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APRIL 23, 1864. ] 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
$91 
Potireg of Books, 
lements of Physics, or Natural Philosophy. By Neil 
Arnott, M.D., "Wc pe = = Edition. 
Longmans, 1864. 
Part I. | 
altogether by 
e air, and 
distinct, not to say opposite. 
hamm iin and really — bea 
s 
the tension of the su 
tk 
is therefore komewhat 
PU patient is floatir g upon the water, on which a 
d the progress of mankind and human rare olee, Dr. 
oing on in the world 
The Natur 
al History Review, Nos. d 14| 
n ss Of science, ye 
distinct from it, and not less e than many of 
selves—it is the diffusion 
g the mass of mankind. 
a 8 
or in books which, if in the living languages, were so 
abstruse and artificial that only a few persons had 
access to their meaning,” &c. 
This he the following mui will serve ag a key to 
explain sm author’s objec writing the work 
before u 
«Bacon truly an et or Natural Man 
‘the root of the sc arts. i Th at its s im portan 
lias 
oe 
ason 
not been mar oe epl 
common ve yi dva ion, is is owing € chic fl 
causes, Ist, the nception, that a deep kn 
— mathematic, which oniy few i a to 
y to S 
ow Tede. of 
M 
Stewart Richardson “Blackwon) avery curious and 
pamphlet 
on regulating the Times and 
An air pillow “supports | w 
rface which incloses 
like a naked 
ich the manage ers of shows imus take iu 
dor seriously. There are i a full practical 
articles on Cauliflower E Aspara oot c dne and o 
the management of Fig dior, sides riety erg ar sles 
on other eim matt 
i ly a sc un iur m h written in plain d 066 rat art] in folds, i is lying between ber and Boo REC D.—Transactions of the Scottish 
ics torhnien? Ja language. Th mt "oed pubis d it, Tiere i bí rt z 3 every point of poe siet: “Society (Vol. LI., Part “Be priest 
com echanics, Hydrostaties, Hydra s, Pneu by the water imiiditely Tenentt th e on lixed Fir Piantations, py W. € Gilchrist ; 
matics, Acoustics, and An ima al Mec cha anics, "thoron ghly | it. Even Sir ‘Astley a ete LEM conversing with | Plantation Roads and V a, by Robert E. Brown; 
D essed a wish to lie Reading-rooms and uie for rking-Men on 
sale, and were translated into the principal langua a bed then before sas: (n feared that his | Landed peres by the e; an Abstract of the 
of Europe, and were largely m agora p" Ameri Sle t bulk m ight rudes it, and lau ughed when he saw i counts for 1862-63; the List of Members, corrected 
and brought up to the present time. The Second Part, the cae that he had made. o March, 1864; Prize Essays, &c. 
which is to be published in the course of the "end 4 D TEE - VETUS a 1 
of Ae Light, Electricity, Magne ism, an iclionary of Chemistry, Pa ngmans 
Astronom _ Dr. A rnott seems T joy from (44 Aci id to Glucose, and completes Garden Memoranda. 
d when the secon lume of wh vi cm will stand at the |__ ROYAL oii acis a A. Borges S apii 
the London U Universit head of this cl Those ds doubt, | KENsrNaroN.— Great chan ing o as 
member of the Senate, ad ignit ty w which he still 2 if any, te read the article a Gutta Per will d hee from the 5 ‘description. 
and it seems always to have been one o of the e grea | The P ater Scien = Review, No. 11 Handi ke), |. en prised t ensington R 
lar article on Re pedis of Plants, by is about, So be Vere a tead of it t two new om 
reluctant world the importance of studying Netoral | M Cooke y om nting Telegraphs, y Mr. being made,— ms Prints Albert’s ge the 
Philosophy ^" for all who i in the present. day pre ete nd to Culley An excelleit number. er in Exhibiti a line with the 
jd i & Norgate) have pe " articles ur alia) Arcades and publie roa in d these 
s Darwinian Sa Salter's monstrous | entrances are be covered with glass, so as 
oi e Replacement of | t© form span-r d houses some 200 feti in length 
Soon ecies, us Dr. Hoo merid we publish e and about 12 feet in height in the centre. Throug 
[NA "Hybr idity ; d ean iud y Oriental Oaks, an them a central walk is to arried, aud on either 
e Parasitism etme Mis dio. of it ^ orchard-house trees intermixed with 
The Rod, the and t ublie, by Sir John Roses and other amental shrubs are e planted 
t in pon n pon the ete creepers 
in ined. Of the altera- 
who take 
as much interest in the etiatn of a few flo ad 
Sea the Salmon Fisheries of Scotland, evidently tions which have baei a sade in the pr ineipal 
the iral one who knows what he writes ita ut. entrance near the Exhibition building, notice has 
acta at oe already been n in our columns on the occasion 
The place in the literature of red mey] the Society’s nies a uf vod (see p. 246). We c 
vaca by “Gossip of the Cercan, theref ely now to ark that the Big Siok roo 
occupied by a periodical of similar char Sa Yen » the bas been 
the Midland and "Northern Florist’s Guide, which | partly glazed, so as to Pt Taste placed under it in 
ears under the management of Mr. W. Dean of : “better light, On the right of this a portion of 
ley. For eight years past, the promoters observe, reades is being fi 
acquir ecessary preliminary ; to an partments of the Arcades, w 
et "that the degree of acquaintance with physics, flowers, as the more perg e in dos higher produce- | on the terrace right a left of the 
which persons | almost, unavoidably acquire by d the “Guide” has been eme rd are beirg put into good repair and 
p ' | projected to minister A. the waite zo the d class of eroe front so asto make them if necessary fit for 
Accordingly to di se men’s im e edt mbers have appeared, and if we may ho! siding “floral seen in, or suitable eee eo 
minds of t conception “and w arked | form io hon these, the new publication | Statuary, intermixed withj Orange trees in tubs 
success ; for he e written mot clearly and intelligibly I worthily o pundia the field it has chosen. In the | | plants of that eecription The Co atory set te 
on subjects of no ordinary difficulty. Moreover he has | firs mber are practical papers on Roses, Gladioli, | also bene n rie ainted and decorated, and we under- 
introduced a itude of curious facts, apt illustrations, i Hollyhocks : ; as well as some keenly critical B that a covered pathway 8 feet in width is to 
as other matters of intere ad) Ss as we do no - seio gf on a lev the galleries on the 
t remarks on the Dahlias sent out in 1863, which are 
an 
ember to have met with i 
vermis 
As a medical i ed ; Dr. Arnott very properly 
insists upon the im of a knowledge of physical 
science to the mella practitioner, and mos sb se nsible 
people 
for 
on the n pun of the Human Skel 
rcely a part of the cot a 
to the Ear 
4 
e north it would appear that Lord Dundreary pro 
the best es of ed ear. 
d or td e det 
Roses and 
April, inform: 
Eee a good paper on Fihi: liso Auricula 
like matters. In a report of a spring |t 
show n Liverpook there is à record of some € 
an | ably fine ee ee a from D Reid, gardene 
y 
el with 
orth side ot it in order to facilitate the esd of 
isitors fro: the and to avoid 
> g ignis d 
el 
also been employed not rt for Tigne 
the Conservatory with gas, e wise the Arcades 
in connection with dt, and the latter are to be warmed 
with 
XE 
£a 
‘super 
Ear d 1 foot items.” es 
n | each fe ic 
of Ee Hyacinths in Lee boxe — wide eue 
and dee 
ough to take the 4 po ots i m angles, an 
gree; that those he 
Pant, ar of which the object is to guard the ER 
18 recom- 
outs as ena wies ee hibitor to 
ectiv 
AAGA his plants A home, and leave fiot to 
done at the sho 
w but to lift the boxes from 
is also bein, ted, "That on the west, side bat twee: 
the EEA ony entranceabove alluded bag the lato 
rt tion Building, is ee ae 
‘ound has been Ps 
ein 
enerally on a level with the in 
surface, bit is one;instance through a "dell to be 
health and to cure or et a evils which befal it, the van = once to the exhibition table. If not Domen with Ferns under the shade of trees. Next 
crowded, and pro y paper or other removable | the boundary fence, a bank planted with trees and 
ravelier possessing moderate powers of observ material Wy De wellin this way. As to dressing, shrubs has been thrown oe and the beck wall of the 
tion 4 3 ew nabled to enliven his webjext by illus. it is “observ ved t t the stem should be kept in an | Arcade is to receive some leafy covering, so 
trati at € has witnessed in foreign lands, so as to get a ues ctly - take off in some ie. its present bald appear- 
Dr. ced dee 2m — ue he also page a s sets Pal eae on the morn ing of the exhibition n, To the rn Annexe is to be committed the 
iity of i etim: ingenuity in and occasionally ogy Amd bells cop de gently | change of holding Messrs. Waterer and Godfrey’s forth- 
application of Enotes anpa to tbe subject that. = lifted wi such im ent, com- | coming American plant show, and already a space of 
would eluci — mencin in the ay of Dei er e and na us egularly d 300 feet in length and 120 feetin width, is 
hapi one of the most ingenious and useful of his | over them to the bottom. This obviates looseness phe laid out in the shape of raised banks, inter- 
inventions is that of the Mriratatio bed, which | has and irregulari rity i in the spike, which will 1 then have, cnm rsed with. M pe hey purpose. The area 
el "n much to the resources of the 
d the comfort of the ' helpless invalid. The 
m apparatus ; how the carpenter made the 
Jaced in it, carefully, but not in the 
that ad p intended : ,but she sid “ Do not 
lor I am uite at ease.” She soon fell into a 
Nic 
house managem 
walls ; the 
| the 2 last, Mr. Fow 
March and Apri 
and propagation € of the Holly ; 
_in d West of 8 Bootiond. grim Magazine 
time le shed ps too nourishment, and rius that 
attributa very comm mented. yale men 
inven the e little favour Shek has been shown to his 
dd: ton, Ist, A the E usce DUE nha = 
er pillow is MM « orelit substitute for 
bel; p the want of a clear notion rt 
tie support Apes ating, and the common | 
weight of a person aes ng 
ienien partly by the strength | 
f the a Ahon sheet ; he con- 
cost md bulk of the complete bea, — 
d people to c" 
ht to 
Before 
dr 
any cheaper and smaller ap 
answerina a degree the same 
on," he 
j; 
the b 
z 
z 
HH 
zu 
bushes, 
fresh soll b being vedi af gme the place o! 
J c m 
on the gro owth feet i in hei ght, n of e ere ection n, and the peat 
is also b 
com des dl wit nt he old house | gotin. The remi aining portion of this annexe is like- 
system and the dn — system ; Peach growing on wise we believe at once to be trenched and otherwise 
Goose EON terpillar, &c. 
trongly recommends the removal| Mr. Nesfield's plim aid down in the body of the 
soil from beneath | garden has, we ot escaped alteration. d ne the 
e burying of it cing os th: 
contrary, walks are 
[and succes method of escaping the ravages of rgd or location. 
sow an ad aeg ort narrow 
e Scottis n Flower shows, | en agr saa to which it is at wa sight 
eni rrr a dede fact, Có amely, that e However f fond Sificalt t find an entrance to see 
one may be of plants, it is really no treat g t anks. 
to Regent's Park, the Pal ce, or ein i the|Is the chelate intended for the instruction of the 
-|new garden at n, after one has for four or | Department of Science and A nd if so what d the 
five years visi ery exhibition of the season.” | Royal Horticultural Society to do with that? Thetrian- 
| The writer suggests a more tasteful arrangement, and | gular Box tracery ornamentations formerly conspicuous 
| intimates that the public 't go to see whose pro-|trom the great central wi have been shut out by 
ductions are ae 4 to see the me aa general | means of hedges, while fences of Poplar 
ew 
|and Laurel traverse the compartments in their 
