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adoption by the United States — that petitions for that effect were 

 signed throughout the Union. The President thanked Mr. Vat- 

 temare for his services for this object. 



[London Farmer's Magazine, May, 1854.] | 



DEALERS m ARTIFICIAL MANURES. j 



Dixon & Cardus, of Northam, Southampton, advertise, among 



many articles, " Animal Guano or Dried Flesh Manure. Pre- | 



pared in the Argentine Republic, South America, by a patent i 



process granted by the Argentine Republic solely to them." 1 



Pond Mud. — "Some three or four years ago, as an experiment, j 

 we drew out of the bottom of a pond, filled during the season j 

 with back-water from the canal, but dry in the spring, about j 

 fifty loads of mud, which was applied immediately to the land. 

 For the first and second years it seemed to prove a decided j 

 injury, but after being turned up with the plow and subjected to 

 tiie action of frost for one winter, the beneficial effects began to 

 manifest ihemselves, and the best of our ham-yard manures have 

 not produced so heavy a growth of grain. And the effect protnises ] 

 to be permanent. Probably a better way would have been to have 

 piled it up for one year, or composted it with lime or other '• 

 manure." I 



(Signed) R. MERCHANT. | 



[Annales de la Societe Imperiale, Paris.] ' 



For some time past, we have cultivated the Amaranth Mirza, ! 

 from China, as a substitute for Spinach. The seeds brought last 

 year from that part of China near Russia, produced three varie- 

 ties considered by M. Jacques as new to us. When sown broad- \ 

 cast, it produced for two months an abundance of large leaves, ' 

 and quite tender. 



Our colleague Mr. Thompson, the chief gardener of Dhiswick, \ 



(Euglaiul,) has shown to me a new dye plant brought from the I 



north ot China, by the celebrated traveller, M- Fortune. It is an i 

 indigo (Isatis indigotica.) Having been planted last spring, we 



saw it in September, in good condition, and leaves developed, and j 



has just finished its flowering. Mr. Thompson remarked that a j 



