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Let us express a fei-veut hope that a great traffic will arise in this cheap 

 though precious material, and that English vessels will before long be 

 freighted with shiploads of books and papers bifuturo. We see no reason, 

 however, why the material might not be grown in large quantities in many, 

 especially the warmer parts of England. In Brandenburg, with its in- 

 different soil, and where the temperature is certainly not higher on the 

 average than that of Great Britain, Indian Corn, though a novel introduc- 

 tion, may now be seen on many a sandy acre rearing up its broad leaf- 

 blades to a height of half-a-dozen feet or upwards. What an era seems 

 here to be opening for the future of cheap literature ! In this one inven- 

 tion lies, perhaps, the antidote for all the evils occasioned by the non- 

 removal of the paper duty. 



Baunaby Googe. 



In the last number of the ' Phytologist ' there was an extract from Bar- 

 naby Googe, misprinted Goorge, relating to Buck-zoJieat, or Beech-wheat. 

 The work referred to is entitled, ' The whole Art and Trade of Husbandry, 

 contained in four books, enlarged by Baniaby Googe, Esq., printed in 

 London, 1614, by Y. S., for Richard Moore.' It appears from Mr. 

 Googe's epistle to the reader, that the fom* Books of Husbandry were set 

 forth by blaster Conrade lieresbach, a great and learned counsellor of the 

 Duke of Cleves, but put into English by Googe, and altered and increased 

 with his own readings and observations, joined with the experience of 

 sundry of his friends. I do not coUect what part of this work, thus put 

 into English, is Heresbach's, and what Googe's. The work is valuable 

 and very interesting to all who desire to know something of husbandry 

 and gardening at that early period, ordering of orchards and woods, treat- 

 ment of cattle, poultrie, and bees. 1 should like to know more about the 

 said Conrade Heresbach ; probably some of the contributors to the ' Phy- 

 toloo'ist ' can enlighten me. S. Beisly. 



Indigenous Plants.— Myrtle, Laurel, Cypress. 



Mr. George E. Frere, in 'Notes and Queries' for September, 1860, 

 refers to these plants as the badges of the Scottish clans, Campl)ell, Gra- 

 ham, and M'Dougall, and says they arc the only apparent exotic plants in 

 the list of clan badges ; this list is given in Haydn's ' Dictionary of Dates.' 

 Mr. Frere says the Campbells' Imdge is Myrica Gale, or Dutch Myrtle, a 

 British plant, and not an exception to the rule he has heard, that the 

 badges of all the clans were plants indigenous in Scotland ; but if the 

 badges of Graham and IM'Dougall are the plants known in the South by 

 the names of Laurel and Cypress, they still remain exceptions to the rule. 



I think the Editor of the ' Phytologist ' can answer these questions, and 

 we may be enlightened upon the subject of indigenous plants ; for it ap- 

 pears that the clanships of Scotland originated in the time of Malcolm II., 

 about the year 1008. Is there anything inconsistent in saying that these 

 plants grew in Scotland at that period, or do the names signify other plants 

 which grew there? S. B. 



