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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
38—1850.] 597 
of the place the labo — . few be of a particular construction or — ement; any; the subject of the Vitali S By H. E. 
. — allowed them enjoying a day’s — — whether it be a Pine stove, a Grapery, or a Plant SrarckLaxp, Esq. — The — fi stated. that’ the — 
holiday, beyond the one customary holiday at Whitsun- | stove, or even a forcing pit, will produce Cucum mittee had continu la f 
tide. Pl ork, without recreation for body | winter, wher e can be found near the glass for a a the seeds of various plants which had been planted 
or mind, was the usual life of the best labourer, and ew pots. Let a little seed early in autumn, and which had been ve been kept 
more especi he were one of that description of | or a few plants struck from cuttings, which w er from 5 to 50 years, was given. lists are pub- 
< er, not unfrequent among us, t whom de cae When they are ut 6 inches high, lished in the Transacti and will one day furnish 
can scarcely be named specimen of a simple- ny pots, 15 inch 0 e materials for general conclusions with to t 
minded Christian ary his 22 in sant state of life space fees. perhaps that may be only a sana a but even | period of time for w i 
to which it has pleased G two pots an occasional fruit ma 0 wth.—Dr. Daubeny said the result of the ex- 
Your readers may b — that i in a large 1 half- The next point is to have at hand some —— mellow | perimen as had gone, went to show the 
impoverished village, where man eo m ofa turfy nature, in a ro te ; all the fine y of the opinion that seeds their vitality 
unable to employ the amount of requisite for the | — should be sereened out of it. With this mix one- through 1 ri me, The notions abroad on 
priya cultivation of the soil, there will be found — fourth half-decayed * and your compost is me ne were truly absurd, meme y seen a 
few irregular charac ebased i in their 1 d | complete. which a gentleman supposed “es ad grown from 
dangerous in their dispositions,” Such chara eters In potting, swage: K, few large pieces of broken pots in —.— obtained from a fossil plant from the coal 
the bottom of the e parce been y assisted 
unhappily, when the cholos iy dafiroly laft left to o themselves, then fill up with soil, placing the e young plant in the b sending them old seeds to ak amra din 
they have recourse l 
Although I have, 22 not heard of any such pro- 
longed ou own time, I cannot deny that I 
have formerly kaaa few eep their ssi ge for 
ours after I zy left the table at one 
< frolics.” However, nothing so bad as this has Tr 
pened, to =y kno owiedgo, for sonio years. 
t | centre, with the old ball about = * under the sur- 
ace of the new soil, 
about — with the 
are and thus make — * 
res, potting i is completed, give the whole a liberal watering, * 
using on this, as on subsequent o 
of s assigned $ 5 the pots may then be placed | This instru 
rapa be, when finished, 
of the. — as it will subside, 
When 
a future dressing. 
ccasions, water at 
persons 
ee generally the number Sent was too few to | of 
ue, tw 
if EO be sent at a time. 
cation was 
e Ona R Hygro 42 17 r regulating v 
Atmospheric Moisture of ‘aviation „by Mr. 
i e 
te of the atmosphere, 
gro 
opens a valve capable 2 supplying 10 2 of w 
ps hour, uenra it on to the surface 
all parts vered with bl — paper, sby» which the —— ut evapo- 
The 8 po in = culture of Cu- 2 until the atmosphe . saturated, 
mbers is y= yE them free from insects, such as | and the * Sonea] closed. — attached 
thrip, 1 bug, red e — green fly. The — and thus 
of fumigation, syringing, &c., must — re- a sheet of i Paper we moved by a clock syn show the 
ph 3 for shoul ver be to | hygrometric state of the atmosphere at any period of 
take ssion, the plants may as well be p dow away. | time. 
Let me, therefore, earnestly e 
entreat those who ma 
Moxpar, August 5.—In the Cuewica, SECTION a 
e serv 
It —— hip ahe isable object | attempt the culture of f Cucumbers on this pi plan, to keep | paper was read entitled, Some Observations on the 
to endea as en and their pen. I have been eating for the last 10 | Growth of Plants in Abnormal Atmospheres, by Dr. 
exible’ any enable it - anid Sioe . aie ns * treated in the manner I have J. H. Grabsro „G. GL XE. — Whe 
* ake — 
of indulgence, 
satis 
cursions of which you 
poe provetly looked after and subjected to due 
trol, are among some 
On such occasions we may s 
assist 
porong, the 9 of the feng A — in- i 
we no io 
fir 
Tt was then earnest] resented to me 
y 
disposition of their la „ that it would be a 
all the damage that I have 
I find I have slowed m pen to e = in merel 
prefacing what I — 4 
consider may be service 
letter what I have to — about village 9 
Henslow, Hitcham, 
VILLA AND . 3 
REMEMBER 
Cucumber in wi 
e is different now. 7 n the fonds of a 
good gardener, a Cucumber pit, properly constructed and 
efficiently warmed, will secure 
owever, mey pa 1 * 
veniences for such operations, _the question arises, 
Can Cucumbers be be produced ia. win ter without such a 
structure ? r ; and 1 hall prosit 
point out at ew the thin; thing can can be effected. 
I must premise that I high for ret who possess | 
some kind of structure whi winter ei a 
stove temperature ; bu k does 1 not follow that it m 
y re 
ose who fancied they — e aia the | remar 
bourers, 
believe as a co 
5 BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCE. 
MENT OF SCIENCE. 
Tamten Aug. 2.—In the —— History SECTION a 
Ne i 
per was 
CES = 
TA 
435 
to the re 
Prof. Matteucci, Dr. Fowler, and Dr, Carp 
pong out 
t was due, however, to Dr. Fowler to say that 50 years | 
he had ted ches 
irection — physiological i inquiry is takin 
bing. 
read by Dr. La ewport, 
— „on the Reciprocal Relations of Vital and Physical | lowing prelimin 
of 
SS 
© 
some in rest, as in 
ich had since 3 a vocated by 
y the Council of the Linnean 
tur i i 
p i n the 
carbonic pou re and aqueous — . 
vegetable w p y dependent. The question 
ari Dees riw oxygen and nitrogen of the air play 
t pi the p: of i he fol- 
ary experiments, 
solution of this and similar inquiri 
tions repo} 
of the Linnean 3 in the t 
“ Athenzoum and Gardeners’ Chronicle was read to 
Another Pansy was placed in a mix 
hydrogen gases in th 
d occurred to man He | w. 
freely admitted th that Me. N —— had poet him in 
the correlation of vital and physical forces, 
rt- ossiliferous Basal: 
. Tsland i Mull, by — Duke of Arcrit,—The isl 
Deposit underlying 
all of wi 
animal body, as the 
On Some aoe Bodies which occur in 3 
tion; | vesiculosa, 
A tag 
tion general to the condition of the in sub- A 
5 Vol 
terior. This 
the 
more abundant in proportion to the e of car- 
to | bonate of ese 55 the water in which the 
the air 
and 
essor Tune e of Florence. — The author 
his 
= pe an wok 
presented gegen of various forms in 
th 
grew. similar to 
fessor Pariatoro i in 5 and N 
mea Victoria 
d various forces observed 
e nerve force, muscle force, &c. 
other Aquatic Plants 
2 He drew atten- 
tissues i 
| slate, 
y, | are seen 3 . 
some small v. 
olumnar basalt. A little north of the bay is Ardtun 
in bg a perpen cliff of V feet, Tented bya 
p fissure or ravin le from the moor agai 
ily the 
boles, or even small twigs we 5 From these 
appearances the Duke “concluded ag the leaves had 
autumn in a shallow lake, 
lime, and they 
to those deseribed by Pro- 
uphar existed in 
regia, 
the committee appointed to investigate! 
ae Po bos ee d ft 7 — 
an n overflow 3 sud, ia wh 
re p he onl 
ud with the leaves ce the — Py pan 
that the 1 
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