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the same compost. The ramincnliis should never be planted deeper than 

 one inch undf r the surface, as^ li^'ht and air seem to be essential to their very 

 existence. By adopting the |ilan laid down above, your roots will be about 

 four inches from the manure, at which distance sufficient nourishment will 

 be obtained ; but if the roots come at all in contact with manure, they will 

 be inevitably lost. It would he well to remark, that cold, or naturally wet 

 ground, is unfit for this jilant, for although the ranunculus likes moisture, it 

 prefers partaking of it passing — fortius reason, the bottom of the beds should 

 have a quantity of gravel thrown in, if at all wet or cold; indeed, such 

 ground ought to have sewers to carry off the surplus water. An eastern as- 

 pect is the best ; but a southern one will anssver very well, provided it is a 

 <listance from the garden wall. Ranunculuses should never be planted 

 within twelve feet of a wall or hedge. Anemones may be treated in a sim- 

 ilar maimer. — Hort. Uegw/er. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. General JS'otices. 



The many-stemmed Mulberry, (Morus multicaulis) is said to be greatly supe- 

 rior to all other sjiecies and varieties in the number of leaves it produces, as 

 well as in the quantity of nutriment which these leaves contain. [Plants, we 

 believe, may be readily obtained at any of the various nurseries throughout 

 the country. — Conds.'] 



Lifluence of Color on Heat, the Deposition of Dew, and of Odors. Dr. Stark, 

 in a pa[)er in Jameson''s Journal, vol. xvii. p. 65, has shown, by experiment, 

 that one princijile operates in the production of all the above results. A 

 black color, whether in solids or fluids, absorbs heat most rapidly, and parts 

 with it most rapidly; dew is also d( posited more rapidly on tiiis color than 

 on any other, and with proportionate rapidity evaporated fiom it. Odors, 

 whether agreeable, ollensivf, or of infectious <lisi ases, are, in like manner, 

 absorbed with greater rapidity, and in grtater quantity, in a given time, by- 

 black colors; and discharged liy these colors \\ ith jiroporiioiiate quickness. 

 The other colors are next eflictive to lihick in the order of bh;e, brown, 

 green, red, yellow, and lastly white; which la.<t absorbs and gives out iieat, 

 dew, and odor more slowly than any other color. These fiicts will afliml 

 valuable hints to gardeners for the colors of walls, of walks, of rook work, of 

 soils, of coverings for prelection, and even of thuir dresses. — Card. Mag. 



Art. II. Domestic A'otices. 



A ^reat Yield. Caleb Chase writes the editor of the Portland Courier, in 

 illustration of the advantages of high cultivation of land, that he raised in 

 a garden, from four grains of wheat, eighty head.<, one of which measured six 

 and a half inches in length. From these eighty heads, he obtained /b!/r//iO!<- 

 sandfive hundred and thirty-six grains ofwhmt, measuring little sliort of half 

 a pint, being one thousand one hundr<'d and thirty-four fold. This is worthy 

 the attention of those farmers who are oidy desirous of increasing the num- 

 ber of acres on their farms, without imjiroving the quality of the soil. — jV. IL 

 Farmer. 



