216 THE SARDENERS eee AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [Marca 10, 1860. 
arri arrived a at aerea A 7 rpho sphat e of lime, anc an nd is atheros] ce | whate sver can be discovered in a plant; 
u hos ou coun 
printing paper. Not Arle Aad at the pata is was a startling announcement; which, had|to browbea em by referring to the all i 
experiments” were, or wha it bate Bagge by other observers, would ‘have | ked of the learned Dublin professor, 
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statement. But we may be Pitted to say of the ardor commi ited e arsenic ; because the pro- THE IMPERIAL PARIS HORTICULTURAL Socrery 
-Taverham manufacturers who cannot work up| secution could hav o hope of showing that the | has announced its intention of holding a general 
materials to which they are unaccustomed what | traces pre uch a Sai n, when found in the body, EXHIBITION of every description of paren pro- 
was otserved the other day of Lord MELVILLE, the were not pess ed Fin Ponisi Turnips, Cabbages, duce, koa the 12th to the 28th May next, coe 
mmander-in-Chief in Scotland. When | or some other common vegetable food. Dr. Davy’s| all the ition 
gallant general declared that he should not Bh | conclusions were, however, so entirely opposed to | in ni the Palace of Industry i in the Chane 2 
what to do with a force of volunteer riflemen, some | all other experiments with arsenic upon plants | at the latest by 8 o’clock in the morning of 
one remarked that if his lordship had not skill | that we could not do otherwise than a out the | 12th, as eat ee will proceed to to their ex exa 
enough other officers had. For ourselves we | nec ge of further inquiry. The last Number | tion n at 10 As to Conifers, trees, and large shrubs 
believe that Gorse alone could be found to supply | of the Pharmaceutical Journal contains a ne gs not in flower, they ne be delivered between the 
a large part of the fibre required for first-class | sihik atistin of the ass kaned facts. Mr. Ist and 6th May. Objects of art and industry 
printing paper. or is it to he ee: orgotten that | Ocsron, an agrjenituzal and pe SAN chemist will not be received later than the 9th May, 
when inferior materials for infe a pupil o iae Gxanam, undertook to rein- |- “Short notices of exhibition must be snt hef 
the pose. si rags, the latter will. be set at liberty retipe S the and t i in | the 7th May to M. ROUILLARD, Secretary, 28, Rue 
Seint- ass papers. ollo ozing es from a letter addressed to | de Longchamp, Paris, in addition to detailed lists, 
am most especially to our colonies and to Me. Soni TELD :— in duplicate, of everything to be placed on the 
: sae ies than our own, where a rank vegeta- “The t mm facts which struck me most forcibly tables, which must be delivered to the Exhibit) 
tion is characteristic of the climate, that the manu- |as the result of Dr. Davy’s experiments were, | Committee by 10 a.m. on the 11th May, failing 
facturer will haye to look; and whom can he| fi first, thata saturated solution of arsenious acid which they will be excluded from the ea 
consult = me = the intelligent men eoi at the | could be applicd to the roots of plants without rizes of various value are offered for novelties, 
head of nic Gardens hey te injury to their owe ; and secondly, that when | seedlings, fine specimens, hot-house plants, green.” 
onc as ha fibrous plants are abundan t|manured with ordinary superphosphate of lime | house eke hardy pane Ee oa stuff, 
ad cheap, and to th the quantity of the poison assimilated was suf- forced Specimens ne cultivati 
to address ebegiltor “It may be thet ficiently large to allow of its detection in a portion | bouquets, artifcial flowers pe ures de bal ou gar 
a se aidi sha not Ur eld th Tapt sought for : of a Turnip that could be conveniently operated | sua es de table), and preserved fruits, We do 
such ac vey the cost of a frnjtles arch is aey upon in the sere any mention of garden impleme nts, 
Or it may be that ‘aiberlale whan: and then the} ‘In or satisfy my self with regard to the = 
merchant saghe — the Botanic Garden whither | first questi ca bs watered. the ground about the New Plants. 
to direct his inquirie roots of some strong Cabbage goes of some PHALENOPSIS SORANA Rehb. fl ate 
mabe k question concerns jia West Indies, | months? growth, with a saturated solution o P. Schill folii on tis subtus di 
the Butanio Garden in Jamaica r Trinidad should | arsenious acid, and in several trials, after two| ‘se eto OA H paso Tateralibus oviti 
afford a prompt reply. Is Northe ern doses, at intervals of three days, the plants drooped petalis subrotundis oblatis majoribus, labelli lobis 
-of examination? There is the midas berke at | and died within the week. The same ex ime chong nacen nti nore ovali apc dilatato bib" 
wee with Dr. TEOMION, ane ka the most repeated with Scotch Kale—the only | other plant The s brought us an account of thisbeautifal 
emin ists e da ay, a s head. Or|Ic was attended with the species ie iy peten S and a m from Mr. 
‘Should. Southern India, be investigated we have|same result. These plants, after the lapse of a few pt Schiller, in whose grand co burgh 
Mr, Tnwarres, another most able man, in Ceylon, | days, were a. e ground, and various | jt blossomed the Wes. > 
wit bal einievity cultivator r perteetly | portions of their saa ad leaves examined by | that í 
acquainte with plants, at Oo in the} Marsn’s test Rian arsenic. It was found only in | ago, oon he out of 30 plants he only suce 
Mis Nori is Australia de ficient i ie resources | the portion of the roe close to the ro ots, and | savin e leaves, he states, are of the 
ind; Mr. Cias. Moore has charge | which were darkened in colour in the interior ; in | P. "amabilis (not long asin P. grandi 
ofa ; Garden at Sydney, Dr. MUELLER | no case was the poison found in the leaves, or in| with siter i irr 
of one at Eakate, and Mr, Feaxcis of a third at | the stem at more than 5 inches from the ground. bs k 
elaide; each of whom is full of ractical as pe In ue sa eases the solution of ars a rijg margaritacen), and descri 
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The prana gues of so oe thea D oh al plants, nee »wing under precisely the same ferron A epiek T bensatli, he flows 
those o E Europe, and speak unmis nits of the oes of sai) and aspect ; and when the sini 
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Sydney in 1857 consists of about 30 closely on the asi of the MYCOLOGY.—NO, IX 
: ed in any port th —Cravarta RUGOSA, Bull.—In the shal perfect forms 
about 3600 species. In the garden at ‘Adelaide The roots themselves were not exami ined, as being which as far as we know Fungi are capable of at 
Mr. Francis cultivated last year above 3 likely to retain mec = as ome portion of the| the hymenium or fructifying surface is turned away 
cies, ether similar lists for other gardens mineral upon their s urfae from the light. Even in the high eae however, as 
exist we have no means o epoeg rarest but there} ‘I do not give you eae experiments in any | 4gavicus and Polyporus, species occur whi 
is oe dente ‘that they phe at least as rich as the | detail, as a more favourable time of year and the nd a kag they ar os Ps iforimly those which are 
7 e least per ganised. ; 
ki s of commer ene reqnire K tariran i of submit ary a eral, fot x i Ai aedis ental circemnstainees, as DE OMN in the : 
=- Sour time ago (see Gardeners’ Chronicle. | | as they go the incline me to believe that ars arsenic, yaks 
1859, p. 739) we dre attention = a very ex- | when absorb hod fas d : 
; ¢ of| by our very deli ica ne ests, is also in sufficient | deranged, ead of regular gills we have af 
‘Dublin, concernin the EFFECT Or ARSENIC UPON | quantity to destroy the vitality of the plants. of t r ‘ols, whieh at first sight indicate a 
vac men cre a ith refe: neines the second question, yoa cs tah iga 
l t family which uimaan | 
agric e great family which con He g 
abso: Bese a3 can obelu from an ordinary dressing of typical ‘ang sg distinct orders exist in which one A 
eves ero die. |3 ee ae caleulation % ig Adere he bymenium ; but even ge a 
= io w extremely y difficult any estimation of its in Pro po tion a as t the especies are more e noble byme 
| 3 and in i 5 p 
3 Tate a very bad. semple. of pyrites to —— os ‘ill a the Ohi hi the 
J i ner = of the highest of seine oe ho prai : 
i : of .30 -of arsenic, and padia Biel s the | nium ceases to be inferior rather from om Ne 
eT one- 
following history of the Garden at Sydney is given ca 
“by De Hooke In" Flor of Tanania = The iret | 15 Tiea K Aisi 
Mr. CHARLES FRAZER, wea ork ame edna, was resi or a in relation to the manufactured oil of | traces of a distinct pileus. 
in the 73d Regiment, then commanded by Lieut.-Col. | vitriol. a pegit the superphosphate made remarks 
Mogessts. He was eS a van Ena cso this acid to contain 20 per cent. of it as a|0f the subject of our present notice with 
s oe } asly 
ration of the pileus than from essen tal strate S$ 
and enriched the paraa, aa England b ta by m number! 
His collection of “<7 į wea | the at UEN rie The pileus it 
Meal tho Beran Biver da 1896-7, aoe: in 1828, e, then will be added to this acre .07 of a 
wrote erosion t accounts 
237). Me. Fazer | from 20 : . 25 tons of roots, giving a be benen l exhibiting a traly : 
finitely small, and, in my opinion, relieving us| with the fruit- 
h, Mr. J g Superin- | from fhe tinae bam of the $ ree nate ty on the —_ eni $ ie 
ant ‘held that oat tlt the ai arrival, oot k Geena subject. If, however, even t uantity i is objec- genus Cla which si Js in a 
r ia 188 on 1835 by the the | blacks, pes ccompanying Major reacts the use of or Belgian pyrite; in which I rarely Larematr-naper Th forms in this ¢ a 
Miteuevw’ ; hen Mr. McLea r 
5 ET EE continued so e the all di ffeulty.” f founda e of arsenic, would obviate akis oF peters = grow amongst Gras 
of } may). A. ae : 
ne | aes Te appa at the, public has been need- | stances in woods. A few species assume ® 
e aema ala ea pe and that vegetable physiologists deca, ecaying, biog Splatt bab tae" 
not dream when they declared that arsenic Mond sea 2 : 
e si plants. Mr. Oeston shows ts | Š 
was suc- | die When magh that when dead, even if a | size to make it 
active |. liege r e the no trace | articles of food. of 7 
| 3 | but some, Clavaria rugosa, Soph 
I that weak er are employed no trace | | branched, while others, etopo in thelr 657 aie 
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