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crop in the course.—See Scott’s Poem 
on Farming. 
GILBERT WAKEFIELD. (1800). 
Cf this gentleman, who occupies such 
a space in the department of classical 
criticism, report testifies that he can 
never sleep out of his own house, and 
that from the time he goes to his bro- 
ther’s at Richmond, until his return, 
he never sleeps. 
It is also a remarkable trait in the 
character of so benevolent a man, that 
he attended all public executions, so as 
to be noticed as a constant attendant 
by the persons officially engaged in these 
exaggerations of justice. He described 
it as a study of human nature! 
CULTURE OF THE TOURNESOL, OR, 
SUN-FLOWER. — Biblivtheque Phy- 
sico Economique, Vol. 1. 1796. 
The sun-flower, kidney beans, and 
potatoes mixed together, agree admi- 
rably ; the neighbourhood of the sun- 
flower proving advantageous to the pota- 
toe. It isa well authenticated fact, that 
with careful attention, the sun-flower 
will make excellent oil. 
The marc, or refuse of the sun- 
flower, after the oil is expressed, may 
be prepared as a light viand for hogs, 
a pigeons and poultry, which will 
anqueton it to satiety. Query, would 
it not make good oil cakes for fattening 
pigs? lf brought into notice, it might 
become an object of some magnitude. 
Forty-eight pounds of sun-flowers will 
produce twelve pounds of oil. In fine, 
I esteem it as worthy of consideration, 
for Ist. In the scale of excellence, it 
will render the use of grain for feeding 
hogs, poultry, pigeons, &c. compara- 
tively unnecessary. 2. As it resembles 
olive oil, would it not be found, on ex- 
amination, competent to supply its 
place? Whatever may be the points 
of difference, it certainly will be ser- 
viceable in home consumption and ma- 
nufactures. 3. Its leaves are to be 
plucked as they become yellow and 
dried. 4. It affords an agreeable and 
wholesome food to sheep aud rabbits. 
To goats and rabbits, the little branches 
are a delicious and luxurious gratifica- 
tion, as is also the disc of the pure 
flower, after the grains have been taken 
out. Rabbits eat the whole except the 
woody part of the plant, which is well 
adapted for the purposes of fuel. 5. Its 
alkalic quality appears to deserve no- 
tice; forty quintals yield eighty pounds 
of alkali, a produce four times superior 
to that of any other plant we are ac- 
quainted with, maizeexcepted. 6. Might 
Stephensiana,—No. V1. 
[March ]. 
it not be used as a ley? And mi- 
nuter observation would probably con- 
vert it into soap, the basis of both 
being oil. 
Dig and trench about it, as both that 
and the potatoe love new earths. Let 
the rows be twenty inches distant from 
each other, and it will be advantageous, 
as the tournesol loves room. Three 
grains are to be sown, distant some 
inches from each other, and when their 
stems are from eight to twelve inches 
high, the finest of the three only to be 
left. Two tufts of French beans to be 
planted between every two sun-flowers, 
the four intermediate rows to be planted 
with potatoes. The French beans will 
climb up the sides of the sun-flower, 
which will act and uniformly support, 
like sticks, and the sun-flower will se- 
cond this disposition, by keeping off 
the great heats from the potatoe, and 
produce more than if all had been 
planted with potatoes. 
Each sun-flower will produce one or 
two pounds, and the acre will bring in 
a vast amount, or contain one thousand 
pounds, being one third more than 
grain. 
SUPERSTITION. 
At Wavertree, near Liverpool, is a 
well which during many ages has borne, 
and still bears, the following monkish 
inscription : 
Qui non dat quod habet, 
Deemon infra ridet. 
The language is not very courtly, and 
joined with the sentiment, imports that 
every wise man will readily give some- 
thing—who does not, let him be de- 
voted to destruction. 
Alms were formerly solicited here— 
and the devil below served all the pur- 
poses of a loaded pistol, to the ignorant 
traveller, who was thereby intimidated 
out of his money. 
George II. had implicit faith in the 
German notion of vampyres. This is 
affirmed, with the dry precision of his- 
torical truth, by Horace Walpole. 
ROUSSEAU. 
“* Un peuple est libre, quelque forme 
qu’ait son Gouvernement, quand dans 
celui qui le gouverne, il ne voit pas 
Vhomme, mais l’orgaue de la loi.” 
Thus paraplirased, “ In civil estab- 
lishments the ends and objects of a free 
government are most fully and clearly 
realised, whatever may be the forms. 
by which the community is regulated, 
when in the governor, not human pas- 
sions, to practise delusion on the people, 
but law and right are employed, as the 
organs 
