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of September ; and this we were informed much exceeded | C, néapolitanum, differ greatly on different plants, not on | num/ the original of all fecundity; nor can I say less, 
the A pied fall Moorcroft . Travels, vol. i, p. 267. the same. I have eon found it ong near —e nd wo there vas a sacrifice or dincoates without it. a 
t Hay from Heating.—M, Schattenmann j then sweeter than No. —— B cal Reg rily, upon s contemplation of the e premises, 
i ws Bo camille, gi mies ifs e see Bg a Peeper ew. Cactus.--We hh ve jes =" goer: fro p page Dm the little experience I have had of their effects in ais 
| stable manure we sinc unt, Llewelyn, Esq., of Penllergare, the flower of an eg soe ork of vegetation, as far as I am able to penetrate into 
 * (p- 191), states, t the prevents the Resting of. biey: ingly handsome seedling Cactus. It was raised from the | causes y aaa, I am not displeased at the magnificent 
| “stacks by the fo sowing simple —In makin ing the | seed of Cactus seeinned: fertilised with C. Ackermanni, | epithets which are given it. In the mean time, I know 
= stack he. sows 200 ; Gainnts ig murla and appears to partake o e character of both parents. | there be who are so ave to thi pope to prefer 
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| 80 effectual, that for 15 years he has seen no case of fer- | while the interior petals, instead of expanding, as in other | them, as I have deduced it at the entry of this discourse, 
mentation taking place in the stacks when it has been used, npwets 0 this genus, are contracted, and form a tube | where I describe my autoptical observations of the several _ 
_ and that he is in fact indifferent about adding to his stacks | about 14 inch in diameter. The peculiar form and bright | earths; all that I pretend from ya being only to excite 
> a few loads of damp hay; for he is satisfied that the ater ur of the blossoms render this quite distinct from any | US to make diligent inquiry what may more likely be the 
' muriate of lime completely neutralizes the Rerertope variety hitherto raised. cause of vegetation, and Slo salt have not a dominion 
effects of moisture.—['The salt and limenow so much used nstances of Autumnal Heat——We may expect, from | almost mechanical in this great work of Nature, being so 
by farmers is an ack kind of muriate of ime. The | the state of the soil in September, to have it warmer sees ho ingredient in all ae — and net cae : 
~ salt meelt is very c weather than the length of the day would otherwise pro- | cannot, in the mean time, but a thing s 
Apricots of Ladath —or these there are said to be ten | duce; but in some years September and October have eminently sacred and fertile should come to be the symbol 
ean ; and they ce a gee os uch difference in | been noted for very unusual extremes. On September | of malediction; when, as the custom was, they used 
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-raised from the stone, with, one prised haf which is sup- | —In 1804, for many days in September, pape cially the | cursed ; there being in all nature nothing so pregnant and 
| plied by inoculation. This is a small fruit, not much | 4th, 5th, 13th, 14th, 15th, and 16th, intense hea t pre- | fruitful, unless it were to invite the plough to go there, 
' larger than a walnut, somewhat flattened at the bottom, | vailed; and on Sunday the 16th, the poasperstaye was 86° and that the fertility of the’spot for corn an in mi 
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_ ofa glossy skin, and pale yellow colour, inclining to white, | or 87° in 1 pl Suffolk ! wind also _— divert them from rebuilding and covering it again wit 
which ddish wn where it faces the sun. | October 15th an 16th, 1811, the thermometer was 73°! | houses. Indeed, to apply salts excess burns the earth 
"a p he usual consistence next the skin, but September 16th, » 80°; and in September and Octo- | fo time, ‘so as nothing will grow upon it; but, when 
' becomes softer’ as it recedes, a the stone is little | ber 1819, the some days of great heat. T once the rains have well diluted it, veget ng up 
_ thicker than honey in the hole frait par- | of September in 1810, 1811, 1820, and 1824, also afforded | more want y than ever. This ly find, by siftin 
the lusciousness of. honey, combined with a slight | a very high temperature on some days, but at earlier | common salt upon the gravel-walks o my garden; and 
_ and agreeable es and the flavour is unsurpassed by | periods, and cries). less remarkable ; but so late * the | for which cause I have left it off. And we find that the 
4 ‘any variety of apricot I have ever met’ with. The | 25th and ~ as 1832, my thermometer was 80°, andthe | earth itself, overwashed and too vy be , is as 
stone is of a light sellog colour, a phir ee | to white. | same on l September, 1834. On October 6th, 1834, unprofitable as if it were barren for the a and that 
_ The trees grow in the Pargana of Ladakh Proper, and it was at 770 and wind S.E. ag TRE rae Journa r, there is in all things a just proportion to be observed.”— 
: j especially at Saspula, not far from Lé, on the banks of ec ieee a (pp. 49—52. 
_ theriver, There are two other kinds, which might per- The second paper is upon Trigonometrical § 
: ps be advantageously introduced into European horti- Rebretos. and Levelling, by Mr. W. Galbraith, wis oints o 
_ culture. One has a smooth, shining surface, without The 5 Gverierly Journal of Agriculture, No. 57. June, | &trors in old surveys, and offers some excellent advice to 
down, is round, and of the size of a-greengage, and holds, ackwood. the officers charg: with the Ordnance survey of Scotland. 
both in appearance and taste, a middle station between an pbaitae maintains the high reputation that has | He sehntcerp insists ary the importance of a y 
_ apricot and a plum, The third is a little larger than the mths ln ed by previons parts, even without the valbable fe names Ot p d points out some striking inac- 
‘preceding, with a short down on the skin, which is of a | Transactions of the Highland Society, which appear along Hag ye ‘that ae found thelr way into books. Take, for 
2 colour. The stones of both these kinds are of a| with it. The first article is by Mr. Cuthbert Johnson, | ¢xample, Dun 
dark brown, bordering on black. ‘The other varieties are upon the organic chemistry of the eighteenth century,| ‘ It is suppo a | by some to be derived from the con 
deficient in juice and flavour, acid, or mealy, and are only | The following extract from Eve’ velyn is curious, as showing | word Dun, a castle, and Nuadh, n at and hence B 
fit for drying and preserving. The trees blossom in April | the oy he entertained upon the subject’ of saline | nan, in his Latin ‘ History ‘of Sco and,’ writes it Neo. 
and May. Much fruit is gathered in August, but the sea- man dunum, Newcastle. By others, _ 7 pet from Dun- 
son is not over before the end of Se tember. The greater ¥f Thi is rete ts which entice rodts to afiect the upper and | oighean, the castle of virgins; by others, Dun-Owen, 
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fruit is dried in the sun, in’which state it re- | saline surfa ‘ace - the earth, upon which ae nitrous rains | Owen’s Castle, &c. All these seem to me to be caused 
r many years ; and is stored for home con- | and dews descend, wee e cause that lants, the 
sumption, or exported to Lassa and Tartary. The dried | most poi and “chargé with j juice, of all otha tor such is | some important derivation, when none, in my opinion, is 
{ ixt eetness and rasa § and is a | the pine).thrive so well among rocks and pumices, and in necessary. To one like me, not very much initiated in 
“crea and pee sos ipd article of diet. An oil, u mi a whatever best maintains this vital pickle. It is salt which | Celtic lore, it appears to be derived simply from Dun- 
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—The followi wing account of the European | other salacious corn-fed birds, so eminently effectual be- | castle formerly stood. The same or similar ob ns 
Wi which are se cbattsly confused alike in books | fore the soil of horses and other beasts, in which it less may be made on many learned’ disquisitions on Highland 
and ait I owe to the kindness of the Hon. W. F. | abounds, as aaving less virtue to attract it. It is salt that | etymology. A ludicrous instance of the same kind is 
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_tion for many years. It’ will enable our botanical friends &c., which have them not diluted ; and to bones, flesh, | geological survey of i Hey They describe a rock which 
i anc of i they write Craig-a. 
have seen all the European species (except some doubtful | excrements... And whence those souivel masses should | cheese ; whereas the true orthography is, a 
ve i iva form ears. | proceed after calcination of the earth, when it comes to be | the very steep mr Even an investigation of this kind 
e result is, that T believe there are but three good sphosed. again, is hard to divine ; “whence, T say, they | in England would be’ inter ; and an 
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q from our consideration. These three are all European, by so es erful an agent as mae maless s they lurk in some 
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_ Rame, there is also a Nephe of plants. ason | strange what, as —— ~ r. Morrison affirms of the 
Prof who first distinguished the | Erysimum or Iris, en to grow spontaneously 
es as follows il. He gave to | in England before’ the date’ polkas onflagration of this 
, Alpine, summer-flowering Cyclamen, the city, when there appeared more of it amo nae the ruins 
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Mame europzum, as the plant of Linnzus, and probably | than was known to oe all-E it being a 
Southern, Mediterranean, spring- | curious exotic, to be found most about Naples j in the time 
g plant, the name hederefolium, as being the plant | of Fabius Columna, and but y elsewhere. t enough manage 
ed by Clusius, who I think describes it as ‘‘ Cycla- | which resuscitates the dead and patted earth; when, | them, or of of ekiog thems from year to year under any cir- 
io verno tem rens.”” 3. What was | languishing and spent by indulgence to her verdant off- | cumstances ; a measure which Mr. H. thinks equally pre- 
be done with th. plait of middle Italy, which all pre- | ‘spring, her vigour ae to be quite exhausted, * appears judicial to landlord and tenant. He objects, too, to the 
, but none had hed from | by the rains and showers which gently melt into her bosom | introduction of stri ringent covenan' sae into leases, which 
rightly judged it to a distinct | what we apply to it, a for which cause a Garces ‘* merely retard and ann noy the good farmer, and rarely 
» and like most Italian botani our his | are so studiously made of substances which most engender | improve a, unskilful.’” And he attributes the superior 
the name under which it is published, | or attract it. It is salt which fertilizes and renders - ypt condition of the Scotch ae over the English to the 
though No. 2 is equally common | so luxuriously fruitful after the inundations of the Nile ; | length oat freedom and to their . 
on elsewhere, and, had’ not-Clusius | and the nitrous grounds of Jamaica and other places cause rents saving them frome i fect of of Tow prices. 
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it, would bern ae a better neapolitanim. I} a stupendous growth of plants and trees. It is the want follows, soe the pen of Mr. 
ropeeu ys » flowering in | of salt which emasculates the virtue of seeds too long ma- | Duncan. It relates Pb soa history of the Black-veined 
ustria in July and Au dae, and as late as Septem tember—on | cerated in hungry water, and renders floated wood such | White Butterfly, and =~ other species, whose habits ae are 
Italian side of the Ips, in the Friuli—never south of | unprofitable fuel, and to ets sate josey apo and | illustrated with good w arian 
. Tenore’s C. neapolitanum is common over all | whatsoever it be some plants may appear to affect, — mong the papers frien 
ty. f th ‘ines of Bologna. TI am told it is ms external righ ss sof appt some of them seeming | a very long Geognostical acc i 
found at Genoa or to the westward, but that it isin | to draw in more air, earth, and others water fin ex- | Cunningham; some excellent ceitieke upon the i 
gnetisms attractiy ones and 
come their salt” which dab iene breate mith ; upon new fertilising 
dj olium of Fl. | that rege and compose the various saps and juices | and upon the comparative value 
The’ year limit of C. hederzfolium of Clu- | which they present us. Ney, ead : I ee Say that all | cake, by Dr. Madden ns 
far as , the northern slope of the moun- | the seve ‘a parts o etables w wed with their | the best effects upon 
of Spoleto, where I found it as late as the end of | peculiar and iitinat salts, through aiereut sa com- i 
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‘our, and a flower in shape nearer to C. persicum. It | like in yeaa yet perfectly con 
ime as the C repandum, Sibth., of Greece. | duce and nourish? But what this vehicle or 
iritermediate be- | is, I ve not. It is evident that salts unite best with 
Eween C, coum sar neapolitanum; but I judge only from | water, oe and autumnal showers and dews, as the most 
; yah not knowing its ts history. C. line ae thy Be apt to convey their insinuations, You know who 
how red fabulous. Mr. Bentham bw dignified ae with the prerogative of being named element- 
Hag NG by eee hear” ich has | earth, thi ‘and close of all: ¢ see stand 
believe, determined. The loavesef | No. 2, | last of elementated bodies. What shall say, guid divi- 
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