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~The exaruenery Chronicle, 
SATURDAY, JUNE. 25, 1842. 
MEETINGS IN Zeno rHE ENSUING WEEK. 
1 
esday . +» + + + ological «5 5 #6 bess 
Fe Wetewias Geological. . + + + « 
= -- Covrtrry SHows. —June oy, Felton Florists. 28, Tamworth, "es, "Norwich, 
Nottingham 
Few things are of greater inpartatioe to those who 
p live i in bleak hia ar * on ~ t, than to know 
is to obta mp eary 
ose saslals who 
hich we h 
ost valuable work, full 
a nies eresting pag Pg rae Is an account of a 
ve to in- 
uce into our pages. The excellent remarks of the 
' isuthor render any addition on our part superfluous: 
‘i 
PAs ae 
Bs. Be eae 
S 
: 
ie 
isant to every on 
of a walled garden,—the colin felt 
alls of e mee a ruin compared to the | 
aroun 
nd “ at 2s. 
224 the lee side of a hill, Whole farms are unat- | acres set apart for cultivation, and let in: three divi- 
a oe y wind when embayed amidst encircling hills; | sions to six individuals. The 1 im- 
: the shelter, therefore, great or small, ad- proving the land was yery slow for the first 15 pan ae E 
tent: derived from itare sensibly felt. As one er derived om | fai 
a ri ein of shelter afforded by even a | shelter derived from 
park, from the cutting effects of the sea | and the whole has now 
air, I ewe: a sketch (see below), to show you its effects 
bet words can convey. The wall and the wood 
¢ i 
beg thi ag affords shelter,” says Mr. r Stephens i zardn of Mr. “Traill, of Woodwick, 2 t Kirkwall, 
act cognis 
: more extensi 
only in upbas Fae shelter, but in improving ee land. 
vi the com 
a 
mted ain 
“ 
present generation, iieleor has been 
the clim 
Oy) 
Kast ee afford good ex- 
sie tter instance a co wall, h 
t a shelter to the lantations;, dat 
irty yards the 
the sea-breeze, 
ced nothing of 
The 
tee are scarcely affec 
und which formerly produ 
higher pee than sweet-briar and whins. 
» affords anoth 
ye and important, not 
vision moor 0 
the higher vet 
r acre, for shelter to 80 or 90 
and Tur- 
Ay 8: we 
ml plantation, 1 sol 
f Larch a r (av 
nas for "2201, yr tn h, Sich, me v. 
-~ sad Oa ns 
ley- akin en- 
res oy pind with high stone walls, 
e ground in an easy a. tee the 
nd was thus kept in good hear 3 but the 
field was then put within a | plantation 
and the improvement was then surprising,’ 
tT a lecture the other evening at the Royal Insti- 
tution, it was shown that the process recommended 
ucherie to render wood incombusti 
at 
of a se to be as combustibleas that 
which had n prepar 
rede of this s failure, some specimens of 
with eel substance, the nature of 
were ex 
tack afterwards to pe Horticulcaral Society, and were 
sho pgs ge even in 7 state o 
fine shavings, which it t be confess 
_— sa 
of a 
black with dtc, and eventually only charred. 
© very im a pr pm ae bei ng thus proved to 
apr in wood thu ared some nm 
to the nature of the ‘reparation “Tt ro o be 
eg subject of a taken out by is “Charles 
Payne, concerning w which a friend has nae us 
with the Ba yi a orandum ; the ch we are 
add a a Gude 
e patent, are Beaty filled Ninn ith the 
substances, whatever ae with which ue are 
re 
ee Th The atten thei which oes of late years, been di- 
ected to the discovery of an efficacious and economi- 
cl method of preserving timber from decay, has led, 
is well known, to Sap cea and Kyan’s 
ral to that of Sir William Burnett.’ To these has 
now to be added a wana patented by Mr. Charles 
ayne. wae pore to wood, Mr. set A attains 
the followi ><Ist, Wood ndered 
thoro Aen i and wet se d. It 
is ren ered ‘uninfammable. 3rd. It is iced 
proof against yas eee of insects. 4th. The 
inferior woods rendered, in point of str aac a, 
ee and | usefulness, — to the hardest and best 
descri Wi Tal neers can have a 
t 
alk form in the by 
means of ange aid pie decomposition, new and 
insoluble co nds. The materials sone Sh x are 
of such trifling 
cost, that where any considerable oe 
- of work is done, the expense in 
eciable.’ 
this respec 
> We aeralores ed that repeated and “soi e ex- 
periments have proved, in the most satisfactory man- 
ner, that the results narrated above are really obtained. 
” that 
in Mas n- 
WE perceive by a paragraph in “The Tim 
the British rect red commenced i its sittin 
ut much risk, we inis 
will i increase, 
oes 
st 
a mai e change. e geologists may be held together, 
but they uy very anes 3 in that case to have the Asso- 
ciation to themselves 
Tut Banksian is one of the most beautiful “of 
