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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE, 



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JSTfie ©arirmerg' Chronicle 



8 A TURD A Y, A UG UST 25, 1849. 

 After the observations in our last journal wer 

 Trees around alkali works, a copy of tin 





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the subject is treated 

 made by one 

 nay be relied 



JE? «w mer's correspondents 

 upon, hard-swearing had more to do 

 ' York than true testimony. We prefer. 



It was proved in court that in the neighbourhood 



" x and bushes were 



g Oak trees 

 losing their 

 or less. These trees had once been 

 in vigorous growth ; they were now become stunted; 

 several were nearly dead. A row of Larch trees 



;re once healthy, and that their diseased appear- 

 ce had been increasing for several years past. 

 This description serves to give a general idea of 

 e class of facts on which the plaintiff relied, and 

 lich the special jury disregarded ; although if they 

 .d ever been within the gate of the Garden of the 

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me kind of injury as that com- 



most dull witted person could 



aiployed to 



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destroy the 



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illy occur in places w 

 ufacturers' chimneys i 

 wet tenacious soil, high winds, frosts, bad land, 

 plantation, were, we understand, assigned 

 mdant's witnesses as causes sufficient to 

 explain the appearance of the Walton vegetation. 

 It is perfectly true that du 



are to be found elsewhere. No n; 

 e over a wooded coun; > with u r meeti _: with 

 cr dying trees ; and he will often find it im- 

 ble to say what the causes are v, 

 1 the mischief. Stagheaded Oaks and Ashes, 

 ay, dying Cherry ami P.un. .> ■ -. pen-hiii, I'u: 

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manufacturers' chimneys, 

 knows how or why. But when 

 ers of such appearances all round 

 when we find that the sides of 

 ,re are most injured ; that where 

 necessarily flow from that c 

 the cases of disease increase ; and when ' 

 all this happening in a fertile soil, where tree 



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find great i 



fiHOICE FLOWER SEEDS FOR PRESENT AND 

 irsowing, lie. Catalogues on application^ ^he^foUomng, 



JJESSRS. STANDISH and NOBLE, 



they hav" 



tttful weeping Cypress f™^* ™*^ f 



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rSeT'rtsI who 

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 ^oind"^ t h t e i. V T le ° f Tomb3> the we , e P in S . tree } a th . e 

 KS'^S"- "'^^^StIn^sh^FSie 'obtained! 



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V, *P»Sii?*L| do » B .««-Per 100; 8-jears Seedlings at 

 *»Mi 36*. per dozen, or 121. 10,. per 100. 



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near the works was red with dead leave 

 were dead. Apple and other trees near th 

 bed plight ; some were dyinj 

 and once healthy young Pear trees were dea 

 side next the chimneys, among them the 

 Egg, one of the hardiest of all varietie: 

 branches were in many cases in the stai 

 sented in the following cut ; the leaves blac 

 blotched, and all the buds at the end of tl 

 of the present year black and dying ; th 

 themselves were withered and shrivel 

 Gooseberry bushes the leaves were sapless 

 I. and many of this year's 

 although as much as 6 inches long were i 

 others the bark was blistered and the 

 They had all the symptoms 



standing in a line with the chimney, both of 

 had, to all appearance, been injured by a stream of 

 vapour proceeding in a straight line from the 

 chimneys. Evidence of the most respectable kind 

 red to show that these Walton 



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,vas contended 

 v fence, by which it 

 brick wall, forming 



been fully deprived of superfluous water in the soil, 

 L sealed 5 

 they really were placed, as was contended, then 



health. But the jury could not understand this. 



1 1 the defence. But no one 

 crop, and clean vigorous 

 Oaks and Whitethorn in bad land. It 

 that the jury should not have thought of that. 



High winds and frosts were also appealed to. But 

 who ever heard of high winds and frost* 

 vegetation in the manner described, over an area of 

 * yards in diameter, and not producing 

 *■*- - neighbourhood. 



lure turning the old 

 d killing the young 

 i Gooseberry ? Yet I 



understand that an at 



