Avausr 13, 1864.] 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
769 
IISHOP AUCKLAND FLORAL and 
RTIC dapes SOCIETY.—The next Exhibition of this 
AA ma ber RE e of Dare 
n ‘ous er 
For + 2L, il. 10s., HI. 10s 
For hi coe i ues mn, E 10s 10s., 1L, 103 
For á Gladio ‘ingle Spikes. y 
For 8 rai M Basket or n. P 21. 10s., 11. 105., 11., 10s. 
py ofi Prizes on application to Secretary. 
N. B.—The i Band of the Firs fe Guards and three other 
Military Bands will perform during the - 
UGBY HORTICULTURAL and COTTAGE 
value, on evidence which is sufficient only to prove 
e deficiencies of the soil to 
has been applied, a. 
E 
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[c] 
e 
value of the letter, whic nevertheless set 
Hs n as determine ne or two trials of this 
sort. For instance, phosphoric acid being found 
to have little influence corn, but to be potent 
with Turnips, and s f ammonia being found 
tek eficial to corn, but ve no influ on 
Turnips, a so-called practical doctrine comes to be 
dedu 5 Rees that borer Nene for a, nitric 
Dorsetshire. A letter, moreover, from Erzer 
had previously been given in p. 
form ceived directly from 
containing in ation r Dr. 
Hernic, the salutary physician at Byazid. A 
section T - KA esl cimens received originally 
y Dr. Erzeroom is given in the 
E Introduction to pie ae Botany” at p. 414, 
showing the very curious disposition of the 
pati 
The sudden 
n appearance, indeed, of these and one 
or two other esculent Lichen 
s has been familiar to 
Indeed, oneof the 
aci 
the c 
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y before to DrLLENIUS 
ad ge ADR 
Wee dy 
The ANNUAL S 
will be held at Ru E on TOES 
U) ds of 120 LÀ in Class 6 
&c., Birining a bi Three Gr 
tl (omm poe d Third ac 
best Collect 
VW. Dr. 
T Dr olet 2 eri to all England), | 
AY, frome 
will be ofred for Plani 
of the Y ie "t 
EV rx pe 
Rugby, Aug. 1: 
| beneficial Hs m on m de Parte s Bat is TEBIG goes 
bee 8 
if it be once 
ANBURY HORTICU RAL 
OPEN PRIZES— 4 
" The LS Wn seid EXHIBITION of this Society is 
when, E sedition to the usual 
rey Ene vie owing are 
ofan Ent of 2s. 6d. 
p 
p win is SA in the least w prove the 
ted 
ental, of at 1 t four 
= s Is Prize, OL E EIS "rh and papae uted, Be r does ee t that no 
Fo best al ias, 24 S, Ist, 31. ; 2i 
For the best 18 Hollyhocks, 2 Booms of each Ish 2l. ; 24, 1. h uoh i increase maf y follo from the use á pire sh or 
Tor tbe beet 12 vari of Verbenas (5 Trusses in a bunch), 1st, 11. ; ite prove that these latter tee ta are not in 
the sa ues s may withhold any prize if the production exhibited is themselves efficacious. ets indicate eal 
considered worthy. " 
Intending Exhibitors must give notice to the Secre on or t eleme » of foo ire itik ndant or ning o 
Ks Saturday, August 2. á 7 ilable a particular £j and proye solia 
a Railways, den P as to the general efficacy of a manu iog agent. 
AS oaken eu , ly the 
e Volunteers e e 
Grounds, | i poene Wet - _ | quality or nature of a particular ae of gr ound, 
‘or further particu mme oe nes AnTLEY, Acting Secre! of little interest m a thos 
57, High Street, Ban 
OYAL HORTICULTURAL 
D KENSINGTON. 
E ARRANGEMENTS, 
SOCIETY. 
who may hav to deal with an adjacent plot. 
a is ‘tien. oa that there are a con- 
tions under which "X acid or ammonia 
ith or toge ^ 
e Ihaver 
gu éd frien 
Sn MMANN from the neighbourhood of Orenburg. 
Similar instances are not of 
Algeria, 
“29th July, 1864. 
received a i - of the MN ag from ag distin- 
ER, of V ie which he thus 
a recent so- a fall of Mains i 1 As v9 a Min 
n PROKESCH-OSTEN, the Austrian me Midi nn e 
M ci sent me rare (6th qd T: of th this. Mani 
which fell with a raiu at Charput, north-west of Diar- 
alludes to 
t * Baro 
ough not qui such falls of Manna 
certainly beer anti Soles tate ae hitherto bee 
bes! n them. It is well known that tl 
after ds xir di 
January, 
aturwissensc 
these 
pretty large gree’ nite, sandstone, and a mar sa me- 
"m of e He : 1 have noi NY Kowe > f- 
ficiently examined al all the greg 
bis of ie be and baked into bread ; 
the Turkish na niii oi ebir. adot. “boghdasi, which means 
, Wedbusin 1 and. follo da; ow of New and Rare 
B nn South n dmg may not, ei alo one the er, exert the 
96th A: iday—Prince Consort’s Birthday: A t. Thus: | Wonder-corn or Though used as a bread, its composi- 
Sout Rensl ington Gardens. Music all day. « 8 tiospli id s tion is remarkable sfe a couksins more than 65 per cent. of 
28th A Saturday. Flower and Fruit Promenade at cx, | ‘‘ Supposing —phosp orio acid, potash, lime, oxalate of lime, whilst on the other hand it has within 25 per 
24th September, Saturday— Promenade and Grape Show at Chiswick, os -— ad eid, ony - be monio, and TIS any eee mattor, amylaceous matter is allied to 
admission Band at SE an arck, and according to BERz&ELIUS, lceland Moss contains 
pom Anise and September, sti ie 1 pposing ammonia, lime, or silicic | 80.8 per cent. of it. “It would appear, indeed, that p 
19th October, Wednesday and follo ys—Fruit and Vegetable | acid, to b tudinis conditions ad FoR egomet 
Shows at South K gton. ff Of: DosphoH i$ th in Asia besides the Parmelia esculenta. 
16th November, Wednesday, and following days— Chrysanthemum | €1H080y phospho eid,” i 8t| “On receiving the interesting letter of M. HarDINGER, 
ies. Show at South Kensington. if land manured ammonia alone gives consulted the valuable *Dictionary of the pm d edited by 
yth exce lebe and following days—International F. a higher return than it does without it, all Dr. W. SMITH, ad did not find be rel the Limes m — any 
28th December, Monday, d following dars hat is proved is that this land “contained an meal ped pale eve Pl oaa idus edd 
and the Processes of Distillai A: er that . e appearance of the Manna in eie viia pri Bienne accom- 
The Gardens are now nate ‘daily. Admission, Mondays, 6d. ; | excess hori i i bridge ed by a fall of rain, is it not probable that moisture, com- 
ae Thursdays, Fridays, and" "Saturdays, 18. p Wednesdays, Moidi hop orio aoid, : S; & pen ed with a liar state of The soil, decasioned Wat 
onthe dare by Fellows’ personal admission or orders, eiiicacto cause a certain E ore wth of the (just as Mushrooms spring Morus pp pater 
EC e Ey. of T non Competition, Volunteers in Uniform are | ammonia was wanting, but rende: efficacious by than that the Lichen should have fallen in the rain ? 
increasing the quantity of ammonia in the Ls cd grb UT eR order ad voy Arten a on 
z hile without this excess of available but not |and Ravworr, as noted in the “Diction: th ine Bibles for 
The Gardeners’ Chronicle efficacious elements, the largest manuring vith m tone et er per rl 
*| ammonia would have had no effect.” And so Holy Writ whilst t e Manna spnicen of 3n RP letter, m 
the: stud D M. Harp ms to come into the same 
SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1864, 
MEETING FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 
Texspiy, Aug. 16 E Libcr (Floral and pau 
THE theory of the mem or MANURES 
subject ie which it is of the highest fiiputbinde 
be 
that all cultivators o e soil sho 
correctly informed, d yet, if we are to trust pees m s ^ ‘be € od dba tall the and 
some recent remar of Baron aed d Ee country co bar ns the same quantity of B, C, D 
ws me verc which omg eultiva! adi dt ., Whereas wi is indisputable that there are 
were we set ‘about m ata sr ided at an E scarcely two fields of the same cou not 
os two fields on the same estate, whic sess the 
fale conclusions as to ‘he value of the agents 
employed. 
It is in m way that the charge is made out. | 
We have learned by the aid devoted 
that plants, ae for their norm wth a 
of elements, as carbon, phosphorus, ‘iio, | 
C., mo 
eae Ad 
other substances. 
It is really imos tan b concludes LIEBIG, that 
as the Man-hu* of the Hebrews, who gave it that 
ce of athing 
category as 
name, or, “ what is it," from m sudden appearance 
viously to them 
men ‘of "s oe pose ro to believe that | pre unknown 
because te er n certain land a * ái 
high Fotr; E Should ie roduce ik pe ffect, or|_ The only new fact in HE R’s letter 
ess an equal value, on all other lands; for if|is the existence of a point of attachment, which 
anure, A, be believed to , we believe, never been observed tet 
ei 
a 
evident, though i ^ general it may p bod very 
very early period. In the 
of Parmelia cæsia, which 
T fre eo eond ition - 
character, and tly the quantity of the perfeot specimens show no tra 
manures B, C, D, must vary in each instance. It} Asr s the sudden appearez of the Manna, 
| must be plain, therefore, that a given “‘ quantity of | it is certainly worthy of note that it always comes 
manure À, be ammonia, phos horie acid, o r With rain, but it is scarcely sible, from its 
num " 
tion in rtion as the land may be differently it can be formed in the e of w 
= siderum ive s ih. constit wi „Eve ble dung, which contains hours, a u e, moreover, which would 
«d puo S hae also s0 MA nutritive elements in ooi unction, produces he entirely at "Bader it o with e natos ure of Lichens 
ifferent en applied in the sam -|in gene es 
E MT idie 2 ding up th is e vegetable ia brie, ty to d t fields," "Thus it follows das a viu toil depth, dad 
replace dt of. DES eorol the eight of bv of nutritive ies that not wh it atteted P vious | 
that if on be wanting, ugh there may be E ihe el i ni ee ae of that a anna hich even i a 
abundance of the rest in the soil, the lant cetimot [tr — Apu ZI wide pt eror E ld not [4 
[ thrive, or if one of them be insufficiently repré-| attis nia (tosa high will prove of prepo |t had e it is not like Nost 
sented, the crop will suffer in direct pro y. Bias to | quantity, are those which will prove of prepon- : escaped ced cra is at oc 
B — that is wanting. F ether dui this, ating value in the manures applied. iud ie os À 
s contended that ammonia possesses in itself no o difficulty in such bodies b drifted over 
higher nourishing or Wu oie value than lime, Tur following ^om ho th x Angust mpa the extensive steppes by boisterous gales, and the 
E C a EE id no higher yalue than potash, and code ana wie NE ju s me circumstance such gales attended by ra 
“ii is is Se “i doctrine; but oh Meam | | account of the interest attached bog the subj sei and |w whet cathe peor ls Ses E "perishing th 
artly becaus gave, so long ago as 
which, ‘a "y ,cierally od adm a fat p. 612), a rather full esu of thes hunger, Bn es zT = 
laws. On the contra y mien ex i natural SCULENT LICHENS, together with figures of two | ree eed, as EN The "Witeh Balls, “consisting ing 
With manures, and draw conclusio p heir Of the principal species, and again —— o à à 
EE ns as to their. subject in 1856 (p. 84), on the occasion of | "ln the text Man ie Mank rn CMM Bar which i Ea 
* Popular Science Review, til, 429, figuring an analogous substance from Melbury, at ote, wit is need 
