1842. } 
THE GARDENERS’ mee abl mt sto 
71 
granted, by a large majority, a gold medal to Captain 
Charlton.. But though it was impossible to overthrow, 
have been taken to weaken the claims of Captai 
es son Although he has been established as the nae 
establisher of the fact, ave had a ‘copiitar 
Upon this point the whole ing ity of. Dr. Wallich’ 
party, the whole weight - e president, the entire ac- 
tivity of the secretary have been concentrated, and th 
have fixed upon a abadjitods and they have given hi 
medal by ajorityl s announce- 
nkins, t 
of Captain Jenkins’ s 
, in the letter of the Tea- 
they have awarded ss 
to be Ls hat the annexation 
of Lieut. Charlton 
the ar grant ps ae Soci 
ce 
found to be st ak —to be merely the oo By. re a 
party ; f .Je = stashed? presides 
the prosperity of the province ; he is bound to Rovsion ‘its 
resources with the ost erseverance, and to 
the best of his ability and ju He does so; = 
nevertheless, without detra soe it + be said, that it i 
a aig 8 of duty. When Lieut, Charlton settled the point, 
he persuaded even Dr. Wallich, he wa: ond i 
ay atte 
expense in developing = resources of the 
ceived no instructions, oral or written, to ie toad yet 
he did so, because e he would not limit his sphere af useful- 
of offici 
determine 
that _ es aan did exist'in Assam ; and that the plants 
he sen John aay tler of Calcutta, in Rebracs 1832, 
were paisa SGenrpian ts. In Be imped 1835, the Tea-com- 
mittee write thus to Govern “We at length 
doubt-removing 
Jenkins, the rgan of communicatio ieutenant 
Charlton —_— the victory—Captain Jenkins bore the 
ently anticipate, that, by all Naa 
ing persons, the setting up of a coadjutor will not 
dered as in any way subtracting from the indivisible rights 
of Saphe Charlton; and, fps the satisfaction of all the rest, 
hope, as a frie nd an rer ° tain wes that 
he will decline the iaeaed, we 
doing, he cal 
i - And it may be added, 
rst who m 
, and was, consequently, obliged 
when his rervices i. the deputation might 
rage So . ea ab- 
all merit, and w 
in detracting from it, — 
13, 1841. 
Grafting Waz.—A good com osition for grafti a 
as described by David Powell, Bsq., i n the Tra is 
the Horticultural Society, oristets, of four 
weight of pitch, four of re. sin, 
la d of turpenti 
in be easily applied by 
practical Sotencte and nurserymen ge- 
—a 
stances; but when 
sais erie is apt to canbe on aPaaee’s to 
—— 
eee ae O*% SOC TGS. 
AGRICU 
| Ur ca been conv exted-into 
the Secretary read the following rule, 
the € general Meeting on Jan aoa al 
the opinion of the Soc ciety be rec 
grower’ 
intended to be given to the peri 
be preserved, and a complete reco: 
which had d been proposed 
i “That no —e sent fo 
nied b ~ 
when sed, a and then x 
in i oer chat its identity: aay 
oe the books of the 
Society.” It w. as unanimously adopte 
ee 
aking Cider.—The following paper, on ame | 
Cider, written by Mr. Pr anaiee for the Ross Far 
Club, has appeared in 
Pe 
d of oe pp le anak 
ghee the peculiar 
upon the palate in good cider hay- 
o 
oO 
ects 
n the ‘election of 
the ‘fruit will depend the vos 
in the liquor. The Crab h 
acid than ts cultivated fruit ; 
ae greater yaiigt of this 
rons gen speaking. 
x 
=s 
proportion as we ob sweetness by alla Ay we deprive 
the its malic a nee it follows that som 
delicious ee fruits will not make good cider; this rule, 
invariable, as the Golden Pippin, and some 
roper admixture 
which 
are yellow or mixed with red make good cider; and that 
yh ae a eer the flesh or rind is green, are very in- 
commends that the Apples should be per- 
feetly gas, yeti ane litte but never €. SBCA Me befo ake suey 
erushed. Ther anuscript written by 
a Socket in 1657, 
est and 
richest, strongest, 
ve 
asant, snd lasting vined that England o 
yields or is ever likely toyield. I _— so well proved it 
already by Here 
shire, that wise men tell me that t these parts of En eae 
are some h 
so many hundred .experim in H ; eal 
of the year for lemees Cider: 
served, that Mr. Knight reco 
ectly ri 
sual to makin 
nd December ; if, however, the Joe can be 
fermentation i is over, 
the first 
be 
is greate th haohers warm weather than 
ber ; so ants tf the == were fermented under sheds, 
Mr. Kni his instructions tothe 
ight 1 recommends (and 
as fine removed into the cold cellar, the 
re Pe mete be end of 
his would fometa 
tly to seem : the liquor fermenting again. If 
e new cider cannot be removed from the warmth of the 
of fermentation ; it gees 
thd solabiaee ofthe vital principle, of - 
curious 
interesting facts have been di ing the in- 
vestigation, but rit of which cation? “likely to be ‘ok ager 
of 
the hice ly of it” He mentions of these kinds of | use in the making of cider, a are — 
aus ruit the Brome bury Crab, the Barland —) and | fermen rather, aes which 
ctimatony ‘ that though ‘the discovery of them was then | pass Ping thro jetty three a ges of fi edyricatb it viz, 
but lately made, *% they ha na tin feoutaia * | the vinous, the acetous, and the putrescent. Other sub- 
, *the soft Crab a aici 6 d Horse Pear | stances pas or other o stages 3 
excel — and al rs known or Cae of in other | gum and water turning to vinegar t fi g any 
coun f the red Horse Pear of Felton or sh etaigt jopicit a meat Peses once putrifying. It is not desirable 
he says, a that it has a pleasant masculine rigour, espe-~ t the vinous entation complete in the 
cially in Pi? grounds, and has a. pee eculiar property to aecdciare of cider in which ease all the sugar of a 
overcome all blasts.’ Of the of the fruit he ob- | Apple would be verted into spiri does 
eq 
serves, ‘ ‘ick? is the effect which the austerity has on the 
outh rusties 
beas touch o Pears uy, 
ripe.’ Of the Pea called a ee Pear, w 
about Rosse, in t ey that ii of no 
use but for cider ; that if a ’ thief steal it it, he woul 
bein, urious 
assaults the purges more violent] 
lenist.’ Of the amie of the liquor, he ne S pon igen 
e 
ap differe 
nions of the two nets who pseary? paid more 
to thes Bubject i or 5 and eg the question 
arises, is t 
better than vee used to be, after 
If such be the case, it is a great 
what has deteri ioration in_ 
heard of the Stire. 
cider, both of which were so eeleriet & 
1 is ‘own sunt the j jue of Crabs, if ar be 
will cellen 
every house 
that howaier sour uor may be at first,. it 
air 
answer for pickli but that. if — a sufficient time, 
there pekings t cannot be time 
e is no 
that one acid is , Gling ae > into sdiee without passing 
intermediate stage,.and this must. be the 
which it ap- 
into sugar, w 
in the aiden aking ier of natural tendency to 
ac in 3 gai 
wd phe 
e 
as when cider deal, it are pe very wg 
but is comparatively of _ value, _having lost all 
and become s0 vinous fermentation 
stops naturally it has . it is the 
object of the maker to avail himself of this property in 
the liquor, and to endeavour to i of he propery 
' 1 taking place ; the number of whi 
have been suggested to prevent which, | that it is 
the most important point to be attended to in the 
facture of good cider. I am of opinion’that the 100- 
on is much better than larger, and that 
of su a. 2 in “e 
pany i i pore ech 7 
