Foreign Notices. 



NETHERLANDS. 



The Pear Colmar-Detvez. This pear lately originated in the neighbour- 

 hood of Brussels, is said to contain a rare assemblage of extraordinary 

 qualities; flesh white, tender, and exquisitely melting. The juice abund- 

 ant, mild, and of an elevated agreeable perfume, equal to the Harden-pont 

 d'hiver. In a note it is observed, that the Harden-pont Pear, is the same 

 as the glouglou ; and that the Pear glouxmorceau de Cambron is the same 

 as the Beurre de Neuve Maisons, and both resemble the Harden-pont, 

 vulgarly called the Beurre d'hiver; so that after all this new pear differs 

 little from the Beurre d'hiver. — Bullet. Univer. Sept. 1825. 



Preparations of Milk in Flanders. In that country there are two 

 curious preparations of milk in common use. The first is a mess called 

 sour milk, much used by the country people, and made as follows : a con- 

 siderable quantity of milk is put into a deep wooden vessel, and a certain 

 quantity of salt is added to it. It is then left until the whey separate from 

 the curd, when the former is poured off" and given to the pigs, and the 

 latter is stirred round, and more milk is added to it. This operation is 

 repeated until the desired quantity of curd is obtained, which is found to 

 have acquired a very acid taste. In this state it is kept for winter use, and 

 is used in mixing a quantity of it with water and flour, which is boiled, 

 and then bread is added to it. This mess is used for breakfast and sup- 

 per, which always concludes with bread and butter. The second is a mess 

 of curd, often used in the summer months, and much relished for supper. 

 For making it vessels are procured, the one of which goes within the 

 other, the innermost being perforated with numerous holes for the escape 

 of whey. The milk is coagulated by means of rennet made by infusing a 

 small piece of the dried stomach of a young hare in white wine. To the 

 curd, well freed of the whey, is added salt and pepper, but many consider 

 eschallots an indispensable ingredient. — Brews. Ed. Jour. Oct. 



Roses grafted on Oaks. M. Bomowsky grafted or budded Rosa centi- 

 folia, bicolor, lutea, semperflorens, and alba altissima, on the young shoots 

 of oaks, planted in pots and placed in a green-house. Rosa semperflorens 

 flowered the same year ; the others grew but did not flower. Only one 

 sort died. M. B. does not know whether they will last many years or not, 

 but he recollects other anomalies of the same kind. — Bullet. Univer. 

 Aug. 1825. 



Show of Plants at Ghent, 29th of June and 2d of July 1825. The medal 

 was given for Hovea Celsi, as the most rare. Amaryllis toxicaria, and 

 Canna Iridiflora, were the second in point of rarity. 



Tan from the Bark of the Spanish Chesnut. The excellent quality of 

 this tan is set forth in the Journal de PAgriculture des Pays Bas, 

 Oct. 1824. 



Budding. In the Agricultural Journal of the Pays Bas, for October 

 1824, it is recommended to reverse the usual mode of raising the bark for 

 inserting the buds, and to make the cross cut at the bottom of the slit, in- 

 stead of at the top, as is generally done in Britain. The bud is said rarely 

 to fail of success, because it receives abundance of the descending sap, 

 which it cannot receive when it is under the cross cut. 



SWEDEN. 



Culture of Silk in Sweden. This it seems was attempted a number of 

 years ago, and in 1823 was renewed. The mulberry grows very well in 

 some of the provinces, and the silk produced is said to be of a liner and 

 stronger quality than that of India. The silk produced in Bavaria is in 

 like manner said to be superior to that of Italy. 



The Agricidtural Society of Stockholm celebrated in February last their 

 twelfth anniversary. The king himself was present, and made a speech on 



