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MANURE COMPANY, 





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Ite asticttltural ©ajette* 



SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1849 



mSif 1 "? W THi^oToLLOWING WEEKS 



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iginal work. But 'looking" to ~th 

 •^ordinary progress of vegetation, w 



irectly produced them. 



of the nme kind. Whence. 



nate? It may be 



birds voided the seeds there, ai 



en, did the Cloi 



that seeds adheri _ 

 tassing from stables 



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not rather suppose th< 

 y in the ground, and tc 



Clover plants which a 



ductio'n o/pTantTof o 

 ceding occupiers ? X 



i by means of the 



' which, through 1 some 



resequence of 

 vegetative principles ui 

 wy to them ! 

 ■ 

 that there are ti 



: them by the Poppy plant 1 

 ; may be objected that seeds could not i 

 ecomposed in the earth, surrounded by exi 

 sture or other dissolving agencies. But is 

 possible that seeds may be preserved even in 

 by certain chemical combinations ? The ; 

 which abounds in peat has the property of preserving 

 the fibrous parts of plants, and even of anin.nl sub- 

 very long period ; and is it mil p ....sibh 

 .logous cause may not only tend to pre- 

 but prevent them from germinating 

 acted upon by pa 





.nic battery, in which the more oxidisable and, 

 it happens, the cheaper metal wastes, while the 

 pper is preserved. We hear much of analogies 

 between mineral and vegetable productions ; and 

 plant, by contiguity with another in a 

 ilagous manner, protect it from decom- 

 position, or save the vital parts of dormant seed 

 from destruction by external agents 1 And, on the 

 her hand, may not the lime or ashes applied free 

 lis seed from the chemical powers which had kept 

 alike from vegetation and decay 1 

 We know, too, that seeds are wonderfully furnished 

 ith the means of self-preservation until the proper 



Beans, Peas, Grass seeds, and grain fruits, are so 

 fenced on all sides— so shut up and protected, that 

 (whilst the seed itself is rudely handled, tossed into 

 sacks, shovelled into heaps) the sacred particle, the 



will sponta?ieousty produce 



be presumi jiments, and perhaps of 1 1. 



power first formed the earth, ou * a S ainst deca J- A grain of Mustard seed has 

 ' all its stages, I [ « a hundred years, 



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plant." * Grains of Vi 

 " thousands of years, are said to have pre- 





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la PPHcations could not have contained 



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