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‘The Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
~ SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1842. 
MEETINGS } FOR THE TH FOLLOWING WEEKS. 
Tuesday, ological . . 84, a. 
Jan.2 + + + = tg Riad ical . 8 Pp. a. 
onesies, aa: 4 . . « Geologic » 8h pm 
Friday, Jan. os ~Botanioal eS. ®t or Mu 
Atrnoves, as we stated last week, = cpt ae 
drainage of eek is one of the most certai mme- 
~ diate methods of improving its prusluett tates yet it is 
“not the only means to be employe anuring is 
taal as necessary ; and fortunately this too is to be 
ore ainly by manual labour, applied to th 
and a of aelatol now utterly 
\ ong 
o 
anures ts are as wa a as 
as ignorant. Bountifu 
_ proportion as 
that population should be multipli man, 
nable to comprehend these rp Ale arrangements, 
wastes the materials intended to sustain 
of ages, a ost 
and towns, forming hillocks of considerable 
condi the export which m might really form a 
_ very beneficial trade to thos countries more advanced 
e poorer soils are worthless 
manure. 
nnecessary 
import samprerigence from Central Russia—plenty 
a ao be had in a glan 
pon th is subject we 
F to the Commissioners in 1842 
4 ~ a iettoasstisitson that the 
enormous mass of the richest fertilising materials, not 
q Siena sted, bu 
(of pestilence of which fee Jie have an idea. In one 
t this has caused 
as population is aoe the means of footing f 
ould: refer the reader to the funds to the workin 
- for the ‘ater ni gat 
ere arket. 
and, the emg ag eed towns generally, 
id 
condition pro- 
tails (especial e 30 
hardly ct oR evidence of & Ps © 2) 
1 this vileness is 
in England, cha claims so much credit for cleanli- 
ness and _ Propriety. One instance, however, is so 
At p. ee Commissioners re that 
wns visited, A. is the w sna read 
ese di 
perpetually rising, and produces 
ever of a aa character Cases of typhus fever are 
penings to the of this town are exceed- 
ingly veer Zh in hot’ weather ; the ditches _ some- 
and their nae ntents, w upon 
5, ae he eetrordinary 
hese 
fadarehere typhus 
th sincepbets't is thus pol- 
the ignorance dem lasiness of man, is— 
Winpsor, the seat of Ro 
ere, then, - an i elealale e source of mischief, on 
the one hand, and of wealth on the other, which only 
ur ts cp tere » _ m ge to a _ 
is only necessar i? 
uld direct them what . om 
ve s0GMd cause the poor nplo ed. ‘i 
karethe together such matters re isle to farmers 
and gardeners; and, in order to 
estroy the nuisance | ¢. 
> 
of collecting them, the ey should use some of the disin- 
‘pees Par ti which might easily | be had ata cheap 
ee coieaal could be sold for, the st ee fall on 
id t rates ; it 
r the ste 0 
. Ifthe law in its 
pr Heche oon will not sanction pda a proc 9: the 
law shou mediately Ke altered ; and, int an 
while, fudividusl should éyaeublie subscribe thet 
Suppos 
the wealthier inhabitants of every parish were to ri 
nish the money pee 8 employ the poor, and were to 
divide the loss, i g them ; would 
not that be 
-Se 
= 
ge Ww oie 
— ether; and that. 
ae ould subser ibe 
y, and were only oceupied agai h how is this—that in a country like England, where 
“anew and feeble ; sinciest Revie rae sero skill and capital so much abound, thereis this unwill 
* similar visitat e annual amount of —— to jefe! either to the most producti 
preventible causes, mainly 
the deleterious effects of those very 
our fields, is stated to be 
the amount of w Siar suffered by the 
a les in the battle of Waterloo.” It is the 
accumulation of ate matter in ditches, court 
uses,t a) 
n their immediate vicinity, 
pollutes the air eat) produces he 
Ay Same matter which, when restored to 
den: Ngeeaie it capable of ae new crops of 
e prin ve streets” 
cclesfield, all 
In the 
erpool and Manchester, Wigan, Durham, 
se een cy Sint 
n 8vo volume of 4 
is was foundin London, in the beth cops sh of St. Giles, inalarge’ 
“feet in oe to take ‘place in 
houses letting at from 3 
. to 401, a 
the. ey" to ee sree of |. 
the oie gee 
mm 
as ‘all as eiecko -lantern 
not apathy, nor want of 
ee meetin in Hert ordshire some time since, 
4 ~ which 
aa distri 
ed t the time, and the subject has 
been loudly aise a at Tr cecilia athe 
winter in the manner we have sug. 
cannot ‘ini for tardy law, rte His his — is in 
bread, blan 
or coals to 
reason rf 
take a s necessi 
sixpence masts fo is cht a sae 
like 
diate vicinity of the towns, and of the poorer d 
the towns themselves, presents 
ants is impaired. Within 
— streets filthy, the air feet 
the ¢ train, destit tution and U the 
nee 
ould in a great measure restore healt, avert the 
recurrence of disease, and, if properly spent would pro- 
mote abundance, che the demaad 
poor and 
thinly clad with oa except rushes and k sae fa- 
voure uperabund 
n population, would give 
ment of which they stand i 
peculiar need, 
relieve them fro tw is their own cause of 
ion, and re for use on the land as a means of 
of existing burdens, ee might be rendered productive of 
general adyant means, gui y science, 
sppuel by properly qualified officers, be resorted to."’ 
We last year rey hg Ser ed into — the 
statements made by “peng ing ] respecting ceriain 
raordin that spasieiiion to 
added that 
Proceedings of the land Agri- 
cultural Society that Capt. Seabell and mii a 
men, have reported ~~ the mi aang its action, 
which have been exam m, do not joni 
the high "character tha has a ne it. 
clay lan it had produced no visible 
effect ; and on shtadlow land in another place there 
was no perceptible difference rete e parts un- 
manured and those which had been dressed with 
Daniell’s manure. These gentlemen also state that at 
Kingsweston, on some land of Mr. Miles, this su 
stance had been ith with no sort of 
advantage ; and, as the yeneral result of their inquiries, 
they report “ their unanimous apie that Daniell’s 
“ manur to produce those beneficial results 
“they expected to have witnessed; but whether any 
“peculiarity of the se dar asia he 
ther causes of which the 
nteracted its ei aay, th ‘hep could not 
“tell. They reco scr peges 
upon 
“ manure on a field of Turni 
tried bone-dust, and the result was, that 
manure ; 
“some part of the Wheat fooking? yery un 
“ had 
ismissing | « had tried 150 bushels of it on ome 
“9 and manures; and he ex ; 
« self highly vtistied wi e effect e 
«dust aud the patent manure, and that he firmly be- 
“lieved them to be far superior to all nu 
* on grass 
“that unless 
i “swept away. It was a manure wi 
