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fLTiaeeas simple as the subject will allow. It must, 

 "HZTbe steadily borne in mind, that "chemistry 

 ETT^ience founded so entirely upon experiment, no 



n experiment, 

 D „,„~ .1 fully unless he personally p^..- 

 CBch experiments as verify its fundamental truths. 

 ET Wrine of lectures and the reading of books will 

 J^benent him who attends to nothing else ; for Che- 

 's, can only be studied to advantage practically, 

 g^udent will acquire more knowledge from one well 

 dieted and carefully observed experiment than he 

 J237 w" 01 * 1 from the mere P erusal of a v ohime ; 

 g^e. 1 e who wishes to analyse his soils, &c, must 

 Zrij read but perform the exper 

 i(T , LiVided into two parts for his convenience; into 

 r^j-itive and quantitative." 'I he author after making 



»fc» chemical tests, both what the component parts of 

 • 0/ the Chemical Constitution of Soils.— Having 



their erect position ; they supply inorganic food to 

 ngetables at every period of their growth ; and they 

 « the medium in which many chemical changes take 

 Mm, as necessary to a right preparation of the various 



t^ds of 1 ,,r| which the soil is destined to yield to the 



I he impalpable portion, which is 

 ^certainly presents the greatest surface for the 

 [^•^ directed in the mechanical examination, and 



al classification. On the classifica- 

 Weet Z I ,. author savs : " The most readv and 

 55^^ of classifying soils is to estimate their 

 tr^T* P"Gciples : such as clay, sand, chalk, and 

 ■"filer fn a ' and - according to the predominance ol 

 **«*> mann e the ° ther conslit . uent > s0 t0 name them - 



*£% a ^"oy loil*; " a m l ch C c°lay^7inore Ch or a iei 

 lime, a calcareous soil ; but if the 

 VitT 3ca |; e m,xtTlr eof sand and i 



B - : ■ . ,,, 



m the field, not rejecting any small stones 



that may be in it ; next expose it freely to the air, till 

 it becomes dry at ordinary temperatures. Process 1st : 

 Weigh out a quantity of this air-dried soil-say 200 



300° F., till it ceases to lose weight. The loss of weight 



volved in the classification, is in itself an interesting point : 

 the per centage of water being known, of a portion of 

 nding to 100 or 1000 parts of 



air-dried soil, correspondin 

 thorough dried soil, can 1 

 operation. Process 2d. T. 

 and mix it in a Florence 1 



-,.,,,, 



en pour off the supernatent Hun 

 lalf this weight b 



divide the loss by four, and 1 





i fluid ounces of hydrocl 



■ : 



^•'i'"'- '•'■'■ us kinds of inor-nie food in a soil is not 



this process until only sand, and matters incapable of 



■ffieent to make it productive of a given crop ; but 



. 



«* .they must be present in such quantity that the 



Collect the suspended matter on a weighs! 



at 300° F. ; weigh the contents thereof, and regard the 



Pbt shall be able readily at the proper season, and 



Minn the time usually allotted to its growth, to obtain 











fc Stance exists. For analysis may show a suffi 

 c -~ j ot t, e bjdy in question for a series of 









both gardeners and farmers cannot do 1 





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useful a work as the present that it should have no index. 



eontaining no carbonate of lime might be dressed 





Miscellaneous. 



"■» » coarse calcareous gravel to such an extent as to 





^t"y of calcareous matter ; ami \< , i •; the rt niire- 

 ■enaofthe croos. he still n>fir«if.nt. in limp. Tn this 



■.,..-; and h-ie is the re- 



: last. We 



band,"'' What must ■ 

 money is a"ll gone, "and we have nothing in the house 

 My husband was very kind ; he ft 



a^the^se'oMhe^flintsl'wny not leave them 



My husband was pleased 



ettled in frugal habits, and not 



- 

 resolved against, as being the ruin of many poor people- 

 to providing 

 for myself, I determined always to keep bread in the 

 house, and to live on bread and water, rather than run 

 in debt. But, instead of eating dry bread, and drinking 



'ch could not 

 *ib to make the 



best use of a: . w," con- 



, presenting very much tl 

 the hairs swells, and at 





. Berkeley, in Hooker's Journal 





Calendar of Operations 







_ ~ ~Hf a 







r through 



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.J,,,,,.,! d.",..., t! - n„ ho can,, 









tiK 











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strength ot daylight and the fine autum 



sun will 







heat range 





j 84° to 87 a . Contiuue to shift any that 



















ces of top and bottom heat, shade, and 







unt 1 they have begun to make roo 







soil This is splendid weather for swelh 



og off fine 





're abundantly supplied 



: 





u;v . without thereby causing them to grow too fast 

















he work of this department, though en 



irely of a 











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tying of herbaceous plants, must not on any account 



a neglected flower gardei 





gression, and a plant with a 



