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its ladies' committee. It is frequently found that new vegetables, though 
recommended by men of eminence, do not become general favourites, on 
account of the opposition offered by the kitchen. That useful institution 
soon discovers the defect or disadvantage under which any new intro- 
duction labours ; and it was reckoning without the host to recommend 
a new vegetable for general adoption, without first ascertaining in the 
places most competent to give an opinion, whether it was admissible or 
not to the domestic hearth. 
“The object of this Society,” continues Dr. Bennett, “‘is still further to introduce 
in our extensive territory, useful animals and plants, and also to improve those 
already naturalized in the colony. I recollect that in 1849 a prize was awarded 
to the late Mr. Thomas Woolley, for a ‘New Rare Plant.’ This was that ex- 
cellent medicinal plant the Dandelion (Leontodon Taraxacum), having been 
for the first time introduced alive into this colony, and consequently very rare. 
We trust that a society so useful will continue to prosper, and shall 
be glad to hear that the Government of New South Wales so far ap- 
preciates its services as to aid it by liberal grants, and thus enable it to 
carry out more fully the object and aims for which it was established. 
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Caoma pinitorquum ; ein neuer, der Kiefer verderblicher Pilz. 
Von A. de Bary. Berlin, 1864, 8vo. 
This tract of sixteen pages is a reprint from the Proceedings of the 
Berlin Academy for December, 1863. It treats of a species of Ure- 
dinous Fungus, which attacks the young shoots of Pines (Pinus syl- 
vestris). This parasite appears to have been first noticed in 1860, and 
since more plentifully in the north of Europe. The paper is partly 
occupied in minute description of the Uredo in its different ages and 
stages, and partly in a recapitulation of the conclusions to which Dr. 
de Bary has arrived in consequence of his numerous investigations, re- 
cently published at large in the French ‘Annales.’ The gist of these 
conclusions is that the same Fungus may appear under the form of a 
