. The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . is to the oxidation that I attribute the residtsobtained. A short time nfter the watering tho Dodderbecomes black and frlabl-^ If performed in rainyweather the rain-water muHt inevitably carry ofl por-tions of the solution which adhere to tl»e plant. I curmot?late exactly the number of qunrts whicli should begiven to each square yard of surface, fur the quantitymast vary according as the plant in more or le84 atlected. In two or three days after the application of tbeH/jIution, the Dodder is completely deslroyed. I thenmow the foragQ and ca
. The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . is to the oxidation that I attribute the residtsobtained. A short time nfter the watering tho Dodderbecomes black and frlabl-^ If performed in rainyweather the rain-water muHt inevitably carry ofl por-tions of the solution which adhere to tl»e plant. I curmot?late exactly the number of qunrts whicli should begiven to each square yard of surface, fur the quantitymast vary according as the plant in more or le84 atlected. In two or three days after the application of tbeH/jIution, the Dodder is completely deslroyed. I thenmow the foragQ and carry away the portions atRctedby thepara»ito, and which have been acted upon by theMulpliAte. When the remedy in applied in time, that is to?ay, wlu:n tire Lucnie liai not been compliHely d-Htroyed by llie Dodder, the fornjcr pushes again vigur-oualy after the application, and tho leavcB assume adark hue, indicating good health. Tho action of bulphate of iron is two-fold ; on the • H*fl KtUm tetnr (In* Lrktunkcn dor iliiliren, )ti Hot. lanceolate, entire, or with one or two shallow teeth, andcorresponding free veins. The fertile parts of the frondare exactly analogous to the bai*ren in their mode ofdivision, as is sliown on the right hand in the figure,except that instead of the suiaii flat ultimate divisionsthey consist only of stalked clusters of spore-cases, theveins only, tipped by the sori, being developed, and theparenchymatous mutter of the sterile parts being alto-gether wanting ; each venule or vein bears one ot theseclusters, so tljat the entire, or two or three-toothedbarren segments are replaced by one, two, or three sori res-pectively. The involucre is a semi-globular or cup-shapedbody, somewhat contracted and oblique at the mouth,and contains sessile compressed spore-cases lilie tliosc oftho Cyatiieas, to which fjirnily, no doubt, this plautbelongs. It lias been said to have a caudex as tliick asa walking-stick, and hence it has been culled an arbores-ce
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