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of this kind. It climbs up trees to a very great height; it has not yet 
been described.—Recueil Industriel, Avr. 1830. 
6. New species of plants discovered in Siberia. —Doct. Zedebuhr 
on returning from a scientific journey, undertaken by the order of 
the government of Russia, in the year 1826, announced to the 
senate of the university of Dorpat that he had gathered in the moun- 
tains of Altai, in Siberia, sixteen hundred plants, among which are 
about five hundred new species. 
The animal kingdom has afforded him a collection equally great : 
the species which he has collected amount to more than seven 
hundred.—Idem. 
7. New method of transplanting trees.—It often happens in repla- 
cing a dead tree in an avenue or grove that, in order to enjoy the ben- 
efit of its shade the sooner, the tree which is transplanted has already 
- acquired considerable size. 
After having dug around the tree, a distance sufficiently considera- 
ble so as not to detach the earth about the roots, the mass was sur- 
rounded with a coarse cloth in order to retain the earth, and it was 
‘then disposed.in a hole prepared beforehand. 
Notwithstanding all these precautions, it was not rare for the trees 
to die, on account of the’disturbance of the roots. 
The method we propose is more simple, and does not present the 
same inconveniences, although it is applicable only in northern climates 
and during rigorous winters. It is accomplished simply by raising the 
tree with the earth which surrounds the roots, when the frost unites 
the whole into a solid mass, and to transplant it into a hole dug the au- 
tamn before. 
This method, by which the tree does not undergo any violence, is 
equally well adapted to young trees as to shrubs.—Jdem. 
8. Imitation of platina.—Melt together a pound of brass and ten 
ounces of zinc; but as the brass is composed of copper and of zinc, 
in the proportion of three pounds and a little more of the first, and of, 
a pound of the second of these metals, equal proportions of copper 
and zine produce the same imitation of platina.—Jdem. 
9. A new method of dyeing hats.—It is known that nutgalls are 
a very expensive ingredient in dyeing hats. M. Ludke formed the 
idea of substituting for it, a simple decoction of oak bark. 
