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will retain the leaves vigorously through the winter, and conse¬ 
quently the fruit will retain its plumpness till April or May ! 
You will now say this is going too far, hut it undoubtedly may he 
done. New ripe grapes in February, and plenty of old grapes till 
the end of June ! There is little beyond the power of man, if he will 
but exert those faculties with which God has endowed him. 
It has been stated by a contemporary author, that it is our own 
fault if we do not make ourselves kings, however low our rank in so¬ 
ciety. To a certain extent he is right, although at a transient 
glance, it may appear a wild expression, and a moral impossibility; 
blit such things have been, and still are ! I admire those apparently 
wild rhapsodies; for I am sure, however extravagant they may ap¬ 
pear, a young man cannot read them without reflecting on them, 
and if he does reflect, he cannot help being the better for it. If he 
has energy in him, all his powers will be aroused into action, while 
he says to himself “ are such things possible, and am I, drone-like, 
lying a burden, rather than an useful member of society P I feel I 
have common sense; then let me arouse those inert powers, and if I 
do not rise to be a king, I will strive to be a man, and fill up that 
blank in creation for which I was intended, by being an useful mem¬ 
ber of society. 
If we strive to be useful, and to please, and this is all that is ex¬ 
acted of us, we shall add to the comfort of those around us, as well 
as our own. 
Welbeck Gardens , Oiler ton, January 29 th, 1834. 
ARTICLE V.—ON THE PRODUCTION OF WATER. 
BY J. B. 
I have been induced to trouble you with the following remarks, by 
the perusal of a paper on Horticultural Chemistry, in your last 
number. The author states, that he does not consider the union of 
the two gaseous compounds of water sufficiently accounted for by the 
evolution of caloric. In a work like your’s, which is intended prin¬ 
cipally for the perusal of practical men, I think it is of great impor¬ 
tance that the subjects discussed in its pages should be explained in 
the most simple and perspicuous manner, and the writers should 
avoid as much as possible all perplexing theories, and pursue as far 
as they can the sure and steady course of experimental enquiry. I 
am inclined to think that the production of water is sufficiently ac¬ 
counted for by the evolution of the latent caloric contained in its 
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