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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
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HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LOND 
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SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1842. 
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pressing m 
selecting those topics only 
nexion vith the subject, was executed, nor, anaes +4 
the whole management of the discourse. From 
attention math which the lecture was received, jin Ww 
evident. t. ho were hepere agers pe: 
pee po as ourselves. We 
great satisfaction to find that the Horticultural S Society 
should be the first of the great bodies of Eondon 
wi 
with the mae operations si bse gardener, by means 
at 
of public lectures at the prese 
For the heads of Mr. 
readers to the Proceedings of the Horticultural So- 
ciety, in which a very short: abstract of it is given. 
THERE are some fastidious critics who disapprove 
of our occupying so much space information 
concerning ma 
uch questions to the investigation of persons imme- 
diately concerned in This y 
ted per- 
sons have, in fact, been thus left to themselves vee 
within a few years; and what has the conse- 
quence, except that a very large pr et of the 
elements out of which our food is re-constructed by 
the vegetable eepeon is ltealy waste It is no ex- 
eration lo say, nidon alone this waste 
at 
amounts annually . as eae as a million quarters of |i 
corn. 
We will only beg our readers to look at the condi- 
tion of the farmer on the 
on the other, and to tell us what hope there is for t 
prosperity of either without a very considerable fe: 
crease in roductiveness of land ; or, turning their 
eyes in At ase to say how the cultivation of 
‘garden produce is now likely to be ped im 
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Re 
th t pre- 
sent possess of ears plants into healthy, ratio: 
4n our opinion, it ns wre uty to keep this most 
j y before the public by 
partly iftions not know- 
bstance, and partly from 
idea, thatit is useless to economise that which 
is so Berek for every 
ll Ww everal agen chemists have sim- 
Pe iiaeat their ecplans tage ts properties or indeed 
to have made the matter ae the mo 
since, of late years, they have emplo 
stead of technical languag 
vations as we may from time to ee ad 
to them of e everything like a scientific dres 
en are too much accustomed to econ that cer- 
bstances ma ator and 
t 
This is essential errors. The 
tne every kind of su ubstance, no matter what 
Ww 
Setinan ch, for instan 
: » sha , 
tom. crag, a , paper ke: vings, yet old 
lety of « 
Sally s lecture, we refer our 
a 
e is tripped of all that makes it strange an 
nsib 
cay sooner or later, and in decay become manure ; with 
some it may be hastened by, artificial contrivances, 
—with anette burning is the most ready mode of pre- 
parin 
Both plants and animals are composed of viewless 
substances condensed from the air. By mysterious 
pr oe cannot see, nature forms them by 
sl - feeds on the other, and in the pro- 
= wom of tga adds to itself a portion of its food con- 
ted into a ape. Of every portion of air ate 
inhale, of all aie liquids we drink, and of e 
particle which we swallow, ‘somethtbg is deized 
by us and added to our bodi 
os de matter. 
ts, which, although de- 
ss suck up into their 
interior aque and air-like agra mand ame thereon 
- whic nd increase their ur 
= 
rss! true of sprouts, na as those which ae 
Aspa 
eplen t produces ; a 
oattion equally uhesteptonable : that is to far, 
the fewer leaves are left upon a plant, the more feeble 
will be its s. To push the illustration to its ut- 
most limits, we may add that the destruction of the 
gered is o ge y the ead of the plant. 
Tho ead-like bodies which clo oy the "stems of 
the Kaba us in pte Rt me ac eis es, and 
are el eeind mi bh sg in robbin 
matter ms of which future 
be penn 
air peer fee ep of the 
onger the sprouts in the sueceedin 
vice -versd. If the summer shoots 
bu ent 
of pure and w undecayed ma roiiols ; for their 
food, ae _—s the same materials in a state of de- 
cay; a s, by the wonderful and wise economy 
of nature, ee air we breathe is preserved in purity by 
the iwhtemes rar J agency of the verdure that clothes 
the earth. If i e otherwise, we pout is ok 
roundel by loathsome objects; the air w 
ore 
on ee surfac e of the 
a and watched, certain walter win bbiipiea th ke 
place. At first it will distend, and putrid exhalations 
ise ; this is caused by a part of the anima 
arth, At last it will dry up 
t that drying up and shrinking— 
becom pee 8 er—is because other portions take their 
departure from it by slower and more insensible de- 
grees ; for all that was solid changes in time to matter 
that can neither be touched nor seen. In the end, 
and, a the bones; those having lasted longest 
which were originally hardest. Only a few years ha’ 
elapsed what has become of all the bodies that 
strewed the field of ‘Waterloo! ? eS trace remains 
them, rough such changes as have. been just 
venabed, they all oe passed till er ven the bones 
remain to tell the tale of their destruction. They 
are need however, lost ; exactl uch matter as the 
F ie to the peasants that ffl them e cattle 
they have reared, and to a thousand ths peaceful 
us recovers a part of what his prede- 
cessor had a so ar in —s the doctrine of me- 
tempsy was scarcely a delusion ; for a transmi- 
gration of souls, by that name eg meant the ele- 
ae “tes ae is incessantly in 
ht onderstanding of these curious 
mes, cae : y constitutes manure can hardly be 
derstood ; if they are justly apresialedy me scisject 
hen hae 
Aw article upon the cultivation of 
Guipuscoa, which 
e hav o a general im- 
Srevaadlt in the cultivation of this ievaeat 
table 
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beds and 
ragu gre course 
this time the whole nature of ag nates is arene 
this objection seems to us of n es, it 
equally Pople to all eget) ik is at once abies 
if the proper means are n, as they always should 
be, to a the snaiig abe of their offen- 
beds stag uld 
manured. Another not less important point re- 
ains for consideration, namely, the treatment of the 
pias. 
You cannot have fruit without leaves; =< the more 
an 
Asparagus are strong, it is gto ered that the sprouts 
should be weak ; r shoots are weak, it 
i ton that the aprotits should be stron 
i ae are facts about which there can be no mistake ; 
being 
e fear Hey are far from 
bu 
ficiently consider 
tice gardeners will continue to cut sprout after sprou 
of Asparagus, until ts so much weakened, 
that the latter sh ith are allowed to grow, 
are 
thin, feeble, and evidently struggling with exhaustion. 
Such debilitated shoots can do little for the roots duri ing 
the summer ; they can barely maintain their own exist- 
ence, and are, consequently, a mae no new matter 
out of which sprouts can be for the perigee | 
spring, when the crop is héketore necessarily weak 
and worthles 
a counnie to be drawn from this is obvious, 
No one should cut too 
gus beds ; 
s beds for sprouts independently of 
summer shoots. Ifa be us 1 > 
nure in the autumn will “a but little for making it 
bring strong sprouts the n t the 
season’s strong sprouts may be pus . 
What is true of Asparagus is equally true of Sea- 
kale and Rhubarb. 
We are happy to find the Auricula co ni its sta- 
tion as a favourite with amateurs, and becoming, as it 
e renewed 
popularity of this beautiful flower may, in a 
easure, be attributed to the a of its Sein 
aie of ms ckery which 
ers : 
ing manures they 
mode of acta pointed 
eans of any one. 
attended it 
recommended; an an easy m 
t, sO as 
te. ie paper upon the 
subject i in our “columns (p 296,  1841,) has done much 
‘ions in this way. Gg apt is decidedly in 
wn eig) Bieaets 
] on as a successful grower of the Auri 
somewhat similar, compose fionethind Neos 
wood loam, one-third peat and leaf mould in — 
quanti ties, and one-third rotten du ae 
‘fa fa simple 
i h anxi 
enter upon the cultivation of a fevcarte flower, may 
be nevertheless reluctant to encou aid what was very 
ely to prove almost certain failur 
The properties of the —— ae been. given in 
a former Number (p. 228, and were 
nied by to illustrate ce ‘cafferent points. 
discussions upon this subject which et 
Floricu 
pied the attention of the 
will t 
suomaant the leaves are, provided 
t and air, die as more 
ot bea poe ot fruit, woe pate certain | oe Ths 
But if it is is tne of 
