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in 1838. It was not equal to the aggregate exhibition at Edin- 
burgh last year, but that was the most extensive ever held in 
Europe. There were 29 exhibitors of dairy produce, and a new 
feature in the Show was some fine poultry, 17 lots in all.” Our 
Space prevents our giving a list of the prizes for Cattle, &c., 
which were extremely numerous. 
For Implements, which are more generally interesting to those 
Not present on these occasions, we must, find a little room, 
although they are described as having been less numerous than 
in former years. Among the more important seem to have 
framed, they are perfect in form and in texture.—Weighing Ma- 
chines, exhibited by Mr. Craig, of 163, Trongate, Glasgow, 
attracted considerable notice. They are of foreign invention, 
On the parallel motion principle, are peculiarly delicate in 
their indications, and mathematically correct. — A very neat 
Model chine adapted for the double purpose of weighing 
Was certified a 
Cuttlehill, which has given entire satisfaction; the water, in 
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the collection of Messrs. Lawson and Son, of Edinburgh, held a 
Conspicuous place. It consisted of dried specimens and seeds of 
8rasses ; several varieties of wheat, barley, and rye—crop, 1843, 
from Tuscany and France; and a large specimen of ‘Trifolium 
elegans of the French, and cultivated by them on inferior soils ; 
Schrader’s brome grass (Bromus Schraderi), a large rapid-grow- 
ing species, with soft, sweet, and succulent foliage, was for the 
first time recommended to be given as food for cattle; also 
Sood specimen of meadow brome grass (Bromus pratensis), 
Cultivated in France, for permanent pasture, on the poorest 
descriptions of soils. Another collection of useful plants and 
Toots was that of Messrs. Dickson and Co., of Edinburgh. The 
Committee remarked 24 specimens of hybrid Turnips as ver 
interesting. Some of these in shape and size appeared very fine, 
Particularly that of Skirving’s purple top yellow. Messrs. Dick- 
Son also exhibited several specimens of Grasses, Bokhara Clover, 
and Heracleuam elegans; excellent specimens ©! 
variety, which, from its abundant 
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been tried in Scotland, it has thriven well, and ripened seed 
tion, particularly four distinct yarieties of the Alopecurus 
pratensis (Meadow Foxtail Grass), selected from the seeds 
of hay imported into Dundee from Holland in 1826. These 
Specimens are illustrative of the improvements that may 
,made in the various species of cultivated Grasses, by 
& judicious selection of seeds from natural plants. Mr. 
Bishop had also a specimen of his succedaneum, to be sown in 
place of tares, i 8 i 
incarnatum, a little timothy grass, and red clover. The succe- 
daneum should be sown in April, and makes an excellent substi- 
tute for tares. ere was a sample of Potatoes, raised from seed 
r. George Sibbald, gardener, Crescent, Dundee, which 
promises to be a good addition to early garden varieties, anda 
Specimen of a very early three-grained Oat, in habit similar to 
the naked oat, exhibited by Mr. John Stewart, Carolina Port, 
Dundee. There was also a specimen of early Siberian Oats, 
received from Messrs, Scott, Brothers, at Belfast, who 
and the quality first rate, One of the most extraordiuary exhi- 
bitions in the Catalogue, was that of Mr. James Campbell, of the 
m on land which, to his certain knowledge, had no 
Manure of any kind for 11 years; and he declared himself quite 
Teady to verify his statement by experiment, and said that he 
Was willing, at any time, to impregnate with his chemical prepa- 
tations, the seed which any member of the Society should send 
‘© him for that purpose, so as to enable gentlemen to satisfy 
qhamselves fully as to the efficacy of this wonderful mode of 
‘ure,?? 
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NOTICES or NEW PLANTS WHICH ARE EITHER 
USEFUL OR ORNAMENTAL, 
Oxyto/sium onovaTum. Wedge-leaved Oxylébium. (Green- 
house evergreen Shrub.) Leguminose. Decandria Monogynia.— 
AS an addition to the hardwooded Australian shrubs with yellow 
Pea-flowers this is acceptable, for it forms a pretty greenhouse 
Plant, which lasts in blossom for some time. It is best cultivated 
at and should be kept in a cold pit where it is quite secure 
irom frost: during winter. 
Wet Or windy weather. It is increased freely by seeds or by cut- 
Snes, put in sand and placed on a gentle heat in the usual way. 
Botanical Register. 
NDROBIUM cUCUMERINUM. Cucumber Dendrobium.— 
cp Uninformed. It very much resembles a 
an whence the name has been derived. 
tpbarently leaves, terminating the short articulated stems; but 
puddle division is crisped very much, with five wavy elevated 
: ature that, if 
pe We should be tempted to regard them as monstrosities. 
icular, the column, instead of being straight and standing 
erect in the centre of the flower, is bent over to one side, just as 
ifit had been subjected to violence. There is also a great irre- 
gularity of direction and proportion in the parts that surround 
thecolumn. Nowhere are these singularities so strongly marked 
as in the plant now before us, whose sepals and petals, instead 
of standing in an obviously alternate position with respect to 
each other, are so completely broken up and twisted out of their 
places that they can hardly be recognised, and the whole floral 
apparatus is, as it were, dislocated. For example, of the three 
sepals, the back one is placed almost opposite one of the petals ; 
the other petal is shifted to one side, so as to stand half behind 
the first; and the lip, instead of being stationed exactly between 
the two petals and two lateral sepals, turns its back to the left- 
hand sepal, and its face to the right-hand petal. And then the 
column is bent to the left as well as the lip, but not in the same 
degree, so that even these two organs are not, as they usually 
are, opposite each other. In mentioning the existence of this 
singular plant we some time since spoke of it thus:—‘ When 
Mr. Ross, te collector to G. Barker, Esq., was in the neighbour- 
hood of Valladolid, in Mexico, there was brought to him some 
masses of a plant reported to be of great beauty. They arrived 
safely in England, and one of them has at last flowered, proving 
to be this species; a most extraordinary plant, of large size, of a 
stately habit, with a very delicious fragrance, although powerful, 
but with no brilliant colours to render it what we call handsome. 
ts flower: inches in diameter, pale lemon-colour, 
fleshy, rather globular, but so distorted by the complete disloca- 
tion of all the parts, that it would be difficult to ascertain their 
real nature, if it were not for the token given by the labellum. 
The latter has a deep brown streak drawn down its middle, and 
covers over the column like a hood. The leaves of this plant are 
about three feet long, narrow, deep green, with a very fine glaucous 
bloom upon their underside. It is worthy to be associated with 
even Sobralia macrantha in the choicest of all collections of 
these plants.’ It is a stove-plant, which should be potted in a 
compost of turfy heath-mould, mixed with a portion of small 
potsherds, Water should be liberally given in fine weather, 
during the summer, and the temperature kept as high as 80° by 
day, and 70° by night.— Botanical Register. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
TO THE ROSE DE L’ISLE DE BOURBON. 
Harn sorrow paled thy bloom, fair emblem of the mind 
Of her whose mourning wreath the Cypress sad hath twined ? 
Where’s fled the brighter glow that sparkled in thy smile, 
Before thou bad’st adieu to Bourbon’s sunny isle? 
We know the rich red tints did mantle o’er thy brow, 
As by the Woodbine's arms encircled thou did’st grow, 
Beneath the clime that gain’da fragrance from thy birth, 
And double value drew from beauty and from worth ; 
Then whence this fainter shade, consumption’s cheek might wear, 
Increasing love by dreams of mingled hope and fear? 
Dost fade with vain regret, and for thy birth-place mourn, 
Like Afric’s bonded sons, from home and kindred torn ? 
Or dost thou share the grief the widow’d bosom feels ? 
Is sympathy the pang that from thy lustre steals > 
Affection then will cleave with fonder zeal to thee, 
If mem’ry thus may clothe thee with her witchery, 
Imagination paints the husband’s look of love, 
As thee he first beheld in Bourbon’s spicy grove ; 
Distinctly as the voice, it tells the thoughts of home, 
That clust’ring to his heart, in crowding myriads come. 
“The favor’d Rose that forms the virgin’s bridal wreath, 
Imbibing half its charm from innocence’ sweet breath ! 
V'll covet none beside ; fit offering wilt thou 
To her who, next to God, ranks husband, home, and love.” 
‘hus, thus, his glance did speak, as thee he homeward bore, 
When hasting back to love, from India’s fatal shore. 
las! he ne’er again that dear one e’er beheld, 
The visions hope had raised, death’s icy hand dispell’d; 
From balmy airs that seem’d with healthful vigour rife, 
He died—but friendly hands this tribute of the heart 
In safety bore to her, to | grief’s venom’d dart: 
She placed thee where thou stand’st, fit soil for gefn like thee, 
For what shall beauty prize, if not fidelit, 
Upon the grave of him whose heart was virtue’s throne, 
Thy graceful head reclines beside the sculptured stone, 
Asthough thou fain would’st point to where the world should read, 
That “ Faith is proved by works,” profession by the deed, 
LH. P., Aug. 2,1 
¥ 843. 
Norr.—The introduction of this Rose into France is ascribed 
by some writers to the wish of a lady, that her husband, on his 
return from a long sojourn in the east, shonld bring her the most 
beautiful Rose that the journey homeward presented to his observ- 
ation. Touching at the Isle of Bourbon, he selected this from 
among the ‘ glittering throng,” but lived not to enjoy the -pre- 
sentation. ing soon after his departure from the Isle, a friend 
who took charge of them, lande he Rose and the corpse of 
his friend in France, when the widow planted the flower upon 
her husband’s grave,—a memento of his affection, and her regret, 
Pine Apples from the West Indies. —Many thousands 
of this fruit imported from the West Indies, and as it is 
said from Nassau in New Providence, have been sold by 
auction this week, and now crowd the fruiterers’ stalls, 
where they fetch from 1s, to 6s. each. They are small, 
and mostly ill-grown, many not weighing more than 
half a pound, and none that we have seen exceeding two 
pounds. Some are in good condition, but many are rotten, 
and must have heated on the passage. ‘To what variety 
they belong it is impossible to say, as they are quite un- 
like the specimens that ripen in this country. It is, how- 
ever, not improbable that they are small Providences. 
What we have seen cut had a white flesh, and a tolerable 
flavour. Itis understood that much larger numbers may be 
expected. English Pine-growers need not, however, be 
alarmed at present, for unless future importations improve 
in quality, those accustomed to English Pine Apples would 
not place them on their tables. They will, however, be 
acceptable to those who cannot afford the price of home- 
grown fruit. 
GARDEN MEMORANDA. 
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in heating a range of Melon pits. In the latter, however, the 
fi moe are particularly 
interesting. The subjects of the principal experiments are Wheat, 
Potatoes, Peas, Turnips, and Beet; and the substances with 
which they are treated consist of phosphate of ammonia, phos- 
phate of lime, the sulphates of soda, lime, ammonia, mag- 
nesia and potash; muriates of ammonia and potash; salt and 
nitrate of soda; one division in each series of experiments re- 
difference was even more 
will be equally remarkable, remains yet to be proved. Wheat 
treated with phosphate of ammonia and muriate of potash, appears 
much stronger than the rest; that to which nitrate of soda 
has been applied is scarcely superior to that which has received 
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eat was dressed 
with the latter substance, and it has caused the plants so treated 
to grow more vigorously, and to produce finer ears. Turnips 
have succeeded best upon land dressed with the phosphates of 
ammonia and lime, nitrate of soda, and the sulphates of ammonia 
and lime ; former and the latter exhibiting a striking supe- 
carried on with the White Paris Cove Cos Lettuce. Each ex~ 
periment occupied abouthalfa rod of ground, receiving respec- 
tively, when the ground was dry, two barrowfuls of rotten dung, 
were applied at once, is weak and yellow, showing that the dose 
was too great; 2, the same quantity of nitrate of soda is rather 
stronger; this substance pulverises the soil, and renders it 
lighter ; 3, 20 lbs. of sulphate of magnesia, is scarcely; different 
whole of the beds thus operated upon are, however, far superior 
to those which re i Onions, with 
which charcoal-dust and wood-ashes were sown, do not exhibit 
any marked difference from the rest, farther than an inclination 
to grow stronger and later. ie experiments are also going 
forward upon Celery; but the manures have only been 
applied a fortnight, their effect is not yet discernible. Super- 
it growing vigorousl 
lication ; and a sear] 
great superiori 
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PRegass 
for several preceding years, having this season made abundance 
of wood, by being occasionally syringed with it, diluted in about 
mended at p. 191; it is necessary that the heaps should be small, 
and that they should be frequently turned ; otherwise the exte- 
rior of the heap only will decay. The plants in flower in the con- 
servatory consist of the magnificent Hibiscus splendens; the 
beautiful Tecoma jasminoides, with light pink corolla and dark 
ted Mandevilla; Leschenatltia 
in the border; with a variety of Fuchsias, 
Hydrangeas, &c. The Tea-Roses planted in the centre have 
made vigorous growth, and are now blooming delightfully. The 
‘Araucarias have advanced rapidly, A. excelsa ant 
i within five or six feet of the top of the house. 
" ts are therefore removed to the greenhouse until 
daceous plan! The plants in the curvilinear 
nia Gardneriani e blooming here full perfection. The 
aquatic plants exhibit great vigour, particularly Nelambium spe- 
iosum and Caladium esculentum, rchidaceous houss 
the singular Nepenthes distillatdria is producing its spike of dull 
brown flowers; the gorgeous Sobrdlia macranthais making rapid 
growth; and Stanhépea Wardii, var., G rs 
appears to be either identical with, or differs but very slightly 
from F. Riccarténia—is perfectly hardy; a cutting of it, which 
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= e, bearing com- 
pact bunches, only fit for wine ; Rother gulabe has large bunches, 
yound the pit within a few inches of the exterior walls ; the space 
in the centre being filled with brick-rubbish, upon which a layer 
than Knight’s Tall Marrow.—R. / ay AW . 
Ockham Park, the seat of Lord Lovelace.—At this place, there is 
a noble specimen of the Douglas Pine, 18 or 20 feet in height, 
which is producing five or six of its remarkable cones, It is to 
