FloricuUwal and Botanical Notices. 471 



instead of it, men with spades, who dug the intervals well, and 

 earthed the plants no more than as above. The result was, on 

 each of these three acres, a produce of 200 barrels of 20 stone 

 each ; while, on an acre tilled entirely with the plough, in the 

 ordinary way, the produce did not amount to one half of that 

 quantity. The extra expense of digging, instead of ploughing, 

 was 405. an acre ; leaving an excess of profit, in favour of the 

 spade culture, of at least 20/. the acre. 

 Kilkenny^ Aug. 20. 1838. 



Art. VII. Bolanical, Floricultural, and Arboricidtural Notices on 

 the Kinds of Plants nexdy introduced into British Gardens and 

 Plantations, orixhich Jiave been originated in them ; together voith ad- 

 ditional Information respecting Plants {xdiether old or neiv) already 

 in Cidtivation : the whole intended to serve as a perpetual Supplement 

 to tjie " Encyclop<£dia of Plants," the " Hortus Brilannicus" the 

 " Hortus Lignosus," and the " Arboretum et Fruticelum Britan- 

 nicum." 



It was originally our intention to give the supplementary notices to the 

 Hortus Lignotsxis and Arboretum BrHanniciim by themselves, in occasional ar- 

 ticles ; but, on farther consideration, we think it will be better to combine them 

 with the Floricultural Notices, for two reasons : first, they will sooner be 

 made known to the reader, because a single notice (as that respecting Aucuba, 

 in p. 475.) will be published, without waiting for as many as would suffice to 

 form a separate article; and, secondly, because such information as may 

 fall in our way will be less likely to escape our memory, when it is to be 

 published every month, than if we had to lay it by for, perhaps, two or three 

 months. 



As we do not intend to confine ourselves, in these notices, to the information 

 obtained from books, we invite all our readers to contribute towards them, by 

 sending us notices of whatever species or varieties, or synonymes, they may 

 think we have omitted in the Hoi'tus Lignosus ; and whatever information they 

 can add to what we have given in the Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum ; 

 including, of course, corrections of errors in both works. 



A Supplement to the Encyclopcedla of Plants is in preparation ; and we 

 should be glad of hints for that work, premising that we intend confining it to 

 the more common and popular species, so as to form a pamphlet of not more 

 than six or seven sheets, which may bind up with the volume. 



A Second additional Supjjlemeut to the Hortus Britannicus is in the press. 



Curtis' s Botanical Magazine ; in nnonthly numbers, each containing 

 seven plates ; 3*. 6d. coloured, 35. plain. Edited by Sir William 

 Jackson Hooker, LL.D., &c. 



Edwards's Botanical Register ; in monthly numbers, new series, each 

 containing six plates ; Ss. 6d. coloured, 3*. plain. Edited by Dr. 

 Lindley, Professor of Botany in the London University. 



Maund's Botanic Garden, or Magazine of Hardy Flower Plants cul- 

 tivated in Great Britain; in monthly numbers, each containing 

 four coloured figures in one page; large paper \s.6d., small Is. 

 Edited by B. Maund, Esq., F.L.S. 



Paxtons Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants; 

 in monthly numbers; large 8vo ; 2s. 6d. each. 



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