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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 
1842, 
nea i era es ge TWO FOLLOWING ade FE ; 
Tuesday, Oct. Floricultural, «2... i+ 7% P. 
“seuaieed es 2 - « Royal Botanic . .. . . ae M. 
oUNTRY SHows.—Oct. 12, Guernsey. 
s the influences for good or for evil produced |<. 
on Eee 45; nitrate of are there is one t as been 
very ee aaron to. as been found, in certain 
cases, to er plants short jointed. This was, we be- 
eve, frat ri rem y ortune, the Superintend- 
ent of the Hothouse ba ae t in the Garden of the 
'g 
! : he rate of growth was sensibly checked, 
although the general health of the plants was improved. 
; er experiments in the same garden, by Mr. Gor- 
don, have been tried on F drons in pots, and 
with a similar result. When them at the time 
ro 
is pr wing to t 
under which te pie nae ne the 
rimente upon, a plan a pot is wate 
the fui uid ru oS age between thd ball of earth and the 
sides of me : 1e nd 
t 
nd, Y 
ed, th. fluid slow wly. finds i its 
nd. 
Scougli tha a to the roots—it aon in 
changed i in its nature before it ios them 
through the minute interstices of the soil that i 
eve ya roots. Much, no doubt, is 
als ; i 
with a solution of any salt, the first will in fact. reat 
upon its roots suddenly nearly the whole of it 
the other will perhaps a receive a quarter of i it, Pant 
that. not abruptly. 
he action of he nitrate of soda upon the leaves of 
the Rho 
dodendron 
a uisly netted appéaranc 
; fronts and ed 
the dry and withers 
distributing their branches _ the teal, ofa flower- 
ed. use 
Bigs are re uncontrolled 
are carried out of sight by the excessive length of 
stems, are thus brought "tinmediately before os eye 
| There is spent ee . vantage it this practi 
need n that Ps initn édiaté 
effect of spinpelling "Bratatin to grow wnwards, is 
throw ower. Travellers on 1 the Houns- 
low Road used to look with cslantananeht at the 
branches of Pear-trees led downwards, aves the walls 
of Sir Joseph Banks’s House ; but as. those branches 
were always loade os with ruit, the ee was soon 
imitated, and gave rise, among stlies things, es what 
is * called balloon-training. This always produces an 
abundance of flowers in even the most reetilé trees, 
and of fruit also when the branches oe “A exposed to 
ore night frosts which kill the bloss Just t 
me consequences fo itnbin ng plants 
downwards they are a far greater 
crop of flowers than if permitted to grow at full length, 
= 
purpose are ae forthe brat for com pelting 
olan to grow upside-down - 
po t in all directions over an the 
te they are entangled the paliion is si staat pro- 
at natty Let t the A hans ttern be made the subject 
of trial with, the most cbtinate species, su 
instance, as Bugatti wills, nd we will engage that in 
a few. months it will be loaded Wa clusters of its 
rosy hops. 
For smaller trellises, where little trailing plants mre 
to be employed, the oe pattern may be v 
he 
& easly prin a into use 
* 
nitrate, whose effe is inde 
to the growing — 
These oe suggest a new pe 0 applying — 
is found impossible to make 
plants flower. We should use it of the stre shines _ ANOTHER subject adverted toin Mr. Edward Solly’s 
t when oots have burst report, which we last week alluded, is the action of 
the buds, and fully their two or | muriatic acid on vegetation. There is a very general 
s... But before applying it, we should take | belief that muriatic acid gas is destructive of vegetable 
the pe! of the plant was thoroughly moist ; | life. Messrs. Turner and Christison, in their well- 
s_the®sudd Pe of it by the known experiment oved, as they thought, that 
avourable effe Pp it 
ed theif If Iie ‘By. Sherog taken into the interior 
wis undergoing wee change 
Ir is not becausé some cli fifin 
haye their roots confined in garden pots, nor beca 
aren hen pl ie the open 
qs cou , when ant in 
border of a eH iS Baas nara |e 
cs it dar 
minute quantities of that ome éven so little as a 
| of an inch, difuted with te ye arts of air, de- 
ii ant Of considerable 
latic a mye 
is ‘actoaeatth ce di 
- or two ago, however, 
in the Garden 
obtained rie he i 
accuracy ‘Of 
e | greenhouses; and if w 
tune found that when plants were placed in a con- 
ned situation, and ex to the fumes ab weak 
muriatic acid, so far were Ef ye suffering in con- 
sequence, that they grew 
when. half killed ee 
they repely, recov 
th 
rtune, 
tinctly perceptible. So ibs indeed 
so very cea marked, that we pede since that time 
atic acid. rn restore Re health of ikl pidats fa 
e had had unh 
r, Solly has f found that ae only. is the vapour. of 
muriatic acid inoffensive in moderate quantity, but 
that no action of an unfav ede kind is produced 
upon — even by large quantities apples to the 
roots. Upon this singular fact we mus “ew ote his 
¢., 
dilute rere the one o rar Baling of sii the eee 
of muriatic a 
was difficult to, distir 
ginnin 
foo pees from the other ; tere ad both the sai 
eves 
nu 
and 
aisiotved in fifty 
rachm diluted 
of muriat 
drachm of carbonate of soda, each 
drachms of water ; of these at first one 
ms of concen 
large and p 
arhon e of soda would have an oppc es 
acid would render lime, magnesia, pees “ ge 4 
ic oxides more caged bletae the carbonate of soda 
would facilitate the solution of silica, acids, and or- 
gani mss 
su in the pak 
“During the te a = these erage two 
facts worthy of record were observed: 
th 
muriatic acid; and secon 
exerted on the rate of evaportion of pig tae Mf the 
su 
aay of tid ach) the Hate 
ery large a quantity of this acid t + lants 
Sia free bi 
taste aa common 
We cannot bait Jed this as a highly curious re- 
sult. It is, however, the more able as being 
ame witha fact for which there seems no ex dla~ 
nts are fed aS mouriatic acid, 
AB of perspiration is checked. ‘‘ Thus,” says Mr. 
Solly, “ when two o yorengeas a one pret with 
acid, the other with carbor da, were pl 
sieve cre and watered with three 
watered with the alka- 
eemed by 
be 2 
eat in the middle of the day ; whilst the other re- 
ned crisp and fresh-looking. ‘Subsequen tly it 
ater 
