and a Soil suitable to its Culture. 1 3 



where the seed would most likely be brought to perfection. On 

 the 24th September the produce of exactly 4 poles of ground 

 was taken from this part (without the roots) when almost free 

 from adhering moisture, and weighed : 



Tons. cwts. Ibs. 



4 poles gave 903 Ibs. = for 1 acre .. .. 16 2 56 

 The produce of 4 poles in another part of the field, whjere the 

 crop was rather more bulky, was also taken and weighed. 

 Here 



Tons. cwts. Ibs. 



4 poles gave 1210 Ibs. = for 1 acre .. .. 21 12 16 

 I think the lupine crop is likely to prove valuable on light 

 sandy soils, where there is a difficulty of growing large crops of 

 the ordinary farm-plants. Of the great quantity of green food 

 which it produces I can speak with certainty, and I can express 

 a favourable opinion of its feeding value. If it will produce a 

 crop of ripe seed of a nutritious nature in ordinary seasons, it 

 will become still more valuable. 



Next season I shall venture to plant about the middle of 

 March. 



JAMES W. KIMBER. 

 Tubney Warren, Abingdon, 27th Nov., 1860. 



Report of an Unsuccessful Experiment in growing Yellow and 

 Blue Lupines. By P. H. FRERE. 



IT is with some feeling of disappointment that I put on record 

 results which tend to the conclusion that the lupine is a plant 

 not adapted to all the varieties of dry soil which are indis- 

 criminately called sandy or heath lands. If, as I trust may be 

 the case, it thrives well on fields whose yellow or reddish colour 

 indicates the presence of sand in the most popular acceptation of 

 the word, it does not seem adapted for those black, gritty, sili- 

 ceous heaths overlying chalk-rubble and chalk which abound in 

 Cambridgeshire around Newmarket. 



On iny appointment last spring, being anxious to investigate 

 thoroughly for the Society the merits of a plant which seemed to 

 claim attention as being appropriate to soils for which some 

 change of crops was especially desirable, I set aside 9J acres 

 for the growth of the yellow and blue lupines. The result was 

 a total and costly failure, and my present object is only so far to 

 state in detail the method of my proceeding, that others may be 

 able to judge whether the result turned upon mismanagement or 

 the peculiarity of the last season, or whether my experience is a 

 legitimate warning against a repetition of the attempt on soils 

 really resembling mine. 



