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Marcu 24, L 
THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND ana GAZETTE. 
s 3 inche ven “ground, When | cleaning silks and shawls. It was gen 8 property of makin 1 
— emulsions is not 
stant E proved i me th e Mediterranean dss of France nd: ‘te the | ininised, ‘but it has lo i the power of redding gold 
Jo sling’s s Improved Scarlet i Joslin. —The An eno co herb aur SA desta (the falls ‘plant). AR opper as before, and the reaction on the Ra Fyn 
ofthe ve The wre to ges Bees French i n proceeds very ae In short, to explain 
inferior. uliu Society’s Proceedings. a kind o f Lyd inis. it } it is suffici say, that by absorption of 
Se vegetable soap principle, saponine, was found by | oxyge n from the air, the substance, Friera: by water. 
os ene enry and Bourtron Charland, in the bark of the | has been oxidised. To conclude, appears that the 
Käi Ber ries are more Qin allaia Sa} o ‘aria. Le Quilla ay is a tree of the family | 4 Soap-bar d pectine, 
ata ak of our present Rosaceous plants, a native of Huanuco, in both solubl ter, and 
g Finca tribut Idom ia in the same profusion | Ferdinand Lebeuf made special mention of thi bark | equally alguna. with the 
ro man other species. S 500 the first heavy | in tr Ake mptes Rendus de ? Académie des Sciences à | faculty of maki ‘ing emulsions 
of summer arrive it is always to be found in the xxi., p. 652) for its richness in saponine, and | | with ces. 
RAMAH 6 shade "3 an the garden, without 
trou ‘ling one’s self tc A 
eaking, a 
brownish or aviti separable, gelatinous 
pellicle, hich it is more 
ess wrinkled in a radiating direction, 
the pellicle not tiga so fast w 
neath; tl big; 
ards, twisted, paler than the 
tenuated upwa 
ie ranny 
pileus, with i waiface covered 
particles, paler above 
raised 
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someti 
the whole Erans is yakdil — and 
pa _ we have seen it about an inch 
only and so different i in sppatvanes 
S sat tit sight to suggest a very different 
the species not easily confounded 
with any Sher, but there is one, 4. longipes, 
which has often been considered a va riety, 
though its. distinctive yeyim are as 
as those of any species of Agaric 
: th eus s and stem 
are. 
(1 Sometimes 
eens es: into the Mine 
vw r, not so truly a rooting 
well grown it 
ee art not 
It is, 
an many more juicy y 
gst 
species, m amongst them 
radicatu. 
The befi 
probably n r bad qualities, it 
so tough t 
an to have ost wash ott 
Worth a notice in a culinary. point of view, 
It is not e mentioned by Roques 
Vittadini, and other authors intr 
the es say nothing of its q 
Sometimes it is ungainly 
Occasionally it assumes the most 
elegant forms, and is attractive at the 
from the beauty of its gills, 
VEGETABLE SOA SOA AP. 
Loxe mies the invention of 
paniri it for pharmaceutical use in preparing | 
The es quantity of isolated 
pectine in ge Soap-bark is 
explained by the ee 
from the Time during v 
ey ae 
rai by the Arya of 
concentrated 'nitrie — on og that 
the k of the 
Chicot de Canada, or Gymnoc us Cana- 
densis, Lam. He says plara 
to substitute a bark fond also its leaves) 
for the Soap- A Me ant, This 
tree is 30 or 10 fe at igh Sle age stand our 
winters, and easily ciliate, I — also 
ano oo sample bar’ ing 
and pai eho Skali com- 
g purposes. 
ides this a kind of § Soup bark is men- 
tioned in th ings of the Boston 
Society of Natural Hi: for 1 (see 
also “Edinburgh New Philosophical 
Journal,” vol. i y 201), obtai m 
a tree called As there 
saponaria, 
is no plant known = the Ee Ci Chelaria 
saponaria, I suppose that i wrong) rongly 
printed for the Quillaia, rede of in this 
paper. The soap plants used for coy 
in California, and gis by those w 
know their merits to Poors kinds ‘ot 
line principles eir composition, on 
ha their nace od sae E oe opinion 
altogether None of the 
Ss = pee: i 
perrie dared from neutral sebatesées 
as above 
Hurawassa, is employed in the place of 
p, and it is said he fruit will 
clean 16 times more than the same. 
weight of soap. A kind of Sa- 
pin called Rarak, is used in the same 
manner at the Moluccas and at Java. The 
study of vegetable for their 
injured by the alkaline soaps. 
ceutical Journal. 
nate Cc 
Town Gardening. — Attention having 
re ein "deca to the practicability 
town gardening as a source of amuse- 
Tl as of art occupation, I 
ofi 
a 3 
po md even up to the present day, resident in a city. We all know that 
al. rocks and fruits were known 4 the greatest enemy to town gardeners 
ther Say of being employed as soap, op smoke, and consequently few plants 
nists have hc berg en them by AGARICUS RADICATUS. can be induced to thri the 
ihe mames of Sapona: bor systems Stania (0 a ee ae Flora.) municipal boun: ho! 
of classi * rip- Nees eee a Lg ss iene BR some 
tion ne ma truthion— ke š n % 
phi ypsophila Struthion, L.). t is as- | emulsions of oils, resins, balsams, and aavieat abies limits by their g olour: = 
weeps oa TE leached, and pour ors le Minor (ents He ‘ BT em eon i pa: ae tha >ë 
made yi adicul is lanis m | of the Yallhoy (Monnina polystachia). From one are falling ” we can still retain x 
habet antum confe ori mollitieique.” boiled with alcohol of 40° B (or 0.828 sp. gr.), according | flowers in the cheerful and varied tints brought 
zL, 19; ¢. 18). Dioscorides mentions that the soa the method followed by Lebeuf, Rochleder, and | perfection his 
wort (Lychnis, our ih hire sold in the | Schwarz, the saponine was extr |. This su Gardens ;” and many 
<a t thet Song & Several of the | is characterised by. z —_ rrer smell, and by his skill eteen ti 
famil, 0 e Tp yllaceous “plinta Dianthus, ucing sneezing : = we 
property tis, Gypsophila, i Silene) are > Yeniarkabts for this aver ad perceived. “ie! E ‘remarkable „how small a} their wants in the way of ; 
mty in a greater or less . By rticl i of out-door toy be 
rote eae wtb i st ioe from these |a a large quantity of oil into an ee The stone | eat = on Ti aru me oe ot of a om all 
to this, a th tract of the Soap-bark, 
contained in t = > the si Beta pews wooed Bn np ahi i a sa change, when ex E npu eh en during 1 > iae aor Tne 
ene sions, and of being used eecnnrr eay a raai several weeks. | nately have to contend wi 
mating The § Basat irn (gp ie is, mas at m is then transformed into a colonrless, | even in Midsumm' scales having power for power or ore han 
žo this day, employed in the East for nist aes bar tencapanent: jelly, with a slight acid reaction | two or t hive. bonne: ia tii ly morning, 
