— r 
this is equally true, whatever be the nature of the ap 
ratus by which t eat i arted, In order t 
__ prevent mistakes upon this subject, it should be noted, 
_ that no degree of heat will dry either the air or any- 
_ thing else ; in fact, the best way to dry the air is to 
cool it as much as possible. A wet cloth put into a 
air-tight o< may be baked for seven years, and will 
ih 
= it will ¢ 
ne 
= 
1842.) 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
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JANTED, GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE, Vo. I. 
—Ad dress price, Mr, J, W, Drury, Post-office, Lincoln. 
Che Gardeners’ Chronicte, | 
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1842, 
TINGS Ar THE TWe TWO FOLLOWING WEEKS. 
east Maet r a phe Botanic . BFP. 
‘ + Bhp. = 
Monday, Noy. al Geographical i 
« In the icin of the warm air apparatus ap- 
plied to Mrs. Tyssen’s Conservatory, it is stated 7. 
the air, though heated, does not become dre an 
this is a peculiarity often claimed favourite ne 
triva be i 
contain ; and, 2dly, in re 
e for further moisture, in which latter 
ould be bette: er called thirst 
come out exactly as wet as it entered. is the ai 
and not heat, which is the general ae a for 
e air is the uniy t for super- 
ng. 
ous eee and the hotter it is made, the more 
all at tempts to overcom ten- 
us ese fs of our 1 correspondents 
and we Beli beg our rere ua ae tiie: this useful 
ene sera memory. 0 doubt that the 
wera" gt Na on cette rier the 
eer ‘the] heat ihe heat really dries 
air, but because oe heated air flies away with all the 
moisture it can t “ case is ver, ve 
be ; uc ter is then thrown into 
the air in: the form of vapour a thi 
can aah, and ae no isture is abstracted 
from plan eu indispensable ‘that, 
It the 
in cases “white a high tem e is demanded 
nt su 
or 7 attaching ah Bong urce of rg itself, 
whe a flue or a ee ar ipe. 
conceive that the statement as 
et pects stove Ror a 
Fe Us sioven 
as not ever 
wise ittencic between the hes and 
at must at all tim 
ad nc abundantly a ist for ihe health of the plan * 
This was, no doubt, owing to the dampness of the 
ternal air, that was always forcing its way, loaded with 
moisture, into the interior of the house, fi 
d not escape, and partly, perhaps, to the 
plied by the ve the fu 3 ce, 
althou h the heating of the air-increased its capacity 
for moisture, yet, as there was always an ballasts of 
it for the heated air to take up, the atmosphere in the 
terior of the house never lost the amount of humidity 
demanded by the vegetation exposed to it. 
T time since we gave bo account of some 
observations by Mr. Aiaeeell, cn 
hich he su supposed to 
in proof of which he 
days before, had been 
et oS ahigh he had then in 
pay growing in som miele 
ated, nt in twenty-four hours after the i 
Int n Ae its e e visible 
and br 
produced akg which, three 
fresh ee nd so pe 
e 
the decay had in three bays ex- 
tended to the ym of a half-crown, and the fruit was 
entirely unfit for table. 
Nothing cou ald be more evident a ae the ee 
in question, which appeared to be of the Mucedineo 
group, had | brought on audidlen rottenness ‘a F great ex i - 
e practical 
The seed-like bodies 
anagement of a 9 Piecing 
of these fungi are too fine for the eye to detect, even 
in mas co able ee and they are always 
floating in _ fe aroun age such pla 
a little t abe aded, there 
they me intial @ ‘establish themselves; and when the 
ae of t 
mitting strong currents of air 
among et occasionally, as we particulary xing 
welve: o the mana 
when adve ing a month since 
ment of a rs ruit The eavy, aipletsent pea 
sbuet able in il-venatd fruit-rooms, is no doubt 
caused, either wholly by the 
it is not alone ventilation at Pe times 
which j is calculated to assist in 
it begins to spot, not to say eae, 
pensable, ce inde ed has been pre’ 
cay is ro 
which a ormous brood of such vista plese is 
eaten to ‘a ity SPPCABNS spreading and destroy- 
ing in all directions 
D. NEAT AS A Saw: 
ed gen these. state. 
place when it 
for rite action of ies gencies to. ee beet on 
long one vy seo gaat: A term 0 of existence Pi run, 
by the ravages of parasites, the removal of which is, 
thin our power. The 
toa winidieable ‘ie; - t- 
ting of Med whe softening of the core or solid 
interior of tigied 
tainly whose 
r the first time, demon- 
t 
We aiid invite attention to our report of the 
other papers read to the Microscopical Society at the 
last meeting, 
EXPERIMENTS ON MANURES. 
,, HAVING made some e ayeoume on a smailseale, for 
Germination was much more rapid with the urate than 
ae the guano, and with the green corn than with the 
There was a difference of a fortnight between the 
fitst and the last, and that last was in the unmeasured 
guano pot. 
At the latter end of May, they were re ae a into a 
field, and this was one great’ disadvan 
e 
3 
ard to s 
1, they nae cov 
A rouge with it 
indered 
€ ears in 
net to protec them at the birds, whic 
one disadvantage vious enough ; oh nit 
the access of air, soy en nd cic. t there w 
which could no easily foreseen : itatien ula 
af of some person, who probably imagined that ther 
excellence in plant are- 
fully protected, and who etermined t his 
share in such a valuable prize, plucked a large proportion 
of the finest ears as s as t wer cir- 
umstances were very fatal to’ the success of the experi- 
ments; but if any safe conclusion can drawn fro 
them, as to the merits of th o manures, it is yery 
vour of the urate. 
much against the guano and in f 
Another experiment, on a larger ere a against both 
of them ; for three perches of land in 
than P 
more than the latter. Nevertheless, the ‘weight per bébbel 
was, however, a quarter 0 d 
also tried both t 
Grass is beginning to sre. the vigour which they impart 
to it is very visible. Nitrate of soda, which is not liable 
to the same risk of failure, certainly deepens the colour 
he Grass ; ha of ascertained whether it in- 
creases the bulk of the ay 
ill take this opportunity of mentioning My pa 
of another experiment, whi seems to me tot 
; one 
2 Oo 
on 
what adhered to va ae although the quantity “of soluble 
matter which ,it ¢ more 
equal quantity o q 
= 
eo 
evapora 
tnalytia Prec of vegeestion » may nL upon the 
electrical and magnetic condition*of the earth ? 
n order to remed Smee’ 8 
r 
thé Fn etch degrees, I took measure 
certain: the amount 0 of peo that ate ht be shorted: a it, 
b + al _ deh of the — 
or pe rh manure, called urate, in 
Wheat, I ou the results such as they are, although, 
tw wo causes, they are unsatisfac ree 
history is this pai the beginning ebruary, 
Ww a earth | fo 
t from the field an 
germina 
- the loos growth oft the plants T ther then selected 24 of 
t grains from 
a single seed: the 
in the cultivation of charcoa 
amounted to ten pa in one instance, an 
seven in another. The water 
ounces for the last) and five "fot the first. 
By the cakes of the whole vegetable matter 
a bib cru I hoped to recover the qua 
n, which rer ‘lopment 0 of 
wa two no fs pad ot next two € sown in 
fa eave harlig ap Mae ct lace | ccicklime, the» ext i i tin the following re: pet 
ly 24 3; 4; ering ; in the 3 t ust he wrina- Pert ¥ 
practical operations. Our reason will now be eo > fe hetouen of 
what follows, sa ry pee gyms 
Last ednesday evenin r. Hassall again b 
the subject before the Microsc Paglia. lags ox for the ria rap 
formes, one seed failed to f0W na ca von" wesseeea, | nisi 
of showing 
Eeeuit were not pa but extremely rapid; | | 
