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of Iiarvcst nrc arriving, a corroKpon- 

 dent ljct;s our insertion of the follow- 

 iiifi^ method of dryiug; plants for an 

 Hortiis Siccus, it is simply by puttiiip; 

 tiicm between boards, covered willi 

 w oollin elolb : by this method they 

 dry much quicker, and preserve their 

 colour better, than between paper. 

 The leavinfj a plant accidentally be- 

 tv/eenthe leaves or flaps of a card-table, 

 suggested tlie above; but sucli tables 

 seldom shut close enough to prevent 

 the wriukling of leaves and petals. 

 Twenty-four hours arti suQleient for a 

 plant of a dry nature, but longer for 

 succulent ones, before they are pat 

 into a book. 



In the management of cauliflower- 

 plants, so as to secure good produce 

 during the winter, Rlr. G. Cockuurn, 

 gardener to W. S. Poyntz, esq. sows 

 tlie seeds of the early caulitlower in a 

 south border, in the beginning of July, 

 and, as soon as the plants come up, he 

 ihius them out to twelve or fourteen 

 inches apart, where he suflcrs them to 

 remain, keeping them clean, and 

 ■watering them occasionally, till about 

 the middle of November, by which 

 time they ail produce heads from ten to 

 thirty inches in circumference. As 

 they are not hardy enough to bear 

 much frost, he removes them at that 

 time into ashed, taking care to retain 

 as much mould about their roots as 

 possible, and to remove all their 

 decayed leaves. In the shed they are 

 planted in mould, keeping a space of 

 about an inch between each head. In 

 this state they are frequently looked 

 over Mith care, their dead leaves 

 removed, and those lieads cut for 

 present use which show any disposi- 

 tion to decay ; and, when severe frost 

 occurs, they arc covered with dry 

 short hay. By this management, he 

 lias been able to send three dishes of 

 cauliflowers to the table every week 

 during the autumn and vvijiter. 



Mr. Lewis Gompi^rtz, the cele- 

 brated mathematician, published in the 

 last " Philosophical Magazine" a plan 

 for deflecting the course of cannon- 

 balls, by temporary inclined planes 

 aflixed to the object of attack. 



Mr. Blore\s work of Monuments is 

 announced for publication in February. 

 Mr. B. has recently returned from a 

 journey in the uortli, for the purpose 

 of collecting materials for this work, 

 and has succeeded in tracing and 

 restoring some very valuable specimens 



[Feb. 1, 



of ancient monuments, particularly 

 those of the early Douglases. 



In addition to the objections of Mr. 

 Joncs, Mr. Frend, Sir Eichard Philr 

 lips, and others, to the j)hysi(al theo- 

 ries of Newton, Mr. John Walsh has 

 entered the lists in Brande's Journal, 

 and he demonstrates mathematically 

 the incongruity of the principle of 

 universal gravitation. We suspect 

 that Newton's physical hypotheses 

 will not survive him a century, and it 

 is curious that his method of fluxions 

 has already yielded, both at home and 

 abroad, to the method cf his rival 

 Leibnitz. Our scientific readers should 

 however beware, that these changes 

 in no degree involve the explications 

 of phenomena promulgated in the 

 sixteenth century by Copernicus and 

 his followers, which explication must 

 be as eternal as truth ; for many perr 

 sons are led away by ignorant quacks, 

 who attempt to impeach Copernicus, 

 and, with corresponding discrimina- 

 ticn, refer themselves to our illustrious 

 Newton. Copernicus developed the 

 phenomena, Kepler and Ilooke the 

 laws, and Newton mathematically 

 dissected and analyzed those laws. 

 This discrimination is necessary to be 

 made by all who speak and write on 

 these subjects. 



Damm's Etymological Lexicon to 

 Homer and Pindar, is preparing in 

 one volume, quarto. This work was 

 printed at Berlin, in a thick quarto 

 volume, in 17G5. This "Hcrculei 

 laborio !" as Hcyne characterized it, 

 has been long and extensively known 

 to the learned world : but, lor some 

 years past, co|)ies have been so very 

 rare, and consequently so expensive, 

 that the work has been unattainable, 

 particularly to youthful scholars. 



Mr. BAiiER, of Hampstead, has 

 published the following remedy for the 

 dry-rot: — ^'J'ake two ounces of white 

 arsenic in powder, dissolve it by boil- 

 ing in one giillon of soft water ; if 

 boiled in an iron or tin;;ed vessel, add 

 half an ounce of copper-filings, but if in 

 an untinned copper- vessel the filings 

 are not necessary ; to a quart of size 

 and half a pound of common tar, add 

 a small quantity of fresh-slacked stono 

 lime, sifted pretty fine, beat them well 

 into a paste, which should be then 

 nicely dissolved with the above solu- 

 tion, gradually adding during the pro- 

 cess (by small portions,) as much mora 

 of the pulverized lime as will give "the 

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