No. 10. British Grain Crops. — Measurement of Grain. — Roses. 



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pie is everything. We work too much and 

 too long in New England. Not farmers 

 only, but mechanics also. — Medical Journal. 



The British Grain Crops. 



A WRITER in the London Times has com- 

 piled the following estimate of deficiency in 

 the grain crops of Great Britain, for the year 

 ending Sept. 1st, 1847: 



Quarters. 

 Ordinary annual deficiency, 2,000,000 



Loss of potatoes in Ireland, value 

 £12,000,000, to be supplied by 

 grain — a food of double the cost 

 of potatoes— value £24,000,000, 

 respresenting, at 50*. per quar- 

 ter, 9,800,000 

 Loss of oats in Ireland stated by 

 Mr. Labouchre to be one-third 

 the crop, or 5,227,000 

 Loss of potatoes in England and 

 Scotland, say one-tenth only the 

 loss in Ireland, or 1,000,000 

 Loss of oats in Scotland and Eng- 

 land, 1,000,000 

 Loss of barley in the United King- 

 dom, 1,000,000 

 Extra seed for increased cultiva- 

 tion of grain, 300,000 

 Extra consumption of railway la- 

 bourers, 300,000 



20,627,000 

 Deduct economies made by star- 

 vation and non-feeding of pigs, 4,627,000 



Total deficiency, 16,000,000 



Money value of the deficiency at £3 per 

 quarter, £48,000,000, or more than $200,000, 

 000. 



Incombustible Wash. — Slack stone lime 

 in a large tub or barrel, with boiling water, 

 covering the tub or barrel, to keep in all the 

 steam. When thus slacked, pass six quarts 

 of it through a fine sieve. It will then be 

 in a state of fine flour. Now, to six quarts 

 of this lime, add one quart of rock or Turk's 

 Island salt, and one gallon of water, then 

 boil the mixture and skim it clean. To 

 every five gallons of this skimmed mixture, 

 add one pound of alum, half pound of cop- 

 peras, by slow degrees add three- fourths of 

 a pound of potash, and four quarts of fine 

 sand or hickory ashes sifted. We suppose 

 any kind of good hard wood ashes will an- 

 swer as well as hickory. This mixture will 

 now admit of any colouring matter you 

 please, and may be applied with a brush. It 

 looks better than paint, and is as durable as 



slate. It will stop small leaks in the roof, 

 prevent the moss from growing over and rot- 

 ting the wood, and render it incombustible 

 from sparks falling upon it. When laid upon 

 brick work it renders the brick impervious 

 to rain or wet. — Farmers'' Register. 



From the Pennsylvania Enquirer. 

 Measurement of Grain, &c* 



We are indebted to Mr. E. Street, for the 

 annexed statement of the amount of grain, 

 &c., measured at Philadelphia during the 

 first quarter of 1847 — to which we have 

 added the amount measured during the same 

 period of the year 1846. 



The number of bushels of grain, salt, and 

 coal, measured — that came under my notice 

 — for the first quarter of the year 1847 : 



Corn, 



Wheat, 



Rye, 



Beans, 



Oats, 



Barley, 



Seeds, 



Salt, 



Coal, 



Head Measurer of the Port of Philadelphia. 



Hybrid China Roses. 



Rosa Indica hybridcB. — The superior va- 

 rieties of this fine division give a combina- 

 tion of all that is or can be beautiful in roses; 

 for, not only are their flowers of the most 

 elegant forms and colours, their foliage of 

 extreme luxuriance, but their branches are 

 so vigorous and graceful, that perhaps no 

 plant presents such a mass of beauty as a 

 finely grown hybrid China rose in full bloom. 

 They owe their origin to the China, Tea- 

 scented, Noisette, and Bourbon roses, fertil- 

 ized with the French, Provence, and other 

 summer roses, and also to the latter crossed 

 with the former; the seeds of such impreg- 

 nated flowers producing Hybrid China roses. 

 These have, in many cases, resulted from 

 accident, but latterly from the regular fertil- 

 izing process, as mules or hybrids have been 

 raised from well known parents. 



In England, but a ?ew varieties have been 

 originated ; as the common China rose does 

 not in general ripen its seeds sufficiently for 

 germination. The parents of Brown's Su- 

 perb Blush, which is an English hybrid, was 

 the old Tea-scented rose, Rosa indica odo^ 

 rata, impregnated with some hardy summer 

 rose. River's George the Fourth is also an 

 English rose : but as this came by accident, 



