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? at s the trees were partly dis- have waited. half a centur Th t 
travels down West, and then perhaps you'll learn io,tion. That some of th s y. e foll 
ith proper respect. White easet bs itted their sap, which f eface will 1 show what, 
Maple (T don't venie » x amel Si Sir Charles | bla ck streams down their oe I admit, and that are the most material alterations to 2 a his = 
— body's ; for I am my own and nobody's else), Dieses | D thus ee d might t tup the b ow to attack | volume before e us 7 
Sycamore, he Tree, Black Walnut. m does appear unreasonab ble, whence came 
New Bu» rid Pe 4.—I. observe in ** Nov. Bulletin ny ? oot hi having 1 befo ore. 
of the Par 763 „in a transla- Big ges Which! dre T tat letters, which refer to general scienti fic , questions 
) cl in ear 1840 we ha arge — 
— CE 5 es hm aid to be by t (his be vs At my sugges a '. was bar T aul a of 8 and physics. m 
duetive of 22 1 large somewhs at Be al the bark burned ; a since that time I have seen | are letter 2d, on the Study of the N. 
seeds, nearer to the stil than the Pea. It is e one any of them till this year fois when we 1 llave letter 13t , on E Correlation o 
irblinse. $C Pio Dui til. Do you know anything several trees affected by them the wort ofthe pans 1 eee ye the Alteration of 
be oe jucti S hybrid the Oxford trees. In our case orst o e|perties in Bodies; letter , on Material; 
Is sho uld be very curious to see a very productiv VVV erialis 
rous trees are attacked by the iid “for which I instituted last year on soi 
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At this pee I have in the moot edition. added a — 22 
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Ervum Lens, although V si th the | mor 
latter also to the pum Lathyru ru 1 
Canadian | Cotton.— A" Yollowing appeared in a of age, and may be sai à 
, i ** Public r * lately | I wonder how persons can be so incredulous as to dou ed to new and unexpected views 
ected here to some specim 'anadian Cot- | this insect destroying Elms when we read in Loudon's plants, and of their mode of absorbing food, 
tom, the red by Mr. Nettle, which — silk in tex- |“ Arboretum Britannicum ” that at that period it had | a series of experiments on cultivation has been 
This | des xor" trees at Brussels, om St. Loo, Caen, Dun- | taken by many agricultural societies in Geras 
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1 an quantit 1s 
. — — country, and gro ben as a weeds in| kirk, and Havre de Grace. In our own a we oc particularly by the general committee 
the — abundance, and has been long used by the | to de Pile ore the loss of trees in Ha P ark and Ken-|tural Society of Bavaria, in which 00. 
Canadia rmers for various | domestic purposes. It i is rie We rege Nuneham and O za, with many experimental results thus obtained induced m 
di sect here | cuss more fully certain highly importan 
day me e a be better appreciated th iod of 1 t uestions indicated in the 35th letter 
due attenti ion has been paid t to its culture it may enter | ies taki ing into ac it how read aur mer propagate. edition, I have embodied my conclusions ina 
foreign product wm | * there no ee to the vitality of their eggs? and is series of agricultural chemical letters o 
whieh » we are n now exclusively dependent.” If this is a d ry hot n favou rable to their development? or and Practical, Agriculture, whi ^ 
r seedsmen ought immediately to avail diis pl: d by the now extinct doctrine of | reader. My friend Dr. Gregory, who assisted me in 
id the aid of their “correspondents > to i ? The . Saa at Oxford haye former editions, has, meantime, been 
seed of this plant, which seems to offer quite a new been sa to various persons w who a n all pro bability Higher Power from his family and from science. I hapi 
branch. to the agriculture of temperate climates, i requested Dr. Blyth, professor of chemistry, Q 
should all horticultu wey societies whether national or | fered. These persons should be cantionodthat they apa Colle ge, Cork, my friend and former pupil, to. he 
local, for distribution t 22 4 lise with. J. M. eto off the b hould n eani edition of my letters. i "n E 
Hawke - , near . — rry the timber away in its present state and lay it in most distinguished chemists of Great Britain? ; 
Qottager's Kale,—I got in = ie spring a — 585 I N to e trees which may at present be un-| It will thus be seen that of the new chapters one l. 
of thts ee, and sowed it in * u sual w: affected, thus unintentionally spreading this pest, and wholly occupied with a disclaimer on the wes 
ug time when our English Elms s a 
for a i m 
use in about a month. The was not mixed; every | remedy D propose is ne likely to disgust the ins pic vg did advocate such views is, we t 
be m e ius e roof t there was ^" aj 
+ 1 2 s 
2 . e time past, and | this Peach has ome been prsi ced in publie 1 state, of the author are not neutralised by a re 
without doubt it is arse — daeiou ee eee I ever | for your correspondent's De „ it was shown absurd philosophy. In what manner he deals te fom iae 
ate; — ins ior to Asparagus or Seakale. The tops of | at one of the autumn meetings of the Fruit Committee | subjeet. will be. seen by the following extrac 
the green i kd are not near so nori As far as I of. the Horticultural Society, on anch occasion it 23d letter of the volume before us: 
know there is no Greens or Ca abbage at all su superior a proved cte every way excellent—though very similar | The life of plants is- an on the food obtai 
— pp to another first-class late yellow fleshed | from the air, from water, and the soil. Thee 
as E live for wi winter use, conceiving t that I will be well | variet; y, shown by apes an Ann xac kind of of thei an 
repaid by the tops of the pea ge even if I never | which I Bave & e forgotten the name. I conclude that the substances, earbonic: acid, water; ammonia, ralph ri 
got a sprout. limi Gort Cor. dá tine reports meetings held _ by this Committee vill phosphoric, and e acids aud f li 
e on very s 55 distribution probably Processes which 
plant ©. 941 of last won e vit "not bring its | time it zi assembles on January uth, as the a 4 m": s it ,hich tabo y id. 
spores to perfection in this country. ce directed to have these reports occur in plants. In inorganic nat edomingit + 
toclmate? I have never found it elsewhere than in printed for the $ parem of giving puts to - gode uar Kx "Ta. scales 
the-clefts of hot limestone — fully to the | opinions it had formed on the subjects submitted to it stones, the disintegration of lefty rocks, depend: 
— sun of the ean region. For although for examination, ex changes of temperature, on the influence of water a 
it grows so deep in eee not the direct| Packing Plants.—I would suggest the use of pots air; and organised beings, when life is extinct, a 
rays of the sun much on it and certainly not on the | with three or four tubes placed at equal distances on again resolved, by the of oxygen, into the orig 
be d i fhe. whole me gets 8 a 8 — — inside for Niki of the sticks when & compounds from which their bodies were formed. h 
ve egoir to or travelling. the livi ie fi of plants, however, air, w 
On ilar ork the source ia e necessity of employing the present ‘rough oxygen, and carbonic acid, lose their chemical cha 
* 2 near Montpelier, and in ibn urbane method of forcing sticks into the soil by the | 
W m Bs Pig rii 2 n Rid tearing lacerating 1 2 tender roots, and mee presence in preponderating quantities. xai y: 
^ Cor uma dues injury or death to valuable plants. 4 entem ob ee the vital force; oxygen ex 1 owertu 
: 8 al th b ts i 
Ee oe, Tigra shrubby ditto, Fuchsia. ae ato—I send you a sketch which 8 be how 1 — . 
ber White s : represents arkable instance of tho effects o£ x interior of plants, th 
eee tk asmine, Jasminum nudiflorum, late sumer on on the Potato, Tti 
MEN M Yers THiliatone. Sweet Verbena; also men fou n my 
de V Emma, and White i i 
| of carbonic are . from oxygen, and the latter: 
— EE. Smalle eaved i odes Myrtle, | Hawke Sape ne 
Vhite on ; : : perties of or, poun stie 
tillà, Lonicera flexuosa, large Yellow, Dear te Y — ad pr panes oae: this communication. represented. gating the different vital products of — chemists 
Tongi of „ and large Pin ik < Chrysanthe emums; in diameter, with five M AME ry Potato 2 inches paro gt lirected all re Na to ascertain the 
itse! ] : f eir etem: 
single 1 Givo Pim Pinks, China, vts MEG sod Souvoniz a nir | malformations 59 E i oe ach. MES m properties are dep * * * Inti 
nia ru an lba, only in extremely. ^ ure: and 
White Daphne, Yellow Pirie: lergé Pink and C t hey ery warm seasons like the past that | the. highest. orders of plants, their materials are 
lilae Paging Fel Scarlet and other Ge 121 Iur mesg the extent mentioned b: ed. wi 
Ned ussian Violets, ^ eff 
uccessive 
has been seien y. 
2 -p. 52 of the present. — x Ane each: spee s 1 
warf do, Pheasants Foot, Cinnamon. P M — m s volume, and al p. 4, 1849, | peated ; and this its angeabl comes V 
A nted,. found a x >: ngeableness, 
scented, Prin sh i resentation of a Potato much E 
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Langdon Court, near Plymouth, Dec. 29, : Reviews : idi seeds, Our senses i pula s see the hand of the 
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evelopmen t oft tenk rain emis a * 
= but. we fire son Me slonon which have controlled 
d the resisting mate d forced them into the pt 
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terested h the ee n h ME in 
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made on this subject, and your remarks — The E p er Chen E e 
toe that there wg phos rhe. Fg aal Bes 4 = By J. v. Liebig. ath ed 
i n who do not believe that e i s ed. vacet — however, "i 
id vh Eo MN € to effect yes destruction, 1 i Do Nan ami. un HON ROM nac oe pe have had an 3 ^em 1 
e y a cause which con 
mething: to Chemical and iei forces of matter, amd determines” 
it to assume forms never observed out of the live. 
or m, * * *The op of this opinio 
: t Livi ing, as I oxi 
u rees, ed 
subject, I have Wt watched the progress cp their M k. For, wi 
coneeded that the works of easily seen. to be total strangers, to all investiga 
merui cdi mami di that the cause of an impulse to VEI el hae connected. with chemical and, physical forces... No » 
— in ques-|this country, for Which, in thse absence, we. might, — — at 2 A. n or chemist has — «c 
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