Chemistry: In Its Applications to Agriculture and Physiology (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Chemistry: In Its Applications to Agriculture and Physiology

Many views and principles which I had endeavoured to develop in reference to nutrition, and especially to the cultivation of vegetables, were strongly opposed, immediately on the appearance of the first edition of this work. I could not, however, resolve to make any material change in the immediately succeeding edition, because I did not consider the scientific investigation of the important questions at issue as finally determined, and because I thought that I ought to trust the decision of them to experience alone.

Many of the objections raised were founded upon a want of mutual understanding; others related to positions and assertions having no connection with the peculiar object of the book. I have set these aside by the omission of all passages thus called in question.

In the three years which have elapsed between this edition and the first, I have not neglected any opportunity of subjecting to a rigorous and careful examination the principles which I had developed of the nutritive properties of plants, and their application to agriculture.

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