229 - Vaccination.—Volcano. 
nearly nine feet from the earth, and it has between six and sevets 
hundred blossoms on it either open or to open. This plant is a 
native of North America, and was first brought into England in 
the year 1596. 
A new species of black currant has been cultivated in Cam- 
bridgeshire, the fruit of which is so large, that in some instances 
a single berry weighs 61 grains, and measures in circumference 
two inches and a half. 
There is at present to be seen in the garden of Mr. Miller, at 
the Abbey, Edinburgh, what is conceived to be a very great curi- 
osity. In the bed of carnations, there is one root, a stalk from 
which has produced one carnation half red and half a flesh colour; 
another wholly a flesh colour spotted with red; and the third a 
dark red. 
The Professor of Agriculture and Botany in the University of 
Modena, strongly recommends a species of Clover that has not 
hitherto been cultivated in this country, namely, the Trifolium 
incarnatum, or Crimson Clover. He recommends this plant as 
the earliest of T'refoils; as the most useful for increasing the fo- 
rage; as requiring only one ploughing and harrowing to cover 
the seed ; as peculiarly calculated for dry soils, even gravels: 
and as preferring the mountain to the plain. It is so hardy that 
it may be sown even in autumn, and it stands severe frosts well. 
If sown in spring, it will vield a good crop that year. Some ex- 
periments have been tried with this plant in Berwickshire, which 
in a great measure justify what has been urged in its favour. 
VACCINATION, 
The festival in honour of Dr. Jenner, to whom mankind are 
indebted for the discovery of Vaccination, was lately celebrated 
at Berlin by a superb banquet. All the faculty in the city were 
present, together with several functionaries and statesmen. The 
Counsellor of State, M. Hufeland, presented at the close of the 
banquet, lists of the children who had been vaccinated in Prussia 
during the year 1819, and the result was, that upwards of 400,000 
children had been inoculated within that period. 
VOLCANO IN THE ISLE OF BOURBON. 
[Account of a late explosion, by an eye witness. ] 
On the 27th of February, at 10 o’clock in the morning, the 
weather being cloudy, a frightful noise was heard like that of a 
loud clap of thunder, produced by the explosion of a column of 
fire and smoke from the crater of the voleano. The clearness of 
the rest of the day prevented a full enjoyment of this brilliant 
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