44—1850. | 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
ime upon any art, it is generally e 
— and changes being e ner 
n it, or at all events gan it is cite pl good deal o 
terest amon — enge ged in paler ag 
time 
—— of oat which a long 
— 
conducted in the Wet I as 
— t modo, but whi 
the vet 
ing and. import 
dence: that con- Practically, however, a very much smaller quantity is 
mperfeet pides 
obtained, A from the im 
f| ployed, and the i 
is pressed, not not more — f oa 5e to 69 p * to 
juice is usually procure ently in 
low as 36. In the —.— mil 3 Stained! Ls 70 
to 75 per eent. 
sugar r has, in fact, two o n in 
the vary 
within “the. — doze 
ud 
Dhe su ar farm 
view in the cultivation of the cane; he W. 
noe rian 
it — 
gradual improvement * 
CEN ey Foil A byt te Mo he low and 
pressed sta 
In 1842 — sana —— the Earl of Elgin, 
anxious to promote the e welfare s the co epuutrf n 
to his charge, offered a prize = for the best essay 
cultivation of the 
eight essays on the su gai and 
ceived the priz 
Spe he 
revent them from vegetating too rapidly. I 
good 
e chines” grow “utekly sh pre 2 
for med 
wants to 
or the sugar 
food for the plant ial s . es 
co] as be opi 
gages Sig 
a 
an 
y done and judiciously timed, effects the object 
in view; but if, asi it is i an 
diseriminatel 
In man 
Olly OF maäuure. 
eee — the, manufacture of sugar, | the 
i | they grow: up y 
are 
ficed cig og: very little to the value | of the 
- | because, fro: 
megass, it. is. dr 
and generally undergoes. more or less putrefaction or 
decay, 
= TOE. 
arom met 
e kind of prices which Mr. Linden’s 
27. Qs. ; «new i 
10s. 
Stanhopea, sp., 510s. ; pr iaai in ait 194, fetched pert 
d 11s. to 308. per lo 
. ee Effects From Zino. It e time 
was proposed by M. Bene to ie onde of 
a substitute a awa? with a view to 
avoiding the dangerou of the latter on 
weak and thi „ us a 
ee trashed ;” _ thus the ey are “deprived of 
organs d or the elaboration 
very esign of organic) 
matter at a period om “howe organs are especially 
necessary. 
2 essays 
their chief objeet being the cultivation of the cahe; but 
i observes, that n tanding the imper 
fect — of the manufacture, and the numerdus 
hich have . — rove it yet 
Very great uncertainty appears to exist as 4 = best 
time for cutting the canes, and the period req 
Shar 
rs over is experiénee 
r, meriin: the th 
extended no real improvement dad been effected in the i 
se 
Sugar is anufactured in different parts of the world, 
chiefly, from f four plants—the iy, loro og ty Ee Best, 
and Paim. The —— 
on, of course varies cag sot is — — 
same time at a port intr “degree of er inas- 
— as in — formation 
Ul Sa 
on the same physiological 
condition and the separation of the sugar from —— mae 
impurities, oF rather the other vi en table secretions 3 
hich it is associat is in a 
same difficulties dependant ur 
oe itself, and ‘the: Lage gane 
hich it is mix ces. of the plant. — 
cane 
Ban- including under 
pa — cea 7 
juice, but ts purifieation by the refiner, and 
the bee of ‘white or loaf su 
et of the sugar the 
ng posible quantity of e juice, at the least 
cost, from a —— num wap. 
be learnt very alight 
rhage ee the sugar 
— — Mr. L. ee — 
of 
whole system angled mass 
tices, Revere ‘cuit supported by 
d deeply reotéd prejudi 
say 
ie raw sugar 
= the 
mischievous prac 
self-interest old custom, a 
t 
part, are Peg: ig 2 abont 10 8 
deep; one or two cuttings. or. joints ugar-cane 
at bottom of each af yd then 
inch of mo a 
a- 
— foods — 3 in a shell o 
ts which li 
ou ry 
eron that the ne varieties of the cane, cultivate 
n different soils, an e dissimilar 
various t 
e 
ng freely sue supplied with Pee 
—.— = — te a Kae organic matter from the 
Arete den neces gase 
ous su it 
forms leaves — sper aa 
has another and a very importa 
provision must be made for the jkt pA 
In the case fa 4 — is — — the is 
are generated, sur- 
ipaa 1 shfficient 5 “of suitab 1 
husk. In 
— ii hich the life ‘of the —ů is 
At the — of the growing season buds 
e formed; these closély. see 7 4 
grau g — properly ag supplied with a 
suitable store — substance 
in 
e te. e 
ned the predn 
oss oecasi By. at unripe can 
| mall y that of the sugar whieh would have lai. Ta, 
tation is moderated thongl at the r of — anll 
continues; it to be so mployed, and is. then de- 
posited i in the cells of — Te in those where it 
will be most itea the buds and 
* — from even a slight 
hail 
quantity of azotised matter 
It necessarily follows that, in in cut 
is perfectly ripe; a ro pra 1 
will be obtained; in to the quantity of mere 
panne than at any —— period of growth; and 
is highly desirable, f 2 to pro 
sweet juice 
ds o arger 
s. the latter — 
the 
suit the crop time to — cane, than, as is too — 
at fined cane 
The ting u 
Het 
d | 
wil 2 
A pero very es to ripen, and that the cutting = 
time rac ia * to spend entirely on these different | oF 
ony in 
when it. 
juice the 
eure 
— had hee 
the 
men, There could be little doubt that, in point of 
ae oxide of zi t on car 
of lead ; but it 125 s still a matter worth de 
t the oxide of zine Wn itself — from 
ns were 
e 
bed animals 
live 
siti, i 
ee, during w 
u atmosphere loade d with the powder of the oxide. 
neement o 
appetito were disgusting to then 
— — 1 which a 
u coul 
alter 10 days of f this Pre jer been ed he was seized with 
nipanied by 1 0 aaa 
wud increased * intensity * 
gony.—The 
-called 
covered with a ae of prem pce 
iron and soo 
— ‘of 
as regar 
82 evil effect: 
uary 1850, 
which is iron wire 
e was acco’ 
obiatinate e e 
n made hurri 
vered w d naty P whi 
al Fündig az the N pand especially the beai 
ing of the w owder c d of 27 0 oxido 
t and AE EREA of gmo alloy of zine baa iron, ir 
oxide of iron. It contained no trace of lead. These 
they are cut and to the mill. From the roots boom lee n, but also that a quantity symptoms seem r y 
1 stools ag the canes, which remain in the soil, a wpe ye — Samia is wet ek W he erude 4 tment, on abandoning = occupa ** á ith one 
num suckers. soon spring. up, which which renders the subsequent purification of the sugar exception pa ~ work- -prop 2 ssn to their work 
rattoons; th s0 as the first erop of more difficult, and occasions; as shall presently in from day * n symp _ were 
canes, and di size and value ceed show: an ahadtate fous in thè sugar —— formed by due: to. the pote 75 4 ust, ppe i rom 
r aapi cre of si VF 
i soil about their —.— a — erop of the canes 8 there is, People, 1 nees, 
——ů— — from the s ants for a number — —— Shak: i wie biside — as paa 1 k, pat 3 eee me 
of successive years; but as they always peas de- mere extraction of — hre namely, the preservation ! . 383 rae Ge 
teriorate, it is the custom to surd with e joints, | of the megass (as tt the fib 1 woody. Re residue is termed), ly 7 eee. : 
every year in rotation, that £ the farm which has | whieh i the chief fuel em. de Paris, Ist June, mical Gazette. 
been long: ig t ployed in — —— — 2 the ie a — — ͥ 
The quantit formed by the, canes’ or rat- | consequence of this, - a anxious not x 2 
toons varies . only iy with ti the kind Bs cane, the nature | crush the canes too thoroughly, as. the value of the fuel Calendar of Operations. 
n the soil, the climate; an — degree would be thus injured, and he is tent to lose or the ensuing n 
d on its cultivation, but 1 on nearly half the sugar for the sake = combustible PLANT 
y r iti ; the anaes prance. | aide. It is hardly necessary for us to make any ob- CHRYSANTHEMUMS, Searle 
tion is stated to be nearly 18 per cent, and the servation this part of the sash it speaks for | catus, early Camellias, Cinerarias, 
of juice co ini cane is about 90 pone ceni ; but we may remark that the sugar thus sacri- | making a fine display in the — ; and to 
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