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P. 281 . Mr. White says, that no wheat ear save taken 

 to thetces/M?ardof Houghton-bridge,on the river A run ; 

 it appears, however, that is not the case. See the note 

 to Mrs. Charlotte Smith's Poems, 1807, p. 168. 



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P. 20. As our Saxon ancestors called the month of 

 February ' Sprout-Gale,' so the names of many other 

 months were equally significant; viz. March, Stormy 

 month; May, Trimilki, the cows then being milked 

 three times a day ; June, dig and weed month ; Sep- 

 tember, barley month, &c. - 



P. 105. What Mr. White has remarked of the 

 Jishes of Japan thriving in our climate, is true also of 

 the plants; the trees and shrubs brought from the Japo- 

 nese islands bearing our winters, and growing freely : as 

 for instance, that beautiful tree, the * Gingko,' now 

 called by Dr. Smith, the Salisburia; and the no less 

 beautiful and scarce ' Sophora Japonica,' the finest spe- 

 cimens of which trees now in England, are probably in 

 the curious garden of John Orde, Esq. at Fulham. As 

 I am on this subject, I will mention that the garden 

 belonging to the palace of the Bishop of London at 

 Fulham , the earliest receptacle of scarce and foreign trees 

 in this country, is now almost worn out. Not above 



