394 Assembly 



Larch, 576 years. 



Sweet Cheanntj (about) . , 600 do 



Orange, 630 do 



Olive, 700 do 



Plataniis Orientalis, 720 do 



Cedar, 800 do 



Many Tropical trees, according to Humbolt, 1000 do 



Lime, ,. 1076 and 1147 do 



Oak, 810,1980 and 1500 do 



Yew,. 1214, 1458, 2588 and 2800 do* 



Taxodiuni. GV_-i 4000 do 



Adansouia, 5000 do 



From tho Joarnafl D^Agrioultare efc Transactions, de la, Sooiete I>' Agriculture Da Boa, Canada. 

 , Jatmary, 1862. 



WHEAT FROM A MUMMY. 



At tlie last assembly of the Directors of the Agricultural So- 

 ciety of Lower Canada, one of the members, P..E. Leclere, who 

 is also President of the Agricultural Society of the county of Hya- 

 cinth, deposited for examination three ears of wheat, which he 

 collected last summer in his garden, at St. Hyacinth, from the 

 grains of wheat which he procured in Boston, from a mummy 

 opened there. Mr. Leclere says that he had obtained from these 

 two grains more then two thousand grains the first year. He has 

 distributed sonie of the grains among members. He also exhibit- 

 ed the straw of this wheat, which is remarkably strong and per- 

 fectly free from rust. 



The figure of this wheat differs from every kind of wheat we 

 have ever seen, and also from the modern wheat of Egypt. It 

 appears never to have been attacked by the fly. 



Mr. Robinson.— In our live oak regions I noticed large trees 

 girdled — dead — before any of the modern forest began to grow* 

 I suppose they were girdled by the men of an early period, in 

 order to the cultivatioa of the land where they stood, to get rid 

 of their shade. 



