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SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1850. 
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In our last volume (p. 708) we drew attention to 
the state of some CAMELLIA =n whic ied 
in a mysterious way, in the ga of one of our 
correspondents. t will de — that the 
to the 2 — who 
lants. We entertained no doubt that the ringing 
as with reference ‘to Mr. Dunoan 
sions being paka 4 to afier: En Ehe upper lip 
had grown eo 2 the lower had 
Slightly ave oe as is ieee at i 
o be irreconcileable with injury Eben. frost; the 
awkwardly by —— 
, the lips of the wound would have — 
very irregular each other, and rugged 
of even. This we look upon as conclusive 
j the wound was in much the same 
Camellias 
The coli being now before us, we may as well 
— to another — which this woodeut illus- 
rates. It axiom among Vegetable Phy- 
siologists that — ises in a crude state through the 
where it undergoe nges, after which it 
returns to ore Eim in its — condition yd — 
monly called ahs desce ndin ‘sap. 
proo oils of this being true is the ay 12 my that 
covered with drops of aano Raid, — 5 che 
lower lip remains comparatively dry; and that new 
o so 
opinion ; i 
growth had taken place from d to e; 
tate as it was 
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left in by the knife. All persons who have studied 
oO) x a 
ut that also is, we issible 2 
of the appearance in — d gna 
88 = vegetable physiology are familia -i2 iki Sb; 
martii eee y BM obeover it (a) Nevertheless we find that Proféssor 1 in 
unmistakeable marks of the edge of a Maze the . passage of the 5 we lately reviewed, 
that no 2 of che origin of the flatly contradicts te statement: 
"Tho ah ui e * 2 pa — aga . or 
3 e influence rought to it 
It is possible that ringing may have been — =, 2 e 
—.— of a gardener’s art, for changed there. tee: the relations are too com- 
the the Camellias into flower. | plicated to enable us to offer 
wards, it wil 
ve the wound, and expend it- 
ion of flower buds. But ae 
ve 
things here overlooked. In the first pla 
have known that in the operation of 
— ee the wound 
advanced downwards aieh, 
had 
2 l one place, yet the communication had saat kor 
been nearly 
In the next place 1 should nol, oft | 
account, have been inflicted on the main stem. 
ro wy: ey hae s 
stem of a plant, ae is propelled into the leaves, | w 
cer 
if a ring of bark is removed, soon | de 
e 2 — emphatically condemn the “system 
part oved. Nothing of the kind ogre to have | honest tly state before an — ty that ‘they do 
been "thought of by the gardener, and nse- | what is known to be the un ice -df We 
quence has been the destruction of his — trade.“ Upon ‘this — oint we will adm 
that we spoke more st ih should have 
article of Dec. 8 
to various old tar i 
te was applied 
to unfinished blown plate — . the time ss 
—— plate was made in this country, and that the 
rm has 9 to be em ——— among dealers 
in — me sense, until this day, We are, 
therefore, pme in fairness * recall any ex 
r. 
em of —.— done any thing — 
to the — of the trade. 
But while we freely admit thus much, we do not 
m to Which 
vicious — — whieh unfortunately runs 
through so — and e trust we 
shall wage eer to > fell 4 it our Pede duty to 
expose whenever — interferes with the interests of 
those who look to 
the very small kernel whieh Mr. ‘Barwent Jones 
has enclosed within a rather bulky 
that it is 
adeira, or base hardware 
upon two The first is, that as blown glass 
was invented — hn glass, therefore plate glass 
st have been instance blown, and con- 
— the dealers is clearly authorised to call 
= So far as the custom 
he trade is 3 we have already conceded 
this point. But the public question is not what 
read glass > 1 ut what it now is. It is a 
apology for ng goods e names raed 
buyer no 
erely expressed a , particular social 
d in 1849 ought to bear the 
mysteries veres or be expect 
cients, and w pose that oe are not o 
anxious that ae 1 2 become 
Mr Barweu n is, 
* — glass is known in the trade as 
though great rs p 
of it. ‘Let us ask the 8 trade maria they ate ths. 
| fact in their“ as their price-lists are calle 
| and, as the * why not ? Wey 
the te whe with damp Moss, in ead to p * 
rapid f ora of 
ui e e 
ith of a Mr. 
. 
da G, in ‘buying plate, they do 
— 2 in the case UF tae’ 
and. distine 
indicated by 
