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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



nected with the garden, and also keeping all ac- 

 counts and giving minutes of reports addressed to 

 the Society. He had previously published the works, 

 Rosarum Monographia, and Synopsis of the British 

 Flora, which had appeared in 1820. 



In 1826, he assumed the editorship of the Botan- 

 ical Register, and the sound knowledge he exhibited 

 in these three woriis obtained for him the chair of 

 Botany in tlie University of London, from which, 

 as Professor, he delivered his Introductory Lecture 

 m April, 1829. In this he boldly made a stand in 

 favor of the Natural System of Botany, and an- 

 nounced his intention of adopting it as the basis of 

 instruction. As a lecturer, he was among the best 

 that ever occupied that chair : his manner was free 

 and conversational: his matter excellent and meth- 

 odically arranged. 



In 1832, the degree of Doctor of Philosophy 

 was granted him by a German University. In 1838, 

 lie became Secretary of the London Horticultural 

 Society, a post which he has held to within a year 

 or two past, when he was elected Vice-President, 

 with Prince Albert, President. 



In 1841, in conjunction with Mr. Paxton and 

 Mr. DiLOKE, he founded the Oardener''s Chronicle, 

 now so widely known both in Europe and America 

 as the highest authority on all subjects connected 

 with horticulture. Over this he continues to pre- 

 side. The same year he was made Professor of 

 Botany at the RoyaV Institution. 

 ' Dr. LiNDLEY has published many valuable works 

 connected with Horticulture, of which a bare enu- 

 meration, in addition to those already given, will 

 be all we can afford in our pages, arranged in the 

 order in which they appeared. 



Nixus Plantarium, Flora Medica, Sertum Orchi- 

 daceum. Ladies' Botany, School Botany, Theory 

 and Practice of Horticulture, Elements of Botany ; 

 aind in conjunction with Mr. Hutton, The Fossil 

 Fora of Great Britain, The Vegetable Kingdom. 



Here we muet close for want of further materials ; 

 and we do so with the expression of a hope that he 

 may long live to benefit coming generations by his 

 knowledge of the important science of Hortieulture. 



IMPROVED STOCK IN CALIFORNIA. 



Hens Eating- theik Egss. — 9. E. Tod© says in 

 the Boston Cultivator, that hens can be prevented 

 from eating their eggs, when addicted to the habit, 

 by making their nests in nail-kegs, half filled with 

 straw. This furnishes a secret place for laying, 

 but too confined to allow their eating their eggs 

 while on the nest, and too far down to allow of 

 their reaching them from the top of the keg. 



Very good ; but how are we to induce the hens 

 to lay in the nail-keg? 



The farmers in California have shown most com- 

 mendable enterprise in importing improved breeds 

 of horses, cattle and sheep from the Atlantic States. 

 In view of these facts, the California Farmer t^&ys: 

 " We prophecy that in coming years California will 

 export Mood stock to the old States, and to Europe 

 too.''"' Rather ambitious that I 



The California Culturist has an article on the 

 same subject, taking far more moderate views of 

 the future progress of stock-breeding in the Golden 

 State. It states that while the mild and equitable 

 cUmate of California — free from the extremes of 

 heat and cold, and particularly the latter-^ can not 

 but prove highly favorable to the fullest develop- 

 ment of animal life in its most perfect forms, yet 

 "breeders will find that, upon the dried herbage 

 alone of our summer and winter pastures, the high 

 bred and high fed Durhams of the Atlantic States 

 and England will deteriorate in more than one of 

 their prime qualities ; and what is true of the effect 

 of their food here in summer applies with still 

 greater force to the winter and spring, when almost 

 all the animal now gets to sustain nature alive is a 

 meager bite of unwholesome, innutritions weeds." 

 Already, it says, the complaint is heard that dairy 

 cows, of . choice breeds, are rapidly losing their 

 milking qualities. 



We like the remarks of the Culturist ; and what 

 is true of California is true everywhere : before we' 

 can hope to excel in the production of the. highest! 

 grade of stock, we must give special attention to the 

 production of succulent and nutritious food, and 

 provide shelter from the inclemencies of the season. 



Fall feeding Gkass Land Beneficial. — A wri- 

 ter in the Boston Cultivator-says he had two mead- 

 ows. On one he turned his cattle shortly aftei 

 mowing, each year, and fed it off close to thti 

 ground. The other having some young trees on 4 

 portion of it, the cattle were kept out, and thu 

 after growth allowed to rot on the ground. Th« 

 hay crop on the former continued to improve ii' 

 quality and quantity each succeeding year till lasv 

 year, when the crop was light, while on the latte 

 it decreased year by year, and last year it woul< 

 scarcely pay the ex|)ense of cutting. 



Potatoes in Bermuda. — Last year there werj 

 exported from the Bermudas (West Indies,) 38,46i 

 barrels of potatoes, 27,758 barrels of which wer<j 

 sent to New York. This year the crop is almc 

 an entire failure — owing, it is thought, to the unuij 

 Bually warm weather in the winter. 



