E GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



instead of phosphate of potass, i 



bough these are not, strictly speaking, spring-flowering 



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 •ctim? link with (he plants which succeed them. They 

 m, aa is well known, adapted for wall culture, and are 

 !,- only winter tbwerin- hardy shrubs that possess 

 agrant flowers; they therefore deserve a place in 

 rery garden. The blossoms are principally produced 

 1 ripened laterals and branch* -a of the eurrent year's 

 ■ »wth, nn 1 fertility in these is encouraged by pruning 

 e shoota back (but sparingly), until a proportionate 



enishing a lady's portable flower-bask, t, • r i dr twin ■- 



I ft place with the 

 reed flowers of the season, as Hyacinths, Lily of the 



' inly the most v 



perhaps, 



ament is most required. This species 

 • a bed or group. It also succeeds in 

 ss, If kept cool and moist at the roots 



■rly. If is valuable for replenishing 

 especially in cool rooms. It may not, 

 erally known that if half the plant or 

 I w.th soil (or pro! . 



of potass preponderate greatly over those ot soaa, 

 although derived from the blood, in which the reverse is 

 the case. On the other hand, the presence of phos- 

 «phate of potass, in 

 according to Liebig, 

 salt, which decom- 

 phosphate of potass, 



nee of phosphate oi 



soda in the 



wards disengaging carbonii 



ing phosphate of soda takes up 



>uic acid as it would do alone, and 



spheric pressure, is again given out. In other 



.:-) laces phosphoric acid from it; 



: bat slight mechanical causes 



to give to the latter its preponderance, and to c; 



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will he formed, but this will be expelled by th 

 neys, whilst the carbonic acid when set free escapes by 

 the lungs. But this important function cannot be dis- 

 charged by phosphate of potass, because the latter is 

 already acid, and therefore will not absorb carbonic 

 acid, as phosphate of soda has been shown to do. If 

 these views be well founded, we may perceive a new 



proper supply of it cannot be obtained. On the other 



charged by the presence of phosphate of potass in mus- 

 cular fibre ; and that the fact of sea scurvy arising from a 

 diet consisting of salt food without due admixture of 

 vegetables, may admit of being thus explained. Liebig 

 suggests, that as the blood-vessels and lymphatics, 



alkaline reaction, whilst the fluid contained in the sur- 

 rounding flesh, in consequence of the presence of phos- 

 phate of potass, is acid, an electrical current may be 

 created, by which the functions of the system will be 



Be that, however, as it may, and even making all due 



the several ingredients present in animal food, 

 e probability must surely be admitted, that every one 



ipnnity in the dietary of man. It remains, therefore, 

 point out how far the processes of cookery enable us 



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1 for hum 



remains after 



h Ut°d ^ h Bnb Jj ched P' ants - Thi9 Heath m 4'te viously dissolved in ft will coagulate the rem'" ^^ 



s compost the coagulation of the albumen. When 



, which give it flavour 



mperfect by 



IS 



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150°, by pouring 



[Feb. 24, 



ilin g wafcj 



I for making good soup^ne ve'ry^ont'rar! 



irove most successful, and the raw m 

 should be first placed in cold water, which is afterwaaf 

 to be brought gradually up to the b« i 



insipid, and indeed has so completely lost its natural 

 flesh of a fox thus treated the flavour of beef, by "im! 

 pregnating it with the juices obtained from this latter 

 Owing to the property which boiling water has of 

 coagulating albumen, five times as much matter may be 

 extracted from flesh by cold water as by hot, the only 

 one of its ingredients which is taken up by the latter 

 but not acted upon by cold water, being the gelatine! 

 To this principle, indeed, the nutriment contained in 

 soups has hitherto been principally referred ; but this 

 Liebig maintains to be a mistake, because the quantity 



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upon their quality. Gelatine, i 



though it appears 



it appe 

 o-called proteii 



?ess to their ori 



If incapable of sup. 

 to be formed within 



supply the w 

 going on. 



It is to the 

 ingredients ] 



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tine, then, the lactic acid, and the other 

 nt in the juice of flesh, that we must 

 nutritious ingredients present in soup; 

 nence an extract of meat made with cold water, 

 after being strained off, concentrated by evapora- 

 has been found to be the most supporting kind of 

 recovering from illness. Barmentier 



different from this is the common portable soup sold in 



tablets; this ei I gelatine, and 



rding but little nourishment. It maybe 



only 4 or 5 per cent, o 



Where "the" above" 



s up 80 per cent, of the latter. 



nil supply a soup of a supporting, and, comparatively 

 peaking, of a nutritious character, as in that prepared 

 y M. Soyer according to the following receipt. 



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 )ur, and contribute to 3 m^UnJioreF** fire 



who excel in the growth of beautiful no« • { 

 know so little of the construction and P^* 04 ^- 

 plants. Anyone who has been familiar ^ b * 



