468 
THE GAEDENERE : SHEN SS 
[Jury 4, 1857. 
nently established by law in France. say by 
law, “ag by force of authority ; for in no other sense 
even now, after more than a century 
won a si for itself among the people. Scientific 
nd o 
indeed to enli 
excessive annoyance and inconvenience of arik] pe ; 
; in 
T3 
z 
courts 
of decimal habi habit es feebly ecto up among the 
ucated classes. Nevertheless the Ser asa 
het has done its utmost to reject it. Neither 
the despotism of soap Sone nor the despotism 
of monarchy, nor the aoe ism of autocracy has 
ety was insisted opn by positive 
after 
ever forced it into the hearts of the French; and | o 
entertain no t that, e w, were the 
free to choose, the whole decimal scheme would 
scattered to the winds. I stant the good old 
eague and mile, and toi d metre, and pie 
and pouce, and ligne, would snuff out the detested 
myriamètre, and kilomètre, and hectomètre, and 
Het, aud decimètre, and centimètre, an 
millim et; 
Ciaskilate, ‘and the first years of the 
perfectly unintelligible to the pomi ER Dise 
that at last the Imperial Government was com- 
pelled to yield to popular iener ana with the 
aforesaid exception the decimal system w 
tually abolished by a a — of the 12th February, 
1812, establishing what was, d the usual. 
t decimal system,’ and 
by retail were «obliged to provide 
both. The s of the usual weights 
a had T their value peor è to the decimal 
stem also marked on 
optional f for pe dealers to to sell Wy 
led to m that 
nas 1816 to issue a royal decree 
ergata the use of 
either, which 
it was foun 
decimals i in _shops markets, o 
department of trade o 
people of Waiias were obliged to make themselves 
masters of three abies an arc ate systems 
of weights and measures—those of the Monarchy, 
those of the Re 
and it was not till i aoe 1837 that a law was 
eers, Was 
ration of France 
din Erer ee arithmetic, that they 
Id be able to un d and re ne 
E 
th: accomp 
object, all Sera crap! is that the French nation has 
been in learning decimals ; and mean- 
while the confusion, or rather confusion “worse 
confoun: f these c 
HIE 
distric 
” writes Sir CHARLES PASLEY, 
pe 
“ and inquiry in the shops and markets of France in 
the summer of 1854, I know that the same confusion 
mary measures of ¢ 
gb n | coinage, and the ar balira of all such 
| tons, &e. 
any fr a sort} been 
asu 
e| and ar ir 
new npa for the most gainon ings belong“ |h 
i or 
o 
carefu eclar be, as oppga 
to navigation, architecture, an the mechanical ar 
commercia sactions, and the daily tm 
of life, ¢ one of the tibet injudicious that eo a 
do s An : it is this enormous social |e 
nuisan am some of ou doctrinaires are 
doing their best to foto upon the Boonie of England, 
under the much d name of refo 
Let us aie imagine the consequences that must 
follow “the ee on of s scheme among 
f a horse were to be ‘sold he would not 
A 
land eh ar gas or Bn qed but by t 
and cen or his Potatoes t the 
Yelle T èr pe mar. rket thy the peck and | 
the peed: trae at liter, sat decilite 
would be by hectograms, 7 
cagr: If he wanted 
fo 
no 
ters, an our 
theit work no longer sys me rod or perch, but by the 
i we 
er = hi mself or his 
would be 
to new name 
ae 
sobe and thie of the Empire ; | which w 
UIS PHILIPPE to abolish the an un 
the | alik 
ss 
our very milestones ty have 
ag a ae tongue. ould no lai nger be per- 
to speak of milos and furlongs, but of 
| myriameters and kilom 
t is this, or iiia ik it, with which we are 
thie atened by the clever gentlemen n who patronise 
our ate and would i e our arithmetic 
Tates by the warning h o thers’ failures 
cat 2h : es of the tin i 
ER 
PET 
same words, or potas exactly 
eig 
would e | employ the sam 
ey 
the kind of confusion ; 
as it seems to us, m 
worse bettet. a: habe h 
join with those babs are "opposed: to 
these sail prot 
me of i ame 
that of “raver ati 
We ether obje ate to becoming the v 
arithmetical mma however ae the dite at 
hi o be sacrificed. 
Cnanias Pamat kii doi ne good service i offering 
mpromising when 3 to the further pro- 
gress of the gents heresy, and we trust that his 
example will meet with strenuous support. 
n saying ar to be understood as 
objecting to such changes a as can be shown to be 
rovemen 
ere 
guinea ak its jes 
provement ; so moor 
5 florin; so has no 
would be the 
Changes like per the value of which all can per- 
ceive, effec 
ance, 
will awe 
t | the introduction af sa ary pinia among | Acton 
city, of cents into the 
t quarters, barrels, 
inconvenience of the plan would, as it seems to 
ions 
esting E disguising ibe | each 
ny. | GAUDRY, HA 
ims of 
ul S 
; | seat of E. D: Pontifex, 
wn. | 6 inches high and he's 6 
po any theoretical advantages to be e 
9 
which Mr. TUCKER S notice appeared. We lay 
fill 
ed. The sort vi 
ted Sept. 22, 1847, Be 
A HN aR 2, rA whereas the first 
Th The notiee i i eee A 
e notice itse is ve oceu 
tes t be a Soe 
saito amo ones Grapsi in in Mago and its bas 
tot eee d for the las eae mt mr 
aggravated form in 1847. That a 
effects are A 
accompanied by the e E of a ve 
agreeable odour, and ending in the os T 
ingan entire mass of arora}. He says that he hay 
seen the same fungus on Cineraria, 
parama: unication 
. He imagines the atmosphere 
mirate germs of vegetable e life, for whose 
t a proper nidus only is necessa ee 
successive extremely dry and hot ne 
minently favourable to the 
checking the malady, as 
r. Boys. 
s also 
We think it right to i 
statoniotst in justice 
ligence and perseverance are well rn 
tion of his brother gardeners. We. believe at the 
same time 
the precise mys M pm n the discovery of the 
tae pii the 
also “at hoi the Times, tliat tho 
Tiido "Soe iety d’ Encouragement pour V Industrie 
nationale has reported to the Fre nch Government 
that the prize of 10,000f. offered ee ap 
Government ey cconjunetion. with 
jointly due KYLE, an Bal Wei 
a who hest applied sulphur to purpose 
1848 ; Duc Professor of 
Apna ki Verse aha ‘frst st introduoal the 
method in France ; M. GONTIER, a h 
turist at Moston, 
y it ona large scale; and 4, to to M. Heet 
f| Marès, Secretary to the Society of "Agriculture 
artment of the Héra j 
T and BOSNE, 
question. We may possibly offer some 
occasion, 
ir | upon this subject on a future oc 
Ae a oR 
rate of growth and seg 
THE 
some of „the CONIFEROUS PLANTS 
Esq., is @ 
inches: 
he believ: ves to 
see e 
once negative the tatone by me 
Acton n near Lon rnp there 
a | eight pe pineg, whic ag oD a 
ich measures 
height and 9 feet 8 inches through on 
red to the g! 
We bays 
notisi : 
» 18, 
e rest 
cons sista of rors as oe 
to teem with 
that we age stated with strict truth 
niet Pacis who was theist 
q 
