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ries and kidney-beans fit for gathering. The whole of the department did 

 great credit to Mr. Nowland, its curator. 



A new public entrance has lately been made to these gardens ; it is perhaps 

 more convenient for the public, as its door may be approached with a car- 

 riage, but the walk, proceeding along a narrow crooked passage, has nothing 

 of the magnificence, variety, and beauty of the portion of pleasure ground 

 which bursts on the view, on entering the old door-way. We took a short 

 walk in the pleasure ground, which even at this season of the year is de- 

 lightful ; perhaps, indeed, its effects are more intensely felt now than at any 

 other season. The repose, the consecration to man, the various kinds of 

 shrubs and trees, and their no less varied disposition on the ground, are 

 felt at all seasons ; but it is in winter, and early in spring, that we have the 

 full enjoyment of the shelter, the dry gravel walk, the fine shining leaved 

 evergreens, some of them, as the holly, laden with berries, and others, as 

 the laurels, beginning to protrude their blossoms ; the ever-verdant turf, the 

 budding of deciduous plants, the springing up of bulbs the notes of the 

 thrush, and the balmy freshness of the air. 



Art. VIII. Ireland. 



Mulberry Trees. Arrived in Cork harbour the Hendrica, H. Martens, 

 from Cette, in the Gulf of Lyons, South of France, laden with 26,000 

 white mulberry trees, the property of the British, Irish, and Colonial Silk 

 Company, value 10,000/., and which are at present discharging for the 

 purpose of being planted in this country. They are consigned to George 

 Foot, Esq., agent to the company in this city, and there are already 180 

 men employed in planting them, under the direction of Mr. Young, 

 an intelligent Scotch gentleman, at Mitchelstown, in this county, for which 

 purpose ten acres of the Earl of Kingston's estate have been appropriated. 

 The remainder are to be planted in the neighbourhood of Mallow, and at 

 Kenmare, in the county of Kerry, where the necessary preparations have 

 been also made. There are also landing from the Petrell, of and from 

 London, forty bundles of the same description of tree, which had been 

 imported from Italy, and ten cases and three bundles of plants, per the 

 London, from London, for similar purposes ; and a native of Italy has 

 arrived in the latter vessel to superintend the progress of this great work, 

 and to give the necessary instructions in the care of the worm. — {Cork 

 South. Rep.) 



Art. IX. Hints for Experiments. 



To take Impressions of Plants. Spread a specimen between two leaves 

 of paper and dry it in the usual manner; then wash over one side with In- 

 dian ink ; place the plant so prepared again between two sheets of paper, the 

 lower of which is somewhat moist, as in common printing, and place the 

 leaf, with some paper above and below it, in a common press. The result 

 will be a figure of the plant not unlike an aquatint engraving. 



Retaining good Varieties of Apples in the Country. A correspondent in 

 the Mechanic's Magazine makes a very easy matter of what Mr. Knight and 

 other physiologists consider very difficult, if not impossible. It is no wonder, 

 he says, that the finest apples have degenerated, because " every successive 

 grafting is a new pejoration of the fruit engrafted." To retain good apples 

 in the country, " without the pains of grafting," he gives the following di- 

 rections ; on which we would observe, that as he mentions only "good fruits," 

 and not " any particular variety of fruit," he may probably be correct; or, 



