646 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND bias ee GAZ ETTE, _ ~ Jury 14, 1860. 
the injection of a solution of sulphate of iron, and | Buckinghams! shire ~ Railway, one pr rocess was| At the time we are str rongly of opinion that 
then of carbonate of soda, forming an oxide of attended with far better success than any of the | w bes Wane? has Nunes affected with dry rot to 
iron in the pores of the wood. Boven ane ssystem, | methods mentioned above, viz., that of pipers si such an extent that mere dubbing is : 
of which an account will be found in this jo urnal or Mr, BETHELI’s process, a and it is to this categ w ant without yaad remov ala | poe 
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T opper. 
practised on the continent, and has been exten- | wood or in their walls, whether by means of the | the aes Mage spawn as i as the solution penetrates, 
sively employed in this country by the Permanent | creosote contai iad in the tar, petroleum, gas tar, | an nd g ga mim if hy i gi proye an effectual 
Way Company. Of the four methods mentioned | &., with which the wood is impregnate y ven where o seasoned timber 
e the three first alone seem to ae survived, | by the same princip ple combin sp erp heat i in the} is used, it is not expected that after the, ex- 
erhaps the corrosive sublim and bl p , or sim mply seh Ae at alone, where | piration of some years a ship will be entirely 
itrid are F present the most page i used as fas, oo is submitted t tem mies erature high|free from dry rot, but where the Fungus has 
ba i antiseptics. ough to produce coagulation, but not to induce | once been es stablished it must surely be a 
There is a very interesting article on “Kyan combustion. good practice to adopt such measures as are 
sing” in rise Quarterly Review for April, 1833. ap ieo riments were made at hira in 1812, | known to be nas a es ieee -Let the 
Nothing could be more promising than FARADAX Slwith a view indeed rather to sea Ph ee buy: timbers be cleansed as et ee er ary rot, TR. 
report of the experiments carried on in the dock- | prevention of the A R com nt | the spera be onee ko pie Si: sta Sip is sure to 
yard at Woolw So Ana a as we obteaey of the | fibres, than supplying an antiseptic principle, by spread as soon as the plan ae repati; unless 
plan was presumed to r its ba ten placing large quantities of timber clos en, an ese mineral 
pE 
fume cahiib Ss 
ching fi ed with Pine sawdust to to the place | sufficient reason why they should not be used in 
poses eriam = ot spontan sa poueratiod, it|of the moisture driven off with an oleaginous|such a case, however good the practice may be in 
was without any just foun dati on.” It is not death a “The oily matter distilled from the | the first — of trusting to good seasoning and 
in organic matter which makes it unfit for sup- | saw: wdust in passing niong tgr iron pipes akt careful aam 
porting life, but a chemical combination with some | through holes on the wood beneath and w: n ease “buildings, where there is far less 
, whether of organic or inorganic origin, | mediately absorbed.” chance ‘of the a on of moisture from without, 
which is inimical to vegetation. If thereforein| This plan would probably have been attended | we are inclined lig "aae great faith in the use of 
the process of time this new combination is| by far more success than was anticipated by | metallic salts, which have at least the meritof 
removed by ps natural pricey Á pas materially | authorities at the time, as the oily matter doubtless | communicating no unpleasant smell, while it 
modified by any other cause, t ood t tity of creosote, but | Seems quite certain that those which are commonly 
once exempt may again become Bary to decay. |a most ats accident arose from the bursting employed are not in the slightest degree injurious 
the discussion besa followed Mr. BURNELI’S | of pee stove, which was on so large a scale as to | to health, whereas it is undoubtedly true, that 
lecture before the Society of Ar ts la st t May, it was | be capa oe z ha ipe Ia 2000r 300 loads of timber. | Where timber is exposed to decay without such 
ed by Mr. Burt, who has nse prac “ Bof as completed,” we quote appliances, the generation o of carbonic : acid during 
al kanpe at that o on the. N] deem the “auartery of Baise, aoe “an un- the e process is ofte n p 
fortu explosion took place which killed 6 men 
prepar red by Kran’s process, and about the same pa wounded 14 others ; ‘two o whom ap ed ABar Mr. Moore, the able Curator of the Glasneyin 
number respectively by Sir W. BURNETT’S and of ap wounds, ‘Three of the for Botanio Garden. has Wine Gone aoia thn 
Makeary’s process, and that in less than four am “of others were struck at the praen of | singular beauty ofsa little hace a ater 
years a large portion of the sleepers prepared by | 60 feet Fst the seasoning house. The explosion | called amet. TRIF 
the process of sulphate of copper or (by) Kyan’s| was like the shook of an earthquake. It threw) «T. consider it, n e e Writes “one of the very 
process, were obliged to be removed, while those | down 72 feet in length of the _ hee: of | finest of ‘our hardy free flowering shrubs 
pert of coming in at Bits Tate pesiod whee, va of tl 
hanee! value. The e a 
herewi! ith aoe 
He 
g 
a of e same field it Pcl down a 
better de ription than from any actual merit no | 290 ft another of fi maa oe ig à si early t high, ; 
ed | through the i iowa "ol ey an apex. At firs en the plan s young the 
4 190 feet crane the bricks ant Sinbad, af the owes were ae Bely T but last 
re it nd sup-| building were hurled in every to the} yea and this they are in great abundance and 
ae by the Péoabnent Way ATE to the prin of 300 feet.” kin melancholy pa very $ eet. It wa i raised pore about 10 years 
orticultural Society, and used as markers, a| was supposed to be owin ame making its |'g seeds sent by the lat fe Major r MADDEN, 
very powerful test, have lasted for some at the yt whe re the Foe alee the building whe ware them need Simla. 
years wi out- decay. We can ourselves | a: and mene 0 to the mixture of hydrogen a and| No.one who anches b ii s shrub, as sent 
aias foriti d effected in t t. Itishardly ee by Mr. Mawes: SC aes loaded with clusters of 
by washing beams affected with dry rot, with a | to ha ‘that this fatal experiment has not been | fragrant—most fragrant—tubular flowers, white, 
strong patioa of corrosive sublimate ; after the menea ed. | tinged with rose colour, could:entertain any other 
s Ae 6 years, in a cellar which was fast| It was long the practice in our dockyards to | gea hor this. Undoubtedly it is without a 
ing way under the influence of dry rot, the | inject the crevices of a ship with eot, re but the | rival, this season, except among Roses and 
main injury has been thoroughly arrested, though | practice is, we believe, now sini Whether eee, ; the latter its first cousins, from 
this very season a cask accidentally left in the |it pacers the appearance o ps i ni a time we | which indeed it may be t 
cellar, which was of course untouched by the|cannot say, but we have seen ships, as the Prince | its sweetness. What rig Hh it should be so 
af the d was completely destroyed. A few fibres | pees in which the plan was adopted, overrun | little known! As we usually see ka stunted and 
the dry rot Fungus eee lac ews) u have | with dry rot. We believe however that like the | tortured in a garden pot, it is passed by with little 
indeed occasionally appear and ie s0 serra used at pre sent, it wil apr a oes bat. in the state described by our corres~ 
woodwork whether of Oak or Deal i 
Ww. s patent were more durable, which | the distance of 250 feet into Èi aig 1 field. 
arose more from the tim of a| In house 
Taths of B of Beech for arg as stated last week, 
of cop 
e 
a bag have oP th ut between prod correspondents, who have wondered what unex- 
h coal tar, which 
prep side w pected treasure they have found among the rejected 
entra i aero of the gardener. at it seems to want 1s age, 
hich it I ined, a tolera 
Eyk relief cep set than any oer shiek | plent of room in which. hto gow. f est of 
po propioa: ait owever suffici nglan edd the - 
somest ental fr the cra vot its fo 
WORTH, “on mountains ey orthern 
e! Kumaon, towards the 
here it ‘ grows to a middling-sized tree, W with 
TS delightfully like those of Jasmi- 
piss in = Bs: non was strict] Thies edhe anger 
eee © ti d r% ne of vi eculiaritie stances recommen by Bovcnerre, but it a -t now nogleoted, aa pile p has. ay 
_ {tis indee gan o; of decay in pa ery uld m yr 2 prs 
timber a not always 1 era 3 produce it | haan ther substances whi platy Lise who vonid fe wen A, is given. 
t mber may o ced in|well, as permanganate of permen “ela is so in- a ample at Lonicera fete az 
ces a m ati a deodoriser in poomi itals, and picric. noid, pen Fibirnei ma lum, Te 
es ei Ww and can ‘racemosa, all as 
$r jend a wala by Mr. Went-| hardy as a Furze Toate, Tot scaecly thought 
ts. These, aseri If gardeners would only turn out of theit — 
Ricard, M aiala aa, ba not t present been | pots the ie oat 
_}tried on a nares ies a owe ve p ies ustify Aay | Posa ~ agea eae e i. eee n irn S. 
| very strong expression aeran merits. | baked r H theg walt bg De them plenty 
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