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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
251 
HORT ICULTUR AL SOCIETY OF LON 
ort of the auditere® om t “tae 
place at the House of the Society, No. 21, Regen 
moudayy th he 2dof May. The Cha 
One o’clock 
The Gardeners’ Chronicte, 
SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1842, 
r will be taken precisely a 
ME ETINGS IN THE Bar ING he PER 
Hortic — 3 P.M. 
E. Tusday ig as 1s Floricultural 7 P.M. 
pane test if. 8. p. ot. 
Geological, . 20. 0. 11s M. 
Wednesday. . * South London Flor, om fi 
(Horns Tavern) . iidhads 
Ow many seo Si ae ti we have told our readers, 
in either express 0 ey should so 
fea manure as ta se if it 
te being agitated, we seco has many who are ex- 
pein imagine that the wind which blows upon 
them is nm the a frorn _- and oF 
vith air,and after t ing its neck ae it impossible 
t again, t ey understand it to be the 
3 because, when the blad- 
that it really is as ; et when a bla 
der half oo d with: this invisible impalpable substance 
called air is exposec re and swells until it 
people are apt to 
arent git, wale, somehow 
passe although i. know not how ust, 
nevertheless, entreat ra to isle that air, oe 
untouchable as i something ; an moreover, a 
most im oe our natural food, without 
which we could se mare exist than with pat oat 
na = \ ges matters which constitute our visible 
F hia wet, air has no smell. When 
or it sia a smell, beca’ somethin 
; for if nothing gs a it worl always 
es without sme 
;_ We all 
— 
es and nlite pega while thint 
rodeous excitemen 
it may again be cau 
t ed; valet 
which, fe driven into the 
air by heat, an 
unable to feed upon solid substances, like animals ; 
they can only absorb their nutriment i in a fluid or til 
more subtle condition ; a 
which makes es water when drawn into the 
nostrils hon a bottlé of a salts; and which is 
beyond question f ow rts 
all manure, forming, in setahiqiiiens with other air- 
like substances, that h gives it its offe 
smell. In its ordinary state it is extremely volatile, 
a... '0 use a more English expression, it is always 
flying away from whatever produces it, and losing 
itself in space at unless th ere some means 
of ing it .pl ould be depri 
ved 
of it, notwithstanding the prodigious abundance with 
which eye: provides it for their use. In general it 
ernght pg to in pied by rain, which dissolves “e 
a) pei of it is aap . ear Wiad id 
i : but our vale, ma 
not lose any of it, yet, under ats pi en 
it is dispersed to laces where iis not wanted euken 
wasted. The of the ould be 
to’prevent this waste, by catchin, eaahonh it for 
those particular purposes fer hich i is reallPnecded. 
His only mode of of ‘saving it is by oying its vola- 
| tility, or power of flying away, in doing abicwneaine 
the 
-street, | i 
of | fered to flower and seed, it will live two or more years, and 
extent smell of the bodies 
pocad to diminish their smell 
estroys 
is is 
huric and a a acids soul 
eves m6, green vitriol, sul- 
P 
with dunghill 
be poured over or mixed 
ey are made up. | Thos 
smoni and keep it*in the 
ut they so catch it that 
Sd ty mixed with the soil, it 
falls upon it, by which means it nstantly con- 
veyed 6 we roots of plants, which * sl are enabled to 
i 
ae that, after this homely explanation, there 
the odo 
will no one of our readers to fancy that 
com 
nuring qualit oad ; while 
on the other hand, to purify manure, be lowing the 
odour to as away, is to destroy all the most valuable 
part of it 
a 
tural Society to 
aah will be place 
and form as is bette years, but not more a six 
inches off the ground ; so thas Se pleats a 
Some months since we mentioned the important 
fact that — of soda is a most valuable manure for 
ir-trees, . Rivers, of Sawbridgeworth, 
plied it at Ne rate of 1 1} or 2 ewt. per acre, at the time 
are the more eiues toremind our r 
he time for applying the nitrate 
and we itis the sadn? 
it has ev 
Ages n 
; anid we apprehend that other complicated ma- | 
nures ris as Guano, will be found to be equally de- 
leter 
IS THE MALE ASH OF TRE VALUE AS A 
TIMBER TREE THAN THE FEMALE AND 
HE BRUNA EODIEE LASER? 
Many instances in sp on f ot ee propositions must on | 
reflection occu Tt an ver, be as well to 
will shortly pre- 
ts and stem, by absorbin 
sap as fast as it is formed by the leaves; and it will finally 
destroy the plant by extmustion, as was prov 
ight. The Wratuabie treatise 
rge 
energy of a plant, T select the following :—Mr. 
fered a Vine which was r. the highest bearing condit 
sere to retain as m earing-wood and fruit as was 
posed would either kill or cripple it for several years to 
Th t was, the Vine could not bring the fruit 
wi 
which had not been so t n ng spring, 
Me! a single ps unfolded till ae a lit pier the usual 
d the ason was onl 
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23 
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é 
o 
m) 
ngth, ws the lapse of eight gti é 
with the best treatment, the t had not 
former vigour. n the contrary, if an annual is hot fay 
the stem will acqui 
If we plant an Ry and allow it to blossom and seed, 
ll be absorbed, and no fresh one formed. But 
formation of 
means of i increasing. its str 
oe formation of flower 
ke of fruit or Seeds will, if the growth of these 
prevented, promote the eente f bulbs, tubers, and wood. 
And con: Deeks. if a vigorous tree, like male ® 
: 
does not natur uy sites 
or the extension 
—— itin its 
h ‘seeds one 
It is probable that. 
Il all be 
below the eye oof the observ leaf, 
ueered by every one are has 
growth 
ever, has noticed -a difference in 
as 
t 
the male trees becom: 
ys of the male and female Ashes in their. youth, nor 
for 
me years after the females have borne seeds; bnt as 
apealiic 
must be, te o visible sign 6m 
in. ‘spring, the. size. and depth of 
me at 
aves in Sumi, and the ti 
as I have observed in the case 
saat 
‘ap- | of which there ca 
differen 
in the male pity female trees, but that.it has not been 
had aught to do with the 
or. the A 
ve have not met _— any remarks on the Ash in support 
ned by Billington, that the male 
a larger “sony es the female. Gilbert White, how- 
male and female Yew- 
he ha 
rees. e says, “As ec 
ng the | Suspect 
ut fellin 
king abo says, “The very 
axe will tell you the Sifference of vo sex, the male being 
harder and browner than the female.” 
A meal 
som 
ce | have now sycrein ee a 
cluding, that it is highly probable that the male plants } 
‘ ew, or of any other dicecious or polyga- 
mous species of trees, grown a view to timber, 
willin the end be much more valuable than the female 
or hermaphrodite trees ro 
considerable 
varieties of the 
nail 
seeds, it Bp t have pees more | & 
