. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. ArcrsT **.] THE COTTAGE GAUDKNER. WEEKLY CALENDAR. S83 Weather near Lone on Sun Sun IVroon Moon's 1 Clock Pay of u M isiy. Rises. Sets. B. «iS. Age. bet. Sun. Vcar. 8 1 To Swift last seen. T. 95'â54°. Fine. 36 a. 4 35 a. 7 8a. 3 1 ' 5 23 220 0 F lljinnct's song coaxes. fsoen. T. SI"â.i6°. Fine. 37 33 8 35 2 1 5 15 221 10 S iSt. Lawrence. .'c-ieiicc alone. The mere practitioner goes on a Idind follower of the blind; and science without practical knowledge is like a sunbeam fallini; on empty space. In no of knowledge is
. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. ArcrsT **.] THE COTTAGE GAUDKNER. WEEKLY CALENDAR. S83 Weather near Lone on Sun Sun IVroon Moon's 1 Clock Pay of u M isiy. Rises. Sets. B. «iS. Age. bet. Sun. Vcar. 8 1 To Swift last seen. T. 95'â54°. Fine. 36 a. 4 35 a. 7 8a. 3 1 ' 5 23 220 0 F lljinnct's song coaxes. fsoen. T. SI"â.i6°. Fine. 37 33 8 35 2 1 5 15 221 10 S iSt. Lawrence. .'c-ieiicc alone. The mere practitioner goes on a Idind follower of the blind; and science without practical knowledge is like a sunbeam fallini; on empty space. In no of knowledge is this union of practice with science more beneticial than in that in- cluding the cultivation of the snil. It exhibits in a light the most obvious tiie intimate connexion of the sciencesâthe mechnftism of our imple- ments, the phijs^oloiitf of our animals and plants, the vhemislri/ of their fooil, and the i^vdlngy of our soils, are all subjects on which volumes have been writtenâvolumes from which the most experienced cultivator gathers enlightening information. Lavoisier through life kept this tical use of science in view, and was engaged in researches tending to the same bright object when he voluntarily went forth to death at the call of duty; and we know of no nobler passage with which to embalm his memory. Finding that his chemical researches involved him in heavy expenses, he sought for and obtained the lucrative appointment of a InsectsâWe have been asked so repeatedly to furnish information nherebv the three different tenants Farmer-general of the revenueânot to increase his fortune, hut to enable him the better to aid other students in science, and to empower liini more freely to open to them his laboratory. This was on the eve of the justly named *' Ueign of Terror " marking the outbreak of the French Revo- lution. Lavoisier continued at his studies without interfering in that political convulsion, and this, coupled with the fact of his being a
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