'S96 Paintings in the Hi^oric Gallery. — Culture of Rofes,-^c. [Dec. i 



To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 



SIR, 



OBSERVING that the Legiflature has 

 granted to Robert Bowyer, Efq. of 

 London, the privilege of difpofing of his 

 colleftionof plflures in the Hitloric Gal- 

 lery, Pall-Mnll, and vaiious other works 

 of art, by way of lottery, and as many 

 of your country- readers have not an op- 

 portunity of knowing the value of the 

 paintings and engravings which ^re to be 

 difpofcil of, and who might be induced to 

 purchafe tickets, it would be edeemcd a 

 favour if fome artift or judge of the'e 

 works would give, through the medium 

 of jour widely-circulated pi!b!ic:ition, 

 fome account of the merit and execution of 

 thefe rifpeilive works. It might be doing 

 an eflcntial feivice to the proprietor, in 

 promoting the fale of his tickets, and in 

 fome degree tend to do away the prirjudire 

 that exifts with many perlbns, from the 

 diiappoinimeiit they exptritnced on the 

 receipt ot fuch poor prints as were given 

 for the l>lanks in the laie lottery granted 

 to Mr. Boydell. 



Your giving this an early infertion will 

 oblige the public, and your conrt.mt i e^dti , 



An Artist. 

 Leedj, OSi. 12, 1805. 



is obtained, of fimilar quality to that 

 which is uf'ually imported from the Con- 

 tinent. This circumftance, though not 

 likely to be of much public utility, may 

 poflibly be attended with fome local ad- 

 vant:iges, (uch as affording employment 

 for a number if women and children, and 

 will, without doubt, be acceptably amuf- 

 ir.g to the cuiious in botany, chemiftry. 

 Sec. I am, Sir, &c. 



R. J. Butcher, 

 Vicar of Wandlworth. 

 U''andf'worth,On.%%, 18C5. 



Tii the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 



SIR, 



I WAS gratified inycur twolaff publi- 

 ca'ions with the dcfcription of the 

 American borer. I have had two in rrry 

 pollVlilcn Ibme years, brought me by a 

 tnenii from-Baltiniort, and am fo convinc- 

 ed o' then' utility in pieference to the com- 

 mon Englifli auger in general practice, 

 that I rtiall feel myfelf happy in fluwing 

 thim to any peifons who may not fully 

 comprehend the defcription in your lait, 

 and am. Sir, &c. R. C'hi-ffins, 



Nenv-Rivef-Yard, Salifiuryfquare, 

 zc,lh Sept. 1805. 



To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. To the Editor^/ the Monthly Magazine. 



SIR, 



NEW mode of employing land was 

 flattd in yo-.u- Magazine for July to 

 havd been adop-ed near Batterlea. My 

 contiguous refidence tn this place inductd 

 me to inquire into the ciicumit:ince, and 

 1 fourd it applied, as I imagined, to a 

 confiflerable plar/tation of rofcs in niy own 

 parifh. I have fcen the ingtnious propri- 

 etor of this ccncern, aid coUcdl troinhim, 

 that your former Itatement upon this luh- 

 jeft muft have been lent you by a pei fon 

 fuperfidally infoimcd of it. The manu- 

 Jaftureof oitoofroles from this plantation 

 lias in the laft feafon been cordufted to a 

 confiderable extent, and (although (he 

 fumnier was unfavourable to thofc fi )wer,>) 

 has been attended with fuccefs. Ycur 

 former (tatement is imperleft as to the 

 produce of otto ; I fliall therefore, for the 

 information cf the curious, ftate the pro- 

 ceed of this year, as it has been given to 

 rne by the proprittor. Several thoufand 

 bufliels of rofes have been made ufe of, 

 and the average produce of otto about two 

 .ounces and two drachms from one hun- 

 dred bufiiels, cr lix hundred pounds 

 weight of the fioweis when gathered. — 

 Befides the otto, a quantity of role water 



READING Evans's Tour in North 

 Wjilei, taken in 1798, and printed 

 1800, I am forprifed to fee the following 

 botanxnl difcovery. At page 197, fpeak. 

 ing of one of the lefTer hills of Snowdon, 

 Mr. E. fiiys, " Among the rocks appears 

 the very rare plant hulbocodiufn 'vernuf/i. 

 This plnnt, though a native of Spain, is 

 alio ftiund f^r north on the cold moun- 

 tains in Kuflia." 



I am ftill mrrs furprifed that fo rare a 

 plant (if really growing there) has never 

 been noticed by the numerous botanifls 

 who have made tours in this part of Wales 

 folely for the purpofe of botanical le- 

 ftarches, that it fhould have efcapcd rheir 

 obfervaion, or never yet have been an- 

 nouncfd in any botanical work. 



In Curtis's Bntan^cal Magazine is a 

 plate of the buluocodiu?n iier/tv-m, but no 

 idea fuggeffed of iis being a Britifh plant, 

 nor have the lateft publications taken any 

 notice of Inch a new genus. 



There is no date to Mr. E'g letter in 

 this Tour, but, if it was in autumn, fure- 

 ly he could not miffa.ke the colchicum au- 

 tuitinale, wliicb is of a very different order, 

 though of the fame chfsj nor was it erev 

 known 



