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garden of the peer or of the peasant; — whether growing on old 

 walls and roofs, or on the bare exposed rocks of Kinnoull," 



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 intentions. The paper will be very acceptable, and will, doubtless 

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Sir, — In the month of July 1 formed a picnic party of youths of both 

 sexes, and spent the day on the magnesian limestone. As we were passing 

 a walled enclosure where pigs were kept, the young persons saw several 

 plants of Hyoscyamus niyer in flower within the enclosure, and brought 

 two or three to their teacher. I was not a little surprised, on smelling one 

 of the plants, to experience a sensation I had never known this plant to 

 produce before. I felt as if I had been struck a hard blow at the top of 

 the head by a mallet padded with wool. The sensation was only momen- 

 tary, and the effects passed off, immediately. Thinking that this result 

 might be owing to some idiosyncrasy of my own nervous system, I said 

 nothing about it, but merely asked the young people to smell the plants ; 

 and though they each described their feelings in different words, they all 

 agreed with what is above stated. One young lady said, " Oh ! it's just 

 as if some one had struck me very hard at the top of my head without 

 hurting me." On only one occasion since have I met with plants of this 

 species which produced this peculiar sensation ; . and these were growing 

 in a similar situation. The specimens were more dwarfish than those 

 found by waysides round the coast. The cultivated plant, which I have 

 examined many times, is still taller, and produces no sensation like that 

 above described. I am anxious to know if any of your readers have 



noticed this property of the Henbane. , , , Euricola. 



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A correspondent obages us with the lollowmg economical scrap: — 



" La Truffe de Lorraine. — On lit dans VEclw de VEst de Bar-le- 

 Duc : On fait aujourd'hui beaucoup d'effbrts pour acclimater les animaux 

 et les vegctaux exotiques. Nous nous etonnons done avec raison qu'on 

 n'attache pas plus d'iinportance a la multiplication d'un tubercule qui se 

 produit spontancinent dans nos terres argilo-calcaires, le Lathyrus tuberosus, 

 connu sur les marches de Paris sous le nora de Truffes de Lorraine. C'est 

 le macujon ou maqiiehon, delices ties enfants du village, qui suivent la charrue 

 pour les recolter. Laiteux, sucre, a fecule blanche, on le mange cru dans 

 les communes rurales ; a Metz, a Pont-a-Mousson, a Lahgres, on le vend 

 cuit sur les marches, du mois de fSvrier jusqu'en avril. Nous n'en avons 

 pas vu a Nancy, quoiqu'il croisse dans les environs. Ce tubercule, plus 

 agrcable que la pomme de terre, vaut infiaiment mieux que I'igname et la. 



