«Two old tars were standing | on the beech waiting to 
la 
THE GARDENERS’ 
Comb ustible Green Wood. 
se r gj 
woodman that. Ah t timber will burn y ted the well ger it cg ote hurtful to them at others, june N is well. 
CHRONICLE. 
—Having been informed by | e 
icity is favourable to plants at one stage of aa 
the c case with 1 light, w) which is essen tial to 
fy) 
neo them on the stealer aa i in an imperious to 
fellows!’ Fellows!’ said the af 
bs 
tare as youand I, this fine don a his paraa 
to be e eeil ng if tere, 3 you will | “have the 
kindness to acquaint me, in the 
o | what property it contains to b P : 
state, i will he ed obliged. haar Sussex Subscriber. | examine in how far the rise of the sap in 
[W flu > 
all their ttl, suit have slung their hammock Mele 
the lee ws ms best t hedge RE Crappo would have let | 
£ You’ tou ach ed 
with the Fito arid half a crown to drink the 
Kin health.” ‘Thank you, sir,’ said the sailor, with 
tered voice, and touching his hat, ‘thank you, sir,’ 
Lott, their pointed form, the air is dry, and in the m 
ocieties. fitting state for electrical effects. Mr. Sidney He: 
ayers AL piet aig ON. adverted to the singular powers which plants have of 
Friday, 16.—The Rev. E. Sidney o lee: si ipitating m: e from the atmosphere, an e eet 
the E 
eke 4 ot P Fei and influence of Electricity on Vegeta- | which he suggested might possibly be of electric origin, 
ucing the su 
now you h sh berth.” So a ch for p of ingenious arguments $ ame gst othe remark- 
pte comers of Resend Ta H pn t language to u e to a nature of the inquiry, its high intere: t branch of | d by Wookie an BS, electri- 
deserving body of men, to call them low gar Men natural science, and the valuable pra ; ctieal res ults which | cians, in which showers eg rain were brought down by 
F.H. S ” does so by implica ag is when he sppe t To r | might possibly be brought to light in its investigation. | the use of prinmlaien kite Pie, han next en- 
their exclusion as a bo How much better, when The attention of electricians, he stated, had been drawn | geayoured to show i that a forms and geographical 
looking « + the marv Prali rae aati of their skil] | to the subject so long back as 1746, when a Mr. Maim- PTEE of certain species of aaa indicato a melig 
and in jaat to exercise a little forbearance, to pay bray, at Edinburgh, announced that electrified plants | tion to their electrica] proper rties. Thus, for example, 
e grew more rapidly and vigorously À in high 
ie €] 
beyo state. The general phenomena of vegetation were 
considered in relation to ele Frik agency, 
n well in its green i wou 2 rove an interesting subject of inquiry, to 
f: i th i ring is i 
lectri is certain tha pri 
= before the leaf-buds are opened, whilst they still retain 
bject of his lecture, Mr en this view ow bea a number 
much the Society owes to their labours in a pecunia 
ry | not so treated ; about the same time the d within Nollet latitudes, present most admirable extensive discharging 
facility; A th 
ap pparat us for receivi 
iw nhl moe how well also to remembe: er how it 
e made, The ey are made by the low 
supposing the preceding observ. ations correct, ” such 
rors canbe No such persons issue from by the experiments hol 1 Jal abert the trees w id most important and be nella 
esini here th l sags Rp nich J ; influence pee alisin ing the electrie condition of 
daily duty to see that all around him are m aS _ The truth of these s experiment was | the atmospera and tendi rod 
ically cared for, as they should be. no moi uniformity of temperature. 
upon repeating rte could not perceive an ny e ct pro- sian PR | asa pur 
-play is a jewel, and whilst I r say. an hones 
shall be teinh 
ready to do it. If} i ish, the Society 
and gardeners must aepend on E other ; and the 
duced on = sss - plants 5 amongst at ater Oat which there ex: 
th of Senn b : 
stands the 
— of ew v his experim 
coe à : 
the warmest praise.—An Exhibitor, and also a F. H. S 
onger 
were to be ele ctri ed i nside an ele ctrifie | vessel, a vhs 
wrk > à | forcing flowers and fruits 
Grafting. —It is often, in grafting upon slender 
stocks and branches, v = mvenient to attach and 
support a great lump of clay, which, in spite veh the 
to nae tegen influence. 
very | thie m es re ee observations of sal ees and me ntal investigati 
prospects of decided 
After briefly 2 adverting t branch of the sub, 
test ca eae cd either i inv swine et or imental i ig: 
iy weather e erack and fall pee a Mr. idney drew attention to the recent pro- | and voltaic, might probably be 
f sheet India-rubber, cut i trips gress of the subject, and the high interest it was at in assisting the ge 
bandages, from } to 2 of an inch broad, whieh I t ar exciting. The first point which the lecturer | Jikewise, applied with 
to the graft—having, first fixed t ft with bast— | insisted on, was, that electricity app ars to exercise a |} 
and wit! The In ae pantie presents all the werful influence on growing plants 5 in support of | ood results, The lect 
ae neato Eiei clay ; it is air-tight a ter- | Which he um of experiments -| he had’ ca g 
t, and, moreover, it will not fall away; and it is | vations, a all tending to s that ts, under the in- rana reont oi voltaic electricity, gener: 
elastic, which admits of the swelling of the scion in its | fluence of electricity, grow with inerea d | zinc and another of copper, co 
growth, and it is applied with perfect ease and quick- | More es r ghee A when Hinge tapes The ma nner 5 a fe soil beside the roots of t e pla an 
ness. After s, 1 } A. A eh £i nd M 
stock, as you would a linen bandage on a cut finger, ificial l i l ticed exl d,a v rk l effec e ar 
last turn only requires securin by tyin th a bit i and,] 3 i were larger 
thread or thin. bass; and it a very Hah and neat es storms were described. the Ta growth i ot? bite Ea an ig praca ie g 
appearance, when the i p i plants during thunderstorms might, no gente: in part | sta ‘ed that he had'also produced a very goo 
oads.—Y our entomological authority úR” states | be oat ci to other causes ; but, at the same time, | pines nd Fuschias, but had found 
in a late Number of the Chronicle, that he has “ no | it w: ery fair inference that, he electric s condition | Pel Ths oniums killed by the p lication of the zine 
1 r any doubt that toa certain cir f 5s 7 & 
bt un 
ome viviparo us. .” Nowas thisi is a question | ouch a a conclusion was born apa arley. 
H ll seal J ifi 
small scale, made with artificial electricity. “i AeA eO EEA arrangement, s0 
copper a 1 eee „experi! 
e » out by numerous exper! 
of view, I should be m seian obliged by a detailed | Electricity s “of low, like t 
KORN ct tenai rom, Pas been | appeared very doubtfu S electricity pa oi 
Sees = the faets upon _— this extraordinary 
om AA s fou nde d. , Has “R? S d such a 
would j 
el fe in teresting a conclus on a “For it must 
rable manner ; 
k fluids which cy p a this was illustrated | tp Soy 
y 4 H È ti was, t 
y placing a small blade of Grassin contact’ with see se sured a ean languages ts 
uctor of a i ine. 
t 
serymen’s A n ym ance, 
as often De in advertisements of florists and nur- | tricity generated by the 
rema “it was 
that seeds nated more freely 
of the sole! bales than at the positive, and since his | <iq, while 
F 3 Sidney suggested that it would “be well w 
a | time numerous experiments have been made, all tend- try experiments èn A cultivation, ot ae seve 
ro cts : 
c n Norfolk a 
| plants. Mr. Sidney next drew 
able 
ity | o 
um with whieh fresh bs, Sa matters conduct electricity, | of pime of the experiments on this subjec' 
e good conducti f Me 
hen it was proved, that the whole of the elec-| + was, therefore, I 
— by Davy, | obtained by that “gentleman. At the same a the 
f attenti 
t geserval 
nd elsew: 
ccurate vais x also gavea bine 
ucting power of the | boing made by Edward Solly, in the 
derstood; 
5 1 with a view t 
machine was quietly carried oe ce fate 2 resi li than to 
It was also show n that ssertions. 
m 
a plan sometimes liable to abuse, however nee by the blade of Grass 
eted upon by th 
serymen, is 
convenient, if fairly _ Paneer ly a 
advertisers. There (id 
sh tha? 
aid 
eon de theori ies, startling a: jere. 
plants, Sidney very justly ghir that pu ag a Bh ree H 
now more neanta oe yo him), ady vertising, 1 
the above condition, sometimes i n the Chronicle, to 
receive or psa electricity ; and arran n 
and "hanes prieka sometimes emp! loyed v cies ble peier R t, farther. ITN 
To 
mE oe 
aside, there app 
whom, on March: 26th, a daught 
nd a ‘post-office te for their amount. | show this, a large Leyden 
disch ‘7. Se 3 , 1 
required, a: 
being heard for r a month, I 
rorat 
jar was quickly and silently | ROYAL SOUTH LONDON FLORICUL 
re ee {O — rot 
ing neal Bee, Py 
a civil letter, stating as above, and requ est ing to hear in | its outer surface, and the 
explanation. Still hearin nothing, I wrote, I rays jonit the 
the Ist Ma; 
D Mer 
| consequence of the high electric powers of f plants, : as | place in the ~—— Zoologienl Gar 
brass knob at the top. In May 21.—Tae Seco 
7 , but certainly about that time 
office in wh ich the order was made pa; yable, = “pk it| electrie condition ‘of the atmosphere, so that wh evinced a slight advance in plant culture. 
they knew to who! ay cated abundance of e electricity îr in 1 the are its leading feat coe M Coppock’s 
by its No. sie grr t) had be aid? Me ay 4th, I 7a pointed se To. Histeadio, S Perlen á 
: us aot i poded 18 plant which were seve 
had the kapora reply, í that her knew Mr, ——, | du ueting ong of vegetable — PA ae datod seiner a ‘good “Gompholobium polymo’ 
bitm business, and considered a that it was impossible to to give e shock to | lum — gracili covere! 1 
stablo creig eople standin a pres as 2 ts ele Harder 
of men ery joning th ! ax y to bin, x a ne repl lied, that miery apa ag’ took we shorter and better con- alida of blosso 
ers O : the we gy poes e hoe Ao ae through e Grass ; ; whilst there was | in gent the showy Pime e 
ral Heaths.— 
ich), 
ane then wrote a shar arp letter, enclosing 
e had 
I ‘waited be the 7th or 8th (I am not now sure whic 
still in 
standing in a circle on a. 3dly. The apparent wink: ‘dees was no 
of the various aay The plants to different | awarded a prize for a group o 
Cyti 
sere ; pe, this = last brought, on May Lith, a electrical uses, s was pointe do 
part of the 0 rder., Som > of the plants 
d h, mi ght then, no Soaks 
or globose. The buds 
the value of these last was 
, the first t eaves among which were Cy 
others unde dj} of blossom ; Prostran 
or | polymo hum ; a goo 
inate - ‘good m 
pa had), they oak not send, having sold them | Deea, with a strong ea aoe sar more plants evincing equa 
Te turned. pecially i those which grow rapidly, have an 
— four co. 
t grou 
dadi be 
not accident I the fact, 
person, a tradesman, fond. of pi ina variations of the seasons, 
iden 
; — The | 
which grow less rapidly, or are intended t e| Young, of Camberwell, 
p ose | miscellaneous plants. 
are e mewn but often myrtifolia, a go 
ORP 
t my resi 
in of from ines very same person, who seems 
norns 
into flower, t ll 
kles. As s pla nts Azalea, an 
live far enough off; m 
customers 
Tare nearer 200 miles away than 100.— 
are seldom 
It may, therefore, possibly 
may be careless of his character, if oniy his the fenai are gene 
y neighbour 
eana, ¢ 
rally rounded, and the form star-shaped blossoms, » 
provided with acnte points. | prize was awarded to 
be the case, that though ' tained a well- igoma J Azalea in 
