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solely fcr tbe purpose of experiment, and to make the best report 

 possible of its effects, will be found in the "Intellectual Observer," 

 Vol. II. p. 435. For the first trustworthy suggestion of its 

 usefulness we were indebted to Dr. O'Shaughnessy, who made care- 

 ful observations of its effects on the natives of India, He says : — 

 When churriis, or natural hemp resin, is administered in moderate 

 doses, it produces increase of appetite and great mental cheerful- 

 ness, while in excess it causes a peculiar kind of delirium and cata- 

 lepsy. At two p.m., says the learned author, a grain of the resin 

 of hemp was given to a rheumatic patient ; at four p.m. lie was very 

 talkative, sang, called loudly for an extra supply of food, and de- 

 clared himself in perfect health. At six p.m. he was asleep ; at 

 eight p.m. he was found insensible, but breathing with perfect regu- 

 larity. His pulse and skin were natural, and the pupils freely con- 

 tracted on the approach of light. Happening by chance to lift up 

 the patient's arm, the professional reader will judge of my astonish- 

 ment when I found it remained in the same posture in which I 

 placed it. It required but a very brief examination of the limbs to 

 find that by the influence of this narcotic the patient had been 

 thrown into the strangest and most extraordinary of all nervous 

 conditions, which so few have seen, and the existence of which so 

 many still discredit — the genuine catalepsy of the nosologist. We 

 raised him to a sitting posture, and placed his arms and limbs in 

 every imaginable attitude. A waxen figure could not be more pliant 

 or more stationary in each position, no matter how contrary to the 

 natural influence of the gravity on the part. To all impressions he 

 was almost insensible. S. H. 



A NEW WAY OF GROWING GEAPES. 



BY WILLIAM COLE, 

 Head Gardener, Ealing Park, Middlesex, W. 



|N the papers on the "Amateur's Vinery," which have 

 lately appeared from the pen of Mr. Trussler, ample 

 advice has been given on the construction, planting, and 

 management of permanent vineries, and I would like to 

 supplement those excellent papers with a brief descrip- 

 tion of a method by which most excellent crops of grapes may be 

 produced without a vinery. This system of grape growing, which 

 has been thoroughly tested at Ealing Park, appears to be especially 

 adapted to tlie requirements of amateurs, as the labour incidental 

 to the management of vines in pots, and the expense of establish- 

 ing a vinery, are alike avoided. Moreover, the smallest house likely 

 to be met with in the garden of an amateur may be devoted to 

 grape-vines, with a full assurance of obtaining a good crop, provided 

 the vines receive proper attention. 



It ia of no consequence whatever whether the house has a lean-to 



