hesitation, feeling sure that it will 
ardly be un Pigs gf in all cases. It is, however, 
an approxim may serve as a guide until the 
best working proportions may have been ascertained. 
which it contains evolve ammonia, and this, 
i as it contmues to n off, is rendered a 
evident by its rasp pungent smell, a amapnaitie acid 
is added, this ammonia, which w wise be lost, 
the excess 
sas some 
tained 
in a mixture of urine and gypsum gether: no ‘ioube be 
i t be mixed 
t, for sg we we 
sulphur acid will be fou Py Ped han gypsum, ex- 
t in soils not naturally eon containing lime. 
Ve have gone into this question rather fully, be- 
cause we have similar ames from other corre- 
ren 
finite to deserve to be repeated. 
A CORRESPONDENT objects to our assertion at p. 1 
thet a crowded plantation deteriorates the quality i i 
mber, as well as diminishes ‘ rate of formation ; 
ind e says this is opposed to every-day experience. 
He moreover insists upon our “having over-stated the 
disadvantages of leaving the trees in a plantation to 
run up with what b ah is plage to call fine clean stems 
once the adva of allowin cro h 
other; but it om to those who plant for ne: sake of 
timber that we rr ves, a n that 
rtant point w continue to insist. 
M6 doubt there i is ‘a optitian that the slowest-grown 
timber is the best; we onan be ar people saying 
that wood cannot because it has 
so fast, and we find writers on foreatitig following in 
tis same a of aap on. In one place we observe 
pid following pa: —‘It is well known that the 
mmon Oak i in Tialy, where grows faster than ¢ in this 
hort duration ; and that 
; some of it not m more 
is in one iene pe mu as a ¥i 
if it were true that Italian n Oak aloes foster pk 
pe Oak, it veal not prove that fast- 
: ; because 80 me Italian, or a least Sar iniait npr 
is of excellent quality, and use, moreover, 
nether ip what is meant by the words “ sta Byte 
r are we informed under what circumstances 
of soil, oe that a is said to be bad may have 
produced. eat deal of Italian Oak is Q, 
© 
9 
f Highland Oak: in th nee 90 Ma ethan 
pot le and of t is, whether ‘tai or slow- | 
ad rr diatom, we must expresso 
ETE a PES: me oe 
- to mind the Oak forests formerly covering at least 
art of Inverness-shire—the size of which, as 
ence B to Lettuces 
a a aise oe re bs softest wooded. 
ti r tends to increase 
the growth of . ire tends at . expand the vege- 
table fibre any @ weee etable fibre is ex- 
<r. thet rd, and more 
rm 
car 
fawever: they appear a mere 
evincing a t 
ithe a 
tissue of juanaae 
ray 
al 
will do next tg i 
| CHATSWORTH. 
(Continued from page 20.) 
Great Consertory itself, —how shall I de 
Bur the 
ictite | it! Its outwa 
li 
of wonde 
pers of the Lady Flora approach her mystic precincts. 
travel-toiled Mussulman at the sacred postern of Mecca— 
: Christ 
d in view o . Peter’s, nor 
Harris gazing < on Hk hundred wild Elephants in South. 
ern Africa— at the source of the Nile, nor Lan- 
er at the termination of the Niger,—no, nor even 
a panted stronger,’ 
pay did the “tee “ot these notes ei ‘the portals of 
e mighty pam -house at Chatsworth were throw 
But bef 
gest curvilinear structure, 
notion, td 
use, or 
hey will be enabled to form an aiean 
rather any notion at all, of the wondro 
i The in atredustion of the 
om r 
toe it glare like like I rosin g 3 general ; bu the con- 
trary, there is a sort of nesiets tint abs its forsee hue on 
which the eye may rest and however fasti- 
dious, satisfy itself that, yee oo at t least, all is right, and 
that there are in fact no 
no ungracefu 
horticultural deformities may be classed. 
riticise pp ei tige ds ~ reader w 
at the ti 
tory w 
was at its zenith, ad the price of iron, in consequence, 
enormous sly hi hy ood was therefore adopted as the 
preferable iaterial, not for the sashes merely (which are 
he rafters also, 
best as they are), but for t for which metal 
might be substituted with advantage, as a becoming de- 
gree of light might then be combined with the - 
site strength arks will pave the way for a 
rtain amo sappointme ich the visitor of 
not pager arr p leasing ; a circumstance, in my opinion, 
to be attributed almost en cay to the wooden rafters, 
— wie to sepert = sing: roof 70 feet pe 
y strong; and as 
and of proportionate span, a 
ta ngein, yes ner: cod out 
prightly 
