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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
[Jone 13, 1857, 
ignorance ih sco causes that: we ‘even shrink from 
vi 
m better suited to making dar 
an to removing it. 
For entertaining such opinions we have doubt- 
less been ed as unintelligent, obstinately | § 
shutting our eyes to the. Tumino ous theories of the 
at writers on causa e it so: we plead 
taste ‘for, pales Te after a 
ible somet 
who considered causatio ose first 
truths any demonstration of which it is absurdity 
to ee hat we are not alone in this view we 
PY s 
saiodia from a pa 
of ne otto e 
care the el 
irregular leafin 
Eve ar the 
in Sap of ty 
able for this habi 
heads 
t Nettle trees ( — aera, 
ts at Montpellie 
While the eae of thelr 
of 
jand heat; the soil i ungenial, the roots r 
st 
of phenomena t which itre the 
g of tre s 
as certainly intense kesty or alternations v “re 
mmunicated to 
arn -= 
cially hne, gum oozes out under 
stances the wie de ne permanently Ami 
ourselves stated our conviction in this Journal, 
e ha 
has ever pica but t this is sometimes 
spots where is no bud either 
g developed or F atent, and Seas no external injury 
n received, whether accidental or from in 
judicious pruning. 
It is well known how much more Peach trees 
uffer in the open quarter of a uae or him 
no care is taken to protect them, and thi 
amongst ge: wee? why it is Swin the best 
my to obtain such ee though it be 
do uble the annie, pea Pea niaii 
a character lia 
the ear ete may ai ave been, it will avai 
care and scientific treatment 
n where hot walls and other expensive = tami 
phew are out of the question, Mr. PEA 
© | deserves our than 
ks fo 
oint. The fil-ripened wood of s years 
ir | will aka just as "nT = re 
ate whe subject to 
| strong ev ae changes, eat soil and 
| subsoil will be sure to keitaita the evil. We do 
* | not however subseribe to his theory oi a2 conyer- 
im 
whatever cause, there is aves ado of the i 
in 
That the injury often proceeds from a bua w €| has 
en pe he kpa e abundant evidence that the dis- | read 
But hower ver good | E 
ing 
o | unless it is remembered that the trees are truly | course of t 
a and require 
lling A to "this pe vee 
= 
SALE OF POISONS, 
I TAKE the Leny of mapa ie few lines to 
the vane ot e proposed act for the sale of 
now in the Hooke of peen to know 
ment is being mene by the aah in general 
justice is don to us, an nat we ma 
you on 
are colour ur nux Tn ? Some of these y 
and see 
not. be rather s 
blue tops smiling a their own blue 
markings! ? Take the straw trade—what colour shalf 
e have our women’s Aese hats, &c.? It can 
tee old as pure oxalic ac 
the feelings of the note tr paet 
“driers” hape of plumbi acetas, zinci sulphas, 
unity, not o even labelled! Was the idea of 
away from 
oak 
opie are tons of oxalic acid an nually sold, so. 
sorrel. Your obedient servant, H, _ 
Petersfield, “Ue ay 25, 1 
received ihe following extract froma news- 
oe pnt commen s Aom a ues mdent :— 
UICID. 
“Yesterday Mr. ie pple a the coroner, held an 
Q them, and o 
i ; sion of the sap into gum being due to a mere | inquest at the Fox a Inn ord, 
patches of leaves were seen here and there; oxidisation. It is the subtraction of one or more | the death of James “Hustler. The deceased, who was 
other cases they were confined to one side of a 
A pant being pren andthe best” naked partiake. of the constituents of water which makes He had be aron a Jury Street, Pras a 
Sometimes half, or the third, or the quarter of the x ‘tin tae. tae ne a te ‘morning p a 7 vlad, 
tree was th advance of the rest. ‘I can with which...vegeteblo physiology is is most conver- ena his w vite was pa os as oat a young 
find,” adds M. Martrns, ‘no explanation of this mihi; io hy thes Cinsel" tipno prodmiosguni discovered him suspended by the ee asi the eee 
fact ; for to those who say that the vitality of the is a cies not i be neg If all the cells! pisq elling. Some neighbours who were led in ent 
: es is more active than in the others, I | ¥."° SPY = ms break down boy im down. The jury returned a verdict t og 
mere z d ed had ha himself whil tate o ib 
reply that mes rs oy paa the fact miee orri liberate the contained gum, we sho ill have to rary insanity PENRAI PAAT 
abe & | account for its increased densi i Please Tead t e hesen rat pace yay import- 
our eaaa of the physi or physiological do 
causes of the phenomeno: 
It would not beter | NS us to find th at |h 
M. 
so-called explanati MARTIN 
distending ti it a 
naana the stile gener ally in an 
nge 
well how to employ. If the ie indeed sa’ tisfied, 
then we may add that for hs the inexplicable 
may geverally be very readily explained. 
A su o nas has era been published by 
Mr: Fs PEARSON, * pe essing to explain the 
po e of canker suit trees, and at bor 
ntion. The 
ui 
its c 
whieh it holds forth, ain, preven not a PR e Pe new, 
are worth attention, as they tend to show the folly 
of expecting that, without care, plants lke the 
e mae pricot, which come from far 
Sheen denn Tl +h 
they pom Sad vey ty bad kalerat Mr. Tri bes a 
that = buds of the half ripened wood a 
acted by the ons of wet wk cold sedated, 
with heat- og drought, during our changeable 
and often ungenial summers; and he has at- 
si * 2 
Iri 
l enough to teins, but on the 
and it is oo it esol a) ss what it owes its 
noah 
ratu 
vood through 
warmer 
es than our own, can bear sa ene es CON | che 
2 less see fro 
hà 
its way through the y bark above, P in- 
ducing at the same along its course 
We have before us a me: oa an eRe in which 
this has been the ing formed a | w 
circular orifice through the. superiacumbent aaa 
till it burst through the cuticle. The tis 
below the healthy wood were diseased ve 
some ee those parts above i 
j ere the gum forced a 
could mae = no i i 
diseased wi 
may peci aia efect upon 
the matter walsh they contain, though it must be 
mbered that canker does not-always induce 
symptom peculiar- to 
ve = far as regards the 
ubject of | © 
see 
pers qi ne of the Th 
im Practice of Hortcalar in all of which way 
is much valuable i info We do not how- 
co 
completely set at 
rest, Me J. B. 
i h on re layers of | 
which it bursts, ultimately forcing 
~ | person bringing 
mine 
firmed by 
pa have lately been E 
| Decaisne, 2 
lunatic asylum forthwith. 
arms to be provided with a certificate from a priest or 
medical man to T krg that they do not intend to 
me e an improper them. Also all l parmi a 
river. , OF O 
alone! ve 
iai dam plac 
magistrate, and if ar sh to give a 
elves to be sent toa lunati iniy 
gran 
asylums to any extent that may be requ 
the Bill to 
oisons be exa and i 
ediately, him 
asylum of sufficient magnitude be built to receive 
From the Pharmaceutical Journal. 
Hom e'Gorrosponcentt 
Merron Fertilisation eee nite 
of im 
gamic jae respectively ie 
aene antithetical. y 
emselves to nt a the act “t” 
of thë existence of se 
henogenesis 
o without whe per- 
of a 
ural ti of the rf f the pollen. 
vention of the jiewer action o po ew, oie 
eres 30 ichaia ete Mr. J. Smith, of K i 
ilicifolia po er no pres or pollen-be -bearing Organ. 
hee ind were to be fi perfect 
t a arti 
cord, the =i nie aea 
raar vrier at the end of the last e c0 
the female Hemp langes an and his Simens om the vee 
Bernhardi. 
mi an-accont of the 
