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Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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published in theTransactions of the Linnean Society in 1820, but thefruits of his subsequent labours in the variousbranches of natural history were lost to the world inthe total destruction by fire of the ship Favie^ inwhich he was returning, with his family, and theresults of his years of labour, in 1S24. On reachingEngland he expressed his opinion of the possibility ofestablishing a society somewhat upon the plan of theJardin des Plantes at Paris, and enlisted in his cause SirHtJMPHRY Davy. His hopes were crowned with theutmost success in the following year—1825—when theZoological Society of London was established. To ithe bequeathed the remains of his valuable collections ;but he scarcely witnessed in reality more than itssplendid commencement, and died in 1S26 at theearly age of forty-five. Mr. D. Sym Scott, forester, Ballinacourte, writing to the yournal of Forestry on the subject ofPreserving Fence Posts, remarks that the proper October 6, 1877.) THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 433
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Fig. 86,—stuartia virginica, nat. size; flowers creamy white. 434 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. (October 6, 1877. seasoning of timber before being used in any sort ofstructure is far more important than the season of theyear it is felled in, kind of timber used, or preventa-tives employed. There are paints, viashes, and hete-rogeneous steeps recommended for preserving posts,but each is comparatively costly, and only partiallysuccessful. One great objection to the application ofsolutions externally rests on the fact that the sap,being confined, accelerates decomposition in the inte-rior. Most foresters must have observed this. WhatI would recommend with fencing posts is, the mate-rials, when felled, to be directly sawn into postsand stored under sheds thoroughly ventilated, wherethey will remain at least a year exposed to sunand wind. The neck, or part between wind andwater of each post should be slowly charred over astrong fire—slowly, because our principle means heat-ing the timber th

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