DECEMBER 14, 1861.] 
THE GARDENERS' 
CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 1101 
In this latter instance : slight precipitate was | 
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the | property "which has been assigned to them by the | | be, which bring about the effects in question, are only 
slight stain on the subliming tube, and this ‹ ofa a 
rie M etly arsenical in 
colour, те Cr 
зей 
ce than th rre rate el 0 state 
y, that the Barley, | grown this yea: 
e ith arsenic ча fierce no hene s of the 
the 
a 
tained, which ire Von of arsenic Ьу! eite of Huxtable and Thomson, and 
h's test, but this I a a portion of the | established ру the — — of Professo I should indeed be far from ire to Prejndge the 
кеше solution applied [d adhered su perficially Way; for it wo uld s m fr om t the investigations of eo on,as to e ther some or all of the 
for t allud to y not cendi admit of 
pate after carefully washing ie Barley t еі indica- | present in rain wate на іп manures i 1 i laws, remembering, as I do, 
in the soil, that, ander ordinary cireumstances, | | that even wit erg my own time it was a ruled point, 
= addition of seen Am rogen yiel water containing carb acid is unable to withdraw | that no эйе vn. tur — be generated except 
under the influence of the livi viram iple, whereas 
itis now known @ thanks to Wohler and Stier that 
| several +2 ча сап be produced by ordinary chemical 
| ма 
it, the same is ve diens «бе боега "Ау апа 
doi m into the tissue of plants by means of their 
roots 
Hence, as Lie ebig observes, vegetables obtai 
their сач Атца, by virtue of some Mord attrac- "t bine time it seems to me, that we are bound, 
exe i we wish. to maintain our Mr as philosophers 
tion rted by the rootlets upon d ME 
locked up within the earth, a proper derived 
indeed, but perhaps P." more $0, than чл th 1 ich have 
by ће’ lcaves of b ihe eli carbonie acid into mec ы гу with a т: iew 
whatsoever under ment above detailed. ` 
The analysis of the rim: which had been sub- 
mitted to the action of arsenic in the above two ways, 
ke still more decidedly against the absorption of 
the poison. bul кы i ^ li s 
thin pieces, А аз was possi e, wit out 
со la . They were then introduced into a 
retort, tted to the same treatment as the 
arsenic show the 
add, the result arrived 
one by Prof. Brodie, in an examination 
made of a specimen in his laboratory. 
Barley, but in а^ nec instance did indications of | 
v 
А ииз. x „of ri ea was instituted by 
| of elucidating the faot of ein by men who, in 
J5 
Lieb that the 1 % materialistic 
а | presented to the paseis are not in a liquid form, | principles, choose to ignore the mysteries which still 
| for if re, he suggests, that water, төн alone | shroud the approaches to the shrine of the Rhodian 
ori гама кр. with carbonic acid, would be capable | Genius. t 
of abstracting them from the gro ound. m 
He therefore — that being distributed over | e Correspondence 
the general body of the soil in a finely divided con- | The Lost Sheep Found.—-In the sprin 
dition, they are taken up byt e rootlets, owing {оа widely dien about that Mr. Pike of uode 
| и st sro eon 
3 
x th's set of St ) 
е шоге readily understand, how it is had sold his * Smith's set of Steam Cultivating 
but neither he nor - vi RUP Howard, A ubi agents, 
Tackle," 
31 en: + N ЯҒ, ТР 
g to be absorbed in larger 
and through whom ears the tackle was 
] strontian and E iy both dede substances 
and the — one, I believe, poisonous to plan 
is to anim 
In these i£ it may be stated generally, that no 
Ас аы 
nitric acid. 
acted be: beneficiall м upon the: 
i order to determine de; de of каш. earth 
е same de^ of proceeding, toa hem 
rted to, in m 
asit|ec 
and why some should be -— 
шау prn as we have seen in the case of t 
Sr t 
ber were T edid enough (although ма » let 
e kno it had bee and it ntil 
ече ча едет 
поми 
| Dee за Tit. that. I5 кан to. iie 
| the геле yf bad strayed to. The letter m 
below, D sent Es since allowed to be m 
will show well a give. a satisfactory ac wd 
тр нн 
abstract 
de publie, 
t of it 
, weare pr — shortly a distinct trea- 
и y this. Se dh man on the very subject just ad- | 
erted to, I shall not enlarge further upon what may i^ 
hortly corrected, and certa ner will be greatly ex- 
i tended, А the investigations he has unde P dns 5 « Manthorpe » Lodge, Grantham, 2d Dec., 1861. 
M me má alumina DObL| “Sir, —I have not ihe pleasure of your acquaintance in any 
mà oes that one way, but as I have been "— а second-hand Steam Culti- 
d раан it vator of roh p ention, R archased of Messrs. ron Г, in the 
quanti APR double Qiu" nm БУ АЙЫЫ. Кога, Т 
" t 2 аз ; wer dou "4 inder engine, built by Messrs. Hornsby, 
fpes is rendered more intelligible by ‘the think it my duty to infor: u that [am entirely satisfied 
W, н те ts performances m — I enclose an 
.| abst i g land at Dunton Lodge, 
near гн ез ү ды Барын (i the Earl Bowl. now in 
ЗЕЯ оен 
tribe nam 
arge 
Its 
late researches of Crum and of Graham, whic h show, 
кашу 
namely the F B 
urnt, and theiríashes digested in muriatic 
* After rem the undissolved portion by fi 
but its absence from the greater number of plants hand, between the Ist of June and the 22d of November last. 
apri seem to indicate, cet ЕЗ spongioles. are not | I may r dee ati - your eul 
and n 761 
on e. а — 
tin, the gm was Hee rne to dryness, 
erely passiv ve Bo iege r the absorption ifm 
any bodies ты might be pres ыста 
їп the Mme t 
the days were long, on sevi 
" 
to a order to render 
silicates insoluble. Hydroehlorie acid was again 
to the residuum, and after а second mmt the liquid 
was onside mA to have been brought i a fit state 
es 
added 
erops — 
| ilis the absence 
fafetred, t the liquor veis IM d rene m 
the addition of a solution n of € of tie 
In the other case, where precip 
obtained by the addition of "the same solution, the 
absence of strontian was inferred, not -— T its not 
failing to produce the 
that. 
E 
It follows fro: 
tions of the presence 
а rt character of the ye awdit y 
were 
itate was | ha 
these Кес riments, sim 
of any of these mers sub- 
stances were afforded, either] ы апу marked difference | be arrested 
а, "he ти efficacy of geothermal culture, 
now 80 much їп mcer фр by оеша пе |! live Titok Grhas altogetitér сап дот ре Тоша 
to pre-suppose, that t tal agents, capable | land sown with Wheat or on the fallows left ready for spring 
of being iste poa by Pus sali. уй I am glad also to speak distinctly to your apparatus 
Why else should the application of heat to the roots | cultivating the furrows or hollows, quite as well as the ridges of 
® Бе 
и 
Wheat Stubble 
PM i 
isted Bean Si 
PRID: pro вау vnl pM E 
Tf ithe spongon acted upon thi к т | э. 
та 
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Stubble 
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m па weather returned, us the plant would en 
than what was due to а аге 
e 
detecting сы 12 
ошу d therefore 
td 22d of November, 1861; 
suspension of its its functions ; whereas the conseque. е е d m— 
that the 
Walt la еерее ihe. dale of усети. 
bes the working I are reduced to 133, a 
ients which we first 
were e bran Jem 
o scanned by т  Bopriration of prope 
ent, be positively, b ving n oxious ma 
and dite and time moving from field 
MS and that бөр day, long and short. Five men, two 
dear and from 7 to 9 cwt. of per 
ost not exceeding 4s. 6d. per 
th " 
In short t the Sd Lo tas may be supposed to have 
been reduced ad jaan by the cold, as 
hat t ught by the application of 
"амаз 
Өй Doe ТИЙ, 
“ Dear Sir, —Since to you yesterday, has occurred 
to me that it ат be A TW йй то tha part of my testi- 
> 
moníal letter where T Istate that the M inten аге аз ө culti- 
much 
and the. whole "thing is аз 
TEE e rail to the road, as thrash- 
ing corn by steam is to P performing it by hand." 
“ Wm. Smith, ** Yours truly, 
Woo! Вімох 
in exploring the сунар E - — laton." 
dom, every | 
NSON. 
Now, in laying this letter апа tabular альний Lf 
e.ask t 
. willst Р 
Sa геа rer Medien 
ond. 
A 
But if ж we are inclined to disbelieve i = the existence 
ota power in the Аа ы т at | 
least to admit it in the case of the 
and in a variety of ani 
rejecting these whilst they assimilate oth. 
chem y passive 
judging only from ' 
Thus 
re than of the animal kin 
gian | 
„of be 
substantiated the existence of |; 
r, in fiour, in p^. in the straw of Wheat and 
E edish Turnips, mal > 
plant, which must in that case have de property ТК 
bodies, 
tep with phenomena, which ш W m танад Мг. Hutchin 
on if in deed че еу 
4 в before 
e with*, the forces with m 
the publie, let me 
Lord Berners ге 
not er 
b mi 
t 
2 are violating this sage e 
"e e ese unexplained facts to | minor brea! Lap emis n ram 
2. for such an erpessn ir only | 59 acres; and Le yth and Squier say 
. whatever thev may | yy , although 
may rejoice that 
s dread sound and as industrious 
folded on Mr. Pike's d csl hil 
* tance, as that of illustrating 
normal Sobrtanee bya Lc Че ih the d ed а 
Crystal by the clustering of 
Te See Humboldt’s little allegory “On the Vital Force, or а 
Rhodian Genius.” 
A ard v gravitation heep is 
acts upon living as as ever, тта w 
ring myself to believe 
z шайга ofa 
must si 
therefore 
wer of excluding useless or к motinai 
5 that such isthe free which the. Ls regere 
; warrant, and am far from m pretending to die mode їп 
which this effect. is brought 
