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` may call attention to a work ag very slightly | $S those who are concer j o 
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à x * Zasammenstellun der Kennzeichen der in Hanish dj Ae 
; wrachaenden versehiedenen Seer a2 und ihrer haupé- | U t to th while they themselves would 
hee He ions ung des Dinischen ;Werkes, | be unable to devote the len time to those wh 
552 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, [Jone 16, 1860. 
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they ree to be | allowed to take their final degrees 
Fungi will, indeed, attack the healthiest tissues, | 1600 ye ars, it is just chee pan e ve uE 
but the e Fungi of which we speak never flow rish Pine seed may have remained in 
except on apam previously 1 more or less decom- | pended animation for 20 years. 
“3 The dee commenced in “the imilar questions ae often put, as may be 
ry li dy 
Th 
sir egun in Sadan In tho 
sie is Yor the salen 6 the, industrial cl 
ue Pia ta EE must be laid in elementary subjec ts 
com all, and withou re any variations having 
sous “ton are oe, ks future callings, n that 
i dation Bpi! red a substantial rot of 
ittle c à 
Karere little—indeed, nothing but the merest rudi- 
tim | 
ments—ought to be ge est to be ta taught, during the 
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pea at the ex sae w tree, taints i the | likely to be the case in many instances, the passage 
raisa tissues, pat disposes them sometimes ‘for’ in question is here extracted. 
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y main n at the day-sclool. 
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ing schools un a d at i 
many feet to decay. The Fungi which produce| ‘‘If seeds have ota nd or feeble, from 
this ae Jai principally Polyporus Jomentariun age or other causes, some cautions = 
EA and P. lucidus, and one wo | nec ich, er o z 
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age. By “Institutions” I mean not merely Moe nics 
sasha fab Tnstivutes, People’s Colleges, Evening 
hs ‘ited pasia em = ire they! a apoek; attention requires to be paid. When the tal 
at the she oe era $ ent hie IEAA energies of a seed are diminished, it de es not Tose 
makes a his field book its power of absorbing iaee 
e Impe vement Societies, and all other useful 
dnadoiathonia for the instruction of adi ults, apart from 
ch ilaren When, however, the l 
tree is st Boy , exactly as pa aa attacked “i r specie it it. The consequence of this i of 
the 
‘woodpee ers ntered in 
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“ peequered,” "because he knows that he is s subject | colicots in the “gr of the s produces | 
valua- | putrefaction; the sign of which is i rotting | a 
ee byt the purchaser, and if such wood gets into 7 ‘ee in "the ia’ The remedy for this 
is to present water to the seed in suc | 
there will generally be a slight ate agen ee tint eE ies g a time, and so gradually, that no 
indicative S ‘the mischief. ere are r two | more is ~ rbed than the languid powers of the 
can a 
tion e done oe best, there arises a Partha want 
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ie inferior wou! ve been our great pub blic : Schools 
Grammar Schools, and the C 
Cambridge, if there had been no University of Oxford 
or Cambridge otata nd to attest their results! How 
inferi ged been the condition of our ” Middle Schools 
he e want of a SEEE with the Universities ! 
is ow great an imp the Universities Pa 
and Po rsa 
h grows sometimes to| only as the dormant pow of vege etation are 
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owever another source of mischief} earth and the Sea AN $ ce = supply ee 
which cannot be we serio ve adverted to. The|for germination ; admin 
-only safe Oaks are those which grow from Acorns. when th f 
Those which npr l n then the sani should ie estromely, wiat, 
safe, an experi ience where they form the If If this s is attended to, carbonic acid is very slowly | ® 
exception bag? e rule in forests, are, like the | formed and li sage ; the chemical quality of the | ¢ 
“ doted ” an eka j hangs marked in the) contents of the int is gt a. altered 
grea mproy 
ecently effected. by the. "institution of their 
REET ations for m o Schoo! a a like effect will jis 
cla n 
test and to attest the results of their education; 
and I ‘Li ” and other friends- of 
;|gardeners will  perceiv that in the system of 
te Ee which the “ " Society of Arts, Manufactures 
d Commerce ” has instituted, there are many of the 
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field books as ‘‘ stavens,” intimating that they are ee ch act of pres aSa may o invigo rate | 
the 
endl “Uyi iversi ity of Arts, Mendictates, 
d Co an universi i o for the 
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industrial classes a SAA and imponent part o what 
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of less value than others. These trees are what | it, and by "aA 5 vill be brought, to ac pb om 
. BURNELL in his lecture, rete a few days fe coer A milation of food in larger 
-since before the Society o s, an ntain- | quantities. et S sk ET used to i that these 
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there are the “ Final Examinations,” in which papers 
e| of etwniiatioi questions, set by the Central Board of 
Examiners in London, are wor under the super- 
‘Boards. Wh 
examinations, b 
ld: They were e held in 
B ‘3 places, where Lot Boards had been Jatablished 
-d for the e purpose, and next year they may be held at any 
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not ably ran the sail, as ag ioga grown from | Mr. ie method mentioned in the 
Acorn, but from a mp in a state almost | sentence, seid ae ae omt sin a Cucumber ui 
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always of > artial decay, Ati of the moisture from | on the surface of the b 
is imbi is contain- | 
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ing matter in a state of chemical change acts as a | dent — Rev 
moment “Pine seeds, we should adopt 
» | number be), where they may be 
wanted, and wher et ssary arrangements, which 
are exceedingly ae as by any possibility be 
locally mai $ 
ascertain, Oi 
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Ai, whether a Torat board already exists within 
his ach, and i not, what steps should be taken to 
putrefactive ferment upon tissues which would | Pro ae Bam, Se had the honour to be 
erwise possibly remain healthy. Stayens, peti by Her Marner to ulivo k Guiles of 
estal blish He will have the summer, autumn, ana 
e | winter in w whi ch to prepare himself; and early in April 
| he will undergo the " previóus examination.” To pass it 
their way into the mog tanical Lectures to the younger branches of 
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case with any parts of them which should be THE rik te OF GARDE 
nployed in ship-building. 
Th conclusio nin, s this pors o of our subject, we 
ers tohinaa to 
im caked © 
y k ‘i Mathae z st 
e aoa will find that it 
sae" i to point out the best course " = to become all that | I 
pues for the purpose of na rg GERMINATIO. 3 
the Royal family i fi succession to Professor OWEN. 
NERS. exam 
t the By pi subject of the 
Garden 
he o spell well, must liave a 
= knowledge of English grammar and composition, 
st be aan to work s ums as far as the rule of three, 
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begin otany ; 
| E Atithmetio, Moubaratign: and Botany. Let him not 
oaran ret rather let him str trive to doa little 
of 
the 
Mensuration required to show 
sii ae can measure an and estimate the work of a 
in seeds of the LamBerr Pine which have Bost set 
kept about 20 years. It is almost like asking a os efit. g men livi ring i we 
"| sufficient for me to tell the oeaeneia that. =a Linley 
8 s to oun 
surgeon to bring to life a patient who bap been | distant districts pie and will not travel t 
buried for 10 or 19 years. he difference in thé} to be examined. His three examinations, really fo 
cae cases is only this, that in Bok prer y vitality i is | at the Teast are too many as a minimum. _ His p roposed 
rtainly and in the other y 
# a ‘‘ spar ark of life ” in plants as ge as animals kiara of rar gardeners, eri of. v aya 
mann we. edhe which ene extingpish pe arious values in various places. His proposed certificates 
: er again ved. In pla h oy pide practical gardenets, in respect of practical = 
-will “Hicker for avery Jong time, a wa "as Te be + vould be ‘idle regardg “¿f issued by more than a 
n after being buried ý celebrated ‘ experts” ems ; and, if the ons 
“Fito issue those certificates was limited to such colette 
j ies, large numbers of candidates wonld be absolutely 
-beitet ipbaerio, at Eea marao hare E on $ jan a Tg | were within ve reach. I do not think it expedi ient 
riegs Ministeri f study for all young | r 
Jabo 183 “ber, Bastin, 1853, 6h, | to prescribe one uniform course o y 
Apc one ogo e: | men intended to be gardeners; and I am sa atisfied that 
eners, for € 
anxious to point o t that, if they will sail pr 
the Society in its efforts for thei one s eee and if the 
invaluable co-operation of the H a pau 
oul i P 
such devel pecial tions 
o boila. leave nothing to be desired in the testing aud 
attesting of the pea attainments, whether theo- 
retical or prac wore Nr Harry 
Chester, V.P. Society of A 
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