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GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
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[NOVEMBER 14, 1874, 
these ge moreover, being particularly useful 
ren 
scorce of economy, as a good lea 
r the same cost, and would be far more 
me "Stevens thinks highly of the Early Louise Peach 
of its precocity, since a late-m oved tree, 
which maig in February, when yi Royal 
were as as blackbird’s eggs, ripened early 
in May, yielding a supply at that date than the 
earlier started Ro; ge. course the crops i 
l I ctober, the date 
emained, in a 
of our visit, but one interesting featur 
considerable number of the Calville Pils Apple, 
; the frui allowed 
ree 
ame which are really fit to 
the more northerly parts of the country, 
e finest late 
e pana —_ 
n boiler 
time w 
"Cae boiler, 
pense. 
hangi piast A age =- ~ that a most sub- 
and. commodious ce had been lately 
ments, since we hope to 
re fully hereafter, and to give the 
ot ehévation of the ‘building. 
THE PHYLLOXERA ANDA 
NEW INSECT POWDER. 
M. Dumas has made a communication on this 
subject to the Paris Academy of Sciences, announ: 
the scientific solution of the question,and the approach- 
practical method of destroying this terri 
nae e -i M. m irard has reported 
Academy its ravages in the two departmen! 
the Charentes, it is found here in the environs 
of Cognac, Libourne is t serious 
manner, and 
here inds of Vines 
npa eke save ts Alee i 
t ve api in e, in Tosi 
Austria, and in the en of . 
the pest to Cone in the vin d 
Paris trary in the great Grape growing eatabllshinsnts 
in the Forest of Fontainebleau. he at to the present time, 
f has not ex 
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m 
stance Tp ‘with ‘the 
M. Girard made epep at Cognac with sulpho- 
carbonate of potassium, prepared by the old costly 
method, and found that when some a thi t was 
they soon died, r 
this salt. as at least as effentive as cyanide of 
ium, 
The next step pri to procure it by a less poje 
method ; and M. Dumas found that without the 
n 
of potassium dissolved in 
phide water, and the sul- 
phite of carbon would mix when certain Laan were 
n. A wholesale iasbitactie of the salt was 
undertaken on he principle by M. Dorvault, and the 
necessary cheap materials procured for further experi- 
ment. 
M. Monille mas righ the is ee at 
Cognac. Vines in pots bore for a long time the 
effect of the solatia without i any ina ry, and, where 
Phylloxera were present, they were all dead in a few 
days. r e pue acy ere then extended to the 
open ai i ound ‘that Lis of very different 
kinds ides ditivety unaffected by t 
vineyards the the same, or rather they 
nil; and in th 
eclares 
e most powerful he has ever met 
ained how deeply the 
find ; whether a 
when M 
coal of Be: he 
M. Dumas promises and ae 
and M. 
iani is now engaged in titats ‘with other 
sorts. It is nôt with respect | to the pda ot tt alone 
that careful 
are wabe 
AN — ieee 
REFERENCE ee Ba y a made the 
columns of the Gardeners’ Chronicle to the “elebrated 
be Scien tific Men in ones Life,” of whom h La 
uring 
ey lived in com oase be 
ton alike of eg and o oponen as been can 
ed, consequence the sia” Totan, as 
individuals niini ge in a way,. have 
slo ppeared. l 
wly di ent spirit, nevertheless, 
as keen as ever, and the oe of bol bany r quite as 
honourabl + If wec 
no longer single icularly remarkable, 
in South 
y of the E ineniien of 
moment, 
cous ake their mark upon the 
discovery in in the 
famous old school is 
not but attract one’s notice. On June 23 died at 
. | entrance gate of the s Chelsea Physic G 
s Botanicus is P 
= 
oothstown, a quiet little village so i 
ae vat, ot Manchester, Joseph Evans vB i= to f 
botan as he miliar] gen 
asighbo ourhood, ahi the manner ot rents a = 
n rural districts, high repute ; 
mee al rae and purposes, 
is s stil d will for ever conta ae 
ecial and E ost important branches rg è 
science of slants oo ani! uses. desecration 
art is by with My 
legitimate port yey its fai thfal and unostentatious 
appiiceuice > and though belief in the he: 
erbs may not be as popular with ourselves as with 
one atinitie’: ‘somehow oe is a strong Ps of 
evidence in their fav r yet to be H in those 
dient nati sicia’ ascertai 
can be ‘it tle doubt ‘ee the balance would be on 
ao 
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vg 
o 
a 
a 
wee hila ie 
ales ays realise 
their silani, preferring a rapi oug! 
perilous agent, to one that takes time, making, how- 
demand, as it does its work, on the 
In many rural districts, to this day, botany sal ; 
means the knowledge of the pharmaceutical virtus $ 
ical w 
of plants; and when ical schools were fist f 
instituted, the cae a pore to in 
as unquestionably t which would enable br : l 
students to recognise Digitali S, = ladonna, 4 
. 
. b A 
. 
G 
bi | 
i ae 
each a ng pans Bhe of course, ve 
now som a 
hadi at are now called as „B 
Eon 
err 
ets) L 
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of the most enlightened men ot, : 
au author of Annotations s s Aphorisms of Hige | 
crates—not, h er, eas : 
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par de be p 
be considered, accordingly, the father of what has 5 f 
the course o three following develope, 
itself so splendidly and so extensively. eal 
in its liest and simplest sense, was 4 
humble signification, denoting nothing MOM ihe 
‘a plant,” and more exactly and specifically, fat- 
herbage of the me and pas such as 1 
nishes sead to e -l 
x rcteristically bo i ae To pal 1 
characteristically bold metaphor in in Pindar. | 
ak E bere Boraniw, whence came botanista : 
the of w , which latter term, im, do The Geet 
Theophrastus T Pliny, = only w ae 
classica 
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3 
= 
o 
8 
or A.D. 1625, 
avn is given 
‘*hearbe,” while purov is 
nscription on 
1688, ” the pecats Senta kiy auen 
that particular wall, the ga 
s411 ; Idyll, xxv., 8 
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ee Lib, viii., cap. 2. 
