on Gardening and Rural Affairs. 197 



complaint is made of the Cuscuta Europea, which it is supposed cannot 

 be destroyed by any methods so effectually as by paring and burning 

 the surface, thus destroying at once both the lucerne and the seeds of 

 the parasite. The two best grasses for water meadows are found to be 

 the Avena elatior and Poa pratensis ; for all ordinary purposes the Lolium 

 perenne is as much valued in Tuscany as in England. From what is 

 said of florin grass, it appears to abound in the country ; but not to 

 have been subjected to cultivation. The wild carrot is said to increase 

 the milk of cows and sheep, and to improve its flavour. The Guinea 

 grass, the Panicum maximum, has been proposed to be introduced from 

 the West Indies, but M. Savi considers it better to cultivate to a higher 

 degree of perfection some of those herbage plants which are indigenous; 

 —the number of these amount to 31.9 species. 



Holland and the Netherlands. 



HultJ/em, M. Van. President. Discours prononce a la Distribution Solem- 

 nelle des Prix de la Soc. Royale d' Agriculture et de Botanique de Gand, 

 le 29 Juia, 1825. Gand, 8vo. 



Bailey, William, Civil Engineer, London : Traite de l'Emploi de la Vapeur 



fiour les Serres Chaudes, &c. Couronne par la Soc. des Scienc. a Har- 

 eim, Trans. Nat. &c. Harleim, vol. xiii. p. 199. 



Mr. Bailey had erected a curvilinear hothouse for M. Caters-de-Wolf, 

 near Antwerp, (Jig. 55. p. 201.) which excited a great deal of attention in 

 that country, and it appears lie has equally distinguished himself by this 

 essay on heating by steam. 



Sweden. 



Kongl. Svenska Landtbr'dks Academiens Annaler ; or, Annals of the Royal 

 Academy of Agriculture of Sweden. Year 9. Part 1st. 8vo. 



America. 



Massachusetts Agricidtural Repository and Journal. 7 voh 4to. 



This work contains a variety of useful papers, among whitu we may 

 enumerate, Remarks on the Stable Management of Horses, in vol. vi. ; 

 on the Weeds of Arable Land, vol. iii.; among the worst of which are 

 Berberis vulgaris, Cuscuta europea, and Brassica napus. The culture of 

 carrots, vol. iii., and on the best time for felling timber, vol. vii. From 

 the experience of two cultivators, it would appear that the months of 

 May and June are to be preferred for cutting down timber trees to the 

 months of February and March, when they are surcharged with sap. 



A paper is inserted in this journal (Vol. III. p. 68.) which shows the 

 importance of using scientific names in connection with local appellations. 

 The writer says, the yam is cultivated in different parts of Scotland, and is 

 found preferable to the potatoe ; and he quotes Willich's Domestic 

 Encyclopaedia. May it not then grow, he asks, in New England ? The yam 

 of the American writer is the West Indian plant of that name, Dioscorea 

 sativa; that of Dr. Willich is the potatoe-yam, a variety of Solanum 

 tuberosum. 



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