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ir trust in a healthful and flourishing 
nt of the Society in the com- 
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t energies have been called into play 
d that a higher order of Horticul- 
Cases he had spent 3/. per acre on manures, an 
Dec. 9,— rT en 
9.—The Members held their Half-yearly General Mee eee tha aiarenées Br public, Dle, 
soon to be forgotten; a pleasure procure: 
of principle and followed by no regret ; 
feel they are justified in asking for this Institution the continued 
they conclude by enforcing their 
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f mankind, the one to be selected and 
arrived in this country, and prove to be very similar to 
Indigo in all respects, except that the colour is intensely 
black. According to the Morning Post, the discovery has 
been made by a Scotch traveller in the Shand country, an 
independent state adjoining the Burmese Empire. This 
gentleman is stated to have observed the natives dyeing 
cloth of a most beautiful black colour, and upon inquiring 
where they got it from, was shown a plant and the process 
of making the liquid. Upon applying to it the process of 
Indigo-making—steeping, fermenting, and allowing the 
fecula to settle—he drained it, and dried it into cakes and 
balls. On his return to Calcutta he presented the Agri- 
Horticultural Society of Calcutta with one of his cakes, 
when it was pronounced a most valuable production—an 
original and genuine ‘‘ black vegetable dye.” 
Dahlia coccinea.—We learn from the French papers 
that M. Pépin has succeeded in obtaining a double variety 
of this species. It was formerly in our gardens in asingle 
state, and was lost. Prof. Schlechtendehl lately recovered 
it from Mexico, in 1840 ; and this year its seedlings in the 
Garden of Plants have borne flowers that are double and 
semidouble, scarlet and bright orange. This doubling has 
taken place in the fourth year of its cultivation. 
New Botanical Books.—Bentham’s Plante Hartwe- 
janee, a new Part.—Schauer de Regelia, Beaufortia et 
Calothamno Dissertatio.—Siebold, Flora Japonica, vol. ii, 
fasc. 1—Plantarum quas in Japonia collegit de Siebold 
Genera nova fasc. primus.—Systema Materie Medicee 
vegetabilis Brasiliensis, composuit C. F. P. de Martius. 
—Jconographia Familiarum Naturalium Regni Vegetabilis, 
by Dr. Schnitzlein, Part I. 
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GARDEN MEMORANDA. 
Edington, Berwick-upon-Tweed.—In the gardens of A. Dickson, 
Esq., here, is a number of Apple-trees entirely covered with 
blossom and green foliage; they appear as if it were the month 
of May or June.—A. S., Nov. 28. 
Messrs. Loddiges’, Hackney.—A new span-roofed house has. 
lately been erected here. A partition running along the middle 
of this divides it into two compartments, one of which is filled 
degree of warmth. It is heated on the tank system, which is 
found to answer exceedingly well. A tank, or rather a large 
slate cistern, a little more than 2 feet deep and 4% wide, runs 
nearly the whole length of the house, which is about 45 feet long 
by 10 feet in breadth, and forms the ped for the plants. This 
rests on brick supports, five bricks high, which run across the 
bottom of the tank, under the joinings of the slates, and i: 
divided as follows:—-In the bottom there is about nine inches 
depth of water covering the whole bottom of the bed, and ther 
there is a vacancy of nearly the same space. This is what pro. 
perly constitutes the tank, and at this height, which is 18 inches 
from the bottom, it is closely covered in with slates; these 2 re 
supported on bricks laid inside the tank at the sides and in ‘ he 
middle on a 13 inch slate partition, which runs longitudinal! 7 in 
the middle of the tank, and divides the flow and return gut ers ; 
the remaining space is filled with silver sand, for plur.ging 
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Society, as well as the implement-maker: 
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Henry Burogss, Secretary. 
Agricultural Society for the curing of butter within the countics 
ook place on Friday last, the Ist 
tent, the result greatly surpassed the ex- 
k an interest in the exhibition, 
dplements, Wel uding practical farmers, shall be appointed 
hat the exhibition of implements on the Tuesday and Wednesday 
to the principal day of the show shall be open at half- 
-crown on each of those two days, instead of at five shillings 8 
eat tea Finance Committee have also laid before the 
Gor eT lowing statement of the arrears of subscription at 
present time, in comparison with their amount at the last 
jous lots, the Judges awarded the 
‘ksman of Drummond, Ross-shire, 
to C. P Clu astle, r hi 
sl. to Mr. A. Colvin, tacksman of Elrig, Strathnairn, 
A. Macewen, tacksman of Woodlands, 
The following were stated t is 
0 be the exact members of the SO ins containing 56lbs. each, as affording faci- 
‘and with mouths of such a capacity, as to admit of the 
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‘was required was, that the machine-makers be heard “ at the 
bar’? of the Council, by some one being called upon to represent 
a lecture on Mechanics would be attended with beneficial results. 
Mr. Pusey then said a few words, and thanks having been voted 
to the chairman, the meeting concluded. 
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Black Indigo.—We can confirm the statements that 
daily papers concerning the dis. 
covery in India of a natural black dye. 
radiate heat powerfully. From this circumstance, 
having an excellent bottom-heat, a warm, steady, sur 
from 70° to 80° can be also maintained with ease, and 
expenditure of fuel; the whole has a neat and tidy appear 
itself with water by means of a crane which is fixed in a pipe, 
Withaballattached. This ballswims on the surface of the water 
fu tne tank, when this becomes low the ball falls, and water 
; etank; as it fills the ball rises, and when it arrives 
at the pruper level Shute the miter aay Prem se the set Sow 
ener sagtis 1g inch thick, and the tank so closely covered in, the 
evaporation is not great, and consequently the waste of water is 
but trifling: 
a tap at bo! 
i isture. In this house were likewise a plaut of Epiden- 
ey Oe emitting a very agreeable perfume and a curious 
Nepenthes, named ampullacea, having large 
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‘ichers beautifully streaked with bright brown. These are said, 
rysanthum was likewise displaying its bright 
wers,tand here was also Cattleya pumila, with light- 
d petals and beautiful dark purple lab: this 
gon art species of that handsome genus, as the good 
be 
DrOveR or spikes about two inches high, bearing large showy 
blooming freely in one of the houses here, 
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aha re eal, ‘and was introduced into this country a few years 
ZO. 
Mebiews. 
Lectures on the Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of 
the Invertebrate Animals. By Richard Owen, Hun- 
terian Professor at the College of Surgeons. London. 
Longman, 8vo. pp. 392. j . 
Wuat a knowledge of the structure and physiology of 
plants is to systematic Botany, is the anatomy and pbysi- 
ology of animals to Zoology. As long as artificial sys~ 
tems either in the one science or the other were allowed to 
assume the place of natural arrangements, 80 long were the 
structure and functions of both animals and plants neg- 
lected. Botany certainly took the lead in reforming the 
the use of the student, numerous works existed on the 
gtructure and functions of plants, as the basis of classifi- 
