May 24, hal TH 
E GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
359 
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, beautiful though the bottom of Poole Harbour, soaking in water as salt 
held to be simple. 
an l i D: 
d to Chi swick, than 
t en Syde: 
therefore urge on the. avihories to pre 
diately for two exhibitions at Chisw 
fiden 
id 
the wnt “in 
d: 
handed rat to the fund: 
h F.AS., May 
over expenditure wo be 
the Society. An Oldish 
Societtes. 
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LINNEAN, May | 6.—The President, in the chair. Mr. 
as always 
sof Singapore, Malac ho) 4 
> 
Petes ot of 300ks, 
pager By D. S.E. 3d ed. 
Low, 
“Back 
ception i of ‘hydrogen and earbon the emse 
by Sir - Hoo d Mr. We at wood i in the Kew 
matter may be as Mr. 
Journal lar p iane ie Tni of which 
larva ofa small moth e nelosed in th 
OFF 
gi 
» by C. Darwin, Esq. The 
Low believes it to 
80. i a 
argument howe 
however probabl 
chemical de: monstration 
sale water artificially prepared to resemble sea water, 
by t the way brought under 8 ag eon mins resulted i in 
I would | [their giu dka vegetation. the 
ects 
rous In- 
are imme- 2 Mig 
con- 
tem 
An Inquiry into the neds on the te at Bodies of 
aes are to admit that 
r. Low must decompo se 
June is a duodecimo volume by ` Mr. Stainton -T 
| mans), intended to point ou ut the 
E 
enthusiasti tie naturalist 
respects mr e is written 
h in ‘te ex n cathedrd ie whieh ‘does. not im- 
it is 
po’ oiak wih « then right ab ae b 
of progression which he com 
an oiary M -legged caterpillar, na is amusin ng an 
But we fear there is littl 
being pen permitted wd 
a. 
pE sie their formal march for a 
er and flowers. emo y 
abandon ‘Mangeal’s resins for natural history their 
teachers must u — a nas ty the inte ; ; and 
he wet found ladie 
it into o hydrogen and 
without however any apparent influence resulting from 
established his ca: 
but not till the en. 
fhi 
arbon. 
se 80 far as econ is = ay 
n the 
e ome pe 8 
| boarding schools ? 
the latter conditions. Other seeds were also 
ented on by the Re we sea T ees these having 
din sea at Ram gate for about a 
le. 
h meee 
Tare dii ri like Ceri 
rium, preia and 
miu 3 for if he c 
nD. 
month. 
embodied in this paper. The total number = kinds of 
f these 23 
infer from such a 
ould decompose such bodies he would | 
en Memoranda 
a ‘than one-fourth, did not us E days s’ im 
ersion. The seeds of C 
Beyond these remarks we have Aem F 5 ay 6 
other bodies which he cannot decompose are neverthe- | ir 
The 
have no 
he of 
pel show house „has recent y been "Fedia Piaid 
The de 
Te ast degree, for 30 out of 56 seeds pinion gerne 
well after 137 days’ immersion. Of Celery seed, im- 
mersed s —— of several 
were the 
warf y Beans and Hibiscus Manihon both of 
which were killed at 1 ahe and common Peas by 14 
days’ immersion. Tussila ago o Farfara 
doubt that chemists will candidly admit ont the 
has conducted his cause logically, poe e 
nN although, AT ply to their cree 
e doctrines of probability, om may be liar toa 
as made out his case. It may be true x 
compound | of hydrogen and nitrogen, i 
not a 
cht he has 
sulphur is a 
uthor 
Y; oe skil- 
out an osig p , Selected 
for it exhibits bo th 
being of different etna some white aig De arene 
spar and others surfaced with a be au utiful warm yellow 
gravel, have the effect of 
t pn) which the a n filled to much advantage. But 
it | this is not all ; ill be remembered that three si sides of 
y 
I 
ii 
P 
ith something else, and hence that gold is 
and Pitcher preamp the four 
some ti 
to be Phlox pps Trifolium inearnatum, _Litum 
50 ronal men of Science must be pardoned for with- 
gen eral results, on 
vied Ye ewes and aie! nigra, 
g The learn 
eo. 
+l 
t, together wi 
iar immersion. Th is fac 
TS 0 uran 
endogens, and of 
than of the higher eg 
Umbelliferee endured the ; 
f 
ed gates 
salt water "very well, and each (o 
the manner, in which he deals with his s 
J 
ract 
enumeration given 
ed 
r’ concluding remarks upon gold illustrate Lei the o! 
e 
d that 
1i “te the later has now been 
ouses, one of which is 
M: 
ly 
two 
an entrance to t 
je 
“From the of t 
gold, it will be seen that it is not day el 
with any of the other single or undecomposed metals. 
Mors associated 
and skilful manner tl 
alterations 
peaty Poy ao n of tha At the end of one of 
e| But it has 
metals, speech s to the 
of all thes species tried, of 10 ERE only one was 
killed | by a onth’s A immersion. Of e eight Cruciferæ, 
k 
that 
Kr “pa: “afieingafhad iy ri "eye and i 
of t 
conclusion that it 
e 
vitrified bricks for a pice ag pcan y 
n 
t has an 
uses jus 
suit: able corner out of d 
pe of terraces Si 
und w 
beyond that similar terraces, 
with whi ch the 
all in 
walk, and 
nt back on all sides against the walls 
[almost equ ual rese emblance to sulphurets o | _ The | plants whieh | are 
cerium igt i l ver 
which was killed x 25 days’ immersion, and three of | golden-yellow ishes the latter sub th ek is to be tl nvas. i 
1 85d his power of endurance in the | stance. It resists “the action of nitric and l and shady 1 } d Madeira and ‘other 
se of | this family was tags ded to as perhaps surpris- | acids separatel act ry Fer l 
ing, = ace the o in the eir seeds. a, which is like the case with oth er apt ibece igk under this kind of treatment. the ter 
Legumi , all dly, with the metals, a cinnabar and roe park hi f tin. Fur ther, time it is we believe however intended to give them 
exception “ot the h “7 thin seeds of Mimosa sensitiva, | when lightning has struck gil ornaments th rotection. Ina long strip of ground 
which germinated pretty well after 50 days ; three | become blackened and it has been found, on analysing contiguous to iya Fernery is kept an extensive collec- 
species e see just able occasionally to with- | the blackened matter, that the presen of s ulphur was | tion of herbaceous plants, amo noticed the 
stand about 36 days’ immersion, the seeds of the other | distinctly indicated. But whe emi comes fe sulphur ? | new Delphinium cardinale. i d to a 
Legumi having all been kille: bis much shorter | The hypothesis has been proposed that it accompanies | plant of rare beauty and to colour new to the 
r. Darwin sus owever, that it is the | the thunder ; but it is more reasonable to believe that genus to which it belongs. I the co! s 
water and not the salt which kills k era inosæ ; y the action | which we have seen of it can be trusted (an have 
he found fresh “Reliance” Pea all killed by 13 of the lightning. Gold, then, we may fairly assume, | no reason to doubt their correctness), it is as poe a 
days’ i sion in pure water, sulphur, or the elements of sulphur ; a scarlet as rA di e desire’, prettily aet in the’ 
that Ki B killed by i his is no anom aly in the case of gold, sin ce centre with ye yp d when 
shorter period. The author stated in conelstn his | other et we have seen, may be A me known i great 
conviction. that of very few species, as far as yet piar zare or re AEN of sulphur. The powder of | favouri 
know, y isdan ~ ale chymists was pro bably i in manycases| In the a 5 rete observed two 
some seeds would float for this eriod ; and t of Cham rene humilis, $ and in the opperen 
— favourable conditions ont plants might thos tins be } o, ER which its action produced on tin and h p ading in ere various plants, 
f the miles 0 tals, was calculated to i one fa joling tite rmixed here 
- | in in their visionary bape 
Yet we are not entitled to 
ridicule the alchymists. They were | misled by a theory, 
and there with ie Rhododendrons, and other 
things in flower, so as to give te = a dressy 
Pi 
meister, Esq. 
remember how many ages of experimen} th pa: 
we have arrived at the kn eine, such as it 
longed Submersion in , by Jam 
Te scar of this no was to. Peet that i in ary 
the occasi of Poo! e Harbour being deepened, the 
mud the: 
is, which we now possess of the fundamental 
a chem 
<2 hl 
depopited « se veral fact in thickness over a 
Not only did these early ists believe 
ave passed | mi 
truths of 
PP tter may be 
en utzi dards 
and V of sii ter were, how- 
He past s the ir bats 
were in full bloseom ‘they “ese extremely well, and 
ith the am contrast, In 
area YY, shor 
gore, 
lpi inl 
by an vegetation totally different from that of | a 
the neighbouring shore, and con: of Oats a and 
had not 
lly i in the vicinity, an nd 
ae e converted in 
+ 
o antimo 
ked. 
tal ; 
| lit yon te iior pass int 
metal? Gold, then, for anythin 
peared on this new made ground. 
it aj that 
may be a sulphure 
notion of the alchymis sts, sulphu w itself, but br rought to 
to | t 
xtravagant or | Th 
eee in ais a notion. Sulphur passes into selenium, 
ny, | and bush 
ay | the 
g n 
et, or even, founding on the 
st specimens of 
easured 
now 
pt is indeed a treat. The 
open tank with panels pots in it 
D 
3 E hi. 
aters in’ 
head o og cea ppears 
Frome ond the pa Piddle acharse their 
r asks :— sitt too much to suppose 
it, and Mr. Salte 
the plants to stand on, and thus ey eee 
d, 
cannot enter into experim en nts, a a vast period, of 
„ and form pitebers in such profusion 
_ Gold is manifestly ee alge 5 ay of t 
ae e globe, and has 
n roar under ons hicks we can never 
We cannot “hope, ‘ike the i alchymists, to form 
even probably excel, their wild beamty 
t 
that a Bite a of 
, probably considerable. 
the limits of a reaso 
able to prove its pi amaga fe oe gs 
we possess, and by means a which other bodies, before 
en 
his wonderful plant, sites 
Skeleton oe resemble beautiful neinni is planted 
in the bottom of these pans the soil in which is covered 
