AGRICULTUnAL MUSUEIVI T^ 



mu'ably ca^lcolated for being converted into canvas, ca^ 

 l)!cs, cordao'e and a thousand other things where strength 

 and dnrabiiity are of importance, as well as, with a little 

 jireparation, into paper of all kinds, even that of the most 

 delicate texture. Now, as there are, at least, 200,000 

 tlokj horse s^nd other beans, in Great Britain and Ire- 

 land; and since, where there is not machinery for the 

 purpose, the poor of each work house, and others both 

 young and old, males as well as females, might (hemp 

 Jiaving risen lately from 60 to lOQ pounds per ton) be 

 iidvantageously employed, and gain something hand- 

 some for themselves, in peeling or otherwise separating 

 the filaments from the strawy part of the bean plant, af^ 

 tor the beans are threshed out. Yours, &c. 



JAMES HALL, 



BOTATSIV, 



It appears that in the principal works ofbotany, there are 

 described 2046 genera, and 19,803 species of plants, of 

 which 683 genera have but one species, 263 but twO; 

 171 but three, 12i but four. This enumeration is, how- 

 ever, only an approximation to the truth, as the works 

 referred to are defective, and vve may call the number 

 of described plants 22,000. The first edition of Liu- 

 naeas's Spzcles Plantarum contained only 7,300. 



(London Monthly Magazii^efor January, 1809.] 



National Wcdlth. 



Mr. Oram, bookseller, st Trenton, is about republish- 

 ing in a duodecitno volume in boards, at 60 cents. Chan- 

 cellor Livingston's celebrated '' essay on sheep." This 

 treatise has been considered of such utility and impor- 

 tance in the state of New York, that the legisJature of 

 that state has ordered 1500 copies of it to be distributed at 

 Ihe public expcnee. We trust indvidiial patronage vviii 

 render any farther legislative provision unnecessary. 

 Jf we would arrive at real independence of other nations^ 

 we must cherish the means which abne can make us so 

 •r-and of these mcpn^ ^heep arc un inipo^'taiit andindis* 

 pcnsable ^^art. 



