This section is from "The Horticulturist, And Journal Of Rural Art And Rural Taste", by P. Barry, A. J. Downing, J. Jay Smith, Peter B. Mead, F. W. Woodward, Henry T. Williams. Also available from Amazon: Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste.
B. Kirt-la no gives the following analysis in the Family Visitor, showing a large amount of potash in proportion to other constituents, much silica, and more magnesia and common salt, than are usually found in other fruits. One hundred and sixteen grains of the ashes were taken, prepared from the leaves and stalks immediately after they had borne a moderate crop of fruit.
Silica...... | 6.117 grains. |
Charcoal and sand,........ | 3.101 do |
Perphosphate of iron,...... | 1.515 do |
Perphosphate of lime,...... | 26.519 do |
Magnesia,...... | 8.909 do |
Sulphuric acid,..... | 1.469 do |
Phosphoric acid,........ | 6.970 do |
Chlorine, ....... | .708 do |
Potash,........ | 33.154 do |
Soda,......................... | 2.790 do |
Carbonic,..... | 23.008 do |
Organic matter and loss,........ | 1.739 do |
116.000 do |
In the last number of the Horticulturist, I see an analysis of the strawberry, by myself, in which there is an error of importance, the correction of which I wish you to publish. It Is this. It reads Per-phosphate of Lime - where it should read Lime. The same error has been published in several papers, and an error even more material, has been made (in publishing my analysis of the sweet potatoe,) by some of the papers. They have Phosphate of Lime, of Magnesia, of Potash, where they should have only Lime, Magnesia, Potash. I suppose that in the first place I may have caused the error, in the manner in which I made out my statement of these analyses, by placing the words Lime, Magnesia, Potash, under the words Phosphate of Iron. They inferred that Phosphate of Lime, Magnesia and Potash was meant, and so substituted the word Phosphate. Respectfully. Billies Kirtlahd. Poland. O. May 13, 1852.
 
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