210 Notices — England. 



vegetables. But the late high price induces many to hoard up grain, in 

 expectation of a still higher price. We have received some small supplies 

 from Sydney, but that colony can never grow enough for its own consump- 

 tion. The farmers there have, it is true, many resources which we have not ; 

 — they have maize, in particular; fruits and vegetables in great abundance ; 

 and the season of harvest commences there at a much earlier period than 

 with us. Notwithstanding all this, however, Van Diemen's Land must 

 always be the granary of these colonies, for their wheat is of a much inferior 

 quality, and so infected with the weevil, and other causes, that it can never 

 be preserved through the circuit of one whole year. They may cultivate 

 the vine, the cotton plant, and the sugar cane, to what extent they please, 

 still they must, from time to time, look to us to supply them with their 

 bread and meat. 



Art. II. Domestic Notices. 

 ENGLAND. 



Tredgar Prize Show. Mr. Miller, the nursery-man of Bristol, offered a 

 prize of a silver cup for the largest pine apple, grown in the counties of 

 Monmouth, Gloucester, Glamorgan, or Brecon. It was gained by the 

 gardener of Sir Charles Morgan, Bart. At this meeting, premiums were 

 given to cottagers for the best turkies, geese, ducks, and fowls, and for the 

 greatest number of hives of bees. 



Fonthill Abet/. John Bennet, Esq. M. P. for Wilts, it is said, has lately 

 purchased of Mr. Fiirquhar, Fonthill Abbey, together with four hundred 

 acres of flower-garden and pleasure ground in which the rarest and most 

 beautiful of the American trees and shrubs flourish in all the profusion and 

 luxuriance of their native soil. (Newsp. Dec.) 



Early White Stone Turnip. A gentleman in the neighbourhood of 

 Knaresborough reaped a good crop of oats in the early part of August; 

 on the 13th, he sowed the field with the early white stone turnip, which 

 are now a fine crop, weighing on an average 10 tons per acre. He strongly 

 recommends them as a profitable turnip ; they may be sown in July, and 

 appear to stand the frost well ; they have only a light top with a small 

 root. (Farmer* 's Journal, 6th Feb. 1826.) 



Chamois Goat, Antilope Pupicapra. A male and female of this elegant 

 animal have recently been imported, and are about to be introduced into the 

 park at Windsor for the purpose of breeding. It is a native of the Alps of 

 Tyrol, and commonly called the chamois goat. 



Packing and Preserving Seeds. Mr. Curator Anderson, of the Chelsea 

 Botanic Garden, says, he received about a year ago, from the East Indies, 24 

 seeds or nuts ofcorypha taliera; 12 of them were carefully wrapped up in 

 paper, not one of which germinated ; and 1 2 of them were bedded in 

 powdered charcoal, every one of which grew freely. 



To preserve Pinks, Carnations, and other Plants, from being eaten by 

 Hares or Rabbits. Surround the plants by a cord or pack-thread smeared 

 with tar, and at such a distance from the ground as that the animals cannot 

 get under it, without the tar coming in contact with their down. A proof 

 of the efficacy of this practice is, that the beds of pinks &c. in Lee's nursery, 

 and other commercial gardens about town, liable to the depredations of 

 these quadrupeds, are effectually preserved in this way. 



Yellow Field Turnip. A variety of this turnip, partaking by fecunda- 

 tion of the qualities of the ruta baga, with red leaves and a conical top or 

 neck, was raised about three years ago by Mr. Gibbs, the agricultural seeds- 

 man, and for field culture is likely to supersede the old varieties of the 



