674' Domestic Notices : — England. 



Siifolk Botanic Garden, Bury St. Edmund's. — I was over at Bury the 

 other clay : they are very busy laying out a new botanic garden in the 

 Abbey grounds. It is, to be sure, a most eligible spot, yet I think it seems 

 almost a pity to disturb the plants which are now so well established in the 

 old garden. — J. G. Sudbury, August 22. 1831. , 



Taunton Horticultural Society. — The design of forming a horticultural 

 society has been liberally cherished at Taunton and the neighbourhood. 

 E. A. Sanford, Esn.. M.P., has acquiesced in the invitation to become 

 president ; and several other highly respectable persons have consented to 

 undertake the honorary duties of the society. (Bristol Mirror, July 23. 

 1831.) 



Sutton Wash Embanhnent. — This is said to be one of the grandest public 

 works ever achieved in England. It is an elevated mound of earth, with a 

 road over, carried across an estuary of the sea situated between Lynn and 

 Boston, and shortening the distance between the two towns more than 

 fifteen miles. This bank has to resist, for four hours in every twelve, the 

 weight and action of the German Ocean, preventing it from flowing over 

 15,000 acres of mud, which will very soon become land of the greatest 

 fertility. In the centre the tide flows up a river, which is destined to serve 

 as a drain to the embanked lands, and has a bridge over it of oak, with a 

 movable centre of cast u'on, for the purpose of admitting ships. (Country 

 Times, May 16.) 



We should be much obliged to any correspondent who could send us a 

 more definite account of the above improvement j that from which we have 

 made this notice being too desultory and laudatory for our purpose. — 

 Cond. 



Itinerating Libraries. — An itinerating library has been established in 

 Monmouthshire by the Society for the Improvement of the Working Popu- 

 lation. The divisions of the library, of twenty-five volumes each, are to be 

 established at six different towns, and the towns or the books changed 

 every six months. Dr. Malkin of Cowbridge is the chairman of this 

 institution. (Cambrian, Oct. 1. 1831.) 



Our oivn Represejitative System (p. 375.). — On our return from Scotland 

 (Sept. 9.) we found all the house plants so liberally presented to us by 

 Mr. Alton in vigorous health, more especially the green-house species, with 

 only one or two deaths. Of the trees and shrubs, only three, not rare 

 species, have died ; and the herbaceous system, which we have been able 

 to render tolerably full, and hope to render quite complete next spring, 

 was all that we could wish it to be. Any of our friends who can supply 

 desiderata may still turn to p. 376., and we should also be glad of a few of 

 the bulbous /rideae for a border protected by glass. — Cond. 



The Wire-Worm. — Extract from a communication from Mr. Tallant of 

 Little Houghton, read at the last meeting of the Northamptonshire Farming 

 Society : — " White mustard seed will protect the grain from the wire- 

 worm ; and this fact I have demonstrated perfectly to my own conviction. 

 I first tried the experiment on half an acre, in the centre of a fifty-acre 

 field of fallow, which was much subject to the wire-worm. The mustard 

 seed being carried, the whole field was fallowed for wheat, and the half- 

 acre that had been previously cropped with mustard seed was wholly exempt 

 from the wire-worm ; the remainder of the field was much injured. Not 

 only was the half-acre thus preserved, but in the spring it was decidedly 

 the most advanced part of the crop ; and the prosperous appearance which 

 it presented caused me to repeat the experiment, by sowing three acres 

 more of mustard seed in the worst part of a field of forty-five acres, also 

 much infested with the wire-worm. The remainder of the field was sown 

 with early frame peas, which, with the mustard seed, was cleared in the 

 same week. The land was then ploughed for wheat, and I had the plea- 

 sure of noticing these three acres to be quite free from the worm, and 



