SEPTEMBER 6, 1856.] 
be. He might also. add, that Prot. Henslow’ s pa of | 
In 
THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
599 
Victoria must prefer a pigstye toa pal alace. It is 
| he who would place the days of Aifred before those of | his office of piggerd, ‘to have 
cu 
and take all the wood 
rious | from the hedge-tearers that they shall bring into the 
i therewith 
jarge it was quite "posable: to rar ann angie in 
combi nation with A full 
resembled those of a Red India respects, | 
especially i in the indispensable prepiatin "hy presents, | 
Gosling’s Brid, 
take their ropes and hooks.’ Fiftee 
s? stealera aa spoilers of hedges were pre 
by Prof. Henslow in the late numbers of the Gardeners’ 
er 
“ Recent Researches on “hg Cause of the Fluidity | 
of Sen Blot ” by Dr. B. W. Richardson. — The 
poin Dr. Ri chardson’s researches consisted in 
f lati? i, ammonia, as a co 
n- | bottle | 
any ny thing, says Mr, erts, a pottle of wine from | 
cony, some bro e abe and Sart 9 is from the south | 
rpad and Choctaws were to be propitiated, 
y name 
. The pambe is sufficient to TEENA for great 
astation in the neighbourhood, and these 
i d 
Hedge e-tearing or Bre verre 
m, half a pound of tobacco, | or a strin 
stituent of the living blood, and its escape from b 
The author related a long 
series of demonstrative experiments, all aea bas not only 
à e“ Aithough there is | scarcely a subject of u d 
during © that time 
a a depen „To be set in the stocks re ‘age in 
Kaká oh ane 
, and one 
with brown trend “pein water. 
such 
5 fa 
presence the solubility of the fibrine, and t hes npg reps tne aps 
e fibrine, a d in these pages, yet such as concern rural ersons ought to be who commit Sins t 
fluidity « of blood, depende: d. The penaa of this aftara will most tee «ip aders. In the matter of E rceny. om: offence.’ ie torn oath" “A pessi 
pgm : r Oak timber, for instan curious par- on the manor of Castle Combe in 1557, against har- 
t i exp ains t e different hypothese s which havi e | tieulars, which explain how it is that the country has bouring a a hedge-tearer, proves that this habit prevailed 
previously question, oe shows in | gradually become converted from close forest int reeceptum i quod nullus infra do- 
ow on these sy trenton have org or fell short arable fields. Its value was extremely small, its use minium eo hospitat Elenam Otes, neque aliam per- 
of the t » Dr. Richardson universal an nd e xtravavant, at It is 1 reco orded eean on son. miniis suis se frangit sepes vel spoliat 
"pena a foris faciendi eS 
acid ga of the vies s 1614, so low s price tl 586, it was ordered that the tenan 
the teeth. ‘The presence | of ammonia in the Fiatil writer n tine aay eoaid that $ a; eee carry | shall put aw: ay those ead that stelithe wood, 
econ thou sands of Oak trees their necks. sat scolders, under a y 
— hedges, or are 
8d. 
omy, 
in Col it connected more closely t the 
betw 
n the animal and vegetable moti ut the 
15 
are entries oe. 20 Okis (Oaks) bought for 6s. 8d., 
causes, Ea nature and the treatment of various pgi 
., two se for ls 
d 
The destructive ‘effec ts v$ tree-polling were 
aor in some parishes in South-east Devon at = 
„Smug; gling. “The * “helps that is those w. 
for 2s., as the beer ike deliver ng seldo m em loyed, Tad 
Prof. „Bell sui por Dr. Ri chardson on the ery | at the ease w ir in addit fod An and a cos 4d. a dy, pire doi ing g k f labor 
: and drit ik, „for which 3d. extra poor yA lawless, Man ny a good-sized Ash tree “that 
> his conclusions, d pany aia i e landscape lost its poll or head in the 
Kion of the blood. Fi had seldom a of an investi- | poo n Oa before Altogether, as Mr, Roberts observes, | night, ‘in he stump alone remained.” 
gation conduct: more reg the principles of ea ' Oaks finally cost (on an nates eA = Pa These extracts show how full of interest are Mr. 
und induction, ‘ihe pe wer of ammonia è in upre serving | “‘ snk we tha t the expense of carriage erts’s pages. ith one more ge concerning 
the fluidity of caoutchouc seems to ted wi ith dri i y beer we mus se the volume The invaluable 
substance on aa: blood. Ep.] | Ti so thati in 1744 five | entries in the archives of the Serope family, lords of 
r. Lankester exhibited some wate er take: n from a well Oak trees cost the Carpani of ‘Lyme il. lds. We | the manor of Castle Combe, Wiltshire, enable us to add 
at eaer ll} th to our previous knowledge. " ntries 
cause of illness in a family which had partaken of i r in Dorsetshire was the same all over the | orders about beer date from so earl 6, the reign 
Altho ough at first clear, areia standing a little t time it kingiom. On the contrary it varied gg he Bn accord- | of Pog! VI. The ale-tasters nted ‘Thomas 
gus, apse r had | ing A The cell and other circumstan' Thus | sale ori. a ale to his neighbours while 
been ‘Sent to him for examination, and hi E ap lebrated round table at W indeor was made fad sale, and even while the sign [the Ale- 
year 1356. The prior of Merton sold from po era He w was fi fined 4d. In 1461, one Lau- 
whisk he had found in the well-water « of Broad Street, | his a. near Reading 52 Oaks for 267. 13s. 4d., or ted fi 
den Square, rate of 10s. 3d. each. In 1394, Oaks in the | brewed three times under one een = the sign or 
gs ted with the outbreak of cholera in that «| park of be sold for 97. 19s. 1d., or 4s. 83d. each ; | ale-stake. For understand, 
district i in EEr Th his well ‘had ar pia aT been found | while 467 Maples brought 197. 13s., or 10d. each. In} that upon setting out the sign “that ey was on sa sale, 
to hav ve received into it the contents of house draina; age. | 1458 one great Elm tree there sold for 20s. Cotham | the ale-tasters (tastat res cerevisie@) proceeded to per- 
| belonging to the manor, was let arm ac- | form their office. s man 0 offe nded by brewing three 
cording to the pr: f that and later eras. In the | times, k 
in related a cases in which fungi janet in con- | * This, had it not been detected, would have enabled him to 
taminated water. None of the sect mentioned exhi- 
bited any injurious i agg ed that c e 
by che emical analys pa for 
og 
® 
& 
mn 
Q 
© 
= 
© 
s 
inj 
croscope alone could realise their presence. 
M Mr. M. Masters exhib ited a \ spe cimen of an abnormal | 
e vies foring: , 
| no! 
tasted 
3. Td. e 
were firen 
TOSS the floor joists, as in the present day. The 
e beams, joists, 
ig . hit, 
two root-like organs which had been Enmon in the hollow 
of a trunk of the Rosewood tree ; the root-like branches 
une uppe r t of the cavity in | 
penetrated into the Noran 
of it. Mr. Masters also aahibitdð a a series of microscopic | 
photogssphs by Mr. Delves. 
The 
| Oak Agere ge SA tables, | 
e | growing evil practice, in 
by the proper 6 ‘officers, an d the public might have had 
ale sold to them ‘not body? toa of the corn, or 
wholesome for man’s ) meet this pe: rhaps 
„brower. pod e ee ahali 
or vern 
gii being warned 
? 
that no innkeeper, common 
keep in their houses# any fewe! 
che 
been | bought upa and made its 
p 2 
e constable to rid the same within 
f rooms after 
day, 
This order was made skinit the 
Very little lime was used. Oak cam 
than Ashlar stone. Laths were not in use. The 
daubers, afterwards plasterers, spread their mortar | 
ry ee of Fiymouth ; 
avoided, It has long been Baad iar Be otany. Ep.] 
ebtetws. 
Social History of the the Pole a the Southern 
y &e. By Geo. 
than in poaae that ake of the peat a 
limited to wars, eee met oka to the acts of 
Kings and Emperors the violent outbreaks of 
It is fi 
mee mber, 
‘bed, smelting we irain beh 
dià Bus! "tail to > tetas forth a fruits in the shape 
g 
e e perc 
and to ‘prevent tipplers from having a 
vd 
ATOT 
wing 
he h-ale fi P ee under 
pain SET 186 4d. ; ari PaM HR ia brew or sell till 
publie a was some at. No one was to brew 
poe ti Ph h 
of and dearness. She at “So 
as as the ye year 1563 is an item of 4 onstable’s 
count t of | Lewes „about kéteediie a bil ow the pre- 
a om reer cae 
any parts, may the want of i 
tit for general use, was we felt. 
ottiee writers, took occas' 
tees Se of =a time. He n 
sea 
anes “ik és were 
ond to complain of some = 
tes the reckless consumptio; 
í Some burn Er te lode at a tyme in his hall, 
Some never leave burning till burnt af have all, 
Some, making of havock without any wil 
Make man poore soules without fier t po 
The iron furnaces near the Downs by Brighton had 
popi masses. 
tion of the world in times long p: 
ae 
a and wood to pa ecto: PIN mea 
13s. 4d. ; 
more a m = ga Ls the EE SA 
dom aa oaeiai to as A aai 
= Peba A should edi? 
ason we 
f that 
is an im andae contribution to the po ular 
r 
, | bellows in the ees of Biv ard III. 
inster 
aurean ea 78. FEE ERR EN pie change 
tes S oal, to lds; ; from 2s. 6d. th siyin dred billot 
ood to 8s.; and ship hars from 16s. the 
i i pos o 
anders, astonished the 
introduetion of the domestic 
The bellows of 
been there probably from the 
"The growing scarcity of fuel 
the introduction of laws for the protection of YGmber 
f fuel, befi 
all the ale brewed for the was entirely sold. 
he relief of the poor, a.D. 1590. Whe the Arch 
of Canterbury cet visit his land 
Wo: 
bee 
staved, an 
price a beer at Castle Com 
sta gallon 
be in 1464 wi 
i i x 
Thi 
In 1587 rn price 
° 
Siale oe e> ae S 
Sec: ond a s. s.. A ir e 
KEA pi itis s r O 
Smallest ale... 0 
Best ved fheir houses, a wine i quart 0 
Withou “ 0 
They are to sell tet of their 
three gallons in the house. 
was allowed to sell his grains 
sida ty will buy them at od. ihe bush el, 
very high ; the same is now sold at 4d. the bushel, "Tt 
he elered at Mari oe AD. 1524, by the mayor 
council, that th f 
st ale, 
is 
houses ‘lon 
cir oi 
. 16d. 
One thurindo 
3 gallons of small ale... 
I ay jae year), Isabella Stansby 
k more ae — and prong 
supplied t to the inhabitants of the south-western pa 
and pe common brewers at Lyme, were 
was severely felt. 
contrary, too thin and | unwholesome, and for 
d 
le not ‘mighty o! 
England,” w the 
ascended by aer the low 
barbarism to our present state of refinement 
noni 
| Ther 
oi 
not “to sa sa in the be 
| smith, that 
tiful language of Gold. 
Thorn” 
To pick her | 
were the regular’ 2 wood-ste 
each woman are | prints 
(cereris 
orde: 
prer ifort brue rat Te yim 
ers, hedge-tearers, 
or spoilers = h Heck and, to crown oe the pollers bit 
Ranulph Hocket was appointed in 1578, besides | 
wood or faggot-wood, upon for every time 
