int 
THE GARDENERS’ 
EON eee: 
LONE A 18, 
chemistry, by producing his 
The only new ae which 
acid is 
his 
nowledge i in even his own 
sea theory of starch. 
he has in it, is the view that car’ 
h 
a 
een nance and yet agree = so remarkable a w 
, that I think aid 
on pti 
a sunflower | Batt ft. > eva- 
high 
therefore i in. 120 days, 
cubic fe hese, 
I. Acco: ic to 
8 ag every day 1 lb. and 4 - 3 
i 150 Ib: 
t 
of such ee 
weight of about 5 oz 
with the water r 250 Ibs. 
he production 0 
acre is, according to Liebig’s 
Ibs. There remain, therefore, ran y wpe 
been employed in the growth of t also 
* chines that Of the leaves which have meal pant the period 
tation 
we" The s suppos osed acre, if we assume one foot for the 
depth of the earth which contributes to the growth of the 
i cubic ft. i 
There }l the plants absorb 
of carbone Heed or 1,600 lbs. of 
yer the ar gi an 
8 cale anetiaes equal to 1,029 
which have 
| of rain, viz., 600,000 lbs., and then obtain 5,400,000 
lbs. of water. The sunflowers, which Hales use i 
iments, have only on wer side of their leaves 
stomates hich evaporation —s $s place. us sup- 
_ pose plant is 38 square ft., but that 
only 2 ft. are occupied ss e stomates, by 
evaporation is effected: then we find that that apheat ~ 
ant by which the evaporation goe 
is equal to the turfae = the earth from which it dre its 
ment. If suppose that the evaporation does 
not vary, we whats for all the Saag ob 2,700,000 lbs., or 
54,000 cubic feet of water. water an equal 
number of « feet, or > ag tbs, of leh acid, are 
gi, which answers to about 
onic a 
of their roots, s, is ompletely 
of carbon cxistog in 
Cera er, nia of the 
be Gea 
ants. 
of humys to to 
Il be alinost "futifed in 
the ‘plan 
as- 
d by roots is com- 
AP ekteh | is cane 
ax! 
has not at all under- 
should, at the end of the chapter, make a vio- 
lent ee ay physiologists, of wliom, in 
ce, he formed ea existing onl 
his os tan, on which all’ his offensive. 
of our physiolo- 
rents trys 
! ghee with pride an 
them that. ae rls 
+ | canoe eons o not rest on 
r- | coherent 
Ways must 
first be See, posure with all the parts of a ma- 
sidewalls its wheels, levers, - .» before he can agen 
to be able to explain its action in any reasonable w 
leaf, h produces oil of t must of a 
ifferent description om ‘gives Ox 
i leaf is indeed always a teaf. But the physiolo- 
gist has ascertained, by the anatomy of plants, that neither 
leaves nor stems of themselves produce oil, or any other 
matter, and that these are sae nly in separate cells, 
is indifferent whether these cells occur i eaves or 
in the stem. iy lain these processes, it is of the great- 
est importance t ate anatomical] ost minute 
portions of the sell ; for the productive power of two cells, 
Lares near one ano othe er in the same leaf, Aiffers frequently 
11 pot their freshness yas the condi ti 
a few days since: walks embowered with ions 2 of Drop Drop. 
sault pet ‘ Li Mle Roses, through which the sunbeam = na 
and broken glow, led to th ens, oe - 
ders and marble stabiiicy € so relieved by dee ell-filled 
on — t “A banks of ver. 
— g> from 
w blos Osa 57 ob ar ¢ Ay 
Dek tat | in fone festoons, ica in w iid es, 
for ata it had just arrived, and ). 
in order to secure a full crop of reas rs shana He had s succeeded 
in ouaee a fine hybrid F uchsia, between 4 See and gl 
which ca to be in cneral cultivation. In the ¢ Pittefum, the 
speci men of Con 1iferous P vere yaa all meen ee the Stone 
bies Douglasii is ing cones of the 
seman La most se enor green; and the jos are dartin 
up higher and mee on every month. Abies Webbiana, “1 
ore tha 
an ~y different in their habits. . If Dr. Liebig had the 
least notion of a microsc and its use, he would not have 
€ e objections to the 
That th 
scope. y has ever x agate 
pushing ‘ithe with the merase or the 
ter it is the same), things whic possess the 
robable 
en 
scating-ground a graduated tube. 
nd that their object is not 
the possibility ee a Borate) or a eae 
e proceeds in her 
reason about 
exbiaiia ation, Pie to ascertain how 
erations in each aves case. e are far indeed { from 
ip: and the principal reason of our 
inability m mist be look oy for in the state of chemistry, 
ich leaves us in the lure 
stance except a 
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theory o 
many hypotheses pee A the com- 
tion of organic matter, whi ee sit be- 
ee are not 
1emselves. _ ish 3 no doubt able 
n of 
ording ples, 
ny ObEaGR . De Piebies able 
0 give us a si enh Rico ee transformation of 
eh into gum r, &c., and which contains some- 
thing more than empty Hie atest as at contact, 
a body in activity, and so forth? So long as in these two 
matters, which the mace ees the fal ‘foandation 
ve a ga 
that vegetable physiolo sts 
aly made many sseriens little to the sates z 
aid is it not ped indecent, when it is done by the che-. 
mist, and i in the arro way a this book? would Dr. 
all the nonsense which 
a Deh ree ed by chemists ? 
silly proporition—that 
water 
only German 
only paths exis ting in n Get haps ‘Thus, at least, he 
has explained himself for deine oe 
(To ele: a 
Fly.—A Bac gma of the 
says—‘‘ I have 
To Destroy the Turni 
Atari Lane i bes Bs 
ARDEN MEMORANDA. 
gin ot summer that the great, fea- 
are most striking; for it is 
are fragrant with Neorg of Seleeisic 
it carpets. 
8 the season, na 
when the new foliage is emeralding the Fir-trees, and when the wil wild 
id branches, of the deepest 
d alread 
ropmore, is only wha 
Europe, and _ be Hn ing gautityiers to Lady Ste ville. But j 
what terms of a on shall we speak of the thi ‘ 
liber vality ay ig - 
ge He 
to > aoa sores ahs 
on eae os keeping of t ie atea de abli rte: here was 
ret sega and refiects the nde credit og not onl ons skill, 
but the and untiring pelea of Mr. Frost, the gar 
att’s, Wii mbt edon —In 
= + Fes] 
the Orchida aceous paar 
Ose grace- 
ful and drooping panicles areloaded with an abundance of yellow 
flower: e aerate yet beautiful Oncidium Papilio; Brassia Lan. 
tleve Forbesii ; ‘Acanthophippiam bicolor 
Cymbidium aloifélium, loaded with racemes sof waxlike blossoms 
and an coeiainart rinkenye of Cigniinan ampliatum. An immense 
plant of ahennene alata covers the wh ; 
where we observe ine ce iy 
cuma irae, a pretty tuberous plant, whiten, athoug intr 
above os — since, is SS eae seldom 
a well-grown specimen of Allamandacatha 
pha — saw Acrophyllum ene: a 
iu TS 
house i. a gay with oa grates d plants of Erica vestita 
E.. tubiflora, E. ventricosa superba, E. versaoa at Ge 
tter not more than 6 in. hi ut a complete mass of bloom: 
Lachnea ericifélia, covered with heads a delicate — flowers; 
3 se 
a, rps ipo aes A. Vari rg 7 * d Pimelea 
f Triptilion spin ust coming 
The Tacsénia pinnatistipla partially conceals the 
oof of the conservatory, from the rafters of wh ts twining 
n an 
branches hang i wi 
rose-coloured blos: ngeas, 
ue flowers, wach a produced . bein potted in the pb 
Wimbledon loam. The flower. garden, wach § tastefully pd 
out, is partly Surrounded by a a batt of Rho 
= 
WwW a p y good method of tra 
wea which onght to be more rears sdoitet, namely over 
a circular i iron trellis, somewhat ting 
ranches are ti od. Monte: $s they requi 
se, in the present anna. ra about rine high, 
and its head of "the same diameter; when the be gee are fully 
expanded it will be a ea mass of bloom. A clumpof Gaul- 
théria Shalion, about 28 ft. in ea is covered \ with? a 
multi a its sate anit flowers. 
= arden is a fine spreading specimen of the deciduous Cypt wen 
andon thalatn a ae — of pte edition ra nf which 
= large plant of Stuértia virgini ing into flower, The 
Vineries and Peach- ahd Societe: abide bier ; one rot the 
former was almost filled with Cormetilass. wick had nearly com- 
iciet. oe growth of wood. he gardener, allows 
emain in heat until their ett ad are about the 
size Ay eas when he removes them to a cooler situation 
treatment succeeds admirably.— R..A., June 6. 
rewe Hall, Cite ag noble specimen of the Cactus specio- 
sissimus is now flow here, having uUp- 
wards of 350 flowers poe ; forming a mass of brilliancy easier 
to be imagined than dtectinca by the spectator.—Jun it. 
NOTICES or NEW PLANTS WHICH ARE EITHER 
cine wnt De Geraale ag 
Spas 
early 
ht loam 
oe gs in 
sis. Meadow Habranthus. Amaryllidé- 
nia. (Stove Buibous Plant. a bulbs 
5 mer, Esq. debe t 
0 
Mr. Bauer’s Coelia. Or chidicer, f 
"| gendeeas “Gy Moree boogie sige? a8 
this little h 
white and inconspicuous, is, like o kc Cook Lity of of 
e preced 
Sweet that it m 
hers which grow best in oi 
the latter, therefore, this should, be placed, and it 
cern eee grows fast. sod ely et 
Ss : 
te —_ 
(Stone Ryiplats) he Wes 
il 
en 
BSS ie aad 
SST FT OE gt 
