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long before. And lastly, not to be mages in Bailey’s 
icti second edition, 1736, w 
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not worth a inquiry. he prominent one was 
y that of botany being sa nt to ope 
and to botanise was muc ch the same as collec 
acsiy herbs, formerly spoken of as «simples,” 
use in a vegetable medicine we natu- 
rally ENID st omething artless, straightforward, and 
intelligible One of the old poets has the amusing 
couplet 
“ While botanists, all cold to smiles and dimpling, 
Forsake the fair, and patiently go simpling. 
“8 
I have wandered rather from my particular purpose 
hich is is to give some ana reer of the old t botanist 
fame rests 0 nowle e of plants useful in 
e fields. 
under a i kindly eet: and how much more than 
cited say seas ted! It is not 
so Siok ae a i aie one’ wn father, tells us, 
` that does the good for one’s iee life time, as what 
he inspires us with. The ype or the wo mane tg 8 
upon whom we look neat ng su upplied th 
tal day, igh we think it out care. 
fully, is he who taught us, not so much how to wri 
cast accounts, as how to see to feel—to see 
e the snow a - 
dragon-fi eir beautiful blue corselets, 
to feel that ‘‘he prayeth best who loveth best all 
thi t and small.” h 
when no more than ten years old, how to contemplate 
imm uty of Nat and , doubt- 
less, is to be found much of the secret of his after- 
success as a practitioner. 
“ What the a 
The Youth endeavours, and the acquires. 
Like his father before him, he had very little book- 
ng; but he fed abundantly on the best and 
ea 
truest source of great and worthy ideas—-sim 
meaningful Nature. He had, in truth, but little 
chance of extended book-learning, fathe 
being alike handloom weav occu rom 
; pation 
his earliest youth he was, nevertheless, as diligent a 
reader as opportunities permitted, sparing o pains to 
master every book o n botany that was accessibleto tohim. 
a. undertake journeys on foot that to many would 
now i positively gr iain ng. There was not a w 
ora glen, a moor a pond, within 20 or 30 miles 
wW 
trodden by him. lts of these long 
are still manifest in the trim little garden adjoining the 
cottage wherein he resided for the ears 
more 
patriarchal form was encountered at one of the great 
Soirées of the Manchester Field ield Naturalist’s Society, | °F 
ns the Atheneum. 
Evans early gave his attention to medical botany, | lose many of their leaves prematurely, while on the 
and for if has been looked upon by the weather Ey they present an exceeding rched 
population of his district, say f ton to These drying winds were 
Nigan, and, in the other direction, to Eccles, | tive to the. fruit crops, es y on light lands, as the 
as alm re ruit were easily ff, owing to the exceeding 
to know where to stop, which is more than many | € flaccid state of th In such dry 
age have. Not being pledged to work miracles, | seasons watering without a good mulching is a waste 
le seem to think their doctors are, | of labour, ially if given in dribblets, and this 
many espec 
he told his pea just how far he could go, = should be avoided at all times, as it induces the roots 
for what lay beyon 
d always referred them to the | to come to the surface, and as the atmosphere quickly 
gentlemen who hold diplomas. So asto hing, absorbs what is given these surface roots dry up and 
however, was his success in the treatment, more perish. 
ticularly, of external injuries, such as nii ond an When water is given it should always be in sufficient 
scalds, ~~ also, and similar things, that from | quantity to thoroughly soak the whole of the soil, and 
ADL, n he was — to commence a then discontinued till it becomes moderately dry: 
receiving pelicin, up to 4 P.M., he was seldom in. By so doing the soil will at all times be ee 
unemployed, many seine i conveyances from a sad spit and an active root action will be t 
dubide of several 
be employed for his 
oe measures, unfortunately, Ta. ‘pot c sree this is the more essential, and a 
is not known ; or rather it is not known after what | stricter observanc of this aaah mt many failures in 
nner he employed (läit with the best effects. | plant cultivation, for how often we see the stra in pots 
His selecti large, but of how h sodden, sour, and inert from oo free use of the 
is selection was 
maar with it there 
e garden contains 
Euphorbia 
plants of old repute, 
quite as frequently to 
hed 
are unfortunately no memoranda. | waterpot—plants watered ries i "that should have 
Aconite, Hellebore, Stramonium, | stood ‘ill niga eid or lal 
Gentiana lutea, and many other Few gardens have ‘ed's an adequate water supply 
but he appears to have resorted | during the past season, where mulching has not 
ee Sop e us productions of | been resorted to crops have suffered phoma 7 
In shaban, old Mr. | whole of our Apricots, pyramidal each 
an es 
Evans was pisipay 5 ‘mild and emote oe He | were gi ately mulched in February, be ane h 
ea l trees of the moved 
ry 
and delighted in the society of cusial people. Of | autumn for the purpose of poin nting the joints rer the 
children, a he was open cen — people of | wall and trellising the same they have 
moved di 
his kindl 
them there lies that 
ent a ears is any 
pratt of malt sympathies, the | water, but appeared to enjoy the excessive heat, and 
Hence, at the time of the | ripened off one of the finest crops of fruit I ever sa 
i had one ing i 
interment of his remains, which are laid in the beau- | Those transplanted on watering in July, 
iful and garden-like graveyard t. Mark’s, in the | and were occasionally syringed ov ead ep the 
adjacent village of Worsley, the which | bark plump an unteract the exhausting effect 
170 of the little folk he had been accustomed to | removal. The effect of the mulching on the Peaches 
pte : 
service. 
the usual chaplet of 
beautiful aie of gorezrg ot oe flowers. It may 
caress. We often hear of magnificent funerals— | and Nectarines has been equally satisfactory, as the 
eer: and plumes—I eget £ rn d = as soon | growth is all that can be desired, an nce of 
remains fol ’ by 170 | red-spider shows that the trees have found sufficient 
sie on in their teens, who should think of me ae roo isture, as a lack of it is sure to bring a prolific 
children’s boundless lo a and reveren The cir- | crop of this or freshly transplanted trees and 
cumsta’ aidi of another thousand piopi piii as | shrubs mulching is absolutely necessary, as it almost 
part of the final ceremony ; and of £150 having | ensures the life of the plant. If transplanted in 
lready been subscribed towards a monument, in- | autumn it protects the mutilated roots from the action 
tended to be of red granite, ‘ahs that Evans was no = — and os, Be winds, keeping a uniform tempera- 
ordin m The clergyman of Worsley is not round the ail of the plant by shine the heat 
only a reverend but a titled member of the Ellesmere ia during Pe summer escaping too rapidly, 
| family, to one om, deceased, Mr. E is | thereby aiding a rapi ion of roots. "For sping 
understood to ical servi benefits are equally great, and if this 
Unusual attended reading of in Pappen 
the burial n, in addition to 
p'a 
pon coffi he would be few indeed. 
white and green, was placed a | fully alive to the ge yp of shading the roots 
lanted Briars, as I r eens B paca bedding for 
M 
e in ney matters Mr. Evans was the essrs. aca "of own, some 
liberal to Aer his friends thought almost - fault. He | twenty years ago, that they had acres covered with 
roved, however, that ‘* Ther ereth, and | stable manure ; and as is encouraged a rapid forma- 
yet increaseth.” man foi be oot poo “also, that | tion of roots, and kept the lants in acire growth, we 
n politics he was of the fam old | were enabled to continue pree, So e 
Samuel Bamford a 42, one a age season with the greatest s id M 
of ee an was 50 years in in advance of the times. | dung forms a capital pap eaS = cat I always use it 
ext was, *‘ Lord, remem for our flower-garden. This it has saved much 
t 
me.” Thoug oh not a p aoni qualified pe of 
e was 
the medica aL profession 
the authorities, and 
ed as 
takes his gies; an 
long-honow 
a sort of pri 
d 
by 
oe all events, of late) y was 
vileged 
iliary. No one 
one ca “i its | up from pure ag eh r from strawy particles, 
worthies, It is but fair to | it can scarcely be distinguished from the a ot the 
beds. 
botanical 
add that to the elder Evans apg m PO Rent Er Where spent Mushroom cee 
obtained for ie peer a good substitute will be 
ould, A slight mulching of this 
he ing 
eau 
subsequently t 
o the younger td ed, 
chiefiy attributable the anaiita na the flora of found in rotten 
the Manchester district, Recent observers have en- i e! 
larged the list ok localiti itie bat. scarcely a species has | w 
to the ci it existed in the time 
of rge Crozier. i of Thallogens, it is true, | it of its moisture. — 
has yet to be is work the old | Plants 
ists, destitute of not (aes 
: Eikai 
they are sure to do if they receive a ch 
no better fetching can 
MULCHING. lack of moisture. Wh ere sea-weed can btained 
in d, on pee i for all ‘a 
the briny. It 
shallow-rooted, 
has been a life em death teat many havi 
succumbed. 
The rainfall amine the autumn and winter 
most scanty, and ther 
in the earth to suppl 
n be 
Brassicas, as as they like a smack of 
sed in Cornwall 
here this season for Peas, French Beans, Celery, an 
ag caged and has saved much labour in watering. 
In dry seasons like the past trenching i is one of the 
culti as it allo 
e was therefor e but little pac nie lent 
and meet the demand 
driest ; 
