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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[JuLY 9, 
cody kept in paper. It 
that which 
Ceeett upon ¢ n drawers in a dry 
n to preserve ro seed 
it ‘u 
of this il 
rden; but for a field, the board should be larger, and 
trav horse, and will require to be painte very 
time of crossing the field. This operation s ould | 
feathers behind throws up t 
the 
formed whe 
shining powerfully; 
the boa rd should beclean SS 
The ac- YY 
chine. The ground shoul 
rolled a 6 to, 
seed comin Pp. 
mB Bromby. [This —— 
ites Sistomaile the. Mite with the common Turnip- 
fly (th 
Be yPret 
-Trees.—A correspondent in 
0 
the insects whi injuri e Ash-tree; an 
y recent journey into Cheshire has given =~ eect 
tunity of gratifying his. curiosity. There is tree 
of this Sacgineaal he vici of No rthwi ch which is 
not sh 5 oe of decay in consequence of the de- 
‘predat insect of the Cole aha order, nearly 
Eiied to the Sec 4 ears since 
uctor, uctor, which a few y 
in the neigh 
urhood of 
in 
ini ; es from slate to. 
ee the entenna clavate, and the « 
The 
larvee a 
eat ep A gra 
also been ee as a pro reven- 
ot had an ame 
resent instanc 
passages arance of 
pagiehalia; fom which chev hi the name 
of ‘* auger-wo rT a acqaitited with any other 
insects besides the above which are peculiarly detrimental 
to Ash-trees.— O. Mosley, Rolleston Hall, 
i FOREIGN SORRESEONDENCE. 
eta 
: consequently our g induc 
ment. t exertic ion ; _ formation of two Horticulera 
é 
rs to pss 
0 class. 
and | PLS; se Win. 
Remarks on the Weather at Jericho, Van Diemen’s Land, Lat. 
2° 25’ Sout! 147° 20’ East; elevation 1,260 feet, ac- 
4 th, Long. 
cording to Wollaston’ s mye point ¢ - awater dasa se and 
ee 
1 mountain Barometer u 
at 
average of Monthl, noe ve 
Months. days on average Ni chts - 
— it |Days’ Snow. Frost: 
s 
® |\Ja uary . Fy 5 2 in 3 years 
% |February’  . 5 lin 14 
= arch r 5 ‘ - | lin 14 year 1 
‘ |April eee 5 1in7 aan 2 
2 |May . Gite 63 ern, 4 
w« |June A pee: 64 2 6 
§ |July a 7 2 7 
> |August . = ; 6 24 4 
September . ° 7 1 8 
October . is 83 | 3 in 4 years | 3 in 4 years 
November 8 lin2 ~~ : = : years 
December $= 2 years 
E —During this oy of 14 years the sat PE number 
ays Oo ir whol it es i lg n 1832; least do., 59 in 1833; 
greatest in s 5 837; least do., 3 in 18 On the 3d 
January, 1832, the ctaek frost remembered destroyed all the 
crops in the district; on the 10th, the same month and year, 
thermometer stood at 122° in the sun, and on the 19th at est 
In June same year 5 nights’ frost, and in July 6 nights’ frost * 
6th an a Nov., 1833, thermometer 110° in the sun; Ist and 4t th 
low ae flooded; on 16th deep snow. 
Range o ri hatin x for three successive years; observation 
taken at 8 o'clock, PB the e glas s under cover, but Segoe 
to influence of air 
1837 1838 1839. 
Months. eeee-se eet “0 ae 
gie(Sidlalgidjals 
SS |S eat ee 
. .| 72 | 50 | 61 || 74 | 54 | G4 || 66 | 50 | 58 
s .| 80 | 53 |66.5)) 70 | 50 | 60 || 75 | 55 65 
F .| 62 | 55 | 58.5) 69 | 48 (58.5) 61 | 49 | 55 
. ‘ | 60 | 48 | 54 || Go | 48 | 54 || 62 } 45 | 53. 
. . .| 56 | 44 | 50 || 56 | 40 | 48 || 58 46 | 52 
un . > .| 52.| 36 | 44 || 58 | 38 | 48 || 52 | 40 46 
y , . «| 80 | 36 | 43 || 52 | 40 46 | 49 | 34 | 41.5 
August. d 4} 52 | 40 | 46'|| 52} 40 | 46 |) 49 | 36.) 42.5 
ptember 2 $62 | 40 | 46 || 62.) 40 | 52 |) 56 | 4) | 43.5 
ber... «| 55 | 44 | 49.5|| 60. | 46 | 53 || 64 | 44 |_54 
November .| 68 | 46 | 57 || 62 | 46 | 54 || 62 | 48 | 55 
mb < i 83 54 68.5 | 78 | 50 | 64 || 65 | 50 | 57.5 
REMA —On 12th Nov 1837, “a frost occurred similar to 
a nr 192, On 5th Nov., 1838, wee severe frost, cu ut off all the 
ured Turnip crop. On 5th Nov., — frost similar 
say 24th 0 f same month, 
in severity oe that of previous year, 
highest flood remembered for many year 
PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
OF THE ne tBoeas a AT MANCHESTER. 
CAL SECT 
__ As might ha’ ve been antici ed from the early period at whic ich 
ciation on met this year, Mh hot Baad lew botanists wer re present. 
se a list of the and committee of this 
Hon. aad eky Rev. Wm, Herbert, LL.D., 
nni Richardson, M.D., F.R.S.; John Moore, 
Jardine, te ‘PRSES the Bishop of Nor- 
wich, P.L.S. 
Secretaries Social Lankester, M,D., F. L.S.; Robert Patter- 
son, J. A. T 
rr Royle, G. T, Fox been H. E. Strick- 
sg Blackwal es F.L.S 
y 
the pro oceedin Pee at t whi mtr nk Bay 
be interesting to the seeders of the Gardeners’ C. 
Thursday. BABINGTON yead a report from rs rébmadbkttee 
sehen Substances ces ~ pod animal 
and vegetable seater S preparations for &e. The 
res aah of the experiments hitherto ns mime fs the eotenition bad 
of thi te rae ns of shen a pon of . oe 
coda “&e., were good prese! e al o1 getable 
substances. The best sinedton! Bo were end to be anesinta of 
potassa a bichloride of pag pin Naphtha, also, and naphtha 
and water, in the proportion of one part of ae former to seven of 
the inter: fe ea oe Lala git specimens well. The greater num- 
ber of experiments had been made on animal matters ; but th 
hat su animal and vy 
salts de in their tissu: 
aouee 
Mr. Moo 
—Dr. LANKESTER 
'| nitrate of 
the plan’ ag ne lately 
julphate oft copper favoured 
pad = cons mee oe = sm pa of Cambridge, had 
lately” seen two which was manured with 
2 * 
Sonont the fact 
then K kept eloug & time in solutions of corgi ‘often had crystals of 
posited es, which might mislead the  mi- | ture’ might 
Th 
; emg TP im: ee — one to the success 0! 
seta: hy ingr 
sites on fohen; which was porte! oe on the causes pie = 
Brus. | to the use of the microscope in detecting 
| and in bisits, 
| world and the physical changes that-are going on’in the atmo. 
sphere, and ~ = surface of the earth. 
Mr. KLAND read the report of the commi 
inted to ‘investigate Pall ata sei Re tomes st Pl ‘seeds. The 
ee of 9 or : first, pros 
ing s§ eeds proserar cme ag them ae anh secondly, 
preserving Sendai in order to reg eared at a future time. -U . 
the first head, rae fen eh that none of the si 
from 0 herbar wae be te oe: 
P anted. Some ge es d had been pla 
mongst these it eh eas that of pot eathierta { in aie, — 
the greater proportion had failed to pach when planted in 1 
The mode followed in preserving the seed eitedh been to enclose 
tiem 4 in brown paper, and place the em inj re 
of ripened s 
2 eee teed of soil, &c., in wh to-be 
ined. A oe discussion ensued on the reading of this re. 
pork of time 
aeeds d_ their lity.: Mr. C. < Ba apc dou! ota 
together kage fact cs seeds from Egyptia: i fouiibe ving vege- 
tated. e Arabs 
ein the habit of iseltiag’ these wo to 
Europeans, and previously deposited them there. d in. 
The PasesipenT and Mr. A. SrrRickKLanp reason to dou 
in ‘which, after the cutting of a canal, the banks were covered 
with the had not grown there be 
H. 
was thrown 
cee here by the wind, &c. d immediat 
. In these cand it. was ‘ne cessary to examine the Soil; to 
if possible, page 4 oherper of the seed. If this was not 
e facts must be set aside, as tending to 
thou th 
vitality. w 
connexio hharacter of the seed, as related to the em- 
bry’ It would be undoubte found that th 
o and albumen. 
earnoni and quality of the albumen would influence, to a great 
t, the — of vitality of the embryo, which it in manyin- 
reat be 
a paper on t aa rong. 
indigenous pporiee ree indices G. arboreum and G. herbaceu 
indigenous in America, G. peruv 
num or pea: Reabbah m, sofas G. barba e. He pointed out 
varieties of these a and the: —— which fares underwe 
t soils. He th ne Ind ent into 
ity 
bri night t fr Sak Ammerice ced it to th r 
labour bestowed on the ‘eultivation of the cttfont in America than 
in India. The author pointed out the —— of or 
which the Indian and American cca ies gre and ds that 
although the gates eer ss would not grow ‘where the poh 
di soils in India on which the American 
reisipmtnsaats were Now Sadi made in 
of India, under the superintendence of American 
ri 
bales 
Royle jeoncluded b rie pape 
of the Am species gr 
poe of ey piretiet anches were | 
wists d that one of the specimens = the prea grown at 
Cawn elena equal to any of the Am 
brought to their market.—Gen. Barc Gs expressed his reat satis- 
at the ing Cotton a 
would. be the means of 
Manchester eon ee 
onday.—Mr. WEBB Hata ere a day on the m eans of ‘pro- 
moting the poi of plants. _ In this —— the author "detailed 
the Large vingsies on bees the applica of manures should 
d inted ont t 
in manuring p 
ustion ~ (eremecausis) Showla ‘afford this = in the 
lants. e thought had ecured 
opti ae 
ee (the apricalgeiie hs and amm 
agri i 
supply it 
man’s settling o: 
manure, 
aa with — manure 
ecessary, i 
to supply the earth with artific 
of arti 
and it pte from such sources that great 
ed —Dr. 
ould t 
that that sulphur was an ing 
tly present in ties fa 2 rans bodies. f 
bably introduced into plants in the arate < of suipuretted aves 
nine See of the sulpha' contact wit 
this, gers eyery 80 
EDWARD mt Jann would not reject the Ssmineas ate 
might oc mechanically, W 
i ner contain all th the ingred 
for 1 had pointed 
yalue of the mupnarts a acted ben 
most probably by giving off lanrparoties hydrogen: 
very few soils in which sulphuretted hydrogen w binge 
and it eos ‘use referred to by Dr.Lankeste?, 
sThe J. Ban wrshed to call the attention ofthe Ste 
salts, both in rain- water 
ae the 
eae 
He vedas suceeded thus: “ar in 
ale tiokpaan me 
Or DE: Phavrain vend che yt 
VUr feeaueis Cie EL 
of Van ae 
| somone 
a vote of thanks to Professor 
