488 Foreign Notices. 



Liebig's Chemistry. Chapter 10 is devoted to fruits, and we 

 notice the author states, that all the raspberries are hardy in 

 latitude 43° north : this, we apprehend, must be an error, as 

 in most situations in Massachusetts, except in and around 

 large cities, the shoots are liable to be killed quite to the 

 ground. In light soils and mild winters they are not injured, 

 but there is danger of losing the whole crop unless the vines 

 are covered. Grasses, Wheat, Roots, Woodlands, Farm 

 buildings, the Dairy, Stock of all kinds, &c. make up the re- 

 maining chapters ; and we commend the volume to the at- 

 tention of every farmer, knowing that it will greatly assist 

 him " in carrying forward the great agricultural improvements 

 of the present day." {Preface.^ 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. Foreign Notices. 

 ENGLAND. 



Dahlias and Dahlia Exhibitions for 1846. — Our summary of new Dahlias, 

 for 1846, does not contain a great deal of interest. The perfection to which 

 the dahlia has been cultivated renders it yearly more difficult to produce vari- 

 eties which surpass those that already fill our catalogues. And the severe 

 test which all really good flowers have to undergo, renders it difficult to 

 pass off upon the public inferior flowers, provided amateurs will read, and 

 purchase only those which have stood the ordeal of an exhibition at some of 

 the principal shows around London. We therefore proceed to give the 

 names of the flowers which have taken prizes at some of the principal soci- 

 eties, adding a list of the new seedlings which our correspondents assure us 

 are the leading kinds to come out next year. 



Caledonian Horticultural Society. — Best twenty blooms. — Capt. 

 Walner, Mrs. Anderson, Sir J. S. Richardson, Isabel, Beeswing, Sir E. 

 Antrobus, Princess Radziwell, Marchioness Cornwallis, Caractacus, Cleo- 

 patra, Emperor of Scarlets, Cloth of Gold, Marchioness of Aylesbury, Al- 

 ice Hawthorne, Mrs. Shelly, Cream of Jest, Standard of Perfection, Van- 

 guard, Beauty of Hants, and Lady Featherstone. — To Messrs. Dicksons 

 & Co., Edinburgh. 



Royal South London Floricultural Society. — Best twenty-four 

 blooms : — Cleopatra, Consolation, Victory of Sussex, Athlete, Essex Tri- 

 umph, Duchess of Richmond, Gloria Mundi, Princess Royal, Alice Haw- 

 thorn, Mrs. Shelly, Blue Bonnet, Marquis of Exeter, Antagonist, Lady St 



