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remarks is to caution others, lest, in following the above 
system, they ultimately find themselves labouring under 
similar disadvantages with Snowdrop, whom I would re- 
commend to place a cistern, sufficiently elevated, in the 
corner of the pit, close to the pump, that he may have the 
advantage not only of tepid water, but also of conveying 
it to other departments by pipes; and that the accommo- 
dation for Plants may not be diminished, the cistern should 
be covered witha lid, and plants placed above.—Awricula. 
(How much better than all these contrivances with pumps 
is it to conduct the rain-water from the roof into large 
slate tanks !] 
Feeding Sheep.—I beg to communicate the result of 
an experiment, made according to Liebig’s principles of 
warmth and feeding. I have a flock of sheep which are 
fattening on Turnips, and of these, six weeks ago, I shut up 
two, ina warm roomy outhouse, and fed them in the same 
manner as those out of doors. Those which I killed from 
the out-of-door flock weighed from 60 to 701bs. each; 
but of the two which were shut up, one died yesterday of 
the rot, and the other is pure skin and bone.—S¢, Faith. 
Musty Hay. — Having observed at p. 118 a method 
whereby musty hay may be made palatable to cattle, Ibeg 
to ask your ‘“ Leicestershire Corrrespondent ”? what pro- 
cess of steaming is necessary to insure such a result; 
whether by having boiling water poured over it, or by being 
placed in a basket or similar porous vessel and held over 
the steam of a boiling copper? As I, in common wit 
many others, have some musty hay of the growth of 1841, 
which, when cut into chaff, is refused by cattle unless 
mixed with corn, malt-dust, or some other more favourite 
food, a detailed account of the process will be very ac- 
ceptable.—A Hertfordshire Farmer. 
clo: Land from the Sea.—-Having seen at p. 115 
your remarks upon the advantages which England would 
derive in draining and inclosing land from the sea, I send 
you an account of what has been done in this island. 
‘About forty years ago there was a part of land called the 
Braye du Valle, containing about 100 acres, which the 
sea continually covered at high water. Our then Lieut.~ 
Governor, Sir John Doyle, applied to Government for 
leave to inclose it, which was granted. It was afterwards 
offered for sale, but as it consisted of nothing but sand, 
shells, and a portion of clay, the farmers would not buy 
it at any price. Some enterprising gentlemen bought it, 
who have since cultivated and converted it into as goo 
land as any in the island; and for grazing cattle, far 
superior to any other. There are in England many thou- 
sand acres of valuable land, which are covered with only 
a few feet of water, and were they to be embanked from the 
sea in the same manner, they would afford employment 
to the poor as well as a profit to the undertaker.—H. C. 
_ Effect of Food upon Eggs.—At p. 159 of the Chron- 
icle mention is made of the smell of gas in eggs: the 
following statement will, I think, go towards corrobora- 
ting the fact. I once met with a boiled egg (in a small 
town in Germany) which had, until opened, no smell what- 
ever, when there was so strong an odour of gin that I did 
not believe it possible to proceed from the egg : the spoon 
was my own, therefore I knew it was not that which 
caused it. Being determined to leave no doubt upon the 
subject, I tasted the egg, and the flavour of gin in the 
yolk was as strong as the smell. Two other persons fol- 
lowed my example, and we all came to the conclusion that 
the hen had picked up something on which gin had been 
spilled. It is probable that if one of the eggs complained 
of had been tasted, the same thing would have been re- 
marked ; but though curiosity may tolerate gin, gas is 
another matter.— A Subscriber. 
PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND, 
sey, Esq., M.P., inthe chair. Thirty-two Mem- 
bers were elected. A letter was read from J. Rodwell, +, accom 
i ied specimens of the Bokhara Clover, of his own 
growth in 1841 and 1842. The plants were nearly 13ft. long. J, 
A, Stokes, Esq., communicated on the loss of a five year old 
ently from common inflammation and 
but ona mortem examination it 
was found to proceed from an extraordinary strangulated hernia, 
the intestines having passed through the diaphragm, and thereby 
rr. Lloyd having preserved the 
Mr. Stokes pr i he Veterinary 
ment of the Museum of the Society. The Secretary stated 
Mr, Main’s paper on 
fest cost Prof, Henslow in the’ 
farmed a portion only of th 
held 
Mem 
OH tn SOCIBTY OF CORNWALL. 
T the elevenih ar 1 me g, J. D. Browne, Esq., in the 
cnt it was r be offered to Miss Warren and 
aR J. Hooker for their attention to the Society’s Herbarium, 
tise other Members, for valuable presents. The committee, in 
eee seu report, suggested that a prize should be offered at the 
it Pens exhibition for the best collection of Roses in pots. 
announce at, in of a grant of 207. at the 
Tas " quence: 
tore penal meeting, several valuable additions had been made 
© library; that the funds of the Society remained in a 
healthy state, having experienced no material alteration during 
the last twelvemonth ; and that since the adoption of the report, 
the Council,of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales had been 
graciously pleased to direct payment of an annual donation of 
ten guineas to the Society. 
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NOTICES or NEW PLANTS WHICH ARE EITHER 
USEFUL OR ORNAMENTAL. 
PHANTHUS E/LEGANS. Elegant Scyphanthus. (Half- 
hardy Annual.) Loasicex. Polyadélphia Poly4ndria.—The 
stems of this plant are of an elegantly twining character, the 
leaves ample and agreeably pinnatifid, and the flowers large, 
copious, and of a lively yellow tint. ept in a greenhouse, it 
will make a very excellent addition to a somewhat limited supply 
ber, and should be 
The branches 
e, they should be left to hang: 
hus assume a more natural 
it in helping to form a slight summer fence of flowers, or to place 
it at some distance from 
put it in asmall plot on the lawn, and train it as in the last- 
Liuium TesTA/CEUM. 
Hexindria Monogynia. 
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should be planted in the pit i 
and when once established should not be afterwards disturbed, 
for all these plants suffer injury by removal, in consequence 01 
the loss of their tender perennial fibres, and by the bulbs becoming 
ary. Whether planted or potted, the bulbs should be placed 
rather deep, because they make fibres above the bulb as well as 
below it; and when they must be shifted, it should be done while 
reatest care should be taken during the 
operation of turning them out of the pots, to remove the crocks 
rom amongst the fibres, without shaking off mach of the soil. 
They should then be fresh potted in a mixture of sandy peat, 
loam, and a small portion of well-rotted dung or leaf-mould, 
with ample drainage. They should afterwards be kept dry till 
they begin to grow, when water should be given, but rather 
sparingly at first. Much damage is done to fresh-potted bulbs 
by keeping them damp directly after potting, and while in 
a state of rest, It is easily increased by separating the scales of 
which the old bulb is composed, which are to be placed in pots 
filled with very sandy soil and exposed to a gentle heat. They 
will be two or three years before they flower. The plant grows 
from 1 to 4 feet high, according to the strength or size of the 
bulbs, and flowers from July to September, according to the 
manner in which it is treated.—Botanical Register. 
AGAPANTHUS UMBELLATUS; va7, MA'XIMUS, Large-flowered 
African Blue Lily. (Greenhouse Bulb.) Liliacese, Hexdndvia 
Monogynia,.—This plant bloomed in the nursery of Mr. Groom, 
of Clapham Rise, in September last. It is a beautiful object ; 
and those who wish to grow it successfully, should treat 
it in the following manner :—About the end of February the 
plant should be fresh potted, in a mixture of rich loam and well- 
decomposed leaf-mould, or well-rotted dung, and placed in a 
warm part of the greenhouse, where jit will soon begin to grow 
eely. It will then require to be freely supplied with water, and 
about the end of May should be removed to the open air, if it is 
intended that it should flower out of doors. The pot should be 
placed in a sheltered situation, in a large pan filled with water, 
so that. one-third. of the pot is immersed; or the pot may be 
placed by the side of a pond, and the plant treated as subaquatic, 
in which situation it will flower freely during the summer, If 
retained in the greenhouse during the blooming season, it must 
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dually dried, by withholding water, and finally, 
the pots has become tolerably dry, and there is danger of frost, 
the pot should be removed for the winter, either into a cold pit, 
or under the stage of the greenhouse. Or it may be placed in a 
cellar, but then it must be kept very dry, and should be removed 
from such a situation as soon as it shows signs of vegetation. 
This plant will also force freely, if well supplied with moisture 
i t case the flowers become very pale. 
ing the old plant when in a dormant 
Tt seldom requires shifting when once established, if sup- 
i i growing season, with a little 
HyPOcALyMMA ROBUSTUM, (Green 
house Shrub). Myrtacew. Icosdndria Monogynia.—This is one 
of those beautiful little Myrtaceous plants peculiar to the south- 
west of New Holland, which might be easily mistaken for smal 
Almond or Peach bushes, so much are the flowers like them, and 
so seldom do we find bright rosy blossoms among the Myrtles 
It is anative of the Swan River Colony, and has been rails 
Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., of Exeter. The leaves when 
pruised smell very agreeably of lemon. It is agreenhouse plant, 
and requires to be potted in a compost, consisting of loam and 
heath-mould, with a small portion of silver sand. ‘The pot must 
‘s low all noxious matter to pass off. 
‘Water should be freely given dvaring summer, and plenty of air 
at all times, except during frost, when the temperature should 
°. may be propagated by cuttings in the ordi- 
Larger Peach Myrtle 
CATASETUM PLANICEPS. Flat-headed Catasetum, (Stove E 
Andria Mondndria.—This 
plant is a native of the Spanish Main, whence it was imported 
MISCELLANEOUS, 
Irish Flax Society.—We have received a report of the 
sroceedings of this Society for 1842, from which we col- 
lect that the growth of Flax in Ireland is becoming of 
greater importance every year, chiefly through the assist- 
ance offered by the friends of the Society. Belgian flax- 
growers and dressers haye been brought over for the pur- 
pose of teaching the Irish how to cultivate and prepare it 
jn the manner practised in that country 5 and young Irish- 
men have been sent to Belgium to acquire knowledge on 
the spot. There is no doubt that Flax may be grown as 
well in this country as in Flanders, and we should expect 
it to prove, under good very i 
for every part of the produce is worth money in the mar- 
ket. We learn that a move is taking place in the same 
direction in Norfolk, where the farmers are not likely to 
take anything in hand which will not pay them. We 
regret to see that the Irish Society’s funds are exhausted 
in their past operations ; but we trust that the appeal which 
has been made by the Society to the landlords will enable 
it to resume its proceedings this year with renewed energy. 
Not that we perceive any necessity for regarding such an 
association as a permanent body; all that it can do is to 
give a new impulse and a better direction to the Flax eul- 
tivation ; that effected, the Irish farmers must do all the 
rest. Up to the present time the Society’s operations 
seem to have been judiciously directed, and, if carried on, 
will in a short time have doue all that any society can do 
in such matters. 
Tuckermania, maritima.—This plant, which has also 
been called T. californica, was found by Mr. Nuttall upon 
the rocks at St. Diego, on the coast of California; he 
named it, as was stated, in honour of Mr. Tuckerman, of 
Boston. It is a Composite plant, showy, with bipinnately- 
divided leaves, with linear entire segments, nearly all borne 
towards the base of the stem, which terminates in a 
naked peduncle, a foot long. It will make a tolerably 
good border plant; the leaves are very succulent, the 
flowers few, but very yellow. It may improve on cultiva- 
tion. —Hovey’s Magazine of Horticulture, 
Large Curranis.—A Correspondent of the Central 
New York Farmer sent the Editor of that paper @ 
basket of Currants, which the Editor pronounced to be the 
largest he ever saw, some of the berries measuring lt in. 
in circumference, and several Idin.; the clusters were also 
large and fine. Mr. Berry, of Whitetone, who raised 
these Currants, states that he sent them to the Editor, te 
show what a little cultivation will.do towards improving 
this most common and most neglected of fruits. The 
bushes are made to grow in the form of trees—they are, im 
fact, small trees, In this shape they bear for five or six 
years, and sometimes longer. The bushes are planted at 
least 6 ft. apart, and every spring or autumn, the new wood, 
which shoots out vigorously from the old branches, is cut 
off, with the exception of three or four joints. Mr. 
Berry prefers autumn pruning. By this method the fruit 
is produced in rich heavy clusters upon all parts of the 
tree, even to the extreme points of the branches, and does 
not dwindle away, as in the common mode of treatment, 
into little, puny, pigeon-shot berries, hanging upon solitary 
stems, in a wide waste of bush.—Hovey’s Mag. of Ffort. 
Treatment of American Maize.—The land should be 
well ploughed and prepared, and, if necessary, manured 5 
a considerable period being allowed between the first and 
second ploughings, in order that the soil should derive 
full benefit from exposure to the sun and atmosphere. 
The seed should be sown in rows, sufficiently far apart to 
admit of a plough being used after the plants have reached! 
acertain height. The distance between the rows being 
fixed (say about four feet apart), a small quantity of 
manure is to be thrown down at intervals of 18 inches, 
on which three or four seeds should be placed; these are 
to be covered thinly with mud, which should be pressed: 
down with the foot. When the plants are three or four 
inches high, the ground should be carefully hoed to re- 
move the weeds, shortly after which it should have the 
first ploughing. When the tapel or male blossom ap~ 
pears, the plough should a second time be put through 
the field, and on both. occasions the share should pass 
very near the roots. The earth. after the second plough~ 
ing should be gathered round the roots of the plants wath: 
a hoe, and all shoots from the parent plant should. be 
remoyed, as they weaken it and produce nothing. Ame-~ 
rican Maize might be sown in beds, and afterwards trans 
planted,. Where this mode of culture is adopted, the 
plants should, be raised three or four inches apart, and a 
small quantity of earth should be allowed to adhere to 
the roots when removed. When the grains in the ears: 
are formed and begin to harden, so as not to yield to the: 
pressure of the thumb-nail, the top and leaves of the plant. 
should be removed, and tied up {alter drying two or three 
days), for fodder for cattle. The grain, when hard and 
ripe, should be gathered, well dried, and put away: in aw 
airy place, either in the busk or shelled. —Transactions: 
of the Agri-Horlicultural Society of India. 
Guano as used in South America.—* Guano, or 
Hnano as it is termed in Peru, is scarcely used in the 
neighbourhood of Arequipa for any land bat that upom 
which Maize and Potatoes are planted, but there it is in~ 
variably in requisitionat a certain stage of the growth of the 
plant,; as without it, the farmers Say. it isdmpossible to get 
aremunerating crop of either of these fyom their land. ‘The 
time for applying guano to the Maize is when the plantis. 
about two feet high; then a small quantity of itis dashed: 
round the plant on the surface of the ground ; a labourer: 
immediately follows with a spade, throws up the earth, 
round the bunch of stalks in the form-of a mound, with: 
the double object of covering the guano and supporting: 
the plant; which, after being watered, is apt to fall witless 
there is any wind. A single handful is sufficient for. tis! 
roots of three different bunches of stalks, Water must: 
be let on, (oes days after the guano is applied,. 
otherwise it does injury to the root. ‘To Potatoes itis. 
applied after the plant rises a few inches out of the ground,. 
in about the same proportion. as is used for Maize; but;. 
instead of being thrown on the ground, it is placed near: 
the level of the roots by first making small holes. The: 
ground must be irtigated within two days after 5 other~ 
wise the roots are, if not destroyed, considerably injured: by 
the guano.” — Mark Lane Eapress. 
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