52 
THE GARDENERS’ 
pO 
A 
CHRONICLE. 
[JAN. 26, 
ee ee e a eee n that 
it would be equivalent to the amoun ag r It was 
at last discovered * — the blowin: g process „ a 
large premium aneda realised ; this was done to 
` a considerable exte: . Cooxsox and Co., 
who made “blown 1 N from 1814 to 1817 ex- 
realised in pr 
— Ža or that purpose, and 
above 70,0007., hence the resusci tation of blown plats: 
necessity of continuing the same name. (See 
8 13th ar ort of the 
mmission of Excise Enquiry, page 90.) 
When this system was arrested by an Act of Par- 
Hament, the manufacture of blew plate again 
became extinct and the term obsolete, 8 
ing that ee ee above one-eighth of 
WAS IN eres 
* , aboy P 
See, as to this, the evidence of Mr. eee) page 133, 
reference to this very matter, blown 
manufacturer of course, in his tariff and elsewhere, il is no 
6d. p 
foot, ee he had dog only 3s. A case so e e 
anal e in queston occurred shortly 
principle ; 
necessa sare to be attended = 2 the manufacture, to 
entitle it to the privilege of broad glass, w lich 
conditions were en to ‘deteriorate the quality. 
Mr. Harttey, although co with these con- 
ditions, so iava the ality, that 
facturers called upon the nario it with 
Sage 
the sheet glass duty, 1 i essentially the 
same article, and would be considered such cmd them, 
arrespective of any tariff or Act of Parlia and 
on the ground that the article was anf ‘sheet 
ding its trade or legal name, an 
as passed ex hires sly to Subject 
same rate of duty as sheet glass. The 
oad or 1 immediately became Wees, 
and kagol into 
From the pe bec statement, 42 must be evident 
of Parliament a 
' ia 
the manu- 
may justify a glass 
declaring that mest t glass i is plate —_ but can be of 
no value or authority whatever in defining themeaning 
of a term i in an architeet’s eee in 1849. As 
232 838 
l; 
2 draw I 
Provided wi 
ur 
ips it at once 
of those 
ith — e buyers have 
real 3 for Se If, however, they still Gad 
misconception, or legal- disputes, they | may e easily | + 
avoid them by Satine upon 
eighth of an inch is thickness 
thickness an addition 
earance, or against a risk from 
hail = as os per in England. 
estion now that rough plate 
glass is ike most beantifal, as well as the most useful, 
kind of glass that can be employed in 
It is oink from all the fa alts of sheet or trans 
glass, and it has m 
— a a single, 8 
say, indeed, that 
glass. Upo “ares 1 a friend has 
= the follow wing sta wee 
et-off. Peo 
ric methods being eg 
ne ‘the ted the you requir 
e 
ordinary e 
plane onl 
employed one which ! 
‘iments g 
covered . 3 1 t paper ; ; 
and 
"EERE plate) you n me ake one 
p giier rei a rough glass, an 
side by side in the same 
surface of t 
we know from establish 
roots, warns th 
[erum them to “touch a ae e. 
in horticulture. * 
any advantages aero to itself, 
opie 
eae light than smooth | i 
ition of 55 the coro! 
tted decreases) with the gies of 
ht transmit 
the incidence, and law of this ase 
anged the inclination of 
nsibly eq and, 
pee at which this. est took bite 
that the rough glass cular 
incidence, — dne lh! 1 ig tag the smooth 
sheet. It is necessary, how to bea 
hic e 
is lost 
appears, merical r esults 
having Aidaa thie of po former observations.” 
T use 
b 
| bation it pro ti 
importance to the healthy enen pr — ion. 
3 BOTANY. 
— Fee SS Rose. 
Still as the d 
the frosty prison o of the Ero 
Spreading the leaves unto the pai eiry noon, 
Deck'd in fresh colours, smiles upon the sun, 
Wuo would suspect that modest flower 
pe rivals the snow that 5 it in the purity of 
ost virulent of vegetable 
intiog t in 
— else are 
further, an 
neau tious workman against 
hand ; Sroa that 
although sometimes 
but gardeners 
s derived pian 
T 
guards 
and keeping off the rai 
peculiarity that Darwin spoke pest of the Christmas 
Rose in his fantasti e 
Ea 
eae with face averted shut: 
metamo orph ose,” says the poet, “seems 
to show that hat the aT juices of the oe i ely) were 
before carried (petals purp 
Rar 2 of light ar ge 5 the hesurfaceof smooth | 
glass imcreases (an A ntly the quantity of 
of produeing honey; because when — fall 
> | age they pa 
d when the floral le 
th col 
mind re 
during stem. 
ts large white blossoms, at a time when all | w 
in i The physici 
tad , 
a medicine by skilful men, 
ce con 
lent ö a good, prolific late sort, The E 
f, | also and 
ose growth, with th 
off, no more of the white juice is secreted abe the coro, 
but it becomes d d erates i a calyx, 
which is ere. like saying that when a a pate! 8 limbs 
beco maciated and s * rom 
contrary growing many wee 
then, like all other ee under the continued 
* of r and fiA secr , in their 
substan a 
r into 
a air can ka — and from which = 
can tantly drain. It abhors alike dryness an 
con iir wetness. The side of a wet ditch is a favourite 
p e but it must be only occasionally overflowed—for if 
77 
flower. R. E. 
PEAS. 
Tun Peas in cultivation are to be distinguished into 
eh LAN > 1 
A. Peas with a tough lining to the pod—Peas only 
= 
. Peas without a tough lining to the pod—Peas and 
pois both eaten. 
Lass A.— ere the following distinctions are to be 
observed : 
I. Peas, wait 
§ 1. Tall sorts, mE sticks, 
IE Pras, ame e on LIGHT OLIVE. } 
§ 3. Tall sorts. 
4. arf sorts. 
III. Peas, 3 OR INDENTED WHEN DRY.` 
§ 5. Tall sorts. s; 
§ 6. Dwarf aea 
. Peas —8 1. Talls 
arly Frame, p, aliàs E Early Single 1 fl ace Early 
Ys 
Doubie Blosso me, Best y, Early "Dwarf 
i ame, Early 
es d nt Juli i de Hollande, Pois 
n, uren bout 4 feet high, ra 
slender; pods small, round, mostly containing five or 
Peas; well know one of the earliest. It 
does not stand the win well as arlton. : 
Prince Albert, about 3 feet y ; a variety of the 
preceding, ripening ~ 0 co i Th | 
Early 
warf, Twesly 
hich, ins f bei nd containing six 
or seven pe It best Pea for ay deme th 
inter, but it is about a week o: 
r ten day 
the Early F. Eastern e «nd all F rame 
are varieties allied to this, but in Sent 
D' Auvergne, about 5 feet ; pods very long, 
round, curved at the ok che full, optan 
i en 
Sele 
6. Tall White Marrow, 
rial Marrow, Tal 
requir 
3 
ES, C 
atagonian, closely re- 
me sort the Pearl 
Crown, Couro: 
fieurs birsi Paquet; 5—6 feet high, 85 stroi 
e blossoms in bouquets, or like 4 
crown at top; and it is more remarkable for this pect- 
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ny 
ropan 
