The Horticultural Review And Botanical Magazine Volume 3 PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ...bearings of practical agriculture. Messrs. Editors: --I have been surprised, recently, to find an effort made by one or two agricultural papers, to decry the chemical analysis of soils. The objection seems to be based, principally, on the fact that great differences in the chemical composition of soils exist in different neighborhoods, and even on the same farms or fields; and, that as the chemical analysis of the soil of one spot can not be a true index to that of others, which differ from it, therefore all chemical analysis is valueless. The statement as here made, in relation to the difference in the qualities of soils, is true; but, instead of the inference drawn being true or philosophical, it is the very David Christy. Scenery in Bengal. The groves of Palm-trees with their naked trunks crowned with the richest foliage, give a tropical and magnificent appearance to the landscape. The immense green leaves of the Plantain, surrounding a pithy stem, bending under a load of fruit at all seasons of the year; the green carpet which covers the ground at all times, but which grows with great rapidity during the rainy season; the magnificent shoots of the Bamboos, which rise to the higbt of forty or fifty feet in a single year; and the Banyans, which extend their mighty arms to such a distance as to require support, a support which nature herself supplies by throwing down preps which take root, and finally become trunks and centers themselves of vast spreading thickets; all these give Bengal a character for grandeur and luxuriance which is rarely equaled in other parts of the globe. The provinces to the north-west, however, have usually a very different appearance. Many tracts of country are barren and sandy in consequence of the l-ng droughts..