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THE GARDENERY CHRONICLE. 
587 
pt ee SOCIETY OF LONDON 
CAPENSE, mentioned ay’s micle, NOTICE IS 
HEREBY GIVEN, woot they are ready mg “distribution to such 
Fellows of the Society as may apply for themat21, Regent-street. 
Che Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1842, 
MEETINGS FOR THE TRO FOLLOWING iat isigees 
7. 
Cov —Sep High Wycombe. 8, T eddingt 
fries, get ag "9, Shiisby, Maidenhead. 13, Wi 
erie t, Dum. 
Saas arn ‘Berkshire, 
Warwick. 15, Hoddesdon, Kingston, Shrewsbury. 16, 
Salt Hill. 
ies Louth, 
Tue Weeds that are wally difficult to extirpate are 
those which she year after year, whether they seed or 
m stout witha roots, like the Dan- 
n these plants hand-weeding has little effect ; 
for some ealitie be pulled up, and others will by 
means of every broken joint of their shoots. 
n su ural inhabitants of 
wet land, good draining will destroy them, as is the 
case with the Horsetails and Twitch-grasse 
organisation ; its 
comes “eee and ae next step must of 
eat 
Soe eae cae perennial | si 
lo grow is sufficient to invigorate the 
plant, and to supply it with materials out of which to 
It is no matter what weed is—Couch- A cred in 
Cow-parsnep, Coltsfoot, Dock, Thistle, or Rib. -grass e 
die it ig if perpetually deprived of its leaves. alnut, and to \\ 
These rvations, if rightly understood, will be | become amembrane in \\ 
found to poe is gradual Meath of many other | the Pea and Bladder ‘ \) 
ts, the cause of whose ill-health is not suspected. nna. be Re ) 
‘or example, a correspondent asks us this ow | more explicit \ yp 
it is that he s all his white Lilies ines Pear is considered . 
the leaves kite oae up: after a flower-stem: | to consist of five leaves 
st weaken ulbs! and so he cuts | fj a 3 of 
them all off. It is this cutting off that kills his plants: | five a ie inner, 
cherished is bulbs would have and colourless, form- Z 
strong and vigorous, instead of puny and consumptive. ing a corolla; of more in the form of 
stamens, and of five others constituting the seed- 
Many jen Y have been made to Par gs the i i 
modern theory of fruit being formed out of leaves : 
and ha among _ weapons, = .s plent, 
fully used i oeeng = o = It does seem 
main a ‘is only a meta- 
Peach-leaf, or that W "Ki berts 
aie te of the 
auiztng and deena of those who lock. ~ further 
r-tables. 
the lower part of the 
d, and gathers converts, even in s 
their di 
We shall 7m rene go just now into the ques- 
tion formally, but we will ask our readers to look over 
their gardens for cases like th 
bou od 
ose which 
about to produce, and then to explain them if they can 
upon any other naa than that of regarding a 
fruit as a sition of leaves. cor ndent, 
signing himmselé “ Cambricus,” writes thus :— 
, sc} eaten a rude sketch of a blossom of Fuchsia 
tandi 
part was not very 
different. from the 
any shape of 
Pears, with the ex- 
‘and were all exactly alike, although they afterwards 
cha their appearance, an 
rome stamens and others the seed-vessel. This is not 
ter of opinion, or § sear ae of the most direct 
lide ce ; wesee the 
their early state. The 35 Earl thi: in the form of 
a 
us produ so also must the 
because the fruit is nothing but the flower, or a 
art of it, grown older. Yn the Pear, one of the pecu- 
liar Paps asad nature to these altered leaves 
0 grow 
mt} =4 
t 
pose that something occurs to sti- 
ply pa into sar rapi ” growth tha 
correspondent, 
this lengthening of the centre did in n fact take place, 
and the leaves were partially separated from each 
other ; but in separating, they did not lose their 
eshy quality ; and the consequence was the Arti- 
choke-like appearance that is so remark 
n the second instance, the first nd leaves were 
completely consolidated, and had ass med their floral 
amie fi Ise was given w c 
\ 
Ny 
‘ 
OS Og 
—— 
a 
at 
deavoured to repre- 
sent. This 
n | passed 
fruit. I cannot con- 
sider it in _ other 
ight than an 
abortive aide eayour 
of nature to form a branch out of the whorls of leaves 
of which the fructification of plants is composed 
ricultural 
t curiosity. I 
er monstrosity ¢ it 
central leaves, constituting, or ~ d have con 
stituted, the seed- were rapidly ee wees 
each other by the sudden lengthening of the 
and, not aa at that tim en on the amore of 
seed-v ily acquired disk appearance which 
is the rnd condition of a Pear-leaf. 
Such at mere is the Savane given of these and 
similar appearances, by men of science; and such 
seems to be the i intelligible explanation that 
be offered. If, however re believe they 
can finda tion of pe 9 we shall be 
happy to receive it. Perhaps a right reverend — 
and — gician, who thin $ it as pth 
fruit i leaf as it would be to call a 
shovel a Seer en will favour us with his views 
upon the subject 
ON ORGANIC M1 MINERAL MANT MANURES.—No. V. 
By Proressor CHaRLes ss de L (translated from the 
I have POE Giga in pa Tae vs mk that compost, cing 
never to be buried 
IBA 
Zips 
Fas wae A, 
sible, more conclusive 
a the other of the 
doctrine of transform- 
tion, ™ 
other, as is done with P or 
To winter crops it ma n m dvan 
ously in the early spring, when there is no fear of the ma- 
ing substances inter by r. 
The quantity of compost 2 n a given area de- 
pends entirely on ey ; it may require 2,000 lbs. 
per acre, or it may be 10-2 0,000 Ibs. > 1,000 lbs. of com 
¢ will, however, rarely act so as 1,000 Ibs. dry 
substances in a 
oe because the former contains all its 
f “6 * ly well suited for pein “absorption by 
But it is that very quality which speaks in 
favour, 
The Raipn af e raagar gh is gun gel of ten 
e simple cm 
ps 
os one part of lime, f four Aarti of dung, 
o be val ina 
ae months, an up 
If marl is gern instead of bale” then 
one part of Fine, five parts of nag oes and ten parts of — 
are to be mixed ; the heap is to be covered with e 
after three 1 months to be worked up with the pos, and 
lime, ashes s, and humous earth from 
e have been cases, even in 
coverer of an efficient compost has obtained a patent. One 
top in ie 
“ 
z 
p=") 
ifs 
=] 
= 
we 
histles. es, potatoe mayer 
yet, somehow, ‘= Notion. soils When th 
foundation ia wetted with 
