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56 no Hae oa 
1842. ] 
THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
571 
ORTI “HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LO 
ict IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the MEET. 
Nom S OF THE SOCIETY in Regent-Street are DISCON-/ 
SaUED ret Tuesday, October the 4th, in consequence of the ° 
Meeting-room being under repair. 
The Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1842, 
MEETINGS FOR THE Royal B SOLOS, Waar 
jotanic . 
lps: Aug, 30, Florionien ral ian, 
Cov Hull. 31, Genes kakan Sept. 3, Windsor and 
aan ae nah  Wicombe. "8, Pacadagion Thanet, Canterbury, Dumfries. | 
9, Spilsby, Maidenhead, Ashford. 
cbeceveastae as et 
ear that their masbenk 
assure them 
was said of slovenly garden e can 
one they are mistaken in supposing that we alluded s 
Let us hope that Hed 
mend met ways, pull up t 
e fatal error e sr 
ypheans 
shied a ardener ; every really good 
pce we regard as as incontestable 
pon the 
premises a neat and clean at all times, when not oc- 
ork which renders it impossible. Their 
on his men, and on 
around him. 
It is not wo: to see the connexion between neat- 
pas an ening. The. 
n great pusidction depends, 
ledge of ordinary routine, and upon an acquaintance 
with the more common facta of vegetable life, but als 
upon a constant system of watchfulness and supervi 
sion, and the application to every individual plant of 
just that kind of management which its 
pi requires, and_of no bg An 
will, many cases, foes 
twelvemonth's skill has 
the results which a 
on. || first-rate gardening requisite for other reasons. Neat- 
produce 
mooth, 
|| tiful ; smooth 
| Streams in the landscape ; 
| bea: 
in the Quarter ly whom we quoted on a recent occasion 
29 
patient is a6 better 
peculiar con- | a 
hour’s pee ct | he 
sat in which | they are cultivated. f. he reason« 
ness is one of the habits which 
1. Growing 
in thei es 
of a oothness is one oft the great causes plants ts form carbonic acid (fixed air) i 
f that beauty which renders gardens so —_ ly | by absorbing oxygen (vital air) ginal hele 
'| agreeable to cultiy. “Sm ess,” says | therefore they rob the air of that w is ida neces- 
Mr. Burke, “ is a quali 
do not now Saar ect an 
In tr 
ty so essential to beauty, that I 
aiyhiag | beautiful ae is not 
and flowers, smooth leaves 
of earth in pet ai smooth 
smooth — of birds and 
ite 
animal beauties ; 
sewudsbaisen eooteain nd ru surface ; and 
lee: ET it may be in other respects, it 
pleases no lon 
ow sng y ‘this pode Hac out by ve effect of weeds 
in a garden thness o gon 
when it is "allaea with tufts of Dandelion ; the 
thn flower-bed is destroyed when it is 
auty; and 
we surrender him without further acetate to the 
os ime of those who are the fairest in the creation. 
s there,” says the same accomplished writer 
nese by chronic ee or lingering decline to rt “sini | 
short while 
chamber ae 
ago was 
bes suppose, who a 
he most admired o 
Lae 
f 
cr Lc. . es > 
a Hoe eis or a new pierre ar in the 
absence or dulness of these, appy in the possession 
some fresh-gat eed flower, and in watering and see 
ing a few pots of sal ss lants, up are toher as 
friends, and whose rishin p unde 
care — per 7 but inacraett¥ve con- 
trast to her o me mil 
t he i ose Gera- 
niums before, or he never should have ta them to 
remain. so long—some weighty w n 
xt morning the tome ira gone, but the 
; there is léss Cheerfulness 
sual ; there is a listless wandering of the eyes after 
soiling that is not errs and the good man is too 
not to know how 
th | especially those 
physician, soni of th 
the a yest an 
arge and happy circle, now say, fork sickness med wi 
ent, t, after 
° 
g 
& 
S 
sary to animal Boac and therefore they are prejudicial, 
especially to ersons, 2. Growing plants 
out eitbonic ach acid or fi xed air 
e health of his in patient, permit 
€ presence of — which are thus incessantly 
eoppene | the air 
ust adie tod zeal which te eae 
to ssiee bei ants “ for ray, for 
entering their fee-simple vishodit leaves” yeh who 
tear them 
From the e labouring he: 
bi” "be the conflict that it holds swith pre: 
ts the same for aidance ’gainst 'y> 
we ae permitted to oan ‘that their = 
somewhat better directed, than when they m 
epply the truths of science to the misgovernment of 
ti is doubtless true that plants destroy oxygen gas 
and produce carbonic acid ; but if everything that pro- 
duces that effect was also to be expelled, the patient 
herself must be separated from herself, for a human 
ing consumes more oxygen, and gives off more car- 
pope acid, i in five minutes, than all the plants ina 
We cannot 
by 
air, and pee 
It is one of the m 
in nature, that im 
forth by animals is purifi 
ubrious by plants; if it were aa 
wise, the globe would become pepe 
every leaf, every blade of grass—nay, the finest of the 
een silken threads that fioat about in pools pf water, 
is incessantly occupied, during daylight, in eee ng 
is most ppooutane © change of pestilent air 
have—and few objects are better suited to: he solace of 
n invalid—it be n addition to the 
comfort of a sitting-room, rather than as a substitute 
for the fresh plants which are so much more interest 
ing; for who would be satisfied with looking at a 
arden a pane of walking 
regard 
ish arrives 
this induces activity of mind, a great amount | fair mae aed see Koay t this side up- 
of minute industry ; it enables the gardener instantly wards—with here is more than the comm: 
to note whatever. ma ur ere wi nterest of box-opening in the sick chamber a a 
plants—whether the enemy be-insects, or w ttle tender hammering tiresome knot-loosen- 
other things ive. Seen in their first inning, | ing, EB has removed the lid ;—and there lies Sages. 
they are instantly checked, and the issue of such a| a large oval bell- sue ass fixed down to a stand of ebony, 
system is So far as the plants under actual | some moist sand at the bottom, and here and there | ° 
tivati : the that is| over the wh r ferns. just | 
accustomed to neatness in one respect, cannot re- pushing thei ttle fronds into life, and already 
main satisfied without it in all other pla promise, from their fresh and healthy appearance, “ 
thus one uniform feature of propriety vades | to supply elr growth and i all the b class of effects does not in way way justify the exclu- 
a whole establishment. neathess, on the con-|and interest of the di 0 WHNOTE | OP ‘all plants from sitting-rooms; it only shows 
trary, is brought about by habitual negligence ; their injurious - Itis so. These delicate Tat the necessity of avoiding the presence of such as 
use they are not seen when young ; | for such they are, closely ants down in. an air-  sowerfal aiid oppressive odours, the number of which 
ner was not loo his plants. Then » fi amazing rapidity, ag Wel thtsnaiesehle. 
when they do grow op thei — — - gra- — in time abe seeds which provide a pacncalion st sl hans A ele 
‘ore the slovenly ener, that no lon to succe em. day w pl samene po. ge, | t 
remarks th Wipeel ne of their keeps the ead continually interes Rath Cre < ia ee SO NDATIONS. 
presence, “as to them invisible to body | gress, oy serie from igh eden i pea this su ect, we have obtained the following :— © 
else. Weed re the offspring of habitual neg- while it senders the’ cham pgs ses ncp to the in- ane ant = of forming what are now called os Sune 
ligence ; and he who is habitual a be | valid, provides at the same _ foundations is a“question on which there e much dif- 
a Sisyphean, but cannot be a gardener ; ee atmosp ere more rondted to the aocdinitned ference of opinion ; nor is fference likely to be very 
on the other band, Ling gs s the pA be pemete own tender frames. Wenéed ‘scarcely add, ne eters the soon settled, for this n—that any modeJin which 
ne of th iples 
great elements. 
dening. 
a it not be pS as chen that to be neat is 
That is 
ee another thi satisfaction of knowin that e ghtened a 
Nahe would we be und sisting upon dan- heart in affliction, and gain the gratitude of a humble | magi 
ening. We see no great harm in it if| spirit, in restoring, without the poison, a pleasure that 
oor mo it, I it is undoubted! preferred a} was Wei wh 
thousan Aree! Ey ‘tis is better ayoided.| We ses passage a prominent pase, partly for 
. ear clean linen ; but he would be bts best er paties for its “ia but more especi 
C. 
pékhead to scent with 
is neatness ; the lat 0 
insisted-on.. In that point of view it is of very great 
smile restored, and though recovery m ay ah 
skill, asit is beyond the ken, of man, he at least has 
‘tor the next morning finds: the won 
for the he of m 
importance, no doubt: but attention to it iste er’ that growin 
beyond | 0 
~ —_ ae 
for the 
jally | OT even of st Pt pte i 
arks upon that part ane 1. When i 
ics. 
y processes are explain 
ns remark that there is not, as 
a concrete 
surd than to dig outa 
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