630 THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
lowes 7, 1860. 
Hops need not grow such Wheat and Bean: o long where the mowing has been done by hand ;) ill | 
Good Prenatan and liberal Datani will produce foci £ one by the se me men = “= bble 
a more even result on different crops a ‘x seen | is of perfectly even length, and n could 
in the fields between Tunbridge and Asht re 
? 
ill a mapia for such a purpose, w h from ‘es 
wa tself chialhy aa 
ofm ma ade soil. Subsequently even this resoure pales 
arge ae owns in the eigen = Pangan |, bts 2 High 
r 
hi 
he wr 
very wet, containing 
paper 30 ate 40 per sents of moisture. ve ln 
1 5” 
w that 
re built, it b 
iology and of 
ich y perhaps be wane while brief 
i lade io; as examples of the sort of subjects w] 
may admit ot rin mg Mc the 
h a piece of gro zà 
aes for Boys se pa en 
will not indeed ‘dwell upon grees pert riments 
TH rT 
however was not its only fault, as on submit ingl? 
£ f di fferent coloured Meema won 
4} 
F our 
a eme =r to et bo it Ape found to contain 28. Per Fow WLER, Eppixer ox, 
hibitors are. resen 
nt. of sand, t x P 
on nthe pariGestion of the atmosphere, which | were pub 
ad BEARD, 
| 
cent. 
than it ought, 
ime o) composed we 
of turning over the soil. 
4} 
| Ww co ut the ott 
I am aware that these were of a nature to be ea ried 0 
nag e of such a piece of gr 
was 
cannot pretend to say, ‘hot beini acquainted with 
the analysis of the soil A i- its 
pal 
ie would however 
lished by the powerfule: Tahoe 
RR of pulio =o fete which ee Fowren { 
eat 
z 
only m erie) ihat o 
liedt fact established by these Seem fae 
Smi of sina by plants dur 
~ 
similar article at a very small cost. 
te 
uring 
light w res them, wi Mich h 
D: 
Sue s gt eines pe: not àppear. Goren 8 
| osci aes ry tres did some good w and 
wa illustration steal of eh professed | 
to be otip ete tillage ; ; unless indeed we admit 
THE meeting of the Royal Agricultural ores 
is so much earlier in the Baars this year that w 
ek oi 
a 
aot the qui 
ke rme raper, of E New York 
ana ren EP TE ona larger scale than had before 
been. attempted, I showed that i in the > course of a 
antity of oxygen evolved by a healthy p 
he light so much exceeded that ot) iha, carbonic acid 
aeeeEES ES 
> = 
Saes, 
although t the publie . exhibition does not begin 
until Monday. On that ma ae on Aane the 
ards will be open kt ac or admitt nee of 
alf-a-crown ; on cay an after 
which the enbibitiiae ai ssion will be 
one shilling ; and before ‘the on of the week the 
removal of the whole wil 
ted ti 
the very clever work ne Mr. Hawcocn’ s pulveriser 
Lakho, a with its trip It 
as drawn several D up and down the field b 
steam-po wer, and yaa n: ae ios well even 
t 
th 4 4 erpi 
cbt to set facilitate farther tillage 
aip iteh it did not altogether dispense 
d 
We are not vel acquainted with the con 
the yard and cannot s 
man as the principal section of SA me 
will thus bev its ‘cond influence for on 
— 
ain that wW 
Society, ty, the convenience of the exhibitors, and the 
od ae cesses of 
with | ex 
tents of | 8¢ 
eak of the novelties which setti 
Samanis first suggested by biei bat “disputed b 
Ellis, that the evolu a ion a of oxygen by plants reall 
r e the a 
10 years co 
e TASA of crops, b 
unifi 
Je, 
Show 
day longer than hitherto; and the objects of the [At 
i 
The retire importance of the two rpm of | 
continuance J these 
rded to both exhibitors | 
over the 
it was ce ruly pa e to on the 
se 
ground ai which i it vi s Fu rs aiiis previo yaly | the 
twice ' doring the ean of "the 
per 
from 
which, according t by Beh view akak by the. 
naarn Decandolle, exerted an injurious influence 
rg Dog of the latte o Ao rang ! And the whole process is | upon the succeeding crop, if of the same nattre with 
definitio the terms Aslar hik they were t to | fo b 
compete, note r instance a ee be offered for aft ich draws the whole along. The mia mpa aring the quantities obtained from 
combined threshing aud g machine, sorne exit “made re first trial and fe as sight I may des pron ae the shifting and the PEREA Fan : 
„i or enumeration ai oan should be give e first failure of a on! it appeared that the saa i. n almost every instance f 
of the machines desired. Are blo ower sallowed in n |a, publi trial ground of the Societ had the advantage, a only in harmony with $ 
+h We shall next week give a fuller report of t the mae eived doctrine oe eis Pead bnt apparently : 
ae — siii results of the trials of na field corroborative of Decandolle’s hypoth $ 
ine and the ceteris Miabi] 
impleme aes 
—— th f anjo ed, 
to be merely reapers, mowers, steam ploughs, as are exhibit 
ze, 
Further „investigations however led me to > conclude 
that coe 
s well as of the special class of farm machines— 
threshers, ao, chaff-cutters, soe orton rs, 
which come ee ar within Society’ 
Mikes, all or appar aratus for rarest weeds | 
aft being present ? | Certainly these ques- 
and ch 
ions should h gramme. 
before 
ble ld good, and that the adran of 
g leguminous plants with the ce 
xeretions from 
would not 
pio hing match for the local} apcorbe the succeeding crop, and thereby d f 
the July meeting. And mo instructions | toe will be h Monday next—the public | innocuous, but owing to the influence which the organic — 
the guid f th dinner of the Society on the Tuesday evening— | matter left by the preceding crop of legumes mi 
it is not to be wondered at that many of them and the general meeting on Thursday morning. | have in cree the growth of the cereal are ; 
haye decli A wet June has left the land in much better con- | followed, by acceler: = ng the develo ape of its parts, 
lined to undergo ea rmous expense of by 
preparation for the meeting at ‘Canterbury. This | dition i os tll exh and bar R “arpa and ‘aes aoe to extract more inorganic matter ; 
a “of on mes oe sere oe wind the i si the Kertak turn: oni In all ca i n ri awy vain to i 
wrest render a per one, a gradua i 
and as a | zt laare mi] more os “usually ets Wednesday ys trials of place in hea amount of year down 
y3; but te eee insa [t0 pertain point, at which it would- pce E 
i TE ES i ater lations might 
ern e ly ira t for by the easa of : 
the handi of ma many di f is timas THE ( D AL ‘Hence it wonld seem to follow that the soi ; 
_— exhausted by having its inorga matters 
upon the ground in spite of and we | [The following is a lecture by Professo r Charles Daubeny on n from it during 1 me; 
Pp  Pyrges have | br experi! imental researches whieh may be carried on in the ing 10 pgs 
many of the. salvo ges of a fulf exhibition plot of ground which he has lately made over ta — Univer- this to be the case, I made an analysis 
Among the facts already apparent from the | m4 feo the got z5 ie i of Rural Eco; for the tion of years m period of 
trials—long since however proved in the field more) ° we uterst r | mencement of theexperiments, during thew 
perfectly than is possi a this short ere Sa ioe 1, t neste ren l se very of thi oe weather ftinie PS ied, UAA 
illustration of it—is the efficiency of Be permitted, to select for the de bi of this epee os | peared, that Bas ik Ls soil which had been so 
Kean & Kew’ experimental ground, which I have now handed o Y still eee 
an 9 pe Ess EY’S, CRANSTOUN | the University for the benefit of ae successors in gs acid, of alkalies and of all the substances n 
(Woon’s), © 8, a Dray’s ade | chair which T haye ibe honour to occu: The ground for the Fo of plants, ts, it E greater part 
pa rk among the Rye—a poor crop—and the | itself, consis og bout an acre and a half, has bin s in te aomdsbitrs ks ch, thew 
e former llent work among the b e with the view of | spari e, and hence vi 
over. othi is now more fectly | enabling the Safe for the time being to imstitute | topadi Wear are whereas t's 
ng per: aty such a e as he may think desirable, for the | man agad, èc allowed to PS remain fallow, the same 
purpose eit of ing clear to ae = condition , solubility, 
; eR ready < tai with r vation of | th existed in condition ao : 
| Spot or of extending the boundaries re Teer by pie i me to distingnish the ingredients of | 
soil into active or efficient, and dormant or pi 
first appointed to the chair of > | thus a i to of 
dertake in a small corner of the Botanic Garden itself, but 
S | felt a want of these appliances, and was operations 
Sr A a carte: 
‘the nse of fallowing, an 
power chines. ara ig 9 8 3 to 
boidi Tan ron certain though limite 
