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THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
635 
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ‘LONDON. 
| NOTICE, IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the NEXT fe 
TING OF THE SOCIETY in Regent- — hie 
place on Tuesday, October the 4th, at 3 o’clock, r 
The Gardeners’ chile 
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1842, 
MEETINGS ge THE TWO FOLLOWING WEEKS, 
dd Sept. Fiericelthival' "ss Me 
rele cea! 4 > f-Hertieulwral- oe 4... ae 
S $ Floricultural 6 .).0 5 +. 74 jo 
aiushins Oct. yal Botanic . . . » « a UN 
Country Sxows. wi 26, Newcastle. 27, 
© 
™m 
ome most prodigious 
fan hour’s Nonder: Unfortu- 
wing to what size a giv 
ncan a brought by skilful elt 
rtain mete one ma wn a Pin 
a 
so long as these tales rest upon umaaiheptic sie 
they are of no sar Bue ertai 
FE 
ties. 
peat 
e now thinks ~ extracting sunbeams out of ja 
eae me quant. 
languid state fro er-doses of ope 
es order, therefore: to fermi sh aécurate and dathich- gold or other ‘tiling sokatres:its 
tic information upon these points, we have determined 
ouring 
ries baaeaes 
rospect of st success. “But 
Deis 
injury don On magine 
that Aateaacatl in which rede atithéritien tins ponent 
must be well founded. Mr. Solly’s 
pa by no means confirm them 
exp erimen ts, 
On the meta ‘t 
em. t 
would seem that slpharetien, hymns. eas acts de- | fa 
He “I mad 
cidedly i in a beneficial m 
use of the edsawabcbatet of 2 poienage, ae very com- 
pound described by Liebig as being a ‘deadly poison ;’ 
but in place of killing plants, I found that in small 
quantit oduced decidedly beneficial effects; i in 
effect of invigorating them, and of restori 
their leaves to a healthy, green, ae crisp condition. 
The plants with which these effects were best observ 
e the Gar d the com 
e were W 
3 a dilute aan of Sahai He 
“At first 0 nly a few drops of the ie 
es 
n ounce a day, an 
to each plant. 
mre onger an 
een ; the space 
distance from leaf to leaf, was shorter, and the stems 
were stronger si ve whole plant more flourishin 
n the ordinary w ay, aa 
en 
o t hyo» + OY © their pt pan treatment, appear nest recover more 
my ttl a faithful ° tof alk es of ape Pena aj. | apidly when watered with the sokiion of — ul- 
nary ‘sit or a “may be sent ec phuret of arnt than when merely treated with 
At tha common w ewe In ee ~ r ot She 
ros stronger solution was employed than that alrea 
iby = ae i he ee nde may mentioned, containing two drachms of the saturated 
afford, or such observations as our. of solution of hydrosulphuret 0 rye 
them may suggest 3 3 and if the owners will Yr attow at; | WAHT gnd_.of ‘this eight « were-grveu.dsily... Kor 
they shall remain in our. 0: the inspectio of the.carth 
the curiois. T o this plan we set no other limit than 
th specimens to be reported upon shall be pro- 
duced i a or cultivated ground ; but whethe 
in 
the speci e Apples, Cucu wide Pin 
Cabbages, Pottioes: Onions, Mushro 
sort of garden stuff, they wil 
ns i 
of the o 
‘Ratner more than a year. = informed our 
readers that His Grace the nd 
Duke of Devons! 
most liberally placed at the disposal of the ‘Horti- 
cultural 1 Socie ety 0 of London an annual sum for the en- 
a committee was shard $0 and 
invetigation was entrusted to Mr. Edward Solly, jun., 
estigations in analytical chemistry are necessarily 
condueted, we hardly anticipated any results during 
e t season. We have, however, before us the 
first Yeport of the ee which contains some ex: 
ar sly epi 
r 
+ | is the gas lige, aia a effects ae é hel of late as- 
tous wt, re anne away at. all, removed at the expense | ° EY 
: abuHidanet in t 
spent rege 
aoe a ats ts'when wtixe 
small and is chiefly inhaled at 
r in ahother place male asia), 
however, 
— 
Thi Song of no ‘small importance. 7 is 
well sic that one of the most active of all manures 
Sunes it contains. But who shall 
now say t Ais 
it liberates so o plentifully? fe. it so, what a a change 
would be produced i chemists, 
Saandy Sr ae eter given rear off Tie 
by putrid wb co and that it is Trt | potted 
‘As Mr. Solly j 
sulphuretted 
instance been in 0 
eas of saishey — aon beneficial 
ed manner, and it is extremely 
be d- 
in) a mark anner, . 
| worth ri whether it cannot 
anures ; 
opatihcnta + res to ark this in ia It 
be e1 y inv ae a9 ie 
cae a 
t which propose that such stages 
he fheyrétend d 12 inc 
. adviae aie ; 
tommon plan of placing shelf smi shelf, like a series of 
ut ornae 
an arrangement, was to make the pots 
in the tans pid gh bape as that of the plants themselves. 
The great number atter seen at one view neon 
ders 
» and me third, to keep the 
po out of eth - ae. ag 
are ent, va 
ae desirable to protect the plant 
by exposure It is also derivable to 
other m 
s most su uited to their oe 
case, I ca 
spectat hei 
would be niteacied by thet iernests hth in each, faiond 
of havi “= ae attention drawn away by a whole blaze of 
a rears 
ccom oie? ng drawings ar mes the manner in 
s have been deseri 
should be constructed and 
i and the position o 
upon stone tables, resting upon 
brick piers, the an of ciel table being 2 feet 2 inches above 
the level of the floor. 
In stage A there are no shelves; t 
pinged into cylinders (madye “of the same seo oo as 
ns 
be pots being 
n by the 
upon the ta! 
— a with 
8 
the space all round them Selig fille 
blaeads fe tao with the rim of each series of pots. 
object of this plan is to ome ~ sper oa of planting 
various creepers bulbs betwixt each of the 
otted plants; for which there will be plea of room when 
o stem. e pots 
are supposed to rest by their rims upon the edge of the 
goer and may of course be removed with the greatest 
e stage, B, th 
& 
a bh 
ar 
‘Mn the cm + gm stand directly 
t, the space between 
n it requi anging. 
n may be ado ppted “for such pent se rr 
& 
large inpplies of w 
The 
