338 [AsSEMBLT 



CULTIVATION OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



Acres cultivated. Uncultivated. Unprofitable. SunQ» 



46,522,970 15,000,000 15,871,463 $77,394,433. 



Arable and garden lands cultivated, ..... 19,135,990 acres. 



Meadow and pasture, 27,386,980 do. 



Waste land, capable of improvement, 1 5,000,000 do. 



Incapable of improvement, 15,871,463 do. 



JAPAN PEA. 

 On the suggestion of a member of the iDstitute, the Hon. Mr. 

 Dissosway, the secretary of the Farmers' Club sent to Mr. Roberts, 

 President of Liberia, some Japan peas, grown in the garden of 

 Walter M. Oddie, Esq., of Bedford, Long Island. They are be- 

 lieved to be peculiarly adapted to the climate of the Republic. 

 A request for seeds and plants suitable to U. S., was made with 

 an offer of any seeds and plants, which President Roberts may 



deem suitable to Liberia. 



H. MEIGS, Secretary. 

 October, 1854. 



MATERIALS FOR MAKING PAPER. 



[From the Journal of the Society of Arts, London, June 16, 1854. An elaborate paper, by 

 Dr. Forbes Royle, F. R. S., on Indian Fibres, fit for textile fabrics — ropes, papers, Ac] 



The Rheea fibre of Assam is superior to Russian hemp and flax, 

 New Zealand flax is enquired into {Phorinicus Tenax}. 



Gremlin Road, Belfast, May 26, 1853. 

 We now hand you two samples of yarn spun from the New 

 Zealand flax you sent us, viz : (2 cuts 51-2 lea yarn, and 11 cuts 

 10 lea ditto). We did not consider it practicable to spin this 

 flax by machinery in the state we received it from you, owing to 

 the Jibre being so very brittle and having "nature" in it. The 

 yield is about the same as from strong Irish flax, both as regards 

 line and tow. It is extremely strong. 



MITCHELL, BROTHERS. 



Soho Foundry, Belfast, May 1, 1854. 

 We have tried the New Zealand flax in our flax scutching ma- 

 chine, the patent one, McBride's. We return to you the flax 

 dressed by it, in a very few minutes 3 of no use for finer manu_ 



