To nil IVeevils, &C, 191 



Gibraltar, Minorca, and Malta; and alfo from lord Keith 

 and fir Ralph Abercrombie in the expedition.'' 



AGRICULTURE. 



The Free Society of Agricukune^ Arts, and Commerce, ift 

 llic department of the Ardennes, has lately publiflied a fele<SI: 

 collection of memoirs; among which are: a paper on the 

 caufes of the fmut in grain, and on the. means of preventing 

 it; on the cultivation of the fuller's thiftle [dipfacus fullo- 

 7iuni)'y on the culture of a kind of poppy; details on the 

 turnip-rooted cabbage of Lapland, cultivated at Bouillon ; and 

 (imple and eafy means for preferving grain from weevils and 

 other infeAs. Tbefc means are as follows : — Immerfe fome 

 pieces of hemp cloth in water ; wring them, and cover with 

 them your heaps of grain : two hours after you will find the 

 weevils adhering to the cloths ; which muft be carefully col- 

 le«Sled that the infers may not efcape. You may then dip 

 them fome time in water to drown them, 



A plant of the hyofcyamus placed in the middle of a heap 

 of grain drives away thefe infe<5^s : in that cafe you muft 

 watch, in order to crufti them as they are endeavouring to 

 efcape ; which will not require long time. 



The laft article of this colle6lion is a recipe fot a vegetative 

 liquor proper for accelerating the blowing of bulbous -rooted 

 flowers in winter in apartments. It is as follows :-— Take 

 nitrate of potafh (nitre) three ounces ; muriate of foda 

 (common fait) one ounce; carbonate of potafh (potadi) 

 half an ounce; fugar half an ounce ; rain water one pound : 

 make the falts difTolve in a gentle heat in a glazed earthen 

 pot, and when the folutlon is completed, add the fugar and 

 filter the whole. Put about eight drops of this liquor into a 

 glafs jar filled with rain or river water. The jars mufl be 

 kept always full, and the water muft be renewed every ten or 

 twelve days, adding each time a like quantity of the liquor: 

 the flowers alfo muft be placed on the corner or a chimney- 

 piece where a fire is regularly made. 



The fame mixture may be employed for watering flowers 

 in pots, or filling the difhcs on which they are placed, in 

 order to keep the earth, or the bulbs and plants which they 

 contain, in a ftate of moifture. 



6 DEATH 5^ 



