1100 THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. рза : 
К. asana annann ae мә lkali arths most nearly | upon the same subject, which hg : 
ta | a1 Pire iua СЕ ао ах wed estiment recorded by | myself. ve been can 
t to | Berthier and Saussure, replace x e another in a plant, With respect to the mid xL. the d 
far as respects the fluids which are есш Ай a growing Иш 2 pits. : 
ajay in m river sand ; for although. lateral sh 
were produced 
reside in the plant, still the regular formation of grain | so 
through the әна tissues. 1 hac 
à a - iaie one of the above seven inorgan Dr. Gilber rather confirmed ра о which | tissues, І My „рр, io aom 
i tha i own, repor inia memo 
1 t imi in| I have pu зба іп ving remarked, п y п 
en sarias kai - Sag, s "tevelopm i magnesia|he finds a constant variation in the wg sors Transactions ob geo Linne $ 
was not supplied, the growth of the plant eeble ;|of the crop according to the condition of the soil, es t it nt memoir I show 
en potassa, it was stunted, and only a single stem | that variation b s less the nearer we вррғовећ | watered with a solution of nit rate 
produced ; when soluble silica, the growth of the stem | to the maturity of any one organ. к x we com in soils con 
5 the same earth, never appeared to 
was arrested ; when phosphoric acid, onl e flower s re Wheat ripened i M good d , we А СЕ 
was obtained, гапа this did not produce gni when x а zm very mu uch larger рор oE gue in of this Que $ for = е not be s det 
t i ere was no ste id 8, on 
P dai Lr acid раене spo ne - ovi 11 oda e for quantity i in, or attac hed, to their E 
l deficient in| Upon the VA then 1 should 1 f nts, T | 
тый esci ы ри DA ERENER th Ton spongio oles of the roots dos M {тота К oil of alluding г also to an analogous. Pee ond 
adverse to the Ж. that even vm nist m сап їп which they may ‘chance to present themselves, the allowed access wo an the v brooding е en; 
rep. however, but 
as pe у do о, that th t 2 apang Ta. the organism [отө been provided for, being again | shel 
p growth. excreted by the Win respect to the "Pire 
The fourth MET inde ed, arrived ағ, жашуу; аз Тһе possibility of. the roots m is as well ofa poisonous charac ter 
to the imperfect. development of a plant nade 018 
powdered quartz, ee where all the bodies ма to | the nature of the cell walls, and + t diffusibility in which cuv were water ed wi 
be essential to it a prov ided, althou ugh it arriv es at | of all saline ог crystallisable fides nor are th n the pr yes ot one 
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sand, seems s idest, that we are still unacquainted | exudations, which are general ly of an acid character 
with: all the ingredients of the soil and of the plants | as has been na а by the PARE. in which Passing over the se trials, E appear 
which it rears. they w submitted to pressure upon a sheet of|the requisite precision, I will state Bu 
From a late communication of the Prince it would litmus Rp dn uring the past and present year, witha t 
that i . | mining the power of the roots to absorb posi 
as he found, that although. Barley did not come to I \ 1 subst when presented to - 
ruments for the hh of any nutriment that of great dilution. "A 
even when supplied with carbonate of lime, magnesia, |r, be offered, and the selection of the ingredients | In 1860, having first made a ir А 
sulphates, тец andi loride of potassium, yet pted for ks ушат elopment of the plant takes place 
f 100th parts а 
of nitrate 
-— o Uc £c od 
of lithia caused it to flower, and to yield perfectly ripe But when оран ces abnormal ог poiso are 
grain . (pres esented, the case is different, for then rs ww уо |а 
Indeed it has been ascertained by that delicat 1 ensue. tain 
method of examination carried on by the aid of if the substanco is calculated to de a deleterious 
Kirchhoff and t litbia | in the plant, its first effect, if it be 
isa co» аці of tobacco, th i sufficient tly large quantities, is to destroy 
alway | а spectrum containing m iini lines so the тшу, of d ра + and then ЖО? rbed до 
carrie syst s would ме корен the mem 
brane у ы strength of the p ceding one, coni 
hen we concile this conflicting| This seems to be the reason, why sulphate of copper Yo uil f water, 
S SP атт the ] pover oti irr д Eel | finds its way,into plante, in quantity so much сас After two applications with ап 
by another within ceri limite, wi y |ing t that of other salts which are nutritious or at leas t | between, this crop also appears. 
Which exists fo damaged; but d гае ted | 
where the substance is innocuous, or where, renewed on three other days, so йа Г 
Boh роса» itis pH UA їп such a state of dilu- | the solution was applied five rad їй 
даро ARAS ux: any A ous influence upon the | the crop from arriving at maturity. . 
КЕБ he constitution ot $ plant, ник 
| A similar plot of ground, sown 
wat зр the 3d, 10th, 17th, and $ 
in difta rent soils, qe Fnanured. in various ways, ay be Jp one ha nd, Dr. Edmu а Dey Professor “ofl xu ded mete con minii Mae _ 
бабньнна for b Agriculture and Agricultural Chemistry i in the Dublin of water; so that, on the whole, 4 
its proximate аы in the several eamplee- EN Soaiety, is quoted іп the Gardener: ronicle for | acid diluted with 40 gallons of Y 
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September 10th, 1859, as having satisfied himself by | Now i e 
в, Wheat cultivated in опе soil may contain | а series of experiments, that Peas watered with a Ah yn poe the ea was obs 
more tr eie nd less starch rete, in another, and saturated. soluti tion of arsenious acid for more Шап а | case 16 им» Turnips Tho 
hence the chemical — tion of t lth uxuriant, as in the 
each in stance d 1 e go e aa was AN "Ченнай у appropriate tests in the plants had pen been в во кеме шошым 
variation in the eom potina of differen t pe of He also reported in the same Journal to have 
the same plant, in consequence of the variable amount | ated, "that a solution of superphosphate ч lime, dai e i ef ae Dare, E 
Of acids and bases which ањ: circulating through its | w. Se b, if im i has been employed i 
tissue, and which, though not assimilated and there- |i ts prepara: tion, always contai ins more or less arsenic, 
fore making no part of the actual constitution of the| was applied to a Cabbage, and that the plant grew Tos | 
сыы are nevertheless necessarily included in the -— flourished, на gh arsenic was detected in it In th ts 
a afterwards. А similar experiment was tried also upon namely, 
У - mM rm emoir аа — experiments: made rae ith the recede result - nuum a Pigs өртүнө п 
self on n plots А. ground м Е, ven AR f Cheltenham has also published a iquid, instead being i 
cially i impregnated "ther w with Soda or potass, I have | letter а айгы o Dr. ссе Davy; s which he 1504 Makane Шад н n 
em in the propor- оешу firms. the same fact, and assures us, that | ty > 
vmi of M -— alkalies in different crops іп the follow- | it holds good in the наат ТОЁ ай ће various plants iub 
me which he had "d em ted. 
Lobo теб the normal quantity of potass to - On 2 other han essi ышаны; and Link, To thes оона, € ce ec 
74.0 and -of M 20 Pacem enit; and that in the unma- | could not induce ies o grow when sprinkled with | To tne балу eee 
circulating through tl d Mr. Ogsden, in the Gardeners erige 
CERE ode M6 par рег cent. of potasa and an Chronicle for Marche 11, 1860, states, that on repeating | Тһе Barle во treated seem аю viov 
equal amount. женаз NN : | Davy's experiments, he he found Cabbage plants, and also than ied; obtai tained from the rest of. 
: iva оа Seakale, to to droop and die within a week after nica! а 
5=82,6°.. .to them of 5 ut in th. 
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in Platt being the Pe ero m 1 he ground: t also pes that w he | uco Ti tie ec "ane 
have been 10.5 per cent. of DO iod 657 СР soda paged the shoot of a Kidney E ean plant into а |1 think, can in 8 
сі ти, z through ; w е ° analysis woul à Sat eem sante in E 2 n of мош acid to pesce оет either in 
ме phe 5 : is, however, it may be alleged, ou ht not to Second] 
nd Май, in the crops manured with carbonate of té ч - either of the two instan 
soda and. A M ie of sodium, there would be | because there would be analogy between the | adopted for ascer 
ing through the crop, шө: 2.5 ds cut portions of the ste EO 
80 that жан зе give da pem adt ^g въз the spongioles of the Ia te first 
a 
5276.8 The nity, however, е the est potass, and sin ashes were 
=23. be пареа of Swan gr acid. Sulph 
Tinus, ovom rare supposing any ed а the ic influence the алей) vip Cree with: us "the the soto, but no — T 
plant, Ne nd i ha че present in " IM ope is пра uts во infecte ected, and likewise | addi 
hen it td 
xi inis as Liebig supposes, one suffer, and con i : f 
i B in ; , sequence по inj rtion e was 
M ert Ti мрг diy pim the fixation | properties, may perhaps be іну adduced in aei portion 0 with a Liebigs condenser, 
boni ы em шау у "uderstood, that | of the same conclusion. together with some nitro-hydrochlorit 
dh arged by oda 9?$| I will now lay before you a few experiments bearing| The qns was mainta 
G hence th аа 2506: бе төрөр: us. наа ы ыр СО СОН tempera e 
ussion, wh 
of my тет. in the Chemical News, tole and tatata with sulph: 
