550° TH 
E GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
_{Aveust 16, 1856. 
the P y the of e 
on wet a appears to me wholly u untenable "That 
the disease should nape three days after a thunder- 
to influence the public 
on haven! ide pr a, ceo debated | question ; 3 and, indeed, 
universe, in i itself an act of praise and adoration ? and, 
if ‘SO, may not one at least of the sources of pe appin 
we are promi ised i in a Subaxe state of existence,— 
d 
d and reverential 
storm is no proof that light ming produce a it, for it 3 py Be vi dual, who can prefer no “aad either to th 
might be a mere oineidenee, or ie se fri rom extensive practical experience: o! of the one, or to th 
other attendant circumstan g , to fas upon hir 
by | fi If t uch PIA Ps, paeen 
in the science of lon ha nay, i for | But I may b be phisara to. remark, that whilst s 
sere y) seera to look upon = ect ge I remain open a 
“ Ariel,” ous sorts of o pranks, and further inves tigation, a correspondence of 
all 
setting all laws at defiance. , Now, this: is: not the 
uch nearer 
ppinion exists with respect to others than the public in 
re 
tate of trial, inaya 
r of 
n- |in a pe aeae pr a our ine a in the pow 
pompae nnn those laws and VOTRE A of n 
dp d agy mes min Pars 
o bee cogni f the 
reflections which the air ak ph Sie ‘cal scienee mr 
vated in a right spirit, naturally suggests I ask 
no 
are subject to certain fixed law: 
vary. 
For the benefit of your vonscienthe p ae I will 
inclined to allow. In so far, indeed, as. concerns the 
you, aac ra t more cale pe ated t 
to as 
bei than to induce conceit; to 
uch, 
electrical fuid hos 
one cloud to another ; or, 2d, Bo the earth to the 
clouds; or, 3d, from the clouds -to the earth. This 
takes the following cireum 
a 
aithoogh most soils may contain a sufficiency of the 
presume there is little room for controver BY 5 
1 
consci ous how m of the vast field of "know. 
w small 
inorganic constituents required by the ap a by no | 
means follows that the latter are always in ee 
condition ; and hence it may well happen n that ost 
cases in which land has been long under cultivation, 
Se ae eos under 
cloud, or part of the earth from whieh i 
Sapper a positi ve state of electricity ; and 
becomes, as Baron. Lieb’ 
t| asserts, a matter mount eons 
same necessity. exists i 
manures can Teaia be pcr when we ak that 
se a 
therefore, t to fe “atati us to accept with a more unhe sitas 
g faith the knowledge vouchsafed from on high 
ae subjects which our own unassisted reason is 
incapable of fathoming. ‘Let us not there fore, 
a 
t land.’ — Th males is the fie id of ancient and m 
Seite philoso 
—of the arts 
of it ma: 
A; 
tormi h to which it does pass, in 
ı negative state of e Poy eben the exchange g mjat the first _ commencement of vegetable life, every 
til both are reduced to the condition. I 
aparit sane of electricity ay S, that * moves by con- | ment solely from the e gaseous constitue: the 
i etals, water, | sphere, and from the ai ekto: "of rhe “a 1 in 
Ke. are cuminetona ah will er Pr pha ae: but gins, 
P nE Pis 
which; it vegetated. The only an of “opinion there- 
They w 
t |inenrably poled by. the ‘abominations of its first 
inb abita: it, 
living i in 
] and dedicating its choicest 
é 
fur, being 
almost tor alls ve Poe yos pasagos As ae 
tien ahs 
soundness a Baron Liew position, that a 
o! torms merated above 
cannot influence shy pa we will pas 1 pass over them and 
come to 
the clouds takes place in the follow- 
ted in a cet bee ness with all the requisite 
and all other respec 
perce arnoa to alow of healthy vege: eyii 
or later to draw from the atm o- 
ng mane Ai cloud “kay sin whe fs w ptr 
T A hn a z K 
Next week we shall commence our reports of such 
yan of the sectional business as we think likely to in- 
our readers 
Hotives of of Sooks, 
A Descriptive Dictionary = Fé the Indian Islands. œ 
ductor, ca it is} And d meade. is latter positi 
in the vicinity of — eon conductor, ee chureh, soppoet pi the. viro vegetation m the 
a house, a tree, a object, to which it bropieis 
immediately pace (generally in a zi direction, the: result ? and is it not also Per by such < 
owing to of the ai Ai and is conducted | ments: as those carried = Lois Weeuon, i 
to the cath it is distributed in housand | 1.orthamptonshire, where the t luxuriant Wheat 
different Now with these i ps have b obtained for a pone er of consecutive 
> a 
simply by following | © 
y kind, 
aes 8 Countries. By John Crawfurd, F.R.S. Sra 
Bradbury & Evans. Pp. 459. 
No one knows so m a of 
Are sail as Mr. Crawfurd, ager s Hi er yar. f: 
lished abov ve thirty years ago, still a ook of the 
are we to explain ‘that capa 
city of enb 
eae 
and products of “those fertile regions. In the work now 
before us the learned author has, recast his ma terials, 
that the 
ng ammonia ‘from 
waiter dry hot so cones relent disease and: not | 
electricity. Second, the “illustration” which your cor- 
Soe omen support of his theory is worthy of 
Be this, however, as may, — 
distinetion between this opinion and Ks one attributed | 
| to Baron iebig by: ma ny, who would seem to angine 
that, ordi views, ne derived from 
to v getation. 
artificial sources. 
lidh 
—— ser 
on, w 
moment, whether the 
could | batanes whe a bo eases forded the soppy of 
- teer, by whi 
a wide | extrac 
a reader can find” the subjects. ets he 
absurd exaggerations current respecting that most use- 
4 Coeo-Palm (Cocos-mucifera).* This Palm, so gene- 
rally PEETS Sete the votes world, old ond new, 
would appe o bea native of several of the islands of 
nitrogen, and which in both cases also was primar 
| derived from the decomposition of organic 
, | had been assimilated by plants directly upon its being 
ea It could not have been in ka air, for if it| 
ARAE system 
at a later eae after having been diffused th ugh the 
o suppose that: Baron Li Rex "should 
had been 
have bones: p into the earth, as the earth 
air a ee eee 
f 
TS hed ae moment to this distinction seems 
j in inconsistent with many passages in hi is work, in which, 
cee m conveye = x curren by man. he two most 
frequent names for it a: "the sree p pos the 
Javanese, kalapa. These, with some- corruptions, have 
a very wide circulation, especially oar first. The 
Javan ame extends to the languages of Celebes; 
d even to some of those of the islands of the Molacea 
Sea, but the Malay, to the Philippine tongues, to the 
the South Sea Islands, and even to that cf 
Cree, ia his dapas baseren fe t not 
Ei peie tonnan me E Daubeny 
ee ee eea a a Sa 
phere ss OR om of the b blessed is 
think, a “curious illustra we ws =o ris 
fallacy of his theory. l U GBNEE At iSi ma: insist upon, and the success whi had in adagasear. 
rods proves nothing, ‘for they could on! only act by a ded th fe mpounded only of | “The Coco-Palm is in a good measure a littoral 
he wished to be most free from it. furt Is, the utility of i close to the sea, although growing also ae 
neon be wasted in the refotation of hers and Siete several forms the same time een yielding fruit at a ae distance from it. The 
cate de dmitted. Still the Aitra question remains, erar natives are well aware of this fact, according 6o the 
respecting the Potato disease, but I forbear ; I would set the theoretical truth of Baron Liebig’s. pos wae pS apt quotation from Marsd en’s Sumatra. Not, 
merely suggest that such theorists would do well to p countryman at Laye, ‘if I plant a Coco-Nut, 
pursue thei: 7 for brin mae ng nme of it, but ber einben (oe 
and instead of being lawgivers let each be, what I am, wit ammoniaca or proeuring those | ven district) 3 oo only em for my great 
a Student of J | materials which meian that ingredient ready for use. | children. ninhabited islets, on the western 
—_—_ hes, as those eon- | coast of cae, , afford example: mode in 
Societes, | on 80 liberal aseale by Mr. Lawes | which the Coco-P: oct con by 
i and Dr. Gil come in aid of theory. They stand, as of the partiality of the plant for the imme 
: it were, midway be the abstract principles which | neighbourhood: of the'sea: ‘‘Lhis islan y a 
y Misi or THE British Associa- science points out to the farmer and the ——— pier, ‘is not a mi and so low, a of 
DVANC! T oF Science, CHELTENHAM, bane Ser one o his art which have been hai ti vec apor Bs It is of a sandy soil, and 
Eaa he varn a sui r sun, Italian more tban down to him from one generation to another. y nuts are but. small, yet sweet 
itn a Fish a Pettik i which the records atti ‘foll, eni seen a ia anding th se I ever pades i 
i gathered at y Cheltenham sie semanas their of the clinical ractice in a | infirmary « do to the of that bigness, notwi tan : 
Twenty soa à Annual Session. iy A le is t water clear over ‘ac island. ” Vol. i 
and neighbourhood and the magnificent weather did'not physiologist. It is true that the “experience of a parti- 74: Tissiisliid Sein: intend io idp Pia 
Bf re ter a darge compy, tough the cular hospital may not at all times cide with the | or ‘Cloud Island” of ves, e 
scientifi ' d to receive any p —— prod but this Paos Sanserit; and is distant ae ae 
increase from excitement as they only suggests to it ion of 15 league Haii this einatnk; it —_ evident that ~¢ 
d during ferete ae ein discussion of questions present knowledge, and is ot! allows ed to disturb the nut may be conveyeda long way by sea mii 
Dae i less of political interest, The first EAEE E "otal the pi je physician å in n principles already esi vitality. The same judicious ats naeratan O 
the members took place in the even- lished on vidence. On the con following f ~ in eonenn ustration. ‘The 10th day, being 12 
noha oe dei: The Duke of Argyll resi the whil d about 7 leagues from the islané 
: Professor Daubeny, who rose and Sagan a experience he has pia =n tual ob , he’: feels = ssc Age on the west’ side of it, we saw abuni t 
ma is an a ae oe nates icti h Coco-nuts swimming in the sea, nd we hoisted 
or our inability to a tinny datigt ee fix a Toe le ed eal esis the Ferra our boats and t of them, as also a — 
-of the topics is Sc icatuen principles, which a still more extended serie: or scuttle, rather belonging to some bark. The 
“Ttis well known,” ithe President, “th w nd, and k sweet, and in some, 
Vol. i 474. The Coeo-nuts, caso; 
doubi a wreck. ee 
“ By far the best account of this important Palm 
that of prem drm tyra: Soh gem But is 
not the con! Precise ame Sa irae 
fha C 
* We regret to be'obli raphical orem offict- 
paok a0 thn section Sow enemy. carte: DEST 
officinarum, and 
the Indian and Philippine. 
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