. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. KE ABATEMENT. The conversion of the arcades which surround theRoyal Horticultural Societys Gardens at South Ken-sington into receptacles for a smoke abatement exhi-bition may seem at first sight somewhat a departurefrom the original object of these cloisters, but thosewho have too often found them but vast unpeopledand unoccupied caverns will surely be gratified to seethem just now so worthily and so usefully there is considerable connection between plant life obstinate Pharaoh, was a va
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. KE ABATEMENT. The conversion of the arcades which surround theRoyal Horticultural Societys Gardens at South Ken-sington into receptacles for a smoke abatement exhi-bition may seem at first sight somewhat a departurefrom the original object of these cloisters, but thosewho have too often found them but vast unpeopledand unoccupied caverns will surely be gratified to seethem just now so worthily and so usefully there is considerable connection between plant life obstinate Pharaoh, was a vapour that might be some of it were the natural evaporation (rom theriver, much of it was that sulphureous vapour, thewhich, laden with sooty particles stifling with itscarbon, was borne down by the heavier and moisttrvapour, poisoning all vegetation, nearly choking busyhumanity, and inflicting on all innumerable troublesand vexations. Cynics perhaps sarcastically asserted that theanti-smoke exhibition when in full operation did butmake the fug the more dense ; but good objects have. Fig. 157.—nepenthes hookeriana of gardens : pitcher green, crimson-spotted, (see p. S12.) and smoke abatement, just as on the reverse sidethere is, alas ! too obvious affinity between smoke andplant death; therefore any effort, however crude orinefficient it may yet be, to purify the atmosphere,or, better still, to destroy in the production these abomi-nations that poison our town atmosphere and killvegetable life wholesale, must merit the best wishesof all horticulturists. Those of our fraternity whoattended the last meeting of the Royal HorticulturalSociety at South Kensington were forcibly and veryunpleasantly reminded of the association of fogs—thatterror of the metropolis—and coal smoke. Thevapour, like the Egyptiao darkness that plagued the ever found disparaging critics. Perhaps the innumer-able stove pipes and temporary chimneys erectedaround the arcades lent naturally the impr
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