138 THE 
GARDENERS' 
CHRONICLE. 
[JULY 31, 187*, 
nately pe a little №. — it up; the Jeaf was 
treate n the form 
uly sn icm all seni Y pede. to- дау, cee about 
a half-tubeful, quite acid, and somewhat v 
uly 30. —No secretion to- dem either on io spider, 
which is qui te dry, or on the blades of the lea 
Aug e is a dam 
and leat (today, but no 
her d wW. . 
livi s nds of smaller size was put on the leaf of 
nother plant. On July 27, at 4 P.M., it was sur- 
rounded with fluid, whi 1 wiped NE as a 
whitish semi- substance w. ing fro 
as found c from 
the hinder part of the spider (a similar лагын А тау 
р tert the opalescence in the former case also). 
es af was allow ed to close. 
Е e tube of der йшй was nei away 
"ese ; it was pe e rest was wipe 
July ААТА i pos cals sce to half 
fillat = W. 
Aug, c. ырш а Pg a dampness on spider 
and t. eo of leaf, 
Yet another experiment was made wi ма а spider, 
which in this instance was a very fat о pa- 
rently in an interesting condition ! entrapped 
en Jul y 2], Pu. an on the 28th it was found sur- 
_two tubefuls of this were re- 
off. 
ich had a 
July 30.— en down, ne 
2 great deal of fluid o ofa melli. colour (roni mixin 
with contents of spider) was removed, Four келеы 
—Two and a half tubefuls of reddish = 
and ре ен «ч гас damp. 
ruptly Калы 
, as the Scottish AI Club can b rook 
withdrawn, 
There e was one circumstance which I noted on more 
* than one occasion. It was this: that if the meat was not 
put well down, so as near the odes hairs, 
there was little or no secretion. I shall give ex- 
es o 
ere it was found on үш y looking 
аз and mn shrivelled. On 
e meat was pale, like 
geste 
if these observations be proved to hold gene- 
rally des М t to a beautiful "ы 
existing betw all the properties already mentioned 
viz., irritability, киш ction, а nd secreti 
must that e 
he hairs 
that no Mm T чел зд 
oun ch a posi 
the plant were very sickly an 
creature would h 
u 
n such circumstances, 
is usually enjoin 
I come pow to speak of the fourth oad. which i is 
кере; 
matter, and preparing a pulp suitable fo 
peers re can be no question 
occurred, whether 
stomach of à man, or of a beast, or in the leaf of a plan lant, 
vessel. No do 
in the interior of a glass ubt it = 
bean more е complica cated pr vag in the one case than 
the essential parts of th 
alike in all, and I cannot see why Mc Mo ces are 
An 
that putrefacti 
"period 
the coolness of the leaf had ing to 
absence of decay, 1 tok а Месе of meat, and 
leaf mannia a 
Now in tee nennt there are two 
hree asumptions — might be well to с ; 
the first is that **the process is of no use to the plant." 
He is referring to Pind, tk ов his EIE 
sentence, he seems to include Dionza also 
grom nds does he rest as opinion P Mr. Lindsay, a 
be so too.” 
285 
` that when the ey hey to grow young plants o 
Dioma under bell-jars they found that they never 
throve so еі. as those which were left free. 5 re- 
gards his a h 
nate - flies, he seems to онаа 
sub ust ne t 
and if not нау ene de rains 
way must have favoured their 
= box roots ot 
s have contributed t e nouris 
— ee asserted tha t 
h which 
Dio supp Surely Mr. Murray must know 
that tlinagh- there is such admirable гори in the 
h th, stomach, &c., for rece food for 
the nourishment of the body, yet the skinit may absorb 
nutriment, as in the case of baths of milk, but who 
would assert that the iet А Ње опе doing so pre- 
cludes the action of the o 
which swept d 
d 
s а е Sees insects 
> 
plant itself, but still ариу. 50. c 
lants are < pul сс “It is not an unnatural 
assumption he secretion exuded wi ici 
more or less NT и" than € in its acidity ; and 
it does. n reference to t — uices of 
«T ns сег ан 
ng more is needed to make digestion apply 
the litmus paper to the. moist or half rotten lunes of 
Sphagnum or Polytrichum you will find them much 
more acid than the icula ; 
t had this question not 
been complicated by the DH machinery of Dionza 
for which it is so difficult to find a purpose, that we 
should ever have heard x unten plants or digest. 
les.’ This a ment, if carried out, woul 
cid is the general agent of 
— пара all Nature, we cannot believe мн 
should ard of carnivorous beas 
in their bodies. And had we onl 
na 
то 
E 
< 
сБ 
ЕА 
& 
3 
5 
i 
see around us, whether i in the € m or in the mill, 
or ght have fo rtified 
са position by an appeal to most inse nt Dm 
or Hippocrates held that digestion н а 
y^ vue е ү, Boerhaa 
anical наа: w 
Perm held th that | it эне: -r ya age 
But after all, ther 
seen 
between the j ye of a plan “ant its secret m. In the 
Dionza I grant that the acid character is of about 
equal intensity in ‘bet nthe Drosera di ichotoma, 
however, it is far otherwise, for while the juice is quite 
acid, the drops of secretion ar us scarcely, if at all, so. 
But in both Dionzea and while 
other соласт indicating digestion i is this, 
oes not occur during the whole 
um p no except = Mr. 
муга es is acid, 
ph 
again I phis касан piece more loosely amongst 
the leaves of this plant, while, on the other han nd, I 
put a similar piece of raw beef on the leaf of a 
Dionzea. re es IO, at 6 P.M., the first two ES. 
were putrid, while the piece had no bad 
smell whatever. 
_ I could give many illustrations of this, as almost all 
the iments attested it. th od Лоу. 
ever, to prove t the mere exclusion of much air and 
selected a 
do with the 
Aeri having 
(which was 
same house with the Dionza), on July 4 1874, 
“т чч 
ot Mr. Lindsay to tie "wi meat up in the a. un 
as then fo dp several t imes. Oa July 
the meat was 
But a more striking “se dont MEC as it illus- 
ims Suh processes, е this Po. Red had 
ed some deae with r сез уе, as the 
quantity given that the d projected pb. the 
пое spines or bristles. This was done on July 4, 
On a July 6, on opening one of the leaves, x was 
found that while the portion of meat beyond the mar- 
ginal hairs was dark and dry, and had a fa sr putrid 
odour, the niet сес within the leaf was white 
and had t appear of having been m indi 
and had no pared abii), but esp quie fresh. 
'The meat was now taken from the lea 
T uly == ted mea ay uch more 
ас Thile rk partially digested 1 Me has е эше 
nother interesting fact is when 
partially e: Et t be put Pw the scd 
5A lose it 
uly 6; опе о? the gorged leaves, on which the 
par “Projectin g gave a very putrid era had this 
n pushed within the S and o n Ju ly 8 no 
pat trid smell c ould be discovered. On opening the 
ae there was noch acid j joie sand the meat was much 
iter, but no smell was discoverable. 
ken w is the process carried on xd what is the result? 
—In answer to these que uestions | I would say, slowly 
БЕ steadily ; and if we асаа eef for observing 
w 
he changes find that it soon п loses its red colo 
as in the instances just di га ually disin- 
tegrat and more till ultimately the state of 
pulp i ced e instance, , that of 
piece of raw beef, soont a size > = pu е бу 
which was introduc s fou 
n July 
= 23 reduced to the ats ut: iul, “a Tes rhe 
ell. 
E uno disce omites, 
(To be continued.) 
Apiary. 
Work FOR AuGusT.—Those of our readers who 
their neighbourhood for condemned stocks. 
own part, and speaking from past experience, we have 
been most successful in the apiaries which are the 
pride of many of our farmer’s wives. They, in nearly 
on the old- 
er 
the North of: E 
be saved all trouble, as perdon stated 
we , our bee xpeditions in 
the autumn, in company with two or three valued 
friends of whom is far fro a total 
abstainer; in fact, he always returns home ee 
and as jolly as possible with the good wine brought 
out by daugh of our noble yeomen, w to say 
the truth, it is bard to resist, e take wi ith us empty 
skeps, &c., on an old perambulator, which will : ld, 
maybe, eight or ten stocks when P on, and r 
home ‘eat in the cool of the even we 
pé whose stoc 
to strengt n stocks, and 
о feed them Ser he агу before the winter sets 
e 
cast should be inspected, 
йене аз 
are increased wi 
ked at even in this light driven bees are exceed- 
in empty hi 
make them in des qd colonies. We say, D rior all 2 
try it; nothing can be done without trying. kis 
