328 THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[SEPTEMBER 12, 
inclination to do A my mind and time were too 
much engrossed a iod to enable me to devote 
ther to other subjects i than those of personal interest. 
n the same article now under my examination the 
be oxygen i 
but two ato 
Thus it may be termed dioxygen oxide, or i am 
similar to water, as may be seen from the expression : 
H O" water, or} O" ozone. Pure oxygen is libe- 
rated from the latter when free hydroxyl, ee is 
brought into contact with ozone, one molecule of 
of o 
hydroxyl and of f ozone giving one of water and 
two of oxygen. though it is admitted in th 
article in conjunction with the above that nascent 
oxygen possesses more active prop than thi 
pene in its free state, yet it is implied that nitrogen 
has no more active properties when liber O 
pe 
ammonia than it has at it exists free in the air. Surely 
kae e &c., acids are carbon combination 
with water, and a table is dud to Rimi the Pa 
proportions of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen 
combi on, with variable proportions a 
water to form such acids, was certainly thou ght so 
once, but then we an, hai ing our chem shiney p to 
e present time. ulmic, geic, an 
acids are soe by putrefaction ; Rokn e but very 
Hu in soil, “bat. it is 
i 
ammonia or water < on pein bak the solution is 
always a dark brown ; and yet the writer of the articles 
on manures would have it that the oe acid and 
ammonia are are directly absorbed. If 
how is it that the sap of 
THE SWEET FLAG. 
THE interesting article upon the native country 
this curious 
plant induces m to transcribe a 
wing apartments with Rushes, 
so as to give a sort. one nis h to the furnishing, is 
ly to in the _— English authors 5 ; 
and it is reasonable sers sup] 
a plant capable of 
ed upon would be 
y the rs for covering 
as they do not give way so 
dh tewi o of cereals, and seem to allow also p are 
in 
riginal t 
, srek to Took, without misgiving, for a wild Bay i 
either with the E peepi of the metropolis or 
with the gardens of the monasteries, to which such 
plants were for a o ‘ties confined. I do not baie 
from what source the Rev. C. A de rived his 
a passage from 
E- H Deo will be a great 
point gained i in nieja tas the plant uis ng 
England if s š 
who several tin imes i a to the cotta of Rushes 
far 
house 
he bids you 
bees ig wanton care lay you down, 
st your gentle head upon her la 
Asi she will sing iad song that pleaseth you ; 
And on your eyelids crown the God of Sleep, 
Charming your blood with pleasing heaviness.” 
Here, if anywhere, one would. think Shakspeare 
would have ec a fitting opportunity for allusion to 
the scent throw 
er 
usion occurs in omeo 
alin ‘act hy — 
“Let wantons, light of heart, 
& Tickle the senseless Rushes with their hee ls.” 
Here, again, the e being dancing an 
festivity, one wou 1a ip that, T had the pa 
brought out sc 
thing that was worth a reference. Bu ut, as he 
preceding instance, the omission really proves nothing 
owards the case in poin rt, fo: Ts 
the references E sy the materials employed for 
nci 
strewing were ordinary Ju the r 
ditch-bank. Shaksp are was under no obligation to 
EEROR the perfume, and in his silence 
uite pa consistently think of the Acorus. It 
is wonky oF ie e that when in Cymébe/i ne (act i ii., sc. 2) 
Shakspeare aia the shame pe incident in ja ‘life of 
Tarquin which lost him his k om, he pictures the 
Fik er of the times s again Ee an allusion to the 
strewing with Rushes 
“ Our Tarquin thus 
softly press the Rushes ere e he wakened 
The chastity he wounded.” 
all the pashas u in the a dramatist 
I can give from No doubt there are 
ran but I have no Concordance to pnk = eee 
sibly there may occur among them some allusi 
what I should carta h be very lat to hear ofthe 
pa oe which exhales through the trea ading and 
We ‘have 2 , OC in Cheshire is an APOE 
which I am ‘disposed to believe is in 
England. It for on the borders of Sni ot the PEE Een 
wet and sa whic! locally call 
7 es,” and of Shei there were formerly so man 
_| in the neighbourhood r that the term is 
. | quite common in the phy. Even in the suburbs 
i. eit stools on at a arge di now well covered 
| wi Berai , at all e ith h called 
in the immediatenei 
&e, 
ne mosses, now laid out 
as the Victoria Park, and little more than a mile from 
the Exchan nge, $ ha 
tassels of - 
existence, I 
I can y say for macs A that if not 
to the Kopi indicated, I shall hardly know 
ee = curious plant, which is perfect] 
ti A 
— ng unpuckered. Ve 
Too mu 
bedding plant, —— VENO. 
its 
in heat in early spring, prick 
boxes, and grow 
wers 
spider, and there need be no fear 
score of 
very gardener who possesses a pond 
very self-accommoda 
espect weed not excelled in 
sia 
y the permanent a te be allowed to-stand 
z excep xisti 
descendants, with unalte: 
that arrived thei 
Perhaps I may be allowed to a 
ing of rushy foliage for use 
as the time ri 
when the Argona uts have 
Cyanians ei 
fı 
been in part the fragrant 
corus Calamus itself, a Grindon, Manchester 
PLANT GOSSIP. 
h cannot well a of thata 
pleasing, and its 
Get.» packet o of se 
e seedli 
ings 0} 
them on liberally, and id Yo will 
nice gus by bedding-out ti When | 
plants dying off.” 
Thec charming BEGONIA MarTIANAisb b 
freely outdoors on Mr. Wilson’s root 
and isa p ‘eco 
purpose in other si 
ea 
hich k 
ecorative 
koreai 
i eybridge, in 
n on the ee couple ae 
being reduced to pulp by the first frost, but 
stood out there for two or three 
in a somew. hat sunny 
a - NERTERA DEPRESSA is one of the 
on the rockwork 
