50—1849.] 



THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



The acid sulphites, and r 

 )[ lime, were employed by 



as fast as it formed by means of the lime. 



Sugar candy dissolved in cold water containing bi- 

 sulphite of lime, even in excess, crystallised entirely, 

 and without undergoing any change, by spontf — ~ 





ture, the coloration was scarcely 

 red Beet-root the colour was completely destroyed, 

 r obtained was perfectly white. 



as, then, that bisulphite of lime < 



in the extraction of sugar ; 1st, as an antiseptic ^ pre- 

 venting the production and action of any M I 



a'clarifier, coagulating at a temperature of?"" •' 

 albuminous and other coagulable matters; 4 

 body bleaching all pre-existing coloured producl 

 » a'body opposing itself in a very high degree to 

 f coloured substances 

 "lurtful acids 



sss, 



nsing this salt 



quantity of sugar which is now iosi m «•■/■ ----- -- 



consequence of the impossibility of washm g it out 

 changed, can be all collected by being dissolved in w, 



