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THE G. ARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
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Sums, but that t there were no assets to pay the outs standing 
prizes, amounting to about 2007. It was, therefore, ih 
pos posed t to ra aiee re to payt them off ; but 
a yrs sil these 
f Ere omt substances aia the 
es 
the boiler Which Ea ae house (one of Wee 
rink for the Sat time, 
e deco 
l uantit ich pl lants exhale 
arge ~ nuty “Of. Oxygen hich 
light. All ign vegetable substances wh 
su ellu oi 
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Jel Loe 
lar t tissue, resins gum 
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m ne 
ied uian a majo ity ot two to o was then pro- 
kesed to Ge r e fraag but the peöposit wes nege- 
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the same source, : 
a EAr fire could not be kent in pele tee f 
5. Sulp hur and p t y 
t of lime absorbed 
the soil, 
ved by se 
Ta Sii 
I + 
, | use o of which, in the economy of vegetation, appears to 
t from 
and decomposed by the agency “of oxalic acid ; the chie f 
uired, the coals next 
metal were not so ENOTE, r as they would 
beep- ina i SOace inclosed by = tech 
iety im 
M 
ba “erally relinquished their 
due he com mmittee for 
| of this free sulphuric ‘and phosphoric acid in the light, 
oxygen is ee wi the ponpa, and phosphorus 
bei es ilate 
h kr a is little else than mae aahes, 
in the house, which wa formerly 
ing the rely ted, ai 
albumen. g! 
ALFTE 
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_ Having Fai, iat i in the per s own kii stated 
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ad that no | member will be allowed his tickets | of admi 
YORK HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. — 
Dec 23.—We extract from th 
were generally looking - well 5 nat 
poate, mite | is that of the ana a m for botto 
conne ith ho pce circulating i in iron pipes fe 
answers admirably ; but the slope of ti 
| wil be right briefly to advert to the mode 
„At fir st he ET W hea’ ahy 
' 
old foie, whic 
f 157; 
oung plant 
the anea substances to be examin ned, whilst the 
year 1814, viz. :— 
pe E 
of this Society for ae i 
moisture ‘which collec 
poe ta 
of 
leaves were passed under the edges lass 
ping in mercury, and filled with ‘atmospheric air. 
howev: er, soon abandoned this arrangement as ga incest 
them mu igi 
secretion j aaen ons ina 
the chie 
Dr. 
Balance from last die 
Donations from the late os) io James Rich- 
ardson, Esq ‘Rig A Roper, Esq., Wm. Whyte- 
head, E <q of GA 2311 0 
j Py Pe Of visi oe at the Exhibitions: —First, 
Sy ie, a recond, 101. ; i! 114, 108. 6d.; fonsi 
Pay 
Paid for Prizes: — First Exnibidon, 151, 128. 5 
ow 
Pear 
* | 00 
á 
Or phidages,, which 
in bloo 
th 
om a 
d of placing healthy spr igs 
ass Bie co namng de 
the gas. which 
ĉo 
To 
the experiments = 9 
cent. of tartar Cotta of EN aolha in rt p= oF 
we. act on a certain weight of 
ch lenveo curing: 0 hours of patie 67 robin 
A iss h 3 
es TE 
was ee ed to be. Sia) pot vaiga fupestt to be di 
M. lineatum : it was sent beady weg, who, fow 
PENIS 
ps dsm m 
woa, Hh: 127 ; third, 252. 6s. foarta, eee <a 11 whic 10ths of a cubic 
Jud 215 0 | inch was carbonicacid, the rem er pure oxygen hen 
Committe nied 2a reetings Aa Aas r 5 tr Sens? in place of the acid bitartrate, “y per cent. of the neutral | 
Printing, advertising, ‘He ke. + 2911 
— (flange RRP EERE RR prevented. When 3 per cent. of malic acid was used, 
ae ema cting subscriptions 7 =- bee aubin s a, f which 2- Türis of 
estimonials to theSec d the inte Treashier:...6:10 a bic ick er i the malic acid 
Loan of Sarei and expenses i è Pam CTL. pI 
Bellringers avd sunuries Rp aa These experiments, of which there is a considerable 
Gh number, £ are certainly cariou; but we are by no means 
Belancein hand . 76.12 54 jus of the conclusions which 
— chult z ores "o Tey from them, It is of 
#268 12 9} CP RpTA! ively li itt |’ iment plants 
if we wish to compare our 
Fol a results with those of nature. _Experinen nts on growing 
Rebielws. to onduct, because there a 
Die Entdeckung der wahren Pflanzennahrung mit any 
aussicht zu ei The Dis- to, may vitiate the results ; ; but it is even more “dificult 
covery of the t 
baie Physiolosy ot aoe Schultz 
Pior R Fendita. the author of this little book, i is 
ll k from the remarkable views 
d stat hhe has advane ed. The obje ct 
made, because there are 
the physiology af. ‘chemistry which are ill a ar 
It is for these that we caution our readers 
against the conclu usions Fe n by Dr. Sc ee as well 
his present 
which he has made on the nutrition a plants, to prove 
the incorreciuess of existing theories, and t 
we shall Rra, ona fiat occas on, make some 
tovestablish what he me iat a the true theory of vege: 
tati be follow 
arrives, as nearly as ots ble in n his 
1. The hitherto focetiea theory, t 
the > principal | food of plan 
frit va ca 
nts, is erroneous, and altoget 
Carbonic acid is ES 
Dr. Schultz's book, 
Garden acme ends. 
ords Horticultural Society's Garden poi Green. — 
noni bs is | Since the lat ee “tnd i aly ee been com- 
pleted in the Orchidaceous house here, the plants are 
looking much Beia i Yea their gh fi -green 
r the roots merely incidentally, together with aa foliage, they abundantly testify that the atmosphere is 
food, and is decomposed at the same ti e with it, congen ial to their well- being. The plan of supplying 
with great difficulty, ty means of the eaves | t th means $ the, og open pi system, inclosed 
da ne tity of oxygen which plants exhale has a very | in a hol w chamber r, wit ereding malg- 
different origin. ture ects from the un pe 
rs There is no proof of the truth a the perpen 
the as bee 
found to answer exceedingly ef and es tine Ste 
ed i which t 
mnect i the carbonic ee = Y, „that water with which the chamber, is clos and o he | 
mposed and assimilated b pla Th ly much € cheaper an stone 
has a purely theoretical origin; i d “go possess the additional advan- 
to explain the tion of hyd en gn i tage F beia a more G ka kept clean than the latter ma- 
plants, which e Tice o n the carbonic i terial. In the house neat the Orchidac was t 
theory alone. We hay overe ba what was “ac collection of Azaleas, and other plants recently received 
unkn nova , Namely, that, plants pametis exhale hyd from ) rtune; |, considering the time of the year 
bets th is takes place only in I erg artes (in November), they loak tolerably 
when they evolve no oxygen ; iad t a not result from | 
the decomposition of water, An explosive mixt 
ped a0 ed hydrogen is only formed when the oxygen 
olve the hydrogen previously | 
fired off | in ‘te dark. 
3. The view hitherto adopted with ‘the boni 
be large Stove was as npepe 
of Vriesia psittac This is 
native of Rio me me an exc sapol pretty ents 
a Ratt t, havi ing a _bright- -red flower-stem, which onten, s 
theory, that pyar g TE 
the yellow blossoms. lia su perhiens, 
of humic acid, is s also wrong, inasmuch as plants never | 
humus extract 
d in our last Poth will soon äiselose as show 
boos here for ond Loge It is rstood 
Ze ogress for the alate of 
humic Acid. Thi is view B. eerie a mere theoretical 
tropical fruits, it sales considered desirable, now that 
f Tothanses 
ee ae 
ruth, the 
n thigusta of 
t has ii er ye shown as er in 
an dora, not dissolve in carbonic acid, and 
ereti e eot on “th e con- 
osition to the latter, because the sup- 
bsorption of humus does not in any wa 
ox 4 The 
internal circula a- Mon e 
is so much bett ter understood, that an attempt should 
again be made to reduce Mangoes, Custard SPP et 
Man ngosteens, and similar productions beneath the 
; and thi ante e is to be fi eae 
with iron hot-water tanks for th e purpose. In the 
pae heated by Burbidge and Healy’ s iron tanks, the 
es have ripened their 
is construc! ted of wood with “thick rafters and 
se 
ed particles of humus | 
on the Vines 
in the.curvilinear house, where the dane of beating is | 
that of cement tanks abi ibs porous tile. 
latter house is a s Psidium C; iis 
e late frosty pR in last month, as low as 4° 
freezing poi We may al:o mention here 
