38-1849.] 



THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



I: rr 



^hoicFgeraniUxMs at low prices. 



-ct'ILLIAM E. RENDLE and CO., Plymouth, have 

 V\ tf£ season a very excellent stock of the following Gera- 

 *&$S JdE£« 5ft WENTi W |r k m n ^ t0 fo e Uowi ng list, 

 "liOYLE'S CRUSADER, ARNOLD'S VIRGIN 



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growth, while very tender, they had been injured 

 evidently by some outward agent, such as globules 

 of water deposited upon them, which, from some 

 chemical action probably, are often destructive to 

 .such tender tissues, or the freezing of such globules 

 by one of the late frosts of last spring. Whatever 

 the cause might have been, the substance for a defi- 

 nite space was quite brown and seared, and the suc- 

 ceeding vigorous growth of the uninjured port: 

 of the leaf had eventually thrown ofF entirely 

 inert and dead spots. Leaves were found which 

 showed the process of separation in every stage ' "" 

 i pitches hung by a single point, 



J*f» substance." The apertureTwe" 



: - -mined to the centre, but „_ 

 kvfto if P ra senting exactly the appearance of 

 ft* L ■ ,? ade b y insects. Our attention, how- 

 Bfcta g dlrected more especially to all kinds of 

 »e^ a PP e "ances in plants, or accidental injuries, 

 ,**«* induced to ermine a little more closely, 

 frronJ 6 8 ° <Ml found tnat our first judgment was 

 A i * a , s n °t a case of injury from insects at all. 

 Unt J!? V - es . were fou nd which, to a great ex- 

 an early stage of 



by drops 

 apour deposited 

 upon them, and the corroded parte afterwards thrown 



otf l.v the } ,n _u - ..: \ _■ • tti'ii, there is scarcely a 

 " " " placed upon a jury who would 

 perforated by insects, 

 affected bv what are called natural 

 might indeed be peculiarities which 

 mid either have detecte 

 further inquiry, 



with the 6rdinary uncultivated powers of observa- 

 tion, would have passed unheeded. 



We have, indeed, merely supposed a case, 

 suggested by the subject, but it is obvious that 

 numberless analogous cases would occur in such an 

 inquiry, respecting which it would be impossible 

 for a jury, however intelligent in other respects, so 

 long as education is so little directed to natural 

 phenomena, to form a correct judgment. One of 

 L.ur great aims has constantly been to call attention 

 to the necessity of improvement in this branch of 



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run-: winioi i w atkk. 

 ' •■'■:: .'•■■■,. , !; 



i scarcely be called available, unless in citi 



greater effect than water, in extinguishing fire. We 



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 the difficulty has been hew to obtain any such 

 instantaneous and ample supply of them 

 be capable of arresting a conflagration. That diffi- 

 culty has been wholly overcome. By the sudden 

 ignition of a mixture of charcoal, gyi sum, and salt- 

 petre, in a v a prodigious 



volume of carl and aqueous 



vapour is instantaneously extricated, and when 

 directed upon a fire, as ins; 



it r. is Mi. P 'ii i's says w th it - xag deration, an- 

 nihilates it. 



The apparatus by meal 



to get out of order, nor t> 



nor dangerous to keep, nor difficult to a] 



the reverse of all these, wit' 



without the slightest inc 





mon hre-engine in a qu; 



ons in cities may be indifferent to fire, be- 

 lly on guard ; yet even they are not free from 



-: f. uiul i -ks. A i i.i. lU-ln > the, \\«. id- 

 ollows, the firemen are sent for, they arrive, 

 imes are extinguished (perhaps) : but the 

 at least is gutted, and the house is let: a 

 with windows smashed, and tlu furniture 

 .tings ruined h\ i uundation th it is em- 

 ployed. An " annihilator *' in a dwelling-house 

 would render all this impossible ; for, in its em- 

 ployment, nothing is perceptible except its marvel- 

 lous efficiency, brought about by a cloud of pure 

 vapour, scentless, and incapable of soiling a muslin 

 indow curtain. A single discharge of this vapour 

 ould instantaneously extinguish the fiercest fire 



If it is attended with these advantages even in a 



der the unprotected, and unprotectable, condition 

 of all sorts of country property ? Mansions and 

 s, stables, barns. • m I timl er-y ir .-. can 



f be said to enjoy any protection from fire, 

 it they may be paid for by the insurance 

 lies ; but there is no means 

 estruction when fired. No | 





Every day brings 



. We find the 



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The Nottin u 



delay, but by 2 o'clock eight stacks of Wheat were 



consumed- The fire had by this time reached a 



barn filled with i i h \<i i< u-. cu'- ,.ud 



tents, were speedily consumed. The dwelling- 



