300 TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



milk to London every year, in cans of six to eighteen gallons eacliy 

 at about tliree farthings a gallon for 40 miles, and a penny if 

 farther, returning the empty cans free of charge. The milk sells 

 to large dealers for from five to seven pence per gallon. They 

 sell to retailers at seven to nine pence, who sell it to the people 

 at three to four pence a quart. In 1853, it is estimated that the 

 railways brought to London three millions of quarts. 



France raises eggs enough in a year that if they were strung 

 like beads they would coil twice round the globe, 



PLOWING. 



The Tweeddale plow will turn over a square furrow of hard 

 land to the depth of fifteen inches, with four horses, and after 

 plowing and sub- soiling it can be done with two horses. There 

 is a remarkable and exact resemblance of the mould boards of 

 this plow, when placed opposite to each other, to the bow of ihe 

 frigate Thetis, a sharp built fast sailer. 



MODE OF PACKING EGGS FOR MARKET FROM DUM- 

 FRIES TO LONDON. 



Wholesale egg-merchants purchase at the market iii Dumfries, 

 and convey the eggs to Carlisle by a species of land-carriage 

 requiring skillful package. A layer of eggs so closely wedged 

 together as to leave no openings but such as necessarily resulted 

 fi-om the shape of the eggs. This being done another stratum of 

 straw and eggs succeed until the body of the cart is filled. It is 

 said that a mass thus packed is so firm that a load of meal can be 

 placed on it without breaking the eggs. They then take the rail- 

 ways to New Castle, whence they are shipped to London by 

 steamers. 



[Revue Horticole, Paris, August, 1856.] 



VARIETIES OF TLLE GRAPE VINE IN AMERICA. 



Translated from the London Gaidener^s Chronicle. 

 It is impossible to count the vines of America. Rafinesque 

 enumerated forty species and one hundred varieties in his little 

 catalogue published in 1830. Since that time the numerous terri- 

 tories added to the American Republic, contain a great number of 

 vines, wild and cultivated. Texas and California are very rich 

 in vines. The Catawba is a tender delicious grape — so delicate 



