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_ THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
_ 654 
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF eokDom? 
E 'Y in Regent- or will take 
place on Tuesday, October the 4th, at 3 o’clock, 
The Gardeners’ eprowicle, 
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1842, 
MEETINGS FOR THE TWO FOLLOWING WEES. 
Tuesday, Oct.4 .~ {orice M. 
Saturday, Oct.8 . Royal Botanic . . . . 4 
covbske Suows.—Oct. 12, Guernsey. 
Ar a late meeting of. the Academy of Scie 
Paris there occurred a very i t 
danger of taking the assertions of experimentalists for 
granted, even when they are made with the greatest 
confidence. 
It appears that a Dr. yd ae Pe the Academy, 
in 1835, a tieitiae eon the n which he stated 
oe Ag tage like that of fe ‘Size ar Cane exists 
and he would s to have 
e 
mces at 
* 
& 
: € proposed .it as 
a iahatl ute in "huis or the sweet reed of t 
pas ions entleman reduced the r 
20 or 25 
ered in, the pon which at that time is still gree 
2 per cent. of raw sugar, besides 4 per race 
of rich and goo asses. 
~ These : stat Suients. were prussiaily opposed to others 
usly madi eaters toy those 
ained, as he 
thought, that sugar is found in axe. in the greatest 
abundance immediately after Howering, and diminishes 
considerably after 6 corn is form They w 
at with the experiments of others who had 
in Grasses, after t the grain i is 
oe is directed id the ear, where it serves for 
the nutrition 8 the young corn, and, changing its 
ex mE most 
sitions were 
g his supposed 
e took for peyote a cer- 
as whey apbhees athe ers he allowed to flower. 
He then crushed them se $ paraiely and he foi that 
wered marked t 
t will 
n direct contradiction to his first 
prreeree Ane however, for Dr. Pallas, it Fe fe 
that ‘his second experiments are not more sai 
than As M. Biot remarks, the indication, of 
would show noth ing mo n the di 
ference in the Hei of the fluids examined, and the 
juice of the Maize m ay | vi cheno in density with- 
of sugar. The mere fact of the a i 
ves — e 
in Ba ede action prolonged more in one 
nt e di 
in B pene of the fluids i in question 
ere, then, we have, as we stated at first, one of 
é cases, of which we Ks contain too 
and observations, put 
thany, in which ex 
; de peor as good evi- 
forth under eens a ae adduced 
dence ph Bf 
value, and only tetid to os teal 
onan Pw rane 0 greater Woipto vient hed 
of modern 
trivances 
ment of A. wi ire eae: pt 
able fo ‘orm. ais.) e only w way. of 
Diatts Gs , tot pel BOR e or a rod, ae Supe 
rafter 0. re nhouse ; and these methods were so 
inconvenient, climbi ants, ough among 
the most iful of ne bm not only for their 
but the brilliancy and variety of 
their flowers, almost ces to be cultivated; except | « 
where the treated as fixtures. Moreover, it 
as found difficult to flower-many kinds whose roots, 
ce | and in waste v 
‘chopped Fern 
oe of no sort of | 
By be waa the roots of clitnbers in garden-pots, 
evils are at once removed ; the plants cat. 
healthy, inlist ower ; and 
to any amount of bottom- 
ey produce. Every o ho 
has ever witnessed the | exhibitions i in the garden of the 
raordinary beauty of the Russelias, and pe ca 
Zichyas, and Hardenbergias, red, yellow, crimson, 
blue, which have graced the stands of even the Ge 
exitsve om wers. 
A deal of i ingenuity, and good taste too, has 
been ian by many gardeners in designi ng the wire- 
work on which climbe: 
ived trellises pre 
pa of 
. hae eee __Applications without erid have been 
fiend shows the. want of sha We have, 
herr, pays ed upon a friend to furnish us witha 
numb drawings for this purpose, any of which fa 
ingenious BAREDES will be to execute with w 
of different sizes, aa we pol publish in. from A na 
me nas 
° "The following would Se well adapted for the coarser 
kinds of creepers, su 
f which would | ificatie abfedt= 
sus, any of which would p cea m cenit appear- 
ance if skilfully sitiliges ti itpail it is 4 
rn, Cuthbert Sohinsoh says,in his Finds Farmer's 
Aastant p- 87, that the Potato delights in rich 3 
eg janures, such as sea-w 
injurious to it. , 
ee ee Martin Doyle says, Hints, p. 48, ‘ Ground 
tl 
neal piece of aground, on the London clay, some 
sear ince a kitchen s laid down 
as_incorporat a ton: 5 
il behing =the ol turf being ng ne OB ort 
pe , 
been taken up itty of excellent Ta and abun- 
dant. From an area of rather Pes q: an 26 rods, 98 
bushels of Potatoes, of 56 Ibs. to to 
an acre. 
as partially overspread by trees, and in one place, for 
the sere of three or four rods, had been an old walk, 
broken up in the trenching, and of very bad pow it 
absence of thos 
s E: 
sg ap a med that, in the 
as, not, however, with lime alone chat aie piece 
of grou was prepared; advantage taken 
of the opportuni r i 
other agents upo 
rison; they Nelded ld y Sct ie picked Po- 
tatoes ory s 
teed e€ sam 
tained, 
The salt cake, thereftre, 
raised the igh above that in the common soi he 
extent t of a his 
trate of one _— forty shillings an acre, incre 
the produc ons; while muriate >of lime, worth a 
r ni, as p rather more. 
in a future season, 
0 crop, and not i 
relat: in conclusion, that the land where 
gro Ww 
slugs ; 3 but that ee 
‘0 
toes ust they wall, i in iece 
of er cay favour us with the recticdnatt of them. 
puree | EXHIBITIO ‘ONS OF ° THE HORTICUL-: 
URAL SOCIETY OF LONDON 
appea 
ba ui as ‘I think a little alteration i in some e points desirable, 
verting to the 
4 gl through the medium of the s’ Chronicle. 
he most. curs: er cannot fal to see that one of 
what is term: 
few single specimens, or at m 
wer, W ly produce a 
ost a at collection, (see 
regulations,) or in spent _— have the means of competing 
for the highest ch are offered. That such is the 
is evident fror notes appended to the letters 
and R, in the list of subjects for exhibition. Thus, there “ 
prizes. offered for] arge c collection: s of Cape Heat hs, and lar 
collections of the same things; but the exhibitors of large col- 
com henge are prohibited from a tting up small collection 
ime; and thus the “small grower” has a chance of 
egree, € being rewarded and — ed, as well as others in a more 
¢ vil with thet - perch sc hte he Been way. These prin ciples are excellent— hey 
= ni pies well, and I would uation 3 wish them to be carried a lit- 
Doyle and Dr. Johnson, yaehe wets aes ae me : 
farther, and applied to letter W—the single speci 
hus writes a rit eae saved Ht The exhibitor of a collection of plants ought 
iS a Bh friend of the Potato ; ait who is not? We be & geetg . put u ‘ single imens’’ of ave 
riots ot ves. Aad aie of the statement, that lime i is in- ore Ppl _ many of those in his 
pene srefore have made it the | « sallection,” for it does no good in a bors cultural ‘point 
jest a little « aeecitieat which we oo leave to oF view ; and tends to incomes ave no 
o show for the head- F sapcin The i for the ase 
a3 lection; is offered’ for beat specimen of h 
fairly Se Pinas 
if he has ap eCLMCR 
_* bet dice nie claims to notice, such, for exat 
tal plant, he ought then 0 be allows 
exhibit this in in “the class of pee, <a RN t 
